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The Zen of True Art @thezenoftrueart.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Yayoi Kusama (1929-2026). (Tap images for full view.)

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

for sale: data center, never used

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Gabby Budziszewski @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Enlisted Cardi B to help me spread the good word -- crystallography ain't dead yet! #crystallography #proteins #structuralbiology

slide from a slideshow asking the question "is crystallography dead?"

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getacrystal @getacrystal.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Workshop instructors include: @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social Crissy Tarver Tiffany Wright @xtalmaker.bsky.social Grateful to NIH NIGMS support through R24GM141256! #crystallization #crystallography #datacollection #xray #research #workshop #structuralbiology

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

💎💎 Check out the Biomolecular Crystallization Workshop at the 27th Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography Congress in Calgary, Canada this summer 💎💎 Thrilled to be co-organizing the workshop with @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social #crystallization #crystallography

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getacrystal @getacrystal.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Is your New Year's resolution to unveil structural details for your biological macromolecule? Reserve a spot in our January protein crystallization run before Friday! Package Acceptance & Plate Setup: Tues Jan 12th – Thurs Jan 15th Tues Jan 20th – Thurs Jan 22nd

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Congratulations to @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social on being elected as a member of the @acastructuralsci.bsky.social Communications Committee! 🎙️ The ACA Communications Committee engages in #scicomm & #outreach for the structural science community. Gabby is going to do an amazing job!! Congrats!! 🎉

$Scientist with two thumbs up, at a beamline at a synchrotron, with a protein crystal diffraction image in the background.$

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getacrystal @getacrystal.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

🎉 So excited for the new instrumentation in the National Crystallization Center! We can't wait to set up new crystallization 💎 experiments with the new 🦟 🤖! 📷 @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social, Tiffany Wright & @mirandalynchphd.bsky.social - instrument in 📦. www.getacrystal.org @ubuffalo.bsky.social

Two scientists excited about new instrumentation (currently still in a crate).

A scientist in front of a crate with a new Mosquito instrument

A Mosquito instrument (what the new one will look like once it is set up).

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

@gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social Operations Manager in the @getacrystal.bsky.social & Research Scientist extraordinaire in my research group, is a candidate to join the Communications Committee for ACA @acastructuralsci.bsky.social!! 👩🏻‍🔬 🧪 🔬 💎 🎙️ Vote in ACA election by tomorrow 11/14!

Picture of Gabrielle Budziszewski, candidate for ACA Communications Committee

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Gabby Budziszewski @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Come work with us at the National Crystallization Center! Housed in the vibrant research community of UB-HWI, we are looking for new coworkers to help us expand our structural biology offerings 💎🔬

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Gabby Budziszewski @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Heyyyyy MEMBRANE protein people! We are running our (fairly rare) membrane screen in November, so get your reservations in! 🦠

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getacrystal @getacrystal.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Get a crystal this November with our high-throughput crystallization screening service! This month, we are running both SOLUBLE and MEMBRANE crystallization screens. 🔮 Details ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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Black In Biophysics @blackinbiophys.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

In our #BIBPSWeek 2025 #BIBPSSpotlight Q&A Webinar with Dr. Chrystal Starbird, we learned about her life, career, and STEM advocacy work. We also discussed the barriers that fellow #BlackInBiophysics scholars @jjalston.bsky.social & @stevenssostre.bsky.social faced when pursuing careers in science.👇🏾

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getacrystal @getacrystal.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Not being able to crystallize your biomolecule of interest? Now that's scary. 😱 Try our high-throughput screen! October 2025 Soluble (taking reservations) Reservation Deadline: Fri Oct 3rd Package Acceptance & Plate Setup: Tues Oct 7th – Thurs Oct 9th Tues Oct 14th – Thurs Oct 16th

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Gabby Budziszewski @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

interpreting electron density or foraging for mushrooms -- you decide. #structuralbiology #crystallography #mycology

an electron density map rendered in coot that looks like a histidine sitting on top of a mushroom

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Ray L. Allen, PhD @rayallen.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

I'm excited to share that my story is featured in this week's edition of Science Magazine! Being able to do my research with my Tribe and in my homelands has been so impactful and meaningful personally and for my career. And it's important for other young Indigenous researches to know it's possible!

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Take a minute to really absorb the scale of what you're seeing. This is 'Cueva de los Cristales', the Cave of the Crystals, near the city of Naica in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. The crystals are selenite, a type of gypsum. They formed over the last 1 million years. (📷: Javier Trueba, MSF)

A man stands in a cave filled with white crystals, many of them much taller and larger than he is. The scale is hard to even understand.

CREDIT: Javier Trueba

From the C&EN article I'm citing below:
"For millennia, conditions within the Cave of Crystals (290 m underground) were perfect for the growth of gypsum crystals, allowing them to grow to their massive size. Credit: Javier Trueba/MSF/Science Source"

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

There's also a primary paper on dating of the crystals that goes into some of the chemical processes involved and how they can be modeled here:

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Ultraslow growth rates of giant gypsum crystals | PNAS

Mineralogical processes taking place close to equilibrium, or with very slow kinetics, are difficult to quantify precisely. The determination of ul...

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I doubt that there is a single family in America that hasn’t benefitted directly from the NIH.

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IUCr2026 @iucr2026.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Giddy up to Calgary! Stop by our #IUCr2026 booth at #ACA2025 to gear up for the 2026 Conference to get some Calgary Stampede merch, plan your trip, meet other attendees and more!

ACA2025 attendees wearing cowboy hats in front of a billboard that says "See you in Calgary!"

ACA2025 attendee wearing cowboy hat in front of a billboard that says "See you in Calgary!"

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IUCr2026 @iucr2026.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Cal the Calgary Stampede horse is having a blast visiting the exhibitors at #ACA2025! Come visit the #IUCr2026 booth at #ACA2025 to find Cal and gear up for Calgary!

Cal the stampede horse inside a 3D printed model of the VIPP1 thylakoid membrane structural protein assembly

Cal the stampede horse next to a liquid handling robot and cocktail mixer

Cal the stampede horse next to some unipucks

Cal the stampede horse at the IUCr2026 booth along with some other great IUCr2026 merch

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Jon Agirre @glycojones.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

As the community gets ready for #ACA2025, we're proud to present this interview with @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social Vivian Stojanoff and @xtalmaker.bsky.social on how to prepare for successful protein crystallisation experiments! 🥳🥳 youtu.be/m34RI500OFU?...

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Preparing for successful protein crystallization experiments

YouTube video by International Union of Crystallography

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Here are some nice mushrooms

A decayed stick is held up in a hand and covered with dozens of tiny collared parachute mushrooms. Their white caps rise up on wiry black stems in a green forest. All photo by me

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Excited that our article made the cover of the July issue of @actacrystf.iucr.org! Congrats to my coauthors @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social & Vivian Stojanoff! Grateful for #NIH NIGMS R24 National Resource grant that enables workshops like the 2023 SAMPREP workshop @ @acastructuralsci.bsky.social

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Last week @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social and I had an amazing time running experiments at CXI at LCLS at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory on nanocrystal protein samples! Our protein nanocrystals looked like little stars 🌟 💎

CXI beamline at LCLS - the sample on an SOS chip is behind the window in the chamber

Our protein nanocrystals look like stars

Scientist showing the sheet on sheet chip after loading protein nanocrystals

$Nanocrystal diffraction at the CXI beamline!$

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Gabby Budziszewski @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

having some fun with nanocrystals at LCLS CXI beamline! safe to say I’m a little excited for my first shift on an XFEL🎇

Scientist using a humidity-controlled box to set up experiments

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Billy Domineau 🇵🇸 @billydomineau.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

To be clear for folks outside the US - when you see us tweeting jokes in the aftermath of unprovoked acts of war, it’s because we’ve lost all control of our federal government and are desperate for mechanisms to address the horrors we as civilians are indirectly responsible for. We are so, so sorry.

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Kresten Lindorff-Larsen @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Does crossing the pond affect crystal quality? No!

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Gabby Budziszewski @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I'm used to purifying colorless proteins, so it's a treat to have a metal-binding protein I can see IN my resin! #metalloprotein #biochemistry

FPLC system with a size exclusion column showing a red band

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getacrystal @getacrystal.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

@getacrystal.bsky.social & SSRL are out in force teaching at the New Opportunities for Structural Biology Research Workshop in TN this week! Thanks Jamaine Davis for making the workshop happen & the invite! Nice work @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social, Tiffany, Darya & Crissy! @ubuffalo.bsky.social

Scientist presenting about protein crystal growth

Two scientists with a presentation about structural biology

Scientist presenting about structural biology

Scientists before presenting at the structural biology workshop

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Colleen Parker, contemporary artist and illustrator #womensart

Painting of stylised pink poppies and seedheads on stems

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SmithLabUMBC @smithlabumbc.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

If you don't know @xtalmaker.bsky.social and their amazing facility at UBuffalo to help you achieve your crystallization goals, you should!

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Just in time for Pride month! Celebrating our recent publication in @actacrystf.iucr.org by highlighting our rainbow of protein crystals! 🏳️‍🌈💎 Great to work with @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social & Vivian Stojanof on this paper! doi.org/10.1107/S205... #crystallization #crystals #structuralbiology

Picture of twelve wells of protein crystallization - arranged in a rainbow pattern. With scale bars.

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Gabby Budziszewski @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

kicking off the New Opportunities for Structural Biology Research at the SSRL Synchrotron workshop at Belmont University! Big thanks to Jamaine Davis for making this workshop happen and inviting us! #structuralbiology #crystallography @blackinbiophys.bsky.social

SSRL beamline scientist Darya Marchany-Rivera presenting an overview of structural biology techniques

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IUCr2026 @iucr2026.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

"Art can be a gateway to science," says artist Thomas Blanchard in an interview with Nautilus. Watch the formation of striking landscapes of potassium phosphate crystals: nautil.us/the-visual...

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The Visual Language of Crystals

Chemistry becomes art in Thomas Blanchard’s timelapse video

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IUCr2026 @iucr2026.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Carpeted in white, spiky calcite crystals, festooned with cave pearls, the captivating Raspberry Rising cave system in Canada's Glacier National Park is a site of ongoing geological and microbial research. canadiangeographic.c...

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NPR @npr.org · 06/05/2025

Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.

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Most Americans use federal science information on a weekly basis, a new poll finds

Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.

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Emma Courtney @emmaccourtney.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

HEY SCIENTISTS!!! Looking for a way to get involved in advocating for science on a local level? ⬇️ We're asking scientists to publish an op-ed in their local newspaper on June 16th, the birthday of Nobel-prize winning scientist Barbara McClintock ☀️ See the link below for more details!

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

“Six percent of White males who serve on boards were fired, compared with half of Black and Hispanic females and a quarter of all females… The chairs’ analysis calculated the likelihood that this would have happened by chance as 1 in 300.”

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 16/04/2025

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

Headline: ICE came for their neighbor so these Tennesseans formed a human chain to protect him

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BAJA BLAST BLAINE @shrekromancer.gay · 14/04/2025

broke: summer beach body bespoke: summer bog body

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 04/04/2025

This article does a great job describing the lives of young American scientists: “You roll up your sleeves, try to make or discover something useful and then let the scientific community try to punch holes in your work to make sure that it’s sound”

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Soragni:Lab @alice.soragnilab.com · 30/03/2025

42. That is, 42 pages of terminated grants. taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Fun Friday night remote data collection at SSRL!! I am so lucky to work with this amazing group of people! ❤️ 💎 Tiffany Wright @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social @mirandalynchphd.bsky.social Chris Campomizzi Cole Masuga @mumstheword17.bsky.social

Scientists collecting spectroscopy data on a crystal

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

More than 1,200 scientists who responded to a Nature poll—three-quarters of the total respondents—are considering leaving the United States following the disruptions prompted by Trump. Europe and Canada were among the top choices for relocation."

nature.com

75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving

More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

👀 Look at this amazing tool you can use to estimate the economic impact of proposed cuts to research in your area at the state and county level. SCIMaP scienceimpacts.org #standupforscience

Erie county NY estimated to lose $61M due to cuts in research funding. Map from scienceimpact.org

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Important note about this breakthrough: Literally would not exist without the kind of Federal support the current administration is slashing. Took 15+ years of research at a federal lab (Lawrence Berkeley) to get this to a point at which private enterprise could take over and make these at scale.

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