Reposted by Kaitlinhelen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 08/10/2026brownian motion was named after its discoverer, john motion 564869
Reposted by KaitlinWill Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Out today in @nature.com: our review on how single cells evolve into multicellular organisms. With Ozan Bozdag, @kaitong25.bsky.social, Peter Yunker, and @matthewherron.bsky.social. rdcu.be/9ZuiKow9twKa For an overview, check out the video below. 11352156
Reposted by KaitlinCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 03/10/2026I have absolutely wondered about this. Amazing. 311800322
Reposted by Kaitlingwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 04/10/2026New: As gay bars across the country say that Meta is flagging and deactivating their accounts without warning, I spoke to an Austin queer bar that says Meta nearly destroyed their ability to advertise events: www.chron.com/culture/arti...chron.comHow Meta's new content moderation upended a Texas gay barAt least one LGBTQ establishment in Texas says the social media giant has incorrectly disabled its social media account, potentially hurting business. 401801760
Reposted by Kaitlinalex williams @atwilliams.bsky.social · 03/10/2026AI is conscious like sherlock holmes is conscious: if he wasnt, he wouldnt be able to solve the mysteries, but when you put down the book there isn't a real guy there 4416
Kaitlin @justktln2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I went to the white cloud and not only did everybody know you, they said they saw you swinging the world by the tail 030
Reposted by KaitlinbioRxiv Biophysics @biorxiv-biophys.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Symmetry Breaking under Vectorial Perturbations in Macromolecular X-ray Crystallography www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… 002
Reposted by KaitlinColin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It’s been long enough and I’m petty enough to share this publicly: I’ve applied for two tenure track jobs ever, and at the one that isn’t this one, I was told not to wear nail polish to the interview by a search committee member 6758
Kaitlin @justktln2.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I’m about as lucky as it gets compared to the trans women I knew in Texas. I have a PhD. My academic advisors and community were amazing. I had a support network out of state. I have parents who love me and never said a negative word about queer people. I don’t know what to do with that. 080
Kaitlin @justktln2.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I left Texas and moved to Boston. I slept on a close friend’s floor for a few months. I had a PhD but no stable housing situation. It took me six months to find work. I did apps and interviews for really competitive jobs while sleeping on my friend’s floor and had to act like it was normal. 2101
Kaitlin @justktln2.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I defended a little over a year ago. That summer the state legislature passed a law requiring public institutions require people to go to the bathroom corresponding to their assigned sex at birth. There was no way to continue there without my daily life being a political issue. 1101
Kaitlin @justktln2.bsky.social · 26/09/2026When I transitioned I was a grad student at a public academic medical center in Texas. The Texas attorney general ran doctors at my endocrinologist’s office out of the state and subpoenaed trans peoples’ medical records. For years I was in fear of being kicked out of my PhD on these grounds 1151
Reposted by KaitlinWIRED @wired.com · 21/09/2026One after another, women reported being sexually harassed by male supervisors, getting paid less than their male peers, getting passed over for promotions, getting talked over in meetings. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/women-... 12546100
Reposted by KaitlinScience Magazine @science.org · 25/09/2026Ancient viral warfare could be at the root of modern class 1 CRISPR bacterial defense systems. Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective: scim.ag/46rOANl scim.agA viral origin for RNA-guided immunityAncient viral warfare could be at the root of modern class 1 CRISPR bacterial defense systems 03111
Kaitlin @justktln2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026No more MD or ensemble papers benchmarking on Chignolin. Enough 000
Reposted by KaitlinDr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The fact that every major news outlet includes vocal tics and hesitations when it’s a woman saying “like” and not when it’s a man saying “um” is itself wicked telling. 33929778
Reposted by Kaitlinlastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 04/12/2025I think the median voter believes in Natural Prices, and these are about how much things costed at the most recent point in their mind where they felt relatively financially stable. They expect politicians and businesses to honour this and take steps to ensure things cost their Natural Price. 2757182
Reposted by KaitlinRobert Insall @robinsall.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Very interesting paper. An old-fashioned concept - sadly now rare in biology - measure stuff accurately, and you can understand how it works... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.orgUncoupling microtubule lifetime, stability and post-translational modifications.Microtubules (MTs) undergo continuous cycles of growth and disassembly. Because the transitions between these states are stochastic, MT age varies widely within a population. As MTs age, they are thou... 0316
Kaitlin @justktln2.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Me every time someone draws a free energy landscape cartoon 110
Reposted by KaitlinGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I don't think people really understand the psychic impact of knowing that multiple times a day every day your friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, and everyone who could ever have any power over you is being flooded with agitprop designed to make them hate you 8980982031
Reposted by KaitlinJW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I don't know if Matt Levine's theory about what's behind recent calls for AI regulation is correct. But it does sound plausible! www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news... 18323120
Reposted by KaitlinMatt Henderson @matthen.com · 13/09/2026Approximating the Lorenz attractor with a chaotic leaky water wheel. The orange dot is the centre of mass of the water. It traces (a projection of) the familiar attractor as the wheel spins seemingly randomly left and right. 14741151
Reposted by KaitlinRoland Dunbrack 🏳️🌈 @rolanddunbrack.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The widely debunked GOP-Grindr thing is a homophobic lie that @jessicatarlov.bsky.social should be embarrassed for indulging in. The fact that liberals do this relies on their barely hidden homophobia. Gay people see this and we learn you’re not really allies after all. @acyn.bsky.social 052
Kaitlin @justktln2.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Probably harder for LLMs to replace Mandelbrot than Tao. Might even be harder to replace Taleb with an LLM than Tao. Total orthogonal poster victory 001
Reposted by KaitlinGreg Egan @gregegansf.bsky.social · 27/07/2026While the Fields Medal celebrates the under-40s, the mathematician Joan Birman has, at the age of 99, solved a major open problem in representations of the Braid groups, a topic she has worked on for more than 60 years. 121299320
Kaitlin @justktln2.bsky.social · 06/09/2026www.nybooks.com/articles/202...nybooks.com82 Sentences, Each Taken from the ‘Last Statement’ of a Person Executed by the State of Texas Since 1984 | Joe Kloca poem 012
Reposted by KaitlinEvan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026BOSTON! It feels like we need to gather outside somewhere and belt out Dolly Parton songs together, so we’re doing exactly that on 9/25 (9 to 5!) in Davis Square. Spread the word and come sing with us! 114654
Reposted by KaitlinIan Johnson @mrianjohnson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Happy birthday Freddie Mercury. He would have turned 80 today. 30299781794
Reposted by Kaitlinqdot @buttplug.engineer · 04/09/2026Agent message boards imply the existence of agent lowtax 1517428
Reposted by Kaitlinregular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 08/05/2026watched this on repeat losing my shit for two nights now 14180882668
Reposted by KaitlinWallenstein Appreciator @marbleliberal.bsky.social · 05/09/202648% actually. I keep this graph on my phone 161545363
Reposted by KaitlinRémi Tuffet @remituffet.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Our new paper is out in @PLOS Biology! 🎉 “Ecological theory sheds light on plasmid diversity and dynamics” 🔗 doi.org/10.1371/jour... More on the main findings in the next posts 👇doi.orgEcological theory sheds light on plasmid diversity and dynamicsBacterial genomes are remarkably dynamic, shaped by horizontal transfer of plasmids that follow evolutionary trajectories of their own. This study uses eco-evolutionary perspectives to reveal how the ... 21711
Kaitlin @justktln2.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I guess you could say the tension lived in the gap between what was verified and what shipped cleanly. 130
Reposted by KaitlinAssigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 30/08/2026@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Aug After forcing trans service menbers out, the Pentagon is now stiffing many for tens of thousands of dollars in severance pay they were promised, leaving many of them destitute and on the street. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...washingtonpost.comA trans veteran became homeless after the military didn’t pay her severanceChloe Shapiro is one of a dozen former service members identified by The Washington Post who have waited months for full payments. 181146546
