@nature.com asked me to write an op-ed on the perspective of the AI reviewing process, prompted by the recent partnership between @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social and @qedscience.bsky.social Hope my perspective adds value to the conversation. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Here's a little drawing that I adapted for today's lecture in our Master course NeuroBiophysics at @humboldtuni.bsky.social. Eagles have a double fovea in each eye, a movable cornea, a flat, avascular retina, and other optimisations that make their vision spectacular! #biophysics #vision

The whole paper is thought provoking, and congrats to @ulisespereirao.bsky.social. I recommend people to read it entirely before claiming it against the manifold hypothesis, out of ~thousands of cells, 10 dimensions explained most of the variance

Hivemind, I have a challenge. Popular culture is dominated by the car (car chases, cop dramas etc), helping us accept a car-dominated urban environment as normal. Can you think of any examples of popular culture highlighting bikes, trams, walking etc? I can only think of A Streetcar Named Desire.

I think it’s the first time in 9 years that I managed to fit it in one line #mobilitaet #biophysics

I like the MOCHA-FRAP approach because it measures how much comes from intra-diffusion vs from outside of the condensate. Needs large droplets and good SNR though pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36526633/

Well thank goodness for that.

EC does this. Not sure what the value is but I have seen it on CVs. It gives a positive impression, I think. commission.europa.eu/funding-tend...

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This is a nice story, and perhaps I am missing the point, but there appear to be at least 10 clinical trials before 1993 in PubMed that describe "adjuvant systemic chemotherapy​", including for breast cancer. Great if lives were saved all the same! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov?term=%22adju...

At this week's #VirtualPub, we welcome Ivano Legnini, Human Technopole, on "Optogenetic control of gene expression in organoids." @humantechnopole.bsky.social 🗓️ Friday, Dec 5 @ 13:00 CET www.eurobioimaging.eu/events/optog...

From January 1st 2026, the CNRS will cut access to one of the largest commercial bibliometric databases, Clarivate Analytics' Web of Science, along with the Core Collection and Journal Citation Reports.

Good morning! TV tower from the Böse Brücke.

What fantastic news. What a coup by the Charité! HIV remission!!! From basic science. Incredible what people are doing in Berlin. Yet we suffer under absurd short-sighted cuts whilst Bayern and others are expanding their science. People don't seem to realise it has taken decades to build this up.

Filmmaker Jafar Panahi sentenced to one year in prison in absentia by Iranian court

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This is great. More please! The more folk who rely on LLMs for funding planning means my chances go up even before I submit!

Who could’ve ever seen that literally outsourcing your brain could have negative effects.

If your job now consists of simply regurgitating AI (“I just ask Chat”), anyone can do that. Be careful, you can and will be replaced. Not by something better, rather by something worse but much cheaper. The skill, the value, will be in producing something that AI cannot. Practice that.

Great topic. I used to say, ignore the interpretation and just look at the data. Unfortunately we select the data we present, so this is not foolproof. “Moreover [many] claimed research findings may often be simply accurate measures of the prevailing bias.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Mos...

Precisely the point

Very interested - LLPS denies and ignores the inconvenient fact of microscopic stereospecific interactions as the driving process in assembly of macromomecular structures in the cell, in favour of a macroscopic analogy based on an artefact of isolated proteins in vitro

· #AcademicSky · The European Research Council is launching €7m Plus Grants for ambitious, long‑term research — open to researchers at any career stage but limited to about 30 awards; current ERC grantees and applicants are ineligible, reports @clanicholson.bsky.social.

“I do not find it particularly virtuous or intelligent if you are interested in creating general dread or general compassion or guilt that only evokes one emotion. If existing codes are contradictorily assembled […] it will result in new knowledge” Helga Paris. A genius from the Winsviertel!

ロドプシングアニル酸シクラーゼと改変型 cGMP作動性 K⁺ チャネルを用いた神経抑制型オプトジェネティクス🌟 Optogenetic silencing using rhodopsin-GC and engineered cGMP-gated K+ channels🌟 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @johvierock.bsky.social #OpenAccess

I just did an interview in the Sueddeutsche Zeitung about how we detect cold temperatures — the journalist, Felix Hütten, did a nice job to make it accessible also for non-scientists. www.sueddeutsche.de/gesundheit/m...

New #bike less than 2 months old. Both tyres fully flat this morning. I think they have punctures. No time to investigate in detail. This has never happened to me in 20 years of daily biking. Could it be the anti-slip gravel?! It was deployed in Berlin about a week ago before the snow.

Read more about Charlie Gross here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... "We guarantee that you’ve never met anyone quite like Charlie Gross"

Announcing the second round of 2025 SGP Rising Star Travel Awards for students and postdocs. The $500 awards can be used for meetings held up to 1 year from notification. Apply today! Deadline: 31 December 2025 sgpweb.org/awards/risin...

To all trainees interested in channels and transporters: the joint FEBS/EMBO course will go ahead in Erice, Italy from May 13-19 2026: network.febs.org/posts/new-jo... Further details to come soon. Please share and repost.

Come on Konrad, why do you cave so easily? Here, let me try it for you: 1. Spikes are (to good approximation) the only events that matter. 2. Extracellular fields are one way by which spikes interact with each other. 1/2

I wonder if we'll now see spelling mistakes as a good thing, a sign that an actual person wrote it

"we can estimate that our jet vitrification experiment has a time resolution of 21 µs" 🤯

Marquez-Sharpnack said she was suspicious of the photos, in which the cookies were a little too perfectly pink. But her husband trusted the post because “it was on Facebook.” The result was a melted sheet of dough with a cloyingly sweet flavor. “A disaster,” she said. #melted #UnreliableNarrator

What a neat way to make gold particles of higher order. Looking forward to see the tomograms of excitatory synapses with multiple labels (and much more)! #iGluRs

Not that new, but worth a post - a nice calcium binding site in the pore of the trimeric Bile Acid Sensing #ionchannel BASIC. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Simply a super paper! Beautiful and profound.

Today is the International day for the elimination of violence against women. In 2024, an estimated 50,000 women and girls were killed by intimate partners or family members worldwide. That is 137 women and girls every day. One every ten minutes. www.un.org/en/observanc...

"Much work has provided valuable information." #BigIfTrue #Contributed www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

This morning, I found I could no longer disable AI on Google with the -ai tag. I switched to DuckDuckGo. The results are better and it´s easy to disable the AI summaries.

Nice article about the leading computational model of water. The 8th most cited paper ever, with 45000 citations! #biophysics #chemistry news.yale.edu/2025/11/18/d...

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i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years

reminder if you're german/germany-based, please consider signing!

I signed this open letter against the blind adoption of "AI" in our science and in our universities, and I urge other scientists and university staff in Germany to do the same. Otherwise it's a #RaceToTheBottom

I always liked physics and didn’t know you could do a degree in engineering. Maureen overslept and by the afternoon we could no longer sign up for the MSc projects we wanted. So, on a whim, with zero biology between us, we chose “Genetic Engineering of a neurotransmitter receptor”.

Why do people think England flags have been raised on lampposts? White adults National pride: 26% Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 49% Both: 19% Ethnic minority adults National pride: 15% Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 55% Both: 20% yougov.co.uk/society/arti...

I do not like your AI slop I do not want this worthless glop I do not read its overviews I don't care what Grok says is true I do not like it here nor there I'm tired of it everywhere

Amazing public service from Ed Zitron. Amid all the claims of exponential improvements in AI, there is one thing growing exponentially- the hidden rate at which billions of dollars in costs are outstripping income. @edzitron.com www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/

"If the data is accurate...it would call into question the business model of OpenAI and nearly every other general-purpose LLM vendor" www.ft.com/content/fce7...