Basil Greber @bjgreber.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This further highlights the risks of using tools that were created by companies who were, well, "not very selective" with how they sourced the information required to develop their models. It is becoming increasingly unlikely that users of these tools are being treated any differently. 072
Reposted by Basil Greberc0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The obvious conclusion (to me): if you have proprietary research & you upload it into the Plagiarism Nexus, it's not YOUR proprietary research anymore. Behave accordingly. 726589
Reposted by Basil GreberCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 27/09/2026Ignore for a moment the question about whether Anthropic trains on user sessions. I am I right in reading this as saying that Anthropic's "never-before-discovered" reverse transcriptase was *patented* three years ago? 10379111
Reposted by Basil GreberMicah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026I think it is very important that Big Balls, personally, goes to jail there are a lot of young goons who think they are invincible and it is important to make it clear that they are not 7065641330
Reposted by Basil GreberMike Masnick @masnick.com · 26/09/2026Yes, yes, I'm sure that will stop all interest in the film. 1446163
Reposted by Basil GreberSebastian S. Cocioba @atinygreencell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026IPTG >>> ChatGPT More wetlab for everyone! 2201
Reposted by Basil GreberCraig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Cryo-EM peeps are living the dream www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgIn-cell structures visualize human pre-ribosome assembly in the nucleolusIn eukaryotes, ribosome biogenesis initiates within the nucleolus, a hallmark multilayered compartment of the nucleus. Structures of pre-ribosomes have been characterized ex situ, but their assembly p... 16731
Reposted by Basil GreberArnaud Vanden Broeck @avbroeck.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Very happy to share the first paper from our lab, out now in Nature Communications!🎉🥳 Structural basis of step II Spliced Leader RNA trans-splicing in trypanosomatid parasites 🧬🔬 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natcomms.nature.com @universitedeliege.bsky.social @rockefeller.edu #cryoEM #cryo-EM 33410
Reposted by Basil GreberMaya Voichek @mayavoichek.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Super excited to share my postdoctoral work at @imbavienna.bsky.social @viennabiocenter.bsky.social - We discovered that some retrotransposons, or "jumping genes" 🧬, are able to spread from cell to cell via a new viral infectivity route. A short thread: 🧵👇 (1/7) 20257143
Reposted by Basil GreberBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026the priority here being the migrants and not the vigilantes is *insane* and also more evidence of my Belphegor theory. 744168
Reposted by Basil GreberSwiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) @snsf.ch · 22/09/2026🏆 Biochemist Martin Jinek is the winner of the Swiss Science Prize #MarcelBenoist 2026, considered the Swiss #Nobel Prize. He contributed to the development of molecular scissors, namely CRISPR-Cas9 technology. Read more ➡️ sohub.io/3hs4 66221
Reposted by Basil GreberChristophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This is the updated part. Looks like the movie is an AI-generated fluorescence image from a non-labeled acquisition technique. No indication that the Small World jury and organizers have requested and verified the raw data (as mentioned as a possibility in the competition rules) 155023
Reposted by Basil GreberRichard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 27/08/2026$3.7 billion spent on APCs in 2025. That's ~1000X more than it costs to run bioRxiv/medRxiv. Worth thinking about as we consider how to fund infrastructure... arxiv.org/pdf/2608.16322arxiv.org 813378
Reposted by Basil GreberYuan He @yuanhejhu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026A big week for the lab! Two new papers on how cells repair DNA double-strand breaks: one on getting NHEJ started in chromatin, one on processing the ends before ligation. Years of work by a fantastic team. 410840
Basil Greber @bjgreber.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Maybe pressure Putin to leave Ukraine alone. How about that? 040
Reposted by Basil GreberProf. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Sommer 2026: 16.000 Hitzetote 🥵 alleine in 🇩🇪. Dürre. Brände. 🤯 Die Bundesregierung subventioniert jetzt mit 2.500.000.000 € von unseren Steuergeldern die Ursache der Hitze: fossile Brennstoffe. Unfassbar. 🤯🤯🤯 Das meiste Geld landet dann wieder bei den Ölkonzernen, der Lobby gegen Klimaschutz. 832118932
Basil Greber @bjgreber.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I have now read a fair few #cryoEM papers in which authors write "raw videos" instead of "raw movies" when referring to dose-fractionated exposures. I know that journal editors/copyediting staff often suggest this change. But nobody in the field says "videos", so maybe journals need to be told that? 1110
Reposted by Basil GreberProf Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Two of the world’s most extreme & dangerous anti-vaxx activists & grifters—Andrew Wakefield and RFK Jr—headlining a conference held by the extraordinarily damaging anti-vaxx group Children’s Health Defense in the midst of the worst measles outbreak in 35 yrs tells you all you need to know about MAHA 1121975
Basil Greber @bjgreber.bsky.social · 17/09/2026US president unfamiliar with the concept of buying goods. 37110
Basil Greber @bjgreber.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Is there a recent review that summarises all the biggest, baddest, most mind-boggling #cryoEM structures out there? What I need is basically just 10 pages worth of "look at this crazy thing!" Suggestions welcome! 😆 356
Reposted by Basil GreberSjors Scheres @sjorsscheres.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Michel Goedert and myself are looking for two postdocs to work on #cryoEM and #masspec of #alphasynuclein filaments from neurodegenerative disease. Come join our bubbly and friendly team at the @mrclmb.ac.uk in lovely Cambridge, UK. www.nature.com/naturecareer...nature.comPostdoctoral Scientist | Neurobiology | Dr Michel Goedert | LMB 2842 - Cambridgeshire job with MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology | 12864505Postdoctoral Scientist Salary £42,694 per annum Fixed term, 3 years MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK To work in the group of Dr M... 01628
Basil Greber @bjgreber.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The “Hunter Biden working for Burisma” people - where are they at right now? Why so quiet all of a sudden? 011
Reposted by Basil GreberCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 14/09/2026When we talk about how science is broken, maybe at least consider how a huge collaboration measured the ripples in spacetime resulting the collision of two black holes 1.3 billion light years away, as counterweight the guy who had to fake his data to show that people who procrastinate fall behind. 19876134
Reposted by Basil GreberJoy Jeongyoon Choi @joyjoychoi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Excited to share our new preprint on in situ chromatin structure of the inactive X chromosome in differentiated female mouse embryonic stem cells. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵1/8 611741
Reposted by Basil GreberDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how). 4156781561
Reposted by Basil GreberSami Chaaban @sami-c.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Excited to share that the Chaaban Lab will be opening in January at the Crick! 77514
Reposted by Basil GreberMihaly Badonyi @mbadonyi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026AlphaFold can now predict protein complexes at unprecedented scale. But once we have a predicted complex, the core question of how much we should trust the interface remains. Existing confidence scores are useful, but their meaning is not always obvious. #alphafold 12515
Reposted by Basil GreberHauke Hillen @haukehillen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Happy to share our new preprint on the structure of the human mitochondrial RNA degradosome, a central player in organellar RNA metabolism! Work led by graduate student @paulafprado.bsky.social in our group. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵 1/9 19134
Reposted by Basil GreberAlex Radzisheuskaya @a-radzisheuskaya.bsky.social · 11/09/2026We’re hiring! 🧬 We're looking for a Postdoctoral Training Fellow to join our group at the ICR in London and work on chromatin biology, transcription regulation and AML. Curious about how histone modifications shape gene regulation and cell identity? Come join us! jobs.icr.ac.uk/vacancies/15...jobs.icr.ac.ukPostdoctoral Training Fellow - Chromatin Biology and Epigenetics in Chelsea | The Institute of Cancer ResearchView details and apply for this Postdoctoral Training Fellow - Chromatin Biology and Epigenetics vacancy in Chelsea . Salary: Salary range £45,600 - £51,450 per annum. Dependent on re... 11413
Reposted by Basil GreberHelen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026As both an academic and a writer, I am repelled by the "this looks like a long document. Would you like me to summarize it for you?" that seems to appear at the top of every pdf viewer now. NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose. 1344044791
Reposted by Basil GreberAlan Brown @alanbrownhms.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Millions of beating cilia keep airways clean. At the base of each is the transition zone (TZ), a gate that controls which proteins enter and leave. In our paper out today in Science, we used cryo-FIB-ET to image the TZ inside human airway cells www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgIn situ structure of the human ciliary transition zone links linker defects to primary ciliary dyskinesiaThe ciliary transition zone (TZ) regulates ciliary proteome composition, yet its molecular architecture, protein content, and contribution to motile ciliopathies remain poorly defined. We applied in situ cryo-electron tomography and subtomogram averaging ... 211945
Reposted by Basil GreberGiles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026It's always the way, isn't it giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... 763083812
Reposted by Basil Greber🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Prompted by the scandal around Navier-Stokes, Andreas Thom raises the possibility that OpenAI may also have stolen the work on non-sofic groups: 113748
Reposted by Basil GreberAlexis Rohou @alexisrohou.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Genentech Structural Biology is hiring a Principal Scientist - please share! We're looking for someone with expertise in solving structures and in computational techniques related to dynamics - MD, ensemble modeling, ensemble docking, and/or related methods.careers.gene.comPrincipal Scientist, Structural Biology in South San Francisco, California, United States of America | Research & Development at GenentechApply for Principal Scientist, Structural Biology job with Genentech in South San Francisco, California, United States of America. Research & Development at Genentech 168
Reposted by Basil GreberScience Magazine @science.org · 09/09/2026OpenAI claims it has solved the Navier-Stokes problem. Here’s a quick rundown of what’s known so far about this apparent breakthrough—and the surrounding controversy: scim.ag/4ytDoM0 03118
Reposted by Basil GreberHarmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 08/09/2026So (if I understand this correctly), the way AI (companies) will "solve" all the major problems in maths, biology, and medicine in the next 5 years will be by stealing and building on the ideas of researchers naive enough to think their chats with AI companies would be private. 291183291
Reposted by Basil GreberGernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 06/09/2026Fun(?) fact: @naomioreskes.bsky.social & @erikconway.bsky.social's merchantsofdoubt.org, the book that is, came out in 2010. We've all known for a loooong time what's happening, and it's only gotten worse. 39137
Reposted by Basil GreberSeychelle Vos @voslab.org · 08/09/2026⚡Preprint alert⚡ So proud of @amohamed98.bsky.social! Abdallah determined the cryo-EM structure of BRD4 bound to the kinase P-TEFb, defining the molecular basis of this key transcription interaction — and revealing that BRD4 and AFF4 binding are mutually exclusive to P-TEFb. Lots more inside 👇 13514
Reposted by Basil GreberBen Engel @cellarchlab.com · 08/09/2026MemBrain v2 is on @natmethods.nature.com now? I never had a @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social with 164 citations before😅 ...Which is also to say: Thank you to the amazing #TeamTomo community, many of whom not only beta tested, but also contributed diverse training data. This one belongs to all of us! 🤗🔬🧪 011027
Reposted by Basil GreberAlexis Verger 🧬🧫🧪 @alexis-verger.cpesr.fr · 07/09/2026A triptych of reviews on the transcription cycle @natrevmcb.nature.com 1️⃣ Initiation Chen & Xu 2️⃣ Elongation @camimoso.bsky.social @isaacfianu.bsky.social @adelmanlab.bsky.social 3️⃣ Termination Song et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... 095
Reposted by Basil GreberGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/202680 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing. 9533551382
Basil Greber @bjgreber.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Vacationing in the UK, explained in three simple steps: 1) Depart in good weather. 2) Once at your destination, get rained on every day for a week. 3) Go home the day before sunshine returns. 2130
Reposted by Basil GreberPatrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Let’s just imagine for a few moments that they were Asian, Black, Middle Eastern who turned up and effectively blockaded Dover Port.. Now imagine MSM outrage, the inflammatory headlines and rhetoric, the Tories, Reform etc. The “pure cold rage” It’s two tier reporting as well as policing 719961
Reposted by Basil GreberSarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 05/09/2026At least in our own galaxy- there are more planets than stars. If you look at a star at night more than likely it has planets orbiting it. 08216