Lucas Nivon

Cycling on #seattle waterfront w baby in the bike and a male jogger yells at us “Tr*mp is king!”. Times are strange

🚨Now that the men imprisoned by the Trump admin in El Salvador are free, their stories are coming out; and they are horrific.

One man describes how Salvadoran officials at the prison beat them regularly, stole money from them, and denied them medical care — even painkillers.

Exclusive: Famed protein structure competition nears end as NIH grant money runs out Agency silent on funding renewal for contest that inspired creation of AIs that predicted how proteins would fold

Speak up to prevent a major loss for the field. CASP, which helped shaping structural biology including AlphaFold is on the verge of shutting down. NIH funding has lapsed, UC Davis support ends and the core team is being let go. Painfully shortsighted.

50 Reasons Why Everyone Should Want More Walkable Streets From making you live longer to making cities more resilient: If you want a reason to make your city more walkable, it's in here.

“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath

50 reasons to want more walkable cities.

Job Garcia’s kidnapping by the Trump administration is the top story on the LA Times website right now.

www.latimes.com/california/s...

One of the hardest things about growing up in #nyc and living elsewhere is the utter lack of Chinese Cuban restaurants #iykyk… Trader Joe’s plantains scratch that itch

Excited to announce that Pramila Jayapal will be our featured speaker at the Rally before the JUNE 14th - Seattle NO KINGS MARCH.

#nokings #DefendDemocracy #FightAuthoritarians #NoFascism

#seattle

Investigate federal vaccine panel's overhaul, AMA urges Senate Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime skeptic of vaccinations, said he ousted the CDC committee to restore "public trust in vaccines."

THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION CALLS FOR A SENATE INVESTIGATION INTO RFK, JR.

"The resolution’s sponsor, Dr. Jason Goldman, urged his colleagues to support the request for an investigation to ensure the AMA is not “on the wrong side of history.”

chicago.suntimes.com/health/2025/...

Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death

"If there were justice in the world, Musk would never be able to repair his reputation, at least not without devoting the bulk of his fortune to easing the misery he’s engendered."

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

Temporary, but a clear win for HB1110 legal approach! Little fanfare is ideal really, when tensions run so high

Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner

This guy stole $10 million from the employees of his nursing home to buy himself a luxury yacht and Cartier watches. He PLED GUILTY.

And because his Mom gave Trump $1 million, he just got a pardon.

And this story barely makes the news today. WTF. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

Interest rates too high? And new “uncertainty”

Autoimmune Disease, Transformed?

'(...) we could end up with completely new treatments for some of these conditions (or for subsets of patients therein), but no matter what we're going to learn a tremendous amount about the role of B cells in their etiologies, from several different angles all at once'
@dereklowe.bsky.social

I think this is the most hyper local bluesky interaction I’ve had, bluesky lives!

So they are not closing? I hope not. Also my neighborhood coffee, and really great cookies and coffee cake and pocha

Nucleate Seattle: 2025 Demo Day · Luma Please join Nucleate Seattle in celebrating our 2025 Activator cohort at our Demo Day! We invite all biotech and bio-entrepreneurial enthusiasts of all stages…

Cyrus's CEO, Lucas Nivon, is the keynote speaker for Nucleate Seattle’s Activator Demo Day! Join us to hear him speak about Life Sciences Commercialization on May 14th at the Allen Institute. #Seattle #Biotech #Innovation lu.ma/18yj2jg3?tk=...

Good idea to try! We have been testing deep research against review papers it can’t access and been impressed by low error rate and ability to update w more recent data. I was a skeptic but those tests were convincing

The structure of human sweetness: Cell
Sweet receptor bound to two widely used artificial sweeteners: sucralose and aspartame. A single receptor that mediates all our responses to sweet-tasting compounds.

Thanks for attending! My neighbors in upper QA are incensed by the changes. Apartments are just terrible to them. And I’m too busy to attend meetings w retirees

Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

Nature reports that the National Science Foundation has stopped awarding new grants and allotting funds to existing ones. All of them. @colincarlson.bsky.social says that unless the freeze is lifted, it “is going to destroy people's labs.” 2/10
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Not just more data but also more types of data about tissues and cells.

Great piece. Often try to explain this to tech people, they train on human data, it is often easily observable. In bio much of data is invisible to us, now we have transcriptomics, spatial bio, etc. Hubble telescope is an example, before that you can’t see so far! We need bio Hubbles

So happy @openfold.io is growing! More exciting announcements coming soon about our new all atom model adding ligand and RNA/DNA

I’d never even heard of this species of NIMBY before until last few weeks, then read about it in Abundance

This is what I get for watching 80s movies with my kids

Idea for a hit movie: 3 professors have their research funding cut. They bootstrap a startup on services revenue, using the services to create new niche products. No VC funding. It is called… Ghostbusters (that’s the actual plot!) #scisky #startups #vc #bootstrap

Protein binder design workflows for everyone! #ai #biotech

They’re going to keep pushing until something stops them.

My first post on BlueSky, I could not access the same handle as my X (someone hacked into that one):

So it's @peterhotez for X and @peterhotezmdphd for BlueSky

I'm a pediatric-vaccine scientist based in Houston TX at our Texas Medical Center