Is your New Year's resolution to unveil structural details for your biological macromolecule? Reserve a spot in our January protein crystallization run before Friday! Package Acceptance & Plate Setup: Tues Jan 12th – Thurs Jan 15th Tues Jan 20th – Thurs Jan 22nd

Congratulations to @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social on being elected as a member of the @acastructuralsci.bsky.social Communications Committee! 🎙️ The ACA Communications Committee engages in #scicomm & #outreach for the structural science community. Gabby is going to do an amazing job!! Congrats!! 🎉

🎉 So excited for the new instrumentation in the National Crystallization Center! We can't wait to set up new crystallization 💎 experiments with the new 🦟 🤖! 📷 @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social, Tiffany Wright & @mirandalynchphd.bsky.social - instrument in 📦. www.getacrystal.org @ubuffalo.bsky.social

@gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social Operations Manager in the @getacrystal.bsky.social & Research Scientist extraordinaire in my research group, is a candidate to join the Communications Committee for ACA @acastructuralsci.bsky.social!! 👩🏻‍🔬 🧪 🔬 💎 🎙️ Vote in ACA election by tomorrow 11/14!

Come work with us at the National Crystallization Center! Housed in the vibrant research community of UB-HWI, we are looking for new coworkers to help us expand our structural biology offerings 💎🔬

Heyyyyy MEMBRANE protein people! We are running our (fairly rare) membrane screen in November, so get your reservations in! 🦠

Get a crystal this November with our high-throughput crystallization screening service! This month, we are running both SOLUBLE and MEMBRANE crystallization screens. 🔮 Details ⬇️⬇️⬇️

In our #BIBPSWeek 2025 #BIBPSSpotlight Q&A Webinar with Dr. Chrystal Starbird, we learned about her life, career, and STEM advocacy work. We also discussed the barriers that fellow #BlackInBiophysics scholars @jjalston.bsky.social & @stevenssostre.bsky.social faced when pursuing careers in science.👇🏾

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

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.