Karolin Luger

Picture of the AIDS quilt in front of the Washington Monument

On This Day in History: October 11, 1987
Two hundred thousand marched in Washington for lesbian and gay civil rights. The AIDS Memorial Quilt was displayed on the National Mall for the first time, and the day helped seed National Coming Out Day.

Feisty, blue haired quilted woman. In honor of the powerful lively feisty protesters in Portland, Oregon.

Get Feisty.
In honor of the powerful, feisty, lively,disarming, and brave protesters in Portland.

#fiberart #resilience #womensart
#artyear #artquilt
#quiltsky #fiberartist #artsky#resistance #nokings #get-feisty #portland #protest

do you have the instructions?

#quiltsky i am doing my first quilt on my new longarm Gracie 16 on hoop frame and have fear of starting. what is the easiest pattern a beginner could pull off? advice?

#quiltsky, does anyone know how to hack this?

i could watch this all day. #math #quilt. from www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/s...

We're now recruiting early career group leaders at the Crick to lead ambitious research programmes and explore bold scientific questions.

Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research.

Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

How do SMC complexes load onto DNA to get ready for loop extrusion?

@roisnehamelinf.bsky.social & co discovered that Wadjet, an SMC complex involved in bacterial DNA immunity, performs some impressive molecular gymnastics 🤸‍♂️🤸‍♂️🤸‍♂️.

Check out the new paper: www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

The Viral AlphaFold Database of monomers and homodimers reveals conserved protein folds in viruses of bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes VAD is a Viral AlphaFold Database of protein monomers and homodimers from viruses infecting hosts across the tree of life.

Viral AlphaFold Database (VAD) is live in Science Advances

~27,000 predicted viral protein monomers & homodimers

Conserved folds across bacteria, archaea & eukaryotic viruses

New toxin–antitoxin system KreTA uncovered

Vast “functional darkness” remains uncharted

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

Chemist and food scientist Mary Pennington was born 153 years ago today. Her research into food spoilage led to her design of refrigeration cars for trains, and to her key role in WWII as an advisor in food transport methods for the army.

#WomenInSTEM #ChemSky #FoodScience

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UNC Scientists Uncover Hidden Role of Tumor Suppressor Gene in Protecting the Genome | Newsroom In a surprising twist, UNC scientists discovered that SETD2, a tumor suppressor best known for modifying DNA-packaging proteins, also preserves nuclear structure during cell division—a hidden role tha...

UNC scientists uncovered a hidden role for the tumor suppressor gene SETD2. Now, thanks to the work of Dr. @brianstrahl.bsky.social and Dr. Abid Khan, we know SETD2 also plays a key structural role in maintaining nuclear integrity during cell division! go.unc.edu/SETD2 @brianstrahl.bsky.social

Very sad news, John Gurdon has died.

A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner

His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio.

An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers

www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...

It's grad school application season! My lab (cxli233.github.io/cxLi_lab/ ) will be recruiting a PhD student via the MPS program at MSU (mps.natsci.msu.edu) for Fall 2026.

Happy to take inquires via email (which can be found in the lab website) if you are applying this cycle.

Thrilled to share a link to our recent review spearheaded by Dr. Ananya Rakshit on Zn2+ transients and signaling in mammalian systems: authors.elsevier.com/a/1ltlt3S6Gf...

This.

Over 400 faculty and staff from the #uva College of Arts and Sciences convened for an emergency vote. 97% of eligible voters endorsed a resolution demanding President Mahoney refuse to consider the Trump admin's Compact for Academic Freedom!!

beyond cool!

Day 5, Moon. The physical structures of phages are often compared to the shape and landing action of a lunar lander, with tail fibres reminiscent of the landing struts, to gently settle on the surface of its host. #Drawtober #SciArt #Phagesky

Me too

its honestly soooo much work. i mean, 7 hours for 20 quarts.... thats A LOT. thankfully there are audiobooks...

now i really want to assemble this bad boy, but alas, lecture and exam prep for next week. so #noquilting. Also, all from 'scrap strips' that i had saved for too long. not bad for a mindless #sewing project.

FREE class to get funded 🎊 An online event with the FREE class Getting funded: 4 mistakes to avoid when you write your next grant.

TOMORROW ⏰ This class is happening 👇🏼 And if you or some of your colleagues are writing an ERC consolidator grant, please join us! Not the usual guidelines-type of content.A replay will also be available. Hosted by @glia-leadership.bsky.social
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#NewPI #ECRchat #ERCCoG #ERCStG #ERCadv

Please clap

that time of the year... writing letters for 8 UG's applying to grad school, each of them to ~15 programs. And while I passionately support every one of them, thats A LOT of letters, a lot of web sites to keep track of, a lot of my time. Why dont Grad programs use interfolio? One and done???

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

🚨GRFP DEADLINE ALERT!🚨 I missed this in my original solicitation read-through, so FYI 📣LETTERS ARE DUE BEFORE PROPOSALS📣 this year!

"Reference letters are due Friday, November 7 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET)."

www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Giant DNA viruses encode a hallmark translation initiation complex of eukaryotic life In contrast to living organisms, viruses were long thought to lack protein synthesis machinery and instead depend on host factors to translate viral transcripts. Here, we discover that giant DNA virus...

Historically, viruses were thought to primarily use host cell's translational machinery. New work from @harvardcellbio.bsky.social faculty Amy Lee reveals that a giant DNA virus encodes its own IF4F initiation complex, suggesting an unexpected evolutionary innovation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

anyone checked the USDA website recently? isnt this a violation of the law? www.usda.gov

a spot of good news, finally.

yup. he was out on his own yesterday. not sure where mom / siblings were. The family basically lives in our yard / open space