Great collaborative work led by Christopher Toepfer and his team at the University of Oxford

Annotating the X-ray diffraction pattern of vertebrate striated muscle www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.11.659175v1 #cryoem

Proteins operate on a short timescale — on the order of a millisecond, or even faster https://go.nature.com/4l7qAEm

Interested in how the heart generates contractile forces to pump blood? Then take a look at our new paper "α- and β-myosin II can be non-uniformly distributed within the cardiac sarcomere". #CellBiology www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Trump Administration Has Begun a War on Science, Researchers Say www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/s...

We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

Working hard this weekend at the P03 beamline, PetraIII synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg. Really amazing multi-national team uncovering the secrets of the heart! @droch.bsky.social @edgarnollet.bsky.social @ambiotech.us

I am trying to gauge how much interest is given to muscle wasting in critical illness within the scientific community? This is a very heterogenous condition and would be keen on join forces to further understand it!!!

A really nice special issue in @jphysiol.bsky.social by Dr. Chris Sundberg “Physiology of ageing skeletal muscle and the protective effects of exercise” feat. some work by our lab and many others! Check it out @myoblue.bsky.social physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14697793...

Excited to be part of a consortium application to the European Rare Disease Research Alliance (ERDERA), lead by Coen Ottenheijm (NL). Among the group, I point out @droch.bsky.social, as we seem to be finding ourselves more and more on the same applications. Our methods really pair well together!

Good overview of our recent paper: Hearts of hibernating bears use less energy

In this Q&A with #NobelPrize recipient Victor R. Ambros, PhD, writer Patrick Boyle comments, “While the science behind the discovery of #microRNA is remarkable, also remarkable is what the discovery illustrates about the importance of basic science research.” direc.to/mEkL @aamctoday.bsky.social