Wow. I love papers like this where you start off thinking “what? Sounds fishy” and then the data are so convincing and the paper so well written that is all so clear that you are blown away. Cells have a little aerial to allow them to move toward the anode!!! Galvanin! #PureScience #biophysics

🏆 Introducing the inaugural Suzanne Eaton Awards for Physics of Life! We're thrilled to announce the 2026 recipients: L. Mahadevan @harvard.edu and Anna Erzberger @embl.org. 👨‍🔬Both scientists will give award lectures on 20. November, more info to follow ➡️Read our announcement here: tud.link/cjm8t2

Come join the new Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Design as a group leader Cool science in a great scientific environment in wonderful and very family friendly Copenhagen There are two positions that can either be at TT assistant or associate prof level employment.ku.dk/tenure-track...

📣 Hear! Hear! 🦋 Behold this Bluetorial on a cool paper written with my PhD student Nathaniel Wesnak 🧪 If you want to dive into the rabbit hole of lipid flop-flop and its description as a stochastic process—here’s your TEASER TRAILER on some flippin’ awesome work: doi.org/10.1063/5.03... 1/26

Welcome to the official Bluesky account of the Weizmann Institute of Science. Here we share scientific discoveries, research news, and stories from our scientists.

Any1 is a #phospholipid scramblase involved in #endosome biogenesis. From Jieqiong Gao, Christian Ungermann and colleagues: rupress.org/jcb/article/... 📕 Part of #Lysosomes 2026: rupress.org/jcb/collecti...

Sorting nexin 10 regulates lysosomal ionic homeostasis via ClC-7 by controlling PI(3,5)P2. From Jing Ze Wu, Sergio Grinstein, Spencer Freeman @spencerfreeman.bsky.social and colleagues: rupress.org/jcb/article/... 📕 Part of #Lysosomes 2026: rupress.org/jcb/collecti...

What a trove! Brief, factual one paragraph summaries of science news and one-liners for actual articles with links. No opinions, or 'discussion' just quick snippets of news, article links and general happenings in science, all with sources and direct links. #science #nature #academics #world

This looks like a very useful tool for everyone who regularly simulates complex Martini membranes! Thanks to @fabiololicato.com and his team for spearheading this effort!

🧪⚛️ Our paper is finally published in Phys Rev Research! doi.org/10.1103/cnfz... Can cells make decisions using equilibrium physical principles, without resorting to irreversible, energy-consuming signaling cascades? We say yes, with the help of self-assembling membrane proteins! 🧵(1/7)

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

Seeking a post-doc for the LaJoie lab at the Human Technopole, Milan, Italy! We are looking for candidates from the fields of biochemistry, cell biology, and proteomics, who are interested in studying protein interactions of the nucleus 🤓 lnkd.in/dTG2CgXF

New PhD opportunity in my lab📣! The PhD studentship* will be embedded in a broader project looking at glioblastoma from a mechanobiological angle, funded by a recently granted Springboard award from the @acmedsci.bsky.social 🙏. *only home student fees covered 👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

The struggle is real

Pretty cool!! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... Last year, we showed that membranes can be asymmetric in an unexpected way: more phospholipids on one side than the other, balanced by cholesterol asymmetry. Here, Bogdanov et al show similar in EColi, with DAG doing cholesterol's flippy-buffering job

Scientifically, a raven has 17 primary wing feathers, the big ones at the end of the wing. They are called pinion feathers. A crow has 16. So, the difference between a raven and a crow is only a matter of a pinion.

Agree with this long thread on (mostly) strengths and (very few) weaknesses of present NIH grant peer review process

#Academia #PostdocLife #Science #HPS #BioSky How do you deal with complete lack of motivation and writers block?

Doing a linear stretch on these images shows how dramatic the "edits" were, revealing the deception in clear terms. This should be a complete scandal for Thermo Fisher and more people in the biosciences should be talking about it.

Wow. I always suspected those blots (and the antibodies behind them) were crap, but this is far beyond the pail

Scientific Streisand Effect

I just learned that OMB is required to respond to every comment on the anti-peer-review rule. So that means our comments really matter, at the very least by gumming up the gears. Send your comment today.

Literally, life giving you lemons. Its free fruit! So much lemonade and great pasta dishes to be made!

Soooo annoying!! Did they do this on purpose?!?

NIH's Stadtman Investigator Program is back in 2026! As a Stadtman tenure-tracker myself, I cannot emphasize how important this program has been to the establishment of our lab in the intramural world. Take a look, ask me any questions you may have, and apply!

Russell Vought has a plan for science, but so do we. Join the fight by taking action against the latest OMB grant funding proposal here 👉 zurl.co/8lTLx #StandUpForScience #Science #SaveScience #Vought #OMB

Make some noise about this 🧪 www.npr.org/2026/06/03/n...

Why we must all submit comments, from NPR • "This would be the end of American science as we know it" • "Proposed rule would replace scientific merit with McCarthy era politics” • "rule is open for public comment until July 13. After that, OMB will review" For more, see www.npr.org/2026/06/03/n...

Here's an excellent guide to comment on the OMB's (and potentially catastrophic) rule changes: elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne... By the way, this is not limited to US citizens, anyone can explain how valuable and important US federal funding has been to scientific progress worldwide.

Some very cool simulations, look at those little guys climb that ladder! #MolecularNodes

The new OMB rules will be a disaster for American science. Please take a few moments to read up and post a comments. Click the link below, it’s easy, fast, and the most important thing you can do to support our community.

Apply to be a NIH PO. Open application portal, closes June 5th. www.usajobs.gov/job/870714000

Dual-channel Cx46/50 gap junction assemblies in a shared lipid-nanodisc = lipid-mediated packing and a lipid site near the NT gating region that is absent from single channels. Plus a 1.8 Å open-state single-channel benchmark! #cryo-EM 🍩’s #NIH-funded-research www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

This is money well spent. Well done @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social

Basta, L. P., Joyce, B. W., Posfai, E., & Devenport, D. (2025). Epithelial polarization by the planar cell polarity complex is exclusively non–cell autonomous. Science, #EpithelialMechanics doi.org/10.1126/scie...

There hasn't previously been a treatment vs pancreatic cancer this successful. Striking improved (a doubling) survival results @nejm.org and @ascocancer.bsky.social published today with daraxonrasib, which also became available via an FDA-approved early access program nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Midlife crisis? I haven't even solved my quarter-life crisis yet. 🫠

Only 102 public comments so far on the biggest threat to publicly funded science in my lifetime. Please comment if you can. I know this sounds like "vote harder" but we have to keep fighting www.regulations.gov/document/OMB...

The ZMBH welcomes Dr. James Sáenz @jamessaenz.bsky.social as new Professor in Molecular Biology. James previously led a research group at B CUBE - Center for Molecular Bioengineering of Dresden University of Technology.

All expenses paid opportunity to visit the NIH campus for late stage grad student/early stage postdoc in biophysics, who are interested in pursuing the next stage of their career at the NIH Intramural Program. Deadline May 29th. Apply today ! Please reshare, repost. www.niddk.nih.gov/research-fun...

We have a late opening for postbac in my lab starting this summer. Please reshare, repost.

Honestly, one of the funniest tweets I've ever seen.

Earlier this week I posted an example of a fake western blot provided by ThermoFisher to demonstrate the validity of a p53 antibody. I considered it an amusing curiosity. In fact Thermo Fisher Scientific has systematically manipulated antibody validation data!

Super cool idea for "credit" for peer reviews! Would love for this to be implemented: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Between being a parent and academia, sometimes we get so little positive feedback that when my hygienist said "your teeth are great, keep doing what you're doing" I almost cried 😅

Profile Description updated! P.S., we are still looking for a postdoc😀

I read yesterday that the consensus among climate scientists is that the worst predictions they had made about climate change are off the table thanks to use of renewable energy sources. Solar, wind, soon hydrogen power are going to save us from the worst.

🚨 Lipid Time 🚨 New preprint out! Using high-throughput Martini 2 simulations, we studied ~5,000 transmembrane helices in a phase-separating membrane. Most helices preferred disordered environments, some localized at domain interfaces, but none in the liquid-ordered phase! doi.org/10.64898/202...

This is a great idea that we should implement