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Spencer Aloysius

@spenecer.bsky.social
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Orchid grower, cat lover, scientist www.youtube.com/@SpencerAloysius

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Spencer Aloysius @spenecer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
An iLand bot showed up on the CCP4bb trying to answer user questions about their data processing! I would never share my data or give a bot money. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
AI bots are flooding researchers with requests for money and time
Many scientists use artificial intelligence in their work, but agents are increasingly soliciting researchers for collaborations.
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Spencer Aloysius @spenecer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
‘[T]he order aims to create a new external committee with the power to veto awards in the National Institutes of Health’s vast research portfolio that do not conform to Mr. Trump’s political agenda’ www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/s...
nytimes.com
White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants (Gift Article)
Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.
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Spencer Aloysius @spenecer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Do you see a synchrotron?
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Spencer Aloysius @spenecer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
But it is so stupidly cute
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Spencer Aloysius @spenecer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I met BearLinette!
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Spencer Aloysius @spenecer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
It is our Brother in Arms from MACCHESS juggling the NE-CAT fidget toys at #IUCR2026
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Spencer Aloysius @spenecer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
See you at the next drink, IUCr Berlin🍹
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Spencer Aloysius @spenecer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Somewhere in here is the K-T boundary (Iridium line) from the Chicxulub impactor.
Badlands at Willow Springs Hoodoos
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Spencer Aloysius @spenecer.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Dinosaur bones are black from the inclusion of manganese. The Royal Tyrell Museum in Drumheller fills me with awe.
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Spencer Aloysius @spenecer.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I’m in Calgary, Alberta, Canada for the 27th Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr). Looking forward to lots of crystallography.
Photo of Calgary Tower
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Spencer Aloysius @spenecer.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The second poster session of @proteinsociety.bsky.social #TPS40 is underway. There food, drink and awesome science being shared. 🧬🧶🌏🔬🧪
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Spencer Aloysius @spenecer.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
When you submit an abstract for the @proteinsociety.bsky.social Annual Symposium, it can be chosen as a Flash Talk. This is great experience for undergraduate and graduate students. #TPS40 🌏🧪🔬🧬🧶
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Spencer Aloysius @spenecer.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
“Exosites are like foreplay” - Lakshmi Wijeyewickrema 🧪🧬🧶🌏
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Spencer Aloysius @spenecer.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
There are t-shirts!
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Spencer Aloysius @spenecer.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Vincent Hilser of John’s Hopkins is reciting poetry while they try to get his computer to project his talk to the screen at #TPS40
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Spencer Aloysius @spenecer.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I’m at #TPS40! Look at all the travel award winners.
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Spencer Aloysius @spenecer.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
NE-CAT just finished hosting our (first) Data Collection and Processing Bootcamp for the year. We covered common diffraction issues, SAD data collection, XDS, and DIALS. 🧬🔬🧪🧶
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Spencer Aloysius @spenecer.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
He can make it real if he repeats it enough. That is how a dictatorship works.
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Spencer Aloysius @spenecer.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Where are my DOGE savings?
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Spencer Aloysius @spenecer.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Our portable humidity chambers from @mitegen.com are here and they look fabulous. The chamber is held together with magnets so collapsed for easy storage but can be assembled quickly for users. Now, we need some crystallographers doing room temperature experiments at NE-CAT. 🧬🔬🧪🧶
Photo of the humidity chambers in the wet lab with equipment and a microscope inside
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Spencer Aloysius @spenecer.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
I had to come to BlueSky to see the #NoKings turnout since nothing on the @nytimes.com
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Spencer Aloysius @spenecer.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Good job.
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Spencer Aloysius @spenecer.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Shutdown seems the same as no shutdown. NIH wasn’t paying before and it isn’t paying now.
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Spencer Aloysius @spenecer.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
If Trump appoints grant reviewers, will they appointees even understand the science they review? After all, Nancy Mace thinks scientists are making transgender (not transgenic) mice.
nature.com
Trump order gives political appointees vast powers over research grants
Researchers are alarmed that the move might upend a long-standing tradition of peer-review for grants.
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Spencer Aloysius @spenecer.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Who else is concerned about the slow disbursement rate of FY25 NIH funds? 🧬🧪🔬
britt.senate.gov
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Spencer Aloysius @spenecer.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Like around 10 usable datasets.
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Spencer Aloysius @spenecer.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
🧪🧬🧶
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Spencer Aloysius @spenecer.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
How a crystallographer rolls on Sunday morning with a cat, crystals, coffee and @proteinsociety.bsky.social Tshirt.💊🌡🔬
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Spencer Aloysius @spenecer.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
It rained in more ways than one on Trump’s parade.
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Spencer Aloysius @spenecer.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Yesterday shows that if your approval rating is 38%, people think your parade is a bad idea.
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Spencer Aloysius @spenecer.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Will it rain on Trump’s Parade?
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Spencer Aloysius @spenecer.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
The same is happening at Cornell. NIH owes money but has silently stopped paying.
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Spencer Aloysius @spenecer.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
It really does look like $trumpet
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Spencer Aloysius @spenecer.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Hey Structure peeps! NE-CAT@APS is having a data collection and processing bootcamp immediately after the ACA in Lombard. If you are in town and have time / interest (or have students who you think would benefit), register today! 🧬🧪🧶 necat.chem.cornell.edu/data-collect...
necat.chem.cornell.edu
Data Collection and Processing Bootcamp | NECAT
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Spencer Aloysius @spenecer.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
The Oath of Office explicitly states, ‘I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.’ Foresworn and Unfit to be President.
nytimes.com
Trump Says ‘I Don’t Know’ When Asked About Due Process and Upholding Constitution (Gift Article)
President Trump repeatedly said he didn’t know when asked in a TV interview whether every person on American soil was entitled to due process, as guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment.
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Spencer Aloysius @spenecer.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Already forgotten the Oath of Office ‘I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.’
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Spencer Aloysius @spenecer.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
MTG used stun guns in town hall attendees and she’s proud of it.
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Spencer Aloysius @spenecer.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The Trump administration has frozen more than $1 billion in funding for Cornell University. The funding pause involves mostly grants and contracts with the departments of Agriculture, Defense, Education and Health and Human Services.
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Spencer Aloysius @spenecer.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Suffering is for 'the people' not Trump.
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Spencer Aloysius @spenecer.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
He ran on vengeance and now is going to make everyone suffer for him losing in 2020.
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Spencer Aloysius @spenecer.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
NE-CAT is thrilled to welcome Dr. Graeme Winter as our new Associate Director! Coming from Diamond Light Source, Graeme brings a wealth of experience in synchrotron X-ray sources, crystallographic software development, and automation. 🧬🧶🧪 necat.chem.cornell.edu/new-associat...
Dr. Graeme Winter standing in front of an Eiger Detector in the endstation of a macromolecular crystallography beamline at NE-CAT.
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Spencer Aloysius @spenecer.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Trump Tariffs = Tax Hike
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Spencer Aloysius @spenecer.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
An op/ed on measles that everyone should read because "measles can erase the immune system’s protective memory of prior infections. This “immune amnesia,” as it’s called, leaves people vulnerable to viruses and bacteria they were once protected against." 🧪
nytimes.com
Opinion | I Study Measles. I’m Terrified We’re Headed for an Epidemic. (Gift Article)
The outbreak in Texas could become much, much worse.
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Spencer Aloysius @spenecer.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I just went to check the LIVE @ senate.gov and Booker is still speaking this morning at 7:30 AM. Meanwhile, Musk is trying to buy Wisconsin by offering $20 per vote for Brad Schmiel. How is this not a violation of 18 U.S. Code § 597 ?https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/597
law.cornell.edu
18 U.S. Code § 597 - Expenditures to influence voting
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Spencer Aloysius @spenecer.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
You are prescient.
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Spencer Aloysius @spenecer.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
I finished When the Moon Hits Your Eye by @scalzi.com. I laughed. I cried. I wonder if this book is an allegory for the decline of the United States.
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Spencer Aloysius @spenecer.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
500 cases of measles in the US, 5 outbreaks in Texas, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma and Kansas, 2 deaths so far. If we are really are at a 70% vaccination rate, then we'll exceed the last big outbreak in the US of 1,282 cases in 2019 (89% of cases were unvaccinated).
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Spencer Aloysius @spenecer.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Killing tomorrow’s biomedical researchers today. 🧪 www.wired.com/story/the-ch...
wired.com
The Chaos of NIH Cuts Has Left Early-Career Scientists Scrambling
As graduate programs lose spots and labs face shutdowns following Trump administration cuts to science funding, the path to a science career for students and researchers just got a whole lot harder.
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Spencer Aloysius @spenecer.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Why was he sent an invite? Not a lot of sneaking needed to accept an invitation.
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Spencer Aloysius @spenecer.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
But now I have to stop reading your ‘Interdependency’ trilogy to read this book!
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