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Dr. Fiona

@fionachembot.bsky.social

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she/her; I use computers to study chemistry! Junior Professor in the Institute of Physical Chemistry at Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg!

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Dr. Fiona @fionachembot.bsky.social · Mar 13

Nevertheless, we persisted ❤️

📣 NEW BIORXIV ALERT!! 🚨

Using WE MD, linguistic pathway clustering, dynamical network analyses, and HDXMS we reveal a hidden allosteric network within the SARS2 spike S1 domain and predict how the D614G mutation impacts this network!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

D614G reshapes allosteric networks and opening mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 spikes

The SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein binds human epithelial cells and enables infection through a key conformational transition that exposes its receptor binding domain (RBD). Experimental evidence indic...

www.biorxiv.org

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Dr. Fiona @fionachembot.bsky.social · 11m

OMG this is such a good demonstration!! i will be "yoinking" it as well lolol! and also like you say good in a small setting with students you know better but its so important to remind these students that chatGPT and co are just large LANGUAGE models, they dont really "know" the science!!

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Dr. Fiona @fionachembot.bsky.social · 26m

thats an excellent demonstration Elisa!!! i will be using this for sure!!!

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 8h

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

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Dr. Fiona @fionachembot.bsky.social · 16h

picture of tim robinson in hot dog suit when he is saying "who could have done this" in reference to his character driving a hot dog car in through the shop window

Dr. Fiona @fionachembot.bsky.social · 2d

THANK GOODNESS.

David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING:

"Just landed."

Mark Bray confirms to me this morning that he and his family did, on the second attempt, make it out of the US and to Spain

www.wired.com/story/mark-b...

He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US

Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

www.wired.com

Dr. Fiona @fionachembot.bsky.social · 2d

The thing about trump is he literally CANNOT stop SCAMMING for like even 5 seconds.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump Watches commercials are now running regularly on Newsmax

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Hiren Joshi @glyco.me · 3d

We’re working on a lot of different problems - but you can look forward to working out how to transform rich datasets (protein sequence, transcriptomics, and genomic data) into insights about how the third, hidden language of life is formed. Also, we’ve got PhD positions open!

PhD fellowship at the Copenhagen Center for Glycocalyx Research at the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine

employment.ku.dk

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Dr. Fiona @fionachembot.bsky.social · 3d

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME AT WHAT POINT I CAN EXPECT AMERICANS TO WAKE UP

Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 3d

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was * cancelled *
#antifa #HigherEd #fascism #research
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

www.theguardian.com

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GlyGen @glygen.bsky.social · 3d

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine recognizes Brunkow, Ramsdell, and Sakaguchi for their discovery of Tregs and the regulatory role of FOXP3, an O-GlcNAcylated protein.

Explore FOXP3 on the GlyGen portal: glygen.org and learn more here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#glycotime

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Dr. Fiona @fionachembot.bsky.social · 4d

Me:

Dr. Fiona @fionachembot.bsky.social · 4d

MOMs are the real nobel prize winners to me <3

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Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 5d

Two things of note in today's announcement of the 2025 Nobel physics prize (besides the work being honored).

1: The US institutional dominance of the prize continues.
2: 2 of the three laureates are immigrants, drawn here decades ago by the then-unmatched opportunities for science here...

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Nobel Prize in Physics Is Awarded for Work in Quantum Mechanics

www.nytimes.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5d

About 1 in 3 US Nobel prize winners are immigrants.
About 1 in 4 were government employees at some point.
About 44% of all Nobel prize winners were educated in US higher education.
As Trump demands a Nobel prize, he is destroying the means by which America came to dominate the prizes.

Sources below

Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 5d

Nobel Prize in Physics Is Awarded for Work in Quantum Mechanics

www.nytimes.com

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Dr. Fiona @fionachembot.bsky.social · 5d

when will the alarm clock go off on this American nightmare

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Anne Imberty @anneimb.bsky.social · 5d

Neutrons are the best ... look at this histidine-galactose contact !! Our new neutron structure of lectin/gal is available as preprint in ChemRXiv chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr.... Thanks to @drmpblakeley.bsky.social @sebvidalchem.bsky.social and all colleagues for very fine collaboration

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Dr. Fiona @fionachembot.bsky.social · 7d

home <3

Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social · 7d

5 species of parrotfish in 15 seconds. Rainbow, redband, midnight, blue, stoplight. That’s why we call Coral City the Parrotfish Capital of the World. 🌈💙🚦🧣🌌🦜🐟🏛️🌎 #rainbowparrotfish #blueparrotfish #redbandparrotfish #stoplightparrotfish #redbandparrotfish #coralcitycamera #miami #coralcity

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Dr. Fiona @fionachembot.bsky.social · 7d

i will be sure to update the timeline with the results of course!

Dr. Fiona @fionachembot.bsky.social · 7d

well im going as anxiety from inside out 2, which is like pretty close imo lololololol

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Dr. Fiona @fionachembot.bsky.social · 7d

in other news.... i have picked a halloween costume for this year!!

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 8d

The numbers say H-1Bs raise wages, boost patents, and drive productivity.

The story is that H-1Bs aren’t just “workers”—they’re engines of innovation. They're the strivers who crossed the ocean, and brought their fresh new ideas with them.

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Dr. Fiona @fionachembot.bsky.social · 7d

CAN WE TALK ABOUT THIS because I'm "new" to cooking/baking and recipes written on the internet are ABYSMAL. They are INCREDIBLY unclear.

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Dr. Fiona @fionachembot.bsky.social · 9d

Early profs and profs alike:

What is your advice for people who are JUST starting their labs? First goals and tasks?

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Dr. Fiona @fionachembot.bsky.social · 10d

My dream is to be considered a difficult woman. Thank you Jane Goodall.

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 11d

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

Dr. Fiona @fionachembot.bsky.social · 11d

lolololololololol exactly.

Dr. Fiona @fionachembot.bsky.social · 11d

Americans, if your current self in 2025, told your 2015 self what is going on right now, how do you think they would react?

We drastically need to wake up

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