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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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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 · 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 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 · 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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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 · 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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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
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
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 · 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
Would love not to hear @nytimes.com calling Donald Trump a ‘genius’ for shutting down USAID. He didn’t do it because he’s some visionary who can see the whole chess board, he did it because he and his advisors hate what it stood for and he hates challenges to his authority. Simple as that.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2025
that we have built an alternate media ecosystem in which every American city is an apocalyptic hellhole - completely unmoored from reality - and the political system has collapsed to the point that the president can use this fabrication to send troops against his own citizens is a staggering failure
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Alex Keeley @alexkeeley.net · 04/09/2025
As a longtime NPR listener it’s been tough the last ~6 months not to feel like they’ve been drifting further right— what I think is actually happening is that as authoritarianism rises, they are failing to meet the moment at the same speed that it’s happening. Not that they aren’t trying:
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Alex Keeley @alexkeeley.net · 28/08/2025
I want to put out there some Goodreads shelves I've taken the time to curate of books which I've read and which I strongly recommend! A book's absence isn't, by the way, intended to convey any specific meaning. Read on for categories:
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Alex Keeley @alexkeeley.net · 05/08/2025
@lutimestwo.bsky.social ’s Why Fish Don’t Exist is a triumph of compassionate science journalism, as well as a great examination of the complicated life of David Star Jordan.
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Alex Keeley @alexkeeley.net · 25/07/2025
Big shout out to @llepodcast.bsky.social for inspiring my first tattoo! Best piece of LLE merch I could’ve asked for Thanks for making such a great piece of science communication <3 @ellahubber.bsky.social @tomlumperson.bsky.social @carolinethebug.bsky.social
A tattoo of the Let’s Learn Everything logo, a lineart sketch of a bumblebee!
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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 18/07/2025
I still can’t believe that all NIH grants to my colleagues at Harvard and Harvard Medical School have been nullified. And that, as a nation, we’re somehow okay with this illegal, arbitrary, and petty act. Just think of the consequences: scientists, students, and patients will all suffer.
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John @localcelebrity.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Holy crap. These are officially licensed with proceeds going to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting! #PBSisPUNK twocrowcollective.com/collections/...
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PBS is Punk Distressed Tee
Official licensed merchandise. ‘PBS’ and the ‘PBS logo’ are trademarks of the Public Broadcasting Service and are used with permission. All rights reserved. PRE-ORDER INFO: This is a pre-order item, a...
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Alex Keeley @alexkeeley.net · 11/07/2025
I’d be curious to hear @adriandaub.bsky.social or @moiradonegan.bsky.social ‘s take on John McWhorter’s recent “Wokeness Will Always be With Us” in the NYT opinion section… both the piece itself and its publication in @nytimes.com . www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/o...
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Opinion | Wokeness Will Always Be With Us
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MO for LGBTQ @mo4lgbtq.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Come visit our booth this Saturday at Out in the Ozarks: West Plains Pride, Sunday at People's Pride KC, and all weekend at St. Louis Pridefest! We'll have initiative petitions you can sign to protect same-sex marriage and expand anti-discrimination laws in Missouri!
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MO for LGBTQ @mo4lgbtq.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
We need YOUR help collecting signatures for our two initiative petitions to protect LGBTQ+ rights in Missouri at these upcoming pride events!! Tag a friend you'd like to volunteer with and DM us to get involved! Signature collectors must be registered to vote in Missouri. #Missouripride #molgbtq
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
You have FOUR (4) more days to order a Biology is Bigger than Binaries shirt, designed by the lovely and talented @franzanth.bsky.social. In this nightmare of a year, merch is keeping @skypeascientist.bsky.social afloat. Even if you don't order, RT's help so much! Get 'em: squidfacts.bigcartel.com
Two identical shirt designs but one is magenta and one is orange. It says biology is bigger than binaries and it has a clownfish and a bee and a lily
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Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Every UC faculty member should be aware of this incident, especially now that we're facing changes to our faculty disciplinary processes for the second time in as many years.
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Alex Holehouse @alexholehouse.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
The STARLING has landed - excited to share new work from @bornanovak.bsky.social and @jefflotthammer.bsky.social in what is also Borna's first Bluesky post! If you're at BPS, I'll be speaking about this this afternoon in IDP SG, and Borna and Jeff both have posters (Sunday B112 and Wed B152).
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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
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Al Shaw @shaw.al · 03/12/2024
NEW: Formaldehyde contributes more to outdoor cancer risk than any other toxic air pollutant in the US. It comes from cars, trucks, planes and a combination of emissions cooked in the atmosphere. For the first time, EPA modeled this risk down to the census block — and we mapped it.
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Map: What's the Cancer Risk From Formaldehyde Where I Live? — ProPublica
In most of the country, formaldehyde contributes more to outdoor cancer risk than any other toxic air pollutant. Look up your address to see risks from the chemical on your block and where it comes fr...
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Andy Gonzalez @bio-diverse.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Such a good data viz of the shifting distribution of climate anomalies - first I focused on the center inching to the right, but perhaps more important is the thickness of the right tail of the distribution by the end - yikes 😳
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César Sánchez @twistedbacteria.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
All cells are encapsulated by a membrane of complex lipidic composition, right? Not anymore! @JamesSaenz.bsky.social et al. show that a ‘minimal’ bacterial cell only needs 2 lipid species #microNatComms #Microbiology #CellBiology #lipids Read the paper: www.nature.com/artic...
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A tuneable minimal cell membrane reveals that two lipid species suffice for life
Nature Communications - All cells are encapsulated by a membrane of complex lipidic composition, and understanding the roles of different lipids in membrane function is experimentally challenging...
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Alex Holehouse @alexholehouse.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Big congrats to @idpemery.bsky.social for not one but TWO first-author papers out in the last few days! Molecular biophysics of IDP:RNA interactions www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Impact of phosphorylation on IDP conformational ensembles and new phosphoparameters doi.org/10.1016/j.bp...
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Sophie Hurwitz @hurwitz.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The House has passed the “nonprofit killer” bill. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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House passes bill allowing Trump admin to declare nonprofits terrorists
This time, only 15 Democrats voted for it.
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