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Royal Microscopical Society @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Register FREE to watch this online today from 11am (BST)! Great meeting packed with talks from RMS award-winners, our Early Career Competition and updates from our RMS Committees 🙂 🔬 Register now: ow.ly/o4Yq50ZQtNK

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026

Four 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/3VSWayc

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Did 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.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Once again, I gotta say: you cannot treat anything you’re feeding into an AI as anonymous. There are enormous ethics implications for, e.g. referees who are clearly uploading others’ unpublished papers without consent, let alone health care professionals or law enforcement

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Estibaliz Gómez de Mariscal, PhD @gomez-mariscal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🚨I have open PhD positions in my new lab at #NIMSB🚀!! Deadline Oct-16 nimsb.unl.pt/join-us/ 🌟I'm looking for motivated candidates who are eager to join a highly multidisciplinary team and study the intracellular dynamics of cancer cell migration using advanced computational methods and microscopy👾

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napari @napari.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

🚀 napari is hiring Remote Developers-in-Residence! Join us to build the future of interactive n-dimensional data visualization in Python. 💻 60% Dev / 20% Maintenance / 20% Community & Outreach 💰 $59.50/hr (Contract, 14–35 hrs/wk) 🌍 100% Remote, open globally Learn more and apply today […]

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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Here's a way to get a pure science shot on Bluesky: a custom feed that only shows the posts from people you follow that are linked to a DOI bsky.app/profile/pape...

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Every damn word of this.👇

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Rachel Mellwig @rachelmellwig.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Come learn about in-situ CLEM in beautiful Heidelberg! Registration closes October 25th, don’t miss out! @events.embl.org

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“The United States will no longer limit the planet-warming pollution that power plants pump into the air while burning coal and gas” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/c...

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E.P.A. Will Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants (Gift Article)

Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A dire warning, billionaire criminal Musk has set up a scheme in the form of a website votesafe.org in order to steal voter information. Never click on the link and please share this everywhere so others won’t fall prey to it like so many others.

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Sebastian Munck @sebastianmunck.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Last call for our interuniversity course in advanced microscope - application deadline: 14 September www.flandersbioimaging.org/icalm26

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iCALM26 | Fbiv23

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Huisken lab @huiskenlab.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Shape the future of light: PhD opportunities in photonics in the Huisken lab. Excellent research network. Apply through the Max Planck School of Photonics. Deadline 1 Dec 2026. www.photonics.school/ #LSFM #lightsheet #Flamingo

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"So-called zero-click attacks are different, and far more lethal, than standard phishing emails and texts. They are considered especially pernicious because they are so hard to defend against, given that they do not require a victim to step into a digital booby trap."

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Agathe Chaigne @agathechaigne.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I am very excited that I will host @henrydebelly.bsky.social on October 8th in Utrecht. Please join us, and if you wish to talk to Henry drop me an email, a message here or scream across campus!

Announcement for the seminar of Henry de belly, October 8th, 3.30 in Ruppert 042 at Utrecht University, mechanical forces as long range organisers for cellular physiology

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Ohio Todd @lettucewrangler.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Sometimes i think about how, in the late 90s, USPS was moving to set up a secure email address for every US resident and how congress prevented it.

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Christian Preußer @chpreusser.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

EVs facilitate cell communication, but does this explain their release? Our new #JEV Perspective begins with thermodynamics and explores when the #EV function becomes quantitatively plausible. It's a challenging idea to develop, and one I’m especially proud of. doi.org/10.1002/jev2...

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Extracellular Vesicle Release Within Energetic and Quantitative Constraints: Implications for Function

Extracellular vesicle release reflects a thermodynamic membrane baseline in cells maintained far from equilibrium. Cargo loading follows stochastic partitioning, so most vesicles contribute to flux w...

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bioRxiv Cell Biology @biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

TSPAN3 defines a distinct intracellular trafficking route to secretory multivesicular bodies www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

At this rate we're going to need a curated list of which commercial antibodies are reliable at all... 'The latest search (...) reported that he had found more than 18,000 further questionable images associated with antibodies sold by 15 companies, and released a database of them.'

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More than 18,000 questionable images found in antibody catalogues of 15 companies

Science sleuth’s findings raise questions for researchers working to improve the reliability of commercial antibodies.

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Letter from 130 bioethicists condemns the “unwarranted, ill-advised, & frankly bizarre vendetta against a scientist, Dr. Anthony Fauci, rather than making a sincere effort to learn from the painful experiences of the pandemic to improve national preparedness” bioethicstoday.org/blog/an-open...

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Blog - An Open Letter of Support for Anthony Fauci from the Bioethics Community - Bioethics Today

As individuals concerned with ethics in science, medicine, and public health, we wish to express our dismay at the approach taken by Senate leaders to

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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A 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/🧵

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Cees Dekker @ceesdekker.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Come join our #CDlab! We have various open positions for PhD students or postdocs, see ceesdekkerlab.nl/come-join-us/ Particularly, I search a PhD student for protein sequencing with nanopores (keywords: nanopores, DNA origami, peptide/protein sequencing) Apply! RT=👍

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Come join us - Cees Dekker Lab

Cees Dekker Lab

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Tim Feinstein @timnfeinstein.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

So, why are laptop makers pushing masochist machines with inadequate RAM? Because AI data centers bought all the RAM. As a result you can’t afford memory because AI ate it, and your laptop won’t run because all the little perma-installed AIs eat all the memory.

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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

We’ve just published our latest #preprint list. This week we focus on research using microscopy to answer questions in biology. Let us know if you have any recommendations for us to add to the list. focalplane.biologists.com/2026/08/21/m...

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Microscopy preprints: applications in biology - FocalPlane

Microscopy preprints: applications in biology - News

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napari @napari.org · 20/08/2026

Sizzling Summer Series 4 - global 🌍️ napari 0.9.0 is about ready to fly out the door! ✈️ We would be grateful if you tried out the pre-release: Install into an environment with `pip install "napari[all]>=0.9.0rc1"` or try with uv in a temp environment with `uvx "napari[all]>=0.9.0rc1"`.

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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Read the thread, prevent yourself getting spooked by disinformation. The worst, and one of the oldest: scaring pregnant women with the health of their unborn.

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

“The investigation suggests the group embraced a dubious approach to identifying protective mutations, improperly changed patient data to tease provocative findings from Christchurch carriers, and published multiple papers containing suspect or copied images.” More trouble in Alzheimer research…🧪

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Science investigation casts doubt on genes hailed for warding off Alzheimer’s disease

Mutations found in Colombian families raised hopes for treatments. Altered patient data and suspect images call their benefits into question

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Hubrecht Institute @hubrechtinstitute.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Only one month left to apply for the Hubrecht International PhD program (HIPP)! All information about the program and application process can be found here: www.hubrecht.eu/hipp/.

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Niema Moshiri @niema.net · 13/08/2026

Our department is hiring an Adjunct Professor at all ranks! apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04582

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Assistant, Associate or Full Adjunct Professor

University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 13/08/2026

Why don't we just wait and sort climate change later www.ft.com/content/7190...

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Markus Elsner @markuselsner.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Only 3 spots left ...

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The doctor who tried to save lives during Covid is being treated like a villain. The traitors who beat up cops at the Capitol on Jan. 6 are being treated like victims or heroes. It's American madness.

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Live updates: Senate committee to vote on whether to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress | CNN Politics

Sen. Rand Paul, a longtime Fauci foe, announced the vote after the retired scientist invoked the Fifth Amendment over 100 times during a committee hearing last week.

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Kelly Sovacool @kelly.sova.cool · 06/08/2026

hot take: it is better not to have an image/graphic at all for your blog/talk/flyer/poster than to make one with genAI

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 06/08/2026

Here's a new kind of virus that scientists have generated with AI. And here's my story about what it means for us to have gotten to this remarkable moment: nyti.ms/4bBhoWB (Gift link) 🧪

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CIBSS – Centre for Integrative Biological Signalling Studies @cibss.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

📣 #JobAlert The @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social of @uni-freiburg.de invites applications for a position as Head of the Life Imaging Center (LIC) – the core facility for light microscopy. ❗ Application Deadline: 6 September, 2026 🔗 kurzlinks.de/2126 #Biology #LightMicroscopy #Imaging

Job alert for Head of Life Imaging Center with the application deadline (6 September).

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 01/08/2026

This is fantastic

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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

AlphaFold was always bait-and-switch; now Google confirms it. A hyper-narrow bioinformatrics model with actual science bolted on whose guesses can be experimentally checked was never a licence for socially-applied slop at scale, but it's done its job. Effort transferred to LLMs.

Screenshot of Financial Times headline reading "Google DeepMind dismantles Nobel-winning AlphaFold team in strategy shift" with photo of Demis Hassabis & John Jumper

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Daniel Hurdiss @danielhurdiss.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

One month left to apply (deadline August 31st)! 👇 #Virology #AcademicJobs #FacultyJobs #FacultyPosition #TenureTrack #GroupLeader

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Beate Sodeik @beatesodeiklab.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

From the major German Funding Agency, the DFG; content-wise independent from the Government. Run by the universities and the scientists! 👊🏼 @dfg.de

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Aafke Gros @aafkegros.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Microscopy Nodes 3.1 is out for Blender 5.2! 🎉 This has cool new features for conditional masking, working with even larger data (regional upscaling), and data manipulation! Watch the new youtube tutorials that explain the features: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

A FIB-SEM plankton visualization where the top shows only the volumetric data of the chromosomes, and the bottom a normally sliced region of the cell.

A fluorescence microscopy dataset where a region has been reloaded to be much higher resolution

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Séamus Holden 🔬🦠🧫 @seamusholden.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Jobs: My fantastic membrane biologist colleague Satyajit Mayor (warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/med/...) has a really exciting single molecule #biophysics PDRA position currently advertised based at @warwickmed.bsky.social warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

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Research Fellow in Membrane Biophysics (111600-0526) - University of Warwick

Title: Research Fellow in Membrane Biophysics (111600-0526). Application Deadline: . Position Type: Fixed Term

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Simon F. Nørrelykke @simonfn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

New resource for teaching and learning BioImage Analysis, long in the making, from @tischi.bsky.social and friends, incl. @carpentries.carpentries.org. With roots in the material developed for NEUBIAS workshops.

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