In related news, Jeff Bezos. @anntelnaes.bsky.social

@hcrichardson.bsky.social www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-w...

Never attended? Are you a regular? Join us tomorrow, Saturday 10am, at the NIH Vigils. There's an associated food drive.

Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ -- Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

An Asgard archaeon with internal membrane compartments Brilliant study led by @fmacleod.bsky.social and Andriko von Kügelgen. Tight collaboration with @buzzbaum.bsky.social and lab. Congrats to all authors! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Great collaboration with @guo-lab.bsky.social to determine an in situ architectural model of the Tad pilus machine. Be on the lookout soon for a preprint on the same topic by Grant Jensen and @viollierpat.bsky.social. #microsky

New structures of the bacterial Tol complex! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nature research paper: Synthetic α-synuclein fibrils replicate in mice causing MSA-like pathology go.nature.com/43fXQmn

We have two job openings for computational strain design in our group! Please retweet 🧪 PhD student and postdoc! Both positions are directly with our group leader, Steffen Klamt. The positions are to be filled in Magdeburg, Germany. I highly recommend applying!

Good news from Netherlands. By no means a great victory -- a small one, incomplete -- but a step in the right direction at a time when the wrong direction exerts so much gravity. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/w...

Chicken Salad Chick has announced that children will receive free meals at their southwest Florida locations, with the Bradenton, Florida location making a post on Facebook to get the word out for those impacted by SNAP benefits not being sent out in November. #Pinks

Please RT. Post-doc opportunity alert! 💥 closing 10th December.. Come join our team (www.thelowlab.org) at Imperial, London, working on the structure and mechanism of bacterial secretion systems. For more details and to apply please see www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

#ACSChemBio and #Biochemistry invite submissions to a special issue on Lipids and Lipidation guest edited by @chembiobryan.bsky.social and me! Find details in the #CallforPapers and submit your exciting findings to one of these journals by May 31, 2026. axial.acs.org/chemical-bio... #lipidtime

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Biochemical Society's Membrane Protein Conference 7–9 April 2026 Birmingham, UK | Leonardo Royal Hotel - Abstracts welcome for talks & posters - Bursaries available! - Register & submit here: www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/f... #MembraneProteins #CallForAbstracts @biochemsoc.bsky.social

First time posting on Bluesky! 🥳 We discovered a new pilus family in cyanobacteria. The pilin has a novel protein fold that forms a super-tight double-layer tube. Similar gene clusters exist in a few cyanobacterial orders. A great collaboration with John and others! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Perspective from Richard McIntosh describing the history of research on #microtubule polymerization in terms of the ideas, technologies, and observations that have emerged as countless researchers have studied the dynamics of these essential cytoskeletal polymers. rupress.org/jcb/article/...

Missed this at the time, super cool. Domes & capsules everywhere it seems..

fans of T4P pili (and 'pili pili') take note 👇 #MicroSky

A recent cool preprint by John Whitney's lab on a new family of antibacterial proteins secreted by Gram-positive bacteria that enter and kill a broad spectrum of bacteria. Cell entry is receptor-independent and relies on cleavage by a co-secreted protease and the PMF. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

𝘗𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘥𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘴 fans take note 👇 "𝘗. 𝘢𝘦𝘳𝘶𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘰𝘴𝘢 senses EPS trails using type IV pili and adhesins during biofilm formation" www.nature.com/articles/s41... #MicroSky

UChicago Microbiology is searching for tenured or tenure-track faculty working in host-pathogens interactions, viral and bacterial pathogenesis, and emerging infectious diseases. Come join our vibrant Department! microbiology.uchicago.edu Apply here apply.interfolio.com/174404

OPINION: "Today, as I approach 40, I watch children as young as kindergartners practice active-shooter drills, ducking under desks, freezing in dark corners, pretending this horror is part of their regular school day," Duvalier Malone writes. buff.ly/MJdfppU

Université Grenoble Alpes opens a full professorship in microbiology in 2026. The selected candidate will develop their research program on quantitative approaches in microbiology in the Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique. More info: liphy.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/en/join-us/r...

Structural remodeling of the mitochondrial protein biogenesis machinery under proteostatic stress www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.06.680693v1 #cryoem

I am super excited to announce that we have a tenure-track faculty position in biophysics open in the Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon! 🧪 Interfolio link: apply.interfolio.com/174360 PLEASE, share widely across the blue skies! Let me briefly explain what we're looking for: 1/10

Amazing science at the 2nd edition of the Secretion Days in Marseille 🌞 ! Huge thanks to all participants and to @archaellum.bsky.social for an outstanding opening talk. Looking forward to the next edition!

Molecular insights into how the motions of the β-barrel and POTRA domains of BamA are coupled for efficient function pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41044071/ #cryoem

Pascal Praud et Nicolas Sarkozy ont dîné ensemble dans un palace parisien, à la veille de la condamnation de l'ex-président à 5 ans de prison. C'était bien la peine d'en faire des caisses à l'antenne de CNews sur Thomas Legrand et Patrick Cohen…

We are hiring an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine. Come join our collaborative research environment with state-of-the-art facilities in NYC! Application review starts Oct 22. biochem.weill.cornell.edu/join-our-fac...

In situ structures of the Legionella Dot/Icm T4SS identify the DotA-IcmX complex as the gatekeeper for effector translocation pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40986344/ #cryoem

Nocif pour le système nerveux et la fertilité, l’hexane sert à extraire les huiles alimentaires. Il n’apparaît pourtant sur aucune étiquette. Déjà dénoncée par "Le Canard", cette faille est qualifiée de “catastrophe sanitaire” dans un livre-enquête.

The outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria blocks many antibiotics. Our latest work reveals that L-type pyocins bypass this barrier by inactivating the BAM complex, killing Pseudomonas aeruginosa without entering the cell, providing a new blueprint for beating antibiotic resistance.

Structural basis for mTORC1 activation on the lysosomal membrane pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40963021/ #cryoem

Vous faites quoi samedi aprem à Paris ? Un p'tit festoche de vulga des sciences à la Reine Blanche, ça vous dit ? La reine de mon coeur @marietreibert.bsky.social y donne une rigolote conférence - comment les bizarreries du règne animal inspirent des ripostes au capitalisme… ou au patriarcaca 🪲

The Department of Biology at Colorado State University is hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of plant-microbe interactions! Please spread the word! jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...

We're hiring! Join our team at @fau.de ! We are seeking an enthusiastic candidate for a PhD position in our lab specializing in cutting-edge theoretical and computational membrane biophysics. Please send your CV, and a statement of research interests via email. www.biomemphys.nat.fau.de/jobs/

Functional and intricate interaction network connecting Helicobacter pylori Cag Type 4 Secretion System surface proteins with outer membrane proteins HopQ and HopZ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.01.673027v1 #cryoem

Applications for faculty positions at Rockefeller are now open! We are seeking exceptional, creative scientists to join our faculty. Learn more below:

Dynamic TOM-TIM23 supercomplex directs mitochondrial protein translocation and sorting pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40877479/ #cryoem