Joy Menten 🏳️⚧️
@picodase.bsky.social
she/her. Fmr PhD student @ UW Biochemistry, IPD | 👩🏻💻 RoseTTAFold, EM modeling, protein design, enzyme design | 📚 electronic structure theory
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Please give this a read. The article says it all better than I could summarize.
November 1, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Please give this a read. The article says it all better than I could summarize.
Reposted by Joy Menten 🏳️⚧️
Keep in mind that organized academic workers, not administrators, accomplished this.
September 3, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Keep in mind that organized academic workers, not administrators, accomplished this.
Reposted by Joy Menten 🏳️⚧️
From a grant rejection: "I would recommend finding a more cost effective way to conduct the study, such as using labor of a graduate student, which could reduce the overall cost by 80%." To clarify: that would leave $9,856 for 2 years. Shocking! Graduate students are NOT free and forced labor! 🧪
September 8, 2025 at 1:25 PM
From a grant rejection: "I would recommend finding a more cost effective way to conduct the study, such as using labor of a graduate student, which could reduce the overall cost by 80%." To clarify: that would leave $9,856 for 2 years. Shocking! Graduate students are NOT free and forced labor! 🧪
Reposted by Joy Menten 🏳️⚧️
A new artificial intelligence–guided design program is coming to mRNA. In a nutshell, Raina’s GEMORNA can generate an mRNA coding sequence from a given protein sequence in a matter of hours. cen.acs.org/biological-c... #chemsky 🧪
AI-based program designs new mRNA
Generative models could reduce the effort needed to increase effectiveness of mRNA therapies and vaccines
cen.acs.org
September 7, 2025 at 8:13 PM
A new artificial intelligence–guided design program is coming to mRNA. In a nutshell, Raina’s GEMORNA can generate an mRNA coding sequence from a given protein sequence in a matter of hours. cen.acs.org/biological-c... #chemsky 🧪