There’s nothing intuitive about quantum theory — six physicists debunk some of the most common misconceptions. go.nature.com/41pV7pA

In the blink of an eye 👁️✨ At noisy rivers, dippers start blinking their white eyelids instead of singing louder. This is an impressive example of how animals use multiple senses to communicate, switching between them depending on the situation. www.mpg.de/25216643/081... #animalbehavior

📢 Publication Alert 📢 Scientists from our theory group have published a new Study in #scienceadvances that shows that you can predict photon-sideband distributions in certain materials using Symmetry-based Floquet Optical Selection. www.mpsd.mpg.de/1079352/2025... @science.org #physics #maxplanck

Leaving X, dynamically landing on Bluesky 🚀 Follow us for the latest research, institute news, job offers and more. We are the MPSD, our Research focusses on the structure and properties of matter down to its atomic and electronic motions on the shortest timescales. ⏳

Upcoming Joint IMPRS Lecture with Karl Duderstadt @duderstadtlab.bsky.social from the @mpibiochem.bsky.social this Thursday, 12 June at 4 pm CET via Zoom! More info: imprs-ml.mpg.de/38279/Joint-... @mpibiochem.bsky.social @mpiforbi.bsky.social @tum.de @lmumuenchen.bsky.social

🚀 We are proud to launch the new "Ambassadors for the ERC" initiative, together with @ercgrantees.bsky.social ! We aim to empower researchers across Europe to advocate for frontier research. Find out more 👉 bit.ly/44bQzp7 🌟 Excited to see what can be achieved! #Amb4ERC

In an open letter of support to the President of @harvard.edu, Max Planck President Patrick Cramer @patrick-cramer.maxplanck.de has expressed his full support of the University in its stance against demands by the Trump administration to change its policies in order to retain federal funding.

🎉🎂 Happy Birthday, Max Planck! Born April 23, 1858, he revolutionized quantum theory and modern physics. 🌌🔬 Let's celebrate his legacy and the wonders of science! #MPDL #MPG #MaxPlanck #QuantumTheory #ScienceLegend #BirthdayCelebration

Happy #QuantumDay, everyone! 😊 Discovering #quantumtheory revolutionized #physics forever - and might even make your hair stand on end! 😉 #MaxPlanck

Viele Forschende in den USA spüren politischen Druck. Die Sorge um die #Forschungsfreiheit ist real. Im Interview mit #Deutschlandfunk habe ich über meine Reise in die USA gesprochen – und warum wir als @maxplanck.de mit einem #TransatlantischenProgramm reagieren ⬇️

We received 613 applications—and now we’re proud to welcome 23 students to the 2025 Rosetta Commons REU! Read more about what they have to tell you about themselves and highlight their goals and interests: 🔗 rosettacommons.org/2025/04/11/i...

The Helmholtz AI Science Slam is coming to #HAICON25 this June - and we want YOU on stage! ✔ Build science communication & public speaking skills; ✔ Share your research in a creative way; ✔ Connect with a broad audience; 👉 Submit a pitch by April 28: events.hifis.net/event/2480/

A huge thank you to all the incredible speakers at #S25MRS this week—including Fred Kavli Plenary Lecture speakers Jim De Yoreo & David Baker!👏 We're honored to have supported your talks, which were thought-provoking and inspiring. #MaterialsScience #KavliNano @materials-mrs.bsky.social

At @caltech.edu, I had the pleasure of meeting President Thomas F. Rosenbaum to discuss how we can deepen our longstanding partnership. Caltech is among the @maxplanck.de’s top U.S. collaborators — with over 700 joint publications in just two years. (1/2)

Congratulations to Dennis Gaitsgory from Max Planck Institute for Mathematics on receiving the #BreakthroughPrize 2025. A wonderful acknowledgment of fundamental contributions to the field.

What does it take to build lasting scientific #partnerships between the U.S. & Europe? In my meeting with @kavlifoundation.bsky.social’s Cynthia Friend, we discussed why strong institutions & private support matter. Grateful for ongoing collaborations between Max Planck and Kavli institutes.

Many school students get a chance to peer at miniature life through a microscope, but while growing up in a remote town @prakashlab.bsky.social wasn't able to. That didn't curb his curiosity. Now he makes frugal microscopes (some out paper!) to expand outreach. thebrilliant.com/2025/04/02/s...

Honored to meet Dr. Arun Majumdar @stanforddoerr.bsky.social at Stanford University. Stanford's leadership in #sustainability is inspiring. As we face global challenges, strong transatlantic ties remain vital — for science, for climate solutions, and for a resilient future.

Hans-Ulrich Fried holds a doctorate in neuroscience and has been Head of the Light Microscope Facility at @dzne.science in Bonn since 2010. Together with his team, he is responsible for 35 state-of-the-art light microscopes, some of which he developed himself.

I’m kicking off my U.S. trip with a meeting with @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social — who, together with Max-Planck's Emmanuelle Charpentier, developed CRISPR-Cas9. A scientific breakthrough and a powerful example of U.S.-German collaboration. Let’s foster our #transatlantic #collaboration.

Maglia and colleagues discuss advances in nanopore technology en route to single-molecule protein sequencing go.nature.com/3FL0g3k rdcu.be/efeZR

Herzlichen Glückwunsch! Beate Heinemann übernimmt Vorsitz des DESY-Direktoriums www.desy.de/aktuelles/ne...

🔬 From protein structure to drug discovery, our Phenix software is transforming how scientists explore biology. Used by 35k+ researchers worldwide, it’s a game-changer for life-saving science. Learn more ⬇️🧪 @biosci.lbl.gov

UMich Biophysics has an open search for a new faculty member. Application materials are due 5/15. Search is open rank (despite the title in the link). Would love to bring more structural biology colleagues to Biophysics. #NMR careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

We may not have really squared the circle — but we came close! 😉 In our @NaturePhysics paper w/ @fakhrilab.bsky.social, light-triggered membrane excitability enables programmable shapes — a step toward engineering living matter. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #biophysics #syntheticcell #softmatter

🧐 Are you a computational physicist and expert in probability theory? 👉 Contribute to our project "Theory and Algorithms for Structure Determination from Single Molecule X-Ray Scattering Images" as PhD student or Postdoc! 🔗 Check our job advert for more details www.mpinat.mpg.de/4988122/09-2...

Excited to have presented the results from @europeanxfel.bsky.social at #APSSummit25 on imaging single-protein in 3D with hard XFEL pulses for the first time—had been an extremely tough-problem to crack for past three-decades—a historic step and a breakthrough. @maxplanck.de #CFEL #DESY #MPSD

Starting off my tour with science: thanks for inviting me to deliver the opening keynote “Chromatin transcription” at the Keystone conference at beautiful Banff, Alberta, Canada.

European XFEL congratulates the new Chairwoman of the DESY Board of Directors Prof. Dr Dr h.c. Beate Heinemann, who takes office tomorrow 1 April, and wishes her every success in her new position. European XFEL also thanks her predecessor Prof. Dr Dr h.c. Helmut Dosch for his decisive support.

🚀 Apply now 🚀 The new Max Planck #Postdoc Program offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops. postdocprogram.mpg.de #ScienceCareer #PostdocProgram

Do you like coding in #Python? Have you been using #MonteCarlo methods or running #MD simulations? Working with MDAnalysis and @westpasoftware.bsky.social on a GSoC 2025 project may be just for you! For details, read our blog post: www.mdanalysis.org/2025/02/28/g.... Pre-proposal deadline: Mar 21

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! I'm not sure if this is how the gold, frankincense and myrrh were delivered, but perforin-2 is excellent at transporting gifts... Made in #Modo for @patrycja-kozik.bsky.social Lab #ArtAdventCalendar #SciArt More projects: e-nox.net/portfolio/

Exciting 3-year postdoc opportunity with @carter-lab.bsky.social within a programme aimed at identifying the links between microtubule motors and axonal cargos. Read more about the role here: www.nature.com/naturecareer... Apply by 30 DEC #ScienceJobs #CambridgeJobs #PostdocJobs #GenomeEngineering

I decided to make the datasets I'm generating for my phd project public. For each protein in Swiss-Prot, I'm making available PLM embeddings (ProtTrans, Ankh, ESM2), GO annotations and taxonomy representations. All files follow the same order, one line per protein. github.com/pentalpha/pr...

The Max Planck Society @maxplanck.de shares 12 highlights of 2024 research across diverse fields, including first photo of a star beyond the Milky Way, sequences of oldest modern human genomes, a wild orangutan treating wounds with a medicinal plant, + our paper on genes, musicality & Beethoven: 🧪

The Neurobiology Division at the MRC LMB is looking for a new group leader: www.nature.com/naturecareer...

New* video! If you’ve ever wondered what topology is, this problem is one of the best examples I know of to give an authentic sense of what it’s all about: youtu.be/IQqtsm-bBRU

1/ In two back-to-back papers, we present our de novo TRACeR platform for targeting MHC-I and MHC-II antigens TRACeR for MHC-I: go.nature.com/4gcLzn5 TRACeR for MHC-II: go.nature.com/4gj5OQk

What's essential for a happy Xmaths? A very merry equation, of course!😉😁🤗

Members of the scientific community, family, and beyond gathered in celebration at the gala night screening of David Baker's Nobel Prize award ceremony! Watch this space for more pictures and updates.

Registration for the RosettaWorkshop is now open, to be held March 3-5, 2025, in person at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. For more information and to register for the workshop, please visit meilerlab.org/rosetta-work... (first-come-first-served)

Rosetta Community watching David get the award! @rosettacommons.bsky.social

Nobel Museum Highlights: 1) Hahnbeom and Sergey win the posing contest 2) We find the famous stick

Hello, everyone! It’s so lovely to see so many of you here! 🤗 You know how basic research is sometimes called ‘blue sky science’? So we have a feeling that we should feel quite at home here…! 😉Here’s to blue skies, a great community & lots skeets about all things #science! 😊

What a fantastic shot! An aerial view of #sharks rounding up their prey has won the 2024 #Photography Competition @royalsociety.org 🦈 The photo was taken by postdoc Angela Albi @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social, who studies the predator-prey interactions of sharks and schools of #fish. 🎉👏

Software is such an integral part of science - and it is amazing that this year's @www.helmholtz.de Software Award goes to Philip Weiler @helmholtzmunich.de @fabiantheis.bsky.social, Birgit Hassler @DLR and Axel Löwe @kitkarlsruhe.bsky.social 🎉

📆 Save the date: HAICON 2025 Join us in Karlsruhe, Germany, from June 3 – 5, 2025, for the next iteration of the annual Helmholtz AI Conference! 👋 Missed HAICON 2024? Catch the highlights here: www.helmholtz.ai/latest/event... #HAICON25 #AI #ML

Start the week with your own lab at #HelmholtzMunich🚀 @pioneercampus.bsky.social #JobAlert #GreatPlaceToWork