Caroline Lynn Kamerlin

We got upgraded on the flight home and have been moved to row 1. 4yo was ecstatic about this because, and I quote: "I can get to the potty more quickly!!!" #childpriorities

Amazing vegan cupcakes from Vivi's in Charlottesville ♥️

With boost to NIH budget, Senate panel rejects Trump’s plan to slash agency Republicans on spending committee push back against proposed reorganization and overhead cuts

This is really really good news.

www.science.org/content/arti...

Last summer, I was in Interspar in Villach with 4yo. She started piling up the shopping cart with books. I told her "but you don't speak German..." She looks at me "but you do!" #realtimetranslation

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Congratulations to IOP President-elect Professor Michele Dougherty CBE on being appointed Astronomer Royal. 👏 Professor Dougherty succeeds IOP Honorary Fellow Lord Martin Rees who has held this prestigious role for an extraordinary 30 years.

🔗 Read the full statement: www.iop.org/about/news/i...

Saturn, Jupiter and Elon Musk: meet the first female astronomer royal

Michele Dougherty tells The Times about a forthcoming mission to Jupiter, Elon Musk’s scientific influence, and the wine fridge in her office ⬇️

At 5% basically one should fund by lottery. Reviewers are no longer capable of distinguishing/ranking that fine grained. FWIW many EU grants are in low single digit success rates and it goes exactly as you would expect.

Oh that will not be a problem

A mesmerizing time-lapse of the Sun in ultraviolet light, captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft over a month.

-Credits: NASA

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My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.

Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97

What an awful week for music.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...

In 1965, Margaret Dayhoff published the Atlas of Protein Sequence and Structure, which collated the 65 proteins whose amino acid sequences were then known.

Inspired by that Atlas, today we are releasing the Dayhoff Atlas of protein sequence data and protein language models.

YouTube video by Bill McClintock Thank you, Ozzy.

If you have never come across the mash-up genius that is Bill McClintock, his tribute to Ozzy is a good place to start.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rSN...

To immediately start off, our latest preprint, "Deciphering the evolutionary origin of the stereoselectivity of short-chain dehydrogenases in the oxidation of the monoterpenol 1-borneol," is now available on bioRxiv (doi.org/10.1101/2025...)!

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Last night Birmingham

How 4 yo sees me.

Cynical bullshit. 4 pizzas sent to your door cheap in the cold and rain BECAUSE it’s immigrants doing that back-breaking, low paid, often exploitative labour. And, many who complain about “immigrants” are more than happy to do just that, knowing full well why it’s cheap.

Exactly one year ago tomorrow. Most days, I am ok and think of him fondly. But when the grief strikes, as it still does, it remains overwhelming. Miss you every day Dad, always.

Many thanks to Jack Nicoludis and Vardhan Satalkar for putting together such an excellent de novo protein design session at #ACA2025. Every single talk was outstanding and I learned a lot.

Travel safe Ozzy 🖤🕯️

Agree completely, as a primary appointment it's a really exploitative setup.

Agree about adjunct positions in general. I am a full professor in a different department at GT, adjunct is because my ChBE appointment is a courtesy appointment, no exploitation involved in this case.

Thanks everyone 🙏

Thank you 🙏

Thrilled to announce that as of this month, I have taken on an additional role at Georgia Tech as an adjunct professor in the Georgia Tech School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Looking forward to new collaborations and synergies.

Deciphering the evolutionary origin of the stereoselectivity of short-chain dehydrogenases in the oxidation of the monoterpenol 1-borneol Hydrophobic pockets often play a decisive role in the mechanisms underlying the selectivity of enzymes. Yet, the interactions between hydrophobic substrates and the highly dynamic hydrophobic surfaces...

Enjoy :) 3/3

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Collaboration with Robert Kourist at Graz University of Technology, with contributions from former and current postdocs in our group Dr. Sebastian Brickel and Bruno Di Geronimo Quintero, as well as exp. contributions from co-supervised PhD student Rosa Teijeiro Juiz in the group of Bernhard Loll. 2/

Weekend reading: Our latest preprint looks at the evolutionary origins of short-chain dehydrogenases in the oxidation of the monoterpenol 1-borneol. 1/

This is what integrity looks like.

Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine.

If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.