This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

This is of course hard on the junior and untenured, but not as hard as some seem to think. Is it better for your metees to burn through 5 postdocs so that one lucky one gets a CNS paper, or is it better for all 5 to get respectable, but less glam publications?

Deciding not to submit to CNS is, in part, deciding to be happier doing good science and having a "sucessful" career, as measured by traditional measures. Will chasing glam journals hurt my chances of making full Prof? Who knows? Do I care that much about making full Prof? Not really.

(1/7) How does T. brucei achieve a 140-fold stoichiometric excess of VSG mRNA over upstream ESAGs from a single polycistronic unit? Our latest research in @natmicrobiol.nature.com reveals a mechanism of spatially regulated RNA decay to fine-tune expression of virulence genes

Nice article about cave microbes and the work of people like Hazel Barton from BBC News www.bbc.com/future/artic...

OMG, the passenger riding along!

Congratulations Sebastian!

Hergé

🚨 Postdoc position 🚨 I’m moving back to Switzerland this summer to launch my lab at the University of Zurich and am recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow (start: late 2026). Details & application: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie.... Please share! 😊

How many mechanistically different protein insertases are there? Maybe fewer than you think! Check out our tale of pATOM36, MIM, MTCH1/2 and YidC in the preprint by Stephan Berger of the Schneider and the Ballmoos Labs. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Vorholt Lab re-created endosymbiosis in the lab: injected bacteria into a fungus and evolved a heritable partnership. Evolution, fast-forwarded. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

This is a beautiful case of how real science happens & serious scientists work. Kudos to both set of authors: “This has been a humbling experience, but one that speaks to the self-correcting nature of the scientific endeavor.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

With new book 'The Dawn Fisherman' out soon, delighted to have explained with co-author Ralf Dahm to @meganwollerton.bsky.social at National Geographic how pus, old bandages (& later, salmon gonads!) led to discovery of DNA in freezing cold castle kitchen! www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...

🧬Fully Funded PhD Mitochondria|Protein Homeostasis|Antibody Technologies 🤝In collaboration with @menzieslab.bsky.social and Nick Robinson @blslancasteruni.bsky.social 🎓UK students only ⏰6th March 2026 📩Enquiries: [email protected] www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #phdopportunity #mitochondria

I find this kind of ironic, this is what happens if AI generated content is not checked.

This could be big! - Got it in January

Tracking the details of an experiment in successively cited Methods sections

Nature can be wickedly cunning.

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The winner of ✨ #planetaryScience image of 2025 ✨ is ✨Uranus as seen by JWST✨ Taken on: October 6, 2025 Credit: NASA/ @esa.int /CSA/ @stsci.edu / @andrealuck.bsky.social Full resolution: www.flickr.com/photos/19227... 🧪⚛️

David got company!

Well, this is an utter disaster for science. This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next. 🧪

This is actually the trippiest thing I've ever seen that was not deliberately created by M C Fucking Escher. It straight up took me over a minute to make sense of and now I can't go back. This is the white-and-gold dress on a gram a week of trenbolone.

In the early 1980ies the labs of Cordingley, Boothroyd and Borst discovered that the LSU rRNA of T. brucei is processed into 6 fragment. Now more than 30 years later Simona Amodeo at al. found the factors that mediate these trypanosomatid-specific processing events. academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

Have you ever wondered what you would find if you could keep your eyes on a bee for more than a few meters? Us, too! preprint (with videos!) + thread 🧵 Precise, individualized foraging flights in honey #bees 🐝 revealed by multicopter drone-based tracking www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/9

I wanted to take the bus but it was stationary

How does a caterpillar completely dissolve inside its chrysalis, before reconstructing itself in the shape of a butterfly? “Metamorphosis is wild,” marvels historian Oren Harman in his beautiful new book, which I reviewed for this week's @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

📢Postdoc position available!🧪🧫🧬 Our group is seeking a motivated researcher to investigate the molecular mechanisms driving host–endosymbiont interactions. Full details & application: karriere.hhu.de//index.php?a.... Please help us get the word out!

What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma. It's *scientific publishing*. We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

Schrödinger: Excuse me, miss, can I borrow that box for a science experiment? Pandora: Sure, be my guest.

- Picture by Raymond Gosling and Rosalind Franklin, King's College - DNA by Rudolf Signer, University of Bern

Holy smokes!!!!

Here we are! To celebrate our arrival, here is a #trypanosome expanded ~13 times & stained for tubulin, individual cortical #microtubules can be recognised, what was only achievable by EM before. Images: Christine Girard-Blanc & Thierry Blisnick. Many thanks to @centriolelab.bsky.social for training

Paper by the Schneider lab( @schneian.bsky.social ) & collaborators w/co-first authors Corinne von Känel & Salome Aeschlimann "TbTim20 facilitates protein import at a low membrane potential in trypanosomes lacking the mitochondrial genome" @febsj.bsky.social nccr-rna-and-disease.ch/news/article...

Multiple so called "quality control checks" by the journal almost killed us. - But now it is out! A novel mito. protein import factor is only essential in T. brucei without kDNA. – Check it out. Congrats, to the first authors Corinne and Salome and to all our coauthors. doi.org/10.1111/febs...

The flagellar pocket collar (FPC) is a cytoskeletal structure essential for nutrient uptake & immune evasion in #Trypanosome. @mbonhivers.bsky.social &co use U-ExM to provide novel insights into FPC biogenesis, and reveal 2 unknown cytoskeletal structures @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4n3bWi6

Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.

...and now something for RNA enthusiasts @nccr-rna-disease.bsky.social The function of the vault complex has finally been solved: it is a lampshade.

Another case of convergent evolution?

Convergent Evolution? – Spiral staircase in the “Église Saint-Catherine” in Loix, France

Congrats to all authors, especially Lim who had an impressive PhD viva last week! TAC is a very interesting structure linking mitochondrial DNA and basal bodies in trypanosomes

The trypanosomal TAC of is required for mitochondrial DNA segregation: Discovery of the novel TAC53 subunit and the tubular arrangement of the TAC filaments Joint study by the Ochsenreiter and Schneiderlabs. 👏 to 1. Author Lim. journals.plos.org/plospathogen... #mitochondria #mtDNA #Trypanosoma

so happy to have Katie as a colleague !

Sie haben friedliche Menschen gewaltsam attackiert! Was haben Sie zu Ihrer Verteidigung zu sagen? Ach? Sie dachten, das seien Klimaschützer? Ach so! Na dann ist es gut. Das kann schon mal passieren.

The trypanosomal TAC is required for mitochondrial DNA segregation. We provide insight into TAC assembly: one of the most extreme sorting event for any mitochondrion. Congratulations to Philip, Salome and Bernd #mitochondria #mtDNA #Trypanosoma journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

Anna's hummingbird in my yard moments ago. #DavisCA, #birds, #wildlife #birdphotography #hummingbirds #NikonD500

🎊The Front Cover Art for our recent paper: A View on Molecular Complexity from the GDB Chemical Space @yebuehler.bsky.social and Jean-Louis Reymond is now out @JCIM! 👉 tinyurl.com/yc4ufsfw @acs.org @pubs.acs.org @unibe.ch @DCBPunibern #MyACSCover #chemicalspace #drugdiscovery #molecules

Dem Menschen, der dafür verantwortlich ist, dass Microsoft Word "DNA" automatisch auf "DANN" ausbessert, wünsche ich von Herzen, dass alle seine fallengelassenen Marmeladebrote mit der bestrichenen Seite nach unten auf dem Boden aufkommen.

Dialog with society about phage therapy - our Agora project is taking off! Getting ready for lots of events across the country (D/FR): phagenforum.ch 💊🎙️🇨🇭