Caitlin Aamodt, PhD
@caamodt.bsky.social
Postdoc @UCSD🧠💊Language/ASD👶🗣 Eric & Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Fellow🧬💻🤖 Words in @KnowingNeurons, @Discover, @ScienceMagazine, @Nature✍️📰 Lupus advocate💜 #BiinSci🌈
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Why do some recomb proteins express better than others? After expressing >2000 proteins from the human secretome in CHO cells, we identified the protein features and host cell pathways linked to poor expression w/ @JohanRockberg lab. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
October 14, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Why do some recomb proteins express better than others? After expressing >2000 proteins from the human secretome in CHO cells, we identified the protein features and host cell pathways linked to poor expression w/ @JohanRockberg lab. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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“Trey’s death evoked the collective memory of a community that has suffered a historic wound over many, many years and many, many deaths."
Colin Kaerpernick is paying for an independent autopsy for Demartravion “Trey” Reed, a Mississippi college student who was found hanging from a tree.
Colin Kaerpernick is paying for an independent autopsy for Demartravion “Trey” Reed, a Mississippi college student who was found hanging from a tree.
Colin Kaepernick pays for autopsy of Black student found hanging from tree
Demartravion "Trey" Reed, 21, was a student at Delta State University.
www.motherjones.com
September 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
“Trey’s death evoked the collective memory of a community that has suffered a historic wound over many, many years and many, many deaths."
Colin Kaerpernick is paying for an independent autopsy for Demartravion “Trey” Reed, a Mississippi college student who was found hanging from a tree.
Colin Kaerpernick is paying for an independent autopsy for Demartravion “Trey” Reed, a Mississippi college student who was found hanging from a tree.
Haha damn
I GUESS....
SOMEONE IN UTAH...
AGREED WITH CHARLIE!!
SOMEONE IN UTAH...
AGREED WITH CHARLIE!!
September 10, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Haha damn
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There is no solace for NIH funded researchers in this Supreme Court decision. Grants that were ripped away on dubious grounds, restored by a reasonable judge are now again terminated by an out-of-control Supreme Court. Labs will shutter, people will lose jobs. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
US Supreme Court lets Trump cut diversity-related NIH grants
The U.S. Supreme Court let President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday proceed with sweeping cuts to National Institutes of Health grants for research related to racial minorities or LGBT people, part of his crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and transgender identity.
www.reuters.com
August 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
There is no solace for NIH funded researchers in this Supreme Court decision. Grants that were ripped away on dubious grounds, restored by a reasonable judge are now again terminated by an out-of-control Supreme Court. Labs will shutter, people will lose jobs. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
As White Americans we must disabuse ourselves of the "elderly white hippie savior" myth.
Stephen Miller: "All these demonstrators that you've seen out here in recent days, all these elderly white hippies, they're not part of the city and never have been ... we're gonna ignore these stupid white hippies that all need to go home and take a nap because they're all over 90 years old."
August 21, 2025 at 10:42 AM
As White Americans we must disabuse ourselves of the "elderly white hippie savior" myth.
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There should be some way to stop a president from singlehandedly turning the US economy into a pump and dump shitcoin scheme.
July 11, 2025 at 6:51 AM
There should be some way to stop a president from singlehandedly turning the US economy into a pump and dump shitcoin scheme.
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Want to write to your community about the importance of science funding?
Join me on zoom this Friday at 12pm ET / 9am PT to learn to write an op-ed as part of the #McClintockLetters initiative!
Sign up to write a letter and register for the workshop here:
blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...
Join me on zoom this Friday at 12pm ET / 9am PT to learn to write an op-ed as part of the #McClintockLetters initiative!
Sign up to write a letter and register for the workshop here:
blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...
June 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Want to write to your community about the importance of science funding?
Join me on zoom this Friday at 12pm ET / 9am PT to learn to write an op-ed as part of the #McClintockLetters initiative!
Sign up to write a letter and register for the workshop here:
blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...
Join me on zoom this Friday at 12pm ET / 9am PT to learn to write an op-ed as part of the #McClintockLetters initiative!
Sign up to write a letter and register for the workshop here:
blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...
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go.bsky.app/LJj3CUD let's grow this one
November 13, 2024 at 4:49 PM
go.bsky.app/LJj3CUD let's grow this one
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Welp. I'm a postdoc whose NIH funding source has just been cancelled in a mass grant termination targeting Harvard. We've been using these funds to study how puberty affects the brain and adolescent mental health.
May 15, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Welp. I'm a postdoc whose NIH funding source has just been cancelled in a mass grant termination targeting Harvard. We've been using these funds to study how puberty affects the brain and adolescent mental health.
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Errors. Call them errors ffs. They're not hallucinations they're not lies. Call them errors. This dumbass personification of a fancy prediction tool is only reinforcing the idea that these things really are intelligent and not just a computer program.
"On one test, the hallucination rates of newer A.I. systems were as high as 79 percent."
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...
A.I. Is Getting More Powerful, but Its Hallucinations Are Getting Worse
www.nytimes.com
May 6, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Errors. Call them errors ffs. They're not hallucinations they're not lies. Call them errors. This dumbass personification of a fancy prediction tool is only reinforcing the idea that these things really are intelligent and not just a computer program.
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From the @sltrib.com, @bagleycartoons.bsky.social
May 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
From the @sltrib.com, @bagleycartoons.bsky.social
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This time-lapse captures 17 hours of axonal growth from a chicken dorsal root ganglion explant, visualized through the actin cytoskeleton using live confocal imaging.
I just submitted this video to the Nikon Small World in Motion competition. Today is the last day to upload yours! 😉
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I just submitted this video to the Nikon Small World in Motion competition. Today is the last day to upload yours! 😉
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April 30, 2025 at 7:16 AM
This time-lapse captures 17 hours of axonal growth from a chicken dorsal root ganglion explant, visualized through the actin cytoskeleton using live confocal imaging.
I just submitted this video to the Nikon Small World in Motion competition. Today is the last day to upload yours! 😉
🧪
I just submitted this video to the Nikon Small World in Motion competition. Today is the last day to upload yours! 😉
🧪
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A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly.
Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.
stanforddaily.com
April 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
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really great talk!! and the trainee turnout sends a very clear signal that there is a growing interest for improving science communication skills for Spanish-speaking communities 🔥
April 18, 2025 at 8:04 PM
really great talk!! and the trainee turnout sends a very clear signal that there is a growing interest for improving science communication skills for Spanish-speaking communities 🔥
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Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me
April 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me
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#skymusings: how can we shift the narrative away from “blaming physicians” to advocating for change in the challenging health care systems in which we work when we are trying to always do what is best for the patients even when outcomes are not what we wanted or expected #medsky
a stuffed white cat is sitting on a box with its hands outstretched .
Alt: a stuffed white cat is sitting on a box with its hands outstretched .
media.tenor.com
April 4, 2025 at 8:26 PM
#skymusings: how can we shift the narrative away from “blaming physicians” to advocating for change in the challenging health care systems in which we work when we are trying to always do what is best for the patients even when outcomes are not what we wanted or expected #medsky
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This is NOT a real journal. No such thing as The Academy of Public Health. Creation of RFK et al to allow false nonscientific claims to the public to support their bias without peer review or factual data. As they now control all communications out of NIH, CDC, FDA, this is dangerous to US health.
Journal of the Academy of Public Health
publichealth.realclearjournals.org
April 2, 2025 at 3:22 PM
This is NOT a real journal. No such thing as The Academy of Public Health. Creation of RFK et al to allow false nonscientific claims to the public to support their bias without peer review or factual data. As they now control all communications out of NIH, CDC, FDA, this is dangerous to US health.
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A Black man just beat the record for the longest filibuster, defeating the record previously held by a man who filibustered the literal Civil Rights Act.
As the time ticked over, Cory Booker announced he did it not out of hatred for who he opposed, but out of love for those who supported him.
As the time ticked over, Cory Booker announced he did it not out of hatred for who he opposed, but out of love for those who supported him.
LIVE: Cory Booker speaks on the Senate floor
YouTube video by Associated Press
www.youtube.com
April 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
A Black man just beat the record for the longest filibuster, defeating the record previously held by a man who filibustered the literal Civil Rights Act.
As the time ticked over, Cory Booker announced he did it not out of hatred for who he opposed, but out of love for those who supported him.
As the time ticked over, Cory Booker announced he did it not out of hatred for who he opposed, but out of love for those who supported him.
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Congratulations to Judge Susan Crawford on her victory, and to the people of Wisconsin for electing a judge who believes in the rule of law and protecting our freedoms.
April 2, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Congratulations to Judge Susan Crawford on her victory, and to the people of Wisconsin for electing a judge who believes in the rule of law and protecting our freedoms.
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I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
April 2, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
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THIS is outrageous and scary! RFK making his own journal that appears to be associated with a medical society.There is no such thing as the Academy of Public Health! They can use this to make false claims in medicine and science, including for vaccines. These are not peer reviewed nor scientific!
April 1, 2025 at 7:43 PM
THIS is outrageous and scary! RFK making his own journal that appears to be associated with a medical society.There is no such thing as the Academy of Public Health! They can use this to make false claims in medicine and science, including for vaccines. These are not peer reviewed nor scientific!
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Listen to Bernie!!
March 31, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Listen to Bernie!!
Proud of my home state of Louisiana for voting down all four of these proposed amendments yesterday.
www.notothemall.org
www.notothemall.org
NO to them ALL, Y'all
www.notothemall.org
March 31, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Proud of my home state of Louisiana for voting down all four of these proposed amendments yesterday.
www.notothemall.org
www.notothemall.org
Black people are more likely to have systemic lupus, so why do I meet so many people of African descent who are struggling to be taken seriously by their healthcare provider? This is why Black doctors are so critical.
March 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Black people are more likely to have systemic lupus, so why do I meet so many people of African descent who are struggling to be taken seriously by their healthcare provider? This is why Black doctors are so critical.