Jackson Cahn
@jkbcahn
Student of evolution and explorer of enzymes @ Merck. Biocatalysis, biosynthesis, genome mining, crystallography, science memes. SEA-ALW-LAX-ZRH-EWR. Him.
Between this stuff, the camps for migrants in Florida, and giving ICE the budget of a European nation's military the US is pretty much entering 1930s Germany territory. Not just unfathomably evil but also, the country is just never going to recover from the next 4 years
Stripping citizenship is the first step to death camps. This is a pathway to legal non-personhood. It is a way to produce a legal void into which people can be dropped and then killed. Is this hyperbole? No. It is at the heart of Arendt’s insistence on a right to have rights.
Trump's tariffs didn't even reduce the trade deficit, LOL
The nation's trade deficit widened to $96.6 billion last month -- up 11.1% from April. Imports and exports both fell in May, but exports fell more.
#Enzymatic Stereodivergent Synthesis of Azaspiro[2.y]alkanes by Jennifer L. Kennemur, Yueming Long, Catherine J. Ko, Anuvab Das, and @francesarnold at @CaltechCCE in @J_A_C_S pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…
Is phylogenetics the only record of protein history? No! Led by @tatsuya_corlett, we show that the history of enzymes is written into the structure of metabolism. From there, we reconstruct a self-consistent model of metabolic and enzyme evolution. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Once again, the cruelty is the point. This nothing to do with budget deficits or cutting waste - the Trump administration could have turned the food over to a global relief agency at no cost to the budget. Instead, they are spending tax dollars to incinerate the food.
"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it" waste, fraud, etc: it costs $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000 theatlantic.com/health/archive…
The Founders were very particular about restricting government power for a reason, they did not want soldiers marching around people's neighborhoods
NEW: ICE raids suburbia in West Jordan, Utah.
I’m mystified as to how this makes America great.
Navy Federal Credit Union will no longer have to refund $80 million to servicemen and women for illegally charging them overdraft fees on their accounts. The President Trump-led Consumer Financial Protection Bureau moved to dismiss the case. apnews.com/article/navy-f…
Super happy that EnzyMS, our LC-MS pipeline for detecting promiscuous #enzyme activity, is out in @ChemCatalysis ! Testing it on WelO5* + soraphen A uncovered an oxidative demethylation - missed by standard tools. Curious? 👉 cell.com/chem-catalysis…
#Biosynthesis of Biphenomycin-like Macrocyclic Peptides by Formation & Cross-Linking of Ortho-Tyrosines by Chandrashekhar Padhi, Lingyang Zhu, Jeff Chen, Chuan Huang, Ryan Moreira, @Challis_Group, Max Cryle, Wilfred van der Donk @ChemistryUIUC in @J_A_C_S pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…
We desperately need to take all the people in SF who talk about accelerating biology but have only ever done math or CS and have them do a six month rotation in a wet lab.
“Finally, maybe this is controversial but ultimately progress in science is bottlenecked by real-world experiments.” If this is controversial in SF, we’re cooked.
It’s kind of interesting, but in some ways AI is making CS much more like biology. We can observe and tweak what it does, but we really don’t know how it’s doing it. A science and engineering discipline rooted in empiricism over theory. I wonder if this trend continues.
This comparsion in the NYTimes today is pretty stark. China is racing ahead to be a high-tech exporter of 21st century technologies, while the US is doubling down on being a petro-state exporting the technologies of the 19th century: nytimes.com/interactive/20…
densely populated, high speed rail, petty disputes over borders, no core city just a spread of minor metros, residents live their lives within 20mi of the village they were born, there is one answer: new jersey
What is the most “European” American state?
Deporting children of military veterans because they were born on an overseas military base. This man has no citizenship now. austinchronicle.com/daily/news/202…
RFK Jr pulls US support for GAVI, an organisation which has vaccinated 760 million children in some of the poorest parts of the world, saving tens of millions of lives. Children will die as a result All because an anti vaccine fanatic has been given too much power. Cruel!!
RFK Jr. says US won’t donate to global vaccine effort ow.ly/auRQ106cRf4