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.

𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗼𝗽𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗼 𝗺𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗶𝗻 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀? If so, I recommend diving into this FREE microscopy course 👉 www.ibiology.org/online-biology-courses/microscopy-series/

In the short time I have been in Umeå, I have seen 3 postdocs from Lars' lab go on to start their own teams as group leaders. I think this should speak for itself and I can only recommend you apply for this great opportunity 🤩

The abstract deadline for the FASEB Virus Structure and Assembly Conference is approaching - May 25! Join us for an exciting meeting on structural virology, virus assembly, RNA biology, and antiviral therapeutics. We look forward to seeing you there! #FASEB #Virology #StructuralBiology #CryoEM

Super happy to see the final version of our paper out now 🎉🎉🎉 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Proud of PhD student Rupesh @rupeshjayachandran.bsky.social and postdoc Erwan for doing really nice work on this 😊

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Just over a week left to apply to our postdoc position! Reposts appreciated.

Open and closed forms of assembled henipavirus nucleoprotein suggest structural basis of genome access www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Excited to share our work uncovering SNOR, a ribosome-associated factor that promotes translation restart after dormancy published in Nature!! This was, as usual, a wonderful collaborative effort between our group and the Mattei Lab @simonemattei.bsky.social @embl.org www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New preprint🧊🔬Introducing LowDoseWizard—a guided SerialEM workflow for rapid, standardised cryo-TEM setup! Setting up low-dose can be slow & daunting, especially for new users. LowDoseWizard automates optics, camera, and alignment steps from minimal input — full setup in <15 min. #cryoEM #SerialEM

ViralZone Andes virus resource now includes comprehensive outbreak data from the 2026 cruise ship incident. New additions: expanded fact sheets, dedicated glycoprotein pages, complete variant information, and an updated virion illustration. viralzone.expasy.org/11845

Happy to share new preprint is now on bioRxiv: "Ultraviolet exposure conditions skin to enhance arbovirus infection and mosquito probing" Led by our then PhD student now Dr. @ailishmccafferty.bsky.social this work asks how UV-exposed skin shapes mosquito-borne virus infection. (1/4)

The OG of outbreak viruses on cruise ships needed to remind everyone who is boss. 115 infected on the carribean princess cruise ship in an ongoing outbreak. Sounds like my idea of hell on earth. Trapped at sea on a ship full of people with vomiting and diarrhea. abcnews.com/Internationa...

Sounds interesting!

Happy to welcome Michael to Umeå next! :)

1/3 Statement from the International #Hantavirus Society regarding #Andes virus

Honoured to receive the 2026 ACS Infectious Diseases Early Career Award alongside Laura Dassama and Patrick Dolan! Grateful for this recognition, and especially grateful to my wonderful colleagues, collaborators, and lab members who made the work possible. axial.acs.org/biological-c...

Measles is coming back. Until now, we didn't know how human antibodies actually recognize and neutralize the virus. No structure of either measles surface protein bound to a human antibody had ever been reported. We set out to change that.

Nach dem Ausbruch des Andes-Hantavirus auf einem Kreuzfahrtschiff mit drei Todesfällen stellt sich die Frage: was ist dieses Virus, und wie gefährlich ist es? Ausführliche Infos gibt es hier: www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publicati... In Kürze: - Viren der Hanta-Familie zirkulieren in Nagern, … (1/4)

An important phylogeny for us to look at ⬇️🔗 Hantavirus on board with Prof. Vincent Racaniello

New results published in the New England Journal of Medicine finds Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine gave more protection against illness than the standard flu shot in a Phase 3 clinical trial.

When the NIH abruptly terminated thousands of research grants last year, the fallout wasn’t distributed equitably. A new analysis suggests the cuts disproportionately hit women, BIPOC, and LGBTQ+ investigators. My latest for @nature.com

Hantavirus crops up on a cruise ship — what scientists are watching www.nature.com/articles/d41...

first time seeing this on pubmed

More confirmation that the hantavirus species sequenced from the cruise ship MV Hondius is indeed Andes virus. Still waiting for actual sequence though… 🧪 www.cnbcafrica.com/2026/two-cas...

For the Love of Poliovirus www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

I've spent yesterday and today talking to researchers across the globe trying to understand the hantavirus outbreak aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius. My story in @science.org is here (and some threaded thoughts coming): www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪 #IDsky

Join a rising star and very friendly colleague! #PhDposition

📢 We are now recruiting a PhD student in Structural and Molecular Virology in Sweden 🇸🇪 Work on RNA viruses using cryo-EM and in situ cryo-ET, with access to world-class microscopy infrastructure Perfect for candidates with backgrounds in biochem, structural bio, and virology More info ⬇️

Three dead in suspected hantavirus outbreak on Atlantic cruise ship - follow live - BBC News www.bbc.com/news/live/cj...

A 37-million-particle dataset from over 250 experiments to accelerate data-driven cryo-EM analysis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.29.720997v1 #cryoem

We're super excited to share MissAlignment: a new ML-based approach to reference-free tilt series alignment, spearheaded by @martenchaillet.bsky.social. We think it's going to make your cryo-ET life a lot better. Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Code: github.com/warpem/miss-... 🧶 Thread:

Open #postdoc fellowship in my group. Virus replication and cryo-ET. Projects can be tailored to ambitious candidates with diverse backgrounds, so don't hold back from applying! DM for more info. Deadline 22May. Apply here: umustipendie.varbi.com/en/what:job/... #virus #virology #teamtomo #cryoEM

Anthony Hyman @embl.org & @mpi-cbg.de @hymanlab.bsky.social & Clifford Brangwynne @princetonupress.bsky.social & @hhmi-science.bsky.social receive their 2023 Breakthrough Prize at the Awards Ceremony in Santa Monica,LA, April 18, by Eileen Gu & @mrgatoasdf.bsky.social! www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

Great news! 🥳 The ERC Scientific Council has considered the concerns raised by the scientific community regarding the new restrictions on resubmission after rejection and has decided to revert to the previously applied resubmission rules (for most of the grants).

How are host proteases promoting coronavirus entry into cells? Find out by reading our latest manuscript led by @mattmccallum.bsky.social Brett Case Jack Brown & @youngjunpark.bsky.social in collaboration with @msdiamondlab.bsky.social 1/19 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If you wanna try our new Autogrid High-Pressure Freezing Planchettes ❄️ - you can use the provided drawings & CAD files to produce them in-house 🛠️ - you can now also contact www.wohlwend-hpf.ch to order yours with a shiny gold-coating ✨ The preprint for instructions ➡️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Maternal chikungunya infections linked to short and long-term neurologic problems in babies www.cidrap.umn.edu/chikungunya/...

We just preprinted one of my favorite studies @FlatironInst . I was lucky to be part of an amazing team studying the effects of rapid cooling to preserve samples in cryoEM. Read on to learn about the limits of cryoEM for biophysics and how to overcome them www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Happy to see the preprint of our VULCROM setup online! Thanks to our amazing collaborators we've managed to get some pretty cool cryo-CLEM images by combining cryo super-resolution and cryo-ET: doi.org/10.64898/202...

Preprint 🧵! I’m really excited to introduce BIGSMALL, an interleaved multi-magnification cryo-ET scheme bridging molecular and cellular scales in a single acquisition! BIGSMALL = 𝐁road 𝐈nformation 𝐆athering 𝐒trategy by 𝐌ultiscale 𝐀cquisition of lame𝐋𝐋a www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... (1/6)

New perspective on caveolae www.nature.com/articles/s41...

First steps into cryo-lamella imaging by cryo-secondary ion mass spectrometry using helium and neon ion microscopy! We look forward to continuing with correlative cryo-EM-SIMS. Great work: Antje Biesemeier and colleagues - Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

I love @wikipedia.org - and especially this thread of weird animals!

"The selfish ribosome" paper is now published in @plosbiology.org . Have a look! Many thanks to the editors and reviewers! doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Calling all xray structure folks that have worked with denovo proteins. Do you suffer from high rfactors? Myself, someone else I know and now multiple structures all seem to suffer from this. Assuming we all tried our best in model building, what could be some causes?

VERY nice video, and a nice invention! Thanks again Miriam Weber who presented this at CryoNET 2025 in Umeå.

AI Data Centers in the Land of Diminished Local News www.cjr.org/feature/ai-d...

Our paper featured on TWIV with a nice analysis. @51min10secs