Caitlin Aamodt, PhD

AlphaFold is pretty legit! I would say amino acid/nucleotide sequences are some of the best use cases. But in general the AI hype is dumb. If you don't tell me*how* you use AI in the pitch I'm assuming you shoehorned it in unnecessarily.

Why do some recomb proteins express better than others? After expressing >2000 proteins from the human secretome in CHO cells, we identified the protein features and host cell pathways linked to poor expression w/ @JohanRockberg lab. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Have you thought about training a model to screen for these?

Colin Kaepernick pays for autopsy of Black student found hanging from tree Demartravion "Trey" Reed, 21, was a student at Delta State University.

“Trey’s death evoked the collective memory of a community that has suffered a historic wound over many, many years and many, many deaths."

Colin Kaerpernick is paying for an independent autopsy for Demartravion “Trey” Reed, a Mississippi college student who was found hanging from a tree.

Haha damn

Good to know that women are still considered people.

US Supreme Court lets Trump cut diversity-related NIH grants The U.S. Supreme Court let President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday proceed with sweeping cuts to National Institutes of Health grants for research related to racial minorities or LGBT people, part of his crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and transgender identity.

There is no solace for NIH funded researchers in this Supreme Court decision. Grants that were ripped away on dubious grounds, restored by a reasonable judge are now again terminated by an out-of-control Supreme Court. Labs will shutter, people will lose jobs. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

I told my partner and he said "They're going to get eaten by the Ogopogo." 😂

As White Americans we must disabuse ourselves of the "elderly white hippie savior" myth.

Does he have any explanation for this other than that Russia has honeypot kompromat on him?

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"The president exploited your vulnerability by lying and saying he would reduce consumer costs, then did everything in his power to destabilize the economy."

😂 It's not slander if it's true.

There should be some way to stop a president from singlehandedly turning the US economy into a pump and dump shitcoin scheme.

Hard to believe a society could forget the devastation of an epidemic that kills babies.

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I said "out of the Republican candidates."

Even Nikki Haley was the most qualified Republican candidate.

I was having some issues earlier with eRA and the NDA. Apparently now you can't have a non-institutional email for Login.gov, even though originally they specifically instructed to not use institutional email.

go.bsky.app/LJj3CUD let's grow this one

I think he cut the scientific roles to distract from the regulatory role cuts, with the added bonus of pushing more scientists into the private workforce so he can hire good people and pay them less than he would have otherwise.

Welp. I'm a postdoc whose NIH funding source has just been cancelled in a mass grant termination targeting Harvard. We've been using these funds to study how puberty affects the brain and adolescent mental health.

Errors. Call them errors ffs. They're not hallucinations they're not lies. Call them errors. This dumbass personification of a fancy prediction tool is only reinforcing the idea that these things really are intelligent and not just a computer program.

I'm from Louisiana. Oil money has a stranglehold there.

A cartoon showing Elon Musk cutting off the head of the golden goose who has laid eggs for science, pharmaceutical drugs, and tech. Elon says “we’re going to save billions in bird feed”.

From the @sltrib.com, @bagleycartoons.bsky.social

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This time-lapse captures 17 hours of axonal growth from a chicken dorsal root ganglion explant, visualized through the actin cytoskeleton using live confocal imaging.
I just submitted this video to the Nikon Small World in Motion competition. Today is the last day to upload yours! 😉
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What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly. Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.

I hope you’ll read and share the piece.

stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

In my mind it looks like it's made out of the red wax that comes off the outside of a Babybel cheese.