Conor Lee-Smith

Check out the latest preprint from the Glick Lab. Another great piece of work from Adam!

Check out the latest from the Glick lab, some fantastic work by fellow grad student Adam Krahn!

Apparently Cantina Rosa has an all day happy hour on Sundays, which is very dangerous information to learn

Gotta love some neighbors in our building letting the rest of us know that they’re having a party tonight by texting after the party has already started.

They should invent a convention center with places to sit and charge devices instead of having to squat on the floor next to the only outlet within 10 city blocks

Day one of #CellBio2025 isn’t even over and I can already confidently say Philly is the best location I’ve been to because I can eat every meal in Chinatown.

Seems like health care would be a pretty important part of "quality of life" especially for people at retirement age

Never a bad time to rewatch this banger from @hbomberguy.bsky.social and get really angry all over again

Seems bad!

Updated Zotero without realizing the new version is no longer compatible with ZotFile and now my whole paper organization system is borked and I just don't have the will to deal with that right now

I'm a single issue voter now, my issue: revenge

How do resident Golgi proteins recycle during cisternal maturation? Nice preprint from Adam Krahn in the Glick lab shows different classes of intra-Golgi vesicles in yeast: two COPI-dependent (early and mid) and one late clathrin/AP-1/Ent5 pathway. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

COPI-dependent intra-Golgi recycling at an intermediate stageof cisternal maturation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.20.677526v1

A little opera in the park/warzone

you'd think the governor of illinois basically going "we're being invaded by an authoritarian" would be something you'd see real easy on the front page of most everything an hour later

Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."

jfc

So it's an LLM which has to be trained on the wider internet to be at all useful, which means it has been trained on facts which are at odds with the entire platform of the Republican Party, right?

Just saw a video of someone in a lab somewhere that uses an InstantPot to autoclave their tips and I am shook

Once again, something broke in the building my lab is in and we’ve been asked to evacuate out of an abundance of caution. Good thing they’re putting a BSL3 tuberculosis lab in there!

Really messed up that I get super productive at like 2am

Hey @durbin.senate.gov and @duckworth.senate.gov, y'all and your colleagues going to continue to try to work with Republicans like nothing is wrong?

We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.

The woman who works at the Thai place I would go to all the time right next to the apartment I used to live in still recognizes me even though it’s been 2 years since I lived there 🥲

It’s a little unnerving how quiet the neighborhood feels now that students are largely gone

wake up babe, new yeast just dropped

Cool, show me where I go to turn this shit off immediately

babe wake up. the pope's been to jimmy's

A 50% cut to science funding (which is close to what Trump is proposing for NIH) would result in huge negative long-term economic outcomes: *7.6% cut in GDP *8.6% cut in federal revenues *equivalents of making the average American $10,000 poorer

Oracle Raley Field (now Sutter Health field, home of the Athletics) Wrigley R A T E

People who espouse the principles of Darwinian evolution (only when convenient to their politics) seem to forget that Darwinian evolution often involves a LOT of deaths and even then, survival of host species is not a guaranteed outcome.

Today in highlights from the grad student listserv: Someone in the lab next to ours mistakenly received a shipment of 80 pounds of food grade agar worth $3,000 and has no idea who it was intended to be delivered to.

Not sure how good the humidifier I bought at the local Ace is at actually humidifying the air, but damn if it isn’t a decently efficient limescale accumulator

We've made it to the big time

It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours, and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic. When the fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control.

Glad to be living in the Khanate and not anywhere else right about now

Successfully fried something to actual good crispy-ness for maybe the first time ever? I’m going to attribute this success to using my new wok.

Possibly for the +1 Faith on adjacent deserts

UMass has a new webpage to track federal actions as a community resource www.umass.edu/news/federal...

These people are evil, but they’re also stupid, clumsy, and susceptible to public pressure. Being loud and angry about stuff will save lives

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