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Stockholm University @stockholm-uni.bsky.social · 10h

–Det är ett otroligt välförtjänt pris som uppmärksammar ett nytt, mångsidigt och förutsägbart sätt att bygga porösa material, säger Tom Willhammar, som forskar om sk MOF:ar vid Stockholms universitet om årets Nobelpris i kemi som belönar metallorganiska ramverk
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Mångsidig teknik som bidrar till lösningar på våra största utmaningar - Stockholms universitet

Årets Nobelpris i kemi handlar om metallorganiska ramverk, en molekylär arkitektur som kan användas inom många olika områden. Vid Stockholms universitet pågår sedan många år forskning om metallorganis...

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Arne Elofsson @bioinfo.se · 3h

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Ultra-sensitive DNA sequencing maps mutations that precede cancer

Scientists have used low-error genome-sequencing methods in normal tissues from large cohorts of individuals to scan for mutations that set the stage for cancer.

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Arne Elofsson @bioinfo.se · 5h

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Age and gender distortion in online media and large language models - Nature

Stereotypes of age-related gender bias are socially distorted, as evidenced by the age gap in the representations of women and men across various media and algorithms, despite no systematic age differences in the workforce.

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Arne Elofsson @bioinfo.se · 5h

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Enzyme specificity prediction using cross attention graph neural networks - Nature

Nature - Enzyme specificity prediction using cross attention graph neural networks

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Marcel Dickmanns | 🌿❄️🔬 @madic.bsky.social · 1d

You can get MSAs directly from AlphaFold DB now (alphafold.ebi.ac.uk). I also missed the FoldSeek implementation, which lets you search for structurally similar proteins direktly.

This saves some clicking around. Neat!

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Ezgi Karaca @ezgikaraca.bsky.social · 2d

And the legacy continues! 😊

@amjjbonvin.bsky.social @bioinfo.se @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social #EMBOIntegMod25 ! 🍀🧿

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Nature @nature.com · 1d

Quantum tunnelling — when a particle skips through a barrier that classical physics would forbid — happens faster when objects have less energy

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‘Tour de force’ experiment probes quantum tunnelling in action

Probing photons inside a barrier also challenges a long-standing interpretation of quantum physics.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 1d

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4-panel comic. (1) [person finds bottle on shore] (2) [person reads message from inside bottle: ICMP ECHO REQUEST...] (3) [person writes on message ICMP ECHO REPLY...] (4) [person puts bottle back in water and leaves]

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Arne Elofsson @bioinfo.se · 3d

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Energy expenditure and obesity across the economic spectrum | PNAS

Global economic development has been associated with an increased prevalence of obesity and related health problems. Increased caloric intake and r...

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 4d

Sometimes I think about how from 1935-1975ish, Bell Labs produced an insane amount of revolutionary science and technology, including 11 Nobel Prizes, the transistor, UNIX, C, the laser, the solar cell, information theory, etc. The secret? Provide scientists with ample, steady, no-strings funding.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 4d

The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars

Jeffrey J. Hall @mrjeffu.bsky.social · 19d

Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.

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clyde bruckman's ghost's final repost says free link @ultralaser.bsky.social · 4d

terrible things are happening outside. poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. families are torn apart. men, women, and children are separated. children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.

diary of anne frank, january 13, 1943.

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Kresten Lindorff-Larsen @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social · 6d

Looking for a PhD? Go work with Giulio 👇

Giulio Tesei @giuliotesei.bsky.social · 6d

I'm hiring for a PhD position at Malmö University, Sweden!

The project will focus on molecular modelling of proteins, lipids, and biomolecular condensates at cell membranes.

More details and application form: tinyurl.com/4zm92365

Please feel free to share!

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Snapshot of a condensate near a lipid membrane with Swedish Research Council and Malmö University logos.

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Arne Elofsson @bioinfo.se · 6d

Machine learning matches enzymes with molecular substrates www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Machine learning matches enzymes with molecular substrates

An open-access webtool enables users to predict enzymes that can perform oxidative chemistry on a given molecule.

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Arne Elofsson @bioinfo.se · 6d

Elaborate machinery for inserting proteins into the outer membrane of bacteria www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Elaborate machinery for inserting proteins into the outer membrane of bacteria

Bacteria in the gut use an unusual molecular apparatus to insert complex proteins into their outer membrane.

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Gonzalo Parra @gonzaparra.bsky.social · 6d

After months of buildup, it’s finally real! 🎉 The Evolutionary Systems Biophysics Group (ESBG) is officially alive at @bsc-cns.bsky.social . Proud to start this new adventure as a Ramon y Cajal Junior Group Leader🧬
Thanks to all who have been part of this process!
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7d

What a line from the Pope! I am so pleased he is carrying on Pope Francis’ advocacy for immigrants.

More pointedly, the pope said, "Someone who says, I'm against abortion, but is in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life. Someone who says, I'm against abortion but I'm in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don't know if that's pro-life."

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Simon Dürr @handle.invalid · 7d

Cool work to design phospho-tyrosine binder by the Baker lab. They show it works but success rate is low (<0.1%) and binders are not super strong (>500nM, likely related to cost of desolvating the phosphate) .
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Arne Elofsson @bioinfo.se · 8d

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Learning the natural history of human disease with generative transformers - Nature

Delphi-2M forecasts a person’s future health, covering more than 1,000 diseases, provides insights into co-morbidity dynamics and generates synthetic data for the training of AI models that have never seen actual data.

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Arne Elofsson @bioinfo.se · 8d

Dinner at EMBL course

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Arne Elofsson @bioinfo.se · 8d

Come work with me. Excellent startup package. su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Assistant Professor in Data-driven cell and molecular biology

At Stockholm University the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics (DBB) and the Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute (MBW) are looking to fill one position as DDLS fellow

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Arne Elofsson @bioinfo.se · 9d

Congrats Qian www.science.org/doi/full/10....

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Arne Elofsson @bioinfo.se · 9d

So sad

Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 9d

Only two Northern White rhinos remain, and both are female

A line graph titled "There are just two Northern White rhinos left in the world; both are female" outlines the decline in the estimated population of Northern White rhinos from 1960 to 2021. The vertical axis represents the estimated number of rhinos, ranging from zero to 2,500, while the horizontal axis spans the years from 1960 to 2021.

In 1960, the estimated population was approximately 2,230 rhinos. The line sharply declines, indicating a significant drop, with the population reaching about 350 rhinos by 1981. The downward trend continues, with a note indicating that by 2018, only two females named Najin and Fatu remain, following the death of the last male, Sudan.

Data sources are listed at the bottom as African and Asian Rhino Specialist Groups (AfRSG), with a Creative Commons attribution notation (CC BY).

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Matthieu Montes @matthieumontes.bsky.social · 11d

Going to Izmir for the meetings.embo.org/event/25-bio...
I will talk on monday about interactive molecular visualization and simulation methods! See you there!
Thanks to the organizers for the invitation! @ezgikaraca.bsky.social @amjjbonvin.bsky.social @bioinfo.se @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social

Integrative modelling of biomolecular interactions

Experimental structural studies of interactions can be costly, low-throughput, and challenging. Therefore, computational methods aiming to model protein complexes are particularly valuable. The accur…

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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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