Huong T. Kratochvil
@htkratochvil.bsky.social
Assistant professor @unc, postdoc @ucsf, PhD @uwmadison; membrane protein design and biophysics are my life
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👀 Hot off the press: A scathing open letter co-authored by all 17 former ACIP members. It's a frank look at ACIP history and the hard truths America will grapple with in the upcoming months.
Turns out the former ACIP members have more spine than CDC leadership 🙄
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Turns out the former ACIP members have more spine than CDC leadership 🙄
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices at a Crossroads
In this Viewpoint, former members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) caution that the sudden change in the ACIP may reverse the achievements of US immunization policy, includin...
jamanetwork.com
June 17, 2025 at 1:40 AM
👀 Hot off the press: A scathing open letter co-authored by all 17 former ACIP members. It's a frank look at ACIP history and the hard truths America will grapple with in the upcoming months.
Turns out the former ACIP members have more spine than CDC leadership 🙄
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Turns out the former ACIP members have more spine than CDC leadership 🙄
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM
Implementation of Schedule F
This is what a lot of us have been worried about.
This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs.
BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD...
1/n
Implementation of Schedule F
This is what a lot of us have been worried about.
This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs.
BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD...
1/n
the word alert is in a purple circle
ALT: the word alert is in a purple circle
media.tenor.com
April 23, 2025 at 6:03 PM
ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM
Implementation of Schedule F
This is what a lot of us have been worried about.
This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs.
BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD...
1/n
Implementation of Schedule F
This is what a lot of us have been worried about.
This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs.
BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD...
1/n
Amazing women in science having hotpot @drstarbird.bsky.social @berlowlab.bsky.social
April 20, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Amazing women in science having hotpot @drstarbird.bsky.social @berlowlab.bsky.social
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Calling all membrane/membrane protein folks! Join us this summer in Barcelona for the Membrane Protein Folding Gordon Conference and Seminar. GRS chaired by @justmwest.bsky.social and myself! We are soliticiting abstracts from trainees for talks! Deadline - April 6.
www.grc.org/membrane-pro...
www.grc.org/membrane-pro...
2025 Membrane Protein Folding (GRS) Seminar GRC
The 2025 Gordon Research Seminar on Membrane Protein Folding (GRS) will be held in Castelldefels, Barcelona Spain. Apply today to reserve your spot.
www.grc.org
March 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Calling all membrane/membrane protein folks! Join us this summer in Barcelona for the Membrane Protein Folding Gordon Conference and Seminar. GRS chaired by @justmwest.bsky.social and myself! We are soliticiting abstracts from trainees for talks! Deadline - April 6.
www.grc.org/membrane-pro...
www.grc.org/membrane-pro...
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Since @stephanieaw.bsky.social left the lab to start her group at Vanderbilt, we've been talking regularly on the ups and downs of academic science. We started recording...
The Tortured Proteins Department
open.spotify.com/show/10PHVou...
(science with a small dose of running and Taylor Swift)
The Tortured Proteins Department
open.spotify.com/show/10PHVou...
(science with a small dose of running and Taylor Swift)
The Tortured Proteins Department
Podcast · Stephanie Wankowicz · A deep dive into scientific discovery and the process of doing science, hosted by Stephanie Wankowicz and James Fraser.
open.spotify.com
March 16, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Since @stephanieaw.bsky.social left the lab to start her group at Vanderbilt, we've been talking regularly on the ups and downs of academic science. We started recording...
The Tortured Proteins Department
open.spotify.com/show/10PHVou...
(science with a small dose of running and Taylor Swift)
The Tortured Proteins Department
open.spotify.com/show/10PHVou...
(science with a small dose of running and Taylor Swift)
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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
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I took the stage at the #BPS2025 meeting in solidarity with our american colleagues.
On March 7th, events and protests are organized in US and other countries, including France, to #standupforscience
@standupforscience.bsky.social
@standupforscifr.bsky.social
On March 7th, events and protests are organized in US and other countries, including France, to #standupforscience
@standupforscience.bsky.social
@standupforscifr.bsky.social
Huge thanks to all our international colleagues for their message of solidarity!
@biophysicalsoc.bsky.social
@emmanuelmargeat.bsky.social
@biophysicalsoc.bsky.social
@emmanuelmargeat.bsky.social
February 24, 2025 at 9:13 AM
I took the stage at the #BPS2025 meeting in solidarity with our american colleagues.
On March 7th, events and protests are organized in US and other countries, including France, to #standupforscience
@standupforscience.bsky.social
@standupforscifr.bsky.social
On March 7th, events and protests are organized in US and other countries, including France, to #standupforscience
@standupforscience.bsky.social
@standupforscifr.bsky.social
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For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...
The foundations of America’s prosperity are being dismantled
Federal scientists warn that Americans could feel the effects of the new administration's devastating cuts for decades to come
www.technologyreview.com
February 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...
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Thrilled to take a break from doom and gloom to share our latest work collaborating with the DeGrado lab! We took a de novo designed protein, screened it for ligand binding using X-rays, and used the hits to evolve two wildly different functions: fluorescent turn-on and Kemp elimination catalysis. 🧵
January 31, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Thrilled to take a break from doom and gloom to share our latest work collaborating with the DeGrado lab! We took a de novo designed protein, screened it for ligand binding using X-rays, and used the hits to evolve two wildly different functions: fluorescent turn-on and Kemp elimination catalysis. 🧵
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Excited to share our latest work in JACS!! We show that step edge defects have nanoscale impact on electronic structure in semiconducting TMDC electrocatalysts. Congrats to first-author Kenneth Ortiz Chua! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
#SECCM #electrochemistry ⚡️🧪
#SECCM #electrochemistry ⚡️🧪
Step Edge Defects Have Nanoscale Impact on the Electronic Structure in Semiconducting Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Electrocatalysts
This work uses MoTe2 single crystals to address the challenge in heterogeneous catalysis of identifying active sites and determining the electronic factors responsible for catalytic activity. We find ...
pubs.acs.org
January 28, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Excited to share our latest work in JACS!! We show that step edge defects have nanoscale impact on electronic structure in semiconducting TMDC electrocatalysts. Congrats to first-author Kenneth Ortiz Chua! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
#SECCM #electrochemistry ⚡️🧪
#SECCM #electrochemistry ⚡️🧪