Alan Grossfield

Alan Grossfield

@agrossfield.bsky.social

Expert in biomolecular simulation and biophysics.

http://membrane.urmc.rochester.edu/

http://grossfieldlab.github.io/loos/
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Elmo was cracking me up on set when we shot this video. Me: mucous can seem kinda gross Elmo: no no. Mucous doesn’t SEEM gross, it IS gross I had so much fun sharing Jersey shore wildlife with these kids! Check it out! youtu.be/NNItHwcj2no?si…
Sesame Street: Elmo and Kids Meet a Marine Biologist featuring @hihokidsyoutu.be Let's take a dive into the wonderful world of the ocean! Elmo and his friends from HiHo Kids meet a Marine Biologist who studies animals that live in the sea...
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Senior scholars too. Everyone with expert knowledge can write an op ed, organize your peers, and get it printed. Project 2025 is a target rich environment.
Junior Scholars: Project 2025 is now breaking through to public consciousness. The more people learn about it, the more they hate it. Now is a great time to search that website, go to the section of your expertise, and write an oped. Keep the drip of bad news for them coming, all the way to Nov.
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Fear generates clicks. Clicks -> Money. Therefore, critical evaluation of any scary headlines is a must. Addressing the buzz about tampons, OB/GYN Jen Gunter wrote a blog article discussing a recent study on the presence of metals in these products. 🧪 🩺 vajenda.substack.com/p/dont-panic...
Don't Panic about Lead in Tamponsvajenda.substack.com And do you know how much is in supplements, kale, or tea (to name just a few)
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this is powerful, whatever else you think about the paper of record. i suggest skipping the sniping and just embracing and sharing this widely.
Opinion | Donald Trump Is Unfit to Leadwww.nytimes.com He failed the tests of leadership and betrayed America. Voters must stand up to him in November.
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I want Biden and all his surrogates out there talking about this. Telling voters "The GOP lied to you about an army of IRS jackboots coming for you because they knew rich people were cheating the government and they wanted to keep it that way."
The IRS reported Wednesday that it has collected $1 billion in taxes and penalties owed by hundreds of wealthy households who accumulated past-due tax debts for years while IRS enforcement dwindled.
IRS reports collecting $1 billion from rich households’ back taxeswapo.st For years, the tax agency simply didn’t try collecting sizable debts owed by 1,600 filers with annual incomes of at least $1 million.
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I’m confident that these two pieces of excellent news which have taken place under the Biden administration’s watch—the IRS story in particular paints a sharp contrast with Trump/GOP demonization of the IRS—will dominate the news cycle.
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I'm not kidding. Chapter 14 of Project 2025 (see: "Agenda 47") is the part of their plan where they'd cut back medical services to the point where every poor sick & disabled person will, quite simply, not be able to afford to stay alive. This could be your grandmother, your uncle, your cousin. You.
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"What the report finds is that Biden held on to 94% of the people who said they would support him before the debate. For Trump, 86% of people who said they would support him before the debate said they would do so after the debate." news.northeastern.edu/2024/07/09/b...
Biden's poor debate performance had almost no impact on voter preference, new report saysnews.northeastern.edu A new report shows that despite Biden’s debate performance – poor as it may have been – voter preferences haven't been impacted.
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Funny what happens when a reporter actually decides to talk to rank and file Democratic voters instead of panicked backbenchers or smug elite donors.
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Maybe this is the only poll people should be talking about today. jessica.substack.com/p/most-ameri...
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Trying something new: Viet-Cajun butter garlic sauce. I can’t get live crawfish, so I’ll pour it over steamed shell-on shrimp.
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Happy Shark Week 2024! Shark programming on TV can be pretty...umm.... let's call it "hit or miss" when it comes to factual information 😅 Do yourself a favor and follow some shark biologists this week, like @curlybiologist.bsky.social, @sofishtication.bsky.social, & @melissacmarquez.bsky.social!
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Free idea for a journalist: get some graphic designers, go through the Project 2025 plan, cover 1. What already in place that'll make it easier for it to happen 2. Anything in place/being done to prevent it from happening. Make it a series of infographics. Maybe someone's already doing this?
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"the quest for the general solution can distract us from a thousand specific solutions that we could have with today’s capabilities – solutions whose funding remains limited due to their very specificity." mssv.net/2024/07/06/a...
A Thousand Primers, Not Just Onemssv.net If gamification isn't specific to its subject, it won't be effective.
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If Biden said something like this it would spell the end of not only his campaign but his current tenure. It's just one of countless examples of insane gibberish from Trump that the press & Democrats are choosing to treat as an immutable part of the electoral landscape rather than a story or issue.
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can you spot the trump tax cuts that were meant to do the same?
Companies decided to sink billions of dollars of new investment into manufacturing plants in the U.S. after the CHIPS and Inflation Reduction Act boosted incentives for U.S. production, Check out that spike in manufacturing plant construction. It dwarfs all prior increases. 📉📈 #️⃣#️⃣
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Let me tell you a real boring story! Last year, a queer artist in my community put up a cool Pride installation. Then some bigots used it to hang bigot flags and threatened to sue the city if they took down the bigot signs without also taking down the (admittedly unauthorized) art piece…
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Dear Reporters, If you’re interviewing a theocrat who says “all our laws are based on the Ten Commandments” and you don’t immediately ask them to provide evidence and examples for that laughably stupid claim, just go ahead and quit your job. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/u...
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I can't express strongly enough what a CRISIS NYPL is in right now and that means that vulnerable people are also in even more crisis. PLEASE find a way to voice your support of our public libraries in concrete ways. Please. gothamist.com/news/after-b...
After budget cuts, NYC's libraries can't fix broken air conditioners amid heat wavegothamist.com The air conditioning was out in at least four New York Public Library branches on Tuesday, forcing two Staten Island sites to close.
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An easy way to support your public library is to make use of it—even if only to visit. We keep (anonymized) statistics not only on circulation totals but on attendance & visits and even on patron-staff interactions. Big numbers please trustees and municipal/county administrators. 📚
ok i have another quote tweet prompt. what's something, big or small, related to your job or hobby, that most people don't know that you would like to have them know? it can be a concept, a piece of history, some vocabulary, or something else.
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“In the case of book banners, challenging their authority can be as great an offense as putting sexual content in the library. There's nothing complicated or nuanced about it-- they have the power and you dare not challenge it.“ #EduSky
This Is Where Attacks On Reading Take Youcurmudgucation.substack.com It seems like a minor, irony-soaked story. Erum Salam reports for the Guardian Erum Salam reports for the Guardian that the Indian River school district (in Florida, natch) has banned Alan Gratz's boo...