Noise is key to evolution; entropy is key to metabolism. We have to stop pretending that biology fights against these things rather than relying on them!

A Beautiful 1897 Illustrated Book Shows How Flowers Become Art Nouveau Designs

I've seen these animations here and there on the net, but I just found their source: this amazing YouTube channel by @drewberry.bsky.social , which is a goldmine. From malaria lifecycle to signal transduction - full of super cool stuff! youtu.be/Xe-83tBcxhs?...

This weekend we projected cells and filaments on the roof of the @museeorsay.bsky.social in Paris, then we contracted it with a pinch of myosin. And it was fabulous! Grateful to have been part of this art/science project & thx to @manuelthery.bsky.social @lblanchoin.bsky.social & the CytoMorphoLab

🦑 Die Cephalopoden der Plankton-Expedition Kiel: Lipsius & Tischer, 1912. [Source]

🪷 Den Norske Nordhavs-expedition, 1876-1878 Christiania, Grøndahl & søns bogtrykkeri, 1880-1901. [Source]

The wonders of Chemistry by @philipcball.bsky.social youtube.com/watch?v=a3Md... #spectacularchem

Paired with the show, Bob Goldstein created the world's longest microtubule, ascending the Genome Science Building's spiral stairs, to honor Emeritus Professor Ted Salmon

🌟 Merry Christmas from a newborn star. Earlier this year the NASA/ESA/CSA #Webb Space Telescope took this stunning image of HH30, an edge-on protoplanetary disc. 🧪🔭 🔗 esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_investigates_a_dusty_and_dynamic_disc

Final version is out! Our large-scale cryo-ET dataset 🔬 of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii 🦠 is now published in @cp-molcell.bsky.social Huge collaborative effort! So glad to see the community already using it to develop new resources & tools. Check it out here: shorturl.at/z4i4c #CryoEM #CryoET

When art meets science! 🤩 Check out Drew's stunning animation of the cellular machinery behind homologous recombination — featuring our favorite DNA repair complex MRN, and other DNA repair heroes! 🧬🔧 @drewberry.bsky.social

Loving @drewberry.bsky.social's beautiful animation of DNA break repair by HR - featuring the MRN complex architecture and function inspired by the research from @hopfnerlab.bsky.social! Dive into the science behind it🧬 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#LivingArchitectures We put cells and cytoskeleton filaments on the architecture of the musée d'Orsay. www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/agenda/ev... Scientists of the #CytoMorphoLab adapted their protocols to illustrate the questions that keep them awake at night. -> Two shows on the 24th and 25th of January.

Our Science paper is out! Huge congratulations to @huabin-zhou.bsky.social, Mike Rosen, and the brilliant @janhuemar.bsky.social @juliamaristany.bsky.social and @kieran-russell.bsky.social from our group News: bit.ly/4avnkAr and bit.ly/3XBGVHS Great perspective by @vram142.bsky.social +K Zhang

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...

Some cells are just in it for the drama! The bottom 5 microns of cells videoed through a microscope by @EmmaKoory. The middle cell rounds up (for fun?) and subsequently rounds up to divide. We missed so much of the action by just sampling the bottom. @CellBiology

Proteins are dynamic structures, but structural biology often shows them as static snapshots. Inspired by long-exposure photography and generative art, I built ProteinCHAOS, an artistic tool inspired by molecular dynamics to capture protein flexibility over time, much like long-exposure images.

GOD - My pal [Australia, teen garagepunk (?)] (1987) https://redd.it/69u0jk https://youtu.be/IQdA3M1tag4

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

Animation I made 19 years ago of sperm whale hunting giant squid – INCREDIBLE to see the real thing! youtu.be/8GeUy4_aH2Y?...

Our PhD student Louis Romette is optimizing long-term live-cell imaging. He just casually dropped this 65-hour movie of a growing neuron (div 3 to 6) with knocked-in actin 🔥🕶️ #realtimemicroscopy

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

vizbi.org/2025 earlybird registration closes TODAY! 2025 includes keynotes from @lauragarrison.bsky.social @tisenberg.bsky.social & Marc Marc Streit (JKU Linz & Datavisyn, Austria), and masterclasses from @drewberry.bsky.social and @andylomas.bsky.social @magdalenecollege.bsky.social #datavis

This blew my mind youtu.be/Xe-83tBcxhs The double Holliday junction comes to life! Gorgeous work from @drewberry.bsky.social and team.

@stevestuwill.bsky.social you posted on 𝕏 on Dec 5, 2020 this stunning video - why not repeat on 🔵bsky ? (sorry, I did)... "Time-lapse footage of a vampire amoeba: a microscopic organism that feeds on algal cells by breaking through their cell walls and sucking out their insides." #ProtistsOnSky

JWST spectrum of K2-18b’s atmosphere. The detections of methane and carbon dioxide suggest the presence of an ocean underneath a hydrogen-rich atmosphere. There’s also a hint of DMS, which on Earth is tied to biological activity.

I'm happy and humbled to take on a new role with @rcsbpdb.bsky.social. I'll be continuing David Goodsell's work on the Molecule of the Month, starting with my first article on Assembly Line Polyketide Synthases! Check it out (animation included!) pdb101.rcsb.org/motm/301

🚨Version of Record of our ppaer 📜is out In @eLife: Fluid mechanics of luminal transport in actively contracting endoplasmic reticulum doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

🤩 Art by @drewberry.bsky.social @loliboldu.bsky.social @patriciabondia.bsky.social @jayeperview.bsky.social @hudrewthis.bsky.social @molmir.bsky.social @munafomarzia.bsky.social @snowotarski.bsky.social @marykoreilly.bsky.social @biyolokum.bsky.social @ahnaskop.bsky.social @bryanwelm.bsky.social

High-resolution template matching of the human ribosome in situ by Lippincott-Schwartz Lab @hhmijanelia.bsky.social @hhmi.bsky.social. >40 conformations within together reveal molecular dynamics of the elongation cycle with previously unknown bending and “spring-like” motion.

Wonderful new work by @drewberry.bsky.social Beautifully animated and wonderful sound design #sciart

Shout out to the sound designer Franc Tétaz on these animations too. This one on DNA is very satisfying and Lynchian. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hk9...

The sound design & choir music for this 2 min molecular simulation video is just perfect. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT5A...

One of the coolest videos I’ve ever seen!

This is peak scientific illustration. The SOUNDS!!

👀Check out this amazing animation about DNA repair by the one and only @drewberry.bsky.social and team! 👏👏👇

Excited to see the final published form of this amazing @drewberry.bsky.social‬ animation of DNA repair go live! Watch your favourite friends BRCA1/2, RPA, RAD51, Exo1, BLM, PCNA, MRN, primase and DNA polymerase perform their recombination magic. Cool educational & scientific tool for our community.

Delighted to publish my new molecular animation: DNA Break Repair by Homologous Recombination youtu.be/Xe-83tBcxhs

CellWalk's new ambient occlusion and noise filters. 48 samples/pixel. About ~300-400us for the ao kernel in this scene. Taken on #AppleVisionPro Still a few more artifacts to fix, but it looks so *good* now, and it's 2-3x faster than before (and 6x more samples) #graphics #computergraphics #sciart

More material tests, this time extra squishy. MD trajectory that shows an aspirin ligand coming out of hibernation for spring (undbinding) #b3d #MolecularNodes #GeometryNodes #SciArt

📢 World-leading Immunologists. The Nossal Endowed Chair of Immunology has just been announced @wehi-research.bsky.social. This is your chance to move (or return) to Australia to do ground-breaking research and join a thriving environment for discovery and translation.

Oh my. This is just gorgeous from Misha Kudryashev's lab (I don't think he's here yet?). Love to see it. V ATPase resolved directly in synaptic vesicles 🤤 Lots of other neat observations in there also. Congrats to all involved! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Happy Holliday Junction for those who celebrate