Ex Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting under Obama👇🏽

Die Spritpreise sind jetzt so hoch wie noch nie. Wären die Grünen jetzt an der Regierung, wären die jetzt schuld daran gewesen. So ist das halt der mysteriöse Markt, gegen den man nichts machen kann …

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Jeder Machtkampf in der AfD dreht sich zwischen denjenigen, die für die reichen Deutschen sind und denjenigen für das Deutsche Reich.

It’s incredibly hard to study lipids in biological membranes on the nanoscale. You need near-perfect information on both membrane ultrastructure and lipid density. Lipid-CLEM, now out in @natcellbio.nature.com brought to you by @mathilda95.bsky.social changes that: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In our latest preprint we show that Lifeact::mKate2 can reverse the chirality of active torques in the actomyosin cortex. This results in cortical flows with opposite handedness during left-right symmetry breaking, leading to the formation of situs inversus worms. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Arittri's amazing finding that our old friend Lifeact can make actomyosin flow in the opposite direction, change chirality and flip left and right in the C.elegans worm. Check out here for more details: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Wow.

The spring call for the ELBE Postdoctoral Fellows Program is open now: www.csbdresden.de/join-us/as-a.... Join the @csbdresden.bsky.social for a fully funded fellowship. @mpi-cbg.de @mpipks.bsky.social

Ein Moment des stillen Gedenkens an den Dolmetscher von Trumps Davos-Rede, der sich danach sein Gehirn auf den Ausgangszustand zurücksetzen lassen muss.

Just got back from the traditional post-prandial constitutional at the @mpipks.bsky.social #biophysics retreat. Photo illustrates visibility on the slopes of the Fichtelberg and @larshubatsch.bsky.social trying to figure out whether we were still on a path...

Fantastic and snowy two-hour “evening constitutional” at the @mpipks.bsky.social Biological Physics retreat in Oberwiesenthal! Great chatting with Pierre @lepuslapis.bsky.social and Christina Kurzthaler

GERMAN PRESIDENT STEINMEIER: “.. the United States has broken with the values that it helped to establish .. “.. we have now moved beyond the stage where we can lament the lack of respect for international law or the erosion of the international order; we are far beyond that, I believe.”

how did this guy run an investment bank?

SCOOP: Academy Award-nominee Liam Neeson narrated a recent anti-vaccine documentary that glorifies RFK Jr.’s rise to power. In the film, Neeson—a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador—calls the COVID-19 vaccines “dangerous experiments.” www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...

Since November, @mpi-cbg.de has a new research group for “Mechanisms of translational control during embryogenesis,” led by cell and molecular biologist @madalenamrp.bsky.social. Madalena will focus on RNA biology in the context of development. Welcome! 🎉 www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

Lab meetings in Max Planck institutes

90% of you probably don’t need to read this. But maybe some of you are curious & 10% will feel seen. Or a little less alone. This isn’t about seeking sympathy. It’s about sharing something hard to say out loud; partly to heal, partly in case someone needs to hear it too. (1/3) tinyurl.com/DudinO

#Microbial #Eukaryotes in #UExM on the cover of @natgenet.nature.com ! Unbelievable !!! Also read the amazing work by @alexdemendoza.bsky.social and co !!!

New research group leader @matthiasmuhar.bsky.social joins @mpi-cbg.de! 🥳 With his group "Functional genomics of proteome remodeling,” Matthias wants to pursue high-throughput genetic studies to understand how protein turnover is regulated. Welcome, Matthias! www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐓𝐒 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 2025! 🎉 At the 28th STS Meeting in Weimar Theresia Gutmann @thegutmann.bsky.social was honored with this award, which recognizes outstanding research by postdocs or junior PIs within the STS. Congratulations! @mpi-cbg.de #STS #CellCommSummit

Anthony A. Hyman will become EMBL’s next Director General. He joins EMBL from @mpi-cbg.de in Dresden. He is also Professor of Molecular Biology @tudresden.bsky.social, and was a group leader at EMBL Heidelberg from 1993 to 1999. www.embl.org/news/people-...

It was an honor to present the laudation for the 2025 STS Honorary Medal Awardee, Hao Wu (@harvardmed.bsky.social @bostonchildrens.bsky.social), at the 28th Signal Transduction Meeting. Her groundbreaking work has transformed our understanding of innate immune signaling. @sigtrans.bsky.social #STS

The Lab of Stephan Grill at MPI-CBG has finally made it to Bluesky and we also have a brand new homepage: grill-lab.org Check it out.

Our PhD student Silja Zedlitz @hymanlab.bsky.social receives the #DGZ Master Thesis Award for her previous work!!! Looking forward to the meeting in Heidelberg and Silja's talk on "Minimal rhodamine probes for covalent protein labeling in live cells". Congrats to all awardees!

Lipid imaging on the cover of @nature.com! Great times for lipid cell biology indeed. And a fantastic recognition of all the hard work by the team, especially Juan M. Iglesias-Artola and Kristin Böhlig (who made the cover). Link to article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

1/ We’re delighted to hear that our Reviewing Editor, Shimon Sakaguchi, has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine today alongside colleagues Fred Ramsdell and Mary Brunkell: www.nobelprize.org

Im französischen Fernsehen haben sie den CSU-Chef Markus Söder analysiert - als "Gastro-Populisten". Und manchmal hilft der Blick von außen, um eine PR-Strategie besser zu verstehen. Sehenswert! Quelle: www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...

Warm goodbye to Dresden's @mpipks.bsky.social, my scientific home for the past 4 years. It's been amazing to start my group here! Thanks to the Max Planck Society, group members and everyone at the institute! Looking forward to the new chapter in Barcelona @ub.edu

Still can't believe this: WE WON THE IG NOBEL PHYSICS PRIZE www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Amazing!!! 🧪 The 2025 Ig Nobel prize goes to scientists from the @mpipks.bsky.social for discovering a bullet proof version to make the classic pasta alla cacio e pepe! Including a deep understanding of the pasta sauce in terms of phase separation physics 😃 Congrats @gbart.bsky.social et al! Links👇

Congratulations to the Fritz Lipmann Lecturer Michael Rosen (Dallas) by the GBM president Harald Kolmar.

GBM Compact Focus on Condensate Biology is opened by Edward Lemke. Looking forward to a great meeting!

Oh man, I am so excited and happy to have been given this huge opportunity by the @erc.europa.eu It is by no exaggeration - a dream come true. An insufficient thank you thread (1/4)

🥳 Congratulations to our postdoc, Dr. Anna Czarkwiani @aniaczark.bsky.social, on receiving the ERC Starting Grant @erc.europa.eu! With €2 million in funding, Anna will explore the biology of gravisensation and uncover insights into related disorders. 🧠 #CMCBnews @tudresden.bsky.social #ERCStG

A C. elegans model for a human disease

Paper alert!🧪 We derive a theory that underpins interface resistance with a physical foundation and look at how it changes droplet growth and recovery kinetics! Awesome collab with @bosste.bsky.social Tyler Harmon @hymanlab.bsky.social @m-pol.bsky.social and Frank Jülicher @mpipks.bsky.social 1/4

We are all super happy and proud to see our work on the function and evolution of the #cephalic #furrow published in @nature.com. Let me say a few things about the background and history of this work on the #Evolution_of_Morphogenesis (1/12)

What started with many quail eggs and put me on stage in a chicken suit has now resulted in a preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Microsurgery with human eye-lashes, laser ablations, great analysis and insightful theory from @neipel.bsky.social told us more about avian L/R symmetry breaking.

(1/10) I am excited to finally share our work on avian left/right symmetry breaking with you. We reveal a tissue-scale active torque dipole generated at the Hensen’s node, thanks to crazy experiments by Julia @juliapfanzelter.bsky.social and some analysis by me. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Here is what I have been up to in the lab of @stephangrill.bsky.social together with @neipel.bsky.social and many others. Intrigued by avian left right symmetry breaking we found that a tissue-scale active torque drives chiral flow and requires mechanical coupling to the underlying tissue.

And that concludes our #kitp program on biomolecular condensates 😢 Wow, what an *incredible* experience, and unique place to learn and think and grow! 🤓

Die #Exzellenzcluster stehen fest: Heute hat die Exzellenzkommission 70 Projekte zur Förderung ausgewählt. 45 Cluster werden fortgesetzt, 25 neu eingerichtet. Die Förderung beginnt ab 1. Jan. 2026 für 7 Jahre, die Fördersumme beträgt insg. 539 Mio. €/Jahr. Die Liste: www.dfg.de/resource/blo... 1/3

Best way to travel to #EMBOcellularmatters: NightJet to Basel 😊 Looking forward to some awesome condensate biology and theory in Ascona!

Remember that absurd letter the acting US attorney sent to medical journals last week, asking threatening questions about why they don’t publish more heterodox science? The New England Journal of Medicine got one as well. @aniloza.bsky.social has the story.

People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative. A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.

The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.