Anton Goloborodko @golobor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026A corporation that believes that AI is conscious AND is powerful enough to destroy human civilization AND pushes full steam ahead with its development would've fit great into the Fallout universe 110
Reposted by Anton GoloborodkoVictor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Wait, what??? I think a lot of nerds in Russia are familiar with Eskov's book, but I always thought that a) nobody outside of Ru knows it b) Eskov writing was a bit tongue in chick, "look guys how clever I am" (compared to the "Black Book of Arda" which is more "serious" in tone 232
Reposted by Anton GoloborodkoRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/10/2026Ground Effect xkcd.com/3305/ 263626328
Anton Goloborodko @golobor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026...yet another illustration why explicit, thoughtful modeling is still worth the time, as compared to using heuristics #methodsmatter 051
Reposted by Anton GoloborodkoNina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Fishing some 5,300 years ago: a Neolithic fishhook made of a wild boar tusk, wrapped with a fishing line. The size of the fishhook is 6.5 cm. It was used to catch pikes. Found in the lake-dwelling settlement of Arbon Bleiche 3, Switzerland. On display at Archäologisches Museum Frauenfeld 📷me 🏺 329361
Reposted by Anton GoloborodkoMarkus Sulzbacher @msulzbacher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Die Stadt Wien ist Opfer einer Cyberattacke geworden. Unbekannte verschafften sich Zugriff auf die EDV und stahlen rund 26.000 interne Dokumente. Darunter befinden sich Daten von 6.000 Personen. Hinweise, dass sie veröffentlicht wurden, gibt es nicht. wien.orf.at/stories/3373...wien.orf.atCyberangriff auf Stadt WienDie Stadt Wien ist Opfer einer Cyberattacke geworden. Unbekannte verschafften sich Zugriff auf die EDV und stahlen rund 26.000 interne Dokumente. Darunter befinden sich Daten von 6.000 Personen. Hinw... 14118
Reposted by Anton GoloborodkoMark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026For the last 34 years I have been on the faculty of the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Biology and have never regretted that decision. This year we are hiring TWO new Assistant Professors in the broad area of Molecular, Cell, Developmental Biology 1/n bio.unc.edu 3150141
Reposted by Anton GoloborodkoInstitute of Molecular Biotechnology @imbavienna.bsky.social · 12/08/2026We are hiring! Join the de Groot Lab as a Master's Student / Research Intern in Computational Biology and Theoretical Modeling to develop a Bayesian method for comparing single-cell datasets by explicitly modeling measurement noise to bring out true biological variability. 013
Reposted by Anton GoloborodkoAdam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Privatize the gains and socialize the apocalypse. 329855
Reposted by Anton GoloborodkoMaya Voichek @mayavoichek.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Super excited to share my postdoctoral work at @imbavienna.bsky.social @viennabiocenter.bsky.social - We discovered that some retrotransposons, or "jumping genes" 🧬, are able to spread from cell to cell via a new viral infectivity route. A short thread: 🧵👇 (1/7) 20257148
Reposted by Anton GoloborodkoRichard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 21/09/2026It's also worth reading the postscript about Bsky. Some won't agree, but after fleeing the unpleasantness of what twitter became, this community should be concerned it's created an echo chamber in which any departure from a line is attacked (reasonable discussion =/ tolerating bigotry/misinfo). 4172
Reposted by Anton GoloborodkoJoshua G. Schraiber @jgschraiber.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This is definitely what people don't realize I think. Where AI is *right now* is way way way better than you think. It's way better than even the biggest proponents think. And it's clearly still getting better 042
Reposted by Anton GoloborodkoS.E. Danesti @seedanesti.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Interviewer: "Where do you see yourself in 5 years?" Me: 1002049434
Reposted by Anton GoloborodkoNezar Abdennur @nvictus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The 4DN Center for 3D Structure and Physics of the Genome proudly presents: "Stepwise reorganization of chromosome conformation and nuclear organization during stem cell differentiation". www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 14419
Reposted by Anton GoloborodkoAurele Piazza @aurelepiazza.bsky.social · 18/09/2026What molecular mechanisms underlie the needle-in-a-haystack search for homology required to fix a DNA break? In this preprint, we reveal multiple controls of homology search in cells: onset, coordination, reach and inactivation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 25119
Anton Goloborodko @golobor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026With all the chatter on unintended AI misalignment, I worry much more about intended misalignment, namely, in military and law enforcement. 1/ 170
Reposted by Anton Goloborodkoconputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 02/08/2026exactly, “gen AI” just means “bad AI” in order to avoid the charge of being against *all* AI. I am also against bad AI. by defintion, everyone is against bad AI! 3366
Reposted by Anton GoloborodkosephirAmy @sephiramy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026how about some good news: new cat just dropped!!!! 5254261968
Reposted by Anton GoloborodkoLopes_Lab @lopeslab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Thrilled to share a new important study from the lab, published today in @nature.com, showing how cohesin mediates efficient replication fork plasticity and stress response, using its loop extrusion activity to promote 3D contacts on replicating DNA: www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comCohesin reshapes replication fork contacts to aid fork slowing and reversal - NatureCohesin-mediated loop extrusion limits sister-fork coupling and tethers nearby replication forks under replication stress, promoting fork reversal and slowing fork progression to safeguard genome... 46935
Reposted by Anton GoloborodkoSergey Ovchinnikov @sokrypton.org · 17/09/2026Introducing highly experimental localfold.org Building on @martinsteinegger.bsky.social af2 webgpu port, @milot.bsky.social optimizations & jax ports of af3-like models by @marielle.bsky.social, Choonghwan Lee, Julia Buhmann. WARNING: runs directly on your 💻, may drain 🪫 & eat data📱 & overheat 🔥💻 26826
Reposted by Anton GoloborodkoJens Schmidt @jenscs83.bsky.social · 15/09/2026We are recruiting a postdoctoral fellow to study DNA damage repair via the homologous recombination pathway using quantitative cell biology approaches. The position will be initially supported for two years by the MSU Research Foundation Postdoctoral Scholars program. Please share! 1/5 11730
Reposted by Anton GoloborodkoIMP @impvienna.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Exciting news! We're thrilled to announce the six outstanding laureates of the International Birnstiel Award for Doctoral Studies in Molecular Life Sciences 2026! 🏆Congratulations to all awardees and honourable mentions! 🎉 1/ ➡️ www.imp.ac.at/news/article... 1204
Reposted by Anton GoloborodkoVijay Ramani @vram142.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Everything you wanted to know about single-molecule epigenomics but were too afraid to ask! Wonderful to co-write (h/t ENORMOUS lift by @arnaudkr.bsky.social) this primer on our nascent field. Also, a 💯 example of wonderful colleagues building something *together*, not in competition =)nature.comA practical guide to studying genome function using single-molecule genomicsNature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology - Single-molecule genomics methods are used to study the activity of regulatory factors on individual DNA molecules genome-wide, thereby enabling... 07526
Reposted by Anton GoloborodkoFena Ochs @fenaochs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026My lab at the Center for Gene Expression (CGEN), University of Copenhagen is looking for a motivated Postdoc interested in cohesin biology, 3D chromatin, and super-resolution microscopy. 📩 Please email your CV and letter of intent to fena.ochs(at)sund.ku.dk. 01822
Anton Goloborodko @golobor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026New preprint from our group (led solely by our student Vladimir Dmitriev): a valency-bounding correction (VBC) for coarse-grained MD. It lets you cap how many neighbours a particle can bind, without introducing explicit patches or fixed bond directions. arxiv.org/abs/2609.07842 1/arxiv.orgValency-bounding correction potential for coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulationsMany systems in soft and living matter bind through a limited number of bonds per particle: proteins associate via discrete surface patches, nucleic acids form one-to-one contacts, and the phase behav... 1104
Reposted by Anton GoloborodkoPim Huis in 't Veld @huis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Fresh preprint from the lab: CIP2A tetramerization is required for mitotic DNA repair. A fantastic collaboration with @marcelvanvugt.bsky.social. By @laurendehaan.bsky.social, @rebeccaschneeweiss.bsky.social, and colleagues from Groningen, Vienna, Leiden, and Amsterdam 🙌 doi.org/10.64898/202... 33513
Reposted by Anton GoloborodkoVienna BioCenter Scientific Training @vbcscitraining.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Five PhD programs. One extraordinary city. World's most livable. CeMM, ISTA, VBC, VDS-mes, Aithyra — molecular medicine to AI to microbial ecology. Vienna has a PhD for every curiosity. Symposium Sept 10 → doctoralinsights.at #DocInsights 031
Anton Goloborodko @golobor.bsky.social · 03/09/20261/ out in @science.org! We found a new asymmetry in large-scale chromosome structure: sister chromatids are shifted by hundreds of kb in the 5′→3′ direction of their inherited strands! A close collaboration w/ @gerlichlab.bsky.social , led by @flaviacorsi.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 215265
Reposted by Anton GoloborodkoInstitute of Molecular Biotechnology @imbavienna.bsky.social · 03/09/2026We often picture replicated chromosomes as perfectly symmetrical Xs. But scientists in the Goloborodko and Gerlich labs at IMBA have discovered that their two copies are consistently offset. The finding could reshape how we understand DNA repair and genome stability: bit.ly/4iLa7Yv 093
Reposted by Anton GoloborodkoDavid Brückner @davidbrueckner.bsky.social · 10/08/2026If you're looking for a PhD position, or know someone looking checkout our interdisciplinary PhD Fellowship program! We are always looking for talented students with a physics or computational background to join our group to work on the physics of living systems! 0810
Reposted by Anton GoloborodkoHaselbach Lab @haselbachlab.bsky.social · 01/09/2026We are hiring a new phd student. 003
Reposted by Anton GoloborodkoHaselbach Lab @haselbachlab.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Last call: registration for the 9th Austrian Cryo-EM (ACE) Symposium closes tomorrow, 1 September. 24-25 Sept at the IMP, Vienna BioCenter. Eight invited speakers, selected talks, poster session. events.vbc.ac.at/imp_events/c... #cryoEM #cryoETevents.vbc.ac.atCryo-EM Symposium 2026Register here for the Cryo-EM Symposium 2026, 24-25 September at the IMP, Campus-Vienna-Biocenter 1, 1030 Vienna.Please select the applicable registration fee and add it to the cart. Please click on t... 12214
Reposted by Anton GoloborodkoPeter Andersen @germline.bsky.social · 29/08/2026We watched piRNAs and transposons across development, saw them dance tightly and wrote a paper about it. It's so cool to see it online and we will make a thread about it all very soon. Stay tuned :-) 49443
Reposted by Anton GoloborodkoJob Dekker @jobdekker.bsky.social · 24/08/2026How do nuclear compartments form inside cell nuclei? We show RNA glues certain loci together to form a nuclear compartment. This involves special GC-rich regions of highly expressed genes that also associate with nuclear speckles, but interactions between these loci are independent of speckles! 19748
Reposted by Anton GoloborodkoCarlos Alfonso @carlosalfonsog.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Really fascinating talk today at #EMBLTranscript from Bienko lab! THE INTROSOMES! Today’s session recurring question: do regulatory functions emerge from the act of transcription, or from the RNA product itself? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...biorxiv.orgChromatin-associated intronic RNAs from long genes form introsomes that shape nuclear architecture in neuronal cellsCell differentiation towards neurons is accompanied by widespread changes in three-dimensional (3D) genome organization and gene expression. Chromatin-associated RNAs have been proposed to be importan... 0144
Reposted by Anton GoloborodkoShenzhi Chen @shenzhichen1999.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Excited to share our paper in @natgenet.nature.com on the de novo design of tissue-specific mammalian enhancers that function in vivo in mouse embryos. 🧬🐭 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 35826
Reposted by Anton GoloborodkoDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 24/08/2026Did I miss the open letters supporting academic freedom when professors were being fired for being insufficiently worshipful about Charlie Kirk? 739461
Reposted by Anton GoloborodkoBrian Stevenson Ph.D. spirochete lab @bstevensonlab.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Deadly tick-borne virus gains ground in Europe as climate warms | Science | AAAS Hyalomma marginatum ticks, the main vector for Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, have been spotted in 40 European countries. www.science.org/content/arti... #MicroSkyscience.orgDeadly tick-borne virus gains ground in Europe as climate warmsKosovo shows how surveillance can uncover hidden circulation—and help countries prepare before human cases appear 0145
Reposted by Anton GoloborodkoEvgeny Kvon @evgenykvon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026The newly established Department of Systems Biology (systems.bio.uci.edu) @UCIrvine is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Systems Biology. Great science, incredible faculty support, and beautiful, sunny SoCal weather! ☀️🌴 Details: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10377. Please share.recruit.ap.uci.edu 12936
Reposted by Anton GoloborodkoErik van Nimwegen @erikvannimwegen.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Remember this? bsky.app/profile/did:... Rigorous visualization of the structure in your high-dimensional data. Fantastic work by @dhdegroot.bsky.social With help of the reviewers of Nat Biotech it is now updated, extended an officially published here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/nnature.comBonsai reconstructs tree representations for distortion-free visualization and exploration of high-dimensional data - Nature BiotechnologyHigh-dimensional data are visualized through representation on tree structures. 110545
Reposted by Anton GoloborodkoCees Dekker @ceesdekker.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Come join our #CDlab! We have various open positions for PhD students or postdocs, see ceesdekkerlab.nl/come-join-us/ Particularly, I search a PhD student for protein sequencing with nanopores (keywords: nanopores, DNA origami, peptide/protein sequencing) Apply! RT=👍ceesdekkerlab.nlCome join us - Cees Dekker LabCees Dekker Lab 249
Reposted by Anton GoloborodkoMark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Are these the solidly scientific conclusions you're defending? bsky.app/profile/adam... 293
Reposted by Anton GoloborodkoJason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 01/08/2023I guess I should re-post from the Bird Site "The Rules For Academic Success here": I always get asked for advice about starting/surviving the tenure track. Here are the rules I've found useful. Thought I'd put it out there for the masses... This list gets longer all the time 516074
Reposted by Anton GoloborodkoChance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 4645491569
Reposted by Anton GoloborodkoDmitry Mylarshchikov @dmitrymyl.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Thrilled to share a huge piece of my PhD! 🎉 We show how replicated chromosomes maintain sister chromatid cohesion while still actively folding loops within nested TAD hierarchy. Read the full paper here: link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧬👇link.springer.comNested TAD hierarchy defines cohesion zones on replicated chromosomes - The EMBO JournalDuring each cell cycle, cells must not only duplicate the DNA sequence but also preserve the three-dimensional genome architecture required for gene regulation and DNA repair. After replication, this ... 1111
Reposted by Anton GoloborodkoGerlich Lab @gerlichlab.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Huge congratulations to co-first authors Zsuzsanna Takacs and Dmitry Mylarshchikov @dmitrymyl.bsky.social, and to Sofia Kolesnikova, Christoph Langer @cchlanger.bsky.social, Anton Goloborodko @golobor.bsky.social, and Daniel Gerlich @danielgerlich.bsky.social on the paper! 🎉👏 2/2 031
Reposted by Anton GoloborodkoGerlich Lab @gerlichlab.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Our paper is out in The EMBO Journal @embojournal.org! 🎉 We show how replicated chromosomes can maintain sister chromatid cohesion while still allowing dynamic loop folding within nested hierarchy of TADs. Check it out below 👇 1/2 13210
Reposted by Anton GoloborodkoLaurenz Ennser-Jedenastik @laurenzennser.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Auch wenn man manchmal einen anderen Eindruck bekommen kann: Einstellungen zur Migration in Österreich sind im Großen und Ganzen stabil in den letzten 20 Jahren. 14017