Michael Prattes

Great, thanks! 👍

I was considering writing some thoughts to help cis people understand what's going on and what's needed... but I see who likes my posts about trans news and I can extrapolate who doesn't, so what's the point? Other than a very few allies who already know the things, who's going to read it?

Excited to share our preprint on the molecular architecture of heterochromatin in human cells 🧬🔬w/ @jpkreysing.bsky.social, @johannesbetz.bsky.social,
@marinalusic.bsky.social, Turoňová lab, @hummerlab.bsky.social @becklab.bsky.social @mpibp.bsky.social

🔗 Preprint here tinyurl.com/3a74uanv

A picture on a teal background that reads: A BBMRI-ERIC story for the WHO World Health Day 2025. Healthy Beginnings, Hopeful Futures. Featuring biobank research from: Sweden (BBMRI.se), Spain (BBMRI.es), ConcePTION, ITHACA, ERN-CRANIO. The picture also shows the BBMRI-ERIC's logo.

🌍 📣 Our #WorldHealthDay series continues with a focus on birth and hopeful futures.

🔗 Read the full multimedia story: buff.ly/AbaU7Vk

#HopefulFutures #HealthForAll #WomensHealth #FertilityResearch #preeclampsia #GestationalDiabetes #breastfeeding #BreastMilk

A picture on a teal background that reads: A BBMRI-ERIC story for the WHO World Health Day 2025. Healthy Beginnings, Hopeful Futures. Featuring biobank research from: The Netherlands (BBMRI.nl), Germany (BBMRI.de). The picture also shows the BBMRI-ERIC's logo.

🌍 📣 Our #WorldHealthDay series continues with pregnancy

🤰 During #pregnancy the health of mother and baby become closely connected. Understanding genetic, environmental, and nutritional factors is key to ensuring the best possible care.

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#HopefulFutures #HealthForAll

A picture with a teal background that reads: A BBMRI-ERIC story for the WHO World Health Day 2025. Healthy Beginnings, hopeful Futures. Featuring biobank research from Estonia (BBMRI.ee), Germany (BBMRI.de) Integrate- LMedC (coordinated by BBMRI-ERIC). The picture also displays the BBMRI-ERIC logo.

🌍📣 It's #WorldHealthDay, a global initiative by WHO to promote health and well-being. This year’s theme, “Healthy Beginnings, Hopeful Futures,” highlights the importance of supporting mothers and babies, reminding us that healthy starts build #HopefulFutures.

#HealthForAll

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ChimeraX can be used to find pockets and cavities in protein structures using the Find Cavities tool or kvfinder command. This feature is available in daily builds from 10 March 2025 or later.

Video created with #Blender3D and #MolecularNodes 🧡
Audio from Pixabay: late-night-big-band-swing-jazz-instrumental-236168
🔗 pixabay.com/music/tradit...

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PS: In the meantime, who would be your candidates for a protein Superband? And how would it be called? “The Valine underground”, “Peptide Bond Jovi”? “U3 (snoRNP)”? Rage against the Myosin? “System of a Downstream Kinase?”
Let me know, I’m curious! 🙌

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👋 To all the protein people out there, and all researchers, especially those who have to fear for their funding and positions right know: Keep up the great work! Keep swingin’ and let’s MAKE SCIENCE GREAT AGAIN! 💪

#StandUpForScience #ScienceNotSilence #NoScienceNoProgress #FundScience

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Research is driven by curiosity & enthusiasm but must be fuelled with money for researchers to work efficiently towards breakthroughs.
This is money well spent, money that drives societal developments, helps cure diseases and, when used smartly, helps protect the environment (from us)

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🤝 And for exciting developments like this, we need science, good old science. And the obvious truth is, science costs money 💰

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Example? Only recently, researchers found that the proteasome, our own cellular protein chipper, can chop proteins into small peptides with anti-bacterial activity, a potential new avenue to deal with emerging antibiotic-resistance.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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👋 And oh, before I forget, besides jamming on weekends, proteins are these miraculous little fellas that not only keep our bodies up and running, no, they bare so many useful, and still unexplored features that could bring the next big scientific breakthrough.

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🎺 “The new Fab Four”
(formally known as “The Extra Densities”, “The Ramachandran Experience”, Nick Cave and the Bad Beads, “Cigarettes after SAXS” and “MGMT (Met-Gly-Met-Thr)”.

🎶 Lay back, turn up the volume, and let them play a swinging tune for you.

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👋 Amidst all these troubling and challenging global developments at the moment, it was time for a little uplifting fun #Blender3D #Protein project for me again. So, welcome with me the world’s most famous protein swing quartet:

#StandUpForScience #ScienceNotSilence #FundScience

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The IIB Awards long list is LIVE! Enough incredible #dataviz to distract you for the rest of the day (or week)...

Congrats to the @datavizsociety.bsky.social team for all of the work that happens behind the scenes to run the Awards.

www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/showcase?act...

Perfect

Renowned geneticist Francis Collins retires from NIH, urging 'respect' for embattled workers Dr. Francis Collins, a renowned geneticist, and former longtime director of the National Institutes of Health, is retiring from the government agency and urging “respect” for its embattled workers.

"When you hear about patients surviving stage 4 cancer because of immunotherapy, that was based on NIH research over many decades. When you hear about sickle cell disease being cured because of CRISPR gene editing, that was built on years of research supported by NIH"

apnews.com/article/nih-...

Photo of a Golden-crowned Kinglet hanging upside-down from a branch by Jen Goellnitz. Text on the photo says: "Hang in there. Love your friends at The Institute for Bird Populations."

🪶🌎🧪 Try to take a break and watch some birds this weekend.

👋 Lace up your virtual hiking boots and join us on a little #biobank tour across Europe 👇

Been thinking about creating a collection of good protein structure figures, as inspiration for my own work.

#1 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A picture that says: We are recruiting Finance and project management. Scientific Senior Project Manager, full time (f/m/d), Graz (Austria)

💼 #WeAreHiring - Scientific Senior Project Manager - Graz

Responsible for the scientific management & project management of international projects in the #LifeSciences including biobanking and biomolecular resources field.

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I was laughing so hard, when i saw and HEARD this animation...obviously we have the same taste in background music 😁😊

Reconstruction of mitochondrial inner and outer membrane from FIB-SEM data. Had to shorten the vid bc of 🦋-limits.

#Blender #3DAnimation #SciComm

Cool to see that I'm not the only one who thought this was the perfect tune for an animation 😅 Nicely done! 😊

👇 Great, empathic approach to connect with your audience(s) by @drlperezdiaz.bsky.social 👏💚

"Communication, to succeed, requires empathy. Empathy requires not just understanding what someone knows, but what drives them, and what connects them to you and the science you are presenting to them”

Can't say no to a nice little jumping spider 👀

2024 S2C2 Single-Particle Cryo-EM Image Processing Workshop - YouTube This playlist contains six recordings covering single particle cryo-EM data processing in CryoSPARC from the 2024 Single-Particle Cryo-EM Image Processing Wo...

1/ A new series of #CryoSPARC tutorial videos from this year’s S2C2 #cryoEM image processing workshop are now online! These videos will be interesting to all users and especially those newer to #cryoEM.

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...