Juana G. Stollmaier

When data collection falls on Halloween

My wife has volunteered at a local food bank for years and confirms what many of you have probably heard: in this case, straight cash is a good donation if you can do it.

The food banks have better access and buying power than individuals do, and can try to address item imbalances as they see them.

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

Maud Menten was born in Canada in 1879 and completed her UG and MD education at University of Toronto. As a research assistant with Leonor Michaelis in 1912, they wrote the classic paper describing the “Michaelis-Menten” model of enzyme kinetics.. #WomenInScience

In honour of October, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Someone released (the) PDB structure

Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality.

My HPLC was definitely overlooked

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Apple is entering the protein folding arena.
SimpleFold: Folding Proteins is Simpler than You Think arxiv.org/abs/2509.18480 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/apple/ml-sim...

From descriptive to quantitative biocatalysis - Nature Catalysis The 1913 study ‘Die Kinetik der Invertinwirkung’, by Michaelis and Menten, marked a pivotal advancement in enzymology by illustrating the application of mechanistic models and quantitative kinetics to biocatalysis. The foundational framework described back then continues to have a strong impact on enzymology, with profound influences that range from undergraduate education to structure–function studies and the format and content of contemporary kinetic databases.

From descriptive to quantitative biocatalysis

“The 1913 study ‘Die Kinetik der Invertinwirkung’, by Michaelis and Menten, marked a pivotal advancement in enzymology by illustrating the application of mechanistic models and quantitative kinetics to biocatalysis.”

doi.org/10.1038/s419...

A drop with a needle-shaped crystal

Nothing like starting the week with some nice crystal hits

A green watering can with its spout blocked by something beige.

It’s blocked by a frog! A frog’s face is glaring at me from inside the green watering can.

Tried to water the baby asparagus but the spout was blocked so I tried to shove the blockage down into the can but the thing inside shoved back.

Computer…enhance.

#garden #gardening #oopsfrog

A picture of an old box and tube of toothpaste, with a design that looks quite mid-century. This one not just fluoride but Chlorine Tri-Fluoride.

Remember when products had the quality ingredients?

Today in Chemistry History graphic on Rosalind Franklin and the structure of DNA. Rosalind Franklin was a chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work was instrumental in the discovery of the structure of DNA. She missed out on a Nobel Prize for her work as they are not awarded posthumously. Photograph 51 is an X-ray diffraction image of DNA taken during Franklin’s research. It was crucial in developing a model of DNA and confirming its double helical structure.

Rosalind Franklin was born #OTD in 1920. She was a chemist and crystallographic who made a key contribution to the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA: www.compoundchem.com/2017/07/25/f...

#ChemSky 🧪

Today in the journal Science: BioEmu from Microsoft Research AI for Science. This generative deep learning method emulates protein equilibrium ensembles – key for understanding protein function at scale. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Would you pay $150 per article to post your preprint on @bioRxiv @aRxiv @medRxiv @chemRxiv etc.? Currently it’s free but a small cost could help offset running costs and also work as a barrier against paper mills and AIs just posting all the time and filling these sites up.

Tiny, colorful baby scallops — a total cuteness overload in one dish!

You might think, “This person posts the same creature every year!” But honestly, seeing the same life return year after year is something truly wonderful𓂃🫧‪

The difference between accuracy and precision haunts us always.

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.

“lmao" said Gandalf, “well it has.”

Excited to unveil Boltz-2, our new model capable not only of predicting structures but also binding affinities! Boltz-2 is the first AI model to approach the performance of FEP simulations while being more than 1000x faster! All open-sourced under MIT license! A thread… 🤗🚀

what in tarnation

Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you don't know about. Unless they're fighting a horse-sized duck. Then you probably know.

new gender neutral greeting just dropped

We have introduced a "hot dog" dog scale in the @dwchristianson.bsky.social lab! Thanks Abbi for the planning and execution of this project 🌭

Another Monday, another stuck cold finger

One of the things I think about often is a post I read probably twenty years ago from a math professor who was out walking on his beach with this dog, throwing a ball and watching the dog run out and catch it before it landed.

Brazilian effort highlights struggle to replicate research results 6 years after the project was announced, it reports low levels of reproducibility across biomedical science papers in Brazil

Brazilian effort highlights struggle to replicate research results

6 years after the project was announced, it reports low levels of reproducibility across biomedical science papers in Brazil cen.acs.org/research-int... 🧪

*Please share* 🚀 Now recruiting postdocs and lab technicians!
If you're interested in biocatalysis or synthesis, and you're looking for a collaborative and creative environment to do science, 📬 send a CV and research summary to yi.liu@psu.edu
@chemjobber.bsky.social @enzymechemistry.bsky.social

The tattoo that I got at the end of my PhD was an important step for me to take ownership of my research and celebrate the ups and downs of my path. 💐

One perfect baked potato could revolutionise your life and if you don't believe me I just hope you find your potato soon

Personal opinion: they should pay Chemistry PhD graduates more because of the incredible interpersonal skills you develop when labmates choose the radio station.