As attendees at the American Chemical Society Spring 2026 meeting headed home, some expressed anxiety over wait times in security lines or the deployment of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents at airports. #ACSSpring2026 #chemsky 🧪

Niet vergeten: vandaag begint de zomertijd weer. ☀️⏰🕰️

#ClocksGoForward tonight in UK/Europe, stealing from many of us a full hour of precious sleep. Good time for a reminder that the tendency to be a “morning lark” or “night owl” is influenced by your DNA. But (like other aspects of behaviour) many different genes are involved.🌞🌚🧬🧪 #DaylightSavingTime

@embo.org Practical Course: Advances in cryo-electron microscopy and 3D image processing 📅 17-25 August 2026 📍 @embl.org Hamburg 📝 Registration Open| Deadline: 11 May 2026 🔗 instruct-eric.org/events/embo-... #cryoEM #Training

Added a little script to chimerax-trimmings to automate the creation of panels for model-map fit figures. It zones the map around (by default) 40aa parts of each chain (but doesn't cut in the middle of helices). Saves each as a png, metadata to csv. Saves each view as a scene for tweaking views.

Last day to take advantage of #BiophysicsWeek membership savings! Join the Biophysical Society March 23-27 with the coupon code JOINBW26 and receive 25% off 2025 membership dues. Renewing member? Renew with the coupon code RENEWBW26 for 10% off! www.biophysics.org/join

We're hosting an Ask Me Anything with two scientists from the Early Careers Committee! Submit your questions to be answered by Dylan Girodat and Shirley Ahn to [email protected]

Get ready to learn a lot more about Helium. There's going to be a global shortage due to this completely prevantable and unnecessary war. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

🇶🇦 Bloomberg: After damage to a major gas facility in Qatar, Airgas Inc. is cutting helium deliveries—some customers may get only half their usual supply and face added fees. Helium is critical for hospital MRI machines and for manufacturing advanced chips like those from NVIDIA Corp.

It's the last round of "Eye Spy a Biophysicist!" This scientist worked on studies of membrane proteins and is famous for a groundbreaking paper on the fluid nature of biological membranes. Comment your guess and tune in later to find out the answer! #BiophysicsWeek

There’s going to be a shortage of helium critical for hospital MRI machines and for manufacturing advanced chips like those from NVIDIA Corp after damage to a major gas facility in Qatar, Bloomberg reports. Fees will also rise. Suppliers are prioritising healthcare.

My quote of the day The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. Daniel J. Boorstin

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

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It only takes one minute to take your career to the next level. Click here for today's Career Booster Micro-Video: How to Interview Your Interviewer: www.biophysics.org/video-librar...

This Nobel prize winner is responsible for a key hypothesis (or dogma) regarding the folding of proteins and how it relates to their amino acid sequence. Comment your guess and tune in later to find out the answer! #BiophysicsWeek

The next online @embo.org course lab leadership for #Postdocs is 27-29 May. Places still available! Take time to focus on your interpersonal skills, discover tools to support your development and tune up your communication skills. #EMBOLabLead Sign up now: www.embolableadership.org/course/embol...

Looks like a great @embo.org workshop coming in September: “Lipid Code to Life”, with a who’s who of lipid #biochemistry… (e.g. @dimovalab.bsky.social @holthuislab.bsky.social @sciezgin.bsky.social etc ) More info and registration: meetings.embo.org/event/26-lip... #lipids #biophysics

We are #hiring! #GroupLeader positions open at #IRBBarcelona in #ChemicalBiology and #StructuralBiology. Application deadline: May 22, 2026 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 ➡️ https://shorturl.at/1tE3n 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 ➡️ https://shorturl.at/eKiJn #IRBJobs #Jobs #AcademicSky

Happy to announce that my institution, @irbbarcelona.org, is opening two group leader positions, 1 in chemical biology and 1 in structural biology, to strengthen our expertise in molecular sciences: please spread the word !

Today, on Gratitude Day, we share a guest piece from HD researcher Roy Maimon that Huntington’s disease is neuroscience’s best investment, not just for its scientific clarity, but for the remarkable community built around it. Full Article: en.hdbuzz.net/a-guest-pers...

The biggest difference between Dutch PhD defenses and other countries. In this episode, we go over what a Dutch PhD defense is like and what it was like for Suzanne to defend her PhD. Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y_UGpc2_Ag&t=2s #PhD #StrugglingScientists #PhdDefense

In press: "Investigation of the late-Roman burial chamber at Reichertsberg in Trier by NMR depth profiling" C. Golini, Q. Yang, M. Waldecker, R. Lenz, L. Brizi, S. Haber-Pohlmeier, A. Pohlmeier, P. Tomassini, J. Frick, J. Anders, B. Blümich, F. Heimerl www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #NMRchat

Save the date 📅: @horizonsmolbio.bsky.social Symposium 2026 Look forward to an international conference from Sep 7 to 10 at our institute – you can expect exciting scientific presentations from fields such as cell biology, structural biology, bioinformatics, neuroscience, genomics, and immunology. 👇

Hey chemsky. I'm updating my talk ahead of a visit to Bonn and Groningen next week. Feel like I've given largely the same publishing talk basically forever. What topics would you want an editor to cover? AI? Ethics? The sandwich argument?

Getting ready for our upcoming symposium! We are excited to welcome our international speakers and all other participants to Freiburg next week for what promises to be an unforgettable SFB 1381 Symposium.

Registration is open for the “Peptides in Biology and Materials” workshop to be held at the University of Sofia (Bulgaria) at the end of April… see: peptides-in-biology-and-materials.github.io/II/ Abstract deadline April 1st

🔬 Join us March 18, 2026 for a FREE webinar featuring the Protein Science Tools Special Issue! Organized by Senior Editor Nir Ben-Tal, this session highlights innovative tools advancing protein research. Register Here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

"Beyond the Frame, Within the Journey: Documenting Life with Movement Disorders" invites all to share visual stories about the human side of living with movement disorders. thatdisorder.org #BeyondTheFrame #PhotographyContest #MovementDisorders #HuntingtonsDisease

AlphaFold database has entered the era of complexes. Together with NVIDIA, DeepMind and EBI, we use ColabFold, OpenFold and MMseqs2-GPU to predict ~31 million complexes (homo & hetro-dimers) resulting in 1.8 million high-quality predictions 📄 research.nvidia.com/labs/dbr/ass... 🌐 alphafold.ebi.ac.uk

#OPENACCESS: The Lassa virus fusion domain has structural plasticity and exploits bis(monoacylglycero)phosphate for fusion. Hallie N. Pennington, Kiruthika Prahadeesh, Quinn M. Mulvihill, Sungjai Shin, Wonpil Im, and Jinwoo Lee.

A peptide-based material reconfigures its 3D structure in response to changes in temperature and humidity. The different crystal forms exhibit contrasting mechanical properties, potentially opening the door to stimuli-responsive applications in areas such as separation and filtration. #chemsky 🧪

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🚨Abstract deadline for oral presentation is in 3 days!🚨 Don't miss out on your chance to present your latest discoveries! Submit your abstract here: lnkd.in/eruM6Egs hashtag#NMR hashtag#MRI hashtag#EPR hashtag#ESR hashtag#EUROMAR2026

Some more #running in #Groningen today… with actual ☀️☀️☀️

#NMRchat Accurate Measurements of Solvent Exchange in Asparagine and Glutamine Side-Chain NH2 Groups of Proteins by z-Exchange NMR Spectroscopy http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.6c00464

Global News Canada, March 11, Not just balloons: Why the Iran war could cause a global helium shortage globalnews.ca/news/1172623... #NMRchat 🧲🎈

Helium prices soar as Qatar LNG halt exposes fragile supply chain www.reuters.com/business/ene... #NMRchat 🧲🎈

Interested in one of the top jobs in European biology? @embo.org has opened a call for its next Director, to succeed Fiona Watt Really spectacular opportunity! Spread the word... www.embo.org/features/emb...

Urea fertiliser prices have jumped 30 percent since the Trump administration began bombing Iran. Meanwhile, spot prices of helium (for the semiconductor industry) have doubled since the war began. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Country house w/ party who are (I think) playing games in a rather wild garden. This one needs a novel for which it could be front cover. Maybe a murder mystery? By Jacob van Ruisdael, whose day is today.

I was pining for an era when lunatic US Republican billionaires occasionally did something interesting, and thought to myself, someone must have made a Lego Glomar Explorer. Of course, someone did. It is better than I could have hoped.

We are excited to be recruiting into 3 Associate Professorship's in @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social. Come join us as a colleague and benefit from our vibrant and multidisciplinary environment. Reach out to me if you have any questions. Please repost! (tinyurl.com/48deybuu) (tinyurl.com/4pdvjaft).

Special issue call for papers: Foundations of Membrane Biophysics: Dedicated to Wolfgang Helfrich.

Good news, protein engineering researchers, mutation effect predictions remain an unsolved problem.

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