Cathy Drennan
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Structural biologist and biochemist, Professor at MIT, mother, dog lover, Red Sox fan
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Stand Up for Science!
15 days ago
The consequences of removing the entire NSB stretch beyond the board itself. Without independent scientific oversight, the U.S. risks slowing life-changing research. Visit the link in bio to sign your support & email your MoCs, or go here: Sign 👉
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Email 👉
zurl.co/nJTAL
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I could not be more excited about the PhD thesis research of the newly minted doctor in the Drennan lab: Dr. Andrea Marcano-Delgado. Congratulations Andrea - amazing job! Note: Cathy is wearing cyanocobalamin pink jacket and Andrea in more methylcobalamin inspired jacket.
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Havoc
about 1 month ago
Hillary Clinton was right about EVERYTHING!!
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If you see Starbucks profits go down today, that was me refusing to shop on May 1.
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Stand Up for Science!
about 1 month ago
Stand Up for Science is excited to announce Nicholas Enrich, NYT Bestselling Author and USAID Whistleblower, as a speaker at the Virtual & Accessible May Day 2026 Rally, on Friday, May 1st, starting at 12PM ET. Visit the link in our bio for this link for details:
zurl.co/e9Lk4
#MayDayStrong
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Stand Up for Science!
about 1 month ago
Stand Up for Science is excited to announce Glenn Ivey, U.S. Congressional Representative, MD-04 (@ivey.house.gov) as a speaker at the Virtual & Accessible May Day 2026 Rally, on Friday, May 1st, starting at 12PM ET. Visit the link in our bio for this link for details:
zurl.co/7Tbdi
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Stand Up for Science!
about 1 month ago
Stand Up for Science is excited to announce U.S. Congressional Representative Adelita Grijalva, AZ-07, as a speaker at the Virtual & Accessible May Day 2026 Rally, on Friday, May 1st, starting at 12PM ET. Visit the link in our bio for this link for details:
zurl.co/awh5X
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Stand Up for Science!
about 1 month ago
Stand Up for Science is excited to announce Todd Wolfson, President of AAUP (@proftwolf.bsky.social) as a speaker at the Virtual & Accessible May Day 2026 Rally, on Friday, May 1st, starting at 12PM ET. Visit the link in our bio for this link for details:
zurl.co/vpLda
#MayDay
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Stand Up for Science!
about 1 month ago
Stand Up for Science is excited to announce Delia Ramirez, U.S. Congressional Representative, IL-03 (@ramirez.house.gov), as a speaker at the Virtual & Accessible May Day 2026 Rally, on Friday, May 1st, starting at 12PM ET. Visit the link in our bio for this link for details:
zurl.co/KjN4F
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Stand Up for Science!
3 months ago
WASHINGTON D.C. SATURDAY, MARCH 7th Join us to Save Science, Protect Health, and Defend Democracy! Visit this link to learn more! :
zurl.co/csUWm
#standupforscience
#scince
#March7DC
#rally
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Indivisible ❌👑
8 months ago
😍 Boston, you are beautiful.
#NoKings
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Mark Hamill
8 months ago
#A_NewHope
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Indivisible ❌👑
8 months ago
This is what democracy looks like.
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Piali Sengupta
8 months ago
Neuroscientists say No Kings
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Indivisible ❌👑
8 months ago
Frogs for freedom.
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8 months ago
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I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Falmouth” - sign up now to join me!
www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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NO KINGS Falmouth · No Kings
**In America, and Falmouth, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built...
https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/845523/?referring_vol=11135050&rname=Cathy&share_context=event_details&share_medium=bluesky×lot=5527079
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SBGrid Consortium
9 months ago
SBGrid's eLife paper received a citation in August from
@drennanlab.bsky.social
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in
@pnas.org
: Structural basis for anaerobic alkane activation by a multisubunit glycyl radical enzyme. Read more here:
buff.ly/Reqb8UR
#SBGrid
#StayConnected
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Structural basis for anaerobic alkane activation by a multisubunit glycyl radical enzyme | PNAS
X-succinate synthases (XSSs) are glycyl radical enzymes (GREs) that catalyze the addition of hydrocarbons to fumarate via radical chemistry, thereb...
https://buff.ly/Reqb8UR
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From MIT Daily from MIT News
9 months ago
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MIT Department of Chemistry
9 months ago
The Drennan Lab is investigating how nature performs challenging chemistry in oxygen-free environments, with potential applications for remediation, such as cleaning up oil spills, in situations where traditional approaches are ineffective.
@drennanlab.bsky.social
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MIT Department of Chemistry
9 months ago
Congratulations to Dr. Santosh Singh, Naike Ye, Kaelyn McFarlane-Connelly, Robert Raclea, and Kunal Lodaya, who were each recently honored with the inaugural Department of Chemistry Research Excellence Award.
@interphases.org
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Great seeing former Drennan lab undergrad Abigail Scott Porter at
#ACSFall2025
. Proud Chemist and Proud Mentor.
10 months ago
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Had fun talking to early career bioinorganic chemists at
#ACSFall2025
10 months ago
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Indivisible ❌👑
10 months ago
If red state Republicans redraw their congressional maps to rig the midterm elections, blue state Democrats must even the playing field by responding in kind. Use our toolkit to demand that Democratic governors and legislators in your state act now:
www.bluestatedefiance.org/redistrictin...
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Indivisible ❌👑
10 months ago
You can join us here if you can’t get into Zoom. We’re starting the One Million Rising training now.
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Session 3: What Now? - Aug 13
YouTube video by One Million Rising
https://www.youtube.com/live/bQ69AqMtnBY
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Ezra Levin ❌👑
10 months ago
Starting now! Strategic noncooperation final live training. Check it out!
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Carl Zimmer
10 months ago
Whether or not Congress cuts NIH’s budget, the Trump administration has devastated its ability to operate. Story by
@katherinejwu.com
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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How Many Times Can Science Funding Be Canceled?
Whether or not Congress cuts NIH’s budget, the Trump administration has devastated its ability to operate.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/08/nih-funding-whiplash/683773/
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sarahejbowman
10 months ago
Lovely to catch up with my postdoc mentor
@drennanlab.bsky.social
at ICBIC! & great to meet Balyn Muffley, former Drennan Lab undergrad now doing some amazing graduate work in
@joanbroderick.bsky.social
Lab! 🧪🧫🧬🔬
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Stand Up for Science!
12 months ago
The science sabotage is deadly. Trump et al. aren’t just attacking research, they're risking lives. Cuts by the “pro-life party” est. to kill 50k+ Americans each year. Sounds more like the “pro-death party” to us. ✊ Help us fight for lives by joining the #SummerFightForScience ➡️
zurl.co/Igt4C
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Join the massive Summer Fight For Science in America!
Join us wherever, whenever, and however you can to fight for the future of science in America.
https://act.standupforscience.net/event_campaigns/summer-fight?source=Bluesky&utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=summerfight
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Bruce Hinze
12 months ago
“No Kings” demonstration, Ocean Beach, San Francisco
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Firehawk
12 months ago
#NoKings
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#Nokings
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The Tennessee Holler
12 months ago
Gilead in FORT WORTH, TX
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Raider
12 months ago
Chicago ✊
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News Eye
12 months ago
Holy shit, New York! Here’s the full view.
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Stand Up for Science!
12 months ago
🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏 *squinting* We had more people at the Lincoln Memorial for our Stand Up for Science rally on March 7th!
#StandUpforScience
#FailedBirthdayParade
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Good turnout for
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protest in Newton MA despite the rain.
12 months ago
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Rachel Maddow
12 months ago
"Tanner, a chemist at the Univ. of Mississippi working to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, was notified in April that the grant was terminated. “I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The Gutting of America’s Medical Research: Here Is Every Canceled or Delayed N.I.H. Grant
Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/04/health/trump-cuts-nih-grants-research.html
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Stand Up for Science!
12 months ago
Scientists at UC Berkeley have filed a lawsuit against the Trump admin, accusing of politically motivated cuts to funding. “I think that if we fight back and we show that our laws still work, it means something to people,” says Sabeeha Merchant, Berkeley professor.
zurl.co/xnJgg
@tktk.bsky.social
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UC Berkeley researchers team up for first-of-its-kind lawsuit over Trump funding cuts
University of California staff members hope to use a class action lawsuit to restore their research funding.
https://zurl.co/xnJgg
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Jeremy Berg
about 1 year ago
New
FactCheck.org
story on whether HHS has cut scientific staff.
www.factcheck.org/2025/05/rfk-...
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RFK Jr. Denies Cuts to Scientific Research While Slashing Staff, Funding - FactCheck.org
Under the Trump administration, the Department of Health and Human Services has canceled or frozen billions of dollars in scientific research grants and attempted to cull around 20,000 agency employee...
https://www.factcheck.org/2025/05/rfk-jr-denies-cuts-to-scientific-research-while-slashing-staff-funding/
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is among 13 research universities and three organizations suing the National Science Foundation (NSF), after the agency’s efforts to slash indirect costs at grant-receiving institutions. Thank you MIT and everyone involved in this law suit.
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Mark Hamill
about 1 year ago
Proof this guy is full of SITH.
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American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
about 1 year ago
#JBC News | Researchers explored the human peptidome — the complete collection of peptides in the human body — for pertussis toxin inhibitors using peptide libraries, fractionation & #massspec. ➡️Learn about their findings, published in JBC:
ow.ly/AYkZ50VM4rc
#JBC
#massspec.
#ASBMBJournals
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Targeting toxins to treat whooping cough
Scientists find that liver protein inhibits of pertussis toxin, offering a potential new treatment for bacterial respiratory disease. Read more about this recent study from the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
https://ow.ly/AYkZ50VM4rc
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Chris Chang
about 1 year ago
Happy to celebrate an early 90th birthday for my dear mentor Harry Gray!
#chemsky
#graynation
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Eugene Valkov
about 1 year ago
A tribute to George Sheldrick and SHELX and the impact on macromolecular and small-molecule crystallography
journals.iucr.org/a/issues/202...
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George M. Sheldrick (1942–2025)
In memory of George Sheldrick.
https://journals.iucr.org/a/issues/2025/03/00/me6326/index.html
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Union of Concerned Scientists
about 1 year ago
Cuts to NOAA funding threaten our ability to predict and monitor hurricanes and tornadoes—putting lives and communities at risk. But NOAA’s work goes far beyond weather. Guest blogger Dr. David Shiffman shares 10 vital but lesser-known roles NOAA scientists play.
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Ten Vital Services Provided by NOAA (Beyond the National Weather Service)
Far too much of the media coverage supporting NOAA only mentions one of many things they do: here are 10 more.
https://blog.ucs.org/science-blogger/ten-vital-services-provided-by-noaa-beyond-the-national-weather-service/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=bs
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Carl Zimmer
about 1 year ago
“Five former National Weather Service directors have taken the unusual step of signing onto an open letter warning that cuts to the organization by the Trump administration may soon endanger lives.” Gift link:
nyti.ms/3YrIw3Q
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Former Weather Service Leaders Warn Staffing Cuts Could Lead to ‘Loss of Life’ (Gift Article)
The former agency directors say current employees will face an “impossible task” to maintain service just as hurricane season begins.
https://nyti.ms/3YrIw3Q
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