Felix Ruhnow

Really love to see this tested on a larger scale!

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💼 Postdoctoral Researcher (M/F) in Biophysics of Bacterial Infection
📆 January 1st, 2026
📍Institut Jacques Monod, Bonazzi Lab

Apply before November 6th 🔗 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

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#Barcelona, how about this? We don't even have inclement weather here 🚴☀️

So cool! Is there a publication/pre-print/white-paper on this already?

Endinsa’t en una vivència sensorial única que connecta ciència i art immersiu. “SEEING: Un ull i una caixa” arriba del 5 al 14 de juny al Centre Cívic Convent de Sant Agustí (Carrer del Comerç 36, Barcelona). www.crg.eu/en/event/see...

Pretty Microscope 🤩

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Join us for the 3rd DivIDE Conference from 22–25 September 2025 in sunny Barcelona ☀️. An inspiring line-up of speakers awaits — reserve your spot and help spread the word!

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A strong Europe that rolls on at high speed: not just possible. Necessary.

Efficient EU train services offer clean and smart ways to travel.

We want to bridge gaps in the EU's rail network with a new high-speed rail plan ↓

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Your yearly reminder to acknowledge the core facilities you use and their staff scientists in your papers. These scientists are a crucial part of the scientific ecosystem and to continue to exist they need tangible credit for their work. Plus their associated expertise adds credibility to your work.

Less cars, more life - El·lipse A study by ISGlobal shows how urban and mobility decisions directly affect people's health. Specifically, reducing traffic in Barcelona by 25% could save around 200 lives a year.

A study by @isglobal.org, with the collab of @bsc-cns.bsky.social, shows how urban and mobility decisions directly affect people’s health. 

❌🚙For example, reducing traffic in Barcelona by 25% could save around 200 lives a year.

Read more here 👇

Bright and photostable yellow fluorescent proteins for extended imaging - Nature Communications Yellow fluorescent proteins (YFPs) photobleach rapidly, restricting microscopy experiments. Here, the authors report mGold2s and mGold2t, YFPs that extend imaging durations up to 25 times longer than ...

Bright and photostable yellow fluorescent proteins for extended imaging by François St-Pierre and team:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities Active travel can help tackle the climate crisis earlier than electric vehicles – even if you swap the car for a bike for just one trip a day.

"Emissions from cycling can be more than 30x lower for each trip than driving a fossil fuel car, and about 10x lower than driving an electric one."

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Applications for the next DiscoverEU round are now open 🚆

You could win a free 30-day train pass to explore Europe if you are...

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Mike Sheetz (1946-2025) made immense contributions to our understanding of motor proteins, membrane biology, cytoskeleton and mechanobiology. Haguy Wolfenson, Gregory Giannone, and Martin Schwartz recall his life and work: rupress.org/jcb/article/...

Beautiful 🤩 I like the shadows of the microtubules and in the 'forest' of motors 🤗

Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump » Le ministre de la recherche français a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines. Le chercheur du CNRS aurait subi un contrôle aléatoire à son arrivée, avant q...

Bonkers. French researcher on its way to a conference was denied US entry and his electronic equipment seized after computer searched and anti-Trmp *messages* found. Even if CNRS doesn't put the US on the travel black list (which they likely will do), it's clearly not safe to go there 😨

Scientists, please share!🔬

Explore living systems through a physics lens. The #Biophysics MSc at @cmcb-tud.bsky.social opens applications on 1st April 🗓️ Taught entirely in English, with no tuition fees!

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Also: no need of labelling tubulin thanks to IRM! Should really become more widely implemented on commercial scopes and their accompanying software.

Wanna study how proteins bind the GTP cap of microtubles? Make microtubules that mimic the cap!

❗ BIG JOB ALERT: we are looking for a new Administrative Director at the CRG. This is a critical role and unique opportunity to help steer the operational strategy of our research institute. Please share and apply by 23rd of March, 2025: recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs...

Noninvasive Long-Term Imaging of the Cytoskeleton in Arabidopsis Seedlings The preparation of biological samples, especially for live-cell microscopy, remains a major experimental challenge in the lab despite technological advances. In addition, high-resolution microscopy te...

If you need more information on the sample prep for vertical imaging, check out this book chapter as well: link.springer.com/protocol/10....
Feel free to DM me if you are behind a paywall...

Finally out! Great work team @surreylab.bsky.social and congrats to @bilirubina.bsky.social for publishing and defending the PhD within the same week 🎉

Go birds 🦅

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We are amongst the lucky few who can do science and gaze into the Mediterranean sea on a daily basis. So it was truly remarkable to also see pink skies emerge during sunset in Barcelona yesterday 🥰🌅

Thanks, highly appreciated 👍