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Karolinska Institutet @ki.se · 3d

The 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for their groundbreaking discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance that prevents the immune system from harming the body 🧪 www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...

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Yiğitcan Sümbelli @ysumbelli.bsky.social · Jul 23

Yingtong just published a very nice article, and I contributed to that with SEM micrographs! In the paper, he introduced a strategy to optimize the optical absorbance of organic photothermal agents (OPTA) by adjusting the morphology of polymer assemblies.
Check it out here:
doi.org/10.1021/jacs...

Solvent-Induced Morphology Control of Polymer Assemblies with Improved Photothermal Features

Organic photothermal agents (OPTAs) are extensively utilized in applications such as therapy and imaging. However, enhancing their photothermal performance often depends on complex molecular designs, ...

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Yiğitcan Sümbelli @ysumbelli.bsky.social · Jul 22

Ah well... I only post academic stuff but the passing of Ozzy Osbourne is significant enough to break that. Such a massive name...

Yiğitcan Sümbelli @ysumbelli.bsky.social · Jul 9

Writing a manuscript takes time, and organizing figures covers a large portion of that time. Each time I export a figure, a suffix is added indicating the number of previous versions. You see it's the 50th version of the same figure and I'm not even sure whether this will be the final version.

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Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social · Jun 3

Watch the latest Blackboard Lunch talk on "Liquid-liquid phase separations and condensates in and out of equilibrium" by Shura Grosberg (‪#NYU), from the ongoing #KITP Program: Physical Principles Shaping Biomolecular Condensates #biomol25 buff.ly/Qmu5521 🧪

Liquid-liquid phase separations and condensates in and out of equilibrium | Shura Grosberg (NYU)

The purpose of these Blackboard Talk lunches is for the science of one program to be explained to the other KITP program participants. These talks lead to cr...

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Aafke Gros @aafkegros.bsky.social · May 23

In the context of our @reviewcommons.org revision process, I'm happy to announce Microscopy Nodes v2.2.0!
This packs lots of new fun features, including new color management 🌈, clearer transparency handling 🫥, custom default settings 🔧 and more!
Preprint at doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Yiğitcan Sümbelli @ysumbelli.bsky.social · May 2

We attended the annual symposium of @synbionl.bsky.social #synbionl2025 with Madelief, and presented some cool stuff from our projects related to controlled formation of subcellular structures within our artificial cells. It was a fun day!

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Nature @nature.com.web.brid.gy · Apr 29

The do’s and don’ts of scientific image editing

Nature, Published online: 29 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01299-2 Acceptable image-editing practices are partly a matter of common sense. But researchers say journals and funders could help scientists by standardizing policies.

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Yiğitcan Sümbelli @ysumbelli.bsky.social · Apr 23

I came here from a country where they were actively making it hard to do scientific research. Now, the Netherlands is doing a similar thing. They're ruining higher education actively and passively. Why do governments sabotage their future like this? Isn't the cost of such an act obvious?

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Yiğitcan Sümbelli @ysumbelli.bsky.social · Apr 20

As a scientist, I have tattoos about my MSc and PhD theses, and I love them!

Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · Apr 20

Nature Careers spoke to scientists about their tattoos, which include scientific images to mark career accomplishments and illustrate research passions. #Academicsky 🧪

Science on our sleeves: the research that inspires our tattoos

Inked scientists choose scientific images to mark career accomplishments and illustrate their research passion.

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Yiğitcan Sümbelli @ysumbelli.bsky.social · Mar 31

Interestingly (!), they saw that when they paid the reviewers, the review quality did not get worse. It's good to see paying peer reviewers is under trial by some publishers.

www.nature.com/articles/d41....

Publishers trial paying peer reviewers — what did they find?

Two journals embarked on efforts to compensate reviewers, with different results.

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Dennis Hazelett @vigocarpathian.bsky.social · Mar 17

I wrote something... about writing. #ScientificWriting to be exact, but I think it applies to all kinds of #writing.

An open letter to graduate students and other procrastinators: it’s time to write

Nature Biotechnology - An open letter to graduate students and other procrastinators: it’s time to write

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Yiğitcan Sümbelli @ysumbelli.bsky.social · Mar 21

Please can someone explain the logic behind this? Cut back funding on your own researchers with an excuse saying that higher education should be de-internationalised and etc., but now directing the money to hire new internationals?
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Yiğitcan Sümbelli @ysumbelli.bsky.social · Mar 21

Now, the Dutch government announced a new funding program to hire foreign researchers!?! Isn't this a sleazy attempt to get a piece of cake from the oncoming American researcher overflow? Why did you cut the funding for the already working foreigner researchers? 3/3 (one more)

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Yiğitcan Sümbelli @ysumbelli.bsky.social · Mar 21

So they told universities to cut back on their expenses. But like a lot! Then, naturally, some Dutch universities fired their employees, i.e. researchers (looking at you Twente). Lots of departments are trying to find ways to scale down because the budgets are hundreds of millions less now. 2/3

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Yiğitcan Sümbelli @ysumbelli.bsky.social · Mar 21

Please someone correct me if I got this wrong: the recent Dutch government made it clear that they don't want foreign students anymore and said that the money being spent on them was too much. They also decided that money being spent on research was too much in general. 1/3

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Giulia Lavarda @giulialavarda.bsky.social · Feb 18

💡 Looking for #FacultyPositions in Europe? The search can be a maze!

I shared my personal journey in this @cp-matter.bsky.social article, thanks to an invite from @cranfordmatter.bsky.social.

🔓 Free access here 👉 authors.elsevier.com/c/1kZ4b9Cyxd...

#chemsky #AcademicLife #CareersInScience

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Yiğitcan Sümbelli @ysumbelli.bsky.social · Feb 8

I'm sure everyone has been telling you this but let me do it as well: getting a PhD is an emotional rollercoaster.
You live by those small glimpses of successful experiments in between a ton of failures. Everyday is a new journey and you try to keep it stable.

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PHD Comics @phdcomics.com · Jan 7

Watch out for those bastard professors

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Science Magazine @science.org · Dec 26

By mapping the meanings of the words used to communicate emotions across more than one-third of the planet’s spoken languages, a study in Science found that there is significant variation in how emotions are expressed across cultures. #ScienceMagArchives scim.ag/41X6dDk

Emotion semantics show both cultural variation and universal structure

Analysis of the terms used for emotions across a sample of 2474 spoken languages reveals low similarity across cultures.

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Rosa Ritunnano @rritunnano.bsky.social · Dec 20

Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to shine the spotlight on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research.

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Dr Connor Wells @connorwells95.bsky.social · Nov 21

I had the great pleasure of coordinating our annual "35 challenges in materials science". Was super fun to organise and engage with all these brilliant scientists!

Take a look at what this year's cohort of materials scientists are working on!

#Matter

www.cell.com/matter/abstr...

35 challenges in materials science being tackled by PIs under 35(ish) in 2024

Here, we highlight 35 global researchers approximately under the age of 35. This third annual cohort was self-generated by initial seed invitations sent by the editorial team, with each contributor su...

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Yiğitcan Sümbelli @ysumbelli.bsky.social · Dec 17

Even after you finish you keep thinking "I could've done this and that"...

PHD Comics @phdcomics.com · Dec 12

"Done"

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Claus Wilke @clauswilke.com · Dec 17

Bioart, courtesy of the NIH. All images are in the public domain and available for download as high-quality SVGs.
bioart.niaid.nih.gov

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · Dec 5

What's your favourite example of a basic science discovery yielding practical results later on — but that one didn't know it would be used for at the time?

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