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Julia Varga 🎗

@jvarga92.bsky.social
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PhD student at @HebrewU, working on SLIMs of the ubiqutin system. Member of @UbiMotif network, @RosettaCommons and @FurmanLab

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Joe Greener @jgreener64.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
On this 1st April I'm happy to release a technical report from our startup MirageBio, describing a new protein structure model with state-of-the-art performance. jgreener64.github.io/posts/techni...
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MirageBio technical report
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Arne Elofsson @handle.invalid · 09/03/2026
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Cooperative Native Contact Formation Facilitates Free Energy Barrier Crossing in Protein Folding
High-temporal-resolution fluorescence measurements reveal how quickly proteins cross energy barriers separating unfolded and folded states.
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PMC Protein Modules Community @pmc-modularity.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
We will take a break for February and return on March 9 at 3pm CET. Tune in with Benjamin Maier (@bdmaier.bsky.social), Valeria Bica and Dr Aleksandra Panfilova Register to attend: tinyurl.com/PMCseminar2 Previous seminars: www.youtube.com/@PMCModularity
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Julia Varga 🎗 @jvarga92.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Wow, very important!
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Timo B. Roettger @timoroettger.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
"P-Hacking with one prompt" by Shigeto Kawahara. TL/DR: Ask LLMs to find a significant effect, and they will oblige. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) P-hacking with one prompt
PDF | This brief note reports a mini-experiment, which tested whether major AI systems (Gemini, Claude, and ChatGPT) readily perform p-hacking when... | Find, read and cite all the research you need o...
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Julia Varga 🎗 @jvarga92.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Come join is for this seminar on proteins and their interactions! It starts in 45 mins!
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Julia Varga 🎗 @jvarga92.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
After 10 years of bioinformatics, I really want to have a talk with 1) authors publishing computational methods with uninstallable environments and without runnable code for new data(!) in field standard format and 2) editors and reviewers who accept these methods for publications 😠😠😠😠😠😠😠
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Julia Varga 🎗 @jvarga92.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Come and join us for the next seminar!
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Albert Vilella, PhD. @albertvilella.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Are the Chemistry @nobelprize.bsky.social prizes being awarded to too many #Biologists or now #AIResearchers ?
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Sjors Scheres @sjorsscheres.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
I just made an account and voted for this biology laboratory made of LEGO to "promote biological research and inspire more people into the world of biology". They need 10K votes. Reposting and/or voting below would be helpful. 🤗 beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
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Biological Laboratory | LEGO® Ideas
This is a two-floor realistic Biological Laboratory building. In this design, I try to tell stories about biologists, introduce biology concepts to general publ…
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Julia Varga 🎗 @jvarga92.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Our new measure for AF-s got an upgrade! Now also usable in local AF3 installation.
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PMC Protein Modules Community @pmc-modularity.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Remember to tune in to our next Seminar on Monday September 8!
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Abby Polter @ampolter.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Along with this: it's tempting to collect technical skills like pokemon, and there certainly is focus on work with breadth that rewards this. But don't forget about the value of depth. Hard to do good science without deep understanding of what you're doing. That only comes from years of immersion.
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Have you heard about the Night Science Podcast, where we talk about the actual creative process of doing science? We explore this with discussions with brilliant scientists & also philosophers and artists, to figure out the tricks of the creative scientific trade. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Unfortunately it’s clear that the Israeli people can’t topple the government or change its ways. Seems like the attorney general, the last gate keeper, will be fired soon. As long as we’re stuck with this government, the war won’t stop. Only international intervention (=the U.S) might do it.
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
🥂This was the highlight of my year. The "instigators", led by local master of the ceremony @svobodalab.bsky.social will never forget the privilege of organizing it and i think every participant will treasure the experience forever ❤️ @nature.com @josiegz.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Scientific bedlam at the world’s weirdest and wildest research conference
Woodstock Bio2 + Night Science aimed to encourage collaborations through creativity. The walk-on music for presentations was fun, too.
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Rod Dagnan @rod-dagnan.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
STUDY: Denmark tracked over a million children for 21 years, and found vaccines linked to zero extra cases of autism, asthma, or 48 other conditions. Vaccines are safe, effective, and the best way to eradicate preventable disease. Period.
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Martin Pacesa @martinpacesa.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
I am super excited to announce that I will be starting my lab at the Department of Pharmacology of the University of Zurich in Switzerland next year!
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Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 21/07/2025
NEW from me at STAT: We've learned that DeepMind is going to fund CASP, the protein structure competition that brought Google DeepMind's #AlphaFold to prominence (and a Nobel Prize), as its NIH funding runs out. More @statnews.com: www.statnews.com/2025/07/21/c... 🖥️🩺🧪🧬 #bioML
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AlphaFold developer Google DeepMind to fund CASP as NIH funding falls short
Protein structure prediction contest CASP gets temporary funding from Google DeepMind as NIH grant runs out.
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Katja Luck @katjaluck.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Variant characterization in the intrinsically disordered human proteome - here is how we did it using short linear motif prediction, AlphaFold, and experimentation. Check out our preprint: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
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Variant characterization in the intrinsically disordered human proteome
Variant effect prediction remains a key challenge to resolve in precision medicine. Sophisticated computational models that exploit sequence conservation and structure are increasingly successful in t...
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Ylva Ivarsson @ivarssonlab.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
We are looking for a PhD student in (mostly )wet-lab biochemistry to work on short linear motifs, intrinsically disordered regions, in the context of the Marie Curie network "IDPro". More info an apply here: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
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PhD student in Biochemistry - Uppsala University
PhD student in Biochemistry, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Faculty of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry - BMC, Uppsala University
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
AKA the best conference ever
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
The semiliterate people who use chatgpt like to point to calculators as a precedent of assistive technology but the thing is: calculators actually calculate. A calculator really does let you outsource calculation. It does exactly what it is supposed to do, and marketed as doing, reproducibly.
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Dvir Schirman @dvirschirman.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
"A missile attack is not going to hold back science, science is held back by itself" 🤣 youtube.com/shorts/FMOi-...
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couldn't complete the assignment, my lab was destroyed | אין מעבדה, תרקדו עכשיו עם כתוביות
YouTube video by Shahar Halevi | שחר הלוי
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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Jesse Veenvliet @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Indeed Oded. Some Will think of #TCTeAC as escapism, but I think it was showing us how beautiful we can make this world if the guiding values are respect & trust, and if world leaders would adopt a vision that is based on hope instead of hatred. On collaboration instead of competition. 💚
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Natanella Illouz-Eliaz @natanellae.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Pluralism at its best playing “theology or biology” game by @hagenom.bsky.social #TCTeAC
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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Three days ago at Woodstock Bio in the woods of Soběšín, Czech Republic. Science in the sun. So much fun, so sorely missed. Thank you @odedrechavi.bsky.social @natanellae.bsky.social @itaiyanai.bsky.social and all the instigators, speakers and revellers.
Speakers and listeners at Woodstock Bio, Czech Republic, June 2025, seated in the sun at Soběšín, Bohemia
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Emil Gustavsson @emilgustavsson.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
It's hard to describe how amazing this conference has been, the final day had everything including a wedding, a boxing match and a great performance of Y.M.C.A. Thanks to all the organizers @woodstocknightsci.bsky.social, this has been a once-in-a-lifetime event! #TCTeAC
Woodstock of Biology party
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Julia Varga 🎗 @jvarga92.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
We arrived! Beautiful place #TCTEAC
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Julia Varga 🎗 @jvarga92.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Sounds like a plan!
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Sonya Widen @sonyawiden.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Onto the Woodstock portion of the Woodstock.bio2 conference! Goodbye Prague, hello Bohemia #TCTeAC
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
All aboard! Going to the woods #tcteac
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Mirko Milosevic @mirkomilosevic.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Every 3 seconds at #TCTeAC
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petrahyrossova.bsky.social @petrahyrossova.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
#TCTEAC @svobodalab.bsky.social
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Anna Frangou @annamfra.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Maya Bar talking about the value of being stunningly naive in science and discovery. some beautiful examples from the audience of people’s uncomfortable moments in research. Also (and related to the video): we need specialists and we need those who can connect all the dots. #TCTeAC
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Natanella Illouz-Eliaz @natanellae.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Did you know placentas can be female or male??? I didn’t 😱 fascinating talk! #TCTeAC
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Julia Varga 🎗 @jvarga92.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Art and science meets at #TCTEAC
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petrahyrossova.bsky.social @petrahyrossova.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
#TCTeAC
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Woodstock Night Science is trending more than Trump AND Nature! #TCTEAC
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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
#TCTeAC #theconferencetoendallconferences is, undeniably, very goofy and weird. But there’s something that feels almost subversive about scientists celebrating themselves like this during this incredibly precarious moment for science.
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
@itaiyanai.bsky.social is rocking the first special Night Science. His challenge was to explain his science to a 16 year (and a 16 year old was provided) #theconferencetoendallconferences #TCTeAC
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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Day 2 of #TCTeAC #theconferencetoendallconferences kicked off feeling more like a concert than a conference with a talk that ended in a song about enzyme kinetics that had no right to be as catchy as it was 🎸🎶
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Tom Hollenstein @tomhollenstein.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
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Queen’s University is a globally engaged, research-intensive institution dedicated to attracting and supporting exceptional PhD students who will significantly advance our research mission.
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Germán Bonilla-Rosso @germusthermophilus.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
🖥️🧬♀️I overheard a conversation guilty of youth and arrogance, saying there were not many women in bioinformatics besides Margaret Dayhoff (PAM). That is not only stupid but also wrong. Since my foundation years bioinformatics was always very female: #WomenInBioinformatics #WomenInStem
Ruth NUSSINOV (RNA folding), Barbara McClintock (transposons), Tomoko Ohta (neutral theory), Jorja Henikoff (BLOSUM), Christine Orengo (CATH), Janet Thornton (CATH), Julie Thompson (CLUSTAL), Theresa Attwood (PRINTS), Tracy Heath (Bayesian), Bonnie Berger (ARACHNE), Kim Pruitt (RefSeq), Tatiana Tatusova (Entrez), Kira Makarova (COGs), Claire Fraiser (TIGR)
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Joshua G. Schraiber @jgschraiber.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
HMMER is crucial to our modern understanding of protein biochemistry and has almost certainly generated at least a 10-fold return on investment for every dollar the US government has spent on funding it.
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Ylva Ivarsson @ivarssonlab.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
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Defining short linear motif binding determinants by phage display‐based deep mutational scanning
Deep mutational scanning (DMS) has emerged as a powerful approach for evaluating the effects of mutations on binding or function. Here, we developed a DMS by phage display protocol to define the spec....
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