Amelie Stein @amelierocks.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Big congratulations to Aleksandra Panfilova who defended her PhD last week! Aleks has been teasing apart models of protein interactions and consequences of mutations on these, preprint coming soon! She’s now looking for new opportunities in Estonia, so reach out to hear if you’re hiring 😊 070
Amelie Stein @amelierocks.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Annika raises many good points about the challenges with (not) “just putting the slides online” 041
Reposted by Amelie SteinYury Bykov @yurabykov.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Junior professor position at the University of Kaiserslautern! Our Department of Biology is seeking a colleague working with microalgae. This is a wonderful place to do wonderful science with great people! Please, repost :) Further details: jobs.rptu.de/jobposting/1... 01512
Amelie Stein @amelierocks.bsky.social · 20/11/2025T’is the season When I scrape ice Off my saddle 020
Reposted by Amelie SteinPause @ Real Scientists DE @realscientists.de · 19/11/2025🧵 Thread👇 Heute Nachmittag im Fokus: Wissenschaftliche Karrierewege An der Uni wird oft nur das Karriereziel Professur diskutiert, aber der Weg dahin ist schwer, wenig planbar und die anderen Berufsoptionen sehr vielfältig (und zumeist sogar besser).media.tenor.comspongebob is writing on a piece of paper with a pen .ALT: spongebob is writing on a piece of paper with a pen . 3507
Reposted by Amelie SteinDr. Jey McCreight 🏳️⚧️🧬 @jeymccreight.bsky.social · 16/11/2025I lament all the research and writing I never got to do because I was too busy fighting sex pests and institutionalized misogyny 0405
Reposted by Amelie SteinOded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Adding citations of people who might review the paper 1136534
Reposted by Amelie SteinMark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 10/11/2025One of my science heroes, Joan Brugge, talks about how science funding cuts are slowing their work on breast cancer prevention--share this widely www.facebook.com/60minutes/vi...facebook.com439K views · 15K reactions | Harvard researcher Joan Brugge says her work has the potential to prevent breast cancer, but she was notified last spring that her federal funding was terminated. “It was ...Harvard researcher Joan Brugge says her work has the potential to prevent breast cancer, but she was notified last spring that her federal funding was terminated. “It was just like a gut punch. My... 05027
Reposted by Amelie SteinMeade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).science.orgRosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassmentSpurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t 3830541219
Amelie Stein @amelierocks.bsky.social · 07/11/2025My 11yo is more active in her Teams chats than I am in mine. 030
Reposted by Amelie SteinPedro Beltrao @pedrobeltrao.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Looks like OpenFold3 has been formally released in a public "preview". Not quite on parity with AlphaFold3 on a few benchmarks shown, in particular for antibody interactions. All info on the github link. I am sure we will hear more about this from the developers github.com/aqlaboratory...github.comGitHub - aqlaboratory/openfold-3: OpenFold3: A fully open source biomolecular structure prediction model based on AlphaFold3OpenFold3: A fully open source biomolecular structure prediction model based on AlphaFold3 - aqlaboratory/openfold-3 25020
Reposted by Amelie SteinMark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 27/10/2025The UNC Department of Biology is seeking a Director of Biology Teaching Labs, a key leadership role overseeing our undergraduate laboratory program. 1/n Learn more and apply here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/308...unc.peopleadmin.comDirector of Biology Teaching LabsThe Director of Biology Teaching Labs provides leadership and direction in the management of the Biology Department's undergraduate laboratories and will be responsible for the undergraduate laborator... 12536
Reposted by Amelie SteinMark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/10/2025I have a very bad feeling about this... 18345398810118
Reposted by Amelie SteinLaura Howes @laurahowes.bsky.social · 25/10/2025Alternatively, lads, might be worth thinking about supporting the German car industry to remain viable in the future rather than locking them into a dying business model. But sure, you go off... 221
Amelie Stein @amelierocks.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Airplane sunrise is the reward for early departures. Looking forward to European RosettaCon 2025! 190
Reposted by Amelie SteinIzzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 09/10/2025Ah, a classic moment of @nature.com recognizing the scientific contributions of both genders: man and machine. 312526
Reposted by Amelie SteinMarcel Dickmanns | 🌿❄️🔬 @madic.bsky.social · 07/10/2025You can get MSAs directly from AlphaFold DB now (alphafold.ebi.ac.uk). I also missed the FoldSeek implementation, which lets you search for structurally similar proteins direktly. This saves some clicking around. Neat! 14510
Reposted by Amelie SteinAndrew Iwaniuk @evoneuro.bsky.social · 09/10/2025As I tell my students, if you arrived at a simple answer in biology you have done one of two things: arrived at the wrong answer or asked the wrong question 44918
Amelie Stein @amelierocks.bsky.social · 09/10/2025Kindergarten teacher asks what I teach (biological sequence analyses), I try to explain. She turns to the 3yo and asks „What do you want to be when you grow up?“ Prompt and confident answer: „A butterfly 🦋!“ 000
Reposted by Amelie SteinKresten Lindorff-Larsen @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social · 07/10/2025The proteasome-substrate-shuttle protein UBQLN2 contains—like other quality control system proteins—a long region devoid of lysine (a lysine desert) Martin Grønbæk-Thygesen (from @rhp-lab.bsky.social) et al show that introducing K here causes ubiquitylation and degradation doi.org/10.1101/2025... 23211
Reposted by Amelie SteinElizabeth Wood, PhD @lizbwood.bsky.social · 06/10/2025For every Nobel that goes to a criminally under-recognized woman scientist (Brunkow, Karikó), or fails to go (Candy Lee), a week of mourning and reform for an academic system wherein you can do Nobel-prize-worthy-work and still end up without a conceivable path to being a professor. 24816
Amelie Stein @amelierocks.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Fun & action the local science museum #experimentarium 020
Reposted by Amelie SteinIrina Bezsonova @irinabezsonova.bsky.social · 03/10/2025This October I’m drawing one molecule a day inspired by proteins in pdb @rcsbpdb.bsky.social Day 2/31 Prompt WEAVE N-terminal domain of a Fibrion - a building block of silk fiber produced by silkworms. Pdb: 3UA0 Next prompt is CROWN and I would love your suggestions! 25214
Amelie Stein @amelierocks.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Some interesting thoughts on the Perspective Harper Raiken and I wrote over the summer 010
Reposted by Amelie SteinDr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 23/03/2024I don’t know who wrote this, but it’s absolutely perfect 9760202679
Reposted by Amelie SteinSarah Shammas @sarahshammas.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Why are transcription factors disordered? Come join us in Oxford as a postdoc and we'll find out together! Help publish 3 mature projects, AND develop cool new single molecule fluorescence binding assays! biophysics transcription protein:DNA interactions my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... 1175
Amelie Stein @amelierocks.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Recruiting the next generation of bioinformatics students 070
Reposted by Amelie SteinGreifflab @victorgreiff.bsky.social · 28/09/2025We’re recruiting a PhD Fellow in Computational Systems Immunology. Work on large-scale immune receptor datasets and develop computational models in close collaboration with experimental labs. Apply here: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...jobbnorge.noPhD Fellowship in Computational Systems Immunology (286608) | University of OsloJob title: PhD Fellowship in Computational Systems Immunology (286608), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025 01113
Reposted by Amelie SteinDr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Interesting episode of short wave about the origin of endometriosis. I really appreciate that they end with how uncertainty in NIH funding affects the future of their work. www.npr.org/2025/09/26/n...npr.orgWhat causes endometriosis? Scientists are closer to finding out : Short WaveSince the age of nine or ten, Katie Burns has had debilitating pain from endometriosis, a condition where tissue resembling the uterine lining grows outside the uterus. For years, Katie was in the dar... 14418
Reposted by Amelie SteinJohn Lees @johnlees.bacpop.org · 17/09/2025The EMBL PhD programme is open until 13th October (entry ~Sep 2026): www.embl.org/about/info/e... We have three positions in microbial genomics at EMBL-EBI, including one in my group. Please do apply, or if you know anyone that would be interested pass on to themembl.orgEMBL International PhD Programme – Unique in the world and waiting for you! 11939
Amelie Stein @amelierocks.bsky.social · 21/09/2025Job opportunities at an absolutely amazing place for molecular biology 🧫 020
Amelie Stein @amelierocks.bsky.social · 21/09/2025Almost done, just need to add a bit of background. 020
Amelie Stein @amelierocks.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Deadline extended - last chance, second edition! 022
Amelie Stein @amelierocks.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Cool project with the Pless lab on disease-associated variants in a membrane protein, NALCN, that needs to be in complex to function. Most of our computational work was done by PhD student Aleks Panfilova. 171
Reposted by Amelie SteinBjørn Panyella Pedersen @bjornppedersen.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Interested in structural biology, membrane proteins, biophysics and working to understand hormone transport in plants?☘️🔬👩🔬🧪 We have an open PhD position: - 3 years fully funded. - Details and application link: www.linkedin.com/posts/plant-... Please repost 💚linkedin.com🚀 Exciting PhD opportunity in structural biology & plant science! 🌱 PhD Position – Structural and Functional Studies of Plant Membrane-Protein Transporters 📍 Molecular Biology & Genetics -… ...🚀 Exciting PhD opportunity in structural biology & plant science! 🌱 PhD Position – Structural and Functional Studies of Plant Membrane-Protein Transporters 📍 Molecular Biology & Genetics - Aarhus Un... 0811
Reposted by Amelie SteinAnthony Gitter @anthonygitter.bsky.social · 11/09/2025The journal version of "Biophysics-based protein language models for protein engineering" with @philromero.bsky.social is live! Mutational Effect Transfer Learning (METL) is a protein language model trained on biophysical simulations that we use for protein engineering. 1/ doi.org/10.1038/s415...doi.orgBiophysics-based protein language models for protein engineering - Nature MethodsMutational effect transfer learning (METL) is a protein language model framework that unites machine learning and biophysical modeling. Transformer-based neural networks are pretrained on biophysical ... 1132
Reposted by Amelie SteinFMI science @fmiscience.bsky.social · 08/09/2025🚨 We're hiring, please share! The FMI seeks a tenure-track Group Leader (Assistant Prof) in Structural Biology 🔬 Innovative scientists in genome regulation, RNA metabolism, or protein homeostasis—especially using cutting-edge approaches—apply now at www.fmi.ch/education-ca... 06166
Amelie Stein @amelierocks.bsky.social · 08/09/2025One of those days when Copenhagen is trying to play San Francisco 🌫️ Fortunately we got to keep the trains. 040
Reposted by Amelie SteinDecay @decay.rantspace.org · 06/09/2025"We can and should reject that AI output is ‘good enough,’ not only because it is not good, but also because there is inherent value in thinking for ourselves." 12611
Reposted by Amelie SteinBen Engel @cellarchlab.com · 26/08/2025BIG NEWS!! We will be hiring a new professor with 25 years of endowed funding at the @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch, focused on using biophysics and structural biology to explore climate-related fundamental science topics. Come start an innovative research cluster with us! 🧪🔬🧶🧬🌾🌍 111481
Amelie Stein @amelierocks.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Successfully taught my first bioinformatics class in Danish 🇩🇰 Based on feedback, the most helpful bit was rather language-Independent, when I said that affine gap scores are kinda like Affinity in Magic The Gathering 🧙♀️ 📜 090
Amelie Stein @amelierocks.bsky.social · 01/09/2025A very relatable rant on why manuscript revisions can be frustrating. And it doesn’t even mention „you should have cited these 7 tangentially related articles, all written by the same author“ 📜 020
Amelie Stein @amelierocks.bsky.social · 31/08/2025This is where German clearly was much easier. To this day I can find myself in an English audiobook and realise „oh that’s how you pronounce it“ 😅 020
