Marc Zimmer
@lightupscience.bsky.social
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Author State of Science, Illuminating Disease, Bioluminescence, Cleaner Greener Planet and Glowing Genes. Life is fun when GFP glows. Chemistry professor, teaching with AI, @conncoll 🇿🇦 🇺🇸🇩🇪
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us.theconversation.com
RIP Jane Goodall, who has died at 91.

She was a gentle disrupter who reshaped how we understand our place in nature. Her research with chimpanzees revolutionized science, and her boundless optimism touched the world.

buff.ly/5Hwx3Z7 🌎🩺
A photo of Jane Goodall, in her later days with a quote from her: "The greatest danger to our future is our apathy. 

Each one of us must take responsibility for our own lives, and above all, show respect and love for living things around us, especially each other."
lightupscience.bsky.social
No South African wines???
simongerman600.bsky.social
This map claims to show the favorite wines 🍷around the world. It really shows the most commonly googled types of wine around the OECD nations. I imagine Australians just wondering what Rose is 😉 Source: comparemyjet.com/wine-index/
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simongerman600.bsky.social
This rather impressive chart by @econovisuals shows the global export shift over the last 75 years. The West saw its share shrink while the East boomed.
lightupscience.bsky.social
I ask my Chemistry Wordle custom GPT to create a fluorescent protein related starter slide. The result was disappointingly easy. Esp with hint. Can you find the answer?
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socdevbio.bsky.social
✨Not a rainbow trout… a rainbow zebrafish 🌈 🐟
The expression of 10 different genes simultaneously including Hox genes along the body axis, somites, brain regions, skeletal muscle, and heart 🔬Image by Alice Sherrard, Gabby Jerz & Nipam Patel 🧪 #FluorescenceFriday
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philipcball.bsky.social
Can we acknowledge that these are basically cult gatherings - indeed, that a great deal of "immortality science" is cultish pseudoscience?
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brittanytrang.com
NEW from me at STAT:

We've learned that DeepMind is going to fund CASP, the protein structure competition that brought Google DeepMind's #AlphaFold to prominence (and a Nobel Prize), as its NIH funding runs out.

More @statnews.com:
www.statnews.com/2025/07/21/c...

🖥️🩺🧪🧬 #bioML
AlphaFold developer Google DeepMind to fund CASP as NIH funding falls short
Protein structure prediction contest CASP gets temporary funding from Google DeepMind as NIH grant runs out.
www.statnews.com
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cenmag.bsky.social
Sonny Brebels decided to illustrate the fundamentals of fluorescence and how the building blocks of the near-infrared organic light-emitting diodes he had worked on could be found in kitchen staples such as turmeric: cen.acs.org/food/food-in...

#CENChemPics #chemsky #chem #chemistry
Two fluorescent cocktails, one blue, one yellow, glow under ultraviolet light.
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sokrypton.org
Alright, last one, now I need to get back to real work... 😸
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erictopol.bsky.social
Summary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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simongerman600.bsky.social
As a German, for a personal meeting 12 means 12 but for a professional meeting 12 means be 5 minutes early. Any alternative interpretation hurts my little German brain.
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natmethods.nature.com
Our June issue is live!
www.nature.com/nmeth/volume...

On the cover, mScarlet3-H, a new monomeric red fluorescent protein. Image by Zhifei Fu. Paper here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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simongerman600.bsky.social
I keep sharing these type of photos since they keep blowing my humble little mind. Nanchang, China.
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dereklowe.bsky.social
Journalists keep asking me, baffled, “What’s the Trump administration really trying to do to the science agencies?”

So I say “They are trying to destroy them. Cut off their funding, ruin their facilities, harass their staff into leaving.”

It’s not reform, and it never was. It’s destruction.
dangaristo.bsky.social
NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years.

NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."
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erictopol.bsky.social
This is wild!
Engineering E. coli bacteria to turn plastic waste into paracetamol (Tylenol)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
lightupscience.bsky.social
I am giving a fun (I hope) talk about AI at the Muizenberg Science Cafe. South African friends, please repost. I hope to see some of you in Muizenberg next Wednesday.