Kelly Kluthe (she/her)
kluthek.bsky.social
Kelly Kluthe (she/her)
@kluthek.bsky.social
Portfolio Manager for Clinical Research. Beertender. Bio adjunct prof. Former science teacher. ADHD bisexual in KC.
KU peeps upset about Senate Bill 125, message for a discord server link.

Students frustrated after KU complies with state order to strip pronouns from email signatures; experts decry vague directive – The Lawrence Times share.google/uschFpoMjSLX...
Students frustrated after KU complies with state order to strip pronouns from email signatures; experts decry vague directive
KU students and faculty are speaking out against KU's decision to comply with anti-DEI directives that raise First Amendment concerns. It's also unclear what the penalty might be if the university wer...
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July 26, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Hypsibema missouriensis. I recently learned we have a state dinosaur in Missouri and I had to paint her.
January 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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entering the "I was experimenting, it was just a phase" era of corporations discontinuing their branded rainbow koozies
January 10, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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mark zuckerberg’s entire adult life has been a revenge tour against women
January 11, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I have never agreed with anything more.

Please make Thick Vinegar a thing.
December 29, 2024 at 11:18 PM
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Watching some very serious deeply philosophical hard science fiction.
December 8, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Research administration: The cup costs $500 and we charge a $6000 refill startup fee.
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
STS researcher: The cup is an affordance
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Cosmologist: The cup is dusty or full of gravitational waves
November 23, 2024 at 8:23 PM
But what did they hop on??
bug fact: grashoppers already existed at least 100 million years before the first grass
November 23, 2024 at 4:05 PM
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Here's a stunner for #FossilFriday, just look at that beetle's preserved wing case! It belongs to a group called frog-legged leaf beetles (so-named for their extra-juicy rear legs), paleontologists called its pattern "the most perfectly preserved pigment-based colouration known in fossil beetles" 🧪
49 million-year-old beetle looks like it was squashed yesterday
Paleontologists named the insect "Attenborough's Beauty," after Sir David Attenborough.
www.livescience.com
November 22, 2024 at 11:55 PM
Oh.
New research shows younger and middle-aged adults have worse long COVID symptoms than older adults

"On an average of 10 months after COVID-19 onset, younger (ages 18-44) and middle-aged (ages 45-64) adults had worse neurologic symptoms of long COVID than adults 65 and older."

#LongCOVID
New research shows younger and middle-aged adults have worse long COVID symptoms than older adults
New study from Northwestern Medicine finds symptoms occurred regardless of mild or severe COVID-19 infection
news.nm.org
November 23, 2024 at 1:25 AM
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Hey folks! I got a tattoo of my beloved PIEZO ion channel on my arm! Now I can show how they activate (flatten) under pressure by flexing—Will add a bit of performance art to my science talks 🧪🧠.
November 22, 2024 at 4:05 AM