Julie Ledoux

Bottom-up design of Ca2+ channels from defined selectivity filter geometry - Nature De novo design of Ca2+ channels with ion selectivity that can assemble appropriately and mediate Ca2+ conductance when expressed in cells is described.

Nature research paper: Bottom-up design of Ca2+ channels from defined selectivity filter geometry

go.nature.com/42W7Wsr

An abiding mystery of the French Revolution is solved — by epidemiology The period of panic and unrest called the Great Fear was triggered by deliberately spread rumours, according to methods borrowed from pandemic playbooks.

The chance encounter of an economist, a pathologist and physicist resulted in a highly multidisciplinary study that used an epidemiological model to trace the spread of rumors in the early days of the French Revolution. I had the chance to cover this fascinating research for @nature.com

😩 Chaque année, le 15 août, paraît le «classement de Shanghaï», chaque année des services de comm' imbéciles se gargarisent de leur place, et chaque année je dois réexpliquer pourquoi ce classement ne veut rien dire et qu'il est même nuisible d'en parler et de le regarder. •1/21 🧵⤵️

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The dangers of so-called AI experts believing their own hype Beware the tech leaders making grandiose statements about artificial intelligence. They have lost sight of reality, says Philip Ball

I got tired of the nonsense some AI leaders were coming out with, and so I wrote this for @newscientist.com
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

I LIVE for catchy methods names and funny conference presentation titles

It's inevitable

Gender equality in research publishing is a responsibility for everyone A concerted effort is needed to support women in their choice of journal when submitting their manuscript.

Studies point to several reasons why fewer women than men are submitting their work

https://go.nature.com/3HlUFS8

I got fooled by AI-for-science hype—here's what it taught me I used AI in my plasma physics research and it didn’t go the way I expected.

Going to the hospital because I broke my wrist smashing the endorse button:
www.understandingai.org/p/i-got-fool...

🧵5 Top Free Alternatives to BioRender for Scientific Illustrations!

These five websites offer free scientific illustrations for biologists. Great for presentations, research papers and other research communication needs.

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La quantique décodée : 10 posters sur les concepts de base de la physique quantique, chacun illustré par une découverte récente.
Vous êtes prof, étudiant, scientifique, musée de science, ou simple curieux curieuse ? Servez-vous, c'est gratuit :
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Where you sit 🤓😎😴

Idiriss aberkane annonce que l'on a trouve du phytoplancton dans l'espace

Et voilà, les plus grands spécialistes de tout, les fameux toutologues, commencent à annoncer que l'on a trouvé du phytoplancton intersidéral....
Nous, scientifiques, devons faire attention à notre manière de communiquer.
Ce n'est pas le moment de perdre la confiance des citoyens !

Résistance bactérienne aux antibiotiques : mieux la comprendre et mieux la contrer En comprenant comment les bactéries résistent aux antibiotiques, on pourrait inventer de nouvelles méthodes pour améliorer les traitements des infections.

If you want to know how to fight bacterial resistance @france.theconversation.com
Pour comprendre comment contrer la résistance bactérienne @france.theconversation.com

@barbault.bsky.social @upcite.bsky.social @ctm-itodys.bsky.social @itodys.bsky.social

theconversation.com/resistance-b...

Given discussions at I had at #ESCMIDGlobal, it might be useful for new researchers to know how a journal editor screens submissions (obviously this is my approach and so it might differ for others).

We (@sacquin-mo.bsky.social, Chantal Prevost and I) teamed up with @etiennereboul.bsky.social and @ataly.bsky.social to design a parallelized MDAKit implementation of the Proteic Menger Curvatures. Local protein dynamics and backbone flexibility have never been easier and faster to compute 😁

Does sharing first authorship on a paper carry a penalty? What the research says Study dispels myth that order of names in a paper’s author list dictates perception of success.

Research suggests that contrary to scientists' worries, there is no reputational penalty for shared first authorships, even for the person named second ― at least under experimental conditions1.


https://go.nature.com/4c46IPm

PDB101: Irina Bezsonova Gallery PDB-101: Training, Outreach, and Education portal of RCSB PDB

You can download my protein structure-inspired artwork from pdb webpage:

pdb101.rcsb.org/sci-art/bezs...

@rcsbpdb.bsky.social
@pdbeurope.bsky.social
#sciart

‘I was told to toughen up’: is academia getting resilience all wrong? Being repeatedly told to bounce back and develop a thicker skin can mask a toxic lab culture.

Academia’s often misguided view is that resilience is the ability to adapt and overcome challenges or adversity, but such an attitude can mask a toxic lab culture, say some researchers.
https://go.nature.com/4kv5ro4

Shame on you @asm.org, shame on you.