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Gemma Kerr

@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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They walked so he could run.
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Iowa First Media (@IowaFirstMedia) profile pictureIowa First Media
@IowaFirstMediaNov 3
🔓LEAKED: Rob Sand's 2003/04 controversial runway footage during his time as a fashion model in Paris and Milan for Prada, Giuliano Fujiwara, and Number (N)ine has been found online. Sand has noted that modeling at age 20/21 was one of his "craziest jobs." 📸SOURCE: Fashion Channel via YouTube
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I stopped by Renee and Alex’s memorials today and was inspired to see all those who showed up to pay their respects and leave an “I voted” sticker. We have not forgotten. Accountability is coming.
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ab d. roger@aliabdiNov 4
there’s a kid named abdifatah right now telling his substitute teacher to “just call him abdi” while abdulrahman mohamed el-sayed is on tv pronouncing every syllable of his full name. hope that kid was watching.
Justin (@JustinUSA) profile pictureJustin
@JustinUSANov 4
Abdul El-Sayed proudly introduces himself as Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed, America’s first Muslim senator, and then starts speaking in Arabic. Americans better brace themselves. The communist and Islamic takeover has officially begun. They’re going to get exactly what they just asked for.
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NETHERFIELD PARK IS LET AT LAST!
Shocked Steve Kornacki

ALT Shocked Steve Kornacki

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Rob Sand (@RobSandIA) profile picture
Rob Sand
@RobSandIANov 4
Audited: Governor-Elect.
lyd (@i4clark) profile picturelyd@i4clarkNov 4
this is my governor
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lyd@i4clarkNov 4
this is my governor
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Pope Leo XIV (@Pontifex) profile picture
Pope Leo XIV
@PontifexOct 30
Machines are tools, not persons. Today, some propose granting these systems rights, or even legal personhood. Such an approach risks obscuring human responsibility and leaving those who suffer harm to confront a faceless entity.
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Meg (@_nomadic_soul) profile picture
Meg
@_nomadic_soulOct 27
No, we switch them over to formula, weirdo.
Zach McDonough, Esq. (@zachmcd24) profile pictureZach McDonough, Esq.
@zachmcd24Oct 27
Imagine a mother giving birth in a small, isolated, and impoverished town. Six months later, she decides that she no longer wishes to use her body to breastfeed the baby anymore. Nobody in the town is willing to adopt the child, and there are no alternative means to feed the baby. Can the mother invoke bodily autonomy and deny the baby breast milk until the baby dies? If yes, then it seems like bodily autonomy can justify infanticide. If no, then why is bodily autonomy a defense to abortion but not for some cases of infanticide?
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KerryHowley@KerryHowleyOct 27
a trad belief i have is that it’s better to spend time with your new baby than to be pulled away to defend the cheesecake factory’s aesthetic on behalf of an aspirationally authoritarian regime
FactPost (@factpostnews) profile pictureFactPost
@factpostnewsOct 27
Karoline Leavitt: This is not about the Cheesecake Factory. This is about the Democrats not being able to appreciate beauty.
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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 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 (@jenny2x4) profile pictureFairy 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 (@NobelPrize) profile pictureThe 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 (@dtortorici) profile pictureDayna 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. (@RepMMM) profile pictureRep. 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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philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) profile picturephilip 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

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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