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So we fly a pride flag in our front yard in a very conservative neighborhood and it’s been there for the last few years. Someone put this in our mailbox and my goodness…

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Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Sort of. In an in press paper we show that repeated TRP challenges accelerate the AA's elimination from the plasma. That was expected (though never shown in live animals). As a lark, we just did the same expt with another AA that is _not_ expected to behave that way. And...surprise! It does.

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Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

It's that "obrigado" is short for "I am obliged." Since "obliged" is an adjective, in Portuguese it's gendered. And since you, the speaker, are the one who is obliged, it goes with your gender. Same's true in French, except that desole and desolee sound pretty much the same. Je suis fini.

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Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Among the litany grotesque things this asshole has said, implying Ukraine started the war has to be among the most grotesque.

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Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Another example of El-Sayed's quick intellect and impressive oratory skills.

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Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Saturn! Always trying to hog the glory!

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Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

In Raiders, Indi is driven through Kathmandu valley in a car in 1936. But the first car was carried into the valley (no roads to the outside world at the time) in 1939. Ironically, that first car was a diplomatic gift from Nazi Germany.

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Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I once received funding from an ARO program that a PM there created based on his own work. The first four words of his foundational paper were "DNA and other proteins." We did good science with the money, which I suppose helps? Eventually he went to jail for embezzlement. The End.

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Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Si mi abuela tuviera ruedas, sería una bicicleta."

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Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I genuinely thought this was going to be video of someone stealing a FedEx package.

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Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I stopped reading at: "He's currently being floated as a prospective vice presidential candidate for JD Vance in 2028, and I'm rooting for him."

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Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I feel about the constitution the way a southern baptist feels about the bible: it's there on the page in black and white and I have read it. Using flock cameras without a court-ordered warent is a clear violation of the 4th amendment. Glad to see a court finally pointing out this obvious fact

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Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Current status: making a bunch of little Saturns." God's social media feed, late afternoon on the 5th day of creation.

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Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

NIH head Bhattacharya is an ignorant quack (I have read his papers- they are atrocious crap that I'd fail a graduate student for producing). I would say that this is shameful, but shame is an emotion he is clearly incapable of feeling. Breathtaking sycophancy at every level in this administration.

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Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's funny in French though, non?

An image of the Death Star mocked up to look like Magritte's famous pipe painting wiith C'est pas une lune" printed on the bottom.

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Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Translation, in case it's needed: on this side of the pacific, an el nino means drought

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Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I genuinely didn't think I could love Mamdani more. "That's very Norwegian." LOL.

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Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

World's largest ball of twine! Jackalope! Woo hoo!

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Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

No surprises here. Biden's science advisor, Arati Prabhakar, has an MS in electrical engineering and a PhD in applied physics, both from Caltech. President pudding-brain replaced her with a Peter Thiel sycophant who has a BA in political science with a certificate in Hellenic studies.

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Michael Kratsios - Wikipedia

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Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Does appearing on a corn tortilla count?

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Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Not surprised by the NIH's disgustingly immoral action here, but very surprised by Columbia's. Have they, too, no shame?

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Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Well there goes the price of diesel.

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Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Our friends in present day Venezuela and in post 1933 Germany might disagree, but still, fair point.

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Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This right here is exactly why we are such good friends.

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Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Bullshit. Everyone knows the pentagon also uses heart-dotted "i"s.

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Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Any of my chem peeps hear of the Ritonovir crisis? In 1998, a more stable polymorph of the drug spontaneously emerged, rendering the drug insoluble and inactive. The new polymorph is such a potent seed xtal, that the original polymorph became un-manufacturable as every factory became contaminated.

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Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Excited to announce that our technology has passed an important milestone on its journey towards the clinic. Breakthrough device designation is intended to accelerate the development, assessment, and review of potentially life-saving technologies for which no approved or cleared alternative exists.

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Nutromics Receives FDA Breakthrough Designation for Vancomycin TDM Patch | Nutromics posted on the topic | LinkedIn

Nutromics has been granted FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for our first product in development: a wearable patch for vancomycin therapeutic drug monitoring. The FDA's Breakthrough Device Progra...

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Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is somehow the best possible response.

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Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Strong Nuremberg vibes in Dallas.

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Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Today I learned that the co-chair of the AfD, who, like her party, is vehemently anti-immigrant and against same-sex marriage, is a lesbian whose wife hails from Sri Lanka. A few years ago such hypocrisy would have honestly surprised me. It no longer does.

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@kitkat444.bsky.social @katydid53.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I don't know why Trump wants to rename the moon when Uranus is already named after him. A real LUNAtic 🤣

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Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Today is Ruby Bridges' 72nd birthday.

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Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It is, btw, a planned 2-year stint; I am on leave from UCSB, not retired from UCSB. No plans to move here for good, though Melbourne is such a great town that wouldn't be the worst thing in the world.

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Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A top-shelf paleontologist-dad joke.

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Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Well dang, that really was good. And, amusingly, a colleague from Rome (on the right) happened to be visiting us at the end of the work day.

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Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

(I live on the same street as this bar, about 600 m away.)

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