Passa Pungchai
@passaep.bsky.social
PhD student in mammalian synbio at Rice w/ bashorlab.rice.edu, UCLA alum, and formerly at UCSF. Thought a lot about self-assembly over the years, still into that w/ a dose of being human cellcentric. foodie and average photographer.
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Attorneys for Columbia student Yunseo Chung, whose green card the Trump administration is trying to revoke over her ties to Gaza protests, have asked to unseal the search warrant affidavit that federal agents filed last month to search her dorm room. theintercept.com/2025/03/28/i...
ICE Got Warrants Under “False Pretenses,” Claims Columbia Student Targeted Over Gaza Protests
ICE got warrants under a law that bars concealment of immigrants — yet the Gaza protesters were legal residents living at Columbia.
theintercept.com
April 4, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Attorneys for Columbia student Yunseo Chung, whose green card the Trump administration is trying to revoke over her ties to Gaza protests, have asked to unseal the search warrant affidavit that federal agents filed last month to search her dorm room. theintercept.com/2025/03/28/i...
Ok, the studio ghiblification function in ChatGPT is pretty darn good. Makes me wonder about the artists though
March 28, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Ok, the studio ghiblification function in ChatGPT is pretty darn good. Makes me wonder about the artists though
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We are so excited to welcome @ronanoconnell.bsky.social to the lab as a new postdoc. He defended his PhD at Rice Uni where he worked in the Caleb Bashor lab. Ronan will spearhead an ongoing collab with the Bashor and @alexholehouse.bsky.social labs to map IDR sequence-function space at scale.
December 23, 2024 at 1:54 PM
We are so excited to welcome @ronanoconnell.bsky.social to the lab as a new postdoc. He defended his PhD at Rice Uni where he worked in the Caleb Bashor lab. Ronan will spearhead an ongoing collab with the Bashor and @alexholehouse.bsky.social labs to map IDR sequence-function space at scale.
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for my next newsletter and episode i bought the bestselling laptop on Amazon to try and explain how shitty most people's exposure to tech is. Currently at 30 minutes of menus and updates. I have agreed to three privacy policies and created two new accounts. We live in hell
November 29, 2024 at 5:39 PM
for my next newsletter and episode i bought the bestselling laptop on Amazon to try and explain how shitty most people's exposure to tech is. Currently at 30 minutes of menus and updates. I have agreed to three privacy policies and created two new accounts. We live in hell
Some BG on why I'm on Bluesky now: I used Twitter/X to find interesting papers in the cell engineering/BME field and read the "tweetorials" to get the gist. Very useful. Also in the late 2010s, it was a pretty good way to get live news updates from community-oriented journalists on the ground.
November 24, 2024 at 3:56 PM
Some BG on why I'm on Bluesky now: I used Twitter/X to find interesting papers in the cell engineering/BME field and read the "tweetorials" to get the gist. Very useful. Also in the late 2010s, it was a pretty good way to get live news updates from community-oriented journalists on the ground.