Progress report on my Relion bayesian polishing job on a local computer: ``` + Performing loop over micrographs ... 166.67/166.67 hrs .....................~~(,_,"> + Combining frames for micrographs ... 4.05/122.07 hrs .~~(,_,"> ``` I think it's going well. #CryoEM

Zotero finally has an Android app 🙌

SULF's Doctoral Candidate Assocation warns internationals against starting a PhD Sweden and it seems like most of the complaint is with Migrationsverket, the Swedish Migration Agency. The negative effects of these excessive wait times are starting to pile up. universitetslararen.se/2025/05/08/i...

The number of postdocs employed in Sweden keeps going up. www.uka.se/om-oss/nyhet...

The program is out for the 2025 Membrane Protein Folding GRS! Applications are open until the end of May. Join us this June in Castelldefels, Spain! 🧪🧬🥼🔬 www.grc.org/membrane-pro...

Calling all membrane/membrane protein folks! Join us this summer in Barcelona for the Membrane Protein Folding Gordon Conference and Seminar. GRS chaired by @justmwest.bsky.social and myself! We are soliticiting abstracts from trainees for talks! Deadline - April 6. www.grc.org/membrane-pro...

Proteins preferentially insert into membranes that have a similar hydrophobic thickness to the protein, even without cells or chaperones! Implies sufficiency of physical properties of membranes and proteins for proper sorting to organelles. Cool paper! 🧪 doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Very nice work outlining a new method to determine dimerization energies of TMDs in unbiased MD simulations 🧪

My colleague and I are co-chairing the GRS on Membrane Protein Folding this Summer near Barcelona, Spain ⛱️ If you are a grad student or postdoc and work on membrane protein folding, apply! www.grc.org/membrane-pro...

I like my lab coats to feel like I'm wearing an armored vehicle but also a snuggie

Just learned that one of the most productive scientists I know uses a cardboard box as a reference manager. I'll be over here existentially questioning the value of my neatly curated zotero library.

chaotic neutral

Beautiful night in Stockholm 🌃

If anyone knows of starter packs for biochemistry / biophysics, I would love to check them out!

Goodreads has a popular list of books everyone should read. It's 33k books. Reading a book a day, this would take 90 years. Goodreads, this is not a serious list.

Anyone familiar with BioPython? When I read a file with SeqIO, I see strange behavior. If I assign a SeqRecord object to a variable, it is only iterable once. In the code below, the output is nothing, but if I switch the print statement to the first loop it prints fine. What am I missing?

Something tells me they did not, in fact, read my preprint.

Has anyone figured out how to name the individual chains for a job in the #Alphafold3 server? The output of a job with mutliple chains just has them labeled as A, B, C, etc.