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SusanK
@susankleinfelter.bsky.social
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Protein folding nerd, curmudgeon, UW IPD. She/her.
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Giant Pikachu bouncy house where children climb in and out through the vagina
October 11, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Our lab is moving to a new building, so I brought home the #origami capsids that normally sit above my desk - they're camping on my #Lego table for now
Half a sphere made of bright Lego triangles and stars, and behind that on the work table are bins of Lego pieces with origami spheres balanced on top
October 5, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Go home spell check, you're drunk
Text box on a google slide, showing the word "chains" spelled correctly and the spell check suggestion of "chainz" with a "Z"
October 4, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Barrier Zipper go BRRRRRRR
A barrier transfer machine rolls along a lane of highway, moving the concrete barrier pieces smoothly to the other side of the lane. This allows changing the number of lanes traveling in each direction without stopping traffic. The machine is about the size of a semi truck. One worker in safety vest and hard hat sits on top at the front of it to steer.
July 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Destressing thru play: attempting to build @uwproteindesign.bsky.social protein nanocage I53-50 out of #Lego
Half of a symmetric sphere-like cage built from Lego in bright colors. Open pentagon faces stick out. Triangular faces are recessed closer to the sphere center. Three stalks sticking out from each triangle are where we can attach a virus protein to make a vaccine.
July 19, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Usually I make modular polyhedra out of paper, but I'm trying some other materials. Turns out #Lego is much faster to build with than paper, but the results look less arty.
Sphere-like Lego cage with 20 faces that are golden yellow open triangles, connected to each other with bright red hinges. Lego hemispheric cage of alternating open lavender pentagons and open yellow triangles, held together by not quite enough pale gray hinges, with other color hinges filling in because I ran out of gray. Lego open-work sphere-like cage of 6 blue squares and 8 yellow triangles, all held together with red hinges. One of the yellow edges is partially detached, because chaos.
July 4, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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In the interview with Zelinskyy, the mantel behind Trump was covered with trophies. In this photo there is a box behind him overflowing with medals. Am I reading this right? His photo ops are accessorized to say "I win I win I win"? photo by Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images
Trump sitting at his desk in the oval office. "Crypto czar" David Sacks hands him a fancy document folder. Behind Trump on a table is what looks like a wooden box piled high with medals, with more displayed in front of it.
March 8, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Campanus sphere completed, torus in progress - both in "Snapology" origami
Image shows two large origami figures assembled from many small repeating shapes, like a mesh shell made of paper
November 29, 2024 at 11:58 PM