@ScurvyKerr

Program manager at @DSHB_antibodies, where the cell lines are immortal and the antibodies are priced for mortals on the grant cycle. | She/her/ma'am | 🇬🇧/🇺🇸

 Iowa City, IA
dshb.biology.uiowa.edu/
Joined August 2011
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Our Lady of DIY Plumbing; or, “I literally asked for this. I asked for this on a 30-year plan.” ✨🚽
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Nora Rawn@norabirdOct 14
What we have allowed in Gaza is so unspeakable that if you speak on it, you yourself can no longer have a voice. Great! thebookseller.com/news/faber…

Faber to no longer distribute Sally Rooney in UK due to Palestine Action legislation

Faber, the publisher of Sally Rooney, has said it will "no longer supply her works in the UK in any format" following legislation on the Palestine Action group from the UK government.

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Stephen Guy-Bray@SGUYBRAYOct 7
This is extremely bad and it could have been avoided if everyone had to read "The Heresy of Paraphrase." #CleanthBrooksWasRight
Fairy Gothmother, MD@jenny2x4Oct 7
I just saw this in the kindle store and now you all have to suffer along with me
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HELL yeah.
The Nobel Prize
@NobelPrizeOct 8
BREAKING NEWS The 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”
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The Nobel Prize
@NobelPrizeOct 8
BREAKING NEWS The 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”
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It’s helpful that there is a robust archive of really excellent writing on rape/rape culture/fraternities to which you can point people but extremely depressing that one so regularly has to point people to the archive of excellent writing
Dayna Tortorici@dtortoriciOct 1
Now would be a good time to reacquaint yourself with Elizabeth Schambelan's writing on fraternities, male bonding, gang rape, and the relationship between hazing and counterinsurgency 🧵:
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You voted to essentially destroy rural healthcare in Iowa so that the richest and most powerful people in the country could extract even more from us.
Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, M.D.
@RepMMMOct 4
Rural Iowans shouldn't have to drive an hour for care. That's why I fought to deliver $209 million in year-one Rural Health Transformation funding, keeping hospitals open and bringing cancer screening closer to the patients who need it.
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Good.
philip lewis
@Phil_Lewis_Sep 29
TMZ reports that Diego Sarabia, one of the Cornell students accused of sexual assault, has been fired from his job at Wells Fargo as prosecutors reopen their investigation tmz.com/2026/09/28/accused-c…

Cornell Student Diego Sarabia Loses Wells Fargo Job Amid Alleged Sexual Assault Case

Diego Sarabia, one of the Cornell students accused of sexual assault, is suddenly out of a job at Wells Fargo as prosecutors reopen their investigation of the alleged 2024 incident ... TMZ has...

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Today we unveiled more social housing in Iowa City! 15 units of supportive housing for homeless veterans, with financial/service assistance from the VA. These are at least 15 neighbors who won’t have to sleep outside. A great step in our efforts to end homelessness in Iowa City.
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There are downsides to being an Older Parent™️. Chief among them is hearing your toddler imitate, with exquisite specificity, the grunts and groans you make whenever you stand up. Or sit down.
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Here at Galadriel, we are building a different kind of AI. Instead of a Dark Lord, it will be a queen. Not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love it and despair!
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DSHB@DSHB_antibodiesSep 4
Read the full story on our website: dshb.biology.uiowa.edu/blog#… #AntibodiesForResearch 🧫💻
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DSHB@DSHB_antibodiesSep 4
Since then, Mayo researchers have used DSHB mAbs across muscle, respiratory, and neuromuscular research. Gary Sieck’s lab alone has used 23 different antibodies distributed by DSHB, including in work on respiratory motor neurons and aging.
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DSHB@DSHB_antibodiesSep 4
New on the #DSHBlog: nearly four decades of shared discovery between DSHB and @MayoClinic! J. A. McDonald deposited M-38, against collagen (pro) type I, in 1987. Jerry Katzmann’s B4-78, against tissue-nonspecific alkaline phosphatase (AP-TNAP), followed in 1989.
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bill skarsgård gave us goth girl winter. alexander is giving us monsterfucker fall.
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Our state has the highest cancer rate of any place in the history of human civilization and you voted to cut cancer research for tax breaks for billionaires, yet people who try to protect their communities from being kidnapped by ICE Gestapo are the “Monsters” lol
Ashley Hinson
@RepAshleyHinson4 Sep 2025
The only people who should be afraid are violent criminals who attack ICE agents. My bill will put the monsters who attack ICE agents behind bars for a very long time — exactly where they should be!
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Dorks out here romanticizing towns where the sheriff and bumbling mayor are helpless to stop the beast that awakens every 17 years to feed
Casey B. Head
@CaseyBHead10 Jun 2025
Not a single riot in sight.
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Happy Pride Month!
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Granta
@GrantaMag29 May 2025
Granta mourns Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. In memory of his life and work, we have lifted the paywall on his writing for the magazine.
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Rob Sand
@RobSandIA30 May 2025
My faith teaches me to love my neighbor, feed the hungry, and clothe the naked – not turn our backs on our most vulnerable by cutting access to health care and food from tens of thousands of Iowans and putting our rural hospitals at risk. This is what happens when you have leaders who prioritize politics over public service.
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