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Katja Petzold
@katjapetzold.bsky.social
RNA moving faster than the blink of an eye! (By NMR) Professor @Uppsala University
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PhD and Postdoctoral researcher positions at the RNA Structural Biology & Biophysics Laboratory, Uppsala University, Sweden, Prof Katja Petzold @katjapetzold.bsky.social (incl solid-state / solution NMR, Cryo-EM)
Postdoc:
www.uu.se/om-uu/jobba-...
PhD:
www.uu.se/om-uu/jobba-...

#NMRjobs #NMRchat 🧲
February 4, 2026 at 5:49 PM
beautfil review by @bussigio.bsky.social and Sanguinetti!
RNA | Mobile
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February 6, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Interested in RNA structural biology/dynamics/biophysics and how they explain RNA regulation? Want to push further and this this in cells? Join our lab: 1 PhD and 1 Postdoc position (apply via links)
www.uu.se/om-uu/jobba-...

www.uu.se/om-uu/jobba-...

#NMR #RNA #biophysics
Postdoktortjänst inom Excellenscentrat Livets Kemiska Mekanismer vid Uppsala universitet - Uppsala universitet
Postdoktortjänst inom Excellenscentrat Livets Kemiska Mekanismer vid Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för kemi - LV, Uppsala universitet
www.uu.se
February 3, 2026 at 8:55 AM
the pyramid scheme of publishing... : " But publishers have an economic incentive to accept even subpar papers authored by guest editors, the researchers write, because guest editors work for free and recruit other authors to contribute to special issues."

from: www.science.org/content/arti...
Some guest editors pack special issues with their own articles
Thousands have penned more than one-third of a journal issue, raising conflict-of-interest concerns
www.science.org
January 28, 2026 at 12:55 PM
Trump: “I raise tolls on everyone opposing Greenland to become American.” Me (Swe/Ger): bring it on!

A bit of hardship is nothing for the right thing to do.

If we just could solve the Ukrainian occupation so by Russia so simply.
January 16, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Thanks @curiousdina.bsky.social for your amazing talk! I learned a lot and just shocked my first year students with eukaryotes are probably coming from archea :) So cool so many different subjects covered! 🤩 Happy to have had you at @cml-uu.bsky.social
Big thank you to @katjapetzold.bsky.social for the invitation to the Chemical Mechanisms of Life Symposium in Uppsala … I love these kind of interdisciplinary symposia. Great place, great science, great people. And I got chocolate too! What a happy day ☺️!
December 2, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Our work presented today at the www.youtube.com/@CASPRNASIG online seminar! @bussigio.bsky.social will report on the #CASP16 solvation challenge and 2D ensemble reconstructions using #DMS data
CASP RNA SIG
Welcome nucleic acid enthusiasts to the Special Interest Group (SIG) focused different aspects of nucleic acid 3D structure prediction, including but not limited to obtaining experimental data, buildi...
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October 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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And don't forget, labs in the UK and Europe can donate to the Cambridge side of FlyBase through this link:
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
October 30, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Competition @kaggle.com: Scientific Image Forgery Detection

Who can develop the best model to detect copy/move forgeries in biomedical images?

#ImageForensics

www.kaggle.com/competitions...
Recod.ai/LUC - Scientific Image Forgery Detection
Develop methods that can accurately detect and segment copy-move forgeries within biomedical research images.
www.kaggle.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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The adrenaline is still kicking from the incredible enthusiasm and support, everybody who invites a friend to try q.e.d today gets a free physiological relevance! 🍷
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)
October 16, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
When I learned about the cruelties of SS and Nazi's in school (I'm german) I always wondered, how this could happened... I never imagined seeing it happening again and getting the explanation in front of my eyes...
Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.
October 10, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.
October 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Do current publishing and carreer assessment practices limit scientific progress? Journals basically evaluate your recent citation numbers when you ausbmit to the editorial board...

HOWEVER: novel research areas have low number of participants and publications -> low number of citations
October 10, 2025 at 9:03 AM
It’s out :)
you thought it was weird for DNA to be 1% in a Hoogsteen base pair instead of a Watson-Crick-Franklin one?
Well there is more:
October 7, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Big thanks to my group of doing all this wonderful research 😍 and to @uu.se and my department IMBIM for nominating me and the Fernström price organization.

www.uu.se/en/news/2025...
Eric K. Fernström Swedish Prize awarded to Katja Petzold - Uppsala University
www.uu.se
September 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Core achievement unlocked!! Congrats to Fabrizio amd all authors!!
Who knew that the perfect pasta sauce could lead to a Nobel Prize? Congrats to ISTA postdoc Fabrizio Olmeda and collaborators for winning the Ig Nobel Prize with their research on mastering Cacio e Pepe. Bravo! 🍝 🎉

Getting hungry? Here´s the recipe for delicious research: https://bit.ly/42vlpHm
September 19, 2025 at 7:32 AM
please #NMR #RNA community, carefullly review papers! These are 2 blatantly manipulated papers that should have never gone through the peer-review system. Same for editors. If not us, who will stop this??

big thanks @elisabethbik.bsky.social 😍 without you we wouldn't have scienc left!
September 12, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Springboard for an international scientific career! 🧬🧪🔭⚛️🧠🌱 Call for #MaxPlanckResearchGroups launched; applications are possible until October 14, 2025 www.mpg.de/max-planck-r... #ScienceCareer
September 9, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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@rfsu.bsky.social

For all Swedes: please sign this petition, so our kids also have in the future SexEd in school.
Thanks!

www.rfsu.se/engagera-dig...
Rädda sexualundervisningen! | RFSU
www.rfsu.se
September 11, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Check out our new method for targeted DNP-enhanced NMR of RNA using site-directed spin labeling, now live as a preprint on ChemRxiv:

doi.org/10.26434/che...

A fruitful collaboration with my colleague @rubindg.bsky.social and the group of Prof. Snorri Th. Sigurdsson from the University of Iceland.
September 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
New preprint out!
We introduce an AsymPol spin labeling for RNA, enabling targeted DNP NMR with up to 27× sensitivity boost at low concentrations.

Read here: chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

#RNA #NMR #DNP #StructuralBiology #SpinLabeling #ChemRxiv
Site-Directed Spin Labeling with the Bis-Nitroxide AsymPol Enables Targeted DNP MAS NMR of RNA
Dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) enhances NMR sensitivity by transferring electron spin polarization to nuclei, providing structural and biophysical insights into complex biomolecules at low concent...
chemrxiv.org
September 9, 2025 at 7:07 AM
I am looking at a publication and wonder if some of the images are manipulated/manifactured. Does anyone have a good image checking tool? In days of AI such a thing should exist...

(me: academic in Sweden, if that helps with licenses)

THANKS!
August 15, 2025 at 7:20 AM