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The marginal dollar of NSF spending probably does more for science than NIH, so we should be bringing NSF closer to parity, not burning it to the ground with a cut like that.

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klbr @klbr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The hyperbole of "AI could never make a dangerous virus because it doesn't address a bottleneck" confounds me. AI systems are useful TODAY for modifying the properties of viruses in ways that are superior to what we could do ten years ago.

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klbr @klbr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Looking for a postdoc to use protein structure to change the way we calculate evolutionary relationships so we can unlock the secrets of early life on earth. This is an urgent & impactful computational biology project. jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/280...

jobs.rutgers.edu

Post Doctoral Associate

The Kaelber lab located in the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry on Rutgers’ Busch Campus, within walking distance of research buildings for computer science and medicine as well as fun...

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Micah Warren @micah541.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

cloak and dagger navier stokes cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...

cims.nyu.edu

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klbr @klbr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

None of the recalled cleaners contain bleach

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klbr @klbr.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

If you want to experience Tex-Mex, Ninfa's on Navigation has some pescatarian options—but idk how they'd do on gluten...

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klbr @klbr.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

If you don't mind going across town from your conference, Uchi is worth the drive time (or at least it was back when I was in grad school!). Unfortunate you are far from Bellaire neighborhood, which has several veg-friendly Chinese & Vietnamese options.

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klbr @klbr.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

When Prof. Yonath so generously shared a meal with us young students, an administrator-type asked if she'd participate in a project about being discriminated against. "I don't want to talk to young people about that," she replied, "I think they need to hear about the joy of doing science first."

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klbr @klbr.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

(A tangent....what a good book! really dynamic and approachable. Stumbled upon a copy in my fraternity library during undergrad and devoured it cover to cover.)

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klbr @klbr.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

too stupid to be worth mentioning

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klbr @klbr.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Is there something special about the field of radiology that causes academics in that field to preferentially be drawn to publishing dumbass op-eds about society?

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klbr @klbr.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Here's the thing: none of the places where postdocs have unionized experience a cultural breakdown of the professor/mentee relationship. Because that's not what unionization does. Morris invents a fake threat that is falsifiable from the existing state of affairs...and for what purpose?

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klbr @klbr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

hmmm for gender equity reasons I will have to make Kevin go with me so the "MBB Boyz" have comparable tomatoes

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klbr @klbr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

How did you become aware of this tomato tasting opportunity?

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klbr @klbr.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Turned in my dosimeter today. End of an era!

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klbr @klbr.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Plants can't think, but they can scream!

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klbr @klbr.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

10.662 macbook touchpad

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klbr @klbr.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I will never disclose the true secret of how I calculated 32 so it can never be falsified. But remember it is a median, so if Manny's candidate (5 yr PD) is at the median, there are some getting R01 soon after PhD (either during their PD or skipping), some doing 2+ postdocs or starting late, etc.

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klbr @klbr.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

JSYK, as a virologist this is how we talk about pandemic preparedness. I'm remembering in 2012 when the my boss's project developing a SARS coronavirus vaccine was canceled because the funders decided "there will never be a coronavirus pandemic in the USA"

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klbr @klbr.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

They're calling Sudo the least-indebted graduate since Little Bobby Tables.

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klbr @klbr.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I remember when they were rolling over from four-digit to five-digit EMDB accessions, they announced they were going to issue numbers 0001 to 0999 after 1000-9999 were taken and we were all playing chicken delaying our depositions to try to grab 0001

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klbr @klbr.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I saw Brian for 5 seconds in the dining hall line!

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klbr @klbr.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I have never seen a double standing ovation at a scientific meeting before but it was a beautiful moment to see the warm reception of Ralph Baric and of his recent work on merbecoviruses, particularly at a time when he is being sorely persecuted despite his record of service to the country.

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klbr @klbr.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Maggie Cheung. I would probably learn a couple new languages as a fringe benefit

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klbr @klbr.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I would concur, but it is the most common complaint of the form "don't want to deal with university bureaucracy re: IRB"

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klbr @klbr.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Interesting; my experience is different. The complaint I hear about IRB is rarely "they won't approve what I want to do" and usually "it took one year for them to approve what I wanted to do even though none of the things they asked for substantively changed the participants' experience"

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Margaret Harris @drmlharris.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

"Scientific systems rarely collapse through a single dramatic event. They decline incrementally: one technician dismissed, one laboratory left unrepaired, one instrument taken out of service, one young scientist deciding to build a career elsewhere." physicsworld.com/a/letter-fro... ⚛️🧪

physicsworld.com

Letter from Argentina: 'an empty desk and an idle electron microscope signal the erosion of the country's science' – Physics World

Faramarz S Gard laments the decline of Argentine science

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klbr @klbr.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Galloway is such an idiot blowhard. I'm sure he'll find some way to make UC worse

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klbr @klbr.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

this is pretty funny but also reminds me of the time my 7th grade math teacher did not know what factorials were and told me "you can't just make up your own operation even if you decide that the exclamation point is a symbol for it"

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klbr @klbr.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

one is a silly little guy who goes from village to village trying to help people without violence and the other has a sixty billion double-dollar bounty

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Andrew Wehrman @profwehrman.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Today is the 250th anniversary of Boston’s mass inoculation against smallpox on July 3, 1776. The city was effectively closed to commerce from July through September 1776. The mass immunization effort was cheered as evidence of true independence. Here's how I described it in my book:

While John Adams and fifty-five men in Philadelphia debated a resolution on independence and the final wording of the Declaration of Independence, the people of Boston declared their own independence from smallpox. The measures taken in both cities provided hope that America would not only be a republic free of a king but also a country free from disease. On July 3, 1776, a day after independence was declared in Philadelphia, the Massachusetts General Court voted to allow inoculation. Despite the dangers of infection, the people of Boston and the surrounding areas cheered the news. Ezekiel Price, a court official and insurance broker, declared “Liberty is given for to inoculate for the small-pox; many begin upon it this afternoon.” Hannah Winthrop described the scene: “Boston has given up its Fears of an invasion & is busily employd in Communicating the Infection. Straw Beds & Cribs are daily Carted into the Town.” She wrote that “Men Women & children eagerly crowding to inoculate is I think as modish as running away from the Troops of a barbarous George was the last year.” Dr. James Warren wrote to John Adams that the “rage for inoculation” had “whirled me into its vortex.…” Warren and his wife Mercy Otis joined Abigail Adams and her four children who had been invited to be inoculated at Abigail’s uncle’s house in Boston along with Abigail’s sisters Elizabeth Cranch and Mary Shaw and their families. Even though Boston was teeming with the sick, the prospect that the city could conquer smallpox made it "a scene delightful indeed." Cotton Tufts was satisfied that he could now "take my leave of Earth, satisfied that the Day of American Redemption was at Hand."

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klbr @klbr.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

They were both set equal to the number of grains of sand on the earth.

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klbr @klbr.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The only logical conclusion is that ancient hominids reproduced via parthenogenesis

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klbr @klbr.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

My "Human T-lymphotrophic Virus" hat is dying, so I need a new virus hat. Anyone got a lead? Old conference swag, some indie maker, etc?

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klbr @klbr.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

so that we could do a year-long hazard mitigation planning process before we start to get rid of the algae

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klbr @klbr.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

As a biologist, (ergo a layman w/r/t national intelligence), I've found it surprising how, with each declassification, we see how little was added by SIGINT. I assumed we'd been monitoring gene synth and oligo sequences in China since, like, 2006. But when you're outside everything looks easy!

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pilarcossio.bsky.social @pilarcossio.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

*Preprint Alert*: How do we measure resolution when biomolecules won't sit still? 🔬 Estimating it for a static cryo-EM reconstruction is standard. But what about a conformational ensemble? arxiv.org/abs/2606.14449 with the amazing henryhmattingly.bsky.social and @lukeevanshandle.bsky.social #cryoEM

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klbr @klbr.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Where the proposal exists in vacuo, the puffery of certain investigators goes unchallenged. The expert reviewer ought to bring ample outside information into the review with them.

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klbr @klbr.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

My lab member said it was jam-packed with good stuff! Thank you for your hard work!

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klbr @klbr.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

lol did you just tell Claude to set one up and let it rip?

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klbr @klbr.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Ma Huaiyuan's repo (mahynotch) or one of the other MCPs?

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klbr @klbr.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

After nine years at the head of the Rutgers CryoEM & Nanoimaging Facility, I am stepping down to focus on scholarship in the area of virology. I will be joining the Dept of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Rutgers as an associate professor in the fall.

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