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Kate Michie @kmichie.bsky.social · 14h

I’m finding it harder and harder to be here- not a statement about the state of bluesky, rather a statement about the world. What the hell went wrong with everyone??? I’m so sorry 😞. Our children deserve better. It’s so embarrassing for me to try to explain to my kids how we ended up here.

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Kate Michie @kmichie.bsky.social · 4d

Second that… not done reading it all yet but every piece has been amazingly good! @thomasha.bsky.social is very talented.

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Kate Michie @kmichie.bsky.social · 4d

I’m reading this now ( upon your recommendation) and I throughly agree. It’s amazingly good. Bluesky has been wonderful for finding good fiction ( also have the third AMOC on preorder). 🙏

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Kate Michie @kmichie.bsky.social · 5d

Just a heads up to anyone interested. @joshuamhardy.bsky.social will be presenting Protein DJ next week at the Australian Structural Biology Computing “Protein Design Seminars” hosted by @ausbiocommons.bsky.social

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

WEBINAR SERIES: Leveraging deep learning to design custom protein-binding proteins — Australian BioCommons

Be inspired by case studies that show you how deep learning methods are speeding up the process of designing proteins with desirable biophysical properties. More information Register

www.biocommons.org.au

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Kate Michie @kmichie.bsky.social · 6d

☹️ I’m sorry. I guess they are in a hurry. Obtaining visas is very expensive and time consuming speaking from experience. I’ve seen hires that we couldn’t get into the job for 2 years while trying to get approval.

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Kate Michie @kmichie.bsky.social · 6d

Do you like working on diverse projects with a range of researchers? New hire for a genomics/proteomics ( not structural biology) bioinformatician in the Mark Wainwright Analytical Centre at UNSW in sunny Sydney. Position hosted by the Stats Central team.

Bioinformatician (Level A or B)

Join the highly successful Mark Wainwright Analytical Centre and build the capacity of UNSW researchers and research students to process and analyse complex genomic and proteomic datasets.

external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au

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Kate Michie @kmichie.bsky.social · 6d

@sofiaisella.bsky.social “I can be your mother + the singles”. Amazing album. Spinning on the turntable on repeat.

Sofia Isella record playing on a turntable.

Kate Michie @kmichie.bsky.social · 9d

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Josh Hardy @joshuamhardy.bsky.social · 9d

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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Kate Michie @kmichie.bsky.social · 19d

So lovely to see this story yesterday on SMC complexes presented by Prof Jan Löwe ( MRC LMB). It’s been a long journey and is still evolving but is a structural biology tour de force. @mrclmb.bsky.social @unswbabs.bsky.social

Prof Jan Löwe presenting his work on Structural maintenance of chromosome complexes

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Kate Michie @kmichie.bsky.social · 21d

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Ed Twomey @cryoet.bsky.social · 22d

🚨🧠🔬 A major breakthrough in molecular neuroscience:

I am excited to share a new story from our lab, published in accelerated format today by @nature.com:

"Delta-type glutamate receptors are ligand-gated ion channels"

Read more here (free article link): rdcu.be/eGIKz