Andrew MacBride
@amacbride.com
biology + computers + a leavening of snark | 👨👨👧👧🏳️🌈| nanomedicine | cancer genomics 🧬 | ML | biomaterials | #compchem #matsky #chemsky #ai4science #materialsinformatics #md | startups | @Cal 🐻 @Stanford @UniversityOfOxford @OxfordNano (swimsf on the Bad Place)
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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Complex de novo structural variants are an underestimated cause of rare disorders www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Complex de novo structural variants are an underestimated cause of rare disorders www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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I can’t believe this monumental paper has finally been published! Congrats to all the very many brilliant researchers involved, including @molecularxtal.bsky.social and @jrkermode.co.uk 😃 What an exciting step in computational chemistry this represents!
pubs.aip.org/aip/jcp/arti...
pubs.aip.org/aip/jcp/arti...
A foundation model for atomistic materials chemistry
Atomistic simulations of matter, especially those that leverage first-principles (ab initio) electronic structure theory, provide a microscopic view of the worl
pubs.aip.org
November 14, 2025 at 9:31 AM
I can’t believe this monumental paper has finally been published! Congrats to all the very many brilliant researchers involved, including @molecularxtal.bsky.social and @jrkermode.co.uk 😃 What an exciting step in computational chemistry this represents!
pubs.aip.org/aip/jcp/arti...
pubs.aip.org/aip/jcp/arti...
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I had the option of getting this comp chem book as a physical book or an eBook. Normally I read pdfs on Kindle, and the eBook cost less, so I went with that.
They have now sent me a link to an awkward, locked-down platform called VitalSource. I have regrets 😂 I'll know for next time...
They have now sent me a link to an awkward, locked-down platform called VitalSource. I have regrets 😂 I'll know for next time...
November 11, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I had the option of getting this comp chem book as a physical book or an eBook. Normally I read pdfs on Kindle, and the eBook cost less, so I went with that.
They have now sent me a link to an awkward, locked-down platform called VitalSource. I have regrets 😂 I'll know for next time...
They have now sent me a link to an awkward, locked-down platform called VitalSource. I have regrets 😂 I'll know for next time...
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That fable about the scorpion and the frog comes to mind right now...
November 10, 2025 at 1:22 AM
That fable about the scorpion and the frog comes to mind right now...
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Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
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Work published today in @natbiotech.nature.com from Arc’s Luke Gilbert and Patrick Hsu labs presents a new way to insert large DNA sequences into the genome using engineered recombinases that don’t require DNA cutting or rely on the cell's repair machinery.
November 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Work published today in @natbiotech.nature.com from Arc’s Luke Gilbert and Patrick Hsu labs presents a new way to insert large DNA sequences into the genome using engineered recombinases that don’t require DNA cutting or rely on the cell's repair machinery.
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A thread about keeping one’s head above water under the current conditions and not being incapacitated by rage, fear, despair or some mixture of those (1/11)
October 31, 2025 at 2:22 PM
A thread about keeping one’s head above water under the current conditions and not being incapacitated by rage, fear, despair or some mixture of those (1/11)
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I have been loudly, persistently anti-Trump since the beginning. And tonight's election results just make me more sure: *there are more of us than there are of them* A good hard look at Trumpism in action has made that impossible to ignore.
Let's take this country back, and let's make it better.
Let's take this country back, and let's make it better.
November 5, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I have been loudly, persistently anti-Trump since the beginning. And tonight's election results just make me more sure: *there are more of us than there are of them* A good hard look at Trumpism in action has made that impossible to ignore.
Let's take this country back, and let's make it better.
Let's take this country back, and let's make it better.
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And another one is out: a crystallographic and fundamental solid-state study of size-dependent properties in porous materials. A fun adventure that required quite a bit of coding - learned a lot in the process!
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Crystallographic Evidence of Size-Dependent Bond Flexibility in Metal–Organic Framework Nanocrystals
Size-dependent electronic, magnetic, and optical behavior suggests that metal–organic frameworks become softer materials as their particle sizes decrease, but direct evidence is lacking. Here, we rep...
pubs.acs.org
November 4, 2025 at 11:20 PM
And another one is out: a crystallographic and fundamental solid-state study of size-dependent properties in porous materials. A fun adventure that required quite a bit of coding - learned a lot in the process!
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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About a strange and whimsical form of... art? www.skeptophilia.com/2025/11/chas...
Chasing uselessness
critical thinking blog skeptic analytics skepticism science rational education alternative medicine conspiracy theories debunk misinformation skepto
www.skeptophilia.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:29 AM
About a strange and whimsical form of... art? www.skeptophilia.com/2025/11/chas...
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Faculty are the primary stewards and enactors of the mission of research and teaching; knowledge creation and dissemination. The administration exists only in its capacity to forward that mission.
November 2, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Faculty are the primary stewards and enactors of the mission of research and teaching; knowledge creation and dissemination. The administration exists only in its capacity to forward that mission.
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I know this is obvious. And I know we all know this.
But if the President can raise taxes because an advert annoyed him, without even consulting Congress, then the US constitution is simply not functioning as intended.
But if the President can raise taxes because an advert annoyed him, without even consulting Congress, then the US constitution is simply not functioning as intended.
October 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
I know this is obvious. And I know we all know this.
But if the President can raise taxes because an advert annoyed him, without even consulting Congress, then the US constitution is simply not functioning as intended.
But if the President can raise taxes because an advert annoyed him, without even consulting Congress, then the US constitution is simply not functioning as intended.
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A very offline cousin sent this to fam group chat. This story is breaking containment.
October 24, 2025 at 11:36 PM
A very offline cousin sent this to fam group chat. This story is breaking containment.
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A self explanatory title
October 23, 2025 at 11:09 AM
A self explanatory title
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the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist
October 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist
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umm so...getting rid of the IRB at CDC is, uhh, not good?
The entire HR department at the CDC is gone. Everyone at the IRB, which makes sure studies are conducted ethically and rigorously, and the ethics office, which oversee conflicts of interest for CDC leaders and advisory committee members, were also let go.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Instability and confusion’ as CDC slashes 1,300 jobs before reinstating half
Trump administration says 700 notices were sent in error, while top CDC officer says ‘they didn’t think through what they were doing’
www.theguardian.com
October 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM
umm so...getting rid of the IRB at CDC is, uhh, not good?
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VERY TROUBLING NEWS REGARDING NIH INSTITUTE DIRECTORS
A new appointment for NIEHS
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A new appointment for NIEHS
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October 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
VERY TROUBLING NEWS REGARDING NIH INSTITUTE DIRECTORS
A new appointment for NIEHS
1/3
A new appointment for NIEHS
1/3
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This is quite the collection of papers on #MOFs and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 by @natureportfolio.nature.com, and it was a delight to see our review among the resources on offer.
www.nature.com/collections/...
There's around 100 papers to peruse, I'll be recommending them to my group 😀
www.nature.com/collections/...
There's around 100 papers to peruse, I'll be recommending them to my group 😀
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.”
www.nature.com
October 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This is quite the collection of papers on #MOFs and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 by @natureportfolio.nature.com, and it was a delight to see our review among the resources on offer.
www.nature.com/collections/...
There's around 100 papers to peruse, I'll be recommending them to my group 😀
www.nature.com/collections/...
There's around 100 papers to peruse, I'll be recommending them to my group 😀
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We LOVED Diane Keaton. RIP.
I Am Diane Keaton’s Crisp White Shirt
I am perfect in shape and form. I am immaculate, woven by gods from fibers of cotton and Nancy Meyers’ discarded screenplays. Sent from above to si...
buff.ly
October 12, 2025 at 1:30 AM
We LOVED Diane Keaton. RIP.
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omg yes. it’s actually happening. we are reclaiming the symbolism of the frog for good.
October 12, 2025 at 2:32 AM
omg yes. it’s actually happening. we are reclaiming the symbolism of the frog for good.