Brandon (Dr. not Jesus) Greene
@keepitgreene.bsky.social
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Biophysical chemist, redox biology, professor at UCSB, dad, husband, and part-time adventurer
Point trivia was a blast, so fun to just listen to the crazy questions and the great music in between. Congrats to all the teams that played. One of the questions surprised me, a song is in the hot 100 because of renewed interest from TikTok, “lover, you should’ve come over”
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For those looking for some very wholesome fun, my high school hometown radio station 90FM is in the midst of their 48 hr trivia contest (largest in the world) 90fmtrivia.org. So fun and great tunes between.
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I'll be on the
@acs.org
Division of Inorganic Chemistry Periodic TableTalks in a few, hop on the zoom to join! Talking all things radical metabolism and ROS/RNS.
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Periodic TableTalks
Periodic Table Talks Upcoming Periodic Table Talks Apr. 15, 2026: Organometallic Chemistry Young Investigator: Brandon Greene (Assistant Professor (UC Santa Barbara)” “The radical lives of anaerobes ...
https://acsdic.org/periodic-tabletalks/
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This was cool.
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"Ffunny Ffrends" - Hayley Williams & Jeff Tweedy (LIVE on The Late Show)
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
https://youtu.be/Svn0twAgXVU?si=4DT4ejaVObGCGr5Y
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Cartoon by
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Jack Szostak "All of these things frighten me, and they should frighten you as well. I made the decision to create a life for myself here, because I viewed this as a place that rewarded determination, hard work, and integrity. It still has a chance to be that place again."
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I’m a Nobel Prize-winning immigrant. I can no longer recognize this country.
Attacks on science and immigrants are destroying America.
https://open.substack.com/pub/ofthebrave/p/im-a-nobel-prize-winning-immigrant?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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I really don’t understand any dem wasting their breath wish-casting for impeachment/25th. It ain’t happening. If you’re up for reelection focus on winning your race. If you’re not, focus on helping someone else win their race.
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#ArtemisII
landing was the most inspiring thing I’ve seen in a while. Thank you to all the hard working @NASA staff who guided them away and home, and those fearless astronauts!! Welcome to CA!
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Petty scientist incoming: Cool to see, a decade later, this group observes the same thing we and others did, and claim it's new! Same interpretation as far as I can tell, yet they call us out by name to say it is different. Anyway, enjoy your frozen protein studies...
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A Conserved Glutamate Orchestrates Transitions Between Catalytic Intermediates in [NiFe]-Hydrogenase
[NiFe]-hydrogenases catalyze the reversible cleavage of molecular hydrogen with exceptional efficiency under mild conditions and therefore serve as powerful blueprints for the development of sustainable, bioinspired H2-evolving catalysts. While the structure of the NiFe(CN)2CO active site has been extensivel
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2026/EY/D6EY00004E
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Nope.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Eye drops made from pig semen deliver cancer treatment to mice
Minuscule particles with the ability to cross hard-to-penetrate barriers can be loaded with drug treatments to target intractable diseases.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00982-2
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It's
@ucsb.bsky.social
GIVE Day, and if you are feeling generous and would like to support research and education at a public minority-serving university in the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department, the giving link is below!
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UCSB Give Day 2026 | Donate
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đź’Ż
add a skeleton here at some point
15 days ago
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The buck stops with this president, but man, Israel is either actively or passively destroying this cease fire.
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I had the privilege of celebrating my PhD advisor and mentor, R. Brian Dyer's retirement last week with friends and alumni. Brian had a profound impact on my scientific career, shaping how I think about scientific problems and the (bio)physical world. Enjoy this next chapter, Brian!
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Finally starting to see some motion. This should be every American scientist's united rallying cry and voting issue. "In recent decades, neither political party has accorded science sufficient priority to secure America’s place in the future."
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2537854123
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Quite possibly my favorite review ever written about me, "It is exhausting to have research–focused professors walk into a class they don't want to teach, talk with a poorly made slideshow for an hour, and then leave with no real care for students...
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Jimmy Mayer just casually breaking hammet rules for all of physical organic chemistry in his
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award talk lol. Very cool stuff, even if I feel dumber afterward.
about 1 month ago
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Here at
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who’s here?
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Meanwhile in the states....
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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China pledges billion-dollar spending boost for science
Funding for national laboratories and important research projects would increase under the government’s plans.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00770-y
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Nitrogen, Ammonia, and the Strait of Hormuz
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/nitrogen-ammonia-and-strait-hormuz
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Clarifying words from
@rhodesben.bsky.social
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Can You Explain this to a Child?
A different way of looking at war
https://benrhodes1.substack.com/p/can-you-explain-this-to-a-child
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This war in Iran has cost 0.4 NIHs thus far, day 12…
about 1 month ago
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about 2 months ago
A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔
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My conspiracy theory prediction now? The most effective Iranian counterstrike against the US would be a cyber attack: hospital(s) shut down, water/energy system disruption, etc. The gleeful trump admin response will be to nationalize elections.
about 2 months ago
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Let’s stop the throat clearing and just call this what it is. Stupid. Illegal. Already catastrophic.
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about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
This week's cover
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2 months ago
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Quick poll (while I’m at the pharmacy). How much would they have to pay you to be a Depends model?
2 months ago
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Finally worked up the patience to read a much-discussed
@holdenthorp.bsky.social
's editorial in
@science.org
. The thesis seems to be 'don't be mad that most scientific leaders kept quiet and tried to work calmly work with Rs because we didn't see draconian cuts.' 1/
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A tale of many twos
For the American scientific enterprise, the past year has seemed awash in contradiction. On the one hand, it has produced great upheavals and losses for US science. Many universities experienced some ...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aef9543
2 months ago
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Time to clean…
3 months ago
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Watched October Sky last night and 1. I think this had a significant influence on me as a kid becoming a scientist and 2. We can capture this energy again as a country. A politician who can tap into this will do well.
3 months ago
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A totally predictable/avoidable outcome.
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U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office
A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies
https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-government-has-lost-more-10-000-stem-ph-d-s-trump-took-office
3 months ago
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We need to get of our scientific preconceived notions! Here are my scientific preconceived notions!
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Stand Up for Science!
3 months ago
GET IN, DORKS! The stakes are high and we have a LOT to stand up for in 2026. Join us on March 7th, 2026!
www.standupforscience.net/march7
Want to host an event in your area? Sign up here:
fight2win.standupforscience.net/sign_up/14434/
#Standupforscience
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It's finally out! Great work Ben, Sichu, Sarah, Brett, Ian and Samer for the wonderful science and effort here. The role of the N5 environment in tuning flavin reduction potentials.
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Measurement and Control of Crossed Potentials in a Flavoprotein
Flavoproteins constitute 1–3% of prokaryotic and eukaryotic proteins, functioning as electron transfer agents, catalysts, and sensing or regulatory modules. Their versatility as redox-active proteins stems from the tunability of the flavin cofactor’s one- and two-electron reduction potentials via interactions with the protein scaffold. Although several mechanisms have been proposed to explain how the flavin-binding pocket modulates redox thermodynamics, a holistic model enabling interpretation and prediction remains to be established. In this study, we investigate how the flavin N5 environment influences the redox properties of the flavin mononucleotide cofactor in the “improved” light-oxygen-voltage (iLOV) sensing protein using site-directed mutagenesis, redox titrations, and hybrid quantum mechanical molecular mechanical (QM/MM) methods combined with classical alchemical free energy simulations. Mutating the residue Q103, which interacts with the flavin N5 and O4 atoms in the X-ray crystallographic structure, exerts a modest <35 mV effect on the overall two-electron reduction potential, but significantly alters the potential separation of the two one-electron couples (potential crossing) by up to 168 mV. QM/MM and free energy calculations reveal that water penetration into the flavin-binding pocket near N5 and O4 largely explains the trend in reduction potentials among the mutants. The results suggest a molecular mechanism of flavin tuning in which hydrogen bonding to the neutral semiquinone, either directly by the side-chain or a protein-penetrating water, contributes significantly to the potential crossing. These findings establish quantitative experimental benchmarks for theoretical models and advance a molecular mechanism for redox tuning in flavoproteins.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.5c16043
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3 months ago
That tech oligarchs are noisy and incensed about the remote possibility of a wealth tax and utterly silent about the murder of a man who was only using the phone they invented to chronicle the thuggish government goon squads should tell you everything about these desiccated souls.
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ICE Kills Another American
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
https://youtu.be/H_71MhRqpVM
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Thanks
@nature.com
for the beautifully depressing article!
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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US science after a year of Trump: what has been lost and what remains
A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.
https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-026-00088-9/index.html
3 months ago
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“The border between democracy and fascism is the least defended border in the world” Ivan Krastev
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Visuals dept. at NYT is crushing it recently.
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Opinion | How Trump Has Used the Presidency to Make at Least $1.4 Billion
The president took an oath to serve the American people. Instead, he’s focused his second term on enriching himself and his family.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/20/opinion/editorials/trump-wealth-crypto-graft.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
3 months ago
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Breakfast made for kiddo: blueberry sourdough French toast, a poached egg, and chicken sausage. Kiddo ate: pineapple
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Teaching glycolysis this week in my biochemistry class, and cannot recommend this article enough. I really wish I had been taught this critical pathway from a perspective of (bio)chemical logic, rather than memorizing ten enzymatic reactions...
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Client Challenge
https://www.nature.com/articles/nchembio.971
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Interesting article. Two takeaways: (1) adjusted for inflation, Chemical BS and MS incomes have converged! and (2) again adjusted for inflation, PhDs are down 6K from 2005!
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US chemistry worker salaries grew 9% in 2024: ACS member survey
The median salary rose to $120,000, with higher wages in New England and on the West Coast as well as in chemical engineering
https://cen.acs.org/careers/salaries/us-chemists-2025-acs-salary-survey/103/web/2025/12?elqE=16362&elqC=9722
4 months ago
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Under-discussed point, but I wonder if trump called the parents of the US service men/women who were injured during the Venezuela operation? Wonder what the justification was to them, and if they are enthusiastic.
4 months ago
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I don’t know, felt right.
4 months ago
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Rough year for science, among other aspects of life...
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Breakdowns of the year
What went wrong in the world of science
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aee8012
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Watched the volleyball scene from Top Gun with my kids. Imagine watching that and thinking America needed gays in the military.
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In the spirit of the season “shitter’s full!”
4 months ago
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4 months ago
This year’s Presidential Christmas card.
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Strange post after my last,but here goes. A lot of measures of a countries wellbeing are on a scale. There are a few that are Boolean. I would contest that children experiencing double tap school shooting experiences is, and close to are there elections.
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