Nico Prandi
@nico-prandi.bsky.social
🧬 Synthetic biologist interested in using nature to make human manufacturing more sustainable. Also keeping an eye on art and design applications. Currently working in Colorifix 🎨 🏳️🌈(any pronouns)
I got to see The Bag™ in person during our visit to Modern Synthesis.
Made by bacterial nanocellulose, it is refreshing to see how wide the applications of biomaterials can be! #modernsynthesis
#biomaterials #sustainablefashion #biotechnology
Made by bacterial nanocellulose, it is refreshing to see how wide the applications of biomaterials can be! #modernsynthesis
#biomaterials #sustainablefashion #biotechnology
March 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I got to see The Bag™ in person during our visit to Modern Synthesis.
Made by bacterial nanocellulose, it is refreshing to see how wide the applications of biomaterials can be! #modernsynthesis
#biomaterials #sustainablefashion #biotechnology
Made by bacterial nanocellulose, it is refreshing to see how wide the applications of biomaterials can be! #modernsynthesis
#biomaterials #sustainablefashion #biotechnology
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Had a lot of fun at our 2nd in-person meeting for Sustainable Style UKRI Engineering Biology Mission Award with Northumbria University collaborators and Colorifix coming to Imperial before we all headed to Modern Synthesis to see bacterial cellulose being made into exciting textiles.
March 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Had a lot of fun at our 2nd in-person meeting for Sustainable Style UKRI Engineering Biology Mission Award with Northumbria University collaborators and Colorifix coming to Imperial before we all headed to Modern Synthesis to see bacterial cellulose being made into exciting textiles.
Fine art at the Centre for #SyntheticBiology in Imperial college. I wonder how much it’s valued…
March 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Fine art at the Centre for #SyntheticBiology in Imperial college. I wonder how much it’s valued…
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The Colney Lane roundabout has hit the news again, with @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social saying our latest video "should be used as training material for designers to show them everything that's bad about UK roundabout design".
Read the full story:
www.norwichcyclingcampaign.org/changes-at-c...
Read the full story:
www.norwichcyclingcampaign.org/changes-at-c...
Changes at Colney Lane make junction more dangerous for cycling
Now that parts of the junction are nearing completion we can see just how dangerous these changes are for anyone not in a car
www.norwichcyclingcampaign.org
March 10, 2025 at 8:51 AM
The Colney Lane roundabout has hit the news again, with @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social saying our latest video "should be used as training material for designers to show them everything that's bad about UK roundabout design".
Read the full story:
www.norwichcyclingcampaign.org/changes-at-c...
Read the full story:
www.norwichcyclingcampaign.org/changes-at-c...
My and my partner (also a biotech) won a 3D printer in a competition. The very first thing we print? Single falcon tube holders of course!
So clichè but makes me wonder about this I untackled market niche…
So clichè but makes me wonder about this I untackled market niche…
March 7, 2025 at 11:41 AM
My and my partner (also a biotech) won a 3D printer in a competition. The very first thing we print? Single falcon tube holders of course!
So clichè but makes me wonder about this I untackled market niche…
So clichè but makes me wonder about this I untackled market niche…
Excited to attend this as in years of science I could not find queer scientists in the wild!
Last chance to grab yourself a free ticket to @prideinstem.bsky.social's event at Norwich Science Festival.
Join me, @samfrowe.bsky.social, @plantpollinator.bsky.social, @drcarpineti.bsky.social & more for a walk on the Queer side of science. #NorwichScienceFestival2025
https://buff.ly/4gtOlEL
Join me, @samfrowe.bsky.social, @plantpollinator.bsky.social, @drcarpineti.bsky.social & more for a walk on the Queer side of science. #NorwichScienceFestival2025
https://buff.ly/4gtOlEL
Out Thinkers - Celebrating LGBTQ+ in STEM | Norwich Science Festival
112-114 Magdalen Street, Norwich, NR3 1JD
buff.ly
February 21, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Excited to attend this as in years of science I could not find queer scientists in the wild!
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no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 2:34 AM
no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person
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BIG news in synthetic biology!!! 🔬…and it’s actually very tiny. The world’s first synthetic eukaryotic genome is complete! The final chromosome in a synthetic yeast genome for baker’s yeast was completed by the Sc2.0 project.
Construction and iterative redesign of synXVI a 903 kb synthetic Saccharomyces cerevisiae chromosome - Nature Communications
The Sc2.0 project involved synthesis and debugging of 16 chromosomes, and a tRNA neochromosome. Here the authors descript the SynXVI project, accompanied by an analysis of how similar projects could o...
www.nature.com
February 4, 2025 at 2:40 PM
BIG news in synthetic biology!!! 🔬…and it’s actually very tiny. The world’s first synthetic eukaryotic genome is complete! The final chromosome in a synthetic yeast genome for baker’s yeast was completed by the Sc2.0 project.
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👇 This! Papers using new plasmids should report full plasmid sequences in the SI. Without this, the work cannot be reproduced. Now that @plasmidsaurus.bsky.social and others can quickly and inexpensively sequence whole plasmids, there is no excuse!
Can we make it a rule that when people publish papers involving generation of new plasmids, they put the plasmid sequence in the supplementary? Much more useful than "we digested plasmid A with enzyme B then ligated to C then digested with D then gel purified etc etc etc"
February 3, 2025 at 8:29 PM
👇 This! Papers using new plasmids should report full plasmid sequences in the SI. Without this, the work cannot be reproduced. Now that @plasmidsaurus.bsky.social and others can quickly and inexpensively sequence whole plasmids, there is no excuse!
Most of the scientists on Twitter I followed stopped posting around July 2024. But then they are not here either… 404 scientists not found 😫
Welcome immigrants from X interested in science to the friendlier skies of @bsky.app, as documented by a new @nature.com survey (but you already knew that 😉)
"Bluesky is much better for science. There is much less toxicity, misinformation, and distractions."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"Bluesky is much better for science. There is much less toxicity, misinformation, and distractions."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
January 24, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Most of the scientists on Twitter I followed stopped posting around July 2024. But then they are not here either… 404 scientists not found 😫
Reposted by Nico Prandi
Welcome immigrants from X interested in science to the friendlier skies of @bsky.app, as documented by a new @nature.com survey (but you already knew that 😉)
"Bluesky is much better for science. There is much less toxicity, misinformation, and distractions."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"Bluesky is much better for science. There is much less toxicity, misinformation, and distractions."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
January 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Welcome immigrants from X interested in science to the friendlier skies of @bsky.app, as documented by a new @nature.com survey (but you already knew that 😉)
"Bluesky is much better for science. There is much less toxicity, misinformation, and distractions."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"Bluesky is much better for science. There is much less toxicity, misinformation, and distractions."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...