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John F Wu @jwuphysics.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Probably the most important youtube video of the year, seriously worth a watch no matter your stance on AI m.youtube.com/watch?v=87Dy...

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Black Hat USA 2026: The 'Breaking' News: The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident

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Teresa O'Meara @teresaomeara.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Bacteriology-Focused Assistant Professor Position in Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Michigan Application deadline: August 15, 2026 Come be my colleague!

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Henry McSorley @henrymcsorley.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

So sad to hear about Sam Neill - he was a real one. Great advice here, especially for those of us in precarious career positions.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

For #MosaicMonday this fantastic photo of a mosaic (and a lovely fish 🐟) that was discovered in the submerged ruins of #Roman Baiae. 📷 Parco Archeologico Campi Flegrei

The photo was taken underwater. It shows a partially uncovered mosaic on the ground of the sea and a fish swimming above it

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Roland Dunbrack 🏳️‍🌈 @rolanddunbrack.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I gave a workshop on AlphaFold & related programs @ the University of Utah. Part 1 covers protein structure prediction before/after AlphaFold & deep learning neural networks. Part 2 covers the math behind the scores. Part 3 covers PyMOL & the webservers. youtube.com/@rolanddunbr...

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Carter Lab @carter-lab.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Our story on RNA recognition by Egl-BicD is now published! Also delighted to share the accompanying News & Views article by Florence Besse and Andres Ramos, which beautifully highlights the work. Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... News & Views: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Structural basis for recognition of diverse localizing mRNAs by Egl–BicD - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology

Singh et al. combine cryo-electron microscopy and functional studies to reveal how a single protein complex selects diverse mRNAs for subcellular localization using a combination of shape, positional ...

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Generational tweet that might even spawn a school of architecture.

Cairo Smith:
There's a common misconception that Brutalist buildings were unpainted, but thanks to microscopic analysis of the exteriors we can now recreate what they looked like in their prime.

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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 05/04/2026

Happy Easter! Please enjoy this video my sister sent me of a family of bears on the slope yesterday at Sugarbush resort.

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Among the atrocities and contradictions, SBE is the NSF directorate that funds the brain and mind research relevant to NSF’s new AI-focused priorities. Make it make sense appears to be expecting too much (sigh).

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Dev Majumdar @devdoot.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Jay-Z on Kendrick/Drake made my day. www.gq.com/story/jay-z-...

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Tcellogic (Sue Kaech) @tcellogic.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

@aai.org is working to protect you from preventable diseases…AAI contributed to the brief that helped the court in this ruling: Judge Strikes Down Kennedy’s Vaccine Policies www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/h...

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Judge Strikes Down Kennedy’s Vaccine Policies

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WCAX-TV @wcax.com · 15/03/2026

🎥 Bruce Leavitt, "Friday Night I saw a beautiful bobcat in my South Burlington backyard"

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RNA Therapeutics Institute @rti-umasschan.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

If you haven't gotten your #RNA lover that special gift for Valentine's yet, we have just the thing! Registration to our 8th annual symposium, RNA Therapeutics: From Concept to Clinic, June 24-26, 2026 @UMassChan.bsky.social! 'U' deserve it! #RNATx2025 🔬📷: @cansucolpan5 #RNAValentine buff.ly/vi22rN6

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Dev Majumdar @devdoot.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

We need better structures to protect our own tribe.

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Dev Majumdar @devdoot.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Feeling real shade for my Japanese multipen collection (0.3mm coletos to the grave). Always looking for new recommendations!

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Kristy Ainslie's Lab @kristy-ainslie-lab.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Running an academic research lab is hard. I’ve learned that what matters most isn’t perfection, but clear expectations, consistent communication & shared responsibility. My lab certainly isn’t flawless, but here are some thoughts on organizing a lab. go.unc.edu/SStManagement

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Practical Systems That Keep My Academic Lab Running

Lessons learned from building a collaborative, accountable lab

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

To be clear, @aaas.org is saying “things are not bad at all” in science on the same day this op-ed was published by former NIH-ers is on the nose. Just a complete disconnection from reality on AAAS’ part. I hope members will hold them accountable. www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/n...

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The NIH has lost its scientific integrity. So we left

“We can no longer lend our credibility to an organization that has lost its integrity,” write four scientists and administrators who recently resigned from the NIH.

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RNA Society @rnasociety.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

@rnasociety.bsky.social's RNA for All Initiative is here! Members: Apply for up to $1,500 for projects to boost RNA education & outreach (no salaries/overheads). Ideas: Awareness, youth engagement, accessibility & more! Details/Apply: rnasociety.org/diversity Deadline: Jan 7, 2026 #RNAforAll

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DEI resource

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Dev Majumdar @devdoot.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

I got postdoc money from the Sacklers. So no sticks or stones from me, but science is rightfully getting a new wave of incoming re:Epstein. A good time for some much needed self-assessment about "where is the line?" Easy win: Avoid donors your staff calls Voldemort.

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Debraj Ghose @debrajghose.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

3/5 To identify the biological 'control knobs' of immune tissue, we utilized CD40L-induced B cell aggregates as a model system. We demonstrated that these structures function as liquid droplets, terming them B-Lymphocyte Organized Multicellular Blobs (BLOMBs). youtu.be/QAk2ayoVF0M

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Dev Majumdar @devdoot.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Having recently found that increasing the default font size on my phone was a dramatic quality of life improvement, placing an open call for recommendations like this for people who might be in denial of their aging husks. (Chatgpt didn't miss a beat).

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Dev Majumdar @devdoot.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

KOSMOS, this week's buzzy AI scientist, posits that a coding mutation in a well-studied diabetes-related protein is functioning instead by mutated/cryptic exonic TFBS. Plausible, and totally fine to hypothesize; and word salad for an AI preprint is fine too. But horizon farther away than I thought.

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Dev Majumdar @devdoot.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Quite possibly the best thing you'll read all month.

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Dev Majumdar @devdoot.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

"…Every time you flush the toilet, you may very well be feeding engineered reactor ecosystems that inspired discovery of the domain Archaea and cultivation of syntrophic archaea closely related to our ancestors".

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Mara Duncan @mcduncanlab.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Random grant writing tip. I generally use 'drawing canvas' to insert figures. This keeps the legends and everything together. But there is one problem, text boxes inside the drawing canvas cannot cross the edge and text boxes are always bigger than the text.

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Prof. Shane Crotty @profshanecrotty.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

In our latest vaccine immunology study we tested whether it is possible to simultaneously prime multiple classes of broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) against HIV using a combination of germline-targeting (GT) immunogens. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @scienceimmuno.bsky.social @lji.org

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Simultaneous induction of multiple classes of broadly neutralizing antibody precursors by combination germline-targeting immunization in nonhuman primates

Simultaneous immunization with three germline-targeting immunogens primes multiple bnAb lineages in NHPs, advancing multiepitope HIV vaccine strategies.

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jjacobsenlab.bsky.social @jjacobsenlab.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

We are recuiting a postdoc to join us at The University of Oslo. The candidate will investigate how T cells in the Germinal Center shape B cell and antibody quality. The projects include intravital 2-photon microscopy! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 10/10/2025

Lost Science is a new NYT series of accounts from scientists who have lost their jobs or funding. You can send your story to the Times here www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Different results in different labs looking at activation of heterotrimeric G proteins. Was traced to use of dispo. plastic tubes v. reusable glass tubes (Fl) washed with Alconox detergent (Al). This led to groundbreaking biochemical and structural studies, such as pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7969474/

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Prakash Lab at Stanford @prakashlab.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

For last 10 years - we have worked with thousands of organizations around the world helping support them in integrating foldscope programs. To bring in a new cohort of organizations - we are re-launching “fast and curious” 2025 edition - apply and get a Foldscope trainer and Foldscopes for free!

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Legend David Baltimore died yesterday. He understood the way things should work: "the real contribution of MIT is that it doesn't take itself too seriously. It takes ideas seriously, but the people are relatively informal. They are not self-aggrandizing the way academics can be."

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Dev Majumdar @devdoot.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Otoh, srbc gcs are the best gcs.

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RNA Canada @rnacanada.ca · 25/08/2025

RNA Canada ARN is thrilled to share two RNA-themed escape games, created in collaboration with students at the University of Toronto at Scarborough, as part of their coursework with Dr. Aarthi Ashok! www.rnacanada.ca/rna-canada-a...

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RNA Canada ARN Online Escape Games! - RNA Canada ARN

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Eric Van Nostrand Lab @ BCM @evannostrandlab.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

We’ve got a good mix of exciting talks on various aspects of how RNA biology both influences and is controlled by tumorigenesis, and we’d love to have more folks join our effort to continue cross-pollinating these exciting fields! Abstract deadline is Aug 25th

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David Bass @davidb256.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

fascinated by this plot for listing permutations (namely, the orders in which four introns can be spliced from a given RNA transcript) and denoting their frequencies with line thickness and shade. It avoids needing to enumerate all 4! permutations. from Choquet et al. 2023 (Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol.)

Panel of figure 2 of Choquet et al. 2023 "Pre-mRNA splicing order is predetermined and maintains splicing fidelity across multi-intronic transcripts" (Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol.) that uses zig-zagging lines of different thicknesses and (gray) colors to show frequencies of permutations of splicing order of four introns in a representative transcript.

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Ruben Gonzalez @rubenlgonzalez.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

New from our lab in @narjournal.bsky.social: We dissect the folding dynamics of a fundamental element of RNA secondary structure—a stem-loop—at single-molecule and microsecond resolution. doi.org/10.1093/nar/... 1/5

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Hiten Madhani @hitenmadhani.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH SAVE LIVES: Last Thursday night, I was talking on the phone with my 87-year-old mother, and she had a SEIZURE WHILE ON THE PHONE! Rushed to the ER, had stroke symptoms that were reversed by a dose of the latest version of tissue plasminogen activator (clot-dissolving drug). 1/2

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Roby Bhattacharyya @roby-b.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Wadsworth is awesome - if this describes you, strongly consider applying

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Dev Majumdar @devdoot.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

If we are all just NPCs living in the world of billionaires, the glass half full view is that one of them truly values basic science. Howard Hughes couldn't tell you about CD47. Good interview. @ashleevance.bsky.social

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Priscilla Chan's Multi-Billion Dollar Quest to End Disease

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