Julia Montgomery 🪷
@jmaemontgomery.bsky.social
computational protein engineering scientist 🧪
membrane protein enthusist, tamer of enzymes.
cookin' up cool science and even better recipes.
(she/her)
membrane protein enthusist, tamer of enzymes.
cookin' up cool science and even better recipes.
(she/her)
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Pre-ACA, I was a postdoc on an NSF fellowship at a university that didn't offer employment benefits to independent fellows. At that time, being a woman meant that my premiums were double that of my male counterparts. The extra cost came out of my grant's budget for benefits, equipment, and travel.
November 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Pre-ACA, I was a postdoc on an NSF fellowship at a university that didn't offer employment benefits to independent fellows. At that time, being a woman meant that my premiums were double that of my male counterparts. The extra cost came out of my grant's budget for benefits, equipment, and travel.
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A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." (This PBS story on the scientific brain drain is heartbreaking & ominous for medicine, imo.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO...
Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
www.youtube.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." (This PBS story on the scientific brain drain is heartbreaking & ominous for medicine, imo.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO...
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Transphobia hurts everyone by enforcing binaries that aren't rooted in biology
October 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Transphobia hurts everyone by enforcing binaries that aren't rooted in biology
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Speaking as a dude who has a yearly family reunion, "aunt" and "uncle" fill a role, what the fuck are you supposed to call all those other older people you're vaguely related to, do you think there's someone running around with an org chart saying who's a second cousin thrice removed or something
October 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Speaking as a dude who has a yearly family reunion, "aunt" and "uncle" fill a role, what the fuck are you supposed to call all those other older people you're vaguely related to, do you think there's someone running around with an org chart saying who's a second cousin thrice removed or something
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If avoiding a painful and disfiguring rash - and potentially permanent nerve pain and nerve damage - isn’t enough for you, multiple studies have also shown that shingles vaccination can lower dementia risk, possibly up to 20%
In the US: If you're 50 or older (or 19/older & immunocompromised), please get vaxxed against shingles. It's no joke.
"With more than a million infections a year, herpes zoster affects nearly 1 in 3 adults and is now recognized as a systemic inflammatory event...
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
"With more than a million infections a year, herpes zoster affects nearly 1 in 3 adults and is now recognized as a systemic inflammatory event...
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
Shingles Vaccination Linked to Vascular Benefits
Several observational analyses suggest higher cardiovascular and dementia risks in those with and without HIV who get shingles and lower risks with vaccination.
www.medscape.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:39 AM
If avoiding a painful and disfiguring rash - and potentially permanent nerve pain and nerve damage - isn’t enough for you, multiple studies have also shown that shingles vaccination can lower dementia risk, possibly up to 20%
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Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
October 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
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Tapping the sign so hard my finger goes through it
Saying I'm sorry or I was wrong is harder for most people than saying I love you and it's a truly fucked up situation.
It also explains 99.9% of social media. Discourse often happens because some dickhead just can't be wrong.
It also explains 99.9% of social media. Discourse often happens because some dickhead just can't be wrong.
It is pretty noticeable that even as mainstream opinion on Israel and Gaza finally shifts, you don’t hear the Responsible Adults apologizing for punishing all the college kids protesting the atrocities. Quite the opposite in fact!
October 22, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Tapping the sign so hard my finger goes through it
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when you agree enthusiastically with the headline is exactly when you should be most careful to stop and read the article, or even several articles, with a critical eye.
things that seem to wildly affirm your most precious priors are the easiest way to lie to you, or to yourself.
things that seem to wildly affirm your most precious priors are the easiest way to lie to you, or to yourself.
i’m seeing a lot of reposts of the “AWS CEO said 75% of their code is now committed by AI” or something, and its source is Elon Musk mocking the AWS CEO with the very picture people are reposting like it’s a news article.
October 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
when you agree enthusiastically with the headline is exactly when you should be most careful to stop and read the article, or even several articles, with a critical eye.
things that seem to wildly affirm your most precious priors are the easiest way to lie to you, or to yourself.
things that seem to wildly affirm your most precious priors are the easiest way to lie to you, or to yourself.
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The event organizers say 7m people showed up. That would mean ~1 out of every 50 Americans came out to protest the president
October 19, 2025 at 12:05 PM
The event organizers say 7m people showed up. That would mean ~1 out of every 50 Americans came out to protest the president
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This is such a revealing statement. For the first time in my career, we are literally scanning grant applications for forbidden words and taking words like "female" out of abstracts at the request of program officers. But Mike's intern can say the "r" word in public without getting dirty looks so 🤷♀️
Mike Johnson: "The last time I checked, Americans have more freedom right now to express themselves and speak their minds after Republicans took over ... it is the Republicans who restored your right to share and speak your mind."
October 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
This is such a revealing statement. For the first time in my career, we are literally scanning grant applications for forbidden words and taking words like "female" out of abstracts at the request of program officers. But Mike's intern can say the "r" word in public without getting dirty looks so 🤷♀️
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That wasn't very data driven of you, bro
October 17, 2025 at 6:08 PM
That wasn't very data driven of you, bro
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Our nation's federal employees are more than just numbers on a spreadsheet.
They make sure we have clean water.
They protect us from financial fraud.
They provide healthcare to our communities.
They make our government actually work for people.
Do not forget this.
They make sure we have clean water.
They protect us from financial fraud.
They provide healthcare to our communities.
They make our government actually work for people.
Do not forget this.
October 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Our nation's federal employees are more than just numbers on a spreadsheet.
They make sure we have clean water.
They protect us from financial fraud.
They provide healthcare to our communities.
They make our government actually work for people.
Do not forget this.
They make sure we have clean water.
They protect us from financial fraud.
They provide healthcare to our communities.
They make our government actually work for people.
Do not forget this.
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There's been a lot of evidence put out there recently that scientists and tech folks should have to take more humanities courses in their education.
October 9, 2025 at 9:52 PM
There's been a lot of evidence put out there recently that scientists and tech folks should have to take more humanities courses in their education.
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I wonder if we could leverage ORCID to create Bluesky verification records for researchers. It would allow for scientists to become validated by their own body of work and is something already used in the community.
October 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I wonder if we could leverage ORCID to create Bluesky verification records for researchers. It would allow for scientists to become validated by their own body of work and is something already used in the community.
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George Orwell’s Animal Crossing
October 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
George Orwell’s Animal Crossing
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Hertling: His comments about putting hands back on recruits… We moved away from that 30 years ago because it’s ineffective…
You know where it didn’t go away? The Russian army.
You know where it didn’t go away? The Russian army.
October 1, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Hertling: His comments about putting hands back on recruits… We moved away from that 30 years ago because it’s ineffective…
You know where it didn’t go away? The Russian army.
You know where it didn’t go away? The Russian army.
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Even when she saw terrible, horrible things, she kept hoping and working and fighting for a better future. May we all carry some of her spirit into the work ahead.
The naturalist Jane Goodall died today at 91. Hope, she argued, is not merely “passive wishful thinking” but a “crucial survival trait.” Revisit a conversation with Goodall, from 2021: nyer.cm/F55JtsS
October 1, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Even when she saw terrible, horrible things, she kept hoping and working and fighting for a better future. May we all carry some of her spirit into the work ahead.
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Once again, it is *faculty*—not administrators—who brought this case and won. Including UC Faculty Association chapters of the AAUP.
Court Rules in AAUP v Rubio: Trump Admin Violated First Amendment
The AAUP and partners sued to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty members for ideological reasons.
www.aaup.org
October 1, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Once again, it is *faculty*—not administrators—who brought this case and won. Including UC Faculty Association chapters of the AAUP.
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You didn't get your autism from your mom who treated her headache while pregnant. You got it from your dad who can name every model of airplane made since the 1900s.
September 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM
You didn't get your autism from your mom who treated her headache while pregnant. You got it from your dad who can name every model of airplane made since the 1900s.
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I have taken
the Tylenol
that was in
the medicine cabinet
and which
they think probably
is the reason
you like trains
forgive me
but that’s bullshit
you got autism
from your dad
the Tylenol
that was in
the medicine cabinet
and which
they think probably
is the reason
you like trains
forgive me
but that’s bullshit
you got autism
from your dad
September 23, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I have taken
the Tylenol
that was in
the medicine cabinet
and which
they think probably
is the reason
you like trains
forgive me
but that’s bullshit
you got autism
from your dad
the Tylenol
that was in
the medicine cabinet
and which
they think probably
is the reason
you like trains
forgive me
but that’s bullshit
you got autism
from your dad
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Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.
September 22, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.
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Almost feels like a Hollywood musical number
🎶 there's 🎶 TOO 🎶 MUCH liquid in 🎶 the baby 🎶
🎶 there's 🎶 TOO 🎶 MUCH liquid in 🎶 the baby 🎶
There's too much liquid in the baby.
September 22, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Almost feels like a Hollywood musical number
🎶 there's 🎶 TOO 🎶 MUCH liquid in 🎶 the baby 🎶
🎶 there's 🎶 TOO 🎶 MUCH liquid in 🎶 the baby 🎶