Caroline Lynn Kamerlin ☀️

(went back to check again)

Yup. For what it's worth Kurds have settled on "no this is not happening", everyone potentially involved has denied it. Who knows about tomorrow, but right now it looks like it was fake news/hype.

Following Kurdish media basic summary is some Kurds think this is a good idea some Kurds think this is a terrible idea, some Israeli media claims Kurds have already gone in, relevant Kurds deny this, other Kurds are mad at endangering of Kurdish groups by promoting false narrative, it's a big mess.

I hate to say it, but the worst violence from Iran is yet to come.

The regime has a long history of targeting the softest possible targets, particularly civilian sites.

We are about to see some truly ugly events across the Middle East and beyond. Brace yourselves, but don't give up on humanity.

Unrelated to the situation involving Iran, but going on in parallel. Also Kobane remains under siege.

Pakistan/Afghanistan was brief news on Friday and then forgotten.

The UAE is showing tremendous restraint right now. Repeatedly targeting innocent civilians in the Gulf states is a war crime.

My Dad worked for a Saudi company for many years, and lived in Saudi, the UAE, and North Africa. He always loved the UAE and its people. I know he would be as sad as I am if he were still here to see what the criminal Iranian Regime are doing to you.

I am in deep admiration of the fortitude and dignity of the UAE and its citizens, as they face a criminal and unprovoked onslaught on civilian infrastructure from the Iranian Regime. Your courage is boundless and you continue to be a beacon of light in the Middle East.

#Iran

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#Iran today

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After a day of everyone getting bombed, the entire Middle East will celebrate tonight.

Death to the Dictator.

So many emotions. Khamenei is dead.

He was old and would have died sooner or later anyhow. There are for sure succession plans in place.

But...may the souls of the hundreds of thousands who have died because of him (not just in Iran but also Syria and elsewhere) plague him for eternity.

My heart goes out to the innocent people across the Middle East who are being affected, or worse, hurt by the Islamic Republic

I truly hope this is the end of evil in our beautiful region of the world

💕

Just spoke to Mohamed Bin Zayed of the United Arab Emirates.

I conveyed our full support and extended our condolences following Iran’s strikes and the resulting casualties.

Europe strongly condemns these unjustifiable attacks.

My quote of the day

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

Bertrand Russell

The Iranian Regime is a stain on Iran, a stain on history, a stain on humanity.

I stand today with all the people of the Middle East (not just inside Iran), who are being targeted indiscriminately by the IRGC.

This Regime has to go.

Iranian Regime is apparently indiscriminately attacking Gulf States and Kurdistan. Middle East is on fire. Around me, people gossip about irrelevant stuff.

How long can I continue to keep my scream silent?

I managed to pull myself together enough to get my child to a ballet lesson. All the parents are sitting here gossiping about trivial stuff oblivious to the world outside being on fire. Suppressing the urge to scream. My earring choice today was appropriate...

I know it's hard to imagine, but you can simultaneously want the Regime gone, want a free Kurdistan and a free Balochistan, and feel bad about multiple countries bombing Iran, and the fact that this is the price for any hope of Regime change. These are not contradictory opinions.

Saudi are joining in too now apparently after Iranian strike on Saudi a few hours ago.

I feel sick.

Today is Rare Disease Day, a day for all us zebras to show our stripes with pride and celebrate and raise awareness.

My heart is too heavy today, but I can't leave the day unnoticed.

Rare is many. Rare is strong. Rare is proud.

My childhood was shaped by being bombed by Saddam. The trauma still sits with me decades later.

While I would be the first to celebrate regime change, my heart bleeds for a generation of children that will carry the same trauma.

Biophysicist Lynn Kamerlin Becomes Institute of Physics Fellow

🎉Congrats to Professor @lynnkamerlin.bsky.social on being named an @iop.org Fellow.
Kamerlin's research in computational biophysics is at the intersection of chemistry and biology. She investigates fundamental physical chemistry and uses computational tools to understand biomolecular problems.

As everyone gears up for war with Iran without any real plans for what will come next in one of the most volatile regions in the world, tonight I am just very sad.

If this Regime stays in power, countless more will die. But the price of removing them will also be very high.

💔

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In 1967, physicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered radio pulsars.

#OTD in 1968, Burnell, Antony Hewish, and 3 other male colleagues published a paper on the discovery in 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦--but, the 1974 Nobel Prize in #Physics for their discovery was awarded only to Hewish.

#MatildaEffect #WomenInSTEM

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Becoming Chartered isn’t just gaining a title - it’s earning a respected mark of professional excellence. Professional registration recognises your expertise, validates your experience and demonstrates your commitment to the highest standards in your field.

Accepting AI "collaboration" means stealing ideas with no acknowledgement supporting data centers that are ecologically terrible, socially terrible, and using programs that are killing people.

No advance in mathematics is worth this. None.

Please get him off LinkedIn...

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The first all-female team to share a Nobel Prize in science: biochemists Jennifer Doudna & Emmanuelle Charpentier.

They won the 2020 #Nobel Prize in #Chemistry "for the development of a method for genome editing (CRISPR-Cas9)." Jennifer Doudna was born #OTD in 1964.

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