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Leah @hoxinsocks.bsky.social · 4d

(If you're still at a loss for murkiness, may I suggest searching for 'unknown' or 'uncharacterized'! Fits conceptually and lets you draw whatever looks coolest :-P )

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Leah @hoxinsocks.bsky.social · 5d

Something about Harpers Bizarre's music sounds deeply disturbing to me, for reasons I don't care to investigate

Leah @hoxinsocks.bsky.social · 7d

Looking at #20 and wondering how many PDB entries have fascinating tales of rivalry behind them...

Irina Bezsonova @irinabezsonova.bsky.social · 12d

It’s almost October!
I plant to participate in inktober challenge again this year. One protein drawing a day for 31 days. I would LOVE your suggestions!
Check out the prompt list and nominate a pdb of a protein for me to draw that could be a good fit for any of these prompts.
Wish me luck!

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Leah @hoxinsocks.bsky.social · 7d

*Nice!*

FABPs and their ilk have always reminded me of woven textures (and waffle fries, but anyway)...maybe 2LFO, 1BWY, 1JBH, 1MX8, 6I9F, that sort of thing?

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Leah @hoxinsocks.bsky.social · 8d

#TubulinTuesday!

clairesnaylor.bsky.social @clairesnaylor.bsky.social · 13d

🚨 Webinar Alert! - Revolutionizing Structural Biology
On Oct 1 Dr. Nick Ariotti (U. Queensland) will share how his team imaged microtubules in lysate at 7.1 Å with a cryoTEM and NO traditional purification steps.

Register here: ter.li/66bytl

#structuralbiology #proteinmicroscopy #cryoEM #cryoET

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Leah @hoxinsocks.bsky.social · 8d

....that was some weird shit

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Brandy A Freitas @brandy-syglass.bsky.social · 13d

👀 #3DThursday: Cross your eyes to see this super res pollen dataset in 3D! Good old fashioned stereo pairs in #syGlass bringing science to life. 🌿✨

🔬: Zeiss LSM 980 with Airyscan 2
🥼: Nat Prunet, @nat-prunet.bsky.social
🏛️: UNC Biological Microscopy Core: tarheels.live/biologymicro...
🎬: syGlass.io

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Leah @hoxinsocks.bsky.social · 14d

I'm super looking forward to this

Elinne Becket, PhD @bielleogy.bsky.social · 16d

Giving a webinar on #BlueSoup this Friday, in case anyone wants to pop in during their lunch!

A promotional flyer for a webinar in the CSU Bioinformatics Webinar Series. On the left side, it shows the date and time: “26 Sep | 12 PM PST.” It includes instructions to join via Zoom with Meeting ID: 886 2442 3158 and a QR code above. On the right, there is a photo of Dr. Elinne Becket, Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at California State University San Marcos, sitting outdoors with plants and trees in the background. Below, the title of the talk is displayed: “The Soup that Blue up Twitter.” The description explains that Dr. Becket will discuss the shared curiosity of science, open science, and a story from February 2023 when leftover beef soup prepared by her mom turned bright blue. Scientists and people on Twitter collaborated to investigate, leading to a global effort among microbiologists and chemists. At the bottom, there are links to learn more about upcoming webinars at www.informatics.sdsu.edu and Dr. Becket’s website: https://elinneb.wixsite.com/becketlab

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Leah @hoxinsocks.bsky.social · 14d

Hoo boy, that is blurry, okey dokey

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Leah @hoxinsocks.bsky.social · 14d

I see the news, it seems Shakespearean,
I post a doodle of a virion

A diagram showing the carbon backbone of a phage, shown as a cross-section. Its protein shell is light purple, and its nucleic innards are light orange. (PDB ID 7LHD; https://www.rcsb.org/structure/7LHD)

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Leah @hoxinsocks.bsky.social · 15d

#TubulinTuesday!

Cytoskeleton Journal @cytoskeljournal.bsky.social · 19d

We have a fantastic #FREE Access #Review #article in #CYTOSKELETON for you!!! KIF14 as a Dual #Microtubule / F-#Actin Binding Protein Contributing to #Cytokinesis. Check it out here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Leah @hoxinsocks.bsky.social · 15d

#TubulinTuesday!

Simone Reber @simonereber.bsky.social · 16d

Wonderful collaboration with the labs of @carolynmoores1.bsky.social & Gregory Voth @uchichemistry.bsky.social 🤩 Still amazed how well the in vitro structure fits into the in vivo structure!  Congrats to Mamata Bangera et al.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#microtubules #Malaria

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Leah @hoxinsocks.bsky.social · 15d

#TubulinTuesday!

abberior @abberior.rocks · 20d

3 color confocal image of a #Drosophila 🪰embryo stained for chitin (🟦STAR RED), tubulin (🟥STAR ORANGE), and DNA (🟩PicoGreen)

#fluorescencefriday

Leah @hoxinsocks.bsky.social · 15d

No that's my emotional support bile

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Leah @hoxinsocks.bsky.social · 16d

I'd love to watch an awards ceremony for sermon vagueness

Leah @hoxinsocks.bsky.social · 16d

Rooooooosh Hashanah, where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain!

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Cynipid @cynipid.bsky.social · 16d

I completed a little embroidered chrysomelid. It turned out so cute! I created a tortoise beetle design that I will try out later.

Fall always makes me want to do fiber arts. I still have a new king-sized quilt in the works so there's hefty competition for my creative energy this year.

An embroidery hoop with a black piece of fabric that has a beetle embroidered with patterns in silver, black, and various shades of teal.

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Blue Eyed Grass @blueeyedgrass.bsky.social · 18d

Just cause I was thinking about it recently, here is one of my all time favorite scientist profiles. Joan Ruderman interviewing Yoshio Masui when he won the Lasker (along with Nurse and Hartwell) for his work on maturation promoting factor in xenopus oocytes. laskerfoundation.org/winners/key-...

Key regulators of the cell division cycle - Lasker Foundation

Lee Hartwell, Yoshio Masui, Paul Nurse

laskerfoundation.org

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Leah @hoxinsocks.bsky.social · 18d

This rocks!!

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Leah @hoxinsocks.bsky.social · 18d

I am begging you to read even just the Early Life section, which is an absolute roller coaster

Leah @hoxinsocks.bsky.social · Aug 30

It's a good weekend, as is every weekend, to trawl Annual Reviews for scientific autobiographical essays, which are never not fascinating

To the Happy Few | Annual Reviews

I became a microbiologist in post-WWII Japan, working with Toshio Fukasawa on galactose metabolism in Salmonella. We characterized mutants defective in UDP-galactose 4-epimerase, which produced a defe...

www.annualreviews.org

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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 18d

It’s not for me to tell the boys in the lab their jobs but, in my opinion, deciding on roadkill flavor was a real missed opportunity.

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Brandy A Freitas @brandy-syglass.bsky.social · 20d

Non-destructive testing for #3DThursday!🥽 Apple Vision Pro vs MetaQuest in a microCT.

🔬: Lumafield @lumafield.bsky.social microCT
🎬: syGlass.io, loading two projects at once

3D imaging like this is used to validate design, catch flaws, and build smarter devices.

#MicroCT #syGlass #VR #SciComm

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Leah @hoxinsocks.bsky.social · 21d

#chemsky

Brad Bolman @bolman.bsky.social · 21d

@petervale.bsky.social & I are looking for scholars interested in contributing to an upcoming workshop/special issue on aeromobility and 20th science & tech. How aircraft changed scientific practice, use in experiments, air travel as foundation for academic collaboration, etc. Please share!

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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 21d

The rest of us can learn not to waste the precious time we have being this stupid.

New Scientist @newscientist.com · 22d

Tech millionaire turned longevity pioneer Bryan Johnson devotes more than 6 hours a day to trialling different methods to turn back the clock. Can the rest of us learn anything from his radical approach?

The real scientific insights from Bryan Johnson’s immortality quest

Tech millionaire turned longevity pioneer Bryan Johnson devotes more than 6 hours a day to trialling different methods to turn back the clock. Can the rest of us learn anything from his radical approach?

www.newscientist.com

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Leah @hoxinsocks.bsky.social · 22d

#TubulinTuesday!

Holly Moeller @mixotrophe.bsky.social · 27d

Well at least the tubulin antibody works. #figaday 4.078/n #year4

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