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Emil Gustavsson

@emilgustavsson.bsky.social
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Staff #scientist in the Landau group (landau-lab.de) at CSSB/DESY, structural biologist studying functional #amyloids using #cryoEM. Climbing in my spare time. 🇸🇪 in 🇩🇪

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Emil Gustavsson @emilgustavsson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you're into rock climbing and have nothing to do, Jakob Schubert is live-streaming his attempts at climbing DNA, a 9c route (currently the hardest grade in the world) 🧗‍♂️ youtube.com/live/39U5id1...
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DNA (9c) - Second LIVE Attempt
YouTube video by Jakob Schubert
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Basil Greber @bjgreber.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Those who had a careful look at the methods section of our work on the #cryoEM structure of the CDK11-cyclin L-SAP30BP complex will have noticed that we added a short peptide to our sample before freezing. If you wonder why...
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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology @mrclmb.ac.uk · 30/09/2026
How does neurodegeneration spread across the brain? 🧠 @sjorsscheres.bsky.social, Michel Goedert & Masata Hasegawa’s groups have demonstrated that human misfolded tau filaments act as a molecular template for prion-like propagation in the mouse brain. mrclmb.ac.uk/news-events/... #LMBResearch 🧪
Alzheimer's and corticobasal degeneration tau filaments induce distinct pathologies in mouse brains, with corresponding cryo-EM images and structural models.
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Nikolai Slavov @slavov-n.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
bioRxiv has a dedicated section for negative results. Use it. Share negative results. Your colleagues will appreciate it.
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Mark your calendar! So excited to organize “Frozen Accidents” with art historian Sefy Hendler! Join us Nov 20th at Galerie Colbert (INHA), Paris. Hosted by HiCSA, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Please share widely, especially outside your field. Be there or be frozen!!! (see poster & thread for details)
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SPC Facility & Garcia-Alai Lab @spcembl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What brings clathrin adaptors, phase separation & membrane trafficking together? 🧬🔬 Our new paper in Communications Biology explores just that! Discover how clathrin adaptors drive LLPS during endocytosis—and what we found 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s42... @embl.org @cssbhamburg.bsky.social
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Clathrin adaptors drive phase separation in endocytosis and trafficking - Communications Biology
Communications Biology - Clathrin adaptors drive phase separation in endocytosis and trafficking
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Emil Gustavsson @emilgustavsson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
‘Hell on earth’: last residents eat weeds to survive in Russian-occupied Oleshky www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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‘Hell on earth’: last residents eat weeds to survive in Russian-occupied Oleshky
Ukrainian forces airdrop supplies to city where bodies are left to be eaten by dogs because of deadly risk from drones
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Alex Noble @alexjamesnoble.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We finally built what I've always wanted: A cryoEM papers database that is updated continually, searchable, and categorized! It's live right now at www.cryoarcana.com/cryoem-papers
CryoArcana CryoEM Papers Feed
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social
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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day
Take five minutes to not destroy civilization
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Centre for Structural Systems Biology CSSB @cssbhamburg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What role do membrane contact sites play in bacterial pathogenesis and infection? To explore this question, 24 PIs from across Germany, representing two scientific communities - lipid biology and infection biology - came together at CSSB. More info:https://t1p.de/xe7u0 @carobarisch.bsky.social
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Ben Engel @cellarchlab.com · 24/09/2026
Insane in the #MemBrain 🤖🧠 #TeamTomo 🧪
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 22/09/2026
MemBrain v2: streamlined analysis of membranes in cryo-ET with tools for membrane segmentation, protein localization and spatial analysis. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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MemBrain v2: an end-to-end tool for the analysis of membranes in cryo-electron tomography - Nature Methods
MemBrain v2 enables streamlined analysis of membranes in cryo-electron tomography by providing user-friendly tools for membrane segmentation, membrane protein localization and spatial analysis, suppor...
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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I think I'm going to lose it being lectured on microscopy image presentation integrity by the winner of the Small Artificial World in Motion competition
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Sven T. Stripp @stripplab.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Fantastic thread
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Sjors Scheres @sjorsscheres.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A lot has happened in amyloid structural biology since 2015...
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paveltomancak.bsky.social @paveltomancak.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
21627 applications. Nothing to celebrate here. Impossible to evaluate fairly & safely. Neither the science (too diverse & possibly LLM generated) nor the soft criteria (likely LLM generated). Without an interview stage - a security risk! marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/whats-new/ne...
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MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026 receives record number of applications
The 2026 call has attracted considerable interest from the research community with 21,627 applications submitted.
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James "likely unlawful" Dominguez @jamesjdominguez.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I can't believe people aren't vaccinating their dogs because they think they'll get autism. That's so silly. Everyone knows that dogs have ADHD. It's the cats who are autistic.
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Sjors Scheres @sjorsscheres.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Michel 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...
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Postdoctoral Scientist | Neurobiology | Dr Michel Goedert | LMB 2842 - Cambridgeshire job with MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology | 12864505
Postdoctoral 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...
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Leibniz-Institut für Virologie (LIV) @leibnizliv.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🏆 Congratulations, Luca Genz! 🎉 We are delighted to congratulate Luca Genz, PhD student in the LIV’s Integrative Virology group, on receiving this year’s LIV Best Author Award! The award recognises an early-career researcher for an outstanding scientific publication.🧬🔬 Well done Luca!
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eLife @elife.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
RNA selectively modulates activity of virulent amyloid PSMα3 and host-defense LL-37 via phase separation and aggregation dynamics
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RNA selectively modulates activity of virulent amyloid PSMα3 and host-defense LL-37 via phase separation and aggregation dynamics
RNA differentially regulates the assembly pathways of bacterial and host α-helical peptides, revealing supramolecular architecture as a tunable determinant of cytotoxic and antimicrobial function.
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paveltomancak.bsky.social @paveltomancak.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is incredible. Hat off to Dale Sanders! pbs.org/newshour/nat...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I 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).
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.
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Emil Gustavsson @emilgustavsson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thank you to the organizers for a fantastic Protein Aggregation Meeting! Looking forward to coming back again in two years! #amyloids 🧬🧶🧪
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Emil Gustavsson @emilgustavsson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Attending the 2026 Leuven Protein Aggregation Meeting. Excellent conference if you're into #amyloids. 🧬🧶🧪
Abstract booklet for the 2026 Leuven Protein Aggregation Meeting
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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel
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Lars Wilderäng @larswilderang.cornucopia.se · 08/09/2026
Now do Chat Control.
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 07/09/2026
We haven’t just changed our weather. We’ve changed the climate in which our weather happens. climatelabbook.substack.com/p/learning-f...
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Learning from the summers of 1976 and 2026
We have changed the climate in which our weather happens
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Thelonevirologist @thelonevirologist.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Bunsen burners’ reputation for sterilizing workplaces flames out www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Bunsen burners’ reputation for sterilizing workplaces flames out
Study shows that the venerable device does not waft bacteria away from workbenches, as is often assumed.
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Pol Solé Navais @polsolenavais.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
📣📣📣 The University of Gothenburg (Sweden) is recruiting 25 (yes, 25!) Assistant Professors in a wide range of disciplines (from arts to education to geology to maths), two of these at our Faculty. Happy to talk to anyone interested in knowing more about Sweden, Gothenburg or GU!
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Gothenburg Global Scholars Initiative
The University of Gothenburg is launching the Global Scholars Initiative – a coordinated international recruitment effort comprising 25 research positions across a broad range of disciplines and facul...
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 05/09/2026
We are so up for this! What do you say @nobelprize.org? Also - tune in next week when we go through this year’s Ig Nobel Prize nominees and winners. Boy are there some weird entries this year.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.
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Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.
From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...
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Academic Chatter @academic-chatter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Researchers: help us build a map of the research toolbox. 🧰 What tools do you rely on for your research? Software, databases, websites, AI, equipment. Anything that forms part of your workflow (if you're comfortable sharing of course). Please reply and share widely!
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Emil Gustavsson @emilgustavsson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Oh my God, I can't believe I've spent the last 6 years completely oblivious to this glorious thread. A fantastic Friday afternoon read!
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Centre for Structural Systems Biology CSSB @cssbhamburg.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Researchers from CSSB's Kolbe group (@uni-hamburg.de, @helmholtzhzi.bsky.social), along with collaborators from Research Center Jülich, EMBL Hamburg, DESY and BIOTECH Thailand have uncovered novel virulence mechansims of phospholipase C from P. aeruginosa. More info: t1p.de/sbjpq
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MPI for Multidisciplinary Sciences @mpi-nat.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Every electron counts⚛️! Researchers have determined the structure of the protein rubredoxin at an unprecedented 0.43 Ångström resolution. The method could now allow routine quantum crystallography of biological macromolecules. 👇More about this major advancement: www.mpinat.mpg.de/5314392/rn_2...
The image shows a valence electron deformation map of archaeal rubredoxin at 0.43 Ångström resolution: Refinement of the archaeal rubredoxin structure with the DiSCaMB transferable aspherical atom model (TAAM) library connected to BUSTER directly reveals quantum mechanical phenomena. The rubredoxin protein model (sticks) is surrounded by the electron density map (blue to red: low to high density). This valence electron deformation map derived from model refinement reveals electrons in the midpoint of chemical bonds and (valence) electron lone pairs.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
In May it was big news when 100+ suspicious images were found in Thermo Fisher's catalog. Now, that number has expanded dramatically to 18,000+, thanks to some arduous searching by @reeserichardson.bsky.social. My reporting on the massive trove and its implications for antibody reliability:
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More than 18,000 questionable images found in antibody catalogues of 15 companies
Science sleuth’s findings raise questions for researchers working to improve the reliability of commercial antibodies.
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Weizmann Institute of Science @weizmann.ac.il · 31/08/2026
We, the Weizmann Institute of Science community, deeply mourn the passing of Prof. Ada Yonath - Nobel Laureate and a Model of Scientific Perseverance. May her memory be a blessing. bit.ly/ada-yonath-eng
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Guillaume Thibault @gthibault.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
We didn't just trust these antibodies. We validated them, and too many still failed. Scientists lost time and money because of this. Every scientist working with antibodies should be outraged. Who is organizing a class action?
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Dave Baltrus 🦦 @surtlab.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I went in reading this upset at the take, after reading I’m now enraged at the take. Unions exist to help everyone within the union…from those that absolutely need help to those that don’t. That’s the point, collective action helps everyone.
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Academic Chatter @academic-chatter.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Postdocs: if you have the opportunity to unionise, do it. Don't let arguments about “mentorship” convince you that unionisation is incompatible with having a productive relationship with your PI. You are workers. You deserve a voice in your working conditions.
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Centre for Structural Systems Biology CSSB @cssbhamburg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The NordInfect Symposium is in full swing at CSSB! The symposium brings together the bacteriology community from Northern Germany for a one-day event highlighting a broad range of cutting-edge research. NordInfect website: nordinfect.cssb-hamburg.de @carobarisch.bsky.social @itzenlab.bsky.social
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NosferaPru @prufrockluvsong.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Put the flags at half mast immediately
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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A massive update: At least ~15 companies~ are selling scientists antibodies using faked validation data. We've documented 18,000+ manipulated images on 17,000+ products sold by leading laboratory suppliers including Thermo Fisher, Abcam, Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Millipore Sigma and Bio-Techne. 1/🧵
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
We just sold out this one, but let us know where we should set up the next ‘train the trainer’ event for teaching the creative scientific process! night-science.org/train-the-tr...
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Juha Videman @juhavideman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Om det hade varit 50 000 rasister som demonstrerat mot invandring hade medierna sänt live hela dagen och Agenda hade bjudit in alla partiledarna för att diskutera hur mycket invandring tål Sverige.
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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Wetlands ftw
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Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show
National Trust’s Holnicote estate says restored wetlands and rivers offer proof of resilience to drought, wildfires and flooding
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Tobias Warnecke @tobiaswarnecke.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Who needs chromatin anyway...? NOT THIS GUY! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/n
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Chromatin is dispensable for bacterial life
Inside cells, DNA is intimately associated with proteins, forming chromatin. The protein constituents of chromatin vary across the tree of life: histones are the principal building blocks of chromatin...
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Lars-Anders Carlson @lacarlson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Open PI position in infection biology at Umeå University, deadline 15 September. MIMS is the Swedish node of the Nordic EMBL partnership and offers "EMBL-style" group leader positions. Great resources and infrastructure in a friendly environment. www.umu.se/en/mims/ 1/2
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MIMS
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Leah @hoxinsocks.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This paper is incredible!, but also,
Gottmik wearing a headpiece that reminds me overwhelmingly of figures D and E in the quoted post. (Yes, I know Latrice Royale wore a similar look years earlier, but this one looks way more like the figure.)
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