Andrew Plested

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Just landed in Woods Hole for summer courses: a Full Ventana Wide system. pacificoptica.com/ventana/ with a Cousa pacificoptica.com/cousa/

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Thanks, Coherent! Thanks, MBF! Thanks to course leadership and MBL staff!

Supplementary figs?
Figshare?
🥁

Good luck!

Head of the Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) is Europe’s flagship life sciences organisation, and one of the world’s leading research institutions. An intergovernmental organisation of 29 Member S...

EMBL Cell Biology and Biophysics department is searching for a new director. A major position to lead this field in Europe and beyond.
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When is a Monomer not a Monomer? The Top Three Ways Your Favorite Fluorescent Protein Oligomerizes in Cells Many commonly used fluorescent proteins form dimers producing artifacts in a variety of experimental settings. Learn how to avoid these artifacts.

💡 Always a good time to be reminded: "if you fuse your protein of interest to GFP or EGFP to study the protein's behavior ... you are using a tag with a serious drawback."
Same goes for anything that doesn't have 'm' in its name (looking at you, dTomato and StayGold)

Global Minds Initiative Germany - BMBF Our Global Minds Initiative Germany offers international research talent career prospects in the German science system. We will thereby lastingly strengthen the German and European Research Area.

Global Minds Initiative Germany: Federal Ministry of Research launches new programme to strengthen Germany as a science location together with the Humboldt Foundation, @dfg.de and @daadworldwide.bsky.social.
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We are hiring! "Researcher in DNA-Based Information Processing Systems" (PhD or postdoc level). Co-supervision by Prof. Ralf Reussner (KIT computer science) and myself (biological systems). Combination of experiments and computational work. Please Apply / Repost!

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What if the PSD wasn't a defining feature of glutamatergic synapses, but simply a sample prep artifact?

^^ one of the many ideas Peukes et al. put forward while going from from live mice to cryo-CLEM/ET in <2 minutes #neuroskyence #iGluRs #cryoET

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Late to the party on this one, but after several people recommended it, I finally got around to Naomi Klein's 2023 account of having a deranged online double, Doppelganger — and I recommend it too!

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Keine weiteren Kürzungen bei Berliner Hochschulen ab 2026 Eigentlich sollten die Berliner Unis mehr Geld bekommen, trotzdem kürzte der Senat für dieses Jahr Mittel. Ab nächstem Jahr soll damit Schluss sein - aber die Summen, die einst versprochen wurden, wir...

Good news! Most of the planned cuts to Berlin unis have been shelved. It looks like the original contactual agreed amounts will be honoured (except for this year).

Seems like a victory!

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Seriously, do not bother looking for those guys on land

The 2025 Google Scholar metrics are out. And (as previously) one of my favourite journals (Biophys J) is highly ranked in Biophysics. Only the 5 most cited papers are actually not Biophys J papers but rather BPS abstracts published elsewhere

Beware of metrics

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Exciting news! The EPIC/SGP Symposium at UC Davis will be accompanied by a special issue in the Journal of General Physiology. Stay tuned for more details about this incredible event celebrating cutting-edge research on ion channels!

Chloé Kelly is the BEST!

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We are very interested with your paper
We would like to introduce you our DDMC of novel gene transfection

#AcademicSpam

Discarded pizza in a wet box filled with slugs

Slug with your pizza, sir?

props to BWF for continuing this award, even under the same name, unlike other organizations

Cool!

This is how it all ends, sorry Dave.

A conifer metabolite corrects episodic ataxia type 1 by voltage sensor–mediated ligand activation of Kv1.1 | PNAS Loss-of-function sequence variants in KCNA1, which encodes the voltage-gated potassium channel Kv1.1, cause Episodic Ataxia Type 1 (EA1) and epilep...

Not that new, but a very cool paper from the end of last year showing that extracts of conifers can act as a therapeutic in ataxia caused by a potassium channel mutation.

From Geoff Pitt and our former collaborator, now at UC Irvine, Alvin Yu!

#ionchannels
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Venice, which was not to Gibbon's taste: "A fine bridge spoilt by two Rows of houses on it, and a large square decorated with the worst Architecture I ever yet saw"

#DeclineAndFall

Still the introduction...

Gibbon later said that as a young man he had "rated [Voltaire] above his real magnitude". Certainly in the later volumes of The #DeclineAndFall he permits himself some sharp asides at Voltarie's expense.

I hope you can enjoy one or some of these today

#letsgoBerlin

holy shit lmao

Good to know, but I've cancelled any US travel plans for the foreseeable.

From the introduction, I think I am going to love this book:

Gibbon was transferred [..] to Dr Winchester, who, according to Gibbon, “well remembered that he had a salary to receive, and only forgot that he had a duty to perform”

#DeclineAndFall

Paperback of the abridged form of Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Totally excited to get hold of this after trying for nearly a decade! Thx Dussmann.

If you are interested in a position working on the coolest new developments in connectomics - take a serious look at this. Incredible technology development opportunity, working with a super nice scientist! Check out the paper here if you haven’t seen it yet: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

THORNY!