There is a special place in hell reserved for the people that removed all customer service emails and replaced them with AI chatbots

My personal summer of code continues with another ChimeraX plugin - this time, MorphometricsX! Load quantified meshes from morphometrics (or pycurv) in ChimeraX with color-by-quantification and display alongside tomos and particles. Coming to the toolshed soon! #teamtomo github.com/baradlab/mor...

Very happy to celebrate the first paper from the Nilsson-Payant Lab @ki.se! We investigated inactivation methods for hantaviruses (including ANDV) and for how long they can remain infectious in the environment under different conditions! journals.plos.org/plosntds/art...

Something like 99% of all new drugs have come about because NIH-funded academic researchers did 90% of the foundational work for basically scraps, allowing industry to swoop in and pick off the gems for profit off the back of the US taxpayers

Meanwhile, in the US. It just takes your breath away. *50 years* in prison for protesting. Don't imagine for one moment that we are immune to this. Already, the legislative framework is in place in the UK to enable such convictions - before we get a Trumplike PM. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Look at that dinosaur reading and reviewing claims himself rather than asking Claude how good it is, as we all know now proper independent review should be done /s

Motion to collectively call this the Slop Factor 🧪

May his successor remember that they will be governing backed by a center-left party with a large majority in parliament, not in a coalition with Reform.

Pure evil. www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

In accordance with ancient tradition, our next Prime Minister is announced to the nation while standing between a furry and a man with a bin on his head.

What if we put it on the Blockchain?

As Professor Homer Simpson said, "It's funny because it's true."

I'm watching the National Academies of Science's "State of the Science" address, and it's like McNutt is inhabiting an alternate reality. THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS TRYING TO BURN DOWN THE ENTIRE SCIENTIFIC ENTERPRISE, and she's talking about red tape and industrial partnerships.

This is deeply unhinged bsky.app/profile/eos....

Honoured to receive the first Sir Dave Stuart Early Career Award today. Dave was my PhD external examiner, making this award, recognising his contributions to structural biology, especially meaningful to me. Thank you to Instruct-ERIC and Thermo Fisher Scientific for championing ECRs.

Reluctant to post too much about this but I did want to share my favourite finding from the dozens of manipulated or duplicated ThermoFisher verification blots. This one has a giant square. Enjoy!

Old housemates, old school friends, family members, - they even asked a local launderette for an itinerary of what I've had washed! All this from billionaire owned media because they don't want a party to continue growing that challenges power & wealth. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Good thread from my Umeå neighbor

I spend hours, days, and weeks of my life reviewing PhD theses, manuscripts, grants, etc. I admit it irritates me tremendously to spend that time on obviously machine-generated text. 2/4

I wish more people would understand this...

New preprint. In S. sanguinis, a C5a peptidase-like protease (ScpH) polymerizes along eDNA, turning it into a catalytic biofilm scaffold. Great work from @robinanger.bsky.social in our lab, with Pelicic lab @lcbofficiel.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The Pope could never publish in Nature.

Think of CO₂ removal like a time machine. How far back does planting 100 million trees take us? One mature tree takes up ~25 kg of CO₂/year, so 100 million trees will take up 2.5 MtCO₂. That's a time machine that takes us back ~33 minutes in a year. Nature will not save us from fossil fuel CO₂.

Sub-cellular chemical mapping using correlated cryogenic electron and mass spectrometry imaging online @natmethods.nature.com, led by Hannah Ochner, collaboration with @catfranco.bsky.social and @kiranrpatil.bsky.social labs doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Selma is an incredible scientist and a great person to be around. Recommended!

@johanduchene.bsky.social @sholtodavid.bsky.social Spent the last hour looking, found ten more apparently manipulated Western blots in Thermo Fisher's antibody verification data (across eight different catalogued products). Thread below. www.thermofisher.com/antibody/pro...

OpenAI Announces Construction Of New Data Center On Top Of Sick Child

Excited to share our new preprint! Using deep mutational scanning and multivalent engineering, we developed our SARS-CoV-2 spike-targeting macrocyclic peptide into a potent inhibitor that blocks infection in HAE cultures and protects hamsters after intranasal dosing. chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10....

In the short time I have been in Umeå, I have seen 3 postdocs from Lars' lab go on to start their own teams as group leaders. I think this should speak for itself and I can only recommend you apply for this great opportunity 🤩

Super happy to see the final version of our paper out now 🎉🎉🎉 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Proud of PhD student Rupesh @rupeshjayachandran.bsky.social and postdoc Erwan for doing really nice work on this 😊

Between 2021 and 2024, USAID is estimated to have saved 91 million lives. Before it shut down, the agency accounted for less than 1% of federal spending. The collapse may have already caused 762,000 preventable deaths and could lead to more than nine million preventable deaths by 2030, study says.

Need accurate graphics of Hantavirus virions? ViralZone has you covered. Free to use in any media, modify as needed—just cite the source (CC BY license). viralzone.expasy.org/resources/An...

These guys have such a weird idea of how research does (or could) work. Like saying "I don't think we should teach kids to read. Just get them quickly to the edges, to write something new". How are they meant to even know where the edge is, let alone what's interesting, without the fundamentals?

📣 Still 2 months left to apply!! You're passionate about Science and are interested in studying 🦠 using ❄️🔬? Don't lose any time- Great facility, great PI and even greater ideas waiting to be explored!

Dystopian

I think I'd say ... Don't run universities like a business; run them like universities. Not everything is assimilable to some other market-based category. Universities have their origins, and in many ways find their deepest purposes, in a medieval world very different from our own.

The best thing the National Labour government can do now, based on these election results, is to push through electoral reform & (more) proportional representation. Huge instability in attempting to fit multi party politics into FPTP system. And frankly their only chance of retaining some power.

What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.

This was a fantastic read, not only for those that use Canvas

These viruses have been known problems in Korea for so long that there’s literally a M*A*S*H episode about them. People work their whole careers on viruses most people have never heard of…so that you never have to hear about them.

tl;dr: MissAlignment learns to score misalignment then wiggles your alignments around to reduce that misalignment -> no more misalignment = high res STA 🌟 Watching @martenchaillet.bsky.social chip away at this was a real privilege! I’m excited to see this out and what you all will do with it 🙃

📢 We are now recruiting a PhD student in Structural and Molecular Virology in Sweden 🇸🇪 Work on RNA viruses using cryo-EM and in situ cryo-ET, with access to world-class microscopy infrastructure Perfect for candidates with backgrounds in biochem, structural bio, and virology More info ⬇️

We're super excited to share MissAlignment: a new ML-based approach to reference-free tilt series alignment, spearheaded by @martenchaillet.bsky.social. We think it's going to make your cryo-ET life a lot better. Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Code: github.com/warpem/miss-... 🧶 Thread: