🚀 New paper in @natmethods.nature.com! We present OpenStructure's powerful scoring capabilities, used to assess predictionsin CAMEO and CASP. Read the full study here: 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415... #StructuralBiology #Bioinformatics #OpenStructure #CASP #CAMEO #ProteinStructure

Shaping the future of research funding. 🧪 The @snsf.ch Swiss National Science Foundation is looking for new members for the Foundation Council. Application deadline: 30 January 2026. www.snf.ch/en/Boii3zvoj...

Good morning Basel! @unibas.ch

The SNSF is considering restrictions for its Project funding. Goal: to ensure the quality of evaluation & stable success rates despite an increasing number of applications and limited funding. The final decision will be made in January 2026. 👉 buff.ly/iGOCf7R #research #science

Interesting study showing how genetic variation can limit antibody therapies, led by the DBM team (Lepore & Jeker) with computational structural analysis from @torstenschwede.bsky.social @biozentrum.unibas.ch www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/news/detail/... #PrecisionMedicine #Genetics #AntibodyTherapy

Antibody-based therapies are used to treat numerous diseases, from cancer to rheumatic disorders and multiple sclerosis. Researchers @biomedizin.unibas.ch & @biozentrum.unibas.ch now report that individual genetic differences can prevent antibody-based therapies from being effective in some people.

The administration of US President Donald Trump intends to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), a world-leading Earth-science centre in Boulder, Colorado. go.nature.com/4pjzUqB

🎉 The last newsletter for #eccb2026 is out! Organized by the @sib.swiss, from 31 Aug to 4 Sept 2026, the European Conference on Computational Biology will bring together the international #computationalbiology community for 5 days of science, collaboration & inspiration. 👉 Read more: chk.me/jcH79HN

Be it microwaves, lasers or vaccines – they all originated from basic research. With curiosity and tenacity, researchers laid the foundations for achievements that are taken for granted today. 🧪🔭🧬 Basic research today - innovation tomorrow. The @snsf.ch drives progress. youtu.be/6IfWl8t62cM

📢 We are proud sponsors of the @AMRConference26 and are again hosting our networking event on the 2 March. 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 "Young Scientists: Building future antibiotic expertise" features four speakers and an apéro. ‼️Don't forget to check the box when registering for the conference ‼️

Highly sensitive and extremely fast sequence searches? Yes, we can! 🧪 ⬇️⬇️⬇️

The @snsf.ch is proud to support the Swiss National ORD prize. Congratulations to: “Choice of Law Dataverse (CoLD)” by Agatha Brandão de Oliveira, Uni Lucerne. & “Alplakes – Monitoring and forecasting European alpine lakes”, by James Runnalls at Eawag 🧪 ord.swiss-academies.ch/news/swiss-n...

Thank you very much for your trust. I am very much looking forward to contributing to the Science Europe Governing Board.🧪

Google DeepMind was created to use AI for world-changing science, but the advent of LLMs raises deep questions about their future go.nature.com/4iceKsu

❓What does #BasicResearch have to offer the insurance industry? More than you might think! From climate knowledge to AI: In a conversation with Zurich Insurance Group, we show how #research makes innovation possible. 📊🌍🤖 Read more here👉 https://sohub.io/vqwc

#BasicResearch creates the basis for ➡️ #innovation and social well-being. Every year, the SNSF invests around 800 million Swiss francs in outstanding basic research. 🧠💡  🔗 Find out more about the benefits in our series of news and reels: sohub.io/k1u5 📷 : ©Julien Busset

Congratulations to five researchers @biozentrum.unibas.ch! @schierlab.bsky.social, @torstenschwede.bsky.social, @neher.io, Sebastian Hiller & Gabriel Studer have been recognized among world’s most highly cited researchers of the Highly Cited Researchers ranking 2024. clarivate.com/highly-cited...

🇨🇭 🇪🇺 Federal Councillor Guy Parmelin and EU Research Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva signed the Swiss-EU Programme Agreement (#EUPA) in Bern. This means that Switzerland is once again definitively associated with #HorizonEurope, the world's largest research programme. ➡️ sohub.io/4tjw 📷 WBF/DEFR

No clear evidence to support any link between maternal acetaminophen (Tylenol) intake and autism or ADHD in offspring, a new umbrella, systematic review @bmj.com

#ECCB2026 European Conference on Computational Biology, Geneva🇨🇭: Call for tutorials & workshops. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Pinker war mal ein wirklich prägender Denker. Jetzt hat er sich in seltsame anti-progressive Kulturkämpfe verstrickt und schimpft auf Klimaschutz. Hier ein schmerzhaft schlechtes WELT-Interview. Atmen wir tief durch und sehen wir uns das mal an. (Thread)

Sorbonne joins the growing list of top institutions opting out of university rankings. sciencebusiness.net/news/univers...

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

Thanks to Science Magazine for the opportunity for our Secretary General, Lidia Borrell-Damian, to contribute an editorial on our view of the next framework programme for R&I supporting excellence, openness & collaboration at the heart of Europe’s research future. #HorizonEU bit.ly/4ny3gRb

For the love of frontier research, or why Elon’s rockets keep blowing up. The current Zeitgeist favouring utilitarian research risks undermining basic research—the very foundation on which innovative technological advances depend. By Nektarios Tavernarakis: www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Nicht verpassen: „Kipppunkte im Klimasystem.“ Die Forum Basiliense Lecture 2025 mit Ricarda Winkelmann. Diesmal im Gehry Large Auditorium auf dem Novartis Campus. Eintritt frei!

🇨🇦🤝🇨🇭 Le partenariat entre le FNS et le CIFAR offre aux chercheuses·eurs en Suisse de nombreuses possibilités de collaboration au niveau international et interdisciplinaire. Le 20 octobre 2025, un webinaire vous présentera ces opportunités. Inscription ici ➡️ https://sohub.io/erfl

🇨🇦🤝🇨🇭 Die Partnerschaft des SNF mit CIFAR bietet Forschenden in der Schweiz vielseitige Möglichkeiten für die internationale und interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit. Am 20. Oktober 2025 stellen wir die Möglichkeiten in einem Webinar vor. Zur Anmeldung ➡️ https://sohub.io/d6z9

+++ Eilmeldung +++ Physik-Nobelpreis geht an Donald Trump www.der-postillon.com/2025/10/phys...

📣 #OpenCall: SNSF Starting Grants 2026 For researchers wanting to lead their own independent project and research team in Switzerland. 🗓️ Submission deadline: 5 May 2026 ➡️ https://sohub.io/rptw

Assistant/Associate Professor in Structural Biology, Biophysics or Biological Imaging www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/open-positio... #biozentrum #University #Basel #Professor #Structural #Biology #Biophysics #Biological #Imaging

Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna tells Jeffrey Goldberg that vaccinations have been so successful that "there's been a collective forgetting that measles, and mumps, and rubella—these used to be diseases that would kill people in fairly large numbers." #TAF25 bit.ly/46a5DUE

"How did assaults on science become the norm — and what can we do? An insightful book explores attacks on science from a historical and a personal perspective." | Great review of #ScienceUnderSiege by @gretchentg.bsky.social for @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

📢 The Federal Council plans to reduce the SNSF's budget by 270 million Swiss francs. The SNSF rejects these cuts. However, in order to be prepared, it has decided to cut costs in consultation with all partners. ➡️https://sohub.io/n2b1 #research #science #CHParl

“Scientific cooperation with Europe and continued access to the #HorizonEurope programme are essential to keeping Switzerland at the forefront of research and innovation,” emphasised Torsten Schwede, President of the SNSF Research Council, during a round table organised by Foraus. ➡️ buff.ly/BJEcZ7P

2025 Latsis Swiss Science Prize 🏆 🧪 Dr Saskia Stucki has been awarded the Latsis Swiss Science Prize for her in-depth contributions at the interface between animal, human and environmental law. Congratulations! www.wbf.admin.ch/en/newnsb/Z-... fondationlatsis.org/en/ @snsf.ch

2025 Marcel Benoist Swiss Science Prize 🏆 🧪 Physicist Tobias J. Kippenberg has been awarded the Marcel Benoist Swiss Science Prize for his excellent work in quantum optomechanics and the generation of optical frequency combs. Congratulations! marcel-benoist.ch/en/prize-2025/ @snsf.ch

Studentische Hilfskraft (HiWi) for the ModelArchive @torstenschwede.bsky.social Start date: asap @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/open-positio... Apply here: biped.biozentrum.unibas.ch/apply/hiwi_m... #job #research #Hiwi #biology #science #basel #recruiting #career

It’s the last day of this year’s [BC]² conference and attendees are gathering for the final parallel sessions: - Integrative Bioinformatics for Evolutionary and Environmental Processes - Computational methods for single-cell and spatial omics: from data to biological insights #bc2basel

Program update! Don’t miss the chance to hear from these inspiring speakers: ➡️ Katrin Milzow, Co-Director of the Swiss National Science Foundation ➡️ Anne Scheel, Assistant Professor, Hogeschool Utrecht, Netherlands ➡️ Silke Bellanger, Head of Digital Services / Open Science, University Library Basel

[BC]² has formally kicked off with our first plenary session, chaired by @dgfeller.bsky.social (UNIL), Catherine Jutzeler (ETHZ) #bc2basel

📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out! Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025! ➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh #FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope

Authors concluded that this study “demonstrates that following current climate policies will not only overshoot the 1.5-°C limit of the Paris Agreement by a wide margin but also may prohibit returning to it thereafter.” Wishful thinking is not a realistic strategy for future generations. ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

A milestone in generative #AI for transparency and diversity: Switzerland’s first fully open multilingual Large Language Model #LLM. Entire development process (architecture, model weights, training data, recipes) is openly accessible. @ethz.ch #EPFL @cscsch.bsky.social 🧪 ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

#BRIDGE Proof of Concept: 22 new projects from 100+ applications approved this year – from kokumi flavour to healing gardens. 🍽️ 🌳 The next Proof of Concept call deadline is 15 September 2025, and the Discovery call on #quantum technologies is open until 16 September 2025. ➡️ sohub.io/axgu

Step back and take it in: the US is entering full authoritarian mode | Jonathan Freedland

Exciting to see our protein binder design pipeline BindCraft published in its final form in @Nature ! This has been an amazing collaborative effort with Lennart, Christian, @sokrypton.org, Bruno and many other amazing lab members and collaborators. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Critical benchmarking of structure prediction methods has been crucial for measuring progress and detecting breakthroughs. But how will the future look like? Join the discussion at our workshop in Basel on September 8 - just before the [BC]2 conference. @sib.swiss @biozentrum.unibas.ch ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Save the Date #eccb2026: 31 August-4 September 2026 The 25th ECCB European Conference on Computational Biology will take place in Geneva, Switzerland, organized by @sib.swiss For more information: eccb2026.org 🧪