Marten Chaillet

2026 will bring great tilt series alignments for the ribosome-deficient among us 🎆

CryoEM folks, If you want to handle huge STAR file efficiently in Python, please try starfile-rs!

github.com/hanjinliu/star…

Reading a motion data of a particle from a 15 MB file is just like this ↓🤩

It would be a great start if the individual methods papers could quantify the quality of their own results instead of relying on visual vibes

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More steps towards a saner model of academic publishing and evaluation:

1. We should all roll with initiatives such as the one linked in the previous post: submit our papers only to society journals and accept to review only for society journals. And preprint everything, of course.

2. We […]

If you haven't tried, Advent of Code is a very fun challenge! Hope I will have some time to follow along this year

Good podcast!

It would have been nice to hear more debate between the philosopher (Alex) and the scientists, because they were having two different conversations at some points. Alex raised good points about the difference between measuring correlation with consciousness and actual consciousness

YouTube video by M1n3c4rt [MV] 10 Years of AoC

Incredible #AdventOfCode music video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF_4...

🧠 The Lipid #Brain Atlas is out now! If you think #lipids are boring and membranes are all the same, prepare to be surprised. Led by @lucafusarbassini.bsky.social with Giovanni D'Angelo's lab, we mapped membrane lipids in the mouse brain at high resolution.
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Open Source Power We have to talk about open source licensing.

Anti-fascistic software is made possible by pro-labor licensing.

I've been trying to write this piece for years. Every time I get started I'm just overwhelmed with paralyzing visions of the FOSS commentariat accusing me of WrongThink.

But I'm tired and we urgently need to get our shit together.

De onvermijdelijkheid van zeespiegelstijging Door de sterke opwarming van de Zuidelijke Oceaan smelten gletsjers aan de rand van het Antarctische continent aan de onderkant snel weg. Hierdoor worden de landinwaarts gelegen ijsmassa’s instabiel,

Door de sterke opwarming van de Zuidelijke Oceaan smelten gletsjers aan de rand van het Antarctische continent aan de onderkant snel weg. Hierdoor worden de landinwaarts gelegen ijsmassa’s instabiel, en storten uiteindelijk in.

Thrilled, and admittedly relieved, to see this major investment in Dutch #cryoEM become reality! 🇳🇱🔬

Honoured to be a co-applicant on this national initiative and very excited for the opportunity to advance our work in cellular structural virology! 🦠

www.uu.nl/en/news/33-m...

Congrats to the applicants! Great news for EM in the Netherlands

Wilders deelt berichten die suggereren dat Kiesraad niet onafhankelijk is, instantie weerspreekt beschuldiging In dit liveblog lees je het laatste politieke nieuws over de uitslag van de Tweede Kamerverkiezingen.

Hoe kan je zo zijn... gewoon triest

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why I like squash and merge 😎

CryoJAX - A Cryo-Electron Microscopy Image Simulation Library in JAX www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.23.682564v1 #cryoEM

Does anybody have a working protocol for a pipeline including aretomo3 to pytom-tm to warptools for #STA? I would ideally like to use M for the final refinements instead of being confined to relion5. Any suggestions/resources would be welcome! #teamtomo #cryoet #cryoem

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Very excited that my final postdoctoral work is now online in Cell @cellpress.bsky.social.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Using 16 (!) cryo-EM structures, we uncovered how the three proteins coronin, cofilin and AIP1 work together to rapidly disassemble actin filaments.

Muyuan Chen has turned structural biology into an immersive experience with his new video game Meowtabolism, now available on Steam.
Try the demo here: store.steampowered.com/app/4045010/...
Give Muyuan feedback: steamcommunity.com/app/4045010
#ScienceGaming #StructuralBiology #CryoEM #STEMOutreach

But there’s a curious loose end to this story. Scientists have been looking at PSII organization in thylakoids for over 50 years (including some really stunning freeze fracture 🔬😍). Sometimes PSII looks randomly oriented, and other times it forms extended 2D crystalline arrays in the membrane 💠

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It works but you still need to be careful with heating the sauce after blending. I thought it was too watery and tried to reduce it a bit while tossing with the pasta, still started to clump

👀 this is really interesting!

PSA: 9 billion USD in research funds stolen by publishers over a 5 year period for open access fees - this takes away from your ability to pay your people what they are worth. Preprints forever.

2025 Ig Nobel Prize for Perfect Pasta Sauce The Ig Nobel Prize honors research that first makes people laugh, then makes them think. Its 35th award ceremony possibly also makes people hungry: ISTA physicist Fabrizio Olmeda and colleagues resear...

This is the research we need 😋 I have been struggling for years to make reliable cacio e pepe, can't wait to try it out
ista.ac.at/en/news/2025...

Improved cryo-EM reconstruction of sub-50 kDa complexes using 2D template matching https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.11.675606v1

Together with colleagues at the Dept. of Microsystems Engineering, we are looking for a PhD student to develop methods for femtoliter-scale sample dispensing in cryoEM sample preparation.

edu.nl/h436k

If you like interdisciplinary research & fascinating physics at ultrasmall scales, please apply!

Leopard-EM: An extensible 2DTM package to accelerate in situ structural biology The ability to generate high-resolution views of cells with cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) can reveal the molecular mechanisms of biological processes in their native cellular context. The re...

First pre-print from the Lucas Lab led by Matthew Giammar and @joshdcryoem.bsky.social online today! We develop a new, extensible Python implementation of 2DTM and apply it to build pixel size optimization, constrained search and characterize molecular motions in situ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Mitochondria finally made the headlines, yay!

Oh wait, ... oh no ....

Larger teams worsen academic career prospects As teams grow, new Ph.D. graduates are less likely to land tenure-track jobs and more likely to leave science—especially women and international researchers

As teams grow, new Ph.D. graduates are less likely to land tenure-track jobs and more likely to leave science—especially women and international researchers, according to research from last year. https://scim.ag/3JHinJs #ScienceMagArchives