Today I'm posting a new blog about an astonishing scientific own goal. Hundreds of papers have reported using a totally wrong antibody to investigate the tumor suppressor p16. This mistake has happened because scientists have muddled the names of two proteins. forbetterscience.com/2026/06/02/m...

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Dear #plantscience friends, we're looking to recruit a new colleague at @uni-freiburg.de @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social: a Professor in Plant Biotechnology. 🌱🧪 The @dompsfr.bsky.social community is truly fantastic. Interested? Please share far and wide and join us! uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005...

Wanted: Outstanding plant scientist and fantastic colleague. If your science combines fundamental discovery with future applications, we would love to hear from you @dompsfr.bsky.social @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social @cibss.bsky.social @uni-freiburg.de uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005...

TL;DR: We've identified more than 100 cases of apparent manipulation in Thermo Fisher Scientific's antibody verification data. @sholtodavid.bsky.social @johanduchene.bsky.social reeserichardson.blog/2026/05/28/h...

New review out: The Promise of Synthetic Biology for Redesigning Plant Architecture Great to have worked on this with @suruchiroy.bsky.social and Gerad dos Santos! doi.org/10.3390/ijms...

Took a while, but happy to share the published version of our article on ADDing, our highly efficient new enzymatic protein labelling platform that made it on the cover of ACS bioconjugate chemistry 😁 pubs.acs.org/toc/bcches/c...

the replacements.fyi site now lets you drop a package.json into it to see which dependencies can be replaced with native functionality, or more performant choices 🎉

Ohhhh the city is always so small

📣 We are now accepting applications for the second Plant Synthetic Biology Hackathon! 📣 Check out this unique opportunity to learn the newest tools and approaches in plant engineering! Hosted by Nicola Patron and myself as part of the Plant Cell Atlas RCN, July 12-13, 2026 at MIT.

@johanduchene.bsky.social @sholtodavid.bsky.social Spent the last hour looking, found ten more apparently manipulated Western blots in Thermo Fisher's antibody verification data (across eight different catalogued products). Thread below. www.thermofisher.com/antibody/pro...

Combining biosensor imaging data with an animated plot of the quantified intensity, based on a blog I wrote earlier: thenode.biologists.com/crafting-plo... In this version I used a dark theme

Try this new online training game from Leandro F. Estrozi designed for newcomers in structural biology, with a focus on cryo-EM and cryo-ET map interpretation: rico.ibs.fr/helixplo...

Surprised to discover that Thermo Fisher appears to show a fake western blot for the validation of one of their p53 antibodies. I've added a diagram to show the very similar bands. This does not appear to be one of the "published figures" but their own internal data.

Grand visit in Hamburg @cibss.bsky.social @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social

Suddenly you feel the need to resequence everything 😬

I was annoyed that I couldn't find a database of David Attenborough documentaries where I could search for a specific episode by topic. So I made it. attenborough-100.vercel.app

Time for some SCIENCE

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZTN... I stand correct

For 40 years the 8-nt ‘Kozak Sequence’ was thought to mark sites of translation initiation. In a new study, we revise this model by identifying an ~80-nt sequence—the extended Translation Initiation Sequence (eTIS)— that guides ribosomes to correct start sites. 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

For those who want to know more about my lab and my team, please checkout this placeholder (single-page) lab website lab webstie that I setup on my old blog. www.badgrammargoodsyntax.com/lloyd-lab-at...

Is there a good colony counting tool for images as this one out there? I tried OpenCFU here and it didn't work at all. 🧪

this is not my ideal way of seeing my lab published in Science magazine, but, here we are. Roger is well known as a devoted life-long plant scientist, but he is also an incredible human being who shows constant kindness and encouragement to everyone around him. this is simply not fair.

I need a job asap. Who's hiring?

Does anybody in Europe have a copy of Origins from @asimovpress.bsky.social and would be happy to lend it? Of course covering shipping costs and return costs

What do people need to know about shrimp? This is urgent I am at a table with 7 artists. I swear that’s relevant.

David Attenborough turns 100 today. 💯 🎂🥳 "As David Attenborough turns 100, four experts explore his legacy, from science to storytelling" www.rnz.co.nz/life/people/... 🧪

So happy and proud to share our lab’s first #plantscience research article, revealing that angiosperms have the capacity to encode memory of flooding stress. A heroic effort by @aidamaric.bsky.social in collaboration with @djgibbs.bsky.social and others. A brief 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

doing one last call—if you are a trans entomologist/trans researcher studying bugs (in the most capacious sense) please dm me, I'd love to interview you!

SOON

Screaming to the abyss: #ColossalBio did not resurrect the dire wolf and they're probably just going to make an antelope with methemoglobinemia to give it a bluish color. Their #DeExtinction #DisInformation campaign is just a pyramid scheme because #ExtinctionIsForever 🧪

Can we create plastics that don't linger as waste in the ocean for hundreds of years? My lab has developed 3D-printed "biostickers" that contain marine microbes and can accelerate the degradation of bioplastics in ocean environments. @urochester.bsky.social pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

I am super excited to announce that I am recruiting a new post-doc to join my team at UWA & @plants4space.bsky.social to work on plant synthetic biology, with a focus on genome engineering. If you are interested, please apply or reach out to me. external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/cw/en/job/52...

Excited to share that my 2025 collection of science-inspired drawings is now live on the Protein Data Bank (PDB) website. Thank you @rcsbpdb.bsky.social! It is free to explore and download. I’d love to hear what you think! pdb101.rcsb.org/sci-art/bezs...

There's an update of #EZreverse, it is much quicker and supports drag-and-drop joachimgoedhart.github.io/EZreverse.html

Just a reminder that in computational biology and bioinformatics, we should NOT just translate the longest ORF in genomes but the most likely to be translated. Our paper here details some of the pitfalls of you don’t. Be aware. Be warned. doi.org/10.3390/gene...

Perfect name for something you use for your science and not give any credit

WAT www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I'm very excited to announce that the Jo Lab is hiring our FIRST EVER PhD candidate! f you're eager to drive discovery in plants, join us at UU Plants! More info: www.uu.nl/en/organisat... Lab website: thejolab.org #Plantbiology #Phd #Job

#JobAlert We’re looking for a #ScienceCommunication Officer (parental leave coverage) with creativity, a strong feel for language and media, and curiosity for emerging topics. 🗓️ Apply by 24 April 2026 👉 More info: kurzlinks.de/6qoo Fixed-term until 27 November 2026. #UniversityOfFreiburg

It's @gerrich.bsky.social 's month, let's goooo

I will personally award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to the first person who engineers a peptide that can do the worm

I'm heartbroken to report a devastating loss of a great friend and young scientist. telliamedrevisited.wordpress.com/2026/04/09/a...

We are devastated to announce that our colleague and friend Professor Philippa Borrill died over the Easter weekend following a rare immune system disorder (HLH). She was a fantastic scientist, collaborator and mentor, and a close friend to many: www.jic.ac.uk/news/profess...

Synthetic hypoxia sensing in Arabidopsis from @syno2xis.bsky.social & @vinayshukla.bsky.social Prolyl hydroxylase-dependent proteolysis enables the orthogonal hypoxia responses in plants www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧬Want to synthesise kilobase-scale DNA? We got you covered!🥳 In latest from the lab we explore the "doodling" capabilities of DNA polymerases and ways to guide the sequences produced. Loads of data + beautiful AFM of the molecules themselves. #synbio ... doi.org/10.1038/s414...

16 years ago I blew off my thesis research for one day to make a YouTube video about plasmids www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNeC... Today I'm in the plasmid sequencing tutorials for Plasmidsaurus www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNeC... The trick to having a fun career in science is say yes to random fun things