Michal Cifra

Leoš Valášek from the Czech Academy of Sciences (Institute of Microbiology).

Julius Lukeš from the Czech Academy of Sciences (Biology Centre).

Jan Zouplna from the Czech Academy of Sciences (Oriental Institute).

Two @erc.europa.eu Synergy Grants have been awarded to @czechacademy.bsky.social researchers!

🎉 Congratulations to Leoš Valášek @mbuavcr.bsky.social and Julius Lukeš (our Biology Centre) & Jan Zouplna (our Oriental Institute). #3Stops2Go #CLOSER #ERCSyG

Details ➡️ www.avcr.cz/en/news-arch...

06.11.2025 11:03 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

IT'S HAPPENING! 💥 I'm psyched to launch the collaboration between @qedscience.bsky.social & @openrxiv.bsky.social @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social! Preprint + q.e.d = your science is out there, and anyone can appreciate it. Let's care about making discoveries, and not on “getting published” (1/3) 👇

06.11.2025 14:49 — 👍 124    🔁 62    💬 6    📌 13

🔊⚡🔬In our recent study, we built a tiny filter for #subTHZ waves (90–140 GHz) on transparent glass — linking light and high-frequency tech. This could boost #6G networks, #biosensing & advanced #imaging! 🥇🔎📖👉https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-15178-3

06.11.2025 20:48 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

🚨 Webinar Alert 🚨
Join us for our 42th webinar on Monday, November 10., at 14:00 CET!
🎙️Lecturer: Gyula Polónyi from University of Pécs
📊Topic: Alternate Routes for High Field #Terahertz Pulse Generation and Applications
Register here: shorturl.at/QhkZh

03.11.2025 21:59 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

Ancient amino acid sets enable stable protein folds Early proteins likely arose from a chemically limited set of amino acids available through prebiotic chemistry, raising a central question in molecular evolution: could such primitive compositions yie...

Can proteins fold and function with half of the amino acid alphabet?
Using only 10 residues, we designed stable, mutation-resilient structures—no aromatics or basics involved.
A minimalist foundation for ancient biology and synthetic design. tinyurl.com/37t8br4v
#ProteinDesign #OriginsOfLife

03.11.2025 16:48 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Wow — this q.e.d. tool worked surprisingly well for our computational biophysics paper! It pinpointed exactly what we already suspected would be the best approach but didn’t have the resources to implement. Even better, it offered helpful suggestions on how to handle and acknowledge those gaps.

17.10.2025 12:01 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)

15.10.2025 12:22 — 👍 492    🔁 185    💬 56    📌 61

"Republic has no need for savants and chemists"

(the political court that sentenced Antoine
Lavoisier to the guillotine, 1794)

*from Paul Nurse's new book

02.10.2025 15:50 — 👍 18    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Screenshot of Essay from Martin Schwartz on 'Why would anyone want to be a scientist'. An anniversary article from The Company of Biologists published in Journal of Cell Science. The first few lines are: It is difficult to fathom why anyone intelligent enough to be a scientist would actually choose to be one. Doing good science requires the utmost exertion of body, mind and spirit, yet is consistently filled with failure and rejection. But, strange even to myself, I not only don't question the unfavorable risk-to-reward ratio but consider myself astonishingly lucky to be a scientist. There are three fundamental pleasures that have sustained me through 50 years of this madness.

Why would anyone want to be a scientist?

Check out our new Essay from Martin Schwartz: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

15.08.2025 13:19 — 👍 80    🔁 45    💬 2    📌 8

Scientists have released the closest images ever taken near the sun, captured by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flying 3.8 million miles above the solar surface.

See more images of solar eruptions on the sun: wapo.st/3Irm3P3

15.07.2025 13:27 — 👍 10902    🔁 2003    💬 311    📌 199

Pavel Plevka where he belongs. Congratulations Pavel!

02.07.2025 13:32 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Half sold out in a week!

09.03.2025 17:30 — 👍 22    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 1

What could you do at the #Woodstockbio2025? You could bring a poster, give a talk, and/or ORGANISE A #YMCAcampsite-wide TREASURE HUNT centred on YOUR SCIENCE. Requires coordination, but there is time. REGISTER and look out for your topical community to ORGANISE!

woodstock.img.cas.cz/registration/

09.03.2025 08:41 — 👍 9    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

tips & tricks #theconferencetoendallconferences
To connect and be more familiar with each other before we meet in Prague, I am creating the list of participants:

Woodstock.Bio2 + Night Science participants & friends

If you are not included yet, comment here or drop me DM!
bsky.app/profile/did:...

02.03.2025 19:08 — 👍 14    🔁 5    💬 7    📌 0