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 💊🎙️🇨🇭

I may be in a world of hurt from my bike accident Sunday ... but I can't help sharing bird pics. Here is a gif I made of pics of a broad tailed hummingbird from my trip to Arizona last week. #birds

The movie about phage therapy in Switzerland and beyond is available online now 🍿🎬💊 - link to the English version here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUMJ...

one small consolation of being a 60+ year old investigator is the ability to submit to 𝘔𝘈𝘛𝘜𝘙𝘌 family journals — sure they’re low impact (for our knees) but they have an early bird special if you submit between 4:00 and 5:30 on weekdays

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Genomes of nitrogen-fixing eukaryotes reveal an alternate path for organellogenesis #protistsonsky

Proteins must be folded into their correct shapes to function properly. @hillerlab.bsky.social discovered tiny “folding factories” in cells that enable efficient and accurate protein folding. @unibas.ch @snsf.ch @natcellbio.nature.com www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/news/detail/...

Hey blueskiers! We are looking for examples of "microRNAs" that you came across in your studies that seemed weird or behaving unexpectedly.

🚀 Today we're launching the 'Night Science Institute', a non-for-profit organization to lead a cultural shift in science! You may say we're dreamers 😉, but we think we're not the only ones. Perhaps today you will join us to make the Day Science and Night Science parts of the process live as one!

Yes! You will hear from us - and about phages! Lots. Looking forward to debate with the Swiss public about how to help patients which currently cannot get help from medicine in an effective way.

This is so upsetting. Outsourcing writing does not "free up time to do more science" it's just a step further toward becoming the CSO at the top of a managerial pyramid rather than being a scientist

Just now - Bull(e)seye!

Definitions cannot be right or wrong, only more or less useful. Most definitions in biology (species, organisms, individuals, what counts as alive, etc) are messy and will likely always be problematic. Drawing binary lines in continuous data is, at root, kinda arbitrary.

Our labs Science meets Abstraction - M.C. Escher's Mitochondrion

What an nice and simple experiment!

Published now. doi.org/10.1242/jcs....

The tripartite attachment complex (TAC) of Trypanosoma brucei is required for mitochondrial DNA segregation. Want to know how its outer membrane part is assembled? Check out our new preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Just stumbled upon a German tongue-twister song by Bodo Wartke… about the sexiest cell organelle. Yes, endoplasmic reticulum - your moment has come. youtube.com/shorts/EP5pd...

Last Wednesday the Birchgletscher in the Swiss Alps collapsed, devastating large parts of the village #Blatten and blocking the Lonza river which created a small lake. Thanks to aerial images shared by #swisstopo, I was able to create a 3D model of the area. You can explore it here 👉 skfb.ly/pxHLC

Researchers in Science have developed a tool to silence specific mitochondria-encoded mRNAs in living cells, which could help scientists understand the origins of certain mitochondria-related diseases. scim.ag/3F6Wm5d

As a philosophy major who adored symbolic logic courses, this may be my favorite cartoon ever.

How an organelle evolves in #symbiosis with a cell: Intermediate stage sheds light on the assimilation process phys.org/news/2025-03... A nucleus-encoded dynamin-like protein controls endosymbiont division in the trypanosomatid Angomonas deanei www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #Protists #Microbes

Winning the lecturer of the year award from the #Biology department of @unibe.ch definitely made my day 🤩🎉 (after a tough week, otherwise 😅). UniBern has been very supportive and generous in providing excellent teaching courses so KUDOS to them!

Preprint by the Schimanski & Schneider ( @schneian.bsky.social ) labs & collaborators w/ 1st author Clirim Jetishi "Beyond a Linear Structure: The Tubular Organization of the Tripartite Attachment Complex and the Functional Role of TAC53 " @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social buff.ly/ZxzIwnu @unibe.ch

This is a view looking down on a portion of Saturn's rings. Find the white structures along the edge of the ring, near the top. Now look at their shadows, cast on the rings themselves just below them. Those white structures are giant towers of icy ring particles, some rising more than 2 km.

Please consider applying for a post doc in our lab if you have bioinformatics and wet lab skills, and are interested in parasites! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...