Not being able to crystallize your biomolecule of interest? Now that's scary. 😱 Try our high-throughput screen! October 2025 Soluble (taking reservations) Reservation Deadline: Fri Oct 3rd Package Acceptance & Plate Setup: Tues Oct 7th – Thurs Oct 9th Tues Oct 14th – Thurs Oct 16th

interpreting electron density or foraging for mushrooms -- you decide. #structuralbiology #crystallography #mycology

A thread of protein-themed card, board, and video games 🧵

I'm excited to share that my story is featured in this week's edition of Science Magazine! Being able to do my research with my Tribe and in my homelands has been so impactful and meaningful personally and for my career. And it's important for other young Indigenous researches to know it's possible!

Take a minute to really absorb the scale of what you're seeing. This is 'Cueva de los Cristales', the Cave of the Crystals, near the city of Naica in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. The crystals are selenite, a type of gypsum. They formed over the last 1 million years. (📷: Javier Trueba, MSF)

There's also a primary paper on dating of the crystals that goes into some of the chemical processes involved and how they can be modeled here:

I doubt that there is a single family in America that hasn’t benefitted directly from the NIH.

Giddy up to Calgary! Stop by our #IUCr2026 booth at #ACA2025 to gear up for the 2026 Conference to get some Calgary Stampede merch, plan your trip, meet other attendees and more!

Cal the Calgary Stampede horse is having a blast visiting the exhibitors at #ACA2025! Come visit the #IUCr2026 booth at #ACA2025 to find Cal and gear up for Calgary!

As the community gets ready for #ACA2025, we're proud to present this interview with @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social Vivian Stojanoff and @xtalmaker.bsky.social on how to prepare for successful protein crystallisation experiments! 🥳🥳 youtu.be/m34RI500OFU?...

Here are some nice mushrooms

Excited that our article made the cover of the July issue of @actacrystf.iucr.org! Congrats to my coauthors @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social & Vivian Stojanoff! Grateful for #NIH NIGMS R24 National Resource grant that enables workshops like the 2023 SAMPREP workshop @ @acastructuralsci.bsky.social

Last week @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social and I had an amazing time running experiments at CXI at LCLS at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory on nanocrystal protein samples! Our protein nanocrystals looked like little stars 🌟 💎

having some fun with nanocrystals at LCLS CXI beamline! safe to say I’m a little excited for my first shift on an XFEL🎇

To be clear for folks outside the US - when you see us tweeting jokes in the aftermath of unprovoked acts of war, it’s because we’ve lost all control of our federal government and are desperate for mechanisms to address the horrors we as civilians are indirectly responsible for. We are so, so sorry.

Does crossing the pond affect crystal quality? No!

I'm used to purifying colorless proteins, so it's a treat to have a metal-binding protein I can see IN my resin! #metalloprotein #biochemistry

@getacrystal.bsky.social & SSRL are out in force teaching at the New Opportunities for Structural Biology Research Workshop in TN this week! Thanks Jamaine Davis for making the workshop happen & the invite! Nice work @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social, Tiffany, Darya & Crissy! @ubuffalo.bsky.social

Colleen Parker, contemporary artist and illustrator #womensart

If you don't know @xtalmaker.bsky.social and their amazing facility at UBuffalo to help you achieve your crystallization goals, you should!

Just in time for Pride month! Celebrating our recent publication in @actacrystf.iucr.org by highlighting our rainbow of protein crystals! 🏳️‍🌈💎 Great to work with @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social & Vivian Stojanof on this paper! doi.org/10.1107/S205... #crystallization #crystals #structuralbiology

kicking off the New Opportunities for Structural Biology Research at the SSRL Synchrotron workshop at Belmont University! Big thanks to Jamaine Davis for making this workshop happen and inviting us! #structuralbiology #crystallography @blackinbiophys.bsky.social

"Art can be a gateway to science," says artist Thomas Blanchard in an interview with Nautilus. Watch the formation of striking landscapes of potassium phosphate crystals: nautil.us/the-visual...

Carpeted in white, spiky calcite crystals, festooned with cave pearls, the captivating Raspberry Rising cave system in Canada's Glacier National Park is a site of ongoing geological and microbial research. canadiangeographic.c...

Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.

HEY SCIENTISTS!!! Looking for a way to get involved in advocating for science on a local level? ⬇️ We're asking scientists to publish an op-ed in their local newspaper on June 16th, the birthday of Nobel-prize winning scientist Barbara McClintock ☀️ See the link below for more details!

“Six percent of White males who serve on boards were fired, compared with half of Black and Hispanic females and a quarter of all females… The chairs’ analysis calculated the likelihood that this would have happened by chance as 1 in 300.”

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

broke: summer beach body bespoke: summer bog body

This article does a great job describing the lives of young American scientists: “You roll up your sleeves, try to make or discover something useful and then let the scientific community try to punch holes in your work to make sure that it’s sound”

42. That is, 42 pages of terminated grants. taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...

Fun Friday night remote data collection at SSRL!! I am so lucky to work with this amazing group of people! ❤️ 💎 Tiffany Wright @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social @mirandalynchphd.bsky.social Chris Campomizzi Cole Masuga @mumstheword17.bsky.social

More than 1,200 scientists who responded to a Nature poll—three-quarters of the total respondents—are considering leaving the United States following the disruptions prompted by Trump. Europe and Canada were among the top choices for relocation."

👀 Look at this amazing tool you can use to estimate the economic impact of proposed cuts to research in your area at the state and county level. SCIMaP scienceimpacts.org #standupforscience

Important note about this breakthrough: Literally would not exist without the kind of Federal support the current administration is slashing. Took 15+ years of research at a federal lab (Lawrence Berkeley) to get this to a point at which private enterprise could take over and make these at scale.

Without downloading new pics, where are you at mentally?

What songs would go on an #iucr2026 playlist? Good songs about Calgary? Or more about structures and crystals? www.youtube.com/watc...

Happy Vernal (March) #equinox! The Sun crossed the celestial equator and moved into the sky's northern hemisphere this morning at 09:01 UTC.

bodies are so fragile and hearts so easy to break i don’t want mine anymore let the earth swallow it up in gossamer strands of mycelia invisibly parceling out my elements to nurture new growth the fragments of my heart shimmering with dew drops in the springtime sun

delighted to have spent a few days last week in beautiful Aguadilla, PR talking all things #crystallization and #structure 💎 🌴

Silver lining: If D leadership really does roll over here, I think even the most milquetoast Dem comes to understand there’s no future for this party as currently constructed. They successfully impressed upon the normies that this administration is an existential threat, then capitulated completely.

In fiscal year 2024, the report found, NIH awarded more than $36.9 billion to researchers, supporting more than 408,000 jobs and generating over $94.5 billion in new economic activity nationwide. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Schumer on Senate floor: "Funding the government should be a bipartisan effort, but Republicans chose a partisan path" "Because of that Republicans do not have the votes in the Senate to invoke cloture on the House CR. Our caucus is unified" on the month-long CR

Another great job at my favorite university: UNC-Chapel, as new Director of the UNC Macromolecular Interactions Facility. Our outstanding Director is retiring. The Director is responsible for 1) core facility management, 2) training, & 3) graduate teaching 1/n unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/297...

🧪 The attack on science could have a generational effect. We risk losing a wave of early-career researchers to these cuts. And biomedical science in the US will be less ambitious, less competitive & lead to fewer breakthroughs. So much is at stake. My latest for @opinion.bloomberg.com (🎁 link):

froze our butts off standing up for science, but that’s how much we believe in what we and other NIH-funded scientists do! @xtalmaker.bsky.social

🚨 Stand Up for Science Buffalo rally update! New confirmed speaker: Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz! He will be taking the "stage" at 2:45PM! Please RT and tag your favorite local media people to spread the word! @markpoloncarz.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...

High-resolution X-ray and neutron crystallography were used to analyze structural changes, including the positions of H/D atoms, upon the reduction of FAD by ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase #FerredoxinNADPReductase #RedoxDependentStructuralChanges doi.org/10.1107/S205...

Sharing this brave piece that echos a lot of what I have been feeling. The silence around DEI from institutions means the damage is already done. Leadership asking us to keep our heads down to prevent actual damage ignore that it’s already here for people like me. stanforddaily.com/2025/03/03/f...

ok, cis folks—if you said you'd stand with trans folks, it's time. S.9 is the senate's sports ban bill—a big step to making trump’s executive order a federal law, which is much harder to undo. it can be stopped *monday.* short call scripts for dem & GOP senators ⬇️🧵 legiscan.com/US/bill/SB9/...