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Petit résumé de Trump: 28 février : « Nous lançons une opération décisive. » « Ce sera rapide. » 2 mars : « Nous l'emporterons facilement. » 3 mars : « Nous avons gagné la guerre. » 7 mars : « Nous avons vaincu l'Iran. » 9 mars : « Nous devons attaquer l'Iran. »

Four years ago Russia began it's full scale invasion of Ukraine. They expected it to fall in days. They were wrong. Long live Ukraine.

Discover and share the CBS Montpellier starter pack, to follow current and formers members of the Centre de Biologie Structurale on Bluesky. go.bsky.app/G682pvP @cnrs.fr @inserm.fr @umontpellier.bsky.social

Hannah Arendt did not mince words, did she? 'Totalitarianism replaces all first-rate talents with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.' From "The Origins of Totalitarianism" (1951)

Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases

Il governo spagnolo continua a distinguersi sull’immigrazione

Bo, io la riposto, tanto non serve a un cazzo. Ormai è una tombola demoniaca.

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.

The march is now passing the Chicago city hall / Cook County hall building. The chant goes up, "Minnesota don't you fear, we, the people, are right here"

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Literally every single thing in here was astonishingly evident from the beginning.

"Coerentemente con la posizione storica della Presidente del consiglio diremo qualcosa senza dire niente, contraddicendoci in meno di 200 caratteri".

Evidence for the Progressive Improvement of All-Atom Force Fields in Reproducing Local Conformational Preferences of Flexible Peptides https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.22.695171v1

🎉Our group has been awarded a prestigious #FIS grant! #RNAScale - Exploring RNA Dynamics across Scales: From Base Pairs to Viral Genomes 👉 www.bussilab.org/fis3 We will soon open postdoctoral positions across several components of the project! An expression-of-interest form is already online.

Un candidat pour la photo de 2025 sur ce que deviennent les US.

Great opportunity with a great mentor!

Vous avez besoin de voir la fanfare des potichats Mitchiri, pour la santé mentale et pour trouver tous les chats qui font nawak pendant la marche. youtu.be/lAIGb1lfpBw?...

Students don't pay top £$€ for "information" they pay to get an education which is eons far from getting an answer to a question, it is learning how to *give* answers to a very diverse set of questions, so GO home ChatGPT, you are not a teacher!

New preprint by @lavagnae.bsky.social from Barducci lab (@cbsmontpellier.bsky.social): we show how energy-consuming enzymatic reactions, like phosphorylation, regulate biomolecular condensates with complex effects on condensate stability and reactive interfaces. Any feedback welcome!

MAIS LE RENOUVELLEMENT DE QUOI BOUGRE DE TRUFFE VOUS ÊTES EN BOUCLE DEPUIS SEIZE MOIS www.lemonde.fr/politique/li...

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

I'm hiring for a PhD position at Malmö University, Sweden! The project will focus on molecular modelling of proteins, lipids, and biomolecular condensates at cell membranes. More details and application form: tinyurl.com/4zm92365 Please feel free to share! @vetenskapsradet.bsky.social | @mau.se

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

IG Nobel Prize in #Physics 2025 to @mpipks.bsky.social researchers for elucidating the phase behaviour of cacio e pepe sauce. The work highlights how physics can also be applied to solve daily-life problems! nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03045-0

Lancement ce jour du projet d'extension de notre laboratoire. 1100m² de nouveaux espaces et 280m² rehabilités. Merci pour leur soutien à nos tutelles et nos partenaires. @inserm.fr @cnrs.fr @umontpellier.bsky.social @occitanie.bsky.social @villedemontpellier.bsky.social & l'Etat

The Kimmel video: "The MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it."

Fascisme: encore un exemple. Faire disparaître tout ce qui contredit le Führer Trump.

C'est bon là vous avez vu les signes du fascisme ou c'est toujours pas assez...

This ChatGPT prompt could have been a Bash script

At the heart of gen AI sits a massive economic problem: LLMs are too expensive to charge a monthly fee for, and that is what every single LLM company charges. This will never work. www.wheresyoured.at/why-everybody-is-losing-money-on-ai/#what-if-it-isnt-possible-to-make-a-profitable-ai-company

“Is AI good for teaching? Let’s ask an entrepreneur whose entire business is based on that, instead of actual experts”

#Postdoc opportunity to join my group at KCL to work on RNA modelling for 2 years (+1 year pot. extension). #CompChem #ChemPostDoc #PostDocJobs #RNA Apply by 17th September! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/123725-...

Happy to share our community note published in Nature Communications @natcomms.nature.com. In this 14-page article (34 authors from 9 countries), we discuss current practices in phase separation. We hope it will be useful to the biomolecular condensate community. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If you want to learn about AWSEM, CALVADOS, Mpipi or FINCHES, I am not sure this is the best paper to read But, hey, at least I learnt about a paper we apparently wrote in 2014 (ref 80) FINCHES: A Computational Framework for Predicting Intermolecular Interactions in IDPs doi.org/10.3390/ijms...

Jpp des sorties à la con de *Ph.D level expert* pour les IA. Si il était niveau Ph.D, il regretterait ses choix, voudrait ouvrir un café sur les Alpes ou devenir éleveur de chèvres et ne jamais revivre ça et la santé mentale qui va avec le Ph.D. (bon j'aime ce que je fais hein, blague).

New computational methods conjure up ligands for the famously difficult class of disordered proteins - but how far can they go?

Secondo il ministro della Giustizia il sovraffollamento nelle carceri non è connesso ai suicidi, anzi, contribuirebbe a sventarli. Non è vero. ilpost.link/BIROoWOk2u

New in JACS! Using NMR, we show how condensates selectively bind and localize ions following the 'law of matching water affinities', shaping condensate composition, interface potential & RNA stability. Read about it here: doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c07295 @irissmokers.bsky.social

Divine Right of Kings bullshit. This is as Un-American as it gets.

This is actually important. Even after the test, people had the IMPRESSION of having been helped, when they had actually been impaired.

If people think American scientists are somehow going to land in Europe, I've got news for you about the difference between millions and billions. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Magnitude of current heatwave is incredible! The forecast for tuesday shows an unprecedented area with temp. > 40°C 😱 Never before has it been so hot over such a large area (and so early!) 🔥 The vertigo of having to live like this for the rest of your life... Data @meteofrance.com

This should be the first question asked after SO MANY talks

Yes, exactly this. 👇

79 anni fa italiani e italiane scelsero democraticamente di abolire la monarchia e diventare una repubblica, in un clima teso e con qualche incidente: ilpost.link/Gr84oMrYRN