Fellow chemists, scientists, and lab rats,
Next semester, my Crime Scene Chemistry class is focusing on miscommunication.
Do you have any stories about improperly labeled items in the lab that led to confusion or an accident?
03.12.2025 21:13 β π 21 π 17 π¬ 24 π 5
Congratulations π
05.12.2025 21:24 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Yooooo that's so cool
05.12.2025 21:24 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Me after 5 coffees (I have a headache)
05.12.2025 11:16 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I can't get enough of this STUNNING image of spider silk (by Martin J. Ramirez, winner of the Royal Society Photography prize)
05.12.2025 10:43 β π 45 π 24 π¬ 4 π 2
Coffee break
05.12.2025 09:21 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Is it possible to engineer new cellular life from the bottom up?
The GΓΆpfrich group @kgoepfrich.bsky.social @mpi-mr.bsky.social have designed an RNA origami nanotube π‘ to mimic the cytoskeleton:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
It was a fun challenge to animate T7 RNA polymerase π΅
#blender #b3d
04.12.2025 14:16 β π 11 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
That's so good
04.12.2025 14:49 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Stark π
03.12.2025 18:08 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The EMBO Practical Course "Hack your microscope" in Oeiras, PT, 20β25 Apr 2026 aims to innovate, democratize advanced #imaging technologies and shape the future of open-source #microscopy β Apply now!
Deadline: 12 Dec
https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-microscope
#EMBOmicroscope #EMBOevents π§ͺ
03.12.2025 16:15 β π 27 π 19 π¬ 0 π 3
JASPAR: An open-access database of transcription factor binding profiles
JASPAR is the largest open-access database of curated and non-redundant transcription factor (TF) binding profiles from six different taxonomic groups.
JASPAR 2026 is out π
The new release massively expands the TF motif collections and adds a dedicated DeepLearning collection of motifs learned from deep learning models.
Database: jaspar.elixir.no
Paper (NAR): doi.org/10.1093/nar/...
π§΅1/2
03.12.2025 14:43 β π 60 π 26 π¬ 1 π 0
Scientists if youβre like βman I wish more people knew about Xβ then I humbly suggest hiring an artist to make a thing that communicates X and then put it into the world because itβs so fun, extremely βhell yeahβ inducing, you gotta try it.
03.12.2025 03:26 β π 507 π 97 π¬ 10 π 2
A couple new #PhD opportunities to join my lab at the intersection of #synbio, #plantsci and #biotech as part of the Plant BioDesign doctoral programme spanning the University of York, University of Cambridge, University of Bristol and John Innes Centre. 1/4
02.12.2025 22:24 β π 7 π 10 π¬ 1 π 0
Screenshot of webpage for MinION sequencer that shows the palm sized device open (where the flow cell goes, I think)
Science question: does your lab have a MinION sequencer and does it work well? Worth the money? (thanks for any opinions!)
02.12.2025 16:23 β π 5 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0
DIY Plant Walls: Use the secrets of fungal pathognes to reprogramme plant architecture & material properties with @dromius.bsky.social & using @robinsonsci.bsky.social's unique Automated Confocal Micro-Extensometer
Webinar: 10 Dec 2025
Applications close: 19 Jan 2026
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
28.11.2025 13:05 β π 4 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Very excited for this project with @pierrebuscaill.bsky.social! Will bring together a lot of exciting tools we have up and running in the lab for working with diverse biology and put them to use in building new technologies to trace gene expression across plants. 𧬠π Applications open!
02.12.2025 17:59 β π 5 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Lesgooooo
02.12.2025 14:15 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Nearly 3 hours of science misconduct and fraud later, we left very inspired with trust in science but also being confident in suspicions regarding peculiar findings. Thank you so much @elisabethbik.bsky.social
02.12.2025 11:31 β π 19 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Really looking forward to hosting Elisabeth on Monday Dec 1 at @fbm-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social for our BIG seminar: 12.15 in Genopode C (note change of room). Open to everyone.
30.11.2025 09:50 β π 13 π 6 π¬ 2 π 0
Looking forward to your visit in NeuchΓ’tel :)
29.11.2025 15:54 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I donβt know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content theyβre presenting.
28.11.2025 15:07 β π 12405 π 2030 π¬ 214 π 303
The initial lineup of keynotes and spotlight talks is finalised, with 10 contributed talks still up for grabs! Come join us in Bristol on 15-16 Jan 2026 for AI, Engineering Biology and Beyond to shape the future of these fieldsπ€π§¬π¦ Register now at: aiebab.github.io
20.11.2025 09:52 β π 6 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
Do y'all need post docs in like 3+ years π₯Ί
27.11.2025 21:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Very excited to advertise 15 plant engineering biology PhD projects @biologyatyork.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social @slcuplants.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social & University of Bristol. πͺ΄ π₯¬ π§ 𧬠Come join this new Plant BioDesign community!
www.findaphd.com/phds/?Keywor...
27.11.2025 21:05 β π 36 π 39 π¬ 2 π 1
#PayTheArtists
22.11.2025 10:26 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I tried an even harder example on Gemini Pro image generation and this is quite scary/amazing. I asked for a microscopy image of around 20 HeLa cells, GFP tagged 20% nuclear, 10% membrane, +1 nuclear staining, + overlap. Image below and prompt in the following post.
21.11.2025 17:32 β π 69 π 35 π¬ 8 π 28
Plant development & cell biology researcher, stem cells, cell division, cell wall, water response...
Group leader at CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Science(CEMPS) and CAS-JIC Centre of Excellence for Plant and Microbial Science (CEPAMS)
Cellular Structural Biology Wellcome DPhil Student at The University of Oxford.
Working in Peijun Zhangβs lab at The Oxford Division of Structural Biology.
Passionate about biomedical animation and science communication: Batisio.co.uk
Science illustration and animation studio, based in Cambridge UK. We take science and engineering and make it pretty!
Medicinal chemist / chemical biologist, author of βIn the Pipelineβ at http://science.org/blogs/pipeline. derekb.lowe@gmail.com and on Signal at Dblowe.18
All opinions are mine; I donβt speak for my employer in any way.
Professionally playing with plasmids!
Postdoc-ing until someone here scouts me for a PI position ;)
Princeton EEB -> Harvard Medical School -> Soon ETH ZΓΌrich!
Interested in plant development, cell polarity, Ca+2 and ROS homeostasis, plant cell wall integrity, signalling, protein translation. @Fundacionleloir CONICET Argentina. Currently Editor at @NewPhytologist, @CommsBiology @PlantComms
Group Leader @mrc_hgu investigating gene regulation in development & human disease
Cells, microscopy, colorful LUTs and ImageJ
https://github.com/kwolbachia
For work I study Wolbachia symbiosis in Montpellier
PDRA in Synthetic Biology at Imperial College London in the lab of Prof. Tom Ellis
Currently exploring weird and wonderful ways to decode and rewire holobiont systems with synthetic biology
We are a research group at University of Freiburg that studies the molecular mechanisms of T cell activation and how to use them for immunotherapy.
https://lillemeier.biologie.uni-freiburg.de/
#NewPI, studying stress-dependent #autophagy initiation mechanisms in plants π± and yeast πβπ«
@bokuvienna.bsky.social @gmivienna.bsky.social, formerly @mpiage.bsky.social
Personally Iβ‘ reading hiking climbing painting singing while balancing care and work
Plant Developmental Biologist @unibern, interested in leaf development, KalanchoΓ«, CAM
Feminist, Mami, Synesthete, she/her
PhD Student at the Praetorius Lab
Protein and coffee lover, father of two, professor of biophysics and sudo scientist at the LinderstrΓΈm-Lang Centre for Protein Science, University of Copenhagen π©π°
New Scientist managing editor and The World, The Universe & Us podcast host. Plant genetics & evolution DPhil; birder.
Not-for-profit publisher of Development, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology, Disease Models & Mechanisms and Biology Open. Host of community sites the Node, preLights and FocalPlane. Supporting biologists and inspiring biology.
Bsky archive of Official Horizon EU profile for the EU's Research & Innovation Programme.
europa.eu/!Xf47NRP
check out also @creativeeurope.bsky.social and @euerasmusplus.bsky.social
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Bioinformagician at AlphaFold DB π§πΌββοΈ| PDBe team at EMBL-EBI | Helping you unlock the magic of AlphaFold DB with new features and tools π¬β¨ | Proud LEGO enthusiast 𧱠| Turning data into discoveries!
