The Ertürk lab is looking for PhD students. Come work with us in Munich :)

Be my colleague! :)

Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy. This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis. 44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.

holy shit

❤️ A cleared guinea pig heart for #3DThursday! Clearing a heart is HARD — dense muscle, deep antibody labeling, big volume. But to understand coronary networks, you need the whole organ. 🔬: Miltenyi Ultramiscroscope 🥼: Pam Rios Coronado, @pamrc.bsky.social 🏛️: Red-Horse lab @stanford.edu 🎬: #syGlass

For the record, an earlier version of this post, using Fig 1 from this paper, but without shorts, fell foul of BlueSky's "Adult Content" filter.

Come work with a great team on one of the big questions at Helmholtz Munich! @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social

X/Twitter's rough full volume is around 500 total million posts every day, or 182 (and a half) billion posts per year. By contracts, we found 11.2 million research posts in all of 2025 on there. In other words, 0.000006% of Twitter appears to be sharing research. Basically zero.

Very cool paper in NBT from the Dietz and Erturk labs @erturklab.bsky.social @markuselsner.bsky.social go.nature.com/4gNLjeC

Congratulations to our scientist, Laurent Simons, for earning his PhD in quantum physics at just 15—an exceptional achievement. In our lab, Laurent’s work focuses on in silico biology to accelerate treatment of devastating diseases. We’re thrilled to have him on the team.

We are introducing LipiGo 🤗 A programmable DNA–lipid nanocarrier 🧬 with built-in targeting logic. It de-targets the liver and redirects mRNA delivery into lymphoid organs, enhancing therapies requiring the immune system. Precision delivery at the cell level isn't far! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

💡 Explore how practices from distributed, open-source software can make science more professional, open, and collaborative! Attend the “Science as amateur software development” lecture by Prof. Dr. @rmcelreath.bsky.social on Wed 17 Sept, 9:00. 👉 Register here: www.pretix.osc.lmu.de/lmu-osc/OSSS...

Wrote the same thing as a tweetorial on X, got a single interaction with the tweet. I guess it is finally time to leave that place for good

#Myelination enables faster signal propagation in the brain, but takes more energy & space. @philipruthig.bsky.social &co reveal how short- & long-range #WhiteMatter fibers differ, showing how these variations affect neural communication & processing efficiency @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4mq5tOy

How are human brain regions connected? Are the connecting axons thicker and more myelinated the longer these connecting fibers are? In our recent paper we find that indeed, they are! Read the skeetorial below ⬇️⬇️⬇️ plos.io/4mq5tOy #neuroscience #neuroskyence #whitematter #deeplearning

Out now in @plosbiology.org: our recent study on white matter myelination and axon diameters in long and short fibers of humans! Skeetorial coming soon :)

When a microscope facility user asks about how to make a red/green overlay

Our spin-off company is hiring a COO. (Stay tuned for more job offers) www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

🚀 We’re hiring again! Join @gerbi-gmb.de as a Software Developer! 💻 Build scalable #bioimaging solutions 🌍 Collaborate globally 🎯 Contribute to open science through #OME #Zarr 📣 Tell your #NGFF friends. Remote, full-time. Apply by 30 June 2025: All submissions via bit.ly/gerbi-jobs-2...

Congratulations to our Human Neural Circuitry team; bit.ly/4dEyX7Z publishes today in Science! This was the hardest challenge of my career, but one of the most rewarding, after years of rebuilding– & expanding my inpatient neuropsychiatry in the service of basic discovery bsky.app/profile/deis...

Signs I am, indeed, living in Munich, pt 1: I just paid 9€ for a pretzel and croissant.

+1000 I think AI will help us do scientific research in numerous ways, but the bulk of the work that real scientists do is not anything that "AI scientists" will be able to do.

Every now again it’s useful to repeat advice about accessing papers that are behind a paywall that excludes you. Email the author. My estimate is that 90% of academics are so thrilled that a living, breathing, possibly even reading, person shows interest that they will swiftly send you a copy.

One of the undisputed scientific wins of the last few years.

Can wholeheartedly recommend the city, place and people to motivated to-be phd students! Don't hesitate to apply 👏👏

🚀 Now hiring: 10 Doctoral Researchers @ Leipzig University! 🧠🔬 Join the DFG funded RTG NeuroTune and explore how neurons fine-tune communication! 📍 Start: Oct 1, 2025 🎯 Cutting-edge neuroscience + top-tier mentoring in vibrant Leipzig. Apply now 👉 www.lw.uni-leipzig.de/en/institut-... #NeuroTune

BREAKING: Development of a spike protein-specific radiolabeled antibody used with PET imaging shows presence of spike in brain & lungs of macaque monkeys 3 months post-COVID; provides new viral reservoir detection opportunity for long COVID: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

When I see a notification about an editors email

🌷Spring flowers? Fireworks? Mouse cerebral cortex FFPE tissue was labeled with eight primary antibodies. Aluora Spatial Amplification Kits and DAPI were used for detection, followed by imaging on the EVOS S1000 Spatial Imaging System. 🧠🔬🧪 #Neuroscience #FluorescenceFriday

Wegen großer Nachfrage haben wir nun die Rohdaten hinter "So hat Ihre Gemeinde gewählt" www.zeit.de/politik/deut... -> github.com/ZeitOnline/b... und "So hat Ihr Wahlkreis seit 1949 gewählt" www.zeit.de/politik/deut... -> github.com/ZeitOnline/b... auf Github frei zugänglich gemacht.

Looking for a suitable research software management tool for your PhD? 👨‍💻 Then take a look at the #openaccess lecture slides by @haesleinhuepf.bsky.social and get to know git[hub] to upgrade your software development. 👉 Check out the lecture slides here: zenodo.org/records/1462...

👏👏👏 to the “woke max planck director” @davidpoeppel.bsky.social! “We’re living in a time and an environment in which there are certain shared values that are non-negotiable. And that includes sexist behavior, mobbing; harassment of any kind.”

www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5nE... Important and painful

Maybe a good time to remember that mice have tiny hyperconnected brains. An estimated 97% of all possible connections between brain areas exist in mice, vs ~62% in macaques and marmosets. No wonder everything is everywhere in mice, they have all-to-all connectivity! doi.org/10.1093/cerc...

NEW: The actions of Trump and Vance in recent weeks highlight something under-appreciated. The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west). My column: www.ft.com/content/3046...

Seriously talented group of people, building Bayes at scale

20+ years ago, an idea about cortical lateralization of audition was advanced: asymmetric sampling in time (AST). This extensive review/reevaluation by Chantal Oderbolz, me, and Martin Meyer assesses how the idea has fared. #notallwrong www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Do you LOVE organelles?? Well I am THRILLED to announce that Nellie has been published in @naturemethods.bsky.social! Nellie a fully automated pipeline for organelle segmentation, tracking, and hierarchical feature extraction in 2D, 3D, timelapse, multichannel live-cell microscopy 🧵1/N

This looks extremely interesting

Want to know what we do at our startup Deep Piction? Check out our paper with Denali Therapeutics. Using our proprietary clearing & imaging technologies, we mapped the full targeting profile of brain-penetrating transport vehicles (ATVs) in whole mouse bodies and monkey brains. go.nature.com/3Xifva2

I accidentally opened Edge today. Immediately, the browser spouts 'I am new and enhanced, try this AI-powered browsing' After advertising these new groundbreaking features, Edge immediatly crashes and is unresponsive. 🙃

With all the horrible things currently happening in the US, some things like this do get a bitter smirk out of me: www.mobihealthnews.com/news/fda-neu...

Die @dfg.de setzt die Ausschreibung für neue Schwerpunktprogramme (SPPs) für ein Jahr aus.

Amazing tool - much love for the open source community <3

🎤 Another speaker joins #TiM2025! We’re thrilled to announce @ritastrack.bsky.social as a new speaker, delivering an exciting talk on Wednesday. Huge thanks to her for joining us! Stay tuned for more updates on our TiM page: bit.ly/3BPN9fB

We are looking for an intern (up to 19h/week) to support us in the organization of our Summer School in Dresden. Tasks include participant management, promotion of the event and support with the creation of promotional materials. Learn more and apply: 👉 www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/ste...

Pretty soon its going to be easier to keep a list of the brain areas that don't encode a cognitive map. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Im Eilverfahren hat das Landgericht Berlin #X dazu verurteilt, @democracyreporting.bsky.social bis kurz nach der #btw25 einen unbeschränkten Zugang zu allen öffentlich verfügbaren Daten der Plattform zu gewähren, um zu potenzieller Wahlbeeinflussung forschen zu können - via @freiheitsrechte.org