I’ve frequently posted the version revised in response to referee comments to bioRxiv, on the assumption that anything up to and including the author accepted version is allowed, though not to Nature family. I wonder if @ritastrack.bsky.social could comment?

Well deserved! I’ve always been deeply impressed by David’s insights into a wide variety of areas!

This looks really impressive!

These are fantastic courses in an amazing location!

Dear scientific community, I am looking for two postdoctoral structural biologists to join my group at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

The September issue is here! tinyurl.com/bdeby9au The cover highlights XFBLD-Platform, a crystallographic fragment-screening platform at Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility. Find out more at tinyurl.com/36rzxazr

This is well worth your time! Alisia and Minhuan are both rising stars!

"Bluesky now platform of choice for science community. It's not just you. Survey says: "Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky" arstechnica.com/science/2025...

The August issue is out! journals.iucr.org/d/issues/202... On the cover: ~15% of the ligands in a high-resolution set of FABP structures had a different chemical composition to that expected from the starting materials or final synthesis product. Find out more at doi.org/10.1107/S205...

Happy to see this out, great work from Niels, combining kinetic analysis, cryoEM and an unexpected gain-of-function mutant, nice work from master students Jan and Nina, from Kaustav and from Alex for the kinetics ‪@oncodeinstitute.bsky.social‬, ‪@nkinl.bsky.social‬

I have two fond memories of Rolf. In the late 1980s, when I was just becoming independent, he asked for a copy of my program, SIGMAA. I said sure, send me a mag tape, and he said no, I have a budget for this (Hoechst era) and offered several thousand dollars. Travel budget sorted for a couple years!

Pipe stems (Dutch)

Elspeth F. Garman: Perspective on a large-scale ligand structure characterization ... ##IUCrhttps://journals.iucr.org/paper?S2059798325006631

Blind structure prediction experiments like CASP and CAPRI are catalysts of new developments

A small reminder to all structural biologists around working on biomolecular complexes: please consider sharing your complexes as targets for CAPRI - AI has not solved all structure prediction problems and there are still challenges! See www.capri-docking.org/contribute/

The 27th Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography will be held in magnificent Calgary in the heart of Alberta, Canada from Aug 11-18, 2026. Interested in cutting-edge structural science? Sign up for updates at www.iucr2026.org/

Wow, that brings back old memories from my PhD!

In case you tried the first link, here’s one that works!

It's day 4 of #ISMBECCB25 so do drop by the IUCr stand! Now featuring the IUCr Journals tablecloth and a rare appearance by our Managing Editor!

Fantastic news!

Recently I learnt that EMBL-EBI has a free online course about AlphaFold — how it works, strengths and limitations, how to use it — and it's very good! There are also little quizzes and interactives. www.ebi.ac.uk/training/onl...

If you’re attending #ACA2025 in Chicago, check out the talk by the amazing @alisiafadini.bsky.social. She’ll present new results on using experimental data (X-ray or #CryoEM) to guide AlphaFold even with very low resolution data! Session 2.1.3 at 11:10 on Sunday.

Read how Michael James, Louis Delbaere, Wilson Quail, and others inspired Canadian crystallographers in Sharing our excitement for structural science through mentorship Open Access pubs.aip.org/aca/sdy...

More arguments for choosing society journals, where any profits are ploughed back into science! For structural biology, please consider @actacrystd.iucr.org, @actacrystf.iucr.org and @iucrj.iucr.org!

📢 Bluesky is emerging as the New Platform for Academia, but what's missing? 📊 Altmetric integration to track attention for articles 🔄 Share and ♥️ Like if you agree! 🙏 @altmetric.com please tell us it’s going to happen!

It was great fun talking to Kiarash about his work, and I picked up a lot from Jonas’s questions! As anyone who knows Kiarash will imagine, it didn’t take long to reach a decision on the outcome!

We will be hosting a mirror site of the CASP data and workflows at @sib.swiss. Operating a redundant site with independent funding is a good idea for important scientific infrastructure, independent from the current funding situation in the US.

Speak up to prevent a major loss for the field. CASP, which helped shaping structural biology including AlphaFold is on the verge of shutting down. NIH funding has lapsed, UC Davis support ends and the core team is being let go. Painfully shortsighted.

Our July issue is out tinyurl.com/2u2cj472 On the cover: structural studies of the intrinsically disordered regions of human SFPQ reveal that it is capable of swapping dimer partners with itself. Find out more at doi.org/10.1107/S205...

If this is true, it’s abysmally shortsighted for #NIH. The new tools nurtured by the long series of #CASP challenges probably contribute far more in one year to the scientific and industrial economies than the entire funds that have supported it.

🇨🇦 Celebrating Canada Day ✨Today we honor the spirit, science, and strength of a nation. ➡️ 40M people, 10 provinces, 3 territories, 28 Nobel Prizes and next year, 1 unforgettable IUCr Congress in Calgary. August 11–18, 2026 🔗 www.iucr2026.org/

UCSF ChimeraX version 1.10 has been released! www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/dow...

Congratulations!

Welcome to @bsky.app, @ccp4mx.bsky.social! Glad to see the #structuralbiology community grow here!

Edited by Tom Burnley, Paula da Fonseca, Vicki Gold and Stephen Muench, this Structural Biology – Acta Cryst. D virtual issue collects articles from the 2023 CCP-EM Spring Symposium, showcasing recent advances in cryo-EM and structural biology methods. tinyurl.com/22evpux5

Our June issue is available: tinyurl.com/yrat7bne The cover highlights the virtual issue 'Image-processing methods for electron microscopy of biological specimens'. Find out more at tinyurl.com/3d4jvv5m and submit a white paper for the next edition to Carlos Oscar Sorzano!

Thrilled to have this work published! Thanks to some awesome teamwork, we've demonstrated improvements in multi-crystal data clustering by automatically separating 🐮🐷🧑‍🔬 #multicrystal #clustering #crystallography doi.org/10.1107/S205...

Now the grandfather of serpinology The legendary Robin Carroll ! #Euroserpin2025

In the context of our @reviewcommons.org revision process, I'm happy to announce Microscopy Nodes v2.2.0! This packs lots of new fun features, including new color management 🌈, clearer transparency handling 🫥, custom default settings 🔧 and more! Preprint at doi.org/10.1101/2025...

We are happy to release LocScale2.0: a tool for context-aware, confidence-weighted cryoEM map optimisation. Taking two half maps as input, LcoScale-2.0 produces feature-enhanced maps along with a robust confidence score that guides objective map interpretation. cryotud.github.io/locscale/

This virtual issue brings together key developments in image-processing methods that support cryo-EM and related techniques: journals.iucr.org/special.../2... Submissions are open for the next edition of this annual special issue. Submit a 2-page white paper by 1 July to [email protected]

It's great to see NSMB following the lead of IUCr journals like Structural Biology (@actacrystd.iucr.org) and Structural Biology Communications (@actacrystf.iucr.org). Reviewers find it much easier if they don't actually have to ask for the experimental data! Here's hoping other journals follow.

New book alert! Elspeth Garman (social-media-less) has just published a book called Mathematics for Biosciences. If you're a fan of Elspeth, check it out! www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...

Reminder: supporting society journals supports your science!

When you publish in scientific society journals, your open access fees stay in science! Well-described here by IUBMB, also goes for IUCR journals like @actacrystf.iucr.org, @actacrystd.iucr.org‬, FEBS journals, @microbiologysociety.org journals - etc.

Take a look at our May issue tinyurl.com/2stdx59b On the cover: an enzyme from Thermotoga maritima was found to belong to a new family of endo-galactosaminidases: CAZy family GH191. Read more at tinyurl.com/bdf3tsbf

We are currently seeking an ambitious, motivated, and hard-working scientist to join my lab (wrobel-lab.org) at the Department of Biochemistry of the University of Oxford as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. If interested, please go here directly: tinyurl.com/postdoc-wrob... or read more below.

The one and only @agwrobel.bsky.social is hiring for his new lab at Oxford. Structural biology and biochemistry of viruses. More at www.wrobel-lab.org

I think authors appreciate the generally high quality of peer review, and publishing in IUCr journals supports the activities of the society!

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