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Master’s student in biochemistry/biophysics
Membrane protein structure and dynamics, IR and NMR spectroscopy 
Climate change, virology, drug discovery, and medicinal chemistry among a few of my other scientific/hobby interests
Born at 366 ppm

Scientists sound the alarm as the world reaches 2-degree warming limit for the first time.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/20/climate/2-degree-warming-limit-record-copernicus-climate-int/index.html

#ClimateCrisis #climate #2degrees

Scientists "cut out" everything possible from the bacterial genome to obtain a minimal cell genome. Half of the genome removed. Cells were alive and then... Even if you reduce the genome to the bare minimum, evolution means mutations. It can’t be stopped! 300 days of evolution (~40k humans years) enough for a cell to gain everything that was removed. Natural selection outweighed deleterious effects of genomic disruption. Life always finds a way. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06288-x
Evolution of a minimal cell - Nature

An engineered minimal cell evolves to escape the negative consequences of genome streamlining.

Nature

The Gulf Stream is HOT!
up to 21°F anomaly in Georges Bank!!

The North Atlantic is at record heat, as hot now as it historically only reached at the end of April.

https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/primary/waves/overlay=sea_surface_temp_anomaly/orthographic=-61.02,42.94,4641/loc=-65.296,40.627
#climate
#oceanography
#ocean

Climate Reanalyzer

Sea surface temperature (SST) data visualizations

An astounding image of our moment at the precipice:

Climate activists standing against the inhuman-scale machinery of the open-pit Lützerath brown coal mine, with a wind farm visible in the distance.
#climate #LützerathLebt #coal #renewable

Incredibly rare photo of Schrödinger's cat.

I always follow back, and really appreciate and follow boosters

#Cat #Joke #schrodinger

This quote by Carl Sagan hangs in my office. #science