Kaitlin
@justktln2.bsky.social
computational protein scientist
vmap enthusiast
🧬👩💻🧬
github.com/justktln2
vmap enthusiast
🧬👩💻🧬
github.com/justktln2
I do kind of think it’s like yeah
November 24, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I do kind of think it’s like yeah
Overhearing one side of a moderately stressful business conversation that a stranger is having on the phone in public is one of life’s purest joys. Like yes bro I agree, they really should get the fuck out of here with this bullshit!
November 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Overhearing one side of a moderately stressful business conversation that a stranger is having on the phone in public is one of life’s purest joys. Like yes bro I agree, they really should get the fuck out of here with this bullshit!
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November 13, 2025 at 7:23 PM
when it’s my birthday <<<
November 13, 2025 at 3:01 AM
when it’s my birthday <<<
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Mental Health and Care Denial in Transgender Youth jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Mental Health and Care Denial in Transgender Youth
This Viewpoint discusses care denial for transgender youth forced by law and how health systems will need to invest resources to adjust to the expected emergence of mental health concerns, for which p...
jamanetwork.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Mental Health and Care Denial in Transgender Youth jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
the directors of evolution
I am so excited to share new work on a TE insertion that regulates iridescence in swordtails, led by fantastic grad student @nadiahaghani.bsky.social and with help from many coauthors! In a time that has been so difficult to navigate, this & other projects have kept my spirits up: shorturl.at/NE65A
Insertion of an invading retrovirus regulates a novel color trait in swordtail fish
For over a century, evolutionary biologists have been motivated to understand the mechanisms through which organisms adapt to their environments. Coloration and pigmentation are remarkably variable wi...
shorturl.at
November 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
the directors of evolution
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Reading your tweets
November 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Reading your tweets
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I gather that Bluesky is full of posters who are at a threshold that every adult faces: do i get into jazz, for real, or do I stick to my old ways?
As someone who (squints) is 4-6 years above the Bluesky Age, let me help you: do it. Yes, you get into jazz. Modern, even.
As someone who (squints) is 4-6 years above the Bluesky Age, let me help you: do it. Yes, you get into jazz. Modern, even.
November 7, 2025 at 6:04 AM
I gather that Bluesky is full of posters who are at a threshold that every adult faces: do i get into jazz, for real, or do I stick to my old ways?
As someone who (squints) is 4-6 years above the Bluesky Age, let me help you: do it. Yes, you get into jazz. Modern, even.
As someone who (squints) is 4-6 years above the Bluesky Age, let me help you: do it. Yes, you get into jazz. Modern, even.
I subscribed to a service that flags accounts as possible spammers. One of the flags is “posts a lot: more than 50 times yesterday” and I am sorry say that this has positively cooked many of you
November 3, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I subscribed to a service that flags accounts as possible spammers. One of the flags is “posts a lot: more than 50 times yesterday” and I am sorry say that this has positively cooked many of you
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*NEW PAPER*
How much of a threat are within-organism conflicts, really?
In Biology & Philosophy, @martijnschenkel.bsky.social, Manus Patten, and I present a mathematical framework to measure evolutionary individuality in the face of internal conflicts. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
How much of a threat are within-organism conflicts, really?
In Biology & Philosophy, @martijnschenkel.bsky.social, Manus Patten, and I present a mathematical framework to measure evolutionary individuality in the face of internal conflicts. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
October 31, 2025 at 1:24 PM
*NEW PAPER*
How much of a threat are within-organism conflicts, really?
In Biology & Philosophy, @martijnschenkel.bsky.social, Manus Patten, and I present a mathematical framework to measure evolutionary individuality in the face of internal conflicts. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
How much of a threat are within-organism conflicts, really?
In Biology & Philosophy, @martijnschenkel.bsky.social, Manus Patten, and I present a mathematical framework to measure evolutionary individuality in the face of internal conflicts. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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"The $8 billion paid in monthly SNAP benefits represents around 10% of retail grocery sales..." - RBC www.rbc.com/en/thought-l...
October 30, 2025 at 9:35 PM
"The $8 billion paid in monthly SNAP benefits represents around 10% of retail grocery sales..." - RBC www.rbc.com/en/thought-l...
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Cuomo said diversity can be a weaknesses while calling one msnbc anchor by another's name repeatedly until they corrected him (why yes, they are both Black men). What a candidate!
November 1, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Cuomo said diversity can be a weaknesses while calling one msnbc anchor by another's name repeatedly until they corrected him (why yes, they are both Black men). What a candidate!
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Protein-protein interaction networks can be highly sensitive to the membrane phase transition https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.30.685611v1
October 31, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Protein-protein interaction networks can be highly sensitive to the membrane phase transition https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.30.685611v1
Government shutdown? President Trump? Gaylor Swift? What are you talking about? John Mayer and Taylor Swift have been married since 2009 and Prime Minister Sanders is serving his third term. You hit your head pretty hard, are you sure you’re ok??
October 31, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Government shutdown? President Trump? Gaylor Swift? What are you talking about? John Mayer and Taylor Swift have been married since 2009 and Prime Minister Sanders is serving his third term. You hit your head pretty hard, are you sure you’re ok??
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The greatest innovation of our time is not AI — it’s GLP-1.
Obesity is declining. And as obesity declines, so too will diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, and the many cancers linked to excess weight.
Making Ozempic for All a reality in America would revolutionize public health.
Obesity is declining. And as obesity declines, so too will diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, and the many cancers linked to excess weight.
Making Ozempic for All a reality in America would revolutionize public health.
October 31, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The greatest innovation of our time is not AI — it’s GLP-1.
Obesity is declining. And as obesity declines, so too will diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, and the many cancers linked to excess weight.
Making Ozempic for All a reality in America would revolutionize public health.
Obesity is declining. And as obesity declines, so too will diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, and the many cancers linked to excess weight.
Making Ozempic for All a reality in America would revolutionize public health.
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Take this quiz to die instantly www.americansurveycenter.org/quiz/
Beyond the Ballot Quiz - The Survey Center on American Life
www.americansurveycenter.org
October 29, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Take this quiz to die instantly www.americansurveycenter.org/quiz/
Itó’s lemma should be called Ito’s ansatz imo
October 27, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Itó’s lemma should be called Ito’s ansatz imo
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US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month reut.rs/3WohHMk
US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Saturday that food benefits under one of the country's biggest social assistance programs will not be issued next month amid the ongoing federal government shutdown.
reut.rs
October 26, 2025 at 2:50 AM
US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month reut.rs/3WohHMk
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NEW method! eComp is a new, #evolution-informed #compression method🗜️ for multiple #sequence alignments (#MSAs)...that outperforms gzip!
Unlike gzip's row-based compression, eComp implements a simple #column-based solution for compression, following how biological information is stored in MSAs
Unlike gzip's row-based compression, eComp implements a simple #column-based solution for compression, following how biological information is stored in MSAs
October 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM
NEW method! eComp is a new, #evolution-informed #compression method🗜️ for multiple #sequence alignments (#MSAs)...that outperforms gzip!
Unlike gzip's row-based compression, eComp implements a simple #column-based solution for compression, following how biological information is stored in MSAs
Unlike gzip's row-based compression, eComp implements a simple #column-based solution for compression, following how biological information is stored in MSAs
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The thing they don’t want to voice is that racism is authenticity to them.
October 17, 2025 at 11:19 PM
The thing they don’t want to voice is that racism is authenticity to them.
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I’ve noticed this too and I thought I was losing it or my spelling was just getting much worse. I often have to google words now to get the correct spelling
it is really remarkable how everything that used to work is just breaking.
Eg - I mis-typed "deprioritisation" as "depriorisation" and spell check in google docs just had.....zero suggestions? I swear even just a year ago it could handle something like that.
Eg - I mis-typed "deprioritisation" as "depriorisation" and spell check in google docs just had.....zero suggestions? I swear even just a year ago it could handle something like that.
October 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I’ve noticed this too and I thought I was losing it or my spelling was just getting much worse. I often have to google words now to get the correct spelling
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Our paper on chromosome segregation in the archaeon Sulfolobus Acidocaldarius has been published in PNAS! This has been a great collaboration with @joeparham19.bsky.social and the rest of @buzzbaum.bsky.social's team. Stay tuned for more to come!😉 @istaresearch.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Temporal and spatial coordination of DNA segregation and cell division in an archaeon | PNAS
Cells must coordinate DNA segregation with cytokinesis to ensure that each daughter
cell inherits a complete genome. Here, we explore how DNA segre...
doi.org
October 16, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Our paper on chromosome segregation in the archaeon Sulfolobus Acidocaldarius has been published in PNAS! This has been a great collaboration with @joeparham19.bsky.social and the rest of @buzzbaum.bsky.social's team. Stay tuned for more to come!😉 @istaresearch.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
it’s such a good solvent
🍷 New research overturns the “light drinking protects the brain” myth. Even a drink or two a day isn’t risk-free — any alcohol use is linked to higher dementia risk. Using genomics data from 2.4 million people, researchers found that every threefold increase in drinking
#BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky
#BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky
No amount of alcohol is safe, at least for dementia risk, study finds
Even a drink or two a day is linked to a chance of developing dementia as you age.
wapo.st
October 15, 2025 at 5:29 PM
it’s such a good solvent
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In 2018, Charles Murray challenged me to a bet: "We will understand IQ genetically—I think most of the picture will have been filled in by 2025—there will still be blanks—but we’ll know basically what’s going on." It's now 2025, and I claim a win. I write about it in The Atlantic.
Your Genes Are Simply Not Enough to Explain How Smart You Are
Seven years ago, I took a bet with Charles Murray about whether we’d basically understand the genetics of intelligence by now.
www.theatlantic.com
October 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
In 2018, Charles Murray challenged me to a bet: "We will understand IQ genetically—I think most of the picture will have been filled in by 2025—there will still be blanks—but we’ll know basically what’s going on." It's now 2025, and I claim a win. I write about it in The Atlantic.