Kate Michie

Second that… not done reading it all yet but every piece has been amazingly good! @thomasha.bsky.social is very talented.

I’m reading this now ( upon your recommendation) and I throughly agree. It’s amazingly good. Bluesky has been wonderful for finding good fiction ( also have the third AMOC on preorder). 🙏

WEBINAR SERIES: Leveraging deep learning to design custom protein-binding proteins — Australian BioCommons Be inspired by case studies that show you how deep learning methods are speeding up the process of designing proteins with desirable biophysical properties. More information Register

Just a heads up to anyone interested. @joshuamhardy.bsky.social will be presenting Protein DJ next week at the Australian Structural Biology Computing “Protein Design Seminars” hosted by @ausbiocommons.bsky.social

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☹️ I’m sorry. I guess they are in a hurry. Obtaining visas is very expensive and time consuming speaking from experience. I’ve seen hires that we couldn’t get into the job for 2 years while trying to get approval.

Do you like working on diverse projects with a range of researchers? New hire for a genomics/proteomics ( not structural biology) bioinformatician in the Mark Wainwright Analytical Centre at UNSW in sunny Sydney. Position hosted by the Stats Central team.

Sofia Isella record playing on a turntable.

@sofiaisella.bsky.social “I can be your mother + the singles”. Amazing album. Spinning on the turntable on repeat.

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Prof Jan Löwe presenting his work on Structural maintenance of chromosome complexes

So lovely to see this story yesterday on SMC complexes presented by Prof Jan Löwe ( MRC LMB). It’s been a long journey and is still evolving but is a structural biology tour de force. @mrclmb.bsky.social @unswbabs.bsky.social

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I always expect more from scientists. I feel they of all people should have the courage to leave X, they shouldn’t stand for it- it’s destroying science (among other things) so why are they there supporting it? Yes I understand ‘seeing’ what is there, everyone needs to know what we are up against.

Not sure I have the stomach for that either. It’s not what motivates me. I’m sticking with bluesky. I only do LinkedIn when I feel it is in my employers interest or something really worthwhile is posted. Mostly I lurk. And i don’t go there often.

Yes!!! LinkedIn is like primary school kids with certificates. 😳 not the place I want to talk science at all.

I will say my husband still uses it… it makes me sad. I still love him regardless so I’m not saying I reject people who use it- just… I wish we were all stronger and could recognise it for what it is. It takes effort for us to change but society won’t change if we don’t action it.

I just can’t stomach x… I deleted each post I ever made and left one ‘what you walk past you condone’. It’s insidious how we are so accepting of some atrocities… how quickly everyone forgets for the sake of convenience. I wish people would consciously realise it’s not ok to post there.

There are so many platforms now I get lost- worse when someone tells you something you want to follow up- I can never find it again… was it on teams, zoom, email, x, LinkedIn, bluesky, mastodon… no, they called and we spoke? It’s overload.

Awesome to know that out there, somewhere… good humans still exist. 🥰

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I might try looking for some others. The feed provision means you can tailor what you want. I do spend time trying to block any users that sneak into protein comsos with junk none of us want to see. Yeah- I deleted Facebook a decade ago when I felt it was causing social harm.

You know what i don’t understand… it’s free to be nice to others. Why are we evolving a society that is focused on division? What is motivating this ‘trend’? 🙁

They are painful to create- you need a ‘feed provider’. I have one (Protein cosmos) that just focuses on structural biology ( experimental, biophysics and computational?. Doesn’t always scrape everything but certainly leaves ‘following’ feed for dead. I follow one on archaea and on virology too.

😳😬 careful folks.

I like bluesky because I just look at a tailored feed on protein science ( still could improve the algorithm to be fair). Filters out cat photos and political comments ( unless I look at following where I can see everything). Not sure if people understand feeds very well on bluesky. 🤔

I struggle to get useful stuff on LinkedIn. Any tips? Maybe I’m not well enough connected to people.

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Hello Andrew! Yes, it truly is an amazing time in biomolecular science. If you asked me 5 years ago would we be doing what we are now I would never have guessed. It does require high performance computing though which is limiting… if only we could access the infrastructure that the chat bots use.🙄

GitHub - cytokineking/FreeBindCraft: BindCraft v1.52 modified to make PyRosetta use and installation optional BindCraft v1.52 modified to make PyRosetta use and installation optional - cytokineking/FreeBindCraft

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🧬🧶 This is a really nice story integrating a number of methods to look at the evolution of a cool protein complex with a focus on protein structure. I love how biology keeps using the same tricks.

Beautiful work Martin. ❤️🙏 We are fans. Exciting time for biomolecular science.

I am lucky enough that I can afford to pay more, so I do. People could do such small things to change. Meal planning means I throw nothing away. Learning to live with the seasons means I wear warmer clothes inside rather than heat everything. I pay extra for food in glass to reduce plastic use.

In light of the fact I chose not to travel internationally for pleasure due to climate concerns I still stand by this meeting as valuable. Australia is a long way from anywhere and it makes more sense for us to have one great meeting here than all the scientists having to fly out internationally.