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Markus Deserno @markusdeserno.bsky.social · 12d

I am super excited to announce that we have a tenure-track faculty position in biophysics open in the Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon! 🧪

Interfolio link: apply.interfolio.com/174360

PLEASE, share widely across the blue skies!

Let me briefly explain what we're looking for:

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Tenure-track Position in Biophysics at Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Physics

Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Open Date: Sep 19, 2025

Description
The Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in biophysics. The appointment is intended to be at the Assistant Professor level, but exceptional candidates at a higher level may also be considered. We seek outstanding candidates with a strong record in cellular and subcellular biophysics. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to, uncovering how key characteristics of living systems arise from the interplay between supramolecular cellular structures, how the emergent cellular circuitry defines goals and enables robust decision making, and how metabolic resources are allocated. This encompasses understanding of how information is learned, stored, transduced, and processed across subcellular structures. Applicants with theoretical, data science, or experimental backgrounds within biological physics are encouraged to apply. The ideal candidate will strengthen and extend research programs of current biophysics faculty in the Department of Physics and collaborate with broader life science activities across many departments at CMU and the wider Pittsburgh area.

More details on Interfolio: https://apply.interfolio.com/174360

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Teppo Hiltunen @teppo-h.bsky.social · 4d

Open position: Professor or Assistant / Associate (tenure track) Professor in Plant Ecology (U. Turku Finland) Please share

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Professor or Assistant / Associate (tenure track) Professor in Plant Ecology

The Faculty of Science is looking for a full professor or assistant/associate professor (tenure track) in Plant Ecology. The aim of the professorship is to strengthen scientific research and education...

ats.talentadore.com

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Teppo Hiltunen @teppo-h.bsky.social · 8d

Professor (full) or Associate Professor (tenure track) in Microbial Genetics of Health (U. Turku Finland). Competitive starting package included! Please share.

duunitori.fi/tyopaikat/ty...

Professor or Associate professor (Tenure Track/Full) in Microbial Genetics of Health - Turun yliopisto - Työpaikat - Duunitori

Avoin työpaikka: Professor or Associate professor (Tenure Track/Full) in Microbial Genetics of Health - Turun yliopisto, Turku. Duunitorilla lisäksi yli 30 000 muuta avointa työpaikkaa. Lue lisää nyt!

duunitori.fi

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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 4d

UMass Boston seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in microbial ecology, starting September 1, 2026. Apply by December 1, 2025. Details: http://www.umb.edu/academics/csm/biology #job

Biology - UMass Boston

www.umb.edu

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 11d

Comment period ends on Monday for a proposed rule change that would terminate student visas after 4 years. It also puts limits on exchange visitors and reps of foreign media, and shortens the length of time at the end of the visa from 60 days to 30 days.

www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Establishing a Fixed Time Period of Admission and an Extension of Stay Procedure for Nonimmigrant Academic Students, Exchange Visitors, and Representatives of Foreign Information Media

Unlike most nonimmigrant classifications, which are admitted for a fixed time period, aliens in the F (academic student), J (exchange visitor), and most I (representatives of foreign information media...

www.federalregister.gov

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Anirban Banerjee @banirbn.bsky.social · 12d

Will you please add me ? Many thanks for creating this list.

Anirban Banerjee @banirbn.bsky.social · 12d

Oh wow ! Very good to know. Thank you.

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Misha Kudryashev @mishakudryashev.bsky.social · 16d

We have a preprint of a book chapter for you: Structural Analysis of Membrane Proteins in Cell-Derived Microvesicles.

We describe how to image membrane proteins in mid-sized vesicles using cryo-electron tomography

zenodo.org/records/1717...

Structural Analysis of Membrane Proteins in Cell-Derived Microvesicles

zenodo.org

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Anirban Banerjee @banirbn.bsky.social · 13d

Congratulations Sarah. Richly deserved.

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Gabriela K Popescu @popstarlab.bsky.social · 14d

Cryo-EM snapshots of NMDA receptor activation illuminate sequential rearrangements | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Cryo-EM snapshots of NMDA receptor activation illuminate sequential rearrangements

Opening of the NMDA receptor involves bending of the helices lining the ion channel gate.

www.science.org

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Sjors Scheres @sjorsscheres.bsky.social · 13d

Will you make it less tricky, and allow posting revised versions of preprints after peer-review? Sounds like an easy thing to do...

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Tehshik Yoon @tehshik.bsky.social · 14d

Come be my newest colleague!

jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor of Chemistry - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

jobs.wisc.edu

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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 14d

Why is basic research important? Scientists struggled unsuccessfully for decades to develop an RSV vaccine. Then NIH scientists figured out the key structure of a protein. Now we have 3 vaccines and 3 monoclonal antibodies against RSV. www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...

A Turning Point in Infant Health—How 2023 Changed the Fight Against RSV

The year 2023 marked the debut of groundbreaking innovations to prevent severe RSV infections in infants. Now protected babies are way less likely to develop severe infections or to end up in the ICU

www.scientificamerican.com

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Anirban Banerjee @banirbn.bsky.social · 18d

The other problem is that some of these so called compostable bags from grocery stores will not compost in the household compost bin and needs a commercial composter, not something that is easily accessible to everyone.

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Chris Chang @christhechang.bsky.social · 21d

Happy to share our latest in @jacs.acspublications.org led by Xiao and @genlichem.bsky.social on a new activity-based sensing probe for Cu(I) using a fast alkyne-directed cleavage reaction to discover Mn-sensitized #cuproptosis as a novel type of metal-metal crosstalk! pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

An Alkyne-Directed Cleavage Approach for Activity-Based Cu(I) Sensing Reveals Manganese-Promoted Sensitization of Cuproptosis

Copper is an essential element for sustaining life. However, disruptions in copper homeostasis underpin disease, as illustrated by cuproptosis, an emerging form of cell death resulting from aberrant a...

pubs.acs.org

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Anupam Patgiri @apatgiri.bsky.social · 23d

ABCA7 variants impact phosphatidylcholine and mitochondria in neurons www.nature.com/articles/s41...

ABCA7 variants impact phosphatidylcholine and mitochondria in neurons - Nature

Loss-of-function variants of ABCA7, associated with Alzheimer’s disease, result in disrupted lipid metabolism, mitochondrial function, DNA repair and synaptic signalling pathways in the human brain.

www.nature.com

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mansoorlabohsu.bsky.social @mansoorlabohsu.bsky.social · 23d

Another manuscript from our group this week with the first structures of the human P2X7 receptor facilitating development of a novel scaffold for P2X7R antagonists:

urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

@pacificnwcryoem.bsky.social
@ohsunews.bsky.social
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Harvard_MCB @harvardmcb.bsky.social · 27d

Rich Losick’s Farewell Publication Reexamines a Molecular Biology Milestone 🧪 🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd
www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @cryptogenomicon.bsky.social @craigphunter.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @harvardmagazine.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social

Rich Losick’s Farewell Publication Reexamines a Molecular Biology Milestone - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology

Richard Losick, Maria Moors Cabot Professor of Biology, Emeritus in Harvard’s Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, is about to publish what he describes as his “last paper”—though […]

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Anirban Banerjee @banirbn.bsky.social · Sep 5

𝗛𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘆 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿’𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀. 𝗜𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮, 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿’𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝟱𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗗𝗿. 𝗦𝗮𝗿𝘃𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶 𝗥𝗮𝗱𝗵𝗮𝗸𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗻𝗮𝗻, 𝗮 𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿. 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘂𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝘄𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝗶𝗺𝗵𝗼. 𝗟𝗲𝘁’𝘀 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗱𝘂𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · Sep 3

Bluesky loves links — we don’t downrank or deprioritize posts with links in them, and as a result they get higher traffic, so lots of people post them.

spencer chang @spencer.place · Dec 2

oh my god there are so many links here

the iframes dont load fast enough lol

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Anirban Banerjee @banirbn.bsky.social · Aug 29

Last day of Roles and Regulations of Protein Lipidation in Health and Disease meeting
Soft condensed matter physics and complex aerodynamics never let name tags stay right side up. Solution ? Print on both sides! Also, thank you @biochemsoc.bsky.social for NO plastic covers.

@GRC, taking notes ?

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Ahmad Jomaa @jomaalab.bsky.social · Aug 26

Want to know how lipidation of some nascent chains takes place by NMT2-- Check our latest work on how NAC couples Protein Synthesis with Nascent Polypeptide Myristoylation on the Ribosome out today @embojournal.org‬: www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

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Anirban Banerjee @banirbn.bsky.social · Aug 29

Super interesting. Look forward to reading.

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Anirban Banerjee @banirbn.bsky.social · Aug 28

First session of the second day of Roles and Regulations of Protein Lipidation in Health and Disease meeting sponsored by @biochemsoc.bsky.social taught amazing insights into the role of protein palmitoylation in Parkinson’s Disease, Intellectual Disability and neurodegenerative disorders.

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