Congratulations to Xiaobo @xiaobozhong.bsky.social on his great paper! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Last few days to apply for this:

Less than half an hour ago, a peaceful transfer of power has taken place at #BPS2025! Join me in welcoming Madam President of the @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social, Professor Lynnmarie Thompson! And Madam President Elect, Professor Karen Fleming! 👏👏👏👏👏

A new structural paradigm for outer membrane protein biogenesis in the Bacteroidota https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.17.638638v1

It really is amazing. Another related point is that Academia wouldn't actually be doing its job if it *didn't* send the bulk of its knowledge and highly trained individuals into other parts of society.

Also, it is a pyramidal structure. Not all post docs can progress to become PIs. I would wish that there were some mid-level permanent staff scientist positions for those that would like to continue bench work instead of taking a more administrative role as PI, but as things are now, it is PI or out

Hive mind: I seem to remember having seen a plot/analysis showing that pLDDT is correlated to conservation but my mind or Google-fu isn’t finding it

It is a great honour to invite you to a symposium to celebrate the career of Mark Carrington. An exciting set of talks, particularly if you are fascinated by trypanosomes.

1/ Thrilled to announce Dr. Elizabeth Wright as the inaugural winner of the June Almeida Award for #cryoem! 🎉Elizabeth’s pioneering work in both cryo-ET methods and structural virology made her a perfect fit for this award. Congrats, Elizabeth!

19F modified amino acids such as trifluoromethyl-Phe integrated into proteins can give strong, clean signals for complex samples, but the results are difficult to interpret in terms of structure This study uses "ring current design" to increase 19F chemical shift dispersion and interpretability 🧬🧶🧲

Americans are now one-third less likely to die from cancer at the same ages as Americans in 1990

Clap in the face reminder when judged on PhD/post doc years even after >12 years: "Kovacs' record in microbiology is somewhat lighter, particularly early career lack of first-authored leadership on high level publications" ... and I am still in academic science #nevertheless

You may recall, we used a similar technique to find plasmid-dependent phages, by putting the same plasmid in two different bacteria. Now we do it for all sorts of phages! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Phages! At the Disco! Here's Ellie (the first author's) thread on our new preprint on how to discover weird new phages using glowing bacteria:

Visiting @arianebriegel.bsky.social at the Institute Pasteur ! Great to see her new lab!

We will be hosting 3rd Full Circle Symposium for Native Biologists hosted at UCSF in April 2025! We aim to build community and provide meaningful opportunities for Native scientists. If you are a Native biologist who is interested plz fill this out to stay up to date: forms.gle/AN7nfkhdB3Fv...

I am about to be recruiting two post-docs to work on cryoEM and cryoET of amyloid aggregates... Anyone interested please drop me a line while the wheels of our HR department turn.............

Can I ask you to share a PhD advert at Bristol Uni please? Rhomboid proteases play a role in neurons that is essential for life- but it is not characterised. Got a student interested in cell biology, electrophysiology and neurobiology? Send them our way! tinyurl.com/56f24f7c

Published today Steve and Justin’s story that finally reveals the basis for transmission of uni directional ion flow into bi-directional rotation of the bacterial flagellum doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Important so please help spread the word... Interested in postgrad research? Maybe do a PhD? Oxford runs a summer internship scheme for UK students from under-represented and disadvantaged backgrounds Stipend, free accommodation, mentoring... Deadline 21 Feb www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g...

Time for puppy to start sciencing….

For microbiologists seeking faculty jobs: Rutgers has 4+ faculty searches in microbiology right now! Please share widely and see below for details and links on the individual positions 1/5

A fantastic postdoc opportunity with Jon Grimes at Strubi, University of Oxford, to study the molecular mechanisms of viruses using the latest cryo-ET and cryo-SIM technologies. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

The Dunn School at University of Oxford just can't stop recruiting! This time an Associate Prof in cell/mol biology with focus on infection, immunology, inflammation Come and join us... Please spread the word www.path.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/asso...

Can we please use the term machine learning in scientific publications and not AI? The first is a set of mathematical methods that can be analysed and criticised, the second a divisive buzzword. 🧪 #AcademicSky

Come work in my lab in Oxford Biochemistry- Postdoc funded via HECBioSim (EPSRC) in collab with Arvind Ramanathan at Argonne National Lab. We will do massive bacterial membrane simulations augmented with ML. We are friendly, supportive lab in a beautiful city. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DDF342/p...

Come be my colleague! The MCB Department at UConn is looking for a TT Assistant Professor in the broad fields of structural biology, biophysics, and biochemistry. Collaborative department, strong graduate program, and state of the art core facilities. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25945