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Nozomi Ando @nozomi-ando.bsky.social · 12d

Open science! 📖 Notes from the first @andolab.bsky.social beamtime for the @diffuseproject.bsky.social - check it out!

diffuse.science/logbook/beam...

2025-09-24 @ CHESS 7b2 - Logbook

A logbook for the Diffuse Project

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Nozomi Ando @nozomi-ando.bsky.social · 14d

Fall beamtime begins! Here is Sarah @andolab.bsky.social ! 😎⚡️

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Nozomi Ando @nozomi-ando.bsky.social · 21d

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Ando Lab @andolab.bsky.social · 21d

We are elated to *finally* announce that our PI @nozomi-ando.bsky.social has been selected as a 2025 Schmidt Polymath!

Combining geology, evolutionary biology, and biochemistry, we will take our understanding of how life evolved with our planet to the next level!
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www.linkedin.com/posts/schmid...

#schmidtpolymaths | Schmidt Sciences

Announcing the 2025 Schmidt Polymaths: Eight exceptional scientists who embody the future of interdisciplinary research. Selected from universities worldwide, each Schmidt Polymath receives up to $2....

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Nozomi Ando @nozomi-ando.bsky.social · 25d

Marcus @andolab.bsky.social getting ready for fall beamtime for the @diffuseproject.bsky.social 🔥

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Nozomi Ando @nozomi-ando.bsky.social · Aug 13

MOFs make pretty diffuse patterns tho so there’s that!

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Diffuse Project @diffuseproject.bsky.social · Aug 12

Announcing the Diffuse Project! We're unlocking protein dynamics through diffuse X-ray scattering - the overlooked signal that could revolutionize how we understand protein motion. seemay.substack.com/p/from-syste...

From systems operators to systems architects

Going up a level from data generation to think about the data systems we design and embed

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Prachee Avasthi @pracheeac.bsky.social · Aug 12

Happy @diffuseproject.bsky.social launch day! Check out our latest effort. We're grappling with how to better understand protein dynamics and capture/share the information that would best allow the community to make use of that data. Take a look!

Seemay Chou @seemaychou.bsky.social · Aug 12

What’s the next PDB? Maybe it’s …the PDB.

We just launched @diffuseproject.bsky.social a structural biology initiative exploring protein motion & rethinking how we generate and use experimental data. Quick 🧵👇

www.diffuse.science

The Diffuse Project

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Nozomi Ando @nozomi-ando.bsky.social · Aug 12

Check this out!

Seemay Chou @seemaychou.bsky.social · Aug 12

What’s the next PDB? Maybe it’s …the PDB.

We just launched @diffuseproject.bsky.social a structural biology initiative exploring protein motion & rethinking how we generate and use experimental data. Quick 🧵👇

www.diffuse.science

The Diffuse Project

www.diffuse.science

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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · Aug 5

The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 65 tenure-track positions and 5 teaching-only positions:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #chemsky #chemjobs

The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List

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Nozomi Ando @nozomi-ando.bsky.social · Jul 3

Thanks!! 😄

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Nozomi Ando @nozomi-ando.bsky.social · Jul 3

Happy 11th birthday to @andolab.bsky.social ! 🎂 🥳 Also happy to share that I'm a full prof as of July 1 -- thanks to my awesome group, past and present.

We're now looking to grow the team! Looking for someone with amazing protein skills and postdocs excited about evolutionary questions!

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Mary Kenney @marykgames.com · Jun 14

In case this narrative gets lost in the shuffle: the Boston No Kings/Yaaaas Queens parade was pure JOY. People danced, cheered, and held up signs in support of trans people, immigrants, diversity, and each other

A shot from Boston’s No Kings/Pride parade. So much joy, so many rainbows.

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Nozomi Ando @nozomi-ando.bsky.social · Jun 10

Hello BlueSky 🦋 I'm the Director of Graduate Studies in Cornell Chemistry. We're hiring a new Graduate Field Coordinator to help support our graduate program. Please apply or repost if you know someone great! tinyurl.com/3znxx4bh

Graduate Field Coordinator-Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Graduate Field Coordinator-Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology The Opportunity The Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology is seeking a dedicated and detail-oriented Graduate Field Coord...

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Jeremy Baskin @jeremybaskin.bsky.social · Apr 27

Many thanks to our awesome guest speakers and student organizers for a fantastic CBI symposium at Cornell yesterday!

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Jeremy Baskin @jeremybaskin.bsky.social · Apr 26

So excited for the annual student-organized Chemistry-Biology Interface symposium today! Amazing lineup including @hsulab.bsky.social @achemsynbio.bsky.social, Sloan Devlin (Harvard), & Nick Agard (Genentech) + stellar Cornell student and faculty speakers. Looking forward to some great science!

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Jenny Yang @chemjen.bsky.social · Apr 19

I miss Boston

Projection on church - the revolution started her and never left

Projection on church - let the warning ride forth once more, tyranny at our door

Projection on church - one if by land, two if by DC

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Nozomi Ando @nozomi-ando.bsky.social · Apr 12

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Milner group at Cornell University @runofthephill.bsky.social · Apr 4

Check out this highlight of Zoe's paper with the Lambert group in Nature Energy!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Amine oxides step up - Nature Energy

Nature Energy - Amine oxides step up

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Nozomi Ando @nozomi-ando.bsky.social · Mar 29

Woo! Second startup from the Barstow lab! 🧬🍃🍁🦠

Buz Barstow @buzbarstow.bsky.social · Mar 28

Congratulations to Bryce Brownfield, who's graduating from the lab today to found Forage Evolution!

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Nozomi Ando @nozomi-ando.bsky.social · Mar 29

Congrats to Bryce, the Fromme lab, and the Barstow lab on all the good news! 🎉 A paper from PhD lab + startup from postdoc lab on the same day! 😎

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Mar 22

Pete Buttigieg breaks down DEI for everyday folks…

“The opposite of diversity is uniformity. The opposite of equity is inequity. The opposite of inclusion is exclusion.” @petebuttigieg.bsky.social

Our problem: too many value uniformity over inclusion and they’re the ones running the government.
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Nozomi Ando @nozomi-ando.bsky.social · Mar 22

Congratulations to my amazing colleague!! 🤩

Jeremy Baskin @jeremybaskin.bsky.social · Mar 22

It’s an honor to receive the ACS Chem Biol Young Investigator Award! I’m most grateful for the contributions from all past & present lab members — it is an award for all of you as much as for me. (& also grateful to still be considered young 😅) axial.acs.org/chemical-bio...
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Dr. Jeremy Baskin wins the 2024 ACS Chemical Biology Young Investigator Award | ACS Publications Chemistry Blog

Get to know more about Dr. Baskin's work and career in this exclusive interview.

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Ando Lab @andolab.bsky.social · Mar 21

After CSHL, Haoyue also visited @chloamphenicol.bsky.social, currently at Rutgers IQB, to talk more #cryoEM ❄️✌️

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Nozomi Ando @nozomi-ando.bsky.social · Mar 20

Woo! It’s Haoyue and her teammates! 🎉 Looks like they had a fabulous time!

Lander Lab @landerlab.bsky.social · Mar 19

Congrats to Group 1, winners of the 2025 CSHL #CryoEM course! They reconstructed a 1.9 A structure from 100 images, the built and refined an outstanding atomic model with great validation metrics. They are the recipients of the new Cryo Champion Chalice, adorned with $2,467 worth of used autogrids!

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Lander Lab @landerlab.bsky.social · Mar 18

It’s the last full day of the CSHL #CryoEM course! Last leg of the competition - solve the structure of a mystery protein and generate an atomic model with a complete Table 1 (sequence not provided). Students are learning that ChatGPT isn’t much help when trying to identify symmetry of a structure…

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