@bsky.app Ok. New theme from Bluesky makes everything less legible in dark mode because the deep almost benthic blue accent color. And the new icon is ugly. It does not have a dark version on iOS. Fail much.

our paper rebutting claim that Raman can distinguish enantiomers is finally out onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Never accepted by Spectrochimica Acta A despite 2 positive reviews, withdrawn after 2 months... while the flawed paper is still on their website #chemsky #researchintegrity 🧪

Liquid glass for Orion Desktop and Orion Mobile is coming in a few days 🥰

The reality in science is that creativity is not treated as a core skill while hypothesis testing is, and that is the imbalance that we want correct through the Night Science Institute! www.technologynetworks.com/genomics/art... www.night-science.org

These boxes are not moving. A mind-bending optical illusion by Japanese artist Jagarikin.

@bsky.app has started its downhill journey to X-fication. Domain #verification prevents anonymous malicious actors because a domain name is identifiable at ICANN. #Bluecheckmarks that can only be given by select entities (including Bluesky) inevitably creates 2 classes of users. This is a fail.

1/15 Every wet lab uses spreadsheets. But sloppy spreadsheets waste time, break code, and can cost you $450,000 a year. Here's how to fix that 🧵

Rab #GTPases are evolutionarily conserved signals mediating selective #autophagy, say Pengwei Zhao, Rui Tian, Dandan Song, Qi Zhu, Xianming Ding, Wei Zou, Qiming Sun and colleagues @ZJU_China: rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Trafficking #Biochemistry #Mitophagy #Lipophagy #Xenophagy

🚨Paper alert🚨 The biochemical mechanism of Rho GTPase membrane binding, activation and retention in activity patterning - Published in @embojournal.org by the Peter Bieling Group & William Bement Group & Scott Hansen Group www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

@leising.bsky.social I saw with much interest your interview on DW over the skewed power structure in academia. I wanted to ask you if you are aware of specific oversight bodies that exist in order to regulate, mitigate individual cases.

I just discovered supervenn, which is so much better than circular venn diagrams github.com/gecko984/sup...

I use an app called @obsidian.md to keep my notes from meetings, conferences, as well as a lab book. I used to think it is a pretty niche program. But seeing their enterprise supporter list , it obviously isn't : obsidian.md/enterprise/ I just wish their pricing for sync and publish was reasonable.

I just spent the whole day wondering why my email was filling up, why it was so quiet at the institute. Talking with the wife was the first time I realised when she informed me that it was a Saturday, not a Friday.

Dear @microsoft.com , no one wants a "Co-pilot" . What people want is a "servant" who will do all the tedious tasks involved in everyday computing.

Cellular RNAs directly regulate the activity of an antiviral immune signaling complex www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @science.org @nandangokhale.bsky.social @ramlabuw.bsky.social

Is the solution to #gallstones simply increasing water flow through the #biliary system? A paper by Huo et al. shows increasing activity of #aquaporins may help. But the answer may not be so simple - we wrote an invited editorial at the Journal of #Hepatology authors.elsevier.com/c/1kEtjcOnAU...

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The expanding landscape of canonical and non-canonical protein phosphorylation. New review out in TiBS @cellpress.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/bioch...

I don’t get the whole corporate “Alumni” thing. I don’t care if you’ve worked at McKinsey, Google, Goldman Sachs, or anywhere else. I care if you can do the job and do it well. That's it. I’ve met plenty of name-brand idiots and even more no-name geniuses.

Something to keep in mind... I'm happy to use English as my work language, but frustrated by how this is often a blind spot among supporters of inclusivity stuck in a US-centric view of research

Something is up with #lysosomes and #lipiddroplets and #lipophagy. This preprint took a year to revise but it’s almost done. I would love to hear what the #autophagy field thinks! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Direct streaming of an #OMERO dataset in #BigDataViewer from the public server omero-tim.gerbi-gmb.de (dataset from the Workshop 35). Thank you Tom and @gerbi.bsky.social !

Hope I'm the first to post this all time classic on this platform

The best review on PSC that I have read journals.lww.com/hepcomm/full... 🫡 @autoimmuneliver.bsky.social #medsky #liversky

From the vaults...

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I'm putting together a primary sclerosing cholangitis starter pack to make us easier to find. I think it's the first of it's kind. Comment or message if you belong there or want to nominate. #PSC #liversky #hepatology #gastroenterology

I know we are all jumping on to #Bluesky. But given that there are almost no alternative Bluesky instances or third party clients, this is just Twitter 2.0. I have a hunch that Bluesky will soon launch premium subscriptions that will include things like an iPad client.

It would save a huge amount of time for researchers if #JHEP #Journal of #Hepatology would provide a proper official CSL file for citation formatting. I had to modify the upodate JHEP CSL file available for Zotero. The upgraded version can be obtained from cumulus.ifado.de/f/7f705cf50a...

There's an absolutely adorable child on this train reciting the alphabet and after K, he keeps going "ello mello P" and honestly his lusty affirmation of life, of hope, reminds me that once again I have forgotten to bring my fucking headphones.

Genuine question: #RCS basically makes the functionality of messaging apps like Whatsapp redundant. So why are we still using Whatsapp, Signal, Telegram etc.?

Intermittent Bsky user. Is discoverabiliy here significantly better than Mastodon now?

#TIL the word “Veda” , referring to the ancient Hindu texts comes from the same root - ‘vid’ - to know by observing/seeing. This is also the root of Latin ‘videre’ - to see, Greek ‘uida’ - to know/see, English - ‘wisdom’ and ‘wit’, and in the modern world ‘video’.

Spending the evening looking at lipid droplets #NotFluorescenceTuesday

Ibrahim Cisse shows that the range at which RNA-bursting during transcription can be modulated at is greater in the range of a micron. Does a dynamic and transient condensate regulate this ? #EESImaging

Why does Bluesky insist on blinding me by showing me the splash screen of the sunniest sky when I am in Dark mode?

Rage Rage against the vinyl in the night

Do not go gentle into that good night

Just realised when editing a dossier for work that my #English has Americanized. In school, we used British English (Wren & Martin for grammar, remember?). And today, 'standardised' feels a little off compared to 'standardized'.

Shower thought: Text is compression. A word is a compressed form of a very complicated idea eg: 'science'. Does text effectively increase the capacity to hold information in our brain? Do literate people have a higher data capacity because they have a way make zip files in the brain?

Shower thought: In the ancient past, there must have been violet blood, an intermediate the blue and green blood of invertebrates, and the red blood of vertebrates. Turns out there exists violet blood even today, but not for the reason I thought. #Evolution surprises as usual. #science #colors

qMaLioffG: A single yellow fluorescent protein FLIM indicator enabling quantitative imaging of endogenous ATP www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Seen at a certain microscopy facility. You know it's true.

Sometimes the R language is painful to use on Windows emergentnoise.link/Musings/Rnno...

Why I left Protonmail emergentnoise.link/Musings/Blog...)

Lipid droplets in a hepatocyte cell using CARS microscopy. No labels, no staining, native chemical contrast #microscopy

It's wild that we can literally look at molecules using atomic force microscopy. It's especially satisfying when the resulting images look like their structural formulas.