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Janet Iwasa @jiwasa.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Interested in molecular animation? Give ProteinBlender a try! It's free and open source. animation-lab.github.io/ProteinBlend... The latest tools include a DNA builder (shown in the tutorial video below). We'd love to hear what you think! We have short tutorials that cover all the features!

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Megan Hochstrasser @meganhoch.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Can’t not repost a science story that uses the word “whodunit”

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I'd like to introduce you to Panulirus ornatus, the ornate rock lobster. They're native to the Indo-Pacific, with a large range centered on New Guinea & the Great Barrier Reef near Australia. They're a member of family Palinuridae, the spiny or rock lobsters. So why so colorful?

A jewel-toned lobster faces the camera, with long horns and spiky bits all over the exoskeleton. It's on a wooden board. The coloration is ornate and very multi-colored, from purple to yellow to blue to orange.

There are five species of rock lobster found in tropical Australian waters, but by far the most abundant is the Ornate Rock Lobster, Panulirus ornatus. This species forms the basis of dive fishery in both the Torres Straits and in the Gulf of Papua. CSIRO scientists have traced the movements of these lobsters to reveal a remarkable picture of animal migration. The lobsters undertake a journey that takes them hundreds of kilometres across the Torres Strait to their breeding grounds in the Gulf of Papua. After breeding, they seem to disappear. November 1985. Photo credit: Robert Kerton

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Adair Borges @adairb.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

The best immunologists on Earth don't have PhDs. They're parasites. Today's spotlight 🧵(and big inspo for @ dittobio): ticks! And if you like this, stay tuned because we will be sharing cool parasite facts each week #TickTalk

An illustration of the Lone Star tick, Amblyomma americanum

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Adair Borges @adairb.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Inaugural Bluesky post! 🦋 Last May I quit my job to start Ditto Bio with Emily Weiss and @mezarque.bsky.social We turn parasite molecules into drugs for autoimmune disease, and we are now backed by @ycombinator.com.web.brid.gy Stay tuned 👀

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Megan Hochstrasser @meganhoch.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Exciting progress from a great team of scientists! Can't wait to see what Ditto accomplishes. Love me some parasites (intellectually, dear lord don't give me a tapeworm)

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Megan Hochstrasser @meganhoch.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Free, professional illustrations of research organisms! 🎨🐁🪼🧪 We compiled original vector/raster graphics of 70+ organisms & viruses into a CC0 library. All by @arcadiascience.com's Audrey Bell Check it out & show us how you use them! research.arcadiascience.com/pub/resource... #SciArt #OpenScience

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Arcadia Science @arcadiascience.com · 19/03/2025

Researchers often use a compound called 48/80 to activate mast cells for degranulation assays... But it's toxic ☠️ in the two cell lines we tested: HMC1.2 (human mast cells) and RBL-2H3 (rat basophils) This could confound many studies — please share! 🧪 research.arcadiascience.com/pub/result-4...

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Compound 48/80 is toxic in HMC1.2 and RBL-2H3 cells

We found that compound 48/80, an MRGPRX2 agonist and commonly used in vitro mast cell activator, is toxic in HMC1.2 (human mast cells) and RBL-2H3 (rat basophils). Researchers should use caution and i...

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Megan Hochstrasser @meganhoch.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

We've just released Arcadia's version of executable notebooks, would love people's thoughts and feedback! #ScientificPublishing research.arcadiascience.com/pub/perspect...

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10k Science @10k.science · 07/03/2025

We just completed our third 10k Science Communication Bootcamp! 🧬 Four UC Berkeley scientists visualized their research like never before: 10k.science/bootcamp-3 Special thanks to our bootcamp experts: @jiwasa.bsky.social, Dee Rossiter, and @meganhoch.bsky.social! #SciComm #SciViz #PhDSky #science

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Painful stings like the velvet ants' venom actually evolved to defend them from insect predators, so it's surprising how well they target mammalian nociception ('pain-sensing') pathways. There's a nice paper on this where they found velvet ant venom caused aversion in fruit flies, mice, and mantis.

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Alejandro Montenegro @aemonten.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Do I know any science illustrator or similar who also does logos? I may have a project! Please repost 😊

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Megan Hochstrasser @meganhoch.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

#PubDrop! We've been experimenting with a more scientist-led approach to open publishing at @arcadiascience.com. After 6 months, here's what we've learned about putting researchers fully in charge of sharing their work… 🧵 1/8 research.arcadiascience.com/pub/result-e... 🧪#ScientificPublishing

Diagram of how various facets of Arcadia’s publishing model have evolved where the biggest improvements are in areas that enhance the external replicability of the model, and the biggest emerging issue is the slow time to publish.

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Sebastian S. Cocioba @atinygreencell.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I am ***absurdly*** excited to announce the launch of a new funding opportunity through Experiment dot com!!! You have one month to pitch something wonderful in the realm of plant biology/biotech research and education. $10,000 max grant. PLEASE RE-POST + SHARE!!! 1/3 experiment.com/programs/pla...

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Plant Biology Exploratory Research Microgrant | Experiment

For Science!

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Megan Hochstrasser @meganhoch.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

Lots of open scientist roles at @arcadiascience.bsky.social right now — process dev, image analysis, protein bioinformatics, etc. Tell a friend! 🧪🧬🖥️ Click4jobz: jobs.lever.co/arcadiascience

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

PSA: the CDC has a program that pays for your COVID vaccine if your insurer won't. The guy at CVS told me that my insurer had not added the new vaccine to its formulary yet, so I'd need to pay $190. I told him about this program, showed him the website, and paid nothing. 🤗

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Bridge Access Program | CDCCenters for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC twenty four seven. Saving...

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Arcadia Science @arcadiascience.com · 19/09/2023

We’re hosting a fun mini-hackathon in person here at Arcadia Science for Hacktoberfest 2023! 🖥️ 🧬 Come join us the afternoon of Fri. Oct. 6 and contribute to a curated list of repositories. We’ll have coffee and snacks — sign up today, space is limited! Details: www.eventbrite.com/e/hacktoberf...

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Hacktoberfest at Arcadia Science

Join us at Arcadia Science for a mini-hackathon as part of Hacktoberfest 2023 to give back to the open source software community.

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Pedro Leão @pedroleao.bsky.social · 14/09/2023

📢 I'm thrilled to announce this pre-print! 🥳 Ever since the debate on a possible bacterial origin of innate immune mechanisms gained traction, I've been wondering: What role do Archaea play in it? 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Asgard archaea defense systems and their roles in the origin of immunity in eukaryotes

bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 03/09/2023

Scientist? ✔️ New to BlueSky? ✔️ Wanna get your posts seen by people in your field? ✔️ Check out this list of 42 science-related feeds 👇 You can add specific feeds to your timeline to see their posts, and you can include your own posts in a feed by including a feed-specific tag. #AcademicSky 🧪

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Sheet1 Likes,Name (Click to visit feed),Tags,Contact to ask to be added to contributor list 2452,<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jfhpnnst6flqway4eaeqzj2a/feed/for-science">What's Science</a...

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Arcadia Science @arcadiascience.com · 01/09/2023

🗣️ Calling all microscopy enthusiasts! We're looking for publicly available, open-source video data featuring bright-field, DIC, or phase-contrast images. These data will complement our own in a new study on focus-filtering techniques. Please comment with a link to a public repository!

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