Reposted by Ricardo D. RighettoJulie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026- À la carte living conditions where everything is hyper personalized and you get what YOU want delivered to YOU when YOU want it. And therefore, you don't have to think beyond yourself, so you assume everything is either for you *specifically* or it's wrong. 92242173
Reposted by Ricardo D. RighettoManon Demulder @manondemulder.bsky.social · 02/10/2026If you’ve always been curious about how algae fix carbon, @phaips.vd.st, @cellarchlab.com and I have put together the quickest route into pyrenoids. And if you don’t feel like reading at all, we have an accompanying poster doi.org/10.1242/jcs.... 05822
Reposted by Ricardo D. RighettoArchaea Biology Vienna @archaea-vienna.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Our paper on the dynamics of Asgard archaea (Promethearchaeota) is now out in Nature! Huge thanks to the reviewers for helping make the manuscript stronger. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Two “Lokis” stained for Lokiactin (FastAct, magenta), reaching toward each other to celebrate 🎉 #archaea 413748
Reposted by Ricardo D. RighettoOli Clarke @olibclarke.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Added a couple of things to coot1-trimmings: * Option to set default model/map appearance to mimic Coot 0.9.x * Metal helper to semi-automatically make links for the current ion * Slider to interactively set map brightness (demos of brightness slider & metal helper in subsequent posts)github.comGitHub - olibclarke/coot1-trimmings: Customized keybindings and scripts for Coot 1.xCustomized keybindings and scripts for Coot 1.x. Contribute to olibclarke/coot1-trimmings development by creating an account on GitHub. 3196
Reposted by Ricardo D. RighettoPaul Klee @paul-klee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Separation in the Evening www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/separa… 04015
Reposted by Ricardo D. RighettoMarc Robinson-Rechavi @marcrr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I'm not writing in the NYT and I won't word it carefully: it's clear that AI companies are stealing researchers' work (and why wouldn't they? they steal artists' and journalists' work with no consequences), and I warned my group about it this morning. 01813
Reposted by Ricardo D. RighettoCarl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWaycnyti.msDid Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work. 882122873
Reposted by Ricardo D. Righettojoe dobbs @joedobbs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Our work investigating the cooperation between gene expression machines is now online @cellpress.bsky.social. Check it out if you're interested in high-throughput #cryoET, transcription and translation, or using structural biology to quantify gene expression in cells! 🔬 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...cell.comSingle-cell visual proteomics of a minimal bacterium reveals structural coordination of gene expression machineriesCryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) resolves and quantifies an almost complete view of bacterial translation, revealing how gene expression machineries coordinate across the processes of transcription,... 18024
Reposted by Ricardo D. RighettoRasmus 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 1023496
Reposted by Ricardo D. RighettoChimeraX @chimerax.ucsf.edu · 25/09/2026Make natural language requests to ChimeraX with the new Pellaeon plugin developed by Yam Amir that works with many free and paid large language models. Get Pellaeon using ChimeraX menu Tools / More Tools.... cxtoolshed.rbvi.ucsf.edu/apps/chimera... 05217
Reposted by Ricardo D. RighettoBen Engel @cellarchlab.com · 24/09/2026Insane in the #MemBrain 🤖🧠 #TeamTomo 🧪 0197
Reposted by Ricardo D. RighettoGregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This is very sad news. Paulo was one of the greats. Brazil was a leader in ensuring that people living with HIV got access to antiretroviral therapy even when "experts" said it couldn't be done outside of rich countries in the global North. www.cartacapital.com.br/saude/morre-...cartacapital.com.brMédico atuou na criação de políticas de prevenção e tratamentoMédico atuou na criação de políticas de prevenção e tratamento 05822
Reposted by Ricardo D. RighettoHigor Rosa @hvdrosa.bsky.social · 17/09/2026IMOD models, eLab/paper notes, "that feature in that one tomo"... keeping track across 1000s of #CryoET tomograms was hard! TOMATO puts tomos and notes in one place. Combine it with LLMs and it's an awesome base for building more: morphometrics, contactomes, anything turning visuals into numbers! 🥳😍 0187
Ricardo D. Righetto @lifeonthewedge.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Visited this weekend 'Val Mucilaginosa', a stunning VR experience created by Isabell Bullerschen inspired by our #cryoET segmentations of cyanobacteria 🦠👽🖖🏽 On view at the Botanical Garden in Zurich until October 11th 🤩 www.bg.uzh.ch/en/research/... 0120
Reposted by Ricardo D. RighettoKranzusch Lab @kranzuschlab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Stunning cryo-ET analysis from the Harrison Lab capturing every stage of how non-membrane viruses infect animal cells www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 08326
Reposted by Ricardo D. RighettoVirginie Uhlmann @virginieuhlmann.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Research software is costly and time-consuming to produce because it requires focused time from developers who have invested years learning to master their craft, just like art. There is nothing to celebrate about relinquishing intellectual expertise and mastery in favor of fast and cheap. 12711
Reposted by Ricardo D. RighettoOmaya Dudin 𓂆 ¦🍉¦🦠¦🔬¦ @dudinlab.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Very proud of the team, led by @baukjeje.bsky.social & @fmikus.bsky.social To all of you doing #Expansion #Microscopy #UExM Try Concanavalin A. Its cheap, easy to use & labels the #nuclear #Envelope @moorefound.bsky.social @embl.org @sciencesunige.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @snsf.ch 46932
Reposted by Ricardo D. RighettoVincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The Olive Trees (June–July 1889) came from the groves beyond the asylum walls of Saint-Rémy, painted on supervised walks. He called it the daylight partner to The Starry Night: same summer, same accentuated outlines, but with sunlight rather than starlight. 010421
Reposted by Ricardo D. RighettoThe Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social · 09/09/2026BREAKING: Today, Eurail (established 1959) & Interrail (established 1972) merge into a single European railpass range for EVERYONE regardless of nationality or country of residence, called INTERRAIL. Read why I think this is excellent news here: www.seat61.com/news.htm 526881
Reposted by Ricardo D. RighettoBen Engel @cellarchlab.com · 08/09/2026MemBrain v2 is on @natmethods.nature.com now? I never had a @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social with 164 citations before😅 ...Which is also to say: Thank you to the amazing #TeamTomo community, many of whom not only beta tested, but also contributed diverse training data. This one belongs to all of us! 🤗🔬🧪 011027
Reposted by Ricardo D. RighettoJuan Carlos De la Concepcion @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The beauty of posting in @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social. This amazing tool was available for the community long before it showed up on a journal. I even forgot this publication was not "peer-reviewed", but it was definitively "community-reviewed". Kudos to @lorenzlamm.bsky.social and all the authors! 1206
Ricardo D. Righetto @lifeonthewedge.bsky.social · 08/09/2026A wild publishing ride to get here... but finally! (first bioRxiv: January 5th, 2024 🙃) Amazing work from @lorenzlamm.bsky.social and colleagues 🤗 Special thanks to the community who jumped early on the boat, sharing feedback and training data to make MemBrain v2 a reality 🙏🏽nature.comMemBrain v2: an end-to-end tool for the analysis of membranes in cryo-electron tomography - Nature MethodsMemBrain v2 enables streamlined analysis of membranes in cryo-electron tomography by providing user-friendly tools for membrane segmentation, membrane protein localization and spatial analysis, suppor... 17125
Reposted by Ricardo D. RighettoMark Rothko @markrothko.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Black, Red and Black botfrens.com/collections/25/content… 04610
Reposted by Ricardo D. RighettoPetra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 30/08/2026updated and improved for MORE 🇧🇷 lil guys gals and things on fire! #folklore #mythology 22650251
Reposted by Ricardo D. RighettoMartin Steinegger 🇺🇦 @martinsteinegger.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Run AlphaFold2 locally in your browser via WebGPU, no installation needed, it's just a static webpage using your own GPU or CPU. Short proteins run in seconds. Larger ones are still slow: a 291-aa protein takes ~7 minutes on my M4 Pro. ❗It's just a PoC. 🌐 martin-steinegger.github.io/alphafold2-w... 117841
Reposted by Ricardo D. RighettoJanani Durairaj (Jay) @ninjani.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Some exciting news: I'm joining the University of Lausanne @unil.bsky.social @dbc-unil.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor next month 🎉 My group will work on context-aware deep learning for protein structure, interaction & design. Postdoc and PhD openings coming soon - keep an eye out! 412232
Reposted by Ricardo D. RighettoCarapanã @carapanarana.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Percebam que todos jornalistas que fizeram as apurações dos crimes dos Bolsonaro foram demitidos dos grandes veículos. Juliana Dal Piva apurou os imóveis, André Borges apurou o roubo das jóias, Jamil Chade apurou as insanidades do 4chanceler, a Daniela Lima foi feroz na cobertura do 8/1 etc. 7797247
Reposted by Ricardo D. RighettoCarapanã @carapanarana.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Todo esse colunismo ilustrado sofre de uma espécie de estupidez crônica de que existe um "meio termo" entre uma esquerda moderada que nasceu na democracia e um bando de malucos prometendo guerra civil e banhos de sangue como soluções mágicas. É um grupo elitizado, covarde e fraco. 6652171
Reposted by Ricardo D. RighettoPaul & Virginie - Centriole Lab @centriolelab.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Very happy to see our Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology Roadmap out! A fantastic collective effort, led by Carsten Janke and Zdenek Lansky, together with an amazing group of colleagues, and sparked by inspiring discussions at the Fondation des Treilles. www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comTowards a systems-level view of the microtubule cytoskeleton and its functions in physiology and disease - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell BiologyMicrotubules are essential components of the cytoskeleton, yet important links between their molecular properties and organismal functions remain unresolved. In this Roadmap, Janke et al. discuss key ... 16128
Reposted by Ricardo D. RighettoMartin Steinegger 🇺🇦 @martinsteinegger.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Foldseek-Interface enables fast search/clustering of the protein interface universe! We clustered 3.1M PDB dimers into 77,167 groups and found new interfaces keep appearing even as fold discovery plateaus. 🧵 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🔎 search.foldseek.com/interface 🌐 interface.foldseek.com 110941
Reposted by Ricardo D. RighettoReese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026A massive update: At least ~15 companies~ are selling scientists antibodies using faked validation data. We've documented 18,000+ manipulated images on 17,000+ products sold by leading laboratory suppliers including Thermo Fisher, Abcam, Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Millipore Sigma and Bio-Techne. 1/🧵 18454329
Reposted by Ricardo D. Righettochanceler rapositos @raposatriste.bsky.social · 25/08/2026a dolly parton é tipo o milkshake duck ao contrário cada vez que descubro algo novo sobre ela é sempre algo lindo e maravilhoso 3665210
Reposted by Ricardo D. RighettoEmmaeli @emmaelie.bsky.social · 24/12/2023Symbol of Hope Sliman Mansour 011636
Reposted by Ricardo D. RighettoJoan Miró @joanmiro.bsky.social · 23/08/2026The Nightingale's Song at Midnight and the Morning Rain www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/the-ni… 14610
Reposted by Ricardo D. RighettoDeadly Fungal Storm @yukisenoue.bsky.social · 22/08/2026web.archive.org/web/20220902... PROTEJAM O INTERNET ARCHIVEweb.archive.orgBolsopedia: A enciclopédia do BolsonarismoTudo que Bolsonaro fez em 4 anos de governo (e não quer que você saiba) 2222119
Reposted by Ricardo D. RighettoErin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 21/08/2026There are many uses for AI in science - modeling, data analysis, certain diagnostics - none of those are LLMs and frankly not even really “AI” as we’ve come to know it at all and TBH we need a different name for this kind of “AI” so the science stuff can stop getting dragged into this argument. 14783147
Reposted by Ricardo D. RighettoCool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Hey, let's not forget that a traffic safety competition was the premise behind this classic 113833
Reposted by Ricardo D. RighettoSTCmicrobeblog @stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social · 16/08/20262/2 ...all scientists – not just human geneticists – should oppose this with all their might, for the sake of their own humanity. here at STC, we reject any lunatic idea of 'white supremacy' and consider eugenics the lousy science that it always was. 082
Reposted by Ricardo D. RighettoSTCmicrobeblog @stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social · 16/08/2026the rise of eugenics, fueled by the ideology of white supremacy, had horrific consequences in the 20th century. It is hardly likely that things will turn out any differently in the 21st century. ...1/2 141
Reposted by Ricardo D. RighettoKashish Singh @kashishsingh.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Very happy to see the final version of our work on the structure and composition of cytoplasmic lattices in mouse embryos, previously shared on bioRxiv, now published in The EMBO Journal! Many thanks to our editor, Ieva Gailite, and the reviewers for their constructive input. 15019
Reposted by Ricardo D. RighettoDagmar Iber & CoBi @iberd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026🎉 Our paper is out in Cell Systems @cp-cellsystems.bsky.social ! How does an embryo build an energy-efficient fractal lung before the first breath? 📄 doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... 🧵 bsky.app/profile/iberd.bsky.social/post/3lfrdth6k4c22 @maltemederacke.bsky.social @kevinyamauchi.bsky.socialdoi.orgRedirecting 1176
Reposted by Ricardo D. RighettoPlant Science Spotlight @plant-sci.bsky.social · 11/08/2026🧬🌱 Algal chloroplast ribosomes have a unique arm domain, revealed by cryo-ET and cryo-EM. It may stabilize mRNA and organize polysomes. Chloroplast translation is more structurally diverse than expected. #plantscience @natplants.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comChloroplast-encoded small subunit extensions reshape the Chlamydomonas chlororibosome - Nature PlantsUsing in situ cryo-electron tomography, researchers found a unique ‘arm’ domain on the small subunit of Chlamydomonas chlororibosomes. This discovery suggests that chlororibosome structure is more evo... 01710
Reposted by Ricardo D. Righettobia @pniew.ski · 11/08/2026pensando em como a usp, a maior instituição de ensino superior do brasil, tinha armazenamento ilimitado no google drive e milhares de alunos, professores e pesquisadores depositavam tudo ali. até que um dia o google resolveu limitar pra 20 gb por pessoa. e ficou por isso mesmo 18743150
Reposted by Ricardo D. RighettoTotal Internal Reflection🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @tirscienceblog.bsky.social · 07/08/2026🚨🚨🚨 #Editor Job alert! I’m not an editor, but if I decided to pursue career in scientific #publishing, then Company of Biologists is the organisation I’d most want to work for, & @jcellsci.bsky.social is the journal I’d want to work at 🤩 Details + link to job description in the link 👇 01210
Reposted by Ricardo D. RighettoJamie Blaza @jnb-lab.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Permanent academic position as a Lecturer in cryo-ET open at York. We are looking for someone to lead a research program making the most of the stunning advances occurring in cryo-ET. It's a research and teaching post but with a focus on research in the early years. jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...jobs.york.ac.ukJobs - The University of York 13838
Reposted by Ricardo D. RighettoAlex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 09/08/202681 years ago today, on August 9, 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped upon the city of Nagasaki, Japan, by the United States. This was 3 days after the first atomic attack on Hiroshima. 251034453
Reposted by Ricardo D. RighettoKristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 08/08/2026"Accusing him of crimes and deception wasn’t enough; the release of the diary was meant to inflict public humiliation on him". Very good article and spot on. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...theatlantic.comWhy MAGA Is So Obsessed With FauciIn the aftermath of pandemics, people either try to forget them or find others to blame for them. 48738