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Florian Ullrich @fullrich.bsky.social · 21d

Join us for the 3rd Nature Conference on Nucleic Acid Medicines in Boston (Dec 8-10) with an amazing lineup of speakers. 4 weeks left 4 early bird registration! natureconferences.streamgo.live/cracking-the...
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Nature Conferences. Cracking the Code: Nucleic Acid Medicines Coming of Age. December 8 - 10, Boston, MA, United States. Organized by Alnylam, Ionis, HSCI, Boston Children’s Hospital, and Nature Portfolio

Speakers include: Anna Pyle (Yale),’Arthur Krieg (Zola Therapeutics), Mano Manoharan (Alnylam), Grace Chen (Yale), Howard Chang (Stanford), Maria Barna (Stanford) - picture shows their portraits.

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Ryan Flynn @raflynn5.bsky.social · Mar 26

A nearly 9 year effort to design and implement new CLIP-based technologies to define multimeric protein assemblies on RNA.

Enables ‘watching’ of RNP assemblies inside living cells

Special congrats to Luca Ducoli, Brian Zarnegar, and Paul Khavari @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Daryl Jason Verzosa David @djdavid.bsky.social · Mar 25

Excited for day two of #FCQC2025 for a great set of talks about all things quality control!

Proud to represent @naturecellbiology.bsky.social as senior editor; come find me to chat! Keep an eye out for other editors including my brilliant colleague @sshadan.bsky.social senior editor from Nature

A placard announcing the location of th 4th Frankfurt Conference on Quality Control in Life Processes.

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Chris H. Hill @chillzaa.bsky.social · Mar 21

New cryo-EM/ET story - a brilliant collaboration with Sergey Melnikov's lab in Newcastle @sergeymelnikov.bsky.social and Stefan Pfeffer's lab in Heidelberg @pfeffercryolab.bsky.social. Great work in particular by Karla Helena-Bueno and @sophiekopetschke.bsky.social

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Structurally heterogeneous ribosomes cooperate in protein synthesis in bacterial cells - Nature Communications

Cells can simultaneously produce structurally dissimilar ribosomes, suggesting functional specialization of distinct ribosome populations. Here, the authors show that distinct ribosomes cooperate rath...

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Dr Urmila Chadayammuri @uchadaya.bsky.social · Mar 21

Editorial: The skies are a shared resource. We spend public money and push the limits of technology to look into the depths of the Universe - but now often see private communication satellites instead. Solutions exist, but regulation and enforcement are lacking. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Cleaning up space: how satellites and telescopes can live together

Satellites connect people around the world but they also interfere with astronomers’ views of the cosmos. There are ways to reduce these tensions.

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Nature @nature.com · Mar 21

Nature research paper: Overlapping nuclear import and export paths unveiled by two-colour MINFLUX

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Overlapping nuclear import and export paths unveiled by two-colour MINFLUX - Nature

High spatiotemporal precision tracking using 3D MINFLUX shows that nuclear import and export occur in overlapping regions of the central pore, providing insight into transport across the nuclear pore complex.

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Manny Ares 👀 @mannyares.bsky.social · Mar 15

Hey all! The RNA Society meeting in San Diego features a new session for sharing results on new ways to bring RNA into the curriculum. Get your abstracts in ASAP!

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Florian Ullrich @fullrich.bsky.social · Mar 14

Very interesting 20 minute documentary about toxic culture and power abuse at some Max Planck Institutes in Germany.

Amrei Bahr @amreibahr.bsky.social · Mar 14

English version of the documentary about power abuse in the Max Planck Society can be found here. 144.000 views already, more than 800 comments. Share it to make colleagues aware of what happens in German academia & the MPG! #IchBinHanna #PowerAbuse

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Joachim Frank @joachim123.bsky.social · Mar 9

I think it's important to reach out to your own community and explain what the funding cuts mean in practice.

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Willow Coyote-Maestas @willowcoyote.bsky.social · Mar 5

In this time of chaos - something good! We are excited to share our final (or near final) speaker list for the 3rd UCSF Full Circle Symposium 4/3-4/4 to highlight Native biologists! Please share the word and register to attend the webinar in person! More info: qbi.ucsf.edu/full-circle-...

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Andrew Plested @andrewplested.bsky.social · Mar 2

If you’re still dumbfounded, I invite you to join me in donating.

Let’s send a message of hope to Ukraine in these difficult times.

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UNITED24 - The initiative of the President of Ukraine

UNITED24 was launched by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the main venue for collecting charitable donations in support of Ukraine. Funds will be transferred to the official accounts of...

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Petr Svoboda @svobodalab.bsky.social · Feb 13

#Argonautes2025 update ... it will happen this August (27-30) @imgprague.bsky.social. Our ITs are finishing and testing the website, the registration will open on March 1st. More info will be provided later (once all speakers reply to my e-mail, just saying, not pushing 😁). Poster announcement:

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Barbara Marte @barbmarte.bsky.social · Feb 7

On 7 February 1925, Nature published a curious paper on a ‘missing link’. Check out the palaeoanthropology paper collection to mark the 100 year anniversary of the publication of Australopithecus africanus www.nature.com/collections/... and our editorial www.nature.com/articles/d41...

100 years of Australopithecus

On 7 February 1925, Nature published a curious paper on a ‘missing link’ – the fossil of a form intermediate between apes and humans.

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Henry Gee @endofthepier.bsky.social · Feb 7

UK launch of THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE HUMAN EMPIRE: www.thebookhive.co.uk/event/henry-...

Henry Gee: The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire - The Book Hive

We are excited to announce the first in a new series of events at Aylsham Town Hall! Join us as Nature magazine editor and Royal Society Science Book Prize winner Henry Gee explores the future of […]

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Andrew Plested @andrewplested.bsky.social · Feb 2

Presynaptic and postsynaptic phase-separated liquids stay separate (“demonstrating a high degree of specificity”) even without membranes (!) and are tethered together with teneurin and latrophilin🤔🧐🤨 #synapses

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Reconstitution of synaptic junctions orchestrated by teneurin-latrophilin complexes

Synapses are organized by trans-synaptic adhesion molecules that coordinate assembly of pre- and postsynaptic specializations, which, in turn, are composed of scaffolding proteins forming liquid-liqui...

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Lisa Heinke @lisaheinke.bsky.social · Jan 28

Hi, new followers! 👋
I'm a Senior Editor @natrevmcb.bsky.social, working on articles across most of cell biology—from cell migration & death to plant & structural biology (and beyond!). Based in Berlin, I share my home office with very cuddly cats 🐈‍⬛🐈

Follow along if you're curious about cell bio!

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · Jan 27

A study in Nature used deep learning methods to design proteins that can neutralize the effects of three-finger toxins found in snake venom, which could lead to the development of safer and more accessible antivenom treatments. https://go.nature.com/4aDxmxK 🧪

This is figure 3, which shows the crystal structures of 3FTx-binding proteins closely matched those of the design models.

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Sjors Scheres @sjorsscheres.bsky.social · Jan 27

We have an exciting opportunity for a new independent group leader with an interest in structural/molecular biology and machine learning to join our Division of Structural Studies at the @mrclmb.bsky.social! 🥳
Re-posts appreciated.

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Research Group Leader Tenure Track - Structural Studies - LMB 2549 - Cambridgeshire job with MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology | 12835196

Research Group Leader Tenure Track Starting Salary £65,940 to £74,448 per annum MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK

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Florian Ullrich @fullrich.bsky.social · Jan 26

It seems being called the „Steve Jobs of something“ isn’t usually a good sign?

Feeling bad for the 60ish people in this lab…

Nature @nature.com · Jan 24

Prominent ecologist Thomas Crowther, whose research on trees has influenced figures including US President Donald Trump, will depart the prestigious ETH Zurich, after the institution said that it would not renew his contract

https://go.nature.com/4axBEXk

Star ecologist accused of misconduct loses university post

Researcher Thomas Crowther is seeking to move his laboratory from ETH Zurich, which says it will not renew his contract.

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Nature Plants @natplants.nature.com · Jan 21

New Article: "Structural mechanism underlying PHO1;H1-mediated phosphate transport in Arabidopsis" rdcu.be/d62pA

Phosphate transporter PHO1: cryo-EM, biochemical & physiological analysis. Molecular and regulatory mechanism of transport mediated by the SPX–EXS family. #PlantScience

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Florian Ullrich @fullrich.bsky.social · Jan 19

About time!

Achim Zolke 🇪🇺 @zolke.bsky.social · Jan 19

This is a turning point.

We Europeans have the power to push X into irrelevance across our continent. Freeze or delete your accounts now.

Media, it’s time to stop citing X.

Dozens of universities are leading the way. Let’s limit Elon Musk’s influence in 🇪🇺.

#eXit #SciXit #Democracy

Article on the mass eXit of German universities from plattform X in protest against anti-democratic discourse pushed by Elon Musks algorithms.

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Kelvin Lau @klausenhauser on 🙅‍♂️🐘🪡 @klausenhauser.bsky.social · Jan 15

Wow. This is the first neat paper of 2025! From a baby plate of HEK cells and a uL column

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Nature @nature.com · Jan 13

Nature research paper: Structural basis for the conformational protection of nitrogenase from O2

https://go.nature.com/4aiD344

Structural basis for the conformational protection of nitrogenase from O2 - Nature

Cryo-electron microscopy of Azotobacter vinelandii FeSII–nitrogenase reveals a core complex of molybdenum–iron proteins (MoFePs), iron proteins (FePs) and FeSII, in which FeSII mediates interactions with MoFeP and FeP to position their FeS clusters in catalytically inactive but O2-protected states.

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Nature @nature.com · Jan 14

Nature research paper: Conformational protection of molybdenum nitrogenase by Shethna protein II

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Conformational protection of molybdenum nitrogenase by Shethna protein II - Nature

A small ferredoxin (Shethna protein II) of Azotobacter vinelandii can provide protection from O2 stress that may be crucial for the maintenance of recombinant nitrogenase in food crops.

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Emma Stoye @emmastoye.bsky.social · Jan 14

Nature is keen to find out how scientists are using Bluesky and whether it has become their go-to soc media platform. Do you use Bluesky? Has it replaced X for you? Tell us about it: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Has Bluesky replaced X for scientists? Take Nature’s poll

The research community has flocked to the social-media platform Bluesky. Tell us about your experience.

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