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Leonora Martínez-Núñez @leonoramartinez.bsky.social · 8d

Bringing invisible ideas to life.

#sciart #blender3D #illustration

*illustrations created for Mary Munson’s Lab website at UMass Chan Medical School*

A blobby structure cut open showing its contents which are hélices and loops and light emitting spheres in the middle. This all depicts VPS45 protein

A conglomerate of lipid molecules forming a wall and separating two spaces with different contents

A space-like scene showing a sphere or vesicle about to be hooked by a multi subunit protein complex

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Josh Hardy @joshuamhardy.bsky.social · 10d

I am thrilled to release ProteinDJ: a high-performance and modular protein design pipeline. Our open-source workflow incorporates #RFdiffusion, #ProteinMPNN, #FAMPNN, #AlphaFold2 and #Boltz-2. It is a fast, free, and fun way to design proteins (1/5)
doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.24.678028 #proteindesign

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Michael Jendrusch @mjendrusch.bsky.social · 14d

Also, shoutout to @blender.org and @bradyajohnston.bsky.social for making it so easy to turn protein structures into nice images!
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Protein structures colored teal and purple floating above a reflective surface on a dark background. The protein structures spell out the word "SALAD" in all-capital letters.

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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · 19d

so proud to share @jhuapl.bsky.social neuroscience research at #blenderconference2025 @blender.org ❤️

also shoutout to #microscopynodes by @aafkegros.bsky.social, here's to awesome new collabs born at blendercon!!!

Blending brains: Tales from the neuro department — Blender Conference 2025

YouTube video by Blender

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Behnoush Hajian @behnoushhajian.bsky.social · 19d

Hello! I'm Behnoush, structural biology scientist from the Broad Institute. I also like to combine proteins structures and other scientific topics with art. Here are some journal cover arts I've created recently. Hope to find old and new friends here.
#Blender #b3d #MolecularNodes #GeometryNodes

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Clockwork @watchclockwork.com · 22d

New video about caffeine linked here:
youtu.be/fNR-GY-WoAI

Rendered in #blender3d using @bradyajohnston.bsky.social 's brilliant Molecular Nodes extension.

Make sure you check out the incredible coffee from @thegooddotstore.bsky.social 's Keats & Co by visiting keats.watchclockwork.com

The Incredible Biology Powering Caffeine

YouTube video by Clockwork

youtu.be

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Duncan Rudd @duncanrudd.bsky.social · Sep 2

What's the opposite of Artificial Intelligence? Naturally Occurring Stupidity?

Whatever it is, that's what I'm here for!

Check out my new film here - made with love, by humans, for humans: youtu.be/iNMxVBnIrwQ

#animation #shortfilm #blender #b3d

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Brady Johnston @bradyajohnston.bsky.social · Sep 1

Please wait a few seconds and try again

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Brady Johnston @bradyajohnston.bsky.social · Aug 18

Most complex golden gate wins

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Chaitanya K. Joshi @chaitjo.bsky.social · Aug 15

RosettaFold 3 is here! 🧬🚀

AtomWorks (the foundational data pipeline powering it) is perhaps the really most exciting part of this release!

Congratulations @simonmathis.bsky.social and team!!! ❤️

bioRxiv preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Brady Johnston @bradyajohnston.bsky.social · Aug 11

Never meet your heroes

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Guillaume Mas @masgu.bsky.social · Aug 11

Thrilled to share my first corresponding author paper as a project leader in @hillerlab.bsky.social ‪ Amazing work from first author @annaleder.bsky.social We discovered multi-chaperone condensates in the ER that revolutionise the current vision of protein folding!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Brady Johnston @bradyajohnston.bsky.social · Aug 11

Will it ever live up to the memories though??

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Clockwork @watchclockwork.com · Aug 5

🕒 NEW VIDEO 🕒

How can a cell know the time? Let's explore the beautiful 24-hour cycle produced by #KaiC proteins in the cyanobacteria S. Elongatus. Rendered in #blender3d with @bradyajohnston.bsky.social's brilliant Molecular Nodes add-on. #biology

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Kat Toropova @kattoropova.bsky.social · Jul 29

Thrilled to see our study on how kinesin-2 motors are switched on and off published in @natsmb.nature.com ⚛️

➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congrats to all authors from me and Anthony 🎉 @dunnschool.bsky.social Check out this animation made by talented PhD student @matthew-batisio.bsky.social 😆

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Brady Johnston @bradyajohnston.bsky.social · Jul 23

Any chance these trajectories are available? 👀

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Brady Johnston @bradyajohnston.bsky.social · Jul 23

Great to see @maxewilkinson.bsky.social on there, going to be some pretty amazing Blender animations!

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CCeMMP Outreach @ccemmp-outreach.bsky.social · Jul 20

Today is #StructureSunday, where we highlight awesome structures by our @arc_gov_au CCeMMP members 🎉 Today we feature the "The structure of h12-LOX in hexameric form" by Mobbs et al. PDB 8GHD. 📷 Rendered using #Blender 📷 🤩1/2

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Lucien Hinderling @lhinderling.bsky.social · Jul 16

pay us £1500 for the privilege of doing our graphic design work for free

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Brady Johnston @bradyajohnston.bsky.social · Jul 17

That figure totally slaps, incredible work. The paper doesn’t explicitly say it anywhere, but was it Blender / MN?

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Stan Yatskevich @stanislauy.bsky.social · Jul 15

Happy to share our latest work on the structure and assembly of holocentric kinetochores! Huge thanks to Ines for a very fruitful collaboration, Claudio for all the support, and congratulations to Christine and all co-authors!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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harry blends @harryblends.bsky.social · Jul 15

What’s New in Geometry Nodes in Blender 4.5 #b3d #geometrynodes youtu.be/qc38O52EQqQ

What's New in Geometry Nodes in Blender 4.5

YouTube video by harry blends

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Philipp Bayer @philippbayer.bsky.social · Jul 14

We have a new position going at the UWA OceanOmics Centre - level 5 bioinformatics research officer. Should suit a MSc-level graduate
external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/cw/en/job/52...
Work with TONS of fish genomes, and most of the genomics data out there - Revio, PromethION, Illumina
#bioinformatics

Prospective staff : Jobs at UWA : The University Of Western Australia

external.jobs.uwa.edu.au

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Rhys Grinter @rhyswg.bsky.social · Jul 9

Excited to share our latest work using AI-designed proteins to block heme-piracy by E. coli. Published in @natcomms.nature.com. A team effort between my lab and the ‪‪@knottrna.bsky.social‬ ‬lab, with experimental work led by the talented @danielrfox.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Inhibiting heme piracy by pathogenic Escherichia coli using de novo-designed proteins - Nature Communications

Many pathogens encode transporters that extract heme directly from host proteins. In this study, the authors demonstrate the utility of de novo-designed proteins in understanding the mechanism behind ...

www.nature.com

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Brady Johnston @bradyajohnston.bsky.social · Jul 9

a dolphin is painting a picture and says i am artiste on the bottom

ALT: a dolphin is painting a picture and says i am artiste on the bottom

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