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Torsten Günther @trstngnthr.bsky.social · Aug 12

The @scilifelab.se ancient DNA unit is looking for an bioinformatician placed at Uppsala University. This is a great way to be part of diverse #aDNA research projects as a staff scientist with permanent (!!) employment:

www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Bioinformatician - Uppsala University

Bioinformatician, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University

www.uu.se

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Vicky Lioy @vslioy.bsky.social · Jul 30

📢 Dear lovers of prokaryotic chromosomes:
Registration for the Biology & Physics of Chromosomes meeting has been extended until 7 August ⏳.
Join us!
@biophychrom.bsky.social
@danielabarilla.bsky.social
@damelab.bsky.social
@graingerlab.bsky.social
@biochemsoc.bsky.social
#microsky

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Daniela Barillà @danielabarilla.bsky.social · Jul 14

Just few days left to register for this chromosome biology fête! 🧬🧬🧬

⏳📆 16 July

www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/f...

@vslioy.bsky.social @damelab.bsky.social @graingerlab.bsky.social @biochemsoc.bsky.social @biophychrom.bsky.social

Poster advertising the Biology and Physics of Prokaryotic Chromosomes conference that will be held in York, 16-19 September 2025.

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Dvir Schirman @dvirschirman.bsky.social · Jun 19

"A missile attack is not going to hold back science, science is held back by itself" 🤣
youtube.com/shorts/FMOi-...

couldn't complete the assignment, my lab was destroyed | אין מעבדה, תרקדו עכשיו עם כתוביות

YouTube video by Shahar Halevi | שחר הלוי

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Dvir Schirman @dvirschirman.bsky.social · Jun 18

I can add my n=2 anecdotal experience.
I suffered a lot from allergies back in Israel, and since moving to Sweden, I'm completely allergy-free 🙌 (but every home visit, they come back with a vengeance!).
My partner had no allergies back home, and here she does 🤧

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Dvir Schirman @dvirschirman.bsky.social · Jun 11

This is how you revolutionize science 🕺
#TCTeAC

Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · Jun 11

@odedrechavi.bsky.social says he wants to change science for the better.

How? I’m still not quite sure. But 1.5 days into #TCTeAC, the plan seems to involve, among other things, walk-up songs, jumping, dancing, and a hefty serving of joy.

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · Jun 11

Woodstock Night Science is trending more than Trump AND Nature! #TCTEAC

Trending Tags (Beta) @trendtags.bsky.social · Jun 11

🚀 Trending Now on BlueSky (Last 15 minutes):

#Photography#art#gay#nsfw#ss954#AIart#FotoVorschlag#gamedev#Nude#TCTeAC#AIイラスト#Trump#nature#indiedev#ai

Trends refresh every 15 minutes.

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Dvir Schirman @dvirschirman.bsky.social · Jun 11

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Helena Klara Jambor @helenajambor.bsky.social · Jun 11

#TCTeAC brought more stickers for day2, find the girl with the lipstick 💄 to get yours! 😉

Dvir Schirman @dvirschirman.bsky.social · Jun 11

That was me 😊🦠

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Dvir Schirman @dvirschirman.bsky.social · May 12

I used Memrise when I started to learn Swedish (they also have Polish). I don't know if they use AI nowadays, but anyway, they rely a lot on short clips of a variety of native speakers.
www.memrise.com

Learn a language. Memrise is authentic, useful & personalised.

Learn a language as it's used now. Immerse yourself in lessons that feature videos of native speakers, so you start speaking real life language, fast.

www.memrise.com

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Dvir Schirman @dvirschirman.bsky.social · May 7

We got today samples of iSpacer from SunJinLab.
www.sunjinlab.com/ispacer-sele...
It seems promising, although might be a bit too thin on the short side of the rectangle.
I'll update once we've tested it properly.

iSpacer selection guide – SUNJIN LAB

www.sunjinlab.com

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Anton Goloborodko @golobor.bsky.social · Apr 11

Earnshaw, Goloborodko, Dekker & Mirny labs are excited to present our latest work, "Rules of engagement for condensins and cohesins guide mitotic chromosome formation" - now accepted!!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A short clip describing the key results:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmvO...

Rules of Engagement

YouTube video by Johan Gibcus

www.youtube.com

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · Apr 10

There's a lot of joy in doing science and Woodstock Night Science (June 10-13 in Prague) will be a celebration of the science that we know and love. Many exciting talks & innovations that will push the boundaries of what a scientific conference can really do.
woodstock.img.cas.cz Only 40 spots left!

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Dvir Schirman @dvirschirman.bsky.social · Apr 9

We are using them, and also our neighboring lab.
Johan Elf & Magnus Johansson labs, Uppsala University, Sweden

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Séamus Holden 🔬🦠🧫 @seamusholden.bsky.social · Apr 8

Fellow bacterial cell biologists, message me if you use @thermofishersci.bsky.social Gene Frames for microscopy!
Thermo are planning to discontinue these in September but have indicated they will look into this further.
If I make list of labs using them Thermo might not kill the product
Please RT🔬🦠

Live Cell Imaging of Bacillus subtilis and Streptococcus pneumoniae using Automated Time-lapse Microscopy

42.1K Views. University of Groningen. This protocol provides a step-by-step procedure to monitor single cell behavior of different bacteria in time using automated fluorescence time-lapse microscopy....

www.jove.com

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Dvir Schirman @dvirschirman.bsky.social · Apr 3

Good chance you already listen to it, but if not @dancarlin.bsky.social Hardcore History is the best recommendation. Very long series each of them basically an audio book. Wrath of the Khans on the mongol empire would be a great start

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Jarno Mäkelä @jmakela.bsky.social · Apr 1

We are looking for a postdoc with microbiology background for #superresolution #singlemolecule #ERC tracking project. Apply by 27.4.2025. 🦠🔬🧫
Pls share!

www.aalto.fi/en/open-posi...

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · Mar 26

New on #biorXiv: 'Inferring single-cell heterogeneity of bacteriophage life-history traits from population-scale dynamics'. A theory-experiment collaboration, led by @mariandm.bsky.social + Ran Tahan w/the Lindell group at Technion (and yes, I am excited).

a 🧵

www.biorxiv.org/contenat/10....

Schematic of probability distribution of the latent period along with single-cell examples of bursts that increase in magnitude as the latent period increases. Full details in the paper.

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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · Mar 5

1/46 Hey folks, we have a new paper out on the MuLTEE. Strap in and I’ll tell you the story of how this “little paper on polyploidy” turned into the most data rich paper our lab has produced, largely thanks to the leadership and work ethic of @kaitong25.bsky.social.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Genome duplication in a long-term multicellularity evolution experiment - Nature

In the Multicellularity Long Term Evolution Experiment, diploid yeast evolve to be tetraploid under selection for larger multicellular size, revealing how whole-genome duplication can arise due to its...

www.nature.com

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Sri Kosuri @srikosuri.bsky.social · Feb 8

It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytic sarcomas cases.

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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · Jan 30

Hi folks, I'm excited to share a whale of a tale (sorry, bad pun), where we engineer snowflake yeast to express sperm whale myoglobin, and explore how oxygen-binding proteins may have helped overcome anatomical limitations to early multicellularity. 🧪 #MEvoSky

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

A snowflake yeast cluster, with the MitoLoc mitochondrial fluorescent probe. The outer ~4-5 cell layers are aerobic and respiring, the interior is anaerobic.

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Di Jiang @dijiang319.bsky.social · Jan 24

This week @science.org Sarfatis, Moffitt et al. from @bostonchildrens.bsky.social @harvardmed.bsky.social @broadinstitute.org
Highly multiplexed spatial transcriptomics in bacteria | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#microsky #microbial #microbiology #genomics
#transcriptomic 🦠🧫

Highly multiplexed spatial transcriptomics in bacteria

Single-cell decisions made in complex environments underlie many bacterial phenomena. Image-based transcriptomics approaches offer an avenue to study such behaviors, yet these approaches have been hin...

www.science.org

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Grainger Lab @graingerlab.bsky.social · Jan 21

If you're interested in chromosome biology (DNA folding, gene regulation, replication, polymer modelling and more) we're organising the below this autumn. It'd be great to see you there. Please share if you can. :-)

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Arne Elofsson @bioinfo.se · Jan 7

We are excited to announce that the call for the new SciLifeLab PULSE postdoctoral program is now open!

This unique program invites talented researchers to propose individually designed projects see : www.scilifelab.se/research/pul.... The deadline for applications is March 31, 2025.

PULSE

SciLifeLab PULSE: Program for Future Leaders in Life Science SciLifeLab PULSE is a comprehensive postdoctoral program, that will train 48 future leaders in life sciences. PULSE focuses on innovative, ...

www.scilifelab.se

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Dvir Schirman @dvirschirman.bsky.social · Jan 8

בטיסה חזרה לישראל המעבר יכול לקחת יותר זמן, בעיקר אם טסים עם אלעל, כי צריך לעבור בדוכני צ'ק אין כדי לעבור את התשאול הבטחוני.

(כשכתבתי שזה מרגיש כמו קונקשן רגיל, זה בהנחה שעושים צ'ק אין אונליין)

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