Wishing you all a Merry and Healthy Christmas with the @rcsbpdb.bsky.social Molecule of the Month FOXP3! Learn more: pdb101.rcsb.org/motm/312 #MoleculeOfTheMonth #NobelPrize #MerryChristmas

🔬 Call to create junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur Focus: Infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions, vaccines Special interest: AI methodologies 📅 Deadline: Feb 9, 2026 👥 2-12 years post-PhD Apply now 📝 research.pasteur.fr/en/call/crea... #JobOpportunity #Research

As someone who produces digital educational content this is very relevant. I keep thinking how to make my work beneficial for society.

I watched the Alien Prometheus movie recently and the opening scene had some pretty funky DNA ✅ Left-handed double helix ✅ Extreme 🔥 grooves ✅ ~15 bases per turn ✅ Super-glued base ladder ✅ Subatomic black goo What are some of your favourite funny molecule structures from TV/movies?

Today, our animation synthesizing decades of research on actin-mediated endocytosis in budding yeast was published: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... The result of a fantastic Iwasa-Drubin lab collaboration. @margotriggi.bsky.social @jiwasa.bsky.social movie.biologists.com/video/10.124...

I made a #BlenderAdd-on to load image sequences on the right timeline frame in the editor, even if you are missing frames. Grab it for free from vizcie.gumroad.com/l/BlenderIma...

When labelling an element in your microscope videos, how long should you keep the label visible so the audience can catch it and read it? It is longer than you may think. See image ^_^ (from Copilot)

Watch the documentary Target Zero to learn about the challenge and emotional complexity of the fight to control HIV infection

The hidden danger of Biorender (& the death of scientific illustration) A short thread 🧵

November 17 is designated by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the Cervical Cancer Elimination Day of Action. Visit PDB-101 to learn how the capsid protein of papillomavirus is used in vaccines that prevent cervical cancer.

Really important work to help protect artists from AI: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdJZ...

Join the official Blender Survey 2025! Let's get a picture of the community and help shape the future of Blender together. 🧡 www.blender.org/news/blender... #b3d #DevFund

We hire! The CytoMorpho Lab is looking for an engineer with a background in cell and molecular biology to join our team in Paris. This is a 18-month contract position, but we're open to exploring long-term opportunities. More details here: cytomorpholab.com/index.php/jo...

9 days to go: * 2 x open positions! * Exceptional environment, competitive start-up package * University of Toronto appointments * Toronto has great (and peaceful) quality of life!

The Crick is looking for new junior group leaders! Any postdocs or early career researchers wanting to be our colleagues should apply 👍

I don't think I will ever get a nicer review. ❤️ Everyday trying to give a better service.

How did a brain gene end up behaving like a virus? Research has shown that there is an evolutionary connection between Arc, retroviruses, and virus-like genetic elements called retrotransposons. More at Molecule of the Month: pdb101.rcsb.org/motm...

Such a beautiful talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWYb...

🕒 NEW VIDEO 🕒 How can a cell know the time? Let's explore the beautiful 24-hour cycle produced by #KaiC proteins in the cyanobacteria S. Elongatus. Rendered in #blender3d with @bradyajohnston.bsky.social's brilliant Molecular Nodes add-on. #biology

Today in the journal Science: BioEmu from Microsoft Research AI for Science. This generative deep learning method emulates protein equilibrium ensembles – key for understanding protein function at scale. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Because we always see the grey matter surface of the brain, but the white matter shape is so beautiful that I just wanted to play a bit with it. Which is your favourite imaging data?

Check out this new review (with animations, natch) of mechanisms of licensing origins of DNA replication - a wonderful (and continuing!) collaboration with Bruce Stillman @cshlnews.bsky.social and John Diffley @crick.ac.uk! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sometimes 3 lines of code can save a lot of time. What are you procrastinating today? #Blender3D Python Coding.

Lighting set up for the current scene is getting out of hands ^o^. "I didn't have time to light a scene with few lights, so I put a lot instead"

Download an image of H5N1 The image shows David Goodsell's artistic illustration of the H5N1 virion in cross-section and images of select H5N1 proteins created using Mol* pdb101.rcsb.org/lear...

It became that season of the year to put ice pads under the fan of my laptop and unplug for rendering. 🤟

The Japan Pavilion at the #EXPO2025 was all about sustainability. The cutest room had Hello Kitty algae. Did you know that algae can absorb 14 times as much CO2 as a cedar tree? And produce 50 times as much protein as beef for the same amount of water? But could you eat these faces? Maybe yes.

Last night was very hot in Japan, I could not sleep and ended up rewriting my "about" page. As many decisions in the middle of the night, might be a bad one and I may change it again soon. Have a peep before I change it back and let me know if I should keep it or not. www.vizcie.com/about

Very inspiring to hear sir Paul Nurse explaining his research and reflect about - What is Life? - Why working with yeast has been so important to understand cells also in humans, - The consequences of natural selection, - Our responsibility to steward nature. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhZv...

Today we’re publishing Ozboneviz, an open-access 3D atlas of Australian vertebrate (mostly mammal) bones: doi.org/10.1093/bios...

📣#RIKEN is calling for applications from early career researchers interested in heading their own lab under the Early Career Leaders Program. Preregistration website opens Jun 3, 2025. Deadline to register basic info is Aug 7, 2025 See more program details👇 www.riken.jp/en/careers/p...

We built something new for plant researchers! A library of scientific icons of plants! If you would like to get early access, fill this form: tinyurl.com/u3wvdts5 Kindly share the post and help us reach more researchers.

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’ve uncovered Asgard chromatin structures formed by a Hodarchaeal histone : closed hypernucleosome conserved in archaea and an open form resembling the H3-H4 eukaryotic octasome. Fantastic work by @harshranawat.bsky.social! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #Chromatin #Asgard #Archaea #cryoEM

Wanna make better presentations? Listen to Simon Sinek. He spends 2 minutes telling a story and only the remaining 1 minute with the take home message. www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5Tq...

📣 ¡Ven al evento @pintofscienceES! #Pint25ES Los temas: 🔹 #IA 🔹 Microalgas 🔹 #CO2 🔹 Meteoritos 🔹 Y MUCHO MÁS 📍 Pub The Wild Geese, #Sabadell 📅 19, 20 y 21 de mayo ⏰ 19h30 🍺 Bebida para los primeros 40! 🎵 DJ Set! 💸 Gratuito! 🤝 @UABBarcelona, @icmabCSIC, @docfam_MSCA #Pint25

To honor the 75th anniversary of @NSF, RCSB PDB Intern Xinyi Christine Zhang created posters to celebrate the science made possible by the NSF and RCSB PDB. Explore these images and learn how protein research is changing our world. #NSFfunded #NSF75 pdb101.rcsb.org/lear...#NSFfunded

If u ever had to depict proteins as schematics in papers, u know the dilemma: how to create a pretty “blob”? If structure ends up big & central, u’ll render it with PyMol et al, but for a truly schematic depiction u want a biorender-style icon, but for YOUR protein. Think I’ve finally found a way.

Ribosomes connecting to the Endoplasmic Reticulum, building the Proteins of Life. #CellBiology, #StructuralBiology, #Biochemistry, #ScientificVisualization, #SciViz, #BioArt, #Blender, #MolecularNodes

On #DNAday (today) it is always a bit discouraging to see DNA still displayed in the wrong (left-handed) chirality, like in the example attached. After all these years... see also users.fred.net/tds//leftdna/

Blender Tip. You can animate curves with hooks. However sometimes simple animating each segment may just do the trick. The addon AnimAll lets you do that. And it also works for meshes ^_^.

Happy to see this story from IMEC coming out! The impact: A proof for cheaper diagnostics. My challenge: Making the shapes of translucent cells inside translucent devices on a translucent surface clear. pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

It's funny to be an animator learning about "design thinking" and hear a footage of Steve Jobs using "story boards" as an example to explain "prototyping". Never skip the rough sketches! I've done in the past, it was not fun. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Iav... Min 1:19:30

I always thought that mathematicians and scientists are highly creative, but I didn't know how to put it into words. Listening to David Kelley is a revelation. You may not draw super beautifully, that's about artistic and fine mobility skills, not creativity.

My computer used to crash when animating many proteins. Now I work switching from HR (High Resolution) and LH (Low Resolution) meshes and it helps so much. The effective switch node is very simple copy it from below:

Fancy a physical membrane model to play with?

Had you heard of Anti Crispr? Don't miss this amazing video from Clockwork to know all what you need to understand the last discovery in biochem: www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_Hi...

Getting 3D objects to behave like real biological objects is hard, if possible. However, in animation we can cheat. One "cheat" I like is replacing one object with another from one frame to the next. In Blender3D you can animate that objects appear or disappear in both render and viewport.

Hey protein, why so closed? Open up! Powered by Molecular Nodes, what else? (Nidogen-1)

I was procrastinating making a smooth endoplasmic reticulum as the structure looks so complex when I remembered I can use metaballs! It is actually so much fun. What are you procrastinating today that could actually be very fun?