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Engin Özkan
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🇺🇦 Molecular structures, cells, circuits and everything in between. https://ozkan.uchicago.edu
Many around the world are losing hope as populists are on the rise, but in Turkey, a pro-European, center-left party is ahead in all polls, and just had ~25% of the country's entire adult population (15.5/60 million) show up in a single Sunday for the party's primary elections.
Another rally in #Turkey is taking place tonight as part of CHP's plan of holding rallies every Wednesday in a different district of İstanbul.

Scenes from tonight's gathering in Beylikdüzü.
April 17, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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More from the Washington Post (and this one is a doozy) regarding the President's Budget. Note that this is an aspirational document and Congress has to act (or ignore it).

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Internal budget document reveals extent of Trump’s proposed health cuts
HHS would be asked to absorb a $40 billion cut, about one-third of its discretionary budget.
wapo.st
April 16, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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From the #Turkey protests - this must be one of the best protest signs ever!
March 23, 2025 at 12:11 AM
When did we tell journals to use mindless, bureaucratic pen pushing? Here is a request about one crystal structure from a journal with "Structural" in its title:

"Please provide a rationale as to why blinding was not applicable for protein structure studies."

Seriously??
March 18, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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When I will respond to your email
November 20, 2024 at 6:38 PM
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Here is the full time evolution of the R01 grant size distribution from 1998 to 2023 showing the effect of the modular cap and then the disappearance of this influence.
November 17, 2024 at 9:47 PM