Kids today will never know the pain of waking up early on Saturday, running to the TV for your favourite cartoon… …only to realise it’s a repeat you already watched five times 😭📺 Streaming killed a very specific kind of character building experience

We are delighted to announce our #HighlyCited2025 researchers: Ronny Thomale, @angelifriedmann.bsky.social , Georg Gasteiger, @dominicgrun.bsky.social, and Christoph Wanner. Congratulations! ➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-...

Billionaires are more publicly involved in politics than ever—and Americans aren’t loving it.

1/ It is no secret that I view the unchecked rise of liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) in biology as a profound distortion of molecular biology. It conflicts with its principles, it is logically incompatible with them, and the claims made in its name have been, with rare exceptions,... –>2

Every single time I apply with a colleague to a bilateral grant that involves the #CNPq 🇧🇷is a chance for one its reviewers to tell me how I have a mediocre scientific carreer - not sure why the personal swings but this is anything but professional 🧐

🚨We have just launched a search to fill a new Jr group leader position!🚨 Great conditions to kickstart your own independent carreer - happy to answer any questions you might have. please spread the word and repost! www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/rvz/jobs-...

957 proposals were submitted in the latest round of ERC Synergy applications. They expect to fund 50 which means around 5% success rate. This is really not sustainable and a lot of people are likely avoiding doing this knowing how poor the chances are. erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

We have a post-doctoral fellow position in our laboratory. Please spread the news and encourage applications. Thank you! vcujobs.com/jobs/post-do...

Excited to share our work @nature.com! Postdoc @mariopalma.bsky.social, with major contributions from @retickerflynn.bsky.social and collaborators, discovered melanoma cells in lymph nodes gain a targetable FSP1 dependency that limits progression. #TeamFSP1 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1... Congrats @theprattgroup.bsky.social for this thought provocative study. Still some unexpected observations in the autoxidation of lpids 👀

Muito animada com o futuro da pesquisa metabólica USPiana!! jornal.usp.br/ciencias/nov...

calling "Acetylysine" the 21st amino acid is a declaration of war

(1) New preprint from our lab! HMOX1 controls a heme/ferritin switch that protects cells from ferroptosis. Loss of HMOX1 stabilizes heme, boosts ferritin, and suppresses ferroptotic death. 👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025... #ferroptosis #heme #ironmetabolism #preprint

REVIEW🚨 The authors discuss the regulation and interplay of the metabolic #CellDeath pathways #ferroptosis, #disulfidptosis and #cuproptosis and explore how these mechanisms can be harnessed for cancer therapies. @mdanderson.bsky.social 📖 ⬇️ https://bit.ly/3L3vN...

Bayern und die Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de haben sich darauf verständigt, in Würzburg ein Max-Planck-Institut 🔬 aufzubauen. Unipräsident Paul Pauli: "Das ist ein starkes Zeichen für den Wissenschaftsstandort Würzburg." go.uniwue.de/mpg-wue 📷 Mindcore

🚨🚨🚨 We are launching the 2nd application round for the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Program MemBioMed, offering cutting-edge training on exploring the complex behavior of cellular membranes & unlocking their therapeutic potential. Students can apply here: life.univ-cotedazur.eu/internationa...

We’re thrilled to announce this workshop! 🌟 Are you a junior PI in the process of building your lab? Join us in Regensburg for an inspiring workshop where we’ll exchange ideas and strategies on how to develop a motivated and harmonious team. 👉 Check it out! There are sponsored spots available!

(1) New preprint from our lab! HMOX1 controls a heme/ferritin switch that protects cells from ferroptosis. Loss of HMOX1 stabilizes heme, boosts ferritin, and suppresses ferroptotic death. 👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025... #ferroptosis #heme #ironmetabolism #preprint

One of the crazy things about the AI bubble bursting is that consumer sentiment toward AI has always leaned skeptical to outright negative but it’s an industry propped up by pure billionaire greed, sycophancy, and childish fantasy

This is going to be fun - we are really pleased with the program - there is some really exciting science on the menu! Do sign up!

This is madness... pure madness www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

✨✨✨ Huge congratulations to the winners of the #NobelPrize in Physics: John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis. Clarke and Martinis are both members of the Humboldt Network – as hosts for Feodor Lynen Research Fellows! 💚 Picture: Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o... will be too late when people realise that is not about left and right

Check out this new Roadmap, a fantastic team effort by a consortium of ER researchers. Glad we could provide the space for this synthesis, which came out of discussions at a fruitful meeting, see below:

🚨Preprint alert 🚨 We identify riboflavin (vitamin B₂) as a key modulator of ferroptosis sensitivity via stabilizing FSP1 & recycling lipid-soluble antioxidants. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... pls check @olzmannlab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #ferroptosis #FSP1 #antioxidants

very interesting study from Gonzalo Cosa's lab adding to the discussion of ferroptosis initiations and propagation www.nature.com/articles/s41... will there be a consensus? does it really matter? more studies definitely needed to settle this

very interesting study from Gonzalo Cosa's lab adding to the discussion of ferroptosis initiations and propagation www.nature.com/articles/s41... will there be a consensus? does it really matter? more studies definitely needed to settle this

meteoroptosis

Early-career researchers: want to run your own lab? 🌟Max Planck Research Groups offer 6+ years, up to €2.7M in funding, open-topic freedom, team support & tenure-track opportunities. Intrigued? 😃Apply by Oct 14, 2025! www.mpg.de/max-planck-r...

Preach freedom of speech overseas, but ignore that weak institutions are what give clowns the spotligh

This is an really amazing opportunity. If you get it, you can essentially pick you institute. The package really is rather competitive.

🔔PhD position open. Interested in building competencies in computational biology in spatial transcriptomics? Malte Luecken's lab and I have an open PhD position, part of the Munich School of Data Science. Application deadline: Sept 26 Link: www.mu-ds.de

🧪❄️🔬 We were very surprised to find out that the MscS-like channel YnaI does not tilt its paddle helices to open.... almost overlooked the huge pore in our cryo-EM maps Very proud that this is finally out: rdcu.be/eB3FF Well done, Vanessa @uni-wuerzburg.de

uuhh, wohl keine Müller Milch für mich mehr 🤮

Membrane Biology: Nothing can replace polyunsaturated lipids Genetic studies reveal that polyunsaturated lipids do more than simply increase the fluidity of the cell membrane. buff.ly/qcLJNUN

SLC26A11 is an atypical solute carrier with dual transport-channel function mediating lysosomal sulfate transport https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.17.670773v1

By the way, if you don't protest Trump weaponizing the Justice Department against his critics because they are people you don't like or agree with, you are assisting this fascist takeover. Wait until it happens to someone you like and it's too late.

Out today in @nature.com: Together with the Honigmann, Shevchenko, Drobot and Hof labs, we present a general workflow for imaging the localization and transport of individual lipids in cells and mapping their metabolism. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Können wir bitte zuerst die Bahn sanieren 🫢

This. @erc.europa.eu, this is the way to go!

Jessalyn Ubellacker @ubellackerlab.bsky.social was honored with a FASEB Journal Early Career Researcher Award at the first FASEB Ferroptosis, Oxidative Stress, and Lipid Metabolism meeting, co-organized by James Olzmann @olzmannlab.bsky.social and Scott Dixon, to support early career researchers.

Don't miss out on other great Review content! 📝 A Review from @angelifriedmann.bsky.social, @k-hadian.bsky.social, et al details the metabolic code of ferroptosis 📝 @damelab.bsky.social et al describe how prokaryotes and viruses possess histone-mediated chromatin organization (1/n)

Excited to share our new preprint, led by Kirandeep Deol! 🤩 Genetic screens uncover mechanisms regulating FSP1 abundance in cancer. Vitamin B2 metabolism promotes FSP1 stability via FAD synth / binding, further linking nutrient metabolism to ferroptosis. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Riboflavin metabolism shapes FSP1-driven ferroptosis resistance https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.05.668651v1

🚨Preprint alert 🚨 We identify riboflavin (vitamin B₂) as a key modulator of ferroptosis sensitivity via stabilizing FSP1 & recycling lipid-soluble antioxidants. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... pls check @olzmannlab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #ferroptosis #FSP1 #antioxidants

Exercise induces microbiota to produce formate which in turn enhances CD8+ T cell anti-tumour functionality. 💪 #gains Check out my research highlight below for more deets 🤓🐛🧫

Now online in Cancer Discovery @aacrjournals.bsky.social: Mitochondrial Glutathione Import Enables Breast Cancer Metastasis via Integrated Stress Response Signaling - by Hsi-wen Yeh, Nicole Del Gaudio, Kivanç Birsoy, and colleagues doi.org/10.1158/2159... @rockefelleruniv.bsky.social

A new postdoc position in our group will open early next year — looking for candidates with a proven track record & relevant experience. If #CRISPRscreens, #syntheticlethality, #smallmolecules & #celldeath excite you, let’s talk! DMs welcome. pls share 🙏

Huge thank you to @olzmannlab.bsky.social and Scott Dixon for a phenomenal 1st FASEB Ferroptosis conference! I’m grateful to be part of such a collaborative community and it was especially great to meet all the brilliant trainees whose insights are clearly shaping the exciting future of the field! 🎉