Steven Albanese
@stevenalbanese.bsky.social
Computational Chemist // Interested in drug development and cancer biology // Cornell alumnus // NJ native // 🏳️🌈 he/him
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Between 2020 and 2024, no New Jersey county moved further right than Passaic County (11pts). At 43% it's also the most the most-Latino county in the state, and is among the least-white overall.
Last night, it moved 18pts to the left, surpassed only by Hudson County (the second-most Latino county)
Last night, it moved 18pts to the left, surpassed only by Hudson County (the second-most Latino county)
November 5, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Between 2020 and 2024, no New Jersey county moved further right than Passaic County (11pts). At 43% it's also the most the most-Latino county in the state, and is among the least-white overall.
Last night, it moved 18pts to the left, surpassed only by Hudson County (the second-most Latino county)
Last night, it moved 18pts to the left, surpassed only by Hudson County (the second-most Latino county)
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Every major publication in this country needs to have dedicated staffers or correspondents reporting on gaming, streamers, podcasts, and TikTok. Not as a once in a while thing. As standard beats. These are massive segments of American culture. No excuses for it anymore.
basically a generational cohort split here where certain younger people intuitively grasp the irony poisoned context, and if you aren't already up to speed, very hard to explain
Watching the cable news commentary on the bullet engravings is wild because none of these people seem to realize that the content of the engravings are indicative of extremely online meme brain rot
September 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Every major publication in this country needs to have dedicated staffers or correspondents reporting on gaming, streamers, podcasts, and TikTok. Not as a once in a while thing. As standard beats. These are massive segments of American culture. No excuses for it anymore.
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Researchers have developed a new computational method to design strongly binding inhibitors with low off-target effects. cen.acs.org/physical-che... #chemsky 🧪
A computational shortcut to selectivity creates precise kinase inhibitors
By simulating tiny protein changes instead of screening hundreds of kinases, researchers design strong and specific Wee1 inhibitors
cen.acs.org
September 5, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Researchers have developed a new computational method to design strongly binding inhibitors with low off-target effects. cen.acs.org/physical-che... #chemsky 🧪
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No you cannot determine which drugs are safe and effective with machine learning. You cannot. It will not work. People will die.
"At FDA we're accelerating drug approvals so that you don't need to use primates or even animal models. You can do the drug approvals very, very quickly with AI."
July 1, 2025 at 9:15 PM
No you cannot determine which drugs are safe and effective with machine learning. You cannot. It will not work. People will die.
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It's rare to get real-time data on the criminal histories of immigrants arrested by ICE. Cato got access to some of these data, showing that only 7 percent of people arrested by ICE & booked into detention this fiscal year had a violent conviction. www.cato.org/blog/65-peop...
65 Percent of People Taken by ICE Had No Convictions, 93 Percent No Violent Convictions
ICE’s deportation agenda is not what is being advertised to the American public. ICE is not interested in prioritizing public safety, yet it constantly pretends that anyone who objects to its tactics ...
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June 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
It's rare to get real-time data on the criminal histories of immigrants arrested by ICE. Cato got access to some of these data, showing that only 7 percent of people arrested by ICE & booked into detention this fiscal year had a violent conviction. www.cato.org/blog/65-peop...
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Offit's position on RFK's announcement that he will know what causes autism and rectify it by September:
April 11, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Offit's position on RFK's announcement that he will know what causes autism and rectify it by September:
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The schedule is up! I'm chairing the @schrodingerinc.bsky.social session!
April 11, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The schedule is up! I'm chairing the @schrodingerinc.bsky.social session!
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There is no winning, folks. Don't negotiate with bad faith actors.
April 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
There is no winning, folks. Don't negotiate with bad faith actors.
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I am sure that this is right. The NIH doesn’t discover many new drugs themselves (that’s not what they’re set up to do), but the fundamental research they fund is *absolutely crucial* to biomedical progress.
Watching Trump and Musk destroy it all is driving me to despair.
Watching Trump and Musk destroy it all is driving me to despair.
From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA
March 22, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I am sure that this is right. The NIH doesn’t discover many new drugs themselves (that’s not what they’re set up to do), but the fundamental research they fund is *absolutely crucial* to biomedical progress.
Watching Trump and Musk destroy it all is driving me to despair.
Watching Trump and Musk destroy it all is driving me to despair.
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The state of the union is that the President is spitting in the face of the law.
He is letting an unelected billionaire fire cancer researchers and wreck federal agencies like the Social Security Administration at will.
I won't be attending tomorrow's Joint Address.
He is letting an unelected billionaire fire cancer researchers and wreck federal agencies like the Social Security Administration at will.
I won't be attending tomorrow's Joint Address.
March 3, 2025 at 11:12 PM
The state of the union is that the President is spitting in the face of the law.
He is letting an unelected billionaire fire cancer researchers and wreck federal agencies like the Social Security Administration at will.
I won't be attending tomorrow's Joint Address.
He is letting an unelected billionaire fire cancer researchers and wreck federal agencies like the Social Security Administration at will.
I won't be attending tomorrow's Joint Address.
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If you're an elected Dem and your entire resistance plan is to just post on Twitter and Bluesky until midterms to roll around: you are actively accelerating the destruction of our democracy and you're as big of a problem as Musk.
Just resign and let someone who will fight every day take your place.
Just resign and let someone who will fight every day take your place.
February 17, 2025 at 9:20 PM
If you're an elected Dem and your entire resistance plan is to just post on Twitter and Bluesky until midterms to roll around: you are actively accelerating the destruction of our democracy and you're as big of a problem as Musk.
Just resign and let someone who will fight every day take your place.
Just resign and let someone who will fight every day take your place.
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No words for how wrong, stupid, and terrible this action is.
UPDATE: The National Park Service have now removed “queer” and the “Q+” from the web page for stonewall, along with any mentions of transgender people.
February 13, 2025 at 10:13 PM
No words for how wrong, stupid, and terrible this action is.
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The idea that there should be a public debate about the appropriate medical care for a minuscule population of children remains one of the most absurd lies that these liberal transphobes, NYT edit board included, tell themselves. No there shouldn’t! It’s not an appropriate matter for public debate!
February 9, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The idea that there should be a public debate about the appropriate medical care for a minuscule population of children remains one of the most absurd lies that these liberal transphobes, NYT edit board included, tell themselves. No there shouldn’t! It’s not an appropriate matter for public debate!
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Do it. Don’t wait, don’t gently try to open up tentative channels of communication.
These people hate you, and they are deeply suspicious of higher education in general. Speak up. Speak up now.
These people hate you, and they are deeply suspicious of higher education in general. Speak up. Speak up now.
Per an NIH source:
“Discussions with colleagues have suggested that if the universities all come together and raise hell about the delays to funding caused by not holding meetings, that might move the needle. From every state. There are well-funded universities in red states that will be impacted.”
“Discussions with colleagues have suggested that if the universities all come together and raise hell about the delays to funding caused by not holding meetings, that might move the needle. From every state. There are well-funded universities in red states that will be impacted.”
January 28, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Do it. Don’t wait, don’t gently try to open up tentative channels of communication.
These people hate you, and they are deeply suspicious of higher education in general. Speak up. Speak up now.
These people hate you, and they are deeply suspicious of higher education in general. Speak up. Speak up now.
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I think you're describing science, IMO. Everything is atop a foundation of basic research. An example: at a previous company, I worked on a series of small-molecule inhibitors of Hormone-Sensitive Lipase, a possible target for Type II diabetes and related conditions. (1/10)
January 5, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I think you're describing science, IMO. Everything is atop a foundation of basic research. An example: at a previous company, I worked on a series of small-molecule inhibitors of Hormone-Sensitive Lipase, a possible target for Type II diabetes and related conditions. (1/10)
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Some good news to end the week: Anthem reversed their decision to put limits on how much anesthesia they would cover.
www.cbsnews.com/news/anthem-...
www.cbsnews.com/news/anthem-...
Anthem Blue Cross says it's reversing a policy to limit anesthesia coverage
Anthem will reverse a policy that would have capped insurance coverage for anesthesia after objections from doctors and lawmakers.
www.cbsnews.com
December 6, 2024 at 9:48 PM
Some good news to end the week: Anthem reversed their decision to put limits on how much anesthesia they would cover.
www.cbsnews.com/news/anthem-...
www.cbsnews.com/news/anthem-...
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U.S. healthcare systems never cease to amaze me.
Blue Cross Blue Shield in Connecticut, New York and Missouri has declared it will no longer pay for anesthesia for the full length of some surgeries.
It the procedure goes over a certain time, anesthesia will not be covered for the duration.
www.asahq.org/about-asa/ne...
It the procedure goes over a certain time, anesthesia will not be covered for the duration.
www.asahq.org/about-asa/ne...
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Won’t Pay for the Complete Duration of Anesthesia for Patients’ Surgical Procedures
In an unprecedented move, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield plans representing Connecticut, New York and Missouri have unilaterally declared it will no longer pay for anesthesia care if the surgery or pro...
www.asahq.org
December 4, 2024 at 6:20 PM
U.S. healthcare systems never cease to amaze me.
Excited to see this preprint out in the wild! A multidisciplinary effort to explore predicting resistance to EGFR inhibitors. We hope this workflow proves useful to other folks combatting resistance to fight cancer and other diseases with next generation inhibitors doi.org/10.26434/che...
Predicting resistance to small molecule kinase inhibitors
Drug resistance is a critical challenge in treating diseases like cancer and infectious disease. This study presents a novel computational workflow for predicting on-target resistance mutations to sma...
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December 2, 2024 at 7:21 PM
Excited to see this preprint out in the wild! A multidisciplinary effort to explore predicting resistance to EGFR inhibitors. We hope this workflow proves useful to other folks combatting resistance to fight cancer and other diseases with next generation inhibitors doi.org/10.26434/che...