Kris Hite
@gr8odinsravens.bsky.social
I make Swedish pancakes for my wife and sons most Sunday mornings. My dad left me with an appetite for good stories and my mom inspires me to take pride in my creations. Faculty member in Biochemistry at VT. Proud AAUP member
Trying to hop back on BlueSky. At first this place felt great but I grew to feel detached and isolated pretty quickly as very few people I know IRL are on here.
October 7, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Trying to hop back on BlueSky. At first this place felt great but I grew to feel detached and isolated pretty quickly as very few people I know IRL are on here.
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How does our biochemistry differ from that of Neanderthals & Denisovans—our closest extinct cousins—& how did that affect our success? One piece of the puzzle could be an enzyme called ADSL; a change in just 1 amino acid made a version of ADSL unique to Homo sapiens, & may have shaped our behavior 🧪
Enzyme unique to modern humans may have given us an evolutionary edge, research finds | CNN
A new study suggests an enzyme unique to Homo sapiens may have made us more competitive water seekers than our closest extinct relatives.
www.cnn.com
August 23, 2025 at 2:14 PM
How does our biochemistry differ from that of Neanderthals & Denisovans—our closest extinct cousins—& how did that affect our success? One piece of the puzzle could be an enzyme called ADSL; a change in just 1 amino acid made a version of ADSL unique to Homo sapiens, & may have shaped our behavior 🧪
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Shoutout to fireflies: maybe the cutest bugs out there, plus they gave us the first luciferase ever cloned! Check out our latest blog post to learn more about these alternatives to fluorescent proteins and bring bioluminescence to your lab. 🌟🌟
https://twp.ai/4ipdt0
https://twp.ai/4ipdt0
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Fluorescent Proteins 101: Luciferases
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July 22, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Shoutout to fireflies: maybe the cutest bugs out there, plus they gave us the first luciferase ever cloned! Check out our latest blog post to learn more about these alternatives to fluorescent proteins and bring bioluminescence to your lab. 🌟🌟
https://twp.ai/4ipdt0
https://twp.ai/4ipdt0
(2 of 2) …the spread of misinformation, and the dominance of social media algorithms. These issues contribute to a decline in user experience and a sense that the internet is less fun and informative than it used to be…
July 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
(2 of 2) …the spread of misinformation, and the dominance of social media algorithms. These issues contribute to a decline in user experience and a sense that the internet is less fun and informative than it used to be…
I asked Google why the internet sucks now and I got a quite the concise and accurate response “The internet, once hailed as a space for freedom and connection, is now often perceived as frustrating and even harmful due to factors like rampant commercialization, (1 of 2).
July 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I asked Google why the internet sucks now and I got a quite the concise and accurate response “The internet, once hailed as a space for freedom and connection, is now often perceived as frustrating and even harmful due to factors like rampant commercialization, (1 of 2).
My mother gave me this gasoline ration card from WWII. Her mother and father used this piece of paper to buy 4 gallons of gas per week during the war.
June 25, 2025 at 2:08 AM
My mother gave me this gasoline ration card from WWII. Her mother and father used this piece of paper to buy 4 gallons of gas per week during the war.
Edward Jenner is not a household name, but it really should be. The inventor of vaccination. So fundamental was his discovery that pus from cow pox wounds induced humans to gain resistance to small pox that the word “vaccination” derives from the Latin word for cow.
June 1, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Edward Jenner is not a household name, but it really should be. The inventor of vaccination. So fundamental was his discovery that pus from cow pox wounds induced humans to gain resistance to small pox that the word “vaccination” derives from the Latin word for cow.
Working along with my 6-year-old learning how to block in all over again with my favorite “learn to draw” book!
May 20, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Working along with my 6-year-old learning how to block in all over again with my favorite “learn to draw” book!
Summer goal. Create art that can double as textbook diagrams to teach about nucleosomal array accordion structure, interdigitated arrays, and heterochromatin formation.
May 17, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Summer goal. Create art that can double as textbook diagrams to teach about nucleosomal array accordion structure, interdigitated arrays, and heterochromatin formation.
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I’ve been having nostalgia for the internet circa 2010-2014 lately. This philosophical espresso shot from Jason Silva satisfied my longing to put my brain back in that mode of early excitement and optimism about this whole endeavor.
A MIND MADE FOR MATING! by @JasonSilva
YouTube video by Jason Silva
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May 1, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I’ve been having nostalgia for the internet circa 2010-2014 lately. This philosophical espresso shot from Jason Silva satisfied my longing to put my brain back in that mode of early excitement and optimism about this whole endeavor.
Cornell blocks Kehlani from Slope Day for pro-Palestine views www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/n...
Cornell Cancels Kehlani Performance Over Her Stance on the War in Gaza
The R&B singer’s outspoken support for Palestinians had drawn criticism on the campus and beyond. Some students expressed disappointment at the cancellation.
www.nytimes.com
April 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Cornell blocks Kehlani from Slope Day for pro-Palestine views www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/n...
Fun times in Chicago for the @asbmb.bsky.social annual meeting!
April 16, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Fun times in Chicago for the @asbmb.bsky.social annual meeting!
Ironic listening to former Chief Scientific Officer of Moderna; Melissa J. Moore talk about how women should take more risks in life. Encouraging young women to use poker as a good arena to learn how to take risks. It is ironic as I have lost thousands$ on Moderna stock I bought in 2022. 89% drop
April 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Ironic listening to former Chief Scientific Officer of Moderna; Melissa J. Moore talk about how women should take more risks in life. Encouraging young women to use poker as a good arena to learn how to take risks. It is ironic as I have lost thousands$ on Moderna stock I bought in 2022. 89% drop
Learning from Yael David Ph. D. that histones get glycated at a high rates in tumor cells and also in “exhausted” T-cells. American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center H3R17gly most common and stable
April 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Learning from Yael David Ph. D. that histones get glycated at a high rates in tumor cells and also in “exhausted” T-cells. American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center H3R17gly most common and stable
While de-extinction is grabbing the headlines. Stewart Brand, founder of the While Earth caralog has some thoughts youtu.be/U1s1edvJgqY?...
Reversing animal extinction | Stewart Brand
YouTube video by TED Archive
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April 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
While de-extinction is grabbing the headlines. Stewart Brand, founder of the While Earth caralog has some thoughts youtu.be/U1s1edvJgqY?...
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“When institutions & their leaders fail to fight back, it falls upon the people to stand up for the rule of law. The AAUP & AFT are doing what the Columbia board should have done: Fight Back.”
— Jennifer Ruth
— Jennifer Ruth
April 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
“When institutions & their leaders fail to fight back, it falls upon the people to stand up for the rule of law. The AAUP & AFT are doing what the Columbia board should have done: Fight Back.”
— Jennifer Ruth
— Jennifer Ruth
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For years conservatives and some liberals complained incessantly about ‘cancel culture’ and the lack of ‘free speech’ on campuses. None of that stuff comes even close to what the right is now doing in power, in terms of the open bullying and pressuring of colleges and censoring of curricula.
Harvard Dismisses Leaders of Center for Middle Eastern Studies | News | The Harvard Crimson
Interim Harvard Dean of Social Science David M. Cutler ’87 dismissed the director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, professor of Turkish Studies Cemal Kafadar, and its associate director, Hist...
www.thecrimson.com
March 29, 2025 at 2:23 AM
For years conservatives and some liberals complained incessantly about ‘cancel culture’ and the lack of ‘free speech’ on campuses. None of that stuff comes even close to what the right is now doing in power, in terms of the open bullying and pressuring of colleges and censoring of curricula.
The Water’s Andrew Plus making a quadrupl
March 28, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The Water’s Andrew Plus making a quadrupl
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BREAKING:
We are suing the Trump admin on behalf of our members for unlawfully cutting off $400 million in federal funding for crucial public health research to force Columbia University to surrender its academic independence.
Stay Tuned.
We are suing the Trump admin on behalf of our members for unlawfully cutting off $400 million in federal funding for crucial public health research to force Columbia University to surrender its academic independence.
Stay Tuned.
@aaup.bsky.social and @aftunion.bsky.social sue over government “using cuts as a cudgel to coerce a private institution.” www.aft.org/press-releas...
FACULTY UNIONS SUE TRUMP ADMIN: NO HALTING SCIENCE RESEARCH TO SUPPRESS SPEECH
NEW YORK– The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the AFT today sued the Trump administration on behalf of their members for unlawfully cutting off $400 million in federal funding...
www.aft.org
March 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
BREAKING:
We are suing the Trump admin on behalf of our members for unlawfully cutting off $400 million in federal funding for crucial public health research to force Columbia University to surrender its academic independence.
Stay Tuned.
We are suing the Trump admin on behalf of our members for unlawfully cutting off $400 million in federal funding for crucial public health research to force Columbia University to surrender its academic independence.
Stay Tuned.
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Columbia political science professor & scholar of post-soviet policy Tim Frye speaking out today as the rain fell at Columbia AAUP’s press conference in response to Columbia’s shocking surrender to the Trump administration’s threats to defund.
#defendhighered #academicsky
#defendhighered #academicsky
March 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Columbia political science professor & scholar of post-soviet policy Tim Frye speaking out today as the rain fell at Columbia AAUP’s press conference in response to Columbia’s shocking surrender to the Trump administration’s threats to defund.
#defendhighered #academicsky
#defendhighered #academicsky
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The National Institutes of Health will no longer be funding work on the health effects of climate change, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica.
www.propublica.org/article/nih-...
www.propublica.org/article/nih-...
NIH Ends Future Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change
It’s unclear whether the guidance will impact active grants, but it appears to halt opportunities for future studies. One climate health expert said the directive would have a “devastating” impact on ...
www.propublica.org
March 24, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The National Institutes of Health will no longer be funding work on the health effects of climate change, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica.
www.propublica.org/article/nih-...
www.propublica.org/article/nih-...
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Hey guys remember the Hillary Clinton email server?
Seems kinda, small today, doesn’t it?
Seems kinda, small today, doesn’t it?
March 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Hey guys remember the Hillary Clinton email server?
Seems kinda, small today, doesn’t it?
Seems kinda, small today, doesn’t it?
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So, there's this 😬 #AcademicSky
"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...
Opinion | What Autocrats Want From Academics: Servility
In 1931, Italian scholars were made to take loyalty oaths. Will that happen to us?
www.chronicle.com
March 22, 2025 at 1:16 AM
So, there's this 😬 #AcademicSky
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Many conservatives who fought against cancel culture on college campuses and championed free speech are now behind a growing crackdown on political expression at universities, in ways that try to sidestep the Constitution’s free-speech guarantees.
Republicans Once Championed Free Speech on Campus. Now, Not So Much.
President Trump and state politicians are pushing new laws and policies that crack down on curriculum, protests and speakers.
www.nytimes.com
March 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Many conservatives who fought against cancel culture on college campuses and championed free speech are now behind a growing crackdown on political expression at universities, in ways that try to sidestep the Constitution’s free-speech guarantees.