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Danielle L. Schmitt 🔬

@schmittwitt.bsky.social

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Cell signaling & metabolism & biosensors. Asst Prof. Cat mom. She/her. Los Angeles. Posts are my own views.

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Danielle L. Schmitt 🔬 @schmittwitt.bsky.social · Dec 19

I am thrilled to share my lab’s FIRST paper!! This is the incredibly hard work of my former postdoc Brodie, and current grad students Tiffany & Jack, and the first (of hopefully many) collaborative papers with @tarateslaa.bsky.social, our co-mentored student Teagan, and Tara’s tech Eddie.

Schmitt Lab @ UCLA @schmittlab-ucla.bsky.social · Dec 19

🥳First Paper!🔬 We introduce Malibu, a cpEGFP-based biosensor for malonyl-CoA 🌊🌅. We also demonstrate utility of Malibu in both E. coli and HeLa cells. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

A Genetically Encoded Fluorescent Biosensor for Intracellular Measurement of Malonyl-CoA

Malonyl-CoA is the essential building block of fatty acids and regulates cell function through protein malonylation and allosteric regulation of signaling networks. Accordingly, the production and use...

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Danielle L. Schmitt 🔬 @schmittwitt.bsky.social · 6h

Alright fam. Let’s get these grants written.

My labubu holds a Diet Coke and is wearing red scarf. She is in front of a can of diet coke and a plant.

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 17h

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
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The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org

The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

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Danielle L. Schmitt 🔬 @schmittwitt.bsky.social · 1d

Election Day is coming up! It’s off-cycle, so check if there’s an election in your area. Today I voted in California’s Special Election.

Danielle L. Schmitt 🔬 @schmittwitt.bsky.social · 2d

To kick off Nobel Week, a nice editorial in the LA Times from Julia Greer about the importance of investing in science. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Contributor: Want the next breakthrough? Don’t starve the science that makes it possible

After decades of setting the pace for tech and innovation, the U.S. is at risk of surrendering its lead in the race that will define the future.

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Danielle L. Schmitt 🔬 @schmittwitt.bsky.social · 7d

I’m a sustaining member of my local NPR station, and I encourage you to support your local NPR station!

NPR @npr.org · 7d

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.

Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.

Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

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Jaweed Kaleem @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social · 11d

As of this week, every public university in California is under investigation from the Trump administration for alleged antisemitism www.latimes.com/california/s...

Cal State universities now target of antisemitism probe by Trump administration

The Trump administration has launched a systemwide investigation into allegations of antisemitism at California State University and has started issuing subpoenas for employees' contact information.

www.latimes.com

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Danielle L. Schmitt 🔬 @schmittwitt.bsky.social · 14d

Award Reinstated!

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Danielle L. Schmitt 🔬 @schmittwitt.bsky.social · 16d

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Jaweed Kaleem @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social · 16d

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA NIH grants. The same judge, Rita F. Lin, previously ordered all UCLA NSF grants reinstated. Lin has now nearly entirely reversed Trump's July de-funding of UCLA research: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Federal judge orders Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA medical research grants

A San Francisco-based federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to restore all National Institutes of Health grants to UCLA, roughly $500 million, that the government suspended in July.

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Danielle L. Schmitt 🔬 @schmittwitt.bsky.social · 19d

Your phone does not need to make a peep. Put that thing on silent.

erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

Danielle L. Schmitt 🔬 @schmittwitt.bsky.social · 20d

I am on a flight where someone failed to silence their laptop and have been getting Slack messages this whole time and everyone can hear the notification. Help.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 22d

BREAKING:

A historic coalition of national & California labor unions led by the AAUP filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging the illegal & coercive use of civil rights laws to attack the University of California system & the rights of their members.

UC employees, not waiting on leaders, sue Trump for 'financial coercion' over UCLA cuts

University of California faculty, students and staff on Tuesday sued President Trump over a $1.2-million penalty against UCLA and federal demands over campus changes. They argued that the actions camp...

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Danielle L. Schmitt 🔬 @schmittwitt.bsky.social · 26d

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Danielle L. Schmitt 🔬 @schmittwitt.bsky.social · Sep 4

Sometimes I don’t want to talk to a person on the phone so I call my congresspeople after hours and leave them voicemails.

Danielle L. Schmitt 🔬 @schmittwitt.bsky.social · Sep 1

Apropos of nothing, some recent pictures from life in “dangerous, unsafe” Los Angeles.

People playing in the surf on a beach in Los Angeles.

A building in downtown Los Angeles where the words “made in downtown LA” have been painted.

Danielle holding a Golden Road Dodgers Blonde Ale at Dodger Stadium before a concert.

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Sabina Vohra-Miller @sabivm.bsky.social · Aug 29

New NYT article detailing new requirements for the COVID-19 vaccine across US. This is all very preliminary information, but I suggest if you live in these states that may require a prescription, you acquire a script from your family doctor asap.

STATES REQUIRING PRESCRIPTIONS FOR COVID-19 VACCINES
CVS
34 states have no set limits, people can simply check a box when they make an appointment online to attest that they meet the FDA criteria, without a prescription or other documentation.
16 states require a prescription: Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia, District of Columbia In Massachusetts, Nevada and New Mexico, CVS is not currently able to offer the COVID-19 as of yet.
Walgreens
16 states require a prescription: Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, South Carolina, Utah, Virginia, Washington State, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
Sabina Vohra-Miller
unambiquous
SCIENCE

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Jaweed Kaleem @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social · Aug 28

NEW: As the Trump GOP higher ed agenda of funding cuts and fines weighs down on University of California, a new poll finds common ground among California Republicans and Democrats: 75% of Republicans have positive views of UC health centers and 58% favor UC research: www.latimes.com/california/s...

California Democrats and Republicans agree on one big thing: They support UC, poll shows

A poll of California voters conducted by the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies showed strong support among Republicans and Democrats for UC research, hospitals and the value of UC degrees.

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Danielle L. Schmitt 🔬 @schmittwitt.bsky.social · Aug 28

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District court judge to hear arguments on restoring suspended NIH grants to UCLA - Daily Bruin

A district court judge said Tuesday she will hear arguments over whether UCLA’s suspended National Institutes of Health grants should be restored. The federal government suspended around 800 grants f...

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Danielle L. Schmitt 🔬 @schmittwitt.bsky.social · Aug 25

www.latimes.com/california/s...

UC marks red lines as it moves to negotiate with Trump administration over $1-billion fine

UC leaders are treading carefully in UCLA's conflict with the Trump administration over allegations of antisemitism and a $1-billion fine. Unlike Gov. Newsom, they have not publicly endorsed a lawsuit, aiming for a resolution.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Aug 22

My quote of the day

The Supreme Court told me that I should have filed a complaint within six months of the company's first decision to pay me less even though I didn't know about it for nearly two decades.

Lilly Ledbetter

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · Aug 22

The Supreme Court just greenlit Donald Trump gutting nearly $800 MILLION for medical treatments and cures.

Congress approved this funding for a reason: it saves lives.

This is disgraceful, and families will suffer.

CNN headline that reads: "Supreme Court allows Trump to block $783 million in National Institutes of Health grants for now"

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · Aug 21

🚨ACTION OF THE DAY🚨
@standupforscience.bsky.social

Day 21! QUACK-O-GRAM THURSDAY!

For $3 we will hand deliver an "IMPEACH THE QUACK" rubber ducky to your House Representative! (By one of our team members in a duck suit!)

DO IT (AND TELL YOUR FRIENDS)

act.standupforscience.net/fundraising/...

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · Aug 21

👍 An appeals court ruled today to **uphold** an order blocking grant terminations for U of California researchers

So good news for UC folks. Could also mean the case will soon end up at the Supreme Court (along with one that’s pending there now for NIH terminations).

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PJ, Sports Enjoyer @ptros.bsky.social · Aug 20

MFer COOKED here

What’s a surprising question that you are asked about your job?
People often ask us to justify why we do our work or explain its broader benefit to society. I often retort with: “No one asks an accountant, or someone making money from money, what their greater purpose is.” Yet, someone like me working to conserve frogs is treated as if that’s not a real job. I’m not tired of justifying that what I do is important, because we are saving species from the face of extinction. But I do enjoy making people laugh with that joke, because it’s true.

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Danielle L. Schmitt 🔬 @schmittwitt.bsky.social · Aug 20

"The crowd’s anger grows, and I notice something that is becoming a trend. Trump’s troops retreat when citizens rise up. In a moment, the squad cars and SUVs pack up and leave, squealing tires, doing U-turns, and vanishing into the night.

Anger is an energy."

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Fake Armies of the Night: Trump Unleashes Show and Awe on Washington

Donald Trump’s D.C. takeover is the usual Trumpian blend of idiocy and cruelty — all optics, unless you are brown-skinned.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · Aug 19

2 bits of data from new Economist/YouGov poll.....

13% support for cutting research funding to universities. 24% among Republicans. Polling on this continues to be catastrophic for the Rs, suggests Dems should be learning far harder into standing up for science and our universities. 1/

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