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Jordan Meier @doc-jlmeier.bsky.social · 3d

Spotted in the wild: the perfect license plate for our moment.

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KatajistoLab @katajistolab.bsky.social · 7d

Check out the symposium organized by our CoE, excited to have Marcia Haigis, @lydiafinley.bsky.social, Matthias Hebrok and Tom MacVicar over in Helsinki in November. Sign up by October 22nd 👇

MetaStem @metastem.bsky.social · 7d

Excited to announce our Stem Cell Metabolism Symposium organized in Helsinki on November 12th. Fantastic invited speakers Marcia Haigis, Lydia Finley, Matthias Hebrok and Tom MacVicar. Sign up by Oct 22nd, free of charge, welcome! @hilife-helsinki.bsky.social @helsinki.fi @stemmprogram.bsky.social

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Jordan Meier @doc-jlmeier.bsky.social · 8d

I just assumed it was about the most exciting ethyl acetate extraction ever.

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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 8d

TIL "Come Out and Play"/'Keep 'Em Separated' by "The Offspring" was inspired by a grad student experiment with autoclave broth: www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/... (article from 2014)

#chemsky ⚗️🧪

Keep 'em separated

Dexter Holland, the lead singer of the punk-rock band The Offspring, has a lot of different interests. One of them is biology.

www.asbmb.org

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Lucas Farnung @lucas.farnunglab.com · 9d

New week, new tool: Find our Protein Domain Designer tool to generate publication-ready protein domain diagrams here: domaindesigner.farnunglab.com

Protein Domain Designer tool for the generation of publication-ready protein domain diagrams

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Dominik Hrebik @dhrebik.bsky.social · 9d

This comic is becoming increasingly realistic.
m.xkcd.com/3056/

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American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology @asbmb.bsky.social · 11d

Full circle moment!

While visiting ASBMB for a Maximizing Access Committee meeting, @garcialabms.bsky.social spotted one of his early JBC papers.
www.jbc.org/article/S002...

Do you remember the thrill of your early publications? Share below!
@asbmbjournals.bsky.social #asbmbJBC #TeamMassSpec

Ben Garcia stands in front of a bookcase lined with past printed issues of the Journal of Biological Chemistry, which have green covers and gold lettering. He is holding one of the journals open to his 2007 article "Organismal Differences in Post-translational Modifications in Histones H3 and H4."

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John Greally @greally.bsky.social · 13d

Seven years.
Over 400 pages.
About 750 references.
Over 40 figures.
Finally I get to hold the finished book.
It’s a big day.

#EpigeneticsBook
@cshlpress.bsky.social

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STAT @statnews.com · 14d

Exclusive: Anthony Letai, a cancer researcher and oncologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard University, has emerged as a leading candidate to be the next director of the National Cancer Institute. www.statnews.com/2025/09/24/n...

Anthony Letai of Dana-Farber is front-runner to lead National Cancer Institute

www.statnews.com

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John Ngo @johntngo.bsky.social · 16d

🚀 Our new paper is out @natmethods.nature.com!

Kuffer & Marzilli engineered conditionally stable MS2 & PP7 coat proteins (dMCP & dPCP) that degrade unless bound to RNA, enabling ultra–low-background, single-mRNA imaging in live cells.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧬 www.addgene.org/John_Ngo/

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Jase Gehring @skyjase.bsky.social · 17d

don't release preprints without a Methods section
don't release preprints with a Supplementary Materials section
don't release preprints without data
don't release preprints without code

use preprint servers to share your science, not advertisements

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Yamuna Krishnan @krishnanyamuna.bsky.social · 17d

I loved this! Read it if you have time. Read it even if you don’t….

Ed Boyden @eboyden3.bsky.social · 17d

What if you could think of every possible solution to a problem? Then you might be able to simply pick the best one - even if it was highly nonobvious. With the “tiling tree” method, you can learn, and practice, the skill of doing just that: engineeringx.substack.com/p/the-tiling...

The Tiling Tree Method

How to think of every way of solving a problem

engineeringx.substack.com

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Jordan Meier @doc-jlmeier.bsky.social · 22d

a gif of a man with his hand on his chin and the words gifsforum.com below him

ALT: a gif of a man with his hand on his chin and the words gifsforum.com below him

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Jordan Meier @doc-jlmeier.bsky.social · 24d

Cool feature of Shana Kelley’s work.

Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 24d

I've been following the field of biosensors for nearly 2 decades. This may well turn out to be the most important advance yet
erictopol.substack.com/p/biosensors...

Biosensors to Track Proteins and Inflammation in Our Blood in Real Time

A recording from Eric Topol's live video

erictopol.substack.com

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Jordan Meier @doc-jlmeier.bsky.social · 25d

To evoke a famous Warren Zevon quote: “Enjoy every burrito.”

Memorializing our final Friday 🌯 lunch with @fjoreilly.bsky.social who will move his group to St. Jude in October. A real one! I wish we had more time.

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Jordan Meier @doc-jlmeier.bsky.social · 25d

To evoke a famous Warren Zevon quote: “Enjoy every burrito.”

Memorializing our final Friday 🌯 lunch with @fjoreilly.bsky.social who will move his group to St. Jude in October. A real one! I wish we had more time.

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Victor Ambros @vambros.bsky.social · Sep 7

Sad to hear that David Baltimore died. I am one of hundreds of scientists that David generously mentored, supported, and inspired. His influence on each of us was deep and lasting, and his impact on the world immeasurable. Arguably David Baltimore is one of the greatest scientists of any generation.

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Dan Wahl @danwahlmd.bsky.social · Sep 6

New discovery from our team defining how human brain cancers rewire the metabolism of the normal brain published this week @nature.com and led by stellar postdoc Drew Scott (comentored by @lyssiotislab.bsky.social and currently on job market with a K99/R00). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Rewiring of cortical glucose metabolism fuels human brain cancer growth - Nature

The cortex fuels essential physiological processes with glucose-derived carbon, while gliomas fuel their aggressiveness by rerouting glucose carbon pathways and scavenging alternative carbon sources s...

www.nature.com

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Lucas Farnung @lucas.farnunglab.com · Aug 29

🧬 Transcription elongation by RNA polymerase II relies on a web of elongation factors. Our new work shows how IWS1 acts as a modular scaffold to stabilize & stimulate elongation. Fantastic work by Della Syau! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Jordan Meier @doc-jlmeier.bsky.social · Aug 28

Nothing compares to the stone-faced stare of Fort Detrick police when you drop your phone at security and your car starts playing Ruff Ryders Anthem at concert volume.

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Jeff Martell @jeffmartell.bsky.social · Aug 28

Excited to share a new pre-print on a joint study between my group and @chembiobryan.bsky.social‬! Directed Evolution of Enzymes for Bioorthogonal Chemistry Using Acid Chloride Proximity Labeling. chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...
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Directed Evolution of Enzymes for Bioorthogonal Chemistry Using Acid Chloride Proximity Labeling

Combining bioorthogonal protecting groups with localized catalysts that can unmask them is a powerful approach to spatially and temporally modulate molecular activity. Enzymes are appealing catalysts ...

chemrxiv.org

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Jordan Meier @doc-jlmeier.bsky.social · Aug 27

I’m in the opposite minority, whenever anyone leads a talk saying, “you probably haven’t thought about metabolism since college” I always let out an audible SIGH and whisper to a friend “metabolism has been cool since at least 2009”

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Jordan Meier @doc-jlmeier.bsky.social · Aug 26

This piece by @clauswilke.com on LLMs as the graduate student from hell is one of the funniest (and truest) things I've read this year.

substack.com/home/post/p-...

PhD-level intelligence or the graduate student from hell

AI companies love to tout that their models are approaching—or have reached—PhD-level intelligence. This is blatant nonsensical marketing geared towards an audience that deeply misunderstands what a P...

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · Aug 25

“The study authors asked GPT 4o-mini to evaluate the quality of 217 papers. The tool didn’t mention in any of the reports that the papers being analyzed had been retracted or had validity issues.

In 190 cases, GPT described the papers as world leading, internationally excellent, or close to that”

ChatGPT tends to ignore retractions on scientific papers

Study finds the chatbot doesn’t acknowledge concerns with problematic studies

cen.acs.org

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Jordan Meier @doc-jlmeier.bsky.social · Aug 24

Endless forms most beautiful

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