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Daniel Rigden

@danielrigden.bsky.social
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Professor of Bioinformatics. Executive Editor of the Database Issue at @narjournal.bsky.social. Proud Dad. Views my own.

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Every time someone links to this film, I have to repost it. It's one of the most significant bits of British 20th century art. Everything about it is incredible. Groundbreaking music production by Daphne Oram. Amazing camera work by Wolfgang Suschitzky (who later filmed Get Carter).-
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Pairi Daiza presents a shoebill in all its magnificence: #AGoodPlace
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I have legitimate concerns about closing lifeboat stations. But do only the thugs' "legitimate concerns" about migrants being saved from drowning count?
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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Very good (unsurprisingly) from @philipcball.bsky.social: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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The Einstein test: what happens when AI tries to rediscover relativity?
Scientists are probing whether language models trained on historical data can reproduce creative breakthroughs.
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Roland Dunbrack 🏳️‍🌈 @rolanddunbrack.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Congratulations to Prof. John Moult for winning the 2027 ASBMB Warren DeLano Award for Computational Biosciences! Well deserved recognition for his innovative leadership of the CASP structure prediction experiments held since 1994, as well as other similar blind experiments he began or inspired.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you’re someone. You hear them shouting “Heil, Spode!” and you imagine it is the Voice of the People.” Bertie Wooster
Daniel Thomas and his Black Shorts in London today.
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This will not, of course, stop people on Facebook who've never driven an EV in their lives telling me that the batteries have to be replaced in 60,000km and cost at least a billion dollars each arstechnica.com/cars/2026/09...
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EV batteries last longer than drivers feared
Study suggests used vehicles can retain about 90% of original usable battery capacity after 150,000 km.
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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 27/08/2026
Professor Dame Janet M Thornton DBE FMedSci FRS is awarded the Croonian Medal and Lecture 2027 for her pioneering work in protein structural and functional bioinformatics. #RSMedals royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/…
A scientist sits at a desk in front of a computer display with complicated graphics on the screen. She is turned slightly and smiling at the camera.
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Magnus Bauer @kinasekid.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
AlphaFold Server’s ligand menu just got a lot bigger and I almost missed it! You can now add any ligand from the wwPDB Chemical Component Dictionary. Just enter its CCD code 🥳
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 05/09/2026
This is interesting. You get assigned to being born at a random place and time in history, to see what a typical person's life might have been like then. Unfortunately I was born in 1403 in the valley of Mexico and died at age 4 from dysentery.
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Any Human Ever
One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Just copy & share everywhere please. Absolutely thumping.
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Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Canada has recruited dozens of researchers away from US universities. 48 out of 64 chair recipients in a government program worth $500+ million are coming from US institutions like Harvard and MIT. 🧵
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Kelvin Lau @klausenhauser on 🙅‍♂️🐘🪡 @klausenhauser.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Pfttt so much manipulation. I wonder where these people went to school reeserichardson.blog/2026/08/25/a...
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At least 15 companies are selling antibodies using faked validation data
Popular vendors’ catalogs feature more than 18,000 manipulated images
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The Onion @theonion.com · 21/08/2026
David Attenborough Admits To Exaggerating Wonder Of Seals theonion.com/david-attenborough-adm…
David Attenborough Admits To Exaggerating Wonder Of Seals
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Biochemical Society @biochemsoc.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Save £100 by 24 August! Engineering Recombinant Proteins takes place 24–25 November in Reading. Learn how to optimise protein design, expression, purification and characterisation, with hands-on insights from experts. ow.ly/XpUu50ZAjSQ
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Sergey Ovchinnikov @sokrypton.org · 15/08/2026
getting close to recreating Jane Richardson's style 😎
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Biochemical Society @biochemsoc.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Looking to share exciting new findings quickly and concisely? The Brief Report article type at Bioscience Reports is designed for researchers who want to communicate novel insights without the length of a full Original Research paper. ow.ly/TNuB50ZzM9p
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Jørgen Heszlein @heszlein.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe) @pdbeurope.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
🤖 Want to use AI and LLMs to unlock molecular dynamics data? Join #PDBe at #EMBLEBI and help build next-gen MD data integration across PDBe, UniProt, AlphaFoldDB and more. 🌎 Apply from anywhere 🔗 embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hin... #AI #StructuralBiology #Database
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Bioinformatician
About the team We are seeking a Bioinformatician with expertise in data integration and experience in structural biology and molecular dynamics (MD) data to join the Velankar team at the European Bioi...
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Wow. Just wow.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
A sea lion in Argentina climbed onto a fishing vessel, found a bed, and passed out. The fishermen only realized it when they heard loud snoring. Original post
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Structural Biology Communications @actacrystf.iucr.org · 30/07/2026
A new type of article for Acta F: Protocols The purpose of this new category is to provide to the reader procedures that are sufficiently detailed so other researchers can reproduce the described workflow. Find out more in 'Show me how it's done: introducing Protocols': doi.org/10.1107/S205...
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Structural Biology Communications @actacrystf.iucr.org · 29/07/2026
We're celebrating 20 years of Acta Crystallographica Section F!🎉🥳 Join us by contributing to our celebratory collection of articles, which is now open for submissions! Find out more at journals.iucr.org/special_issu...
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Daniel Rigden @danielrigden.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Well this really is an amazing opportunity. Until the end of September, you can apply to apply to join us as a new Executive Editor at NAR Nucleic Acids Research! academic.oup.com/nar/pages/ex...
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 19/07/2023
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
@dereklowe.bsky.social lets loose again (and I am still here for it). www.science.org/content/blog... 1/2
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The Assault On Science Funding Continues
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Justin Jest @justinjest.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
@fionatribe.bsky.social
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Hard to think of a more deeply damaging start to Burnham’s premiership than giving green light to new oil & gas in N. Sea, if true. It won’t lower bills or lead to greater energy security but will drive an even hotter planet. What a terrible signal to give to rest of the world #ClimateVandalism
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BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) on X
Andy Burnham will announce plans for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea when he becomes prime minister on Monday, the BBC has been told. The announcement will form part of a flurry of policy m...
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EMDB @emdatabank.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Job alert: Biology is amazing (EMD-70204). As a biocurator, you get a front-row seat to the structures being deposited in the world’s structural biology databases. Come join the EMDB and OneDep biocuration team. We’re hiring a biocurator. Apply by 2nd Aug: tinyurl.com/47t93kxp
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Daniel Rigden @danielrigden.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I first tried to make sense of this as a big Cryo-EM complex - it seems to have a membrane layer and everything!
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Daniel Rigden @danielrigden.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
These are fabulous
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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
It's exhausting.
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BF Francis Ouellette @bffo.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
From the @narjournal.bsky.social #NARWebServerIssue | The 24th annual Nucleic Acids Research Web Server Issue (2026)—and a novel concept for the future | #Bioinformatics #Webserver #OpenScience #Education | 🧬🖥️🧪🔓 ⬇️ academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
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The 24th annual Nucleic Acids Research Web Server Issue (2026)—and a novel concept for the future
This is the 24th special issue for Web Servers. It is rather “thinner” than the last, featuring 47 web servers, for likely reasons that I will discuss late
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Navy Man (descendant of ANTIFA since the revolution) @navymanhy.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Brilliant. How real trolling is done.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23
Telegraph headiline:

"Heatwave hysterics wouldn't have lasted a day in 1976", overlaid with a bold “MONK DEBUNKED” stamp.
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Horizon to horizon, nothing but mistakes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ @pewtergod.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
For anyone (is there still anyone?) who doubts that the President is mentally incompetent, please watch.
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 23/06/2026
Exactly 10 years since the Brexit vote, the verdict is in.
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Shabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Pierre Dumont (French, 1884–1936). Rouen Cathedral (1912, oil on canvas).
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
That’s the problem with recognising climate change is a scientific reality and then trying to ensure the only biosphere in the known universe remains habitable, it’s just such a downer.
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
If the bloke wielding a knife and attacking passersby was a Muslim all today's rolling news and political programmes would be coming live from the streets of Edinburgh and Farage's ugly mush would be on every show.
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American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology @asbmb.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
@rolanddunbrack.bsky.social is a computational biologist whose work has advanced structural biology through widely used tools for modeling protein structure. He is an advocate for LGBTQIA+ visibility in science, working to build community through networking opportunities. 🌈 ow.ly/ECX250ZaInj #Pride
A 2026 Pride Month graphic honoring Roland Dunbrack, a professor at Fox Chase Cancer Center and computational biologist whose research has advanced structural biology. His work is described in blue text alongside a professional headshot of him. The background features rainbow flags representing LGBTQ+ communities.
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Bill Dynan - NAR Cancer Editor @nar-cancer-editor.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
NAR Cancer 2025 impact factor rises to 4.6; other metrics at journal home page. Appreciate our authors, reviewers, editors. Encourage submissions at intersection of cancer and nucleic acids fields–full info and details of forthcoming "Seeds of Cancer" collection at academic.oup.com/narcancer/pa...
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Call for Papers
NAR Cancer is a peer-edited, not-for-profit, Open Access journal published by Oxford University Press. In seven years, it has established a reputation for high-
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Daniel Rigden @danielrigden.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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UK could keep special pre-Brexit terms if it rejoined EU, Michel Barnier says
Exclusive: Former chief Brexit negotiator says staying out of euro and Schengen area would be ‘perfectly possible’
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Edward Luce in the Financial Times about Musk:
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Daniel Rigden @danielrigden.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
“I don’t think in my career there has been a time when the rank and file academics are so far from the government,” says O’Hara.”The government has piled on costs when we already have no money. They just feel completely abandoned by the government" Precisely: not even warm words, just uninterest
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
My goodness, Ed Luce is furious giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Michael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
🔥A beautiful Bird of Paradise interrupts David Attenborough🔥
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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes: 🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting 🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)
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