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Michael Prattes @hexamergraphics.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🥳 Really had a blast being part of this year's #BenchToArtExhibition by @ccemmp-outreach.bsky.social Big thanks to the organisers and judges for this initiative 💪 Head to the website if you haven't explored the gallery yet: ccemmp.org/events/arc-c...

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Rasmus Jensen @rasmusjensen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🎉 Out today in Cell: the paper I've been looking forward to sharing for a long time 🎉 We used cryo-ET to find a molecular machine nobody knew existed on the surface of a minimal bacterium, and worked out what it does. 🧵(1/7) #TeamTomo #cryoET

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Andreas Kohler @akohler-mito.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

📢 We're recruiting! A 2-year postdoctoral fellowship is available in our lab at Umeå University! Please share with interested colleagues! 🔗 umustipendie.varbi.com/en/what:job/... 📅 Application deadline: 31 October 2026 #Postdoc #Mitochondria #Proteostasis #AcademicJobs #LifeScience

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LifeUnculturable @lifeunculturable.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In case you missed it ... we're back! In the latest episode of Life Unculturable, Julia and Sam chat about FMTs, butterflies, the mentality of a peer reviewer, and why 'happy' is better than 'perfect'. 🎧 Put down your surfboard and go give it a listen wherever you get your podcasts!

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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LifeUnculturable @lifeunculturable.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This Microbial Mission is easy: just interact with this post and the four other Zymo giveaway posts that came before it. That’s it! Go rack up those entries. And don’t forget: our MVP, the person who racks up the most total entries across the giveaway, also gets a FREE Life Unculturable shirt. 👀

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LifeUnculturable @lifeunculturable.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗜𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗙𝗜𝗡𝗔𝗟 𝗭𝗬𝗠𝗢 𝗚𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗔𝗪𝗔𝗬 𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗧! 🧬🎉 @pymig.bsky.social and @hexamergraphics.bsky.social would like to clarify that nobody was authorized to take any of this home. The giveaway closes September 17th, so this is your last chance to join the microbial madness.

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Joy Jeongyoon Choi @joyjoychoi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Excited to share our new preprint on in situ chromatin structure of the inactive X chromosome in differentiated female mouse embryonic stem cells. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵1/8

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LifeUnculturable @lifeunculturable.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🦠 𝗠𝗜𝗖𝗥𝗢𝗕𝗜𝗔𝗟 𝗠𝗜𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝟰: 𝗡𝗢𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗡𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗘𝗦! Invent the worst possible name for a microorganism. Bonus points for something that sounds scientifically legitimate.

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LifeUnculturable @lifeunculturable.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Also, if you’ve missed one of the first three giveaway posts … this is your sign to go hunting. 👀 The Zymo giveaway is open worldwide, and there’s still time to get your entries in before September 17th!

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LifeUnculturable @lifeunculturable.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗥𝗗 𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟 𝗚𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗔𝗪𝗔𝗬 𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗧! 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗧 will earn you entries: ❤️ 𝗟𝗶𝗸𝗲 = 2 entries 💬 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 = 4 entries 📤 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 = 4 entries Do all three? 𝟭𝟬 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀.

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LifeUnculturable @lifeunculturable.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

🎙️ 𝗭𝗘𝗥𝗢 𝗢𝗫𝗬𝗚𝗘𝗡. 𝗜𝗡𝗙𝗜𝗡𝗜𝗧𝗘 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗢𝗦. We’re 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝘀𝗼𝗼𝗻. Some VERY interesting guests stopping by the podcast chamber. 👀 @gilbertjacka.bsky.social Dave Westenberg Paul Lawson Joan Edwards … and more

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Razvan Borza @rborza.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

🤯 This is how much space an IDR can occupy. Often hard to picture until you see it. 🤔 Did you expect this? This is my favorite complex, Zincore. Using Cryo-EM, I could only resolve the folded core. Here, I modeled the IDRs with AlphaFold3 and visualized it in Blender using MolecularNodes.

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mareikejordan.bsky.social @mareikejordan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Check out our preprint on the structural mechanisms of how LEM2 and ESCRTs seal the nuclear envelope. Awesome collaboration with @karenpalacior.bsky.social who brought my structures to life 💃🔬❄️🌀 @hummerlab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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BBMRI-ERIC @bbmrieric.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

💡 Welcome back to our #ProjectThursday We collect the news from the biobanking world for you here in one article. Enjoy! 🤝 ❗️Article: buff.ly/f8kJdJB Today with: #CANDLE #canSERV @ericforum.bsky.social #EuCanImage #biobank.cy #GDI #RISCALE #PROPHET #PRIMTECH3R 👋 See you here next week! 💙🧡

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LifeUnculturable @lifeunculturable.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗧 will earn you entries: ❤️ 𝗟𝗶𝗸𝗲 = 2 entries 💬 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 = 4 entries 📤 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 = 4 entries Do all three? 𝟭𝟬 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀.

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LifeUnculturable @lifeunculturable.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Maybe it's a deep-sea explorer. 🌊 Maybe it's a cave-dweller. 🦇 Maybe it's a myxobacteriologist. 🧫 Maybe it's a completely sleep-deprived graduate student. ☕ 𝗧𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝘂𝘀 𝗪𝗛𝗢 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗔𝗻𝗼𝘅𝗮𝗹𝗼𝘁 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗯𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝗮 𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗼𝘄!

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LifeUnculturable @lifeunculturable.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

🦠 𝗠𝗜𝗖𝗥𝗢𝗕𝗜𝗔𝗟 𝗠𝗜𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝟯: 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗡𝗘𝗫𝗧 𝗔𝗡𝗢𝗫𝗔𝗟𝗢𝗧! Give them a personality. Give them a profession. Give them a questionable accessory. Give them whatever weird microbial characteristics you think they deserve. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗻𝗼𝘅𝗮𝗹𝗼𝘁 𝗳𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗯𝗲?

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LifeUnculturable @lifeunculturable.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

🎁 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗢𝗫 𝗛𝗔𝗦 𝗕𝗘𝗘𝗡 𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗡𝗘𝗗! 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗧 will earn you entries: ❤️ 𝗟𝗶𝗸𝗲 = 2 entries 💬 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 = 4 entries 📤 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 = 4 entries 🗓️ 𝗚𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗿𝘂𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟳 ... 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺 𝗗𝗮𝘆 🌎 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗲.

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LifeUnculturable @lifeunculturable.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

🦠 𝗠𝗜𝗖𝗥𝗢𝗕𝗜𝗔𝗟 𝗠𝗜𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝟮: 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗘𝗫𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚? You've just won the giveaway. You now have access to the DNA extraction kits. And you can collect one sample from anywhere in the world to extract DNA from. 𝗧𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝘂𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂'𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗪𝗛𝗬 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗼𝘄!

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LifeUnculturable @lifeunculturable.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Make your microbial dreams come true! Head to our first two giveaway posts, then like, share, and complete the microbial missions to rack up entries for a chance to win these goodies. Don't miss out!

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LifeUnculturable @lifeunculturable.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Remember that box of Zymo goodies we casually dropped on Tuesday? 👀 Go find the Tuesday post, 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝟭, and start stacking those giveaway entries. 🧬🎁 You know … 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗲𝗹𝘀𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗳𝗳. 😭

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LifeUnculturable @lifeunculturable.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

🦠 𝗠𝗜𝗖𝗥𝗢𝗕𝗜𝗔𝗟 𝗠𝗜𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝟭: 𝗔𝗦𝗦𝗘𝗠𝗕𝗟𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗠 𝗚𝗨𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗧 If you could summon 𝗔𝗡𝗬𝗢𝗡𝗘 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 to sit down with Samuel and Julia on Life Unculturable … 𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴? 👀

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LifeUnculturable @lifeunculturable.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Starting with 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗧, you can begin earning entries: ❤️ 𝗟𝗶𝗸𝗲 = 2 entries 💬 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 = 4 entries 📤 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 = 4 entries Do all three? 𝟭𝟬 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀.

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LifeUnculturable @lifeunculturable.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

🎁 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗢𝗫 𝗛𝗔𝗦 𝗔𝗥𝗥𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗗. 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗜𝗦 𝗪𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗚𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗔𝗪𝗔𝗬 𝗕𝗘𝗚𝗜𝗡𝗦. We’ve been talking about it. We’ve been teasing it. We’ve been wondering if Zymo actually meant it when they said they were sending us a giveaway ... 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝘁. 😂 And now it’s time for the 𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧 𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟 𝗚𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗔𝗪𝗔𝗬 𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗧!

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Michael Prattes @hexamergraphics.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

🥳 The #CCeMMP 3rd Annual #BenchToArt Exhibition is live 💪 Check out all the graphics & videos and vote for your favourite: sites.google.com/monash.edu/b... Spoiler: I have a video there myself, celebrating those magnificent tiny giants 😉 #cryoEM #ScienceArt #SciArt @ccemmp-outreach.bsky.social

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LifeUnculturable @lifeunculturable.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

🎉 𝗜𝗧’𝗦 𝗚𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗔𝗪𝗔𝗬 𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗘!🧪👕 We've teamed up with Zymo for a Life Unculturable giveaway 𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲! ❤️ 𝗟𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁 = 2 entries 💬 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 “𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻” by answering the question in the comments = 4 entries 📤 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁 = 4 entries

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Julia Meltzer @juliameltzer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Excited to share what I've been working on with an incredible team! Visualisation of Asgard viruses on cell surfaces and vesicles, and a story of complex viral interactions. Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @brendanburns999.bsky.social @belindaferrari.bsky.social @xabivc.bsky.social

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LifeUnculturable @lifeunculturable.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

“𝗣𝘂𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗲.” 🎧 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘜𝘯𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 ... because sometimes surviving the lab means knowing when to 'trust' your equipment. 😂 We're pretty sure that if 𝗧𝗼𝗺 𝗥𝗶𝗱𝗱𝗹𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼 𝘁𝗼 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗮𝘁 𝗛𝗼𝗴𝘄𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘀 ... his 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗛𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗿𝘂𝘅 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘃𝗲.

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LifeUnculturable @lifeunculturable.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Whether you’re diving headfirst into a new project or desperately trying to finish your current one, you can always procrastinate productively with an episode of #LifeUnculturable. Also ... BIG ANNOUNCEMENT COMING NEXT WEEK ... so stay tuned!

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 05/08/2026

And Terry Pratchett started just about every third sentence with ‘And’. So you can do that too. You can also start sentences with ‘But’. A pox on editors who insist on changing all those to ‘Yet’.

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Razvan Borza @rborza.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

🚀 My first Cryo-EM structures are OUT on the PDB! 🎉Super excited about this milestone as PhD, it’s been a journey, and I’m grateful to finally have these as my first Cryo-EM structures! 🙌 🔁Thank you for sharing!❤️ Read @daaninthelab.bsky.social et. al.: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... ⬇️ 2nd video

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LifeUnculturable @lifeunculturable.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Our latest episode brought the entire #LifeUnculturable crew together as @hexamergraphics.bsky.social finally emerged from behind the scenes. Not everything made the final cut ... but we couldn't leave the content behind. Enjoy the bonus listen on the house! www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFjs...

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LifeUnculturable @lifeunculturable.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

@pymig.bsky.social and @microbemiller.bsky.social are handling the response ... whilst @hexamergraphics.bsky.social has been assigned the much more difficult task of keeping them diplomatic. No further questions at this time. 😐 No pipettes were harmed in the making of this video. 😉

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Aafke Gros @aafkegros.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Microscopy Nodes 3.1 is out for Blender 5.2! 🎉 This has cool new features for conditional masking, working with even larger data (regional upscaling), and data manipulation! Watch the new youtube tutorials that explain the features: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

A FIB-SEM plankton visualization where the top shows only the volumetric data of the chromosomes, and the bottom a normally sliced region of the cell.

A fluorescence microscopy dataset where a region has been reloaded to be much higher resolution

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LifeUnculturable @lifeunculturable.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Out now, wherever you get your podcasts!

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Ján Bíňovský @jbinovsky.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

🔥My first (co)first-author paper is out🔥 The surfaces of Gram+ and Gram- bacteria are markedly different from each other. How are phages equipped to breach the Gram+ envelope❓ 💡We report a baseplate structure uniquely adapted to infect Gram+ S. aureus. A 🧵⬇️ 1/8 #phagesky #cryoEM 🧪

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Jan-Hendrik Müller @kolibril13.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

In the render below, you can see the organels of a marine plankton, measure by an electron microscope. Blender 5.2 is already incredible, but with with the latest release of Microscopy Nodes by @aafkegros.bsky.social, cell rendering is pretty like never before. extensions.blender.org/add-ons/micr...

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LifeUnculturable @lifeunculturable.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

If you're behind on the podcast, now's the perfect time to catch up on any episodes you've missed before the @hexamergraphics.bsky.social episode drops this Thursday. Just one more episode before #LifeUnculturable disappears into the anaerobic chamber and Julia and Sam go off on a one-month hiatus

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LifeUnculturable @lifeunculturable.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

🎙️ We still owe you one more episode before we take our little midsummer-to-early-fall break, and don't worry … we haven't forgotten. Our next episode features the previously elusive @hexamergraphics.bsky.social, and we're excited to finally let him loose on the microphones. It'll be worth the wait.

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RCSB Protein Data Bank @rcsbpdb.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Every second inside every living cell, thousands of chemical reactions are taking place that constitute the essential tasks of life such as metabolism, protein synthesis, cell renewal and growth. Learn how enzymes work in this PDB-101 video

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How Enzymes Work (from PDB-101)

Every second inside every living cell, thousands of chemical reactions are taking place. These reactions constitute the essential tasks of life such as metabolism, protein synthesis, cell renewal and growth. Learn how the proteins called enzymes work to maintain the rate of these reactions at a life

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BBMRI-ERIC @bbmrieric.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

💡 Welcome back to #ProjectThursday We collect news from the biobanking world for you here in one article. ❗️ Article: buff.ly/26GukgY Today with: #Bioindustry40 #ERDERA #CANDLE #DIAMONDS_2020 #EPPerMed #ERDERA @ericforum.bsky.social #PERIFORMANCE #RISCALE 👋 See you here in two weeks! 💙🧡

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Brady Johnston @bradyajohnston.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The paper is out which means the MD trajectories are finally available! #MolecularNodes #b3d #GeometryNodes

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LifeUnculturable @lifeunculturable.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

🎙️ 𝗛𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘆 𝗘𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗗𝗿𝗼𝗽 𝗧𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆! This time, we're asking a simple question: 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗼𝗽𝗲? Once more, we're running the gambit: 🎶 Unexpectedly breaks into musical numbers. ⚰️ Putting a nail in the coffin of the 'nicest' podcast host. What's the coolest microscope image? 👇

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LifeUnculturable @lifeunculturable.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

🎙️ Behind the scenes at Life Unculturable: two interviews recorded this week! 🌍 Julia and Michael (Austria), Sam (United States), and guests joining us from around the world. Science knows no borders ... or reasonable recording hours. 😅 Tag (or DM us) your dream guest!

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LifeUnculturable @lifeunculturable.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Just a friendly reminder from your favorite anoxic advocates: hard drives fail, files disappear, and "final_version_FINAL_v7.1_use_THIS1" deserves a better fate. Go check out: 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸*𝘂𝗽*𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿*𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮, give it a listen, and then go make a backup of your own data. Your future self will thank you.

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LifeUnculturable @lifeunculturable.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

🎙️ Happy Episode Drop Thursday! New #LifeUnculturable episode: Back*Up*Your*Data! 💻🦠 From "I know I saved it somewhere ..." moments to anaerobes on dating apps, and Sam's near-death experience in the podcast chamber. 📱 Drop your best anaerobe dating bio below!

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LifeUnculturable @lifeunculturable.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

We had an absolute blast at #ASMicrobe ... catching up, meeting new colleagues, and having countless conversations about all things microbiological. We are excited to keep that momentum going at ANAEROBE 2026, taking place July 7–10 at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York City.

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LifeUnculturable @lifeunculturable.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

We are officially 10 episodes into the Life Unculturable adventure, and one thing has become very clear: the ‘lab yap’ segment is here to stay! Drop a comment below 👇 with something that grinds your gears inside (or outside) the lab …

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