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Caitlin Aamodt, PhD @caamodt.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My chat group is starting to think the begging to be regulated is less about market capture and more about them running out of runway at the current burn rate.

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Caitlin Aamodt, PhD @caamodt.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

We saw tons of these guys recently camping at Dripping Springs!

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Caitlin Aamodt, PhD @caamodt.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

My dad (US American) had both of his male children in Canada so that they could dodge the draft if need be. But neither time did they cross the border with the wife visibly laden with child. I can only imagine that usually when that happens it's to flee a war zone or other extreme situation.

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Caitlin Aamodt, PhD @caamodt.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Leaving this here for anyone upset about Lupita Nyong'o being cast as Helen of Troy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African...

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African Greeks - Wikipedia

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James Andrew Smith @drsmith.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I suggest the “wheels on the bus” test for politicians everywhere. If you can’t do it because you come across as creepy, weird or awkward, then you shouldn’t be allowed to run. I guarantee that all the problems in the world would disappear if those who failed the test were kicked out of office.

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Nicholas Mancuso @nmancuso.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Ok this bougainvillea bonzai is pretty sick

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Caitlin Aamodt, PhD @caamodt.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Who says that scientists don't make jokes?

Screenshot of a paper titled 'Cross-Species Analysis of Glycosaminoglycan Binding Proteins Reveals Some Animal Models Are “More Equal” than Others.'

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Caitlin Aamodt, PhD @caamodt.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

That's horrible. They continued to run my actor friend's ad for them without compensating him as specified by the contract. They always seemed really sketchy after that, but this is really egregious.

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Science Magazine @science.org · 05/03/2026

An advisory panel to Japan’s health ministry has recommended limited marketing approval for therapies using induced pluripotent stem cells for heart failure and Parkinson’s disease. scim.ag/4bj5iBw

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Stem cell therapies ‘come of age’ with two conditional approvals in Japan

Induced pluripotent stem cells could help treat diseased hearts and brains

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/01/2026

Good morning. What a deeply embarrassing day to be a US citizen, on so many levels.

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Caitlin Aamodt, PhD @caamodt.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I think Neurocrine is hiring someone to do rodent EEG.

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Gan Lab @liganlab.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Proud to announce our collaboration with @blurtonjoneslab.bsky.social & the Paz lab showing that transplanted human iPSC-derived microglia in a PGRN KO mouse model restores progranulin in microglia and rescues pathology, circuitry, and behavior. Preprint out now: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

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Transplantation of Human IPSC-derived Microglia Ameliorates Neuropathology and Circuit Dysfunction in Progranulin-Deficient Mice

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a major cause of early-onset neurodegeneration characterized by progressive behavioral, emotional, and cognitive decline. Progranulin haploinsufficiency, a leading gen...

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Caitlin Aamodt, PhD @caamodt.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I'm not sure if you are a disinformation troll, but in a gunfight that's 10 law enforcement agents against 1 civilian it is extremely unlikely that the civilian will be the one left standing.

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Caitlin Aamodt, PhD @caamodt.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

You're saying that she should have carried a gun and shot him first? Unfortunately I think a lot of these ICE agents took the job for the money, and the worse the economy gets the more people will abandon their morals for an income.

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Caitlin Aamodt, PhD @caamodt.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

The regime would say she fired first and use it to justify an even more totalitarian crackdown.

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Caitlin Aamodt, PhD @caamodt.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

She didn't try to run anyone over. And there was no reason why they couldn't have just shot her tires if they wanted to apprehend her. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

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Live Updates: Minnesota Officials Dispute Federal Account of Fatal ICE Shooting

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Caitlin Aamodt, PhD @caamodt.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

A friend my age recently died from a respiratory infection, and many other friends and family have reported getting sicker than usual. Get vaxed if you can!

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Caitlin Aamodt, PhD @caamodt.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

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.

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Nathan Lewis @natelewis3.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

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...

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Caitlin Aamodt, PhD @caamodt.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

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

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 20/09/2025

“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.

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Colin Kaepernick pays for autopsy of Black student found hanging from tree

Demartravion "Trey" Reed, 21, was a student at Delta State University.

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Caitlin Aamodt, PhD @caamodt.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Good to know that women are still considered people.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

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-...

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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.

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Caitlin Aamodt, PhD @caamodt.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

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

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Caitlin Aamodt, PhD @caamodt.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

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

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Caitlin Aamodt, PhD @caamodt.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

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

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Caitlin Aamodt, PhD @caamodt.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

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

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Caitlin Aamodt, PhD @caamodt.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

😂 It's not slander if it's true.

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Caitlin Aamodt, PhD @caamodt.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

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

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Caitlin Aamodt, PhD @caamodt.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

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

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Katherine Xue @ksxue.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Want to write to your community about the importance of science funding? Join me on zoom this Friday at 12pm ET / 9am PT to learn to write an op-ed as part of the #McClintockLetters initiative! Sign up to write a letter and register for the workshop here: blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...

A flyer with the heading McClintock Letter-Writing Workshop. Details are Friday, June 6th, 12pm ET and 9am PT, virtual.

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Caitlin Aamodt, PhD @caamodt.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I said "out of the Republican candidates."

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Caitlin Aamodt, PhD @caamodt.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Even Nikki Haley was the most qualified Republican candidate.

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Caitlin Aamodt, PhD @caamodt.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

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.

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Christian Cazares, Ph.D. @fleabrained.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

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

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Caitlin Aamodt, PhD @caamodt.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

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.

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Theresa Cheng @tcheng.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

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.

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Nicholas Mancuso @nmancuso.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

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.

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Caitlin Aamodt, PhD @caamodt.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

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

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Alexandre Dumoulin @axonsalex.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

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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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

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...

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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.

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Caitlin Aamodt, PhD @caamodt.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

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

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