Out today - structure of the human HIRA histone chaperone complex bound to nucleosomes. Ever wondered how nucleosomes are assembled in the wake of transcription? It takes a 'hulk of a protein complex'. Work by the amazing Wei Tian weetian558.bsky.social. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵

🌱🚨 Very proud and excited to share our PREPRINT, unveiling an advance for plant science, biotech, & synthetic biology in the first (of many) Khalil <> Gehring collaborations! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

What determines how epithelial cells divide when shape cues disappear? Our new work shows that division follows the axis of maximal stress anisotropy. This “principal-stress rule” links mechanics, proliferation, and homeostasis. Amazing work from @luanger.bsky.social. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We are heartbroken to have lost our founder, who provided so much inspiration, but we are all honored to carry on the science he loved so much. picower.mit.edu/news/picower... #neuroscience #biology

1/10 🚨Preprint! One RING to rule them all (phages)👑💍⚔️ Bacteria build giant DNA-scaffolded RNase rings (larger than the ribosome!) to shut down viral infection🧬🧵👇 biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Our AI-guided design of RNA-guided nucleases is now out in @science.org 💻🧬 We used structure and evolutionary data to generate minimal, active and divergent gene editors! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Congrats to @petrskopintsev.bsky.social @isabelesain.bsky.social @evandeturk.bsky.social & team!

Bacteriophage continue to have so much to teach us. It's in our interest to understand how they work and impact human & environmental health. New joint work led by @mariandm.bsky.social & @rantahan.bsky.social inferring single-cell latent period & burst size heterogeneity from population dynamics.

We are still looking for a Research Technician and a Research Associate (PhD level) to join our team. Details below 👇

Congrats to all the well-deserving winners of this year's #JSPAward @mpibiochem.bsky.social and a shout-out to @carolineweiss.bsky.social and Jakob Bader for their outstanding research. www.nature.com/articles/s42... cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Our paper "Active-learning-guided optimization of cell-free systems for genome-wide transcriptomic profiling reveals progressive layers of regulation" is online in Nature Communications! Congrats Lea Wagner, very proud of this work! www.nature.com/articles/s41... #cellfree #AI #T7Phage #synbio

Today we launch the first stable release of RegCheck: v1.0.0. RegCheck makes it easier and quicker to compare study registrations to published papers for consistency - something we know is important in principle, but rarely done in practice. A 🧵 on what's new: regcheck.app

Manuscripts with women as corresponding authors are less frequently sent out for review at Science. The ones reviewed receive less favorable reviews by both male and female reviewers.

New paper alert! Michal Dibus and team show tensin-1 forms reversible condensates that act as reservoirs for adhesion proteins, tuning adhesion turnover and cell migration - a cool new role for phase separation in cell adhesion dynamics! Congratulations to the team 🎉! Paper here: bit.ly/4y9E8Xr

Changes to Wellcome Trust funding applications. Like many of the other agencies here in the UK they are removing submission deadlines. wellcome.org/insights/art...

The #Cryptosporidium outbreak highlights the importance of research on foodborne pathogen transmission. Here are some pubs in Applied & Environmental Microbiology #AEM shedding some light. We start with a review of interactions between Cryptosporidium oocysts and biofilms. doi.org/10.1128/AEM....

‘Authorship gymnastics’? This is exceptionally worrying if the answer the question posed in the title of this story is true 🧪 #academicSky www.science.org/content/arti...

Transcription controls chromatin-nuclear lamina contacts through distinct Lamin A and LBR tethering mechanisms https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.14.738400v1

Absolutely fascinating! I read that bits of these proteins (collagen I think) were detected in fossils too…

🌟 Postdoc position open at Karolinska Institutet to advance research on healthy aging 🔬 🧫 See here: lengefeldlab.com Please RT! We are excited for your applications 😄

We just preprinted Marianna’s PhD work in which we asked: How does non-coding DNA affect cell physiology? And why do some organisms have so little of it while other genomes are 99% non-coding?

Trump is driving another nail into the coffin of US science ft.trib.al/hkOyneh

There’s a growing number of general purpose AI tools for science that promise to accelerate research. A News Explainer from Nature outlines how researchers could pick the right one for their lab. #Academicsky #AI 🧪

This work is now available on iScience: www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Protein stability is determined by single-site bias rather than pairwise covariance www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🗣️"building a journal in a research space that is critical of academic publishing as it currently operates is not so straightforward" #Metascience #AcademicPublishing

I'm looking for a postgraduate intern to join my group at @humantechnopole.bsky.social, modelling how pili dynamics drive bacterial motility and aggregation. Finishing a master's in physics, computational biology, or a similar field? Get in touch: careers.humantechnopole.it/job/Internsh...

MIT ACCESS is an opportunity for undergraduates to explore cutting-edge research and graduate education in science and engineering. See for yourself what grad life is like at MIT! Applications due Aug 1: access.mit.edu @mitcheme.bsky.social @mitchemistry.bsky.social

We can now steer blood vessels with dynamic forces and even re-direct vessels as they're growing! Great MIT News feature on our new paper in PNAS, outlining how a chance encounter with @ardemp.bskyverified.social helped us identify the role of PIEZO1 in this process: news.mit.edu/2026/mit-eng...

Excited to share the first research paper from my group. This work started when I was a visiting postdoc at the @cemau.bsky.social and was a great collaboration with @kartiksaiyer.bsky.social developing artificial sediment matrices that support the growth of freshwater cable bacteria.

Soon there will be a Postdoctoral position available in the group at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social to work on creating #motile #synthetic #vesicles for intracellular delivery. Expertise in #SoftMatter and delivery systems are required. Feel free to get in touch or share this post.

Louise C. Head, Pasquale Digregorio, Davide Marenduzzo, Ignacio Pagonabarraga, Daniel A. Beller, Giuseppe Negro: Topological delocalisation of confined 3D active nematics https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.10234 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.10234 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.10234

Thrilled to see our paper now featured on the cover, as part of the highlight “Neurodegeneration Through the Lens of Selective Brain Cell Vulnerability.” advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/4YDKRX...

Do you work in #cancer and feel behind-the-curve in #CRISPR state of the art? Get up to speed fast with this review! Huge kudos to Joshua Casan, Samuel Grigg, and Carolyn Shembrey for heavy lifting to pull this together. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Team science preprint, exploring the capabilities and limitations of Alphafold3 across different application areas, including protein-RNA, protein-lipid, ubiquitination,TCR and antibody recognition with @ninjani.bsky.social @labvanni.bsky.social @dgfeller.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Genetically targeted photocatalytic organic dyes for spatiotemporally controlled organic synthesis in specific living cells

Over a thousand years of data on peak Japanese cherry blossom ourworldindata.org/grapher/date...

Nobody wants to *pay* to do hard ass biology experiments

My latest with Emmet Livingstone in Bunia. Just under 2,000 cases as per 11th of July. @angelarasmussen.bsky.social @petersinger.bsky.social www.economist.com/middle-east-...

Could laboratory evolution of microbes strengthen pollinator resilience to chemical exposure? Happy to share the latest preprint from our lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Fantastic work by @simonemozzachiodi.bsky.social @davidbaracchi.bsky.social @skamrad.bsky.social et al.

Ubuntu Proteomics Summer School. In case you're in doubt whether you should go register, watch this video 😎 youtube.com/shorts/iASW1...

Join us on 2 November for the 29th Molecular Haemopoiesis Conference, an annual UK-European meeting on blood cell development, stem cells, gene regulation & leukemia, with keynote speaker @cmullighan.bsky.social Book your virtual or in-person tickets now: https://bit.ly/4gAC1FG

Will you be our next junior group leader? Check out how Natalie Scholes, Gordie Watt and @woutoosterheert.bsky.social experience starting their groups at the Netherlands Cancer Institute. Apply before August: www.nki.nl/news-events/... #Vacancy #JuniorPI #ResearchOpportunity #NKI #EarlyDetection

Amazing #epigenetics #symposium at a great place #freiburg

🚨 We're hiring! My new lab at EMBL Hamburg is looking for a Research Technician. I'm looking for someone excited by phages, metabolism, enzymes, structural biology and bacterial immunity—if you know the right person, please share this post!🧵⬇️ Apply here: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

📢 Hiring a postdoc! Join my group on an NIH-funded project developing hydrazone-based photoswitchable fluorophores for super-resolution microscopy. Looking for expertise in organic synthesis, photochemistry, spectroscopy, systems/supramolecular chemistry, and/or chemical biology. #chemjobs #chemsky

🧬 Even Earth's most abundant enzyme makes mistakes. Rubisco fixes CO₂ for nearly all life but wastes ~20% of potential crop yield on a 3-billion-year-old side reaction. We built a microbial sensor that finally makes it visible & tinkerable in living cells. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Laboratory evolution enhances resilience of a symbiont yeast and its honeybee host against agrochemical exposure https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.10.737698v1

Yes, peer review has problems. But Trump’s solution is dangerous ft.trib.al/bY9Wh3d | opinion

Eine STIKO die solche Entscheidungen trifft, hat immer noch nicht den Zusammenhang zw C-19 Infektion und Long-Covid verstanden… eine folgenschwere Erkrankung, die uns jährlich mehr als 60 Mrd Euro kostet…kopfschütteln meinerseits😤 www.n-tv.de/wissen/Stiko...