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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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Julia Varga 🎗 @jvarga92.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
With all my dislike to Trump, eho I do not think never should have been a president, tell this to Iran, it was a misfired rocket on their side.
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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 · 18/01/2026
For breaking the centrifuge part: why don't centrifuges have lid interlocks or similar mechanisms that make starting them without a lid impossible? If you can do that for a kitchen food processor, I'm sure there are solutions for big, expensive equipment - even without AI...
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Julia Varga 🎗 @jvarga92.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
* we didnt need to work only with that rectangle only, which made life easier.
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Julia Varga 🎗 @jvarga92.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Yes, for smaller, flexible binders, like peptides that is why we only use the part of PAE matrix when the peptide is aligned. When aligning on the domain, everything is much more confident even with very bad peptide conformation and messes up scores. Interestingly, for actifptm, though,*
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Julia Varga 🎗 @jvarga92.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
I am just looking at an xray structure which look dubious. Two H-bonds between 2 interacting proteins, bad packing, also thanks to crystal contacts, other interfaces exist... According to PISA CC, neither of the interfaces is significant for forming the complex. And wen benchmark methods to these...
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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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Julia Varga 🎗 @jvarga92.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
I also saw a big surge on my linkedin account - more people seem to use that as well instead of twitter.
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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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Julia Varga 🎗 @jvarga92.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
What a cliffhanger 😄
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Julia Varga 🎗 @jvarga92.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
In house? Or a published one?
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Julia Varga 🎗 @jvarga92.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
And you were no invited? Sounds worse than a coup 😅😅😅
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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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Julia Varga 🎗 @jvarga92.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Getting even better!
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Julia Varga 🎗 @jvarga92.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Sounds good to me!
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Julia Varga 🎗 @jvarga92.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
A hiking conference?
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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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Julia Varga 🎗 @jvarga92.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
And "Then I woke up"? 😅
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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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Julia Varga 🎗 @jvarga92.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Started in 2020 at HUJI, graduated just now. Aside from outer factors, our field also got a huge inner AI revolution (alphafold). It was ... tough 🫣🫣 The worst thing is applications asking "how does X fit into your long-term plans" - as if I even bothered to make those anymore 🫠
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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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Julia Varga 🎗 @jvarga92.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Sometimes it really depends on the dataset as well. We have seen benchmarking datasets with peptide-protein interactions where many of the examples should be removed because of artifacts. However, since AF3/AF2-v3 was trained on them, it also outputs them perfectly...
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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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Julia Varga 🎗 @jvarga92.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Next time, could a poster fight (with rolled up posters) be on the programme? Then we burn them 😄
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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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Julia Varga 🎗 @jvarga92.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
So terribly far...
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Julia Varga 🎗 @jvarga92.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Could totally be. Some part of me really hopes that they somehow planned with this and we just dont know it yet... Although would not be surprised even a little bit if this wasnt the case, either.
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Julia Varga 🎗 @jvarga92.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
I have no idea how much to trust a mesage circulating, but it claims that airlines knew, and they had contingency plans, including moving out the planes from Israel. But AFAIK, the rest of the plan still seems that people will manage somehow.
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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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