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Brown University is ‘functionally inaccessible’ to transgender students after Trump settlement “Everyone I talked to thought it only applied to sports. But it applies to everything," one transgender student told The Advocate.

The Trump administration effectively created a de facto bathroom ban at Brown University and none of the major media is covering it, and if they do, they character it as about sports. This is how the trans visa ban was enacted and characterized.

www.advocate.com/news/transge...

BOLD-GPCRs: A Transformer-Powered App for Predicting Ligand Bioactivity and Mutational Effects Across Class A GPCRs G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are important targets for drug discovery owing to their ability to respond to a broad range of stimuli and their involvement in numerous pathologies. Although tradi...

For your summer reading, check out the latest from our lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

CASP is the main reason the protein structure prediction technology and research field advanced over the last 30 years. And the main reason AI based methods have been accepted and widely applied in biology. So shortsighted of NIH to postpone or even halt funding. John Moult is a scientific hero.

Model Selection Using Replica Averaging with Bayesian Inference of Conformational Populations Bayesian Inference of Conformational Populations (BICePs) is a reweighting algorithm that reconciles simulated ensembles with sparse and/or noisy observables by sampling the full posterior distributio...

Excited to share our BICePs manuscript now out in #JCTC @acs.org – congrats Rob Raddi!

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Very funny in the saddest and scariest way that people who are apparently in love with western civilization don't know that trans is a latin word that has an actually meaning and are willing to dismantle science in the u.s. using ctrl-f over their hatred of trans people. Very cool place 😎

Excited to share about new experimental structures of the coronavirus spike protein that confirm predictions we made early during the COVID-19 pandemic! Congrats to former student Max Zimmerman and the rest of the team at Generate Bio
foldingathome.org/2025/06/26/e...

Simple Method to Optimize the Spacing and Number of Alchemical Intermediates in Expanded Ensemble Free Energy Calculations Alchemical free energy calculations are essential to modern structure-based drug design. Such calculations are usually performed at a series of discrete intermediates along a nonphysical thermodynamic...

Excited to share work now out in #JCIM @acs.org !
doi.org/10.1021/acs....

Alchemical free energy calculations are indispensable in computational drug design. We present an improved approach for optimizing the schedule of alchemical intermediates by minimizing thermodynamic length.

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Protect transgender scientists Transgender and gender nonconforming (TGnC) people are a primary target of the Trump administration. Multiple executive orders seek to erase TGnC protections; mandate denial of gender identity; and ba...

Science has published a letter I helped write, as part of Advancing Queer & Trans Equity in Science (AQTES), about why it's important for universities & other institutions to protect trans and gender-nonconforming scientists, and some practical things they can do.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Captain Haddock looking very frazzled, saying, “What a week, huh?” Tintin leans into the frame and says, “Captain, it’s Wednesday.” Snowy is very excited about the drink he has found.

This is now out in JCIM :)!

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Opinion | The Science I Would Be Doing if I Weren’t in ICE Detention

gift link

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...

This is just DEI for bad ideas.

The Coming Out of a Transgender Scientist "I know that I am making the right decision because whenever I think about changing my gender role, I am flooded with feelings of relief."

We're disappointed to see Ben Barres's powerful book "The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist" among the ~400 titles removed from the Naval Academy Library. Needless to say, we're proud to have published his book and will keep it — and his memory — alive.

Very true...years of computational chemistry has transgendered me.

Let's fill in these funding gaps baybee!

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This is the moment we've worked toward for a long time: First public disclosure of the @asapdiscovery.bsky.social pan-coronavirus antiviral aiming to help keep humanity safe from future pandemic threats like MERS-CoV and other bat coronaviruses.

This preprint seems very cool!

Scalable and cost-efficient custom gene library assembly from oligopools Advances in metagenomics, deep learning, and generative protein design have enabled broad in silico exploration of sequence space, but experimental characterization is still constrained by the cost an...

🎉Congrats to Chase on her new preprint! She developed OMEGA--a simple method for assembling custom gene panels for as little as $1.50 per gene. Big step forward protein engineering and design!🧬
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

‘No Way’ to Please Everyone: Columbia’s President Confronts Trump’s Ultimatum With Trump intent on making an example of Columbia, Armstrong is at the center of a fight over the future of higher education.

‘No Way to Please Everyone’ Says Only University Where Students Are Regularly Kidnapped

Expanded ensemble predictions of toluene–water partition coefficients in the SAMPL9 log P challenge The logarithm of the partition coefficient (log P) between water and a nonpolar solvent is useful for characterizing a small molecule's hydrophobicity. For example, the water–octanol log P is often us...

New paper from the Voelz Lab in @pccp.rsc.org! Goold et al. performed many parallel expanded ensemble free energy simulations on @foldingathome.org using GROMACS (@gromacs.bsky.social) with OpenFF 2.0 (@openforcefield.org) to make blind logP predictions in SAMPL9

doi.org/10.1039/D4CP...

This is tragic and my heart goes out to these women. It further demonstrates that we can not trust liberal democratic norms to "save us" from any of what is going on. The executive branch has all of the enforcement power, without that laws and court orders are words on paper. End prisons.

How it feels to not be at BPS this year 😂

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Electronic: Brutalismus 3000, Snow Strippers, Zanias, Charli XCX, Shygirl, SOPHIE, Eartheater, Moa Pillar, COBRAH

Indie/punk/HC: Mannequin Pussy, Soul Glo, Gladie, Molchat Doma, Plains, Indigo de Souza, G.L.O.S.S., Willi Carlisle

Cool? I dunno. But these are artists I have on repeat :)

what kind of stuff are you into?

Your regular reminder that the first known clinic to offer gender-affirming surgeries was … destroyed by Nazis.

In 1933.

(Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institut für Sexualwissenschaft.)

They always come for trans people first.

Our paper on computational design of chemically induced protein interactions is out in @natureportfolio.bsky.social. Big thanks to all co-authors, especially Anthony Marchand, Stephen Buckley and Bruno Correia!

t.co/vtYlhi8aQm

GitHub - vvoelz/pylambdaopt: Python scripts and module to optimize lambda values in alchemical free energy calculations Python scripts and module to optimize lambda values in alchemical free energy calculations - vvoelz/pylambdaopt

in calculating a score for model selection in the Bayesian Inference of Conformational Populations (BICePs) approach. Code can be found here: github.com/vvoelz/pylam...