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ISGlobal @isglobal.org · 05/09/2026

🫁 How healthy are your lungs? This Sunday, join #HealthyLungsForLife at 📍Plaça Universitat, Barcelona, for free lung function testing and practical advice on clean air and lung health. 📅 6 Sept · 10:00–18:30 🔗 More info: shorturl.at/tke5a

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Science Magazine @science.org · 05/05/2026

Deepfakes are everywhere, but digital forensics investigators are fighting back. Learn more: scim.ag/42dMPBg

To verify images, digital forensics investigators will often check whether the geometry of the scene is realistic. In a real photo, lines that run parallel in reality—like floor tiles—should meet at a single vanishing point. In this image, however, the dotted lines do not meet in a single point, indicating it is a fake.
Image: an AI-generated image of soldiers marching down a hallway in three lines, wearing fatigues and carrying rifles. Four dotted white lines have been added over the image, running along the floor tiles visible in the foreground and extending back to where the vanishing point should be, behind the soldiers. Instead of meeting in a single point, the lines all cross at different points.

Investigators also examine reflections. The lines connecting points on an object to matching points in its mirror image run parallel in reality, so similarly should meet at a vanishing point. In this image, the lines again do not converge on one point, revealing it to be a fake.
Image: An AI-generated image of a plastic cartoon dinosaur toy with its reflection visible in a small mirror. Four dotted white lines are layered over the image, connecting points on the toy with the same points on its reflection: the top of its eye, the end of its jaw, its hand, and its foot. The lines extend out to the side of the image, where they all cross at different points rather than meeting at a single point.

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John Rubinstein @johnrubinstein.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Sad news on the passing of Prof. Andreas Engel, a pioneer in the field of cryo-EM (shared with the 3DEM community by Henning Stahlberg). Andreas' kindness, warmth, and enthusiasm for science and his colleagues will be missed.

Dear colleagues,
With deep sadness I share the news that Andreas Engel passed away last Wednesday, at the age of 82, after a courageous fight against an aggressive caner. Only half a year ago, he was out hiking in the Italian mountains with his wife Barbara, walking 160 km in a single week.
Andreas trained as a physicist in Bern, Switzerland, before heading to John Hopkins University in Baltimore for his postdoctoral work. He then led a research group at the Biozentrum in Basel, and in 1985 took on the role of a group leader in research and development at Ilford Ltd. in Fribourg, Switzerland.
In 1987, he joined forces with his colleague Ueli Aebi to establish the Maurice E. Müller Institute at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel. Together, Ueli and Andreas served as professors for structural biology there for almost a quarter century, leaving a lasting mark on the field of structural biology as we know it today.

Andreas Engel was a true pioneer. He was among the first to apply atomic force microscopy (AFM) with the tip operating under water, and one of the earliest researchers to perform 3D reconstructions using scanning transmission electron microscopy, achieving remarkable high-resolution maps of porin 2D crystals by STEM. He became a leading expert in membrane protein 2D crystallization, and his group played a key role in the determination of the first aquaporin structure, in collaboration with Peter Agre and Yoshinori Fujiyoshi.
As he approached retirement from Basel, Andreas founded the Center for Cellular Imaging and NanoAnalytics (C-CINA) of the University of Basel, which in 2009 operated among others one of the very early Titan Krios instruments. From 2008 also held a professorship at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, followed by a position at TU Delft in the Netherlands in 2013. In 2020, he was among the founding members of CryoWrite, a company in Basel that he led as CEO until recently.
His contributions to science, to the tools of str…

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Miki Ebisuya @ebisuyamiki.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

New preprint from the lab! How do tissue shapes influence cell fate decisions? By manipulating brain organoid geometry, we show that lumen rounding directs apical progenitor division mode and promotes the emergence of basal progenitors. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/

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VIZCIE | SCIENTIFIC VISUALS @vizcie.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

And here is the Walk through video tutorial on how to make your proteins move with Brownian motion! youtu.be/uOEsHBZ-omY It's my first recording and I am not sure it is because of my stuffy nose or I always sound like this... 🫠

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Blender Brownian Motion Presets Walk Through

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VIZCIE | SCIENTIFIC VISUALS @vizcie.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Do you also want to make animation with proteins moving following Brownian motion paths? Just get my Geometry Nodes presets from: vizcie.gumroad.com/l/BlenderBro... As soon as I have a microphone arriving and some time I will try to make a walk through tutorial ^_^ #BlenderScience #GeometryNodes

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Fundació Catalana per a la Recerca i la Innovació @fcri.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

📢 Obert el Concurs #Xprimenta2026! 🧪🎥 Iniciativa de l'@fcri.bsky.social i @comunicacioaccc.bsky.social per a alumnes i docents (de primària a FP). El repte: explicar un concepte científic amb vídeos de màx. 3 minuts amb experiments. 🗓️Termini inscripció: 10/04 🔗Més info: tuit.cat/8fqXb

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VIZCIE | SCIENTIFIC VISUALS @vizcie.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Wanna see DNA transcription, translation, ParM filaments assembling and travel through the basement membrane of follicle cells? Check out the reel I prepared with animations for academia. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMjq...

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VIZCIE | Academia animation Reel March 2026

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VIZCIE | SCIENTIFIC VISUALS @vizcie.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

February's PDB Molecule of the Month is for "Histones Across the Tree of Life". I wanted to focus on the histones of archaea Methanothermus fervidus which thrives at 83°C in sulfur pools in Iceland. I call the image: "Compacting DNA at nearly boiling water."

The image shows DNA nucleosomes arranged from histones in archaea. DNA is portrayed as an incandescent metal in a heated environment.

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Blender @blender.org · 17/02/2026

Who knew that Blender could help us study the stars? 🌌 In this new User Story, Ph.D student @jamshidi3d.bsky.social explains how he used Geometry Nodes for his research in cosmology. www.blender.org/user-stories... #b3d #geonodes #cosmology #research #userstory

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Cosmology with Geometry Nodes — Blender

Learn about the real-life scientific applications of GeoNodes in Cosmology research.

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Jan Stevens @janstevens.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Our paper on [Bentopy](doi.org/10.1002/pro....) is out in Protein Science! We developed Bentopy to make assembling large-scale MD models more accessible, building on what we learned from trying to simulate whole-cell models. Here's our updated Martini JCVI-syn3A cell model👇

Cutaway and close-up views of a Martini coarse-grained whole-cell model of JCVI-syn3A, showing the densely packed cytoplasm with proteins, RNA, metabolites, and chromosome inside a lipid membrane with embedded membrane proteins

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Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

#Dataviz books everyone should read 📚 - a community sourced #charticle informationisbeautiful.net/visualizatio... Created in association with @‌DataVizSociety #iibwab

A screenshot of a scrolling array of books on data-visualisation divided into several categories: creative works, curated collections, how to and theory book. Over 169 titles.

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Andrea Thompson @andreatweather.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

As we get ready to watch Ilia Malinin skate, please read this fascinating piece by my colleague @parshallison.bsky.social about how the self-appointed Quad God is able to do what he does. And how figure skaters have been able to land progressively more difficult jumps. ⛸️ 🧪

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How the ‘Quad God’ cracked a seemingly impossible jump

How do figure skaters like Ilia Malinin keep landing harder and harder jumps?

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VIZCIE | SCIENTIFIC VISUALS @vizcie.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

What if we could have nanodroplets to deliver drugs or perform chemical reactions, but that they don't stick to surfaces, yet they can merge on demand? Tenjimbayashi-san and coworkers from the Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics in Japan made it! 👇 www.nims.go.jp/mana/researc...

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VIZCIE | SCIENTIFIC VISUALS @vizcie.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

RNA-only Nanocages - a white canvas for biotechnology? What could they store inside? Could they be used for drug delivery? I made this image for The Molecule of the Month Challenge from Blender Science Discord. Refs: www.vizcie.com/post/rna-onl... #biotechnology #SciArt #Science #DrugDelivery

The image shows nanocages made of RNA in white with abstract colorful crystals inside.

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Christophe Le Clainche @actin-paris-saclay.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

New paper out! We show how mechanosensitive adherens junction proteins link actomyosin contractility to actin assembly using in vitro reconstitution. Huge congrats to Aurélie Favarin, Rayan Said, & all authors! In Science Advances: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #actin #myosin #mechanobiology

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Li-Kun Phng @phnglab.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Simply delighted to end the year with the acceptance of Yan’s paper www.nature.com/articles/s41.... It was a heroic effort on her part, and many thanks to all our collaborators for their help! @vizcie.bsky.social @juliaeckert.bsky.social

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VIZCIE | SCIENTIFIC VISUALS @vizcie.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Wishing you all a Merry and Healthy Christmas with the @rcsbpdb.bsky.social Molecule of the Month FOXP3! Learn more: pdb101.rcsb.org/motm/312 #MoleculeOfTheMonth #NobelPrize #MerryChristmas

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Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · 08/12/2025

🔬 Call to create junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur Focus: Infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions, vaccines Special interest: AI methodologies 📅 Deadline: Feb 9, 2026 👥 2-12 years post-PhD Apply now 📝 research.pasteur.fr/en/call/crea... #JobOpportunity #Research

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Creation of new junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur - Call for applications 2026 - Research

The Institut Pasteur is launching an international call to recruit new junior research group leaders leveraging cutting-edge transdisciplinary approaches to exploring infectious diseases, host-microbe...

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VIZCIE | SCIENTIFIC VISUALS @vizcie.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

As someone who produces digital educational content this is very relevant. I keep thinking how to make my work beneficial for society.

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Matthew Clark @matthew-batisio.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I watched the Alien Prometheus movie recently and the opening scene had some pretty funky DNA ✅ Left-handed double helix ✅ Extreme 🔥 grooves ✅ ~15 bases per turn ✅ Super-glued base ladder ✅ Subatomic black goo What are some of your favourite funny molecule structures from TV/movies?

Computer generated graphics of a DNA structure from the movie Prometheus

Close up of the Prometheus DNA molecule being swallowed up by black goo.

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David Drubin @drubin.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Today, our animation synthesizing decades of research on actin-mediated endocytosis in budding yeast was published: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... The result of a fantastic Iwasa-Drubin lab collaboration. @margotriggi.bsky.social @jiwasa.bsky.social movie.biologists.com/video/10.124...

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VIZCIE | SCIENTIFIC VISUALS @vizcie.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

When labelling an element in your microscope videos, how long should you keep the label visible so the audience can catch it and read it? It is longer than you may think. See image ^_^ (from Copilot)

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RCSB Protein Data Bank @rcsbpdb.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Watch the documentary Target Zero to learn about the challenge and emotional complexity of the fight to control HIV infection

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PDB101: Learn: Videos: Target Zero: Preventing HIV Transmission Documentary

Target Zero shows the challenge and emotional complexity of the fight to control HIV infection.

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Nick Desnoyer @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

The hidden danger of Biorender (& the death of scientific illustration) A short thread 🧵

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RCSB Protein Data Bank @rcsbpdb.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

November 17 is designated by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the Cervical Cancer Elimination Day of Action. Visit PDB-101 to learn how the capsid protein of papillomavirus is used in vaccines that prevent cervical cancer.

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PDB101: Learn: Paper Models: Human Papillomavirus (HPV)

The capsid protein of papillomavirus is used in vaccines that prevent cervical cancer.

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Blender @blender.org · 20/10/2025

Join the official Blender Survey 2025! Let's get a picture of the community and help shape the future of Blender together. 🧡 www.blender.org/news/blender... #b3d #DevFund

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Manuel Thery @manuelthery.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

We hire! The CytoMorpho Lab is looking for an engineer with a background in cell and molecular biology to join our team in Paris. This is a 18-month contract position, but we're open to exploring long-term opportunities. More details here: cytomorpholab.com/index.php/jo...

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Daniel Durocher @durocher1.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

9 days to go: * 2 x open positions! * Exceptional environment, competitive start-up package * University of Toronto appointments * Toronto has great (and peaceful) quality of life!

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Naomi Moris @nmoris.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

The Crick is looking for new junior group leaders! Any postdocs or early career researchers wanting to be our colleagues should apply 👍

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VIZCIE | SCIENTIFIC VISUALS @vizcie.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

I don't think I will ever get a nicer review. ❤️ Everyday trying to give a better service.

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RCSB Protein Data Bank @rcsbpdb.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

How did a brain gene end up behaving like a virus? Research has shown that there is an evolutionary connection between Arc, retroviruses, and virus-like genetic elements called retrotransposons. More at Molecule of the Month: pdb101.rcsb.org/motm...

A comparison of the structures of dArc1 (capsid: 6TAP; pentamer: 6TAR), the retrovirus HIV (capsid: 3J3Q; pentamer: 7URN), and the retrotransposon Ty3 (6R24). Pentamers are shown in orange, and hexamers in yellow in the upper panel. In the lower panel, pentamers are shown with monomers colored in different shades of orange.

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Clockwork @watchclockwork.com · 05/08/2025

🕒 NEW VIDEO 🕒 How can a cell know the time? Let's explore the beautiful 24-hour cycle produced by #KaiC proteins in the cyanobacteria S. Elongatus. Rendered in #blender3d with @bradyajohnston.bsky.social's brilliant Molecular Nodes add-on. #biology

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Microsoft Research @msftresearch.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Today in the journal Science: BioEmu from Microsoft Research AI for Science. This generative deep learning method emulates protein equilibrium ensembles – key for understanding protein function at scale. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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VIZCIE | SCIENTIFIC VISUALS @vizcie.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Because we always see the grey matter surface of the brain, but the white matter shape is so beautiful that I just wanted to play a bit with it. Which is your favourite imaging data?

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Janet Iwasa @jiwasa.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Check out this new review (with animations, natch) of mechanisms of licensing origins of DNA replication - a wonderful (and continuing!) collaboration with Bruce Stillman @cshlnews.bsky.social and John Diffley @crick.ac.uk! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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VIZCIE | SCIENTIFIC VISUALS @vizcie.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Sometimes 3 lines of code can save a lot of time. What are you procrastinating today? #Blender3D Python Coding.

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VIZCIE | SCIENTIFIC VISUALS @vizcie.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Lighting set up for the current scene is getting out of hands ^o^. "I didn't have time to light a scene with few lights, so I put a lot instead"

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RCSB Protein Data Bank @rcsbpdb.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Download an image of H5N1 The image shows David Goodsell's artistic illustration of the H5N1 virion in cross-section and images of select H5N1 proteins created using Mol* pdb101.rcsb.org/lear...

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PDB101: Learn: Flyers, Posters, & Calendars: Posters: Influenza A H5N1 Virus

PDB-101: Training, Outreach, and Education portal of RCSB PDB

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VIZCIE | SCIENTIFIC VISUALS @vizcie.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

It became that season of the year to put ice pads under the fan of my laptop and unplug for rendering. 🤟

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Elizabeth Tasker @elizabethtasker.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

The Japan Pavilion at the #EXPO2025 was all about sustainability. The cutest room had Hello Kitty algae. Did you know that algae can absorb 14 times as much CO2 as a cedar tree? And produce 50 times as much protein as beef for the same amount of water? But could you eat these faces? Maybe yes.

Sixteen green hello kitty figures are hung on a wall. Each is clothed as a different type of algae, with different shaped heads and bodies.

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VIZCIE | SCIENTIFIC VISUALS @vizcie.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Last night was very hot in Japan, I could not sleep and ended up rewriting my "about" page. As many decisions in the middle of the night, might be a bad one and I may change it again soon. Have a peep before I change it back and let me know if I should keep it or not. www.vizcie.com/about

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About | VIZCIE

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VIZCIE | SCIENTIFIC VISUALS @vizcie.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Very inspiring to hear sir Paul Nurse explaining his research and reflect about - What is Life? - Why working with yeast has been so important to understand cells also in humans, - The consequences of natural selection, - Our responsibility to steward nature. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhZv...

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What is life? A Nobel Prize-winning scientist answers | Paul Nurse Full Interview

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