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Network for Advanced NMR Materials SSNMR Data Acquisition Protocols The NAN Materials SSNMR Data Acquisition Protocols collection is part of the NAN Materials SSNMR Knowledgebase; a collection of resources, training and educational material, pul...

Protocols @nmrfam.bsky.social Alex Paterson, Network for Advanced NMR Materials (NAN) Solid-State NMR Data Acquisition Protocols V.2 www.protocols.io/view/network... #NMRchat #NMR 🧲

31.07.2025 17:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bring structure to your research - protocols.io A secure platform for developing and sharing reproducible methods.

Author here to answer any questions. The full protocol is online at protocols.io and all codebooks on github

29.07.2025 19:48 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Re-using pipette tips for gel loading Gel loading tips can be reused for most applications; there’s REALLY no need to throw them away after a single use. In our labs, we routinely reuse tips when loading gels, onl...

Load gels? Use #zebrafish 🐟? Want to do more sustainable research w/out compromising science? We-G Gestri, K Turner, G Powell @stevewilsonlab.bsky.social-made these protocols. Yes, we use these in our @science.org+@nature.com papers.
www.protocols.io/view/re-usin...
www.protocols.io/view/washing...

22.07.2025 16:02 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Comparative Analysis of Phage Profiles in Environmental Samples: Metagenomic Sequencing Versus Culture-Bas... Culture-based isolation of bacteriophages from wastewater relies on a limited set of laboratory‐cultivable host strains, causing it to recover only a small fraction of the tru...

Comparative Analysis of Phage Profiles in Environmental Samples: Metagenomic Sequencing Versus Culture-Based Isolation www.protocols.io/view/compara...

22.07.2025 18:26 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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CRAFTseq Genetic studies have identified thousands of individual disease-associated non-coding alleles, but identification of the causal alleles and their functions remain critical bottl...

Happy to answer any and all questions about this work. We'd love to see more people try it.
Full protocol: www.protocols.io/view/craftse...
Full analysis: github.com/immunogenomi...

23.07.2025 15:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Precisely defining disease variant effects in CRISPR-edited single cells - Nature A plate-based assay called CRAFTseq has been developed that uses β€˜multi-omic’ single-cell RNA sequencing and direct genotyping of CRISPR edits to test the functional effects of genetic variants o...

I am very excited to share our publication, out now in Nature, detailing our developed CRAFTseq methodology for capturing and analysing single cell genomic DNA amplicons alongside the transcriptome and cell surface protein expression.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

23.07.2025 15:21 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Thank you for sharing your methods knowledge publicly!

08.07.2025 23:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Microplate Beta Glucan Assay This assay measures the mixed linkage beta glucan content of cereal grain flour through specific, enzyme-catalysed, step-wise hydrolysis of the polysaccharide to glucose and qua...

The easiest publishing process ever! After testing & retesting this protocol adapted from a large-volume industry standard method, I finally clicked β€œPublish” over at @protocolsio.bsky.social today. Can recommend; would publish again!! 🌾 🍞 πŸ§ͺ

dx.doi.org/10.17504/pro...

04.07.2025 10:56 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Non-lethal 3-D imaging techniques for estimating tadpole morphology The majority of protocols for imaging biological specimens are lethal and this raises both ethical and scientific concerns. One major limitation of most imaging protocols is tha...

🚨🚨 We just published a protocol for non-lethally measuring morphology in 3D in small aquatic organisms!! 🚨🚨 www.protocols.io/view/non-let...

The work was led by undergrad Daniela Granados πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰ and our collaborators include Najva Akbari, and Lauren O'Connell!

26.06.2025 13:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
RT-LAMP for BYV detection This protocol describes the process of detecting beet yellows virus (BYV) in plant material utilising a quick and easy colorimetric assay. The starting point is total RNA extrac...

Last month we published our protocol for detection of beet yellows virus. Here it is!

RT-LAMP for BYV detection www.protocols.io/view/rt-lamp...

11.06.2025 09:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Identification of Corynebacteria of the diphtheriae Species Complex and detection of the diphtheria toxin g... This protocol describes a quadruplex real-time PCR (Dip4plex), performed with the Qiagen QuantiNovaβ„’ Multiplex PCR Kit, for simultaneous identification of Corynebacteria of th...

qPCR diagnosis of #diphtheria: you may be interested by our procedure, which is now widely used across European reference laboratories: www.protocols.io/view/identif... @EURLdiphtheriaPertussis thanks @chcrestani.bsky.social for releasing on protocols.io

06.06.2025 11:50 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Happy to be in Brno for the #CTLS2025 conference from the Core Technologies for Life Sciences society. I'll be talking about protocols.io tomorrow morning in the Core Facilities and Open Science session

10.06.2025 09:42 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Protocol Spotlight with Maria Diehl
YouTube video by protocolsio Protocol Spotlight with Maria Diehl

Spotlight interview with Maria Diehl regarding her PLOS ONE Lab Protocol paper: "Modifying the platform-mediated avoidance task: A new protocol to study active avoidance within a social context in rats." @realdiehllab.bsky.social

06.06.2025 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What your Methods section isn’t If you’re a scientist like me, you read a lot of papers – and a lot of submitted manuscripts, drafts, and other larval stages of papers.* This is extremely helpful when it’s time to write your own …

For scientific writers: Three things your Methods section shouldn't be - but three things Methods sections often end up being. You can avoid these mistakes! scientistseessquirre...

03.06.2025 11:36 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

A fantastic start to #OSFest25 this morning, looking at publishing methods and protocols with @protocolsio.bsky.social. With three different sessions tomorrow and more over the week ahead, it’s not too late to have a look at the festival schedule and register your place: buff.ly/jZsSd6U

02.06.2025 12:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This month, we are recognizing the Assessment of Motor and Non-Motor PD Symptoms Working Group as our Network Spotlight! They shared protocols to support more reproducible rodent behavioral assays in #ParkinsonsDisease research 🐁 🧠

πŸ”— Check them out: www.protocols.io/view/behavio...

30.05.2025 15:46 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Today. bsky.app/profile/ltey...

29.05.2025 14:29 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Good practices in hPSC handling This protocol collection provides a comprehensive and practical guide for the maintenance, passaging, freezing, and thawing of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs). Designed to...

πŸ₯Ό Do you want to start working with human pluripotent stem cells?

πŸ“– Check out our protocols collection "Good practices in hPSC handling", developed among the CorEuStem COST Action Project at COST Association

#stemcells

www.protocols.io/view/good-pr...

27.05.2025 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Talking about training and opportunities for technicians around publishing. We're trying to get ours interested in using protocols.io to share work they're already doing optimising protocols.
#DARTS9

22.05.2025 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Why so detailed? I did Hydra care as a postdoc and when I tried to set up our lab Hydra it went horribly! After joining our lab, Kelso looked through multiple protocols and did some troubleshooting until our lab populations were thriving.

21.05.2025 22:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Comprehensive Hydra Care ProtocolPublic workspaceAmountAmountAmountAmountAmountAmountDurationAmountAmountAttentionOvernightPipettingCriticalPipettingPipettingPipettingPipettingPipettingOptionalPausePa...

Interested in studying Hydra? Our lab researcher Kelso Cochran wrote a comprehensive protocol (used to train all of our undergrads) now shared on protocols io on how to get started www.protocols.io/view/compreh...

21.05.2025 22:35 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Protocol Exchange transitioned to protocols.io! When protocols.io was acquired by Springer Nature two years ago, we wrote that it would result in an expansion and improvement of our platform, without compromising our business...

The protocols from Protocol Exchange are now live on protocols.io, expanding the @protocolsio.bsky.social repository from 21,000 to 23,000 public protocols. www.protocols.io/blog/protoco...

19.05.2025 17:52 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Protocol Spotlight with Fotios Alexandros Karakostis
YouTube video by protocolsio Protocol Spotlight with Fotios Alexandros Karakostis

Spotlight interview with Fotios Alexandros Karakostis regarding his PLOS ONE Lab Protocol paper: "Introducing β€œValidated entheses-Based reconstruction of activity 2.0” (VERA 2.0): Semi-automated 3D analysis of bone surface changes."

13.05.2025 18:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Open Science & Scholarship Festival 2025 now open for booking! | UCL Open@UCL Blog UCL Homepage

You've heard about the upcoming festival, but let's take a look at some of the individual sessions!

The first event on the programme is taking place in person at @crick.ac.uk and will be featuring experts from @protocolsio.bsky.social. The workshop is open to all.

07.05.2025 15:20 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Protocol Spotlight with Daniel Foulkes
YouTube video by protocolsio Protocol Spotlight with Daniel Foulkes

Spotlight interview with Daniel Foulkes regarding his PLOS ONE Lab Protocol paper: "Stable topical application of antimicrobials using plumbing rings in an ex vivo porcine corneal infection model."

07.05.2025 17:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Efficiently constructing complete genomes with CycloneSEQ to fill gaps in bacterial draft assemblies Efficiently constructing complete genomes with CycloneSEQ to fill gaps in bacterial draft assemblies

And the paper: gigabytejournal.com/articles/154

02.05.2025 16:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bring structure to your research - protocols.io A secure platform for developing and sharing reproducible methods.

When publishing the first benchmarking data for a new sequencing technology like CycloneSeq, it's great having @protocolsio.bsky.social to share the protocols in a transparent manner.

CycloneSEQ Library Construction and Sequencing Protocol for Isolated Bacteria. dx.doi.org/10.17504/pro...

02.05.2025 08:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Are you a researcher who'd like to know more about creating open methods & protocols? Can you be in London 2nd June am?

Then come to the training event that the Crick & protocols.io are putting on for the Open Science & Scholarship Festival.

Register here: forms.office.com/e/EecPjyU1UU

29.04.2025 08:43 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Protocol Spotlight with Elisa Crisci
YouTube video by protocolsio Protocol Spotlight with Elisa Crisci

Spotlight interview with Elisa Crisci regarding her PLOS ONE Lab Protocol paper: "High-throughput 96-well plate-based porcine antibody isolation protocol."

28.04.2025 19:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Entorhinal cortex represents task-relevant remote locations independent of CA1 Neurons can collectively represent the current sensory experience while an animal is exploring its environment or remote experiences while the animal is immobile. These remote representations can refl...

I'm late to the party, but here's a πŸ¦‹ intro!

I'm a postdoc at Stanford studying how the hippocampal circuit supports multiple aspects of spatial memory and how it goes awry in aging and #Alzheimers. Starting my own lab soon πŸ‘€

πŸ‘‰ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
πŸ‘‰ www.protocols.io/view/chronic...

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