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Joanna Slusky

@joannas.bsky.social
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Professor (never Mrs./never misses) Membrane protein evolution and design. Also enzymes.

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Joanna Slusky @joannas.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Dina makes the most amazing home-cooked food, and you can buy it if you live in the Bay Area! www.instagram.com/reel/DSlpbFn...
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Joanna Slusky @joannas.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Also l, I volunteered as a faculty marshal this year and I got to wield the scepter (temporarily)
Joanna in marshals robes wielding the scepter
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Joanna Slusky @joannas.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Congratulations, KU graduates! Especially KU-graduating Slusky lab members, Teja Nimmagadda, Sam Brunclik, and Cameron Ernst!
Sam and Joanna in robes. Joanna and Cameron in robes Joanna andTeja in robes.
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Joanna Slusky @joannas.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I’m so, so sorry.
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Jamie Daw @jamiedaw.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Interested in what NIH grants have been cancelled to date? You can see award numbers, institutions and titles here. Not sure how often this list is being updated but seems to reflect only those that have received "official" notices from NIH (some of us haven't yet) taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...
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Joanna Slusky @joannas.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Ya know? I really thought that we were just going to hang out and make slime.
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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
there is something marvelously perverse in the position that biological sex is an immutable characteristic but also that it has no biological effects worthy of scientific acknowledgement
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Joanna Slusky @joannas.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
How soon till we have gifs in grant proposals? 🤞🙏
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 09/02/2025
Every single stupid conversation I’ve had with a scientist about anticipatory obedience and historical comparisons over the last week has had me thinking about how scientists’ political incompetence is one of the major arguments for a liberal arts education Like you’re literally a tool without it
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
I dunno about you guys but this is one of those very rare times when neighbors and mothers-in-law suddenly and unsolicitedly ask about our business, ie “is that IDC thing going to ruin science”. It matters that you convey the right message and the accurate message. Not your unverified grievances.
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Sri Kosuri @srikosuri.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytic sarcomas cases.
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 09/02/2025
Cool paper using LLM to discover a protein sequence code for subcellular localization 👏 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Protein codes promote selective subcellular compartmentalization
Cells have evolved mechanisms to distribute ~10 billion protein molecules to subcellular compartments where diverse proteins involved in shared functions must assemble. Here, we demonstrate that prote...
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
If you have been affected by the fires in LA, or are concerned about your ability to keep precious Drosophila strains going during the latest funding crisis, we will host your strains as a backup. Please email me. Please amplify. If you are also able to host fly strains, add your name as well.
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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
A teenager has recreated the Venus de Milo out of snow in her back garden. Emily Bates, 17, sculpted the frozen goddess in her Leeds garden when her school had an inset day. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Leeds teenager creates Venus de Milo sculpture out of snow
The Bramhope Venus was created out of snow by 17-year-old Emily Bates in her Leeds back garden.
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Joanna Slusky @joannas.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Jie Liang was also a warm and friendly colleague. If anyone knows of anyone collecting funds for a scholarship (or similar) in his memory, please let me know. Similarly if there will be any journal's dedicating issues in his honor, please let me know. 3/3
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Joanna Slusky @joannas.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Jie Liang had many, many excellent papers. Many in much higher ranking journals, but this is the one I think back to the most. An elegant assessment of what parts of OMPs change how and an application for how this can be used to understand evolution 2/3 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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Pattern of Amino Acid Substitutions in Transmembrane Domains of β-Barrel Membrane Proteins for Detecting Remote Homologs in Bacteria and Mitochondria
-barrel membrane proteins play an important role in controlling the exchange and transport of ions and organic molecules across bacterial and mitochondrial outer membranes. They are also major regulat...
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Joanna Slusky @joannas.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
I just learned of the passing of my colleague Jie Liang from cancer on December 23. I cannot overstate the effect Jie had on my research. Jie's work was inspirational for the founding of my lab. Whenever we start a OMP bioinformatics project, the rule is to double check that Jie hasn't done it. 1/3
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Joanna Slusky @joannas.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Celebrating the blizzard with our first fire in the new (to us) house.
Fire in fireplace, feet in slippers.
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Joanna Slusky @joannas.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
How are we feeling about letters of recommendation where the first page is about the recommender?
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Joanna Slusky @joannas.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Happy Hanukkah 🕎
3 hanukiot on a tray in front of a window. each with one candle and one shamash.
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Joanna Slusky @joannas.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Thanks! I’ll look into that one.
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Joanna Slusky @joannas.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
What electronic notebook is your lab using? Do you like it?
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Kate Michie @kmichie.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
🧬🧶🙌
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Mike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
It’s funny how the word “opportunity” used to be exciting, and now when I see it I’m filled with dread.
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CAPRI @capridock.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
CAPRI conclusions from the CASP16 assembly session
CAPRI conclusions from the CASP16 assembly session
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 03/12/2024
BLUESKY MEGA-THREAD Altmetric is thrilled and also LITERALLY RELIEVED to officially announce: We are now tracking research attention as it happens on Bluesky! We have been picking up posts on the site since late Oct. Our team is on Bluesky all day answering questions. Let's get into it!
Blueksy Mentions are now in Altmetric.

It's been 84 years meme

#AcademicSky #HigherEd #MedSky #HMSky #Altmetrics #Medlibs #Metascience
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Warm Water Baths and Three Biophysics Departments A long and somewhat twisted (and very personal) path (with bits of science sprinkled in) (Apologies for the length, lots to cover)
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a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on
ALT: a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on
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Joanna Slusky @joannas.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
An amazing example of mistaking your own perspective for the perspective of the intended audience. I’ll be giggling about this all day 😂
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Joanna Slusky @joannas.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I think about using MALDI to verify fish identity at least once a week.
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Diego del Alamo @delalamo.xyz · 29/11/2024
Pretraining PLMs with both the standard MLM loss and a growth temperature loss dramatically improves prediction of thermostability, as well as identification of thermostabilizing point mutants. Lots of wet lab evaluation www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A general temperature-guided language model to design proteins of enhanced stability and activity
The PRIME model improves protein mutants’ key properties with a 30% success rate, using machine learning without prior data.
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Joanna Slusky @joannas.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
I’m sure Berg was precocious even for his time (as demonstrated later in his NIGMS stewardship), but it’s hard to imagine recruiting a 32 yo for a chair position. Today that’s < 1st yr biophysics faculty member. We’re missing out on creative faculty yrs by capturing them as creative postdoc yrs.
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Joanna Slusky @joannas.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
That’s a hilarious rumor 😂
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Joanna Slusky @joannas.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
From Berg’s Deanship Bluetorial. Worth noting that Eisenhower spent the 5 years before his US presidency as President of Columbia University.
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Joanna Slusky @joannas.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Another great bluetorial from Jeremy Berg (with promises of 4 more!) this one about deanships.
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Joanna Slusky @joannas.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I think everyone knows they are best guesses. But they are guesses about what experiments to run. Talk titles are best guesses about the results of the experiments we will run. So it’s one step harder.
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Joanna Slusky @joannas.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Considering a dedication ceremony…
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Joanna Slusky @joannas.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
We finally got a lab eyewash (after 10 years)! I made a “plaque”. Thanks, Alex!
New eyewash. It’s orange and grey. “This eyewash is a testament to Alex Bowman’s tireless work for the Slusky lab and its safety” printed in sharpie on orange tape.
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Joanna Slusky @joannas.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
If you ask me for a talk title 6 months in advance, I’m giving the title of the last talk I gave. I’m sorry. But how can anyone predict what science their lab will have produced in 6 months?
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Joanna Slusky @joannas.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I nominate @doylemt1.bsky.social.
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Joanna Slusky @joannas.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Listen, if stars are lit, it means - there is someone who needs it. It means it is essential that every evening at least one star should ascend over the crest of the building. 4/4
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Joanna Slusky @joannas.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Later, He wanders around, worried, but outwardly calm. And to everyone else, he says: 'Now, it's all right. You are no longer afraid, are you?' 3/n
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Joanna Slusky @joannas.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
And overwrought, in the swirls of afternoon dust, he bursts in on God, afraid he might be already late. In tears, he kisses God's sinewy hand and begs him to guarantee that there will definitely be a star. He swears he won't be able to stand that starless ordeal. 2/n
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Joanna Slusky @joannas.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Listen! By Vladimir Mayakovsky Listen, if stars are lit it means - there is someone who needs it. It means - someone wants them to be, that someone deems those specks of spit magnificent. 1/n
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Joanna Slusky @joannas.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Great thread! Does washing the rice help at all with removal of arsenic or other heavy metals?
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Joanna Slusky @joannas.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
If deposition becomes the norm in the field so much information will be unlocked.
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Joanna Slusky @joannas.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
In the past 24h I taught how to put headers on a formal letter and *for a different task*, where to put the address on an envelope. These skills are oldies but still important. Definitely feeling my age ☎️📟💾📠
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
A thread on NIH Reorganization and the Scientific Management Review Board (SMRB) Disclosure: I was involved with the SMRB since its inception and have very strong feelings about how it was used, misused, and abandoned. My passion on these issues will undoubtably show through. 1/n
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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 19/11/2024
🚨Travel awards for Early Career Researchers to attend ASM Microbe🧫 1. Awarded through ASM Branches 2. $1650 per award, 3 per branch 3. Apps open now! 4. Named for Peggy Cotter, ASM past president & advocate 5. A proud accomplishment when I was COMS Chair 6. Apply / share! asm.org/Travel-Award...
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Peggy Cotter Travel Award
ASM is a nonprofit professional society that publishes scientific journals and advances microbiology through advocacy, global health and diversity in STEM programs.
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Joanna Slusky @joannas.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
It’s an ensemble of protein designers…
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