Nathan Kipniss
nathankipniss.bsky.social
Nathan Kipniss
@nathankipniss.bsky.social
Working on Gene Therapies and Molecule Delivery in Industry || MIT and Stanford Trained in SynBio || 🏳️‍🌈🧫🧬🔬🧪
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I can't believe how expensive groceries are rn. $14 for cherries and $4 for two nectarines when they're still in season. $7 for plain hummus.

Then you turn around and there are endless walls of sugary prepackaged food covered in cheese goo for dirt cheap.

I'm so tired of America sucking.
August 21, 2025 at 8:54 PM
We live in a time where a sitting US President is using every lever of government to extort universities.
Absolutely disgusting.
July 31, 2025 at 5:51 AM
3. Venus Williams just crushing it at 45. That court coverage?! The work she can do with that backhand. And popping aces?! A living legend. 👑

youtu.be/PSOIvGWxtc4?...
Venus Williams vs. Peyton Stearns | 2025 Washington Round 1 | Match Highlights
YouTube video by WTA
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July 24, 2025 at 12:18 AM
2. Re-Watching Serena Williams rattle of Aces is YouTube comfort. Like this from 2012 Wimbledon.

youtu.be/Osch-32lnrE?...
Serena Williams hits four straight aces in 2012 Wimbledon Final
YouTube video by Wimbledon
youtu.be
July 24, 2025 at 12:12 AM
A few things.
1. Too many Californians do not understand how a zip merge works and it annoys me daily commuting.
July 24, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:

1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long

All lies.
June 22, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Hi 🌈🌈🌈🌈 @kaplan.bio
June 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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I once asked a scientist whom I respect enormously her advice for a successful career and life in science.

Her advice: Leave every place better than you found it.

It surprises me that many people would try hard to do the compete opposite …
and we would elect them to run the country.
May 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces.

Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.
Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
wapo.st
April 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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If you think it’ll stop at Columbia and Harvard, you’re wrong. If you think it won’t go beyond universities to infiltrate all schools, you’re wrong. If you think it won’t demand compliance at media, medical, and non-profit organizations, you’re wrong. Fascism is here. Fight it.
April 1, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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They are arresting people on the streets, terminating their visas, and disappearing them for writing things they disagree with. This is where we are. Two months in. Right now. If you think they won’t begin coming after citizens soon, you are mistaken.
March 27, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Whatever cold is going around (not flu or covid — tested negative for those) is really no joke.
February 18, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important

Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone

Call it a Day Of Transparency
February 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I took my dog for a 90 minute walk today and it was lovely.
February 9, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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Reminder that a study on lizard saliva eventually led to the development of Ozempic so be real wary of the criticism of studies and funding that sounds non-sensical when presented with no context.
February 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Everyone must read @aminatou.bsky.social. So it is written, so it shall be relished aminatou.substack.com/p/to-my-fbi-...
To my FBI agent: I love you too
Alexa play St. Vincent—Digital Wellness
aminatou.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 3:15 AM
If you haven’t put freezes on your credit reports with the equifax breach, you absolutely need to do it now.
February 2, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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This is a national emergency:
February 1, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Using this moment to thank the trifecta of monteleukast, beclomethasone, and albuterol for making my new fitness routine possible.
January 25, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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Recently took a peek at Twitter and the disinformation is getting substantially more dangerous. Someone could get killed.

The tactics of constantly repeating outright lies, targeting specific people, repurposing years-old footage and presenting them as new is getting to another level. It’s scary.
December 23, 2024 at 3:26 PM
I was talking to colleagues yesterday about the logistics of attending parties in college pre-Uber, and they were shocked. Also taxis that only took cash, not card.

But anyone in Boston in the early 2010s would tell you how navigate based on the Citgo sign.
December 13, 2024 at 3:27 PM
This is how my IB exams were administered. History was six open ended essays across two days. English was a recorded vocal discussion on a question pulled out of a hat.
In this ChatGPT era, a new challenge is to frame questions that help teachers evaluate what students have learned. We may have to return to open ended essays written in class.
November 29, 2024 at 2:43 PM
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SOX and POU are crucial Transcription Factors in animal development, believed to be innovations of this group. Here we find them in unicellular relatives of animals. And hold tight, you can use a choanoflagellate 🦠 SOX gene to make a full chimeric 🐁 ! Read more here 🧵: rdcu.be/d0dPN 1/6
The emergence of Sox and POU transcription factors predates the origins of animal stem cells
Nature Communications - The pluripotency program is maintained by transcription factors from the Sox and POU families. Here they identify SOX and POU factors from unicellular relatives of animals...
rdcu.be
November 14, 2024 at 5:15 PM
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