Imagine you’re a Hollywood producer or a TV executive in 2015 and a screenwriter pitches you a future where a President issues this message on Easter Sunday. The writer would never work again

Going to space is one of the coolest things humans have done

Time is flying by ⌛😱 Recently celebrated the first birthday of my lab at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social @mechanochemistry.org It's been a lot of fun. Many thanks to my great colleagues and amazing team who makes the science happen. Looking forward to our next scienceventures 🔬👨‍🔬👩‍🔬 #FCS #FLIM

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Do we grow wiser as we age? I spent 15+ years chasing glam journals, wasting time and energy (and frustrating my team and co-authors). I don’t want to wake up at 70 and realize my life went into convincing a few editors my work was trendy enough. Enough. I’ll try to be smarter.

This is what it looks like when a star goes supernova.

im so lucky to be able to surround myself with cell biology and scientists, seeing the result of people's hard work and rigorous questioning is seriously inspiring

Our NIAAA funded Post-DoctT32 has received its NoA (non competing renewal). Are you looking for a post-doc and interested in joining our amazing center? If so, reach out! Here is a convenient form that you can use to upload CV and a cover letter! unc.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

I'm thrilled to be starting as Professor for Molecular Biology at Heidelberg University in April. Looking forward to this adventure!

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...

I am extremely excited that my first first-author paper from my PhD is finally out 😆!! We developed a new CLEM workflow to measure lipid densities at the nanoscale. So if you are into lipids and super-resolution imaging approaches, this one is for you: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I think im never going to get over super resolution microscopy

Just the story of his name is one of the coolest things of all time

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydqR... This is… spectacular

NIGMS is signed onto the F31 NOFO. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

We are launching something very exciting next week!! If you are a lipid researcher, love lipids or might need a lipid collaborator in the future, please follow and share! #lipids #lipidresearch

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

Great to see this work now out: doi.org/10.1002/anie... Here are some of the fantastic HS-AFM movies of DNA origami strand displacement dynamics 🎬 It was a pleasure collaborating and contributing to this work led by Chalmers Chau, Paolo Actis and Christoph Wälti.

We are hiring a postdoc in computational biophysics and machine learning studies of intrinsically disordered proteins We aim to study the function of IDPs by combining CG MD, ML and bioinformatics in collaboration with @tanjamittag.bsky.social & @rhp-lab.bsky.social tinyurl.com/REWIRE-PD

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Following @joshuasweitz.bsky.social post and discussions with him and the Vox story, I have estimated R01 success rates for each NIH institute and center with enough awards for this to be meaningful. A long 🧵... 1/25

Special issue call for papers: Foundations of Membrane Biophysics: Dedicated to Wolfgang Helfrich.

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26 NO - 41% YES - 38% UNSURE - 21%

Videos of the 2026 @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social Award Lectures are now online, including the Agnes Pockel Award Lecture by @veatchlab.bsky.social! It's here: www.biophysics.org/video-librar...

You know, I knew things would be wacky, but the white house posting Yu-Gi-Oh war inspo videos was not on my bingo card

Agreed!! A very exciting direction in structural biology

I've written a review on what I think is an extremely exciting direction in cryo-EM: Cryo-EM of endogenous membrane proteins in their native lipid bilayer Open access in Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics: doi.org/10.1017/S003...

“I made just a few small changes to the text” does not mean what you think it means.

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

Thank you so much Anirban, I'm humbled! It was a real joy to chair this session on the evolution of membrane phenotypes...it was an incredible lineup from ancient protosterol "fossils" to unified laws of membrane elasticity. I've pasted the key papers from the session below! 🧵 #BPS2026

Lipids are kind of the ignored middle children of origins of life research. It's time they got a bit of attention, too! This week's post is a Q&A with geoscientist-turned-??? (interdisciplinary folks know the struggle) @jamessaenz.bsky.social about why there's no cutting the fat from origins. 🧪

Almost half of the session themes for the @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social meeting came from member submissions. So feel free to suggest ideas every year!

Thank you Lynmarie Thompson, @leventallab.bsky.social and @arianebriegel.bsky.social for your service to the @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social and in organizing the 2026 BPS Meeting!

This is SO COOL!!! academic.oup.com/bioinformati...

kind of amazing that everything trump does can be understood through the lens of narcissism and it's related needs (e.g., self aggrandizement, revenge, domination, grievance validation). i don't think any character has been so one-dimensional, not even wile e coyote or scrooge mcduck

Pleased to share the final version of this behemoth of a paper, now finally published. I guess I can retire now? www.nature.com/articles/s41... More functional data, many thousands of words removed, and a few other updates from last year's preprint.

Including this as a figure in my next NIH biosketch

Important.

How your email finds me

Every time I visit Facebook (already a mistake, I know), they try to sell me on their stupid AI filters like the one here. But it's actually an amazing example of AI completely missing the point and deleting the one part of the picture that actually mattered: the punchline of the original photo.

Whale evolution makes me uncomfortable

I'd argue that a bit more careful public messaging is in order. Not taking anything away from the authors, but lipid regulation of EGFR has been described: "Regulation of human EGF receptor by lipids" by @lipid.bsky.social in 2011. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

The key to processing cryoEM is to capitalize on your priors. People will tell you to un-bias your science. You cant remove bias from science. What you can do is limit and control negative bias while capitalizing on positive bias. Knowing and utilizing priors, having proper controls is good science

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs xkcd.com/3204/

He looks like a vampiric gerbil.

Not something you see in textbooks very often: tripolar mitosis.

I remade an old render with a more exact version. The most efficient packing possible of 17 squares into a larger square. I use it as an inspiring example: just because something looks stupid doesn't mean it's not the best that you can do.

Lipids challenge ligands to control receptors The behaviour of a receptor protein can be influenced by the presence of certain lipids in the membrane it is embedded in. 🔗 buff.ly/G1Zl6cZ

An intracellular meteor shower. EB3 comets tracking growing microtubule plus-ends in a cultured cell.

Love every moment