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Kelly Brock

@kpgbrock.bsky.social

Computational biologist at Northeastern with a focus on protein and RNA structure, function, and interaction predictions. Lightsaber stage combat enthusiast and the human of a very tiny, very bossy dog. She/her.

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This is horrific, I use these tools basically every week for projects ranging from investigating Alzheimer's to pediatric congenital rare disease. The loss from cutting scientific research funding is breathtaking in its atrocity.

29.05.2025 18:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This past weekend, members traveled North to Nashua, New Hampshire to attend Kids Con New England. We helped raise money for Make-A-Wish New Hampshire!

SG Members Featured: SG-894, SG-1010, SG-1126

#SaberGuild #ChandrilaTemple #TwoSidesOneForce

10.04.2025 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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✨ New Costume Approval ✨

"Always wanted to try one of these..."

Please help us congratulate SG-1126 on her new costume approval:

Leia Organa, Jedi (Marvel Comics # 12)

Congratulations and great job!

#StarWars #SaberGuild #ChandrilaTemple #TwoSidesOneForce #LeiaOrgana #LeiaOrganaCosplay

28.03.2025 18:26 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is what we are hearing from lots of federal employees right now: white-hot anger at Senate Democrats. From ppl across the country too.

@schumer.senate.gov @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social @fetterman.senate.gov @bennet.senate.gov
You are risking the ends of your political careers. Will you act?

14.03.2025 01:50 β€” πŸ‘ 556    πŸ” 137    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 6

This just moved right to the top of my to-be-read list :)

05.02.2025 17:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In my years of reporting on LGBTQ news this was by far the hardest.

But we are still here. You made it to Friday. You lived. Good job. That wasn’t easy.

Through a diversity of tactics, we will continue to live.

Rest up, drink water, find community, so that we can all be here tomorrow too.

31.01.2025 22:17 β€” πŸ‘ 20155    πŸ” 2612    πŸ’¬ 329    πŸ“Œ 63

Sometimes it's the little things - like talking about lightsabers and Komodo dragons with a kid who was VERY excited to meet Princess Leia - that helps me face the big things <3

29.01.2025 23:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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So Trump's shutting down of the entire government's funding system for American projects is literally so he can go line by line and target transgender people and other minorities.

When we said transphobia affects cis people too, well... here you go.

28.01.2025 18:39 β€” πŸ‘ 3466    πŸ” 984    πŸ’¬ 60    πŸ“Œ 58
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Hockeypalooza continues, this time with Northeastern University! No lothwolves around, but we were able to find this mascot...

Featuring TDE-470 (Regent) and TDE-859

#starwars #TDE #TheDarkEmpire #OrderOfDromundKaas #SinsOfKorriban #sith #darkside #lightsabers @thedarkempire.bsky.social

26.01.2025 02:00 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Switching off NIH grant funding is such a massive self-inflected wound.

A gaping, oozing, self-inflected wound that damages both public health and the US economy.

23.01.2025 05:18 β€” πŸ‘ 78    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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How to Keep Tabs on ICE Agents Who May Be Surveilling Your Neighborhood Here’s a step-by-step guide.

This op-ed explains how to start an ICE Watch neighborhood program in your community. ‡️

22.01.2025 20:47 β€” πŸ‘ 5841    πŸ” 3062    πŸ’¬ 111    πŸ“Œ 305

Hey everyone! Incredible news!

Trans Scouts selling GS cookies this year on my list have sold over 50,000 boxes of GS cookies!

If you want girl scout cookies, consider buying from a trans girl scout this year! They'll mail them to you!

This is literally my fav thing to do every year :)

22.01.2025 22:09 β€” πŸ‘ 3281    πŸ” 968    πŸ’¬ 89    πŸ“Œ 51

Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.

I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or β€œpause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.

22.01.2025 23:24 β€” πŸ‘ 24334    πŸ” 7879    πŸ’¬ 797    πŸ“Œ 434

Study sections are the review panels that allocate NIH research grants. They bring in experts from around the country and have to be scheduled many months in advance; they provide the funds that keep the nation's biomedical research going.

It's hard to overstate the disruption this causes.

22.01.2025 23:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1086    πŸ” 443    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 17
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Hundreds of Subreddits Are Considering Banning All Links to X Dozens of big subreddits have already banned all Twitter links, and posts about potential bans are some of the most popular on the site.

New from 404 Media: hundreds of subreddits, including some of the most popular, are considering banning all links/content/screenshots from X/Twitter. r/NFL, r/hockey, r/baseball, r/nba, r/formula1, r/ComicBookMovies, r/MadeMeSmile, so many more. Some already have. www.404media.co/hundreds-of-...

22.01.2025 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 71067    πŸ” 8566    πŸ’¬ 2199    πŸ“Œ 875
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Chandrila Temple Saber Guild is a not-for-profit, LucasFilm-recognized Star Wars costuming group that specializes in choreographed lightsaber shows.

Some exciting news: Our new Temple website has gone live!

Check it out here: www.sgchandrilatemple.com

#SaberGuild #ChandrilaTemple #TwoSidesOneForce

21.01.2025 23:50 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œThe attempt on my life has left me scarred and deformed. But I assure you - my resolve has never been stronger.

In order to ensure our security and continuing stability, the Republic will be reorganized into the first Galactic Empire, for a safe and secure society.”

20.01.2025 17:20 β€” πŸ‘ 155    πŸ” 35    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 1

(Space) whales make everything better :D

10.01.2025 14:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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BREAKING: In an unprecedented move, more than 75 Nobel Prize winners have signed a letter urging senators not to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as head of the Department of Health and Human Services.

It's the first time in history that Nobel laureates have come together to oppose a Cabinet choice.

09.12.2024 22:09 β€” πŸ‘ 18837    πŸ” 5552    πŸ’¬ 761    πŸ“Œ 468

One of the biggest mysteries in Alzheimer's disease that is yet to be solved is the pathogenic mechanism of ApoE4 variant (and the protective mechanism of ApoE2).
A new study reports that LDL receptor binding affinity in brain cells linearly increase from E2 to E3 to E4 1/

30.11.2024 13:09 β€” πŸ‘ 48    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Slightly blurry image of an adorable light brown Yorkshire terrier with eyes looking right at the camera, sitting on a grey blanket.

Slightly blurry image of an adorable light brown Yorkshire terrier with eyes looking right at the camera, sitting on a grey blanket.

Inaugural post: this is Frodo, our Hobbit Dog. True to his name, he is very small, very brave, and has very hairy feet.

27.11.2024 00:37 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

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