Kaitlin
@justktln2.bsky.social
computational biophysicist
vmap enthusiast
ex-Texan
🏳️⚧️
vmap enthusiast
ex-Texan
🏳️⚧️
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Conroe ISD banned a book about Billie Jean King because it mentions her gay marriage: "'It is developmentally inappropriate to provide explicit explanations of sexual orientation and adult marital relationships to this age group' Conroe ISD Trustee Melissa Semmler said"
www.chron.com/sports/artic...
www.chron.com/sports/artic...
Conroe ISD bans tennis legend's book for same-sex marriage mention
The story of one famed tennis star will no longer be read in Conroe Independent School District.
www.chron.com
January 27, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Conroe ISD banned a book about Billie Jean King because it mentions her gay marriage: "'It is developmentally inappropriate to provide explicit explanations of sexual orientation and adult marital relationships to this age group' Conroe ISD Trustee Melissa Semmler said"
www.chron.com/sports/artic...
www.chron.com/sports/artic...
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Middlecamp says school attendance fell below 50%.
Events are cancelled in a way likened to the COVID pandemic, she says.
Events are cancelled in a way likened to the COVID pandemic, she says.
January 26, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Middlecamp says school attendance fell below 50%.
Events are cancelled in a way likened to the COVID pandemic, she says.
Events are cancelled in a way likened to the COVID pandemic, she says.
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CBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today.
This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting
This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting
January 25, 2026 at 8:01 PM
CBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today.
This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting
This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting
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i havent shut off the notification for this form and it has just been vibrating every minute in my hand.
just a steady beat.
just a steady beat.
Love Notes
docs.google.com
January 25, 2026 at 3:56 AM
i havent shut off the notification for this form and it has just been vibrating every minute in my hand.
just a steady beat.
just a steady beat.
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Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
January 24, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
One of my most peculiar pet peeves is when people temporally smooth molecular dynamics simulations before they make videos. To me it obscures the real wonder, which is that biological macromolecules do stuff so reliably even with all that thermal randomization.
January 24, 2026 at 7:48 PM
One of my most peculiar pet peeves is when people temporally smooth molecular dynamics simulations before they make videos. To me it obscures the real wonder, which is that biological macromolecules do stuff so reliably even with all that thermal randomization.
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Here are the success rates of de novo pipelines based on which designs I could actually identify the methods for.
January 22, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Here are the success rates of de novo pipelines based on which designs I could actually identify the methods for.
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In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies.
I have translated some of the highlights
I have translated some of the highlights
January 20, 2026 at 12:30 AM
In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies.
I have translated some of the highlights
I have translated some of the highlights
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New Preprint!! We show that binding entropy can be quantitatively predicted from crystallographic ensemble models, accounting for both protein conformational entropy and solvent entropy! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
January 21, 2026 at 8:49 PM
New Preprint!! We show that binding entropy can be quantitatively predicted from crystallographic ensemble models, accounting for both protein conformational entropy and solvent entropy! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
January 22, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
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NEW: NeurIPS,one of the world’s top academic AI conferences, accepted research papers with 100+ AI-hallucinated citations, new report claims
fortune.com/2026/01/21/n...
fortune.com/2026/01/21/n...
NeurIPS papers contained 100+ AI-hallucinated citations, new report claims | Fortune
An analysis of NeurIPS 2025 papers by startup GPTZero reveals how AI-generated citations are slipping into elite academic research.
fortune.com
January 21, 2026 at 2:11 PM
NEW: NeurIPS,one of the world’s top academic AI conferences, accepted research papers with 100+ AI-hallucinated citations, new report claims
fortune.com/2026/01/21/n...
fortune.com/2026/01/21/n...
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Cost of being female lead/corresponding author in biomedical sciences: "[T]he median amount of time spent under review is 7.4%–14.6% longer for female-authored articles than for male-authored articles" even in disciplines where women well-represented. #AcademicSky
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Biomedical and life science articles by female researchers spend longer under review
Women are underrepresented in academia, especially in STEMM fields, at top institutions, and in senior positions. This study analyzes millions of biomedical and life science articles, revealing that f...
journals.plos.org
January 21, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Cost of being female lead/corresponding author in biomedical sciences: "[T]he median amount of time spent under review is 7.4%–14.6% longer for female-authored articles than for male-authored articles" even in disciplines where women well-represented. #AcademicSky
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Binding Entropy Can Be Predicted by Crystallographic Ensembles https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.19.699807v1
January 21, 2026 at 4:46 AM
Binding Entropy Can Be Predicted by Crystallographic Ensembles https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.19.699807v1
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Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.
Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95
ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away
thezebra.org
January 19, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.
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I hate when someone asks me, “How's it going".
“Good” ? Presumably better before you compelled me to distort my raw experience into language !
“Good” ? Presumably better before you compelled me to distort my raw experience into language !
November 11, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I hate when someone asks me, “How's it going".
“Good” ? Presumably better before you compelled me to distort my raw experience into language !
“Good” ? Presumably better before you compelled me to distort my raw experience into language !
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I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"
January 17, 2026 at 4:28 AM
I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"
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Holy hell, what an obituary
Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Holy hell, what an obituary
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Cassowary eggs contain biliverdin, a pigment synthesized in the shell gland, that gives them their distinctive green color, which may help camouflage the eggs in ground nests among vegetation.
The males incubate the eggs & care for the young for up to 9 months.
But here's the cool bit...
The males incubate the eggs & care for the young for up to 9 months.
But here's the cool bit...
March 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Cassowary eggs contain biliverdin, a pigment synthesized in the shell gland, that gives them their distinctive green color, which may help camouflage the eggs in ground nests among vegetation.
The males incubate the eggs & care for the young for up to 9 months.
But here's the cool bit...
The males incubate the eggs & care for the young for up to 9 months.
But here's the cool bit...
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Texas A&M decided to publicly cancel my Ethics class, and share a false statement that I declined to provide information, which made it impossible for [them ] to request an exemption. See for yourself, if this statement is true.
They are getting creative!
They are getting creative!
ETHICS IS NOW CANCELED AT TEXAS A&M
Statement from Dr. Leonard Bright....
Statement from Dr. Leonard Bright....
January 14, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Texas A&M decided to publicly cancel my Ethics class, and share a false statement that I declined to provide information, which made it impossible for [them ] to request an exemption. See for yourself, if this statement is true.
They are getting creative!
They are getting creative!
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This was a very interesting read:
An untold story in biology: the historical continuity of evolutionary ideas of Muslim scholars from the 8th century to Darwin's time 🧪
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
An untold story in biology: the historical continuity of evolutionary ideas of Muslim scholars from the 8th century to Darwin's time 🧪
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
January 13, 2026 at 3:54 PM
This was a very interesting read:
An untold story in biology: the historical continuity of evolutionary ideas of Muslim scholars from the 8th century to Darwin's time 🧪
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
An untold story in biology: the historical continuity of evolutionary ideas of Muslim scholars from the 8th century to Darwin's time 🧪
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Gonna start blogging stuff I read in a Google doc because I find social media tiresome and don’t wanna link-spam friends. Message me if we’re friends and you want the link
January 12, 2026 at 2:33 AM
Gonna start blogging stuff I read in a Google doc because I find social media tiresome and don’t wanna link-spam friends. Message me if we’re friends and you want the link
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Why does life explore so few of the forms it could possibly take? Using fractal descriptors, this #scienceadvances paper shows that Earth’s biosphere clusters around simple shapes, reflecting deep evolutionary constraints. @artemyte.bsky.social @manlius.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
January 11, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Why does life explore so few of the forms it could possibly take? Using fractal descriptors, this #scienceadvances paper shows that Earth’s biosphere clusters around simple shapes, reflecting deep evolutionary constraints. @artemyte.bsky.social @manlius.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
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“I have the perfect assay for you that happens to be the secret sauce of 5 Nature papers out of one lab and their spin-out startup which also no one else in the world has ever gotten working, I’m sure if you follow their methods it will work the first time”
Uh, thanks AI
Uh, thanks AI
January 11, 2026 at 5:34 PM
“I have the perfect assay for you that happens to be the secret sauce of 5 Nature papers out of one lab and their spin-out startup which also no one else in the world has ever gotten working, I’m sure if you follow their methods it will work the first time”
Uh, thanks AI
Uh, thanks AI
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welp, I fear I called it. bsky.app/profile/lizt...
the direction this is heading is fundamentally a showdown over tax dollars and withholding of funds from the federal govt to the states, and from the populace of the states to the federal govt.
January 10, 2026 at 12:13 AM
welp, I fear I called it. bsky.app/profile/lizt...
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Some have pointed out that the whole letter would have fit in the alt text window, so here is a version with the whole letter in alt text.
January 8, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Some have pointed out that the whole letter would have fit in the alt text window, so here is a version with the whole letter in alt text.