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Brady Johnston @bradyajohnston.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The `gravestone_material()` and `stone_material` are still using regular `bpy` so it might be worth saying explicitly to use nodebpy instead for those too

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Brady Johnston @bradyajohnston.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Great to see it working well. What approach are you using for actually interfacing with Blender / nodebpy? Interesting that it has still created a material the 'old fashioned way' but used nodebpy for the GN. Did you use the agent skill at all? github.com/BradyAJohnst...

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Add nodebpy agent skill by BradyAJohnston · Pull Request #174 · BradyAJohnston/nodebpy

Adds skills/nodebpy/ (SKILL.md, two reference files, scripts/lookup.py) and an AGENTS.md pointing to it. Evaluated on 4 tasks with nodebpy installed from a wheel and no repo access: same pass rate ...

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Joel Davis @joeld42.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Holy cow, nodebpy from @bradyajohnston.bsky.social gives Claude superpowers with blender. It can speak its native language. Geonode walls from a spline, gravestone generator, procedural ground, in just a few minutes. And unlike most ai-gen scenes, these are now tools that I can control and direct.

A 3d scene in Blender with a stone wall, some gravestones and a ground with grass and scattered leaves.

Blender's geometry nodes with a very dense graph created by nodebpy.

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Brady Johnston @bradyajohnston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

omg please tell me I could get access to these trajectories somehow...

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Maksim Kalutskii @maksimkalutskii.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Excited to share our new preprint! 📜 Here, we used CALVADOS and ultra-CG models to show how the kinetochore establishes a robust attachment to the dynamic microtubule end. Spoiler: IDRs 🧵 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Joel Davis @joeld42.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fantastic talk by @bradyajohnston.bsky.social about converting geometry nodes to python and back. I'm so excited to start playing with this, been wanting something like this for ages. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFGE...

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Build Your Node Trees With Code — BCON26

YouTube video by Blender

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Martin Pacesa @martinpacesa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

ʙɪɴᴅᴄʀᴀꜰᴛ2 is out, and we're not waiting for the paper. The full code drops today, free for academic and industry use. We're releasing it early so you can start designing right now, and bring its full power to the current Adaptyv competition. github.com/PacesaLab/Bi...

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Stephanie Wankowicz @stephanieaw.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Proteins are always moving. They wiggle. They jiggle. They interact with their surroundings. That movement drives their function. Yet the motion stays mostly invisible. We cannot understand protein function, engineer it, or correct it until we can see the motion and predict it. prismscience.org

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Prism | Revealing the Dynamics of Life

Dynamic structural data, models, and language to become standard across the field. At scale, this is how we predict conformational ensembles across all of biology.

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Brady Johnston @bradyajohnston.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I'm running a 2-day in-person Blender / #MolecularNodes workshop in London next month - if you are interested be sure to register!

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Brady Johnston @bradyajohnston.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I'm running a 2-day in-person Blender / #MolecularNodes workshop in London next month - if you are interested be sure to register!

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Brady Johnston @bradyajohnston.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Very cool! Should be able to pull off similar I think

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Sergey Ovchinnikov @sokrypton.org · 15/08/2026

But can you animate the drawing part? 😛 added a "draw" button.

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Brady Johnston @bradyajohnston.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Same thing for Molecular Nodes, loving the aesthetic!

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Sergey Ovchinnikov @sokrypton.org · 15/08/2026

getting close to recreating Jane Richardson's style 😎

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Brady Johnston @bradyajohnston.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The paper is out which means the MD trajectories are finally available! #MolecularNodes #b3d #GeometryNodes

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Martin Pacesa @martinpacesa.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Lastly, I want to give massive credit to @bradyajohnston.bsky.social , who built Molecular Nodes, and made it possible to generate such beautiful renderings for the website.

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Brady Johnston @bradyajohnston.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Always strange to think that people would actually watch these, but hopefully some more coming as we get MN ready for 5.2

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Brady Johnston @bradyajohnston.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Some very cool simulations, look at those little guys climb that ladder! #MolecularNodes

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Brady Johnston @bradyajohnston.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Would love to get access to this structure to make some fun animations if possible!

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Rémi Fronzes @fronzeslab.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

New preprint. In S. sanguinis, a C5a peptidase-like protease (ScpH) polymerizes along eDNA, turning it into a catalytic biofilm scaffold. Great work from @robinanger.bsky.social in our lab, with Pelicic lab @lcbofficiel.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Higor Rosa @hvdrosa.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Thrilled to share the updated video of my paper in Nature with Maciej (under supervision of @simonemattei.bsky.social & @jomaalab.bsky.social) Proud to use Cryo-ET to uncover how hibernation factors are key to translation restart! To model PTMs in situ and render animations fulfilled my PhD dream!🥹🎉

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Jacques Lucke @jacqueslucke.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

#GeometryNodes will have a new Sample Sound Frequencies node in Blender 5.2. It allows creating animations and simulations based on audio data without having to use non-procedural workarounds. #b3d #devfund

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Bui Lab @McGill @builab.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

The cartwheel was first visualized ~70 years ago in the symbiont Trichonympha in the wood termite gut. We’ve discovered the cartwheel’s secret: a unique zigzag stacking of SAS-6 tetramers that facilitates the iconic 9-fold symmetry of cilia. #cellbiology #teamtomo #SAS6 #cartwheel

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Brady Johnston @bradyajohnston.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Yoooo. Are you still just importing cellpack files or doing your own building?

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Brian Cook @bcryo.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

1) The Herzik lab is excited to announce our newest preprint in collaboration with the Grotjahn lab! We have developed a surfactant cocktail that seeks to overcome one of the more nefarious problems in #cryoEM, Air-water interface (AWI)-induced damage and preferred orientation (PO).

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Alice R. Walker @arwalker.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Check out our new cover art, made by the talented @markahix.bsky.social ! It highlights orbital mixing of a low barrier hydrogen bond that spans the dimer interface of YajL. Small changes tune LBHB character in homologue DJ1. With a point mutation it appears! pubs.acs.org/toc/bichaw/6...

A YajL protein dimer is shown in green and yellow protein surfaces with an interfacial aspartate/glutamate low-barrier hydrogen bond displayed with mixed-valence orbitals, calculated using quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics for each amino acid. The low-barrier hydrogen bond in the center is highlighted.

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Oliver Beckstein [he/him] @orbeckst.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

At #bps2026 : I loved the special acknowledgement of the @rcsbpdb.bsky.social and the MANY researchers who generated the experimental macromolecular structures that made it possible to build AI models for structure prediction.

Slide thanking the protein databank and all the researchers who contributed structures.

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Kevin A. Scott, PhD @sculpturatus.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

You can create images like this in a couple minutes using 100% free software. Check out tutorials by @bradyajohnston.bsky.social

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Kevin A. Scott, PhD @sculpturatus.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

PyMol + Blender is cool. Learned this from @bradyajohnston.bsky.social

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Clockwork @watchclockwork.com · 31/01/2026

💪 NEW VIDEO: Flying over the A-band of an atomic-scale model of a vertebrate muscle sarcomere. Let's explore the molecular mechanics that make your muscles work. Rendered using @bradyajohnston.bsky.social 's molecular nodes Model based on the incredible work of the @raunser-lab.bsky.social lab

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Nick Desnoyer @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Weekend well spent learning Blender and Molecular Nodes by the great @bradyajohnston.bsky.social My first animation: "Interpretation of NRC2 resistosome assembly on the plasma membrane"

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Iñigo Iribarren @iiribarren.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Happy to share our new preprint today! And it looks so nice that I couldn't help myself and made a little video 📺 Great teamwork as always Prof. @medbioinorgchem.bsky.social Prof. Gagliardi, Dr. Wragg and Julia Stebani! Check it out here: chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr... Hope you like it a lot!

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Equinox Graphics @e-nox.net · 15/12/2025

Day 15 of making proteins for #ArtAdventCalendar The PhotoSystem II supercomplex in plants contains light-gathering antenna complexes (yellow). More antennas means better photosynthesis in low-light conditions (like the version shown with SIX antennas). More projects: e-nox.net/portfolio/ #SciArt

Visualisation of the structure of PhotoSystem II supercomplex from an algae that is accustomed to low-light conditions (Chlamydomonas reihardtii). It has six yellow antennae complexes which gather light for photosynthesis.

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Equinox Graphics @e-nox.net · 02/12/2025

Day 2 of #ArtAdventCalendar Today's new protein is Arc, a protein found in the brain, which can form icosahedral capsids (like viruses) containing its Arc mRNA cargo. They are linked to regulation of synaptic plasticity and forming long-term memories. More projects: e-nox.net/portfolio/ #SciArt

Visualisation of the structure of the Arc protein, shown as an icosahedral capsid (protein structure depicted as a ribbon), with a point light at its centre, throwing out shadow rays into the surrounding space.

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Matthew Clark @matthew-batisio.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

How do trypanosomes evolve resistance to sleeping sickness drugs? Mutations in TbAQP2 🔵 can block melarsoprol and pentamidine 🟠 from entering the cell. It was a pleasure to create this animation for Simone Weyand. Read more here: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... #blender #b3d #animation #science

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Brady Johnston @bradyajohnston.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Yes I’m definitely going to play around with something like this. Are you doing elastic network simulations on the alpha carbons?

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Brady Johnston @bradyajohnston.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

I _really love_ the resulting aesthetics on this. I've played around with motion blur on structures before but this approach of many more frames & using alpha is a much nicer final look

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Dawid Zyla @dzyla.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Proteins are dynamic structures, but structural biology often shows them as static snapshots. Inspired by long-exposure photography and generative art, I built ProteinCHAOS, an artistic tool inspired by molecular dynamics to capture protein flexibility over time, much like long-exposure images.

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Brady Johnston @bradyajohnston.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

A few years ago I was tinkering around in Blender, trying to figure out better ways to import molecular data for nicer visuals. I eventually and came up with an add-on that I released 100% free and open source: github.com/BradyAJohnst... Strange for that to have a life of its own

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GitHub - BradyAJohnston/MolecularNodes: Toolbox for molecular animations in Blender, powered by Geometry Nodes.

Toolbox for molecular animations in Blender, powered by Geometry Nodes. - BradyAJohnston/MolecularNodes

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Brady Johnston @bradyajohnston.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

If there is big biotech announcement happening, #MolecularNodes is being used for it. I only had the realisation in the past day, but it's strange to have my software very quickly become the visual face for $100M announcements and massive scientific breakthroughs.

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Billie Meadowcroft @billiemeadowcroft.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Your go-to tutorial for simulating mesoscale membranes is here. Look no further for: -Understanding the state of the field -A guide for creating new models for your science -Hands-on tutorials to simulate your very own membranes See tinyurl.com/punk3tcu and the below 🧵 start your journey 💻

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Leonora Martínez-Núñez @leonoramartinez.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Bringing invisible ideas to life. #sciart #blender3D #illustration *illustrations created for Mary Munson’s Lab website at UMass Chan Medical School*

A blobby structure cut open showing its contents which are hélices and loops and light emitting spheres in the middle. This all depicts VPS45 protein

A conglomerate of lipid molecules forming a wall and separating two spaces with different contents

A space-like scene showing a sphere or vesicle about to be hooked by a multi subunit protein complex

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Josh Hardy @joshuamhardy.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

I am thrilled to release ProteinDJ: a high-performance and modular protein design pipeline. Our open-source workflow incorporates #RFdiffusion, #ProteinMPNN, #FAMPNN, #AlphaFold2 and #Boltz-2. It is a fast, free, and fun way to design proteins (1/5) doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.24.678028 #proteindesign

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Michael Jendrusch @mjendrusch.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Also, shoutout to @blender.org and @bradyajohnston.bsky.social for making it so easy to turn protein structures into nice images! 5/5

Protein structures colored teal and purple floating above a reflective surface on a dark background. The protein structures spell out the word "SALAD" in all-capital letters.

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