IMPORTANT UPDATE: The person who originally saw this broadcast and took the pictures of the TV is currently the Icelandic Ambassador to the US.

Kenichi Nakaya

Sub-cellular chemical mapping using correlated cryogenic electron and mass spectrometry imaging online @natmethods.nature.com, led by Hannah Ochner, collaboration with @catfranco.bsky.social and @kiranrpatil.bsky.social labs doi.org/10.1038/s415...

shocking statistics, but only limited public outcry.. We should be more vocal about this tb.impactcounter.com

There are days when I miss being an editor. I loved writing headlines. Whoever did this, I hope they took the rest of the day off.

If the actor with British accent is evil then you’re watching Sci fi. If the actor with a British accent is good then it’s Fantasy. If the actor with a British accent knocks something over then it’s a Rom com.

Klein Minihörnchen unterwegs. #squirrel #wildlife #photographie

I've made some dodgy grids in my time, but I don't think I've ever failed to add sample to half the squares 😁 #TeamTomo

THREAD. A while ago my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the worrying weeks dragged on my dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time & inhabiting art's most iconic scenes. What he produced (& how quickly) was phenomenal...

Want to do a PhD combining cryo-EM, AI-driven binder design, and deep virology in a cutting-edge environment and in an international team? We're hiring @CSSB_Hamburg 🔬 You: curious, rigorous, MSc in biochem, biophysics, virology, related Interested? DM me. Please RT 🙏 #PhDposition #cryoEM #virology

Important announcement: a staycation is where you have time off and stay at home. It is not a holiday away from home in the UK. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

You’re saying Tom Bombadil is a Slow Horse?

Missed it was the 20th anniversary of the Guy Goma interview. We are all, at various points in our lives, this person.

Evergreen headline.

This was not on my Mars Bingo Card. Curiosity rover lifts the rock that is stuck to its drill, gives it a shake which liberated some loose material, but fails to dislodge the errant rock on Sol 4881 (April 30, 2026). The team has an option to eject the drill […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

I think I finally figured out how to shape Franzbrötchen. Still need some practice on getting the shape consistent though... I also made some spicy Twisty Strips from Nicola Lamb's Sift. #baking #backliebe

We're super excited to share MissAlignment: a new ML-based approach to reference-free tilt series alignment, spearheaded by @martenchaillet.bsky.social. We think it's going to make your cryo-ET life a lot better. Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Code: github.com/warpem/miss-... 🧶 Thread:

Our lab is proud to present our latest work harnessing Bridge Recombinase for genome-scale editing in diverse bacteria, microbiome editing, and programmable horizontal gene transfer.

Meet MagLuc: a magnetically-controlled luminescent protein. This is a foundational tool for remote control of biological processes, also known as "magnetogenetics". Can you tell when the magnetic field turns on and off? From @mariaingaramo.bsky.social and the team at @nonfictionlabs.bsky.social

incredible photos of a walrus falling off a pontoon in scotland. source www.facebook.com/groups/scotl...

Who thought it was a good idea to hold a half-marathon in the afternoon? Still made it round and had a good time though

This is a very nice video.

Happy to see the preprint of our VULCROM setup online! Thanks to our amazing collaborators we've managed to get some pretty cool cryo-CLEM images by combining cryo super-resolution and cryo-ET: doi.org/10.64898/202...

New preprint 🚀 ❄️ We developed Autogrid-compatible HPF planchettes that enable direct freezing of clipped EM grids and streamline integration with cryo-FIB workflows ✔️ improved grid stability ✔️ reduced handling ✔️ robust vitrification (🦠 🧫 🧠) A step toward routine HPF for complex samples #teamtomo

On-lamella super-resolution cryo-CLEM for cryo-ET enabled by vacuum-free ultra-stable cryogenic fluorescence microscopy https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.14.717675v1

i have very rapidly become incapable of thinking about anything that isn’t this video

The newly established NeCEN Utrecht is looking for a #cryoEM scientist! www.uu.nl/en/organisat... Work with a new Krios 5 + pFIB and support cutting-edge life science research. 📍 Utrecht | 🗓 Apply by 30 April Please share with your network!

A stunning recreation of the bronze helmet found in a prehistoric grave in North Bersted West #Sussex On display in the #Novium Museum #Chichester Customised with two crescentic openwork crests, this was undoubtedly one of the blingiest hats in the British Iron Age 📷 March 2026 #FindsFriday

We’ve been sciencing! M abscessus makes a arabinanase toxin to chop up the cell wall of competitor mycobacteria! #glycotime 🦠 thanks to @wellcometrust.bsky.social for the funding that makes this collaborative work possible! Also Sam’s structures are 😍 and Jean-Lou did some lovely biochem

Watched this last night, it was delightful

Final version @nature.com of our paper describing unconventional multicellular development in a choanoflagellate inhabiting an extreme environment. A ton of new data since the first @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint (which we've kept updating). A brief 🧵 (carried over from the old place)

Come work with us in Oxford! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQL601/p...

This GOOD BOY ran onto the course during the Women’s Cross-Country Skiing Team Sprint event, crossing the finish line and being automatically recorded by OMEGA’s photofinish camera 😆

Happy Valentine’s Day, from us to you. Tag your exes. Xoxox

ME: i’ll have a coke WAITER: is pepsi ok ME: yes WAITER: say cpepsie then

Recruitment for the EMBL International PhD Programme is officially open! 🔊 At EMBL, we train young scientists to become skilled and creative future leaders in academia, industry and other sectors. Start your career in the life sciences with us! 🔎 Read more here: tinyurl.com/4jdt2ra5

www.findaphd.com/phds/project... interested in bacterial antagonism? PhD opportunity in our team, see below. Please repost!

A few days ago, I stood in the graveyard of an 1100 year old church, getting damper and damper in the drizzling rain. A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones. The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...

My colleagues have put together a nice book chapter on amyloid polymorphism. Have a look! 🧪🧬🧶 #amyloids #cryoem @landaulabcssb.bsky.social @meytallandau.bsky.social @cssbhamburg.bsky.social @stratifa.bsky.social

Ice Age art! A lovely little horse figurine sculpted from mammoth tusk around 15,000 years ago! Known as ‘The Little Horse of Lourdes’ it was found in 1886 in the cave of Les Espélugues, Lourdes, Haute-Pyrénées, France. 📷 by me. #Archaeology

Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure

🔬 Postdoc position – Infection Biology & Cryo-ET (Zurich) 🇨🇭 We are looking for a motivated Postdoc to join our interdisciplinary team. 📩 Interested? Check out the job advert: www.imm.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:cb17... 👉 More info on the lab: www.weiss-laboratory.com Please share with interested colleagues!

we have to make the children dorky. we have to give the children the skills to say "xylocopa" out loud

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

Since Jan 1 2025, which feels like four trillion years ago, research has been shared on here 5 million whole-ass times. Bluesky recently passed 2 billion posts IN TOTAL. So 0.25% of the entire site's traffic was citations to research. That is actually massively high. Is it? Yes. Here's why.

This poem is dedicated to anyone heading back into work and having to endure dull conversation about what they got up to during the Christmas holidays.

In the wake of all the news coming out of the US and the amount of shouting at the TV I've done, I thought everyone else might benefit from one of my favourite photos from 2017 to break up the doom scrolling. I cannot fix the big things, so here's a small thing.

80th Anniversary of Harwell Science Campus, and @diamondlightsource.bsky.social have powered up the UK’s most powerful laser for a few hours to celebrate. A pillar of light 8km high into the sky. A view from my front door.

Happy Winter Solstice. The light is coming! This is the Holly King who is now at the peak of his powers. Fortunately his ascension is complete so we can look forward to the emergence of the Oak King and moving into the light. From my reduction linocut ‘The Holly King versus The Oak King’.

You might have missed out on our lab Christmas party this year, but you can still try your hand at our "common lab chemicals" quiz. Apparently me handing out a sheet of chemical drawings is 'not fun', so this year we also had cryptic clues...