Kate M. Van Pelt, PhD ✨

Super excited about my first, first-author being published the day after my defense! 🥳🥂✨ Keep an eye out for the second half of my PhD research, we're hard at work getting it wrapped up for submission 🙂

Contemorary artist Sherry Rusinack, known for her fun cat artworks #WomensArt

The rotund cats of Kamwei Fong

ねこ達 Nijijourney

#猫の日 カワイイ切手を集めています🐈‍⬛

Three Black Cats, Carl Kahler

elle fanning photographed by szilveszter makó and styled by lauren eggertsen

Reminder to NOT take for granted the fact that we live in the Katie Ledecky era of swimming 🥶🥶🥶

Never in my entire life have I actually sent an email at 8:00 AM. If you receive an email from me at 8:00 AM you can rest absolutely assured that I schedule sent that mess at like 1:27 in the morning.

All truly great Christmas media recognizes the inherent melancholy of the holiday season

Bio: "I don't want to over-hype this too much but our work might possibly someday contribute to improving the standard of care for a subset of lymphoma patients" Tech: "AI will cure all diseases very soon"

i am so tired of losers and idiots trying to make their failure a national emergency. the essay fucking sucked. you’re not good enough. move on.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation

@TzinAt1521ce @mtlushan i love how the original tweet is getting reposted on my TL as being insightful when this is like, one of the most moronic & completely predictable takes i’ve ever seen from another “i know a lot about AI/ML, one of the REAL sciences, why would i need to know biology?” dudes

@mtlushan How was that not obvious before you started?

I would say my biggest takesway from spending the last 8 months singlemindedly studying bioML is that understanding the biology actually is important

@xriskology @zarathustra5150 love having a PhD in "aplied" mathematics lmao

@zarathustra5150 No. This is just factually false, lol.

I do it because I worked unbelievably hard to get that honorific. I tell my students: having a PhD means only one thing: that you--statistically speaking--know more than almost anyone else in the world about one or two narrow topics (and that you worked hard to achieve that

This topic probably flies under the radar for most neuroscientists, but this paper is a big deal science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

very cool how the current administration’s policies on science/research funding have made my job search as a fresh PhD incredibly stressful, & now, as a result of the shutdown, I get to cross my fingers & hope my cross-country flight for a job interview doesn’t get cancelled!!!

[1/3] Men's testosterone levels did not plummet over the past decade like many wellness podcasts would have you believe... we just switched the measurement assay from immunoassay to mass spectrometry When we switched assays, we observed a ~100% increase in self-reported healthy men with low testosterone. The threshold needed to be updated when the assay changed. Arun AS, Durant TJS, El-Khoury JM, Krumholz HM. Re-evaluating the threshold for low total testosterone. Clinical Chemistry 2025.

Dr. Yaghi did his Nobel-winning work in the US, at the University of Michigan, UCLA, and UC Berkeley. Being welcoming to immigrants helps make American science the best in the world.

Ask not why would you work in biology, but rather: why wouldn't you? owlposting.com/p/ask-not-why-… openai/gemini gave this essay an A- for evocative imagery. claude gave it a C- for being emotionally manipulative. both are probably right. i feel a little sick re-reading it

Huge shoutout to every NIH official grinding non-stop to support researchers and pushing through to meet that Sept 30 award deadline to ensure 100% of the funds are sent. You're the heroes keeping biomedical research alive. Unfortunately politicians are not as good as you are. You should not have to be shutdown, you should not be furloughed. Know that your work is being seen, your dedication is inspiring. We are all behind you, hang in there folks. Thank you, thank you thank you.