Guðjón Ólafsson

Bluesky now platform of choice for science community It’s not just you. Survey says: “Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky”…

Bluesky is now the platform of choice for the scientific community.

From @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social on @arstechnica.com

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27.08.2025 15:34 — 👍 112    🔁 30    💬 3    📌 0

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The Truong lab @nyuniversity (Programmable Regenerative Immunity) has an opening for a Postdoctoral Fellow to work in Mammalian Synthetic Biology in human iPSCs:

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This project uses large-scale human genome "rewriting" to build a Synthetic Thymus.

21.08.2025 14:30 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Assistant professor in life sciences at the Faculty of Medicine Two full time assistant professor positions are open for applications at the Department of Life Sciences, within the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Iceland.

Our department is advertising two academic positions. Come join us in beautiful Reykjavík. I can promise a very positive collegial atmosphere! #assistant_professor #physiology #cell_biology #physiology #neuroscience
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19.08.2025 16:35 — 👍 8    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

UI Science and Innovation Prize awarded for new technology that will accelerate cancer drug development The ProDiGY project, which is developing new technology that provides a systematic, rapid and cost-effective way to accelerate development of drugs to fight serious diseases such as cancer, has won th...

I´m very thankful for this award! Special thanks to my doctoral and postdoctoral mentors Peter Thorpe @thorpelab.bsky.social, Jef Boeke @jefboeke.bsky.social, and Eiríkur Steingrímsson
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13.05.2025 11:25 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ancient co-option of LTR retrotransposons as yeast centromeres The evolutionary origins of the genetic point centromere in the brewer's yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a member of the order Saccharomycetales, are still unknown. Competing hypotheses suggest that t...

It’s out! The evolutionary origins of yeast point centromeres uncovered!

“Ancient co-option of LTR retrotransposons as yeast centromeres”

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

25.04.2025 13:59 — 👍 98    🔁 38    💬 2    📌 6

‘It’s human conceit to think we’re alone’: life must extend beyond Earth, leading space scientist says Exclusive: It is imperative humans expand their understanding of space, argues Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock

‘It’s human conceit to think we’re alone’: life must extend beyond Earth, leading space scientist says www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

16.03.2025 00:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Is PubMed just down temporarily? I hope so just tried to access from UK. Is it down elsewhere? See below. In meantime go to @europepmc.org and use their resources which includes all current PMC records. Spread the word. #MedLibs

02.03.2025 00:51 — 👍 8    🔁 6    💬 6    📌 13

Stand up for science rally poster standupforscience2025.org

19.02.2025 00:28 — 👍 26    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0

Biomedical Center | lifvisindi.hi.is

Hey! Any researchers out there that are visiting Iceland this spring (Feb-Jun) and would like to present their work at our weekly seminar series at the BioMedical Center (BMC) at the University of Iceland lifvisindi.hi.is Please let me know!

23.01.2025 16:03 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Proteome-wide forced interactions reveal a functional map of cell-cycle phospho-regulation in S. cerevisiae Dynamic protein phosphorylation and dephosphorylation play an essential role in cell cycle progression. Kinases and phosphatases are generally highly conserved across eukaryotes, underlining their ...

Happy to share with you a new paper from Peter Thorpe´s lab, where I did my PhD. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

02.12.2024 09:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I gladly bring this meeting to your attention so that you can mark dates in your calendar in case your are interest. Additional information will follow. Please circulate if possible.

17.11.2024 11:52 — 👍 77    🔁 47    💬 1    📌 1