Martin Černý
@bacillus.bsky.social
Unaccomplished PhD student investigating structure of RNA polymerase of B. subtilis | NMR, Cryo-EM | Protein Structure and Dynamics group | CEITEC, NCBR | Masaryk University | rock climbing | DnD 5e enthusiast | boardgame nerd | coffee advocate
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🇺🇸👀 If Home Alone 2 were filmed in 2025, Trump would force Kevin to give the criminals the veranda and one of the rooms, make him reduce the number of traps, take all the pizza and Coca-Cola for himself — and assure everyone it was a “mutually beneficial deal.”
November 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
🇺🇸👀 If Home Alone 2 were filmed in 2025, Trump would force Kevin to give the criminals the veranda and one of the rooms, make him reduce the number of traps, take all the pizza and Coca-Cola for himself — and assure everyone it was a “mutually beneficial deal.”
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I tried an even harder example on Gemini Pro image generation and this is quite scary/amazing. I asked for a microscopy image of around 20 HeLa cells, GFP tagged 20% nuclear, 10% membrane, +1 nuclear staining, + overlap. Image below and prompt in the following post.
November 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I tried an even harder example on Gemini Pro image generation and this is quite scary/amazing. I asked for a microscopy image of around 20 HeLa cells, GFP tagged 20% nuclear, 10% membrane, +1 nuclear staining, + overlap. Image below and prompt in the following post.
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Cold room deep clean up, in style!
Team awesome.
Team awesome.
November 20, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Cold room deep clean up, in style!
Team awesome.
Team awesome.
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We have wondered what a complex archaeal cell might look like ever since 2014. It’s been a long road (and the journey is far from over), but it’s a good time to pause for breath and look. These Asgard archaeal cells are a surprise! And that is the joy of being a cell biologist.
November 7, 2025 at 11:02 AM
We have wondered what a complex archaeal cell might look like ever since 2014. It’s been a long road (and the journey is far from over), but it’s a good time to pause for breath and look. These Asgard archaeal cells are a surprise! And that is the joy of being a cell biologist.
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An Asgard archaeon containing internal membrane compartments!! 😯
This will reshape our understanding of how the eukaryotic endomembrane system originated.
Congrats to @buzzbaum.bsky.social, @tbharat-lab.bsky.social and all ppl involved!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
This will reshape our understanding of how the eukaryotic endomembrane system originated.
Congrats to @buzzbaum.bsky.social, @tbharat-lab.bsky.social and all ppl involved!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
An Asgard archaeon with internal membrane compartments
The emergence of eukaryotes from a merger between an archaeon and a bacterial cell ~two billion years ago involved a profound change in cellular organisation. While the order in which different featur...
www.biorxiv.org
November 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
An Asgard archaeon containing internal membrane compartments!! 😯
This will reshape our understanding of how the eukaryotic endomembrane system originated.
Congrats to @buzzbaum.bsky.social, @tbharat-lab.bsky.social and all ppl involved!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
This will reshape our understanding of how the eukaryotic endomembrane system originated.
Congrats to @buzzbaum.bsky.social, @tbharat-lab.bsky.social and all ppl involved!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration
A call to action for universities, academies, science organizations and funders to unite and join this effort.
Bernhard Sabel and Dan Larhammar
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
A call to action for universities, academies, science organizations and funders to unite and join this effort.
Bernhard Sabel and Dan Larhammar
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration | Royal Society Open Science
Science relies on integrity and trustworthiness. But scientists under career pressure
are lured to purchase fake publications from ‘paper mills’ that use AI-generated data,
text and image fabrication....
royalsocietypublishing.org
November 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration
A call to action for universities, academies, science organizations and funders to unite and join this effort.
Bernhard Sabel and Dan Larhammar
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
A call to action for universities, academies, science organizations and funders to unite and join this effort.
Bernhard Sabel and Dan Larhammar
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Please repost - Multiple PhDs available
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November 5, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Please repost - Multiple PhDs available
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Uploading and sharing corrected figures, reviewer responses and so on is so nerve wrecking. I am getting lost in all those different versions.
October 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Uploading and sharing corrected figures, reviewer responses and so on is so nerve wrecking. I am getting lost in all those different versions.
Took my 70yo grandma bouldering. Age is just a number, although it can have quite an impact. She just refuses to aknowledge it. Much more funnier this way.
October 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Took my 70yo grandma bouldering. Age is just a number, although it can have quite an impact. She just refuses to aknowledge it. Much more funnier this way.
Writing my dissertation thesis and I am so flabbergasted, it is officially a spooky season
October 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Writing my dissertation thesis and I am so flabbergasted, it is officially a spooky season
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Thanks to @snsf.ch, we are hiring two PhD students to investigate frontier topics in lipid biology using a combination of MD simulations and experiments. Preferred starting date: ASAP. Fribourg - and Switzerland - are quite nice, for both work and private life! Please spread the word!
October 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Thanks to @snsf.ch, we are hiring two PhD students to investigate frontier topics in lipid biology using a combination of MD simulations and experiments. Preferred starting date: ASAP. Fribourg - and Switzerland - are quite nice, for both work and private life! Please spread the word!
There is no feeling more amazing, than reviewer 2 commending your work and cheering you up!
October 7, 2025 at 7:20 AM
There is no feeling more amazing, than reviewer 2 commending your work and cheering you up!
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📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
signal.org
October 6, 2025 at 6:46 AM
📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
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yup, see section 3.5 here on plagiarism and LLMs doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
![We emphasize that there are two victims of plagiarism: the original authors whose work is taken
without credit and the audience who is being deceived.
Plagiarism, at its most fundamental level, is a lie. It is the taking of works or ideas of
others and passing them off as your own, either directly or indirectly. The misdeed itself
is in the lie, the “I created this” when it is known to be untrue.
However, that lie isn’t being told to the original victim. It’s a lie about the victim, claiming that they didn’t create it or their contributions didn’t matter, but it’s not a lie to
them. Instead, it’s a lie to the audience, which is the second victim and the actual target
of the con.
Jonathan Bailey (2019b, n.p.)
When a ghost writer or essay mill is used, consent has been obtained by the original author (usually
in exchange for payment), but acceptability remains contingent on the social contract with the audience. Ghostwriting is usually acceptable because “[w]e all know that politicians don’t write their own
speeches and celebrities rarely write their own books” (Bailey 2019b). In contrast, press release plagiarism (Bailey 2019a) deceives the audience by presenting the work of a biased source as being that of
the (perceived to be unbiased) journalist. Academic integrity standards, enshrined in university rules
and scholarly journal policies, establish the unequivocal contract that students’ and researchers’ work
is solely their own. There is no debate that use of an essay mill constitutes violation of these policies.
Use of an LLM-based chatbot (recall Table 1) to complete an assignment, presented as student
work, is an affront to the ‘first victim’ as well as the ‘second victim’. This automated plagiarism goes
against the principles of scientific integrity, which serve as the basis of our teaching and academic practice (van Rooij 2022). LLM and chatbot use in the classroom means accepting that both students and
teachers can openly appropriate work that is not theirs, …](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vsyj5jtayxcq5dw5mtja4xtb/bafkreift4p2ecrsrdguj7pul4joh3yfnbpmtewcjjvoykd42hh6nhuezzu@jpeg)
October 2, 2025 at 2:20 PM
yup, see section 3.5 here on plagiarism and LLMs doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Everyone trying to crystallize their proteins and other stuff knows, that while beautiful, the crystallisation can be quite "a dick". 🧪
Courtesy of my friend, Misa from Glycobiochemistry group.
Courtesy of my friend, Misa from Glycobiochemistry group.
October 2, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Everyone trying to crystallize their proteins and other stuff knows, that while beautiful, the crystallisation can be quite "a dick". 🧪
Courtesy of my friend, Misa from Glycobiochemistry group.
Courtesy of my friend, Misa from Glycobiochemistry group.
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Yesterday, Radovan Fiala received the Silver Medal of Masaryk University for his outstanding contribution to NMR spectroscopy and structural biology 🔬 Congratulations! 👏
#CEITECScience
@masarykuniversity.bsky.social
📷 Martin Indruch
#CEITECScience
@masarykuniversity.bsky.social
📷 Martin Indruch
October 1, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Yesterday, Radovan Fiala received the Silver Medal of Masaryk University for his outstanding contribution to NMR spectroscopy and structural biology 🔬 Congratulations! 👏
#CEITECScience
@masarykuniversity.bsky.social
📷 Martin Indruch
#CEITECScience
@masarykuniversity.bsky.social
📷 Martin Indruch
So I dont know if there is a problem with winding my old camera or I just failed inserting my first film. But as much as I hate the failure, some of these photos looks kinda artsy. Captured on Praktica MTL5b, Pentacon 50/1.8 MC. 📷🎞️
September 26, 2025 at 4:56 AM
So I dont know if there is a problem with winding my old camera or I just failed inserting my first film. But as much as I hate the failure, some of these photos looks kinda artsy. Captured on Praktica MTL5b, Pentacon 50/1.8 MC. 📷🎞️
And how does you workbench look like after a hard day? I personally hate MTS labelling.
September 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
And how does you workbench look like after a hard day? I personally hate MTS labelling.
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪
Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.
I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:
Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.
I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:
September 24, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪
Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.
I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:
Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.
I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:
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"But it exposed how the system works: extract specialist knowledge at low cost and mostly without giving credit, repackage it into global claims and call it collaboration. I declined." @darmenteras.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Equity in science is a beautiful lie — and I’m done pretending
Science isn’t really moving towards equity; institutions are just perfecting the appearance of equity. We need to build an alternative system.
www.nature.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:07 AM
"But it exposed how the system works: extract specialist knowledge at low cost and mostly without giving credit, repackage it into global claims and call it collaboration. I declined." @darmenteras.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
So apparently based on our groupmeeting, there is a field of softcore and hardcore NMR 🧲
September 15, 2025 at 11:53 AM
So apparently based on our groupmeeting, there is a field of softcore and hardcore NMR 🧲
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Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
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Relevant to the #PRC10 audience.
@biologyopen.bsky.social combines paying reviewers with contracts requiring high quality reviews with a deadline, turnaround dropped from 35 to 7 days with no decrease in quality. Contracts are the difference? Sorry this wasn't mentioned at the meeting journals.biologists.com/bio/pages/fa...
September 5, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Relevant to the #PRC10 audience.
I love meeting this neighbour fella on the corridor. What a nice and beautiful guy in a tux. 🐱
September 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I love meeting this neighbour fella on the corridor. What a nice and beautiful guy in a tux. 🐱