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Mary Fesenko @mafesenko.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Excited to read about the new, exciting INV flavour being characterised - the molecular Skittles that will respond if you eat too many macroscopic Skittles 💪🌈

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simonecoppola.bsky.social @simonecoppola.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Happy to finally share micromorph with everyone! If you are interested in performing morphological measurements of bacteria, and like using Python and Napari then this is for you! You can read about it in our preprint, and find the code on our Github repo, PyPi or directly from the napari hub!

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micromorph: a Python toolkit for measurement of microbial morphology

Detection of morphological phenotypes from light microscopy is a key part of microbiology. Despite advances in automated morphological analysis, accurate measurements still often require significant u...

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Michael Booth @drmikebooth.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

We’ve developed the first-ever method to control nucleic acid activity and gene-expressing synthetic cells with a deeply tissue penetrating alternating magnetic field 🧬 🧪 🧲!!! Published in *Nature Chemistry* Led by Ellen Parkes @syncelleu.bsky.social #chemsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Magnetic activation of spherical nucleic acids enables the remote control of synthetic cells - Nature Chemistry

The programmability of synthetic cells, comprising lipid vesicles that are capable of imitating the structure and function of living cells, facilitates their application as drug delivery devices. Now,...

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Elias Spiliotis @septinlab.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Fourth day of #SeptSRC rising with Jenna Perry showing that there are septin isoforms with transmembrane proteins.

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Mary Fesenko @mafesenko.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

I also loved that the plants in the surrounding garden were chosen for their connections to her story, with Everlasting Flower (powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:ls...) being a particularly poignant choice.

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Helichrysum stoechas (L.) Moench | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science

The native range of this species is Medit. to Arabian Peninsula. It is a subshrub and grows primarily in the subtropical biome.

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Mary Fesenko @mafesenko.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

I serendipitously came across this beautiful Henrietta Lacks statue in Bristol yesterday, whose cells I put through so many manipulations during my MPhil and PhD. It’s mind-blowing to think of how many labs across the world are using her cells to make discoveries and she died having no idea of this.

A metal statue of Henrietta Lacks, surrounded by shrubs with green and burgundy foliage and various flowers.

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Mary Fesenko @mafesenko.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I also second Mara on this tip + share her dislike of gel extractions!

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Mary Fesenko @mafesenko.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

If it’s any consolation, at one point during my PhD, I made an agarose gel with H2O instead of TAE/TBE + wondered why it was running weirdly for ~30 mins before realising. I had vowed never to do this again after undergrad when I wasted a lot of time before learning H2O was not the solvent to use.

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Mary Fesenko @mafesenko.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

One of my favourite scenes from the BBC ‘Life Story’ documentary series!

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/04/2025

This meeting could have been a walk in the sunshine

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Falk Schneider @faldalf.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

#newPI and time is running. It has already been a month since I officially joined the University of Warwick as Assistant Professor. I am excited to announce and build the Fluorescence and Membrane Dynamics (FMD) Lab: warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/med/...

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Mary Fesenko @mafesenko.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

✅ Thank you, the earrings were a gift from a friend + former colleague @thilanibabuji.bsky.social 😊

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Mary Fesenko @mafesenko.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

A riddle for #GolgiDay: How many Golgis can you spot in this photo?

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Mary Fesenko @mafesenko.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Hah I have actually considered this on a couple of occasions, but never been brave enough to do it!

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Ishier Raote @ishier.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

On April 19, 1898, Camillo Golgi described what we now know as the #Golgi apparatus - a structure so pretty and unusual it took over fifty years for the scientific community to agree it wasn’t just an artefact. April 19 is #GolgiDay! Mark your calendars to honour the best organelle.

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Mary Fesenko @mafesenko.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

print("I look into the finance box just to check my status \nI look into the microscope, I see the Golgi Apparatus \nGolgi, oh, woe is me, you can't even see the sea \nGolgi, Golgi, Goh-oh-olgi, Golgi segmentation is complete \n - inspired by the song 'Golgi Apparatus' by Phish");

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Mary Fesenko @mafesenko.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I put an ode to the Golgi into a Fiji macro I wrote and it made it into the Github repo associated with my paper 👌 Those who seek it shall find this Easter egg 🐣 on: github.com/quantixed/p0... (code snippet in the next post) @steveroyle.bsky.social

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Robert Haase @haesleinhuepf.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Do you want to understand better how LLMs work? Do you want to use LLMs in applications in science or industry? Join us for this two-day training in Leipzig! 🚀

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Mary Fesenko @mafesenko.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Thanks! I’m a daily visitor on that site 😅👩‍💻

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Mary Fesenko @mafesenko.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I’m currently looking for a post-doc in the UK, particularly to work on projects that employ in-vitro reconstitution and quantitative #microscopy approaches to study #cellbiology processes (esspecially #membranetraffic) + would be grateful for sign-posting towards openings! 🙏

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Mary Fesenko @mafesenko.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

And thank you @jcellsci.bsky.social for publishing an interview with me - I enjoyed reflecting on my work + journey in science so far! I’m looking forward to new chapters in my membrane trafficking adventures and hope to continue exploring how cell organelles shape-shift + communicate!

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Mary Fesenko @mafesenko.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

This story wouldn’t be here w/out @lizziecourthold.bsky.social, @moore-cell.bsky.social, Peyton Ewbank + other colleagues from @steveroyle.bsky.social’s lab who helped us along the way!

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Mary Fesenko @mafesenko.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I had lots of fun fishing for vesicles during my PhD 🎣🔬 and I’m very happy to see the final version of this story out along with a wild cherry tree planted in the Forest of Biologists - a wonderful biodiversity-promoting initiative by @biologists.bsky.social!

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Prof Duncan Westbury @duncanwestbury.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

An ancient woodland indicator, Wood anemone. Why? Because it mainly grows vegetatively and spreads slowly. Every year I take a photo of this same patch. Photos below from 2017 & 2025. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @lgspace.bsky.social @wtscotsocial.bsky.social

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Mary Fesenko @mafesenko.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

It’s my favourite time of the year! 🌸 I’m loving seeing all the blossoming trees + flowers while out and about, esp. magnolias which remind me of my hometown of Kyiv. Today, I also came across an unfamiliar flower species, which I learned was in the genus Anemonoides thanks to the iNaturalist app!

A photo of a blossoming saucer magnolia (Magnolia × soulangeana) tree against a blue sky, captured on a walk earlier today

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Mary Fesenko @mafesenko.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Really exited to be at #100biologists! Come to my poster #120 NOW to hear about my PhD work with @steveroyle.bsky.social on characterising different flavours of intracellular nanovesicles! We also have (moderately) exciting giveaway at my poster - check it out!

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ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET, ᗰᗪ @nizet.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

pretty and useful copper phosphate and tannic acid possess anti-inflammatory and antibiotic properties mixed in a saline solution, they self-assemble and grow into flower-like structures the nanoflowers can be attached to small strips of electrospun nanofabric to make an antimicrobial bandage

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Future bandages could be armed with nanoflowers

The tiny structures may help fight deadly bacteria like E. coli.

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Mary Fesenko @mafesenko.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I loved reading this! 🔬❤️

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Mary Fesenko @mafesenko.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Thank you so much, Joe! 💪

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adam grieve @adamgrieve.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Can I ask you to share a PhD advert at Bristol Uni please? Rhomboid proteases play a role in neurons that is essential for life- but it is not characterised. Got a student interested in cell biology, electrophysiology and neurobiology? Send them our way! tinyurl.com/56f24f7c

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Dorien Pastoors @dpastoors.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I am really enjoying the surge of people to bluesky but still kind of missing the VERY early career group of people! (Aging in academia is a funny thing) - I went ahead and made this starter pack go.bsky.app/Jq8YaQM - if you would like to be removed/added please let me know

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Matthew Freeman @mjafreeman.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Waves of new BlueSky arrivals in last few days! I’ve been tracking starter packs relevant to molecular/mechanistic/genetic/cellular…etc biology Hope it’s helpful but warning: now a v long thread! Probably the last time I can do this...

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Mary Fesenko @mafesenko.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Woah! Getting follows from lots of scientists today 👋 Looking forward to the new discussions!

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Mary Fesenko @mafesenko.bsky.social · 06/10/2024

Thanks to FocalPlane for highlighting our preprint: focalplane.biologists.com/2024/10/04/m... Microscopy is definitely a highlight of my work, especially imaging the dynamics of my favourite organelles and transport vesicles! The FocalPlane ‘how to’ posts are a great source of 🔬👩🏼‍💻 technical tips!

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Microscopy preprints – applications in biology - FocalPlane

Microscopy preprints – applications in biology - News

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Mary Fesenko @mafesenko.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

It was exciting to show that INVs function on a degradative trafficking pathway - macroautophagy - as well as on exocytic + recycling routes. The ATG9A lipid-scrambling capacity of these vesicles may be important in other membrane-remodelling contexts 🤔 Lots still to explore! 🌈 #CellBiology

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Mary Fesenko @mafesenko.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

Happy to see my first-author preprint online 🎉 It’s been a fun challenge to find ways to distinguish different Intracellular Nanovesicle Identities in cells - ATG9-flavour INVs are only the first we’ve characterised!

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Mary Fesenko @mafesenko.bsky.social · 26/02/2024

This is very useful, thanks for sharing it again, Mara!

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Matthew Freeman @mjafreeman.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

Important so please help spread the word... Interested in postgrad research? Maybe do a PhD? Oxford runs a summer internship scheme for UK students from under-represented and disadvantaged backgrounds Stipend, free accommodation, mentoring... Deadline 21 Feb www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g...

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🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · 11/01/2024

When I did my PhD at Cal Bot Gard, #Ceanothus (#Rhamnaceae) stole my heart. They're amazing chaparral shrubs, especially the blue-flowered species. I don't see them here on the East Coast, but I still ❤️ them. My fondness & fascination for the family has never diminished. 📷: C. purpureus. #Botany 🌾🧪

Photo of leafy branches and clusters of flowers. The leaves are small and have spiny margins. The flowers are small & purple.

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Séamus Holden 🔬🦠🧫 @seamusholden.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

🚨JOBS🚨🦠🔬 Two 4 year post-docs available in my lab at Warwick. Looking for experts in super-resolution #microscopy, single molecule fluorescence, FRET or protein biochemistry. Visa+NHS fees covered. Salary~£40K. Two exciting team science projects with outstanding collaborators #microsky

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Lil (Lillian Fritz-Laylin) @fritzlaylin.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

🚨🧪New lab preprint: "We therefore propose a model for cytoskeletal evolution in which pools of microtubule network components constrain and guide the diversification of the entire network, so that the evolution of tubulin is inextricably linked to that of its binding partners." tinyurl.com/27ck46nb

Figure one in our new preprint showing the diversity of microtubule binding proteins in different eukaryotic lineages. There are a lot of these proteins all across the eukaryotic tree!

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Melonie @quioui.bsky.social · 06/01/2024

Let me see if I have a few sources on hand for Academic Merit: Greatest Hits 1/ "Gender differences in recommendation letters for postdoctoral fellowships in geoscience" www.nature.com/articles/nge...

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SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

Take off 🪶

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Mary Fesenko @mafesenko.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

Woah! What a world of difference to the old Zoology building 😮 Can’t say I miss it!

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 07/01/2024

A spectacular tail halo on the Squirrel of the Day for January 7, 2024 #sqrlpix

squirrel standing in tree with reddish tail visible behind head

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