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Alex Keeley

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BMB PhD student @ Zid Lab UCSD UAW 4811 At my best I am a student, a scientist, and a citizen. Always anti-fascist. @chemonstrating.com

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Alex Keeley @alexkeeley.net · 30/09/2026
The specifics of this are pretty bad, but “a rule against using federal money to register people to vote” is already on its face pretty inexcusable; declaring voter registration to be outside the federal interest is a bold and ugly move.
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Alex Keeley @alexkeeley.net · 25/09/2026
Also fun to see the the IBWTR trichrotomy of right wing men break into the Guardian pieces
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Alex Keeley @alexkeeley.net · 25/09/2026
Your article does a really good job articulating what sometimes feels like a muddy line between the left’s sex positivity and the right’s sex authoritarianism that occasionally masquerades as sex positivity- the right would love for this to be about sex instead of autonomy.
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Alex Keeley @alexkeeley.net · 13/09/2026
Been thinking about this as I’ve learned how young some of the best punk groups were!!
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5 Calls @5calls.org · 11/09/2026
Hi don't use VoteSafe dot org Elon Musk created it to capture all your personal data for his pro-fascist super PAC
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Missouri Democrats @missouridemocrats.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
VICTORY TO THE PEOPLE! The Missouri Supreme Court just unanimously ruled to reverse the gerrymandered, anti-democracy maps until THE PEOPLE have a chance to vote. This is only possible because of the work done by our neighbors to gather signatures and fight back!
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jackie pelham @pelhamjackie.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Aaandd we’re back! Excited for this seasons line up of stellar speakers! 🍝🤓 Sign up: idpseminars.com Hope to see you next week!
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Alex Keeley @alexkeeley.net · 01/08/2026
I have a similar problem…
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Alex Keeley @alexkeeley.net · 08/07/2026
It’s my right as an American to have an ugly website!
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Alex Keeley @alexkeeley.net · 08/07/2026
YouTube’s RSS feeds are broken. I wrote about it. alexkeeley.net?p=2026-07-07_0
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Alex Keeley @alexkeeley.net · 25/06/2026
Fantastic except from @thomaszimmer.bsky.social’s great two-parter on Reconstruction thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/multiracia...
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Alex Keeley @alexkeeley.net · 10/06/2026
Direct line to the underwater kremlin
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Alex Keeley @alexkeeley.net · 22/02/2026
Oops, yes www.holehouselab.com/tools
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Tools — Holehouse Lab
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Alex Keeley @alexkeeley.net · 22/02/2026
Check out some of these!
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Alex Holehouse @alexholehouse.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Papers are like buses... You wait for ages, then two come along at once. Huge congrats to @bornanovak.bsky.social and @jefflotthammer.bsky.social for pushing and driving every aspect of this work, preprinted ~1 year ago to the day (Friday before BPS), now published! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Accurate predictions of disordered protein ensembles with STARLING - Nature
The deep learning model STARLING can generate accurate ensembles of intrinsically disordered regions of proteins using only protein sequence as input.
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Alex Keeley @alexkeeley.net · 11/02/2026
It's hard not to feel like I have a responsibility to be a better writer about the state of the world. Paradoxically the only way to improve is to write, so I'm trying to write about things, and maybe in doing so learn to do it better. Some thoughts on modern American protest…
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Alex Keeley @alexkeeley.net · 13/01/2026
Extremely jarring to learn that Mark McCloskey, previously best known to me and mine for brandishing an assault weapon at BLM protestors in my hometown, is now representing the pardoned January 6th rioters in their pursuit of retribution? Not surprising, necessarily, just jarring.
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Alex Keeley @alexkeeley.net · 17/12/2025
“What really comes out of the National Security Strategy… is that the priority of the U.S. government is U.S. corporations… What this government is essentially saying is that governments are neoliberal puppets of corporations. And so we need to apply this to foreign policy.”
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Trump’s Monroe Doctrine 2.0 Outlines Imperial Intentions for Latin America
The administration’s National Security Strategy signals a return to more outwardly interventionist policies.
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Alex Keeley @alexkeeley.net · 10/12/2025
Great @voiceofsandiego.org piece on hostile architecture in SD (and all over) and how it does nothing to actually alleviate homelessness! We can all benefit from more empathy and better public spaces. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/12/04/s...
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San Diego Doesn’t Want You to Take a Seat
The lack of benches is a small piece of the larger culture of exclusion that’s been embraced in cities across the nation.
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Alex Keeley @alexkeeley.net · 08/12/2025
I can relate to this philosophy!
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Alex Keeley @alexkeeley.net · 08/12/2025
You drum too??!
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Alex Keeley @alexkeeley.net · 04/12/2025
In retrospect I do think it was confusing to be taught the words manifest (list of things and people on a ship) and manifest (destiny) around the same time as a child
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Alex Keeley @alexkeeley.net · 03/12/2025
Just heard a pet insurance ad use the line “your pet is your therapist”… I hope they know a therapy dog is VERY DIFFERENT than a dog who is a therapist
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Alex Keeley @alexkeeley.net · 02/12/2025
Right— JUST writing an article that says that everyone knows the thing ‘everyone knows’ doesn’t feel like journalism that adds much to the conversation…
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I would rather have a world where we all trust each other and accept that a few people will take advantage of it than a world where folks have to perform disability constantly in order to get the help they need. Let kids have an extra 30 minutes on the test, jesus fucking christ
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Alex Keeley @alexkeeley.net · 02/12/2025
I’m not sure anyone who could be described as ‘woke’ is writing books using the word woke…
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Alex Keeley @alexkeeley.net · 01/12/2025
Almost every time I wonder aloud why some terrible staircase or path was built on the UCSD campus (primarily constructed in the early-mid 60s), I’m informed I’m looking at anti-protest architecture. Sometimes things work poorly because they’re meant to.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/11/2025
Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved. Don't look up!
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Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
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Alex Keeley @alexkeeley.net · 01/12/2025
Sounds like you have a photic sneeze reflex! @llepodcast.bsky.social
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Alex Keeley @alexkeeley.net · 30/11/2025
Unfortunately it seems like holding people accountable for abuse is mostly just a massive inconvenience for some people and the rest is just an abstraction for them.
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Alex Keeley @alexkeeley.net · 28/11/2025
Not really an argument but currently listening to Unsleeping City S2 which feels very on topic
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Missouri Democrats @missouridemocrats.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Did you just get THAT misleading text from the Republicans? If you believe that out of state billionaires have no place in Missouri politics, ignore them and sign a petition to defend your constitutional rights as soon as you can! Who listens to random texts anyways?
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Alex Keeley @alexkeeley.net · 21/11/2025
Also a big thank you to @adriandaub.bsky.social @mattxiv.bsky.social and Sarah Marshall for a phenomenal @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social live show, you all rocked it!
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Alex Keeley @alexkeeley.net · 21/11/2025
Had the amazing opportunity tonight to meet a personal hero, the inimitable @moiradonegan.bsky.social , who it turns out is even cooler in person!! Thanks for a great show and for being so kind!
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Alex Keeley @alexkeeley.net · 12/11/2025
Ah yes; everyone’s favorite science communicator… Tom Yum @tomlumperson.bsky.social
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Alex Keeley @alexkeeley.net · 05/11/2025
I love discovering a Wikipedia page which was clearly written with love.
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Alex Keeley @alexkeeley.net · 28/10/2025
We don’t need be measured in our tone when calling out assaults on pluralistic democracy.
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Alex Keeley @alexkeeley.net · 28/10/2025
I think this points to a tendency towards many smaller concessions in the face of an overwhelming onslaught on truth, but also to an unwillingness to say that you didn’t and don’t have to be at all radical to feel that what Kirk said and did was pretty evil.
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Alex Keeley @alexkeeley.net · 28/10/2025
A little worrying to see newsrooms (ie NPR today) conceding Charlie Kirk’s murder as an act of “left wing political violence” in the face of the admin repeatedly claiming that, when the evidence we have is at best indicative of an anti-right wing bent, which is not actually the same.
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Alex Keeley @alexkeeley.net · 28/10/2025
@xylafoxlin.bsky.social so many congratulations on getting your medical and for all your hard work helping so many others do the same in an unfair system— we’ve all been rooting for you!
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Alex Keeley @alexkeeley.net · 25/10/2025
The US government suing for the right to racially profile brown folks, winning the court case, and then self righteously denying any racial profiling in ICE operations is preposterous. They’re asking you to deny the evidence of your own eyes.
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Marcelius Braxton @marceliusb.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
There are no circumstances where human beings should be without food. There are no qualifications that make someone undeserving of access to food. If you are a human being, you should get food. I don’t care about ability, job status, legal status, or anything else. If people are hungry, feed them.
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Alex Keeley @alexkeeley.net · 24/10/2025
Thrilled to be driving eight hours each way for this, worth it!!
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Alex Keeley @alexkeeley.net · 23/10/2025
Is there any evidence that candidates blindly chasing poll numbers (and then letting that guide their eventual policies) actually wins elections? It's one thing if it's a necessary evil, but I'm thoroughly unconvinced that things like "don't talk about x because it isn't polling high" are even real.
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Alex Keeley @alexkeeley.net · 23/10/2025
This @motherjones.com story and specifically this plot that sums it up is... pretty stunning. Sevenfold spending increase by ICE on small arms this year. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
A plot of ICE small arms spending 2017-present, with a sharp ~7-fold increase in 2025.
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Alex Keeley @alexkeeley.net · 22/10/2025
@tpwky.bsky.social hi friends, love the pod! No idea how much control you have over this side of things but it is a little bit jarring to keep smash cutting from firsthand accounts of the horrors of famine to cheery LEGO ads about spaceships… maybe a gentler transition or different ad order?
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 21/10/2025
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs - Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75% - Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60% - Social Sciences by 50–70% - History by 60% - Biology by 75% - The German department will lose all PhD seats - Sociology from six PhD students to zero
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Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
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Alex Keeley @alexkeeley.net · 17/10/2025
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is thus far very very good… His politics, but also his radio presence. What a pro.
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Alex Keeley @alexkeeley.net · 15/10/2025
There are some smart people with really ugly goals in this administration. Donald Trump isn’t one of them. He’s a simple person with simple goals who listens to the loudest, meanest voice in the room.
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