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David W. Sanders! @davidwsanders.bsky.social · 7h

Humbled to announce that we received a New Innovator award. I thank the NIH’s civil servants for their hard work during a stressful funding cycle. I thank the leadership (and chair, Marc Diamond) at UTSW for betting on my lab’s high risk, high reward research. www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/art...

UT Southwestern researcher receives NIH Director’s New Innovator Award

David Sanders, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Center for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases and Molecular Biology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, has been awarded $2.4 million over five ...

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Levental Lab @leventallab.bsky.social · 59m

Amazing news man!!!

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Kresten Lindorff-Larsen @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social · 1d

A good day to remember John Gurdon’s school report from his biology master at Eton

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Levental Lab @leventallab.bsky.social · 1d

Next year’s the year!!

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Michael @schlierflab.bsky.social · 1d

Are you interested in Biomolecular Condensates and looking for a PhD training? Check out the 12 (!) open PhD positions (also 1 on smFRET & condensates 🙃) in Dresden @rtg3120.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social starting April 2026. Apply latest by 24 Oct 2025 here: dresdencondensates.org/join-us/

Join Us – RTG 3120 Biomolecular Condensates

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André Nadler @nadlerlab.bsky.social · 2d

Cool. Really cool. You kind of expect it from Reto.

Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social · 2d

We present multi-immersion Oblique Plane microscope (miOPM), a light-sheet platform that can be adapted to a wide range of applications, from sensitive live cell imaging to imaging organs and cleared tissues.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Dr. Ragnhild Gya @ragnhildgya.bsky.social · 2d

My first post on bluesky 🦋
I missed *the old* platform, glad to be back, looking forward to see what bluesky can be.
Now that the first post is out of the way, hopefully the threshold for posting more is a bit lower 🫠

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Schiracha (Schirra, but a little spicy) @schiracha.bsky.social · 2d

I give you Vladimir Kitten.

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Elizabeth West @limeylizzie.bsky.social · 3d

Life changing , the side effects from radiation are absolutely horrendous, and this would change that.

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Breakthrough Blood Test Detects Head and Neck Cancer up to 10 Years Before Symptoms

Mass General Brigham’s HPV-DeepSeek test enables much earlier cancer detection through a blood sample, creating a new opportunity for screening HPV-related head and neck cancers. Human papillomavirus ...

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 3d

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 3d

Still Life with Dead Birds (and a Basket of Oysters), by Germain Ribot, 1860-80

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Levental Lab @leventallab.bsky.social · 4d

I will reluctantly take it

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Vikram Paralkar @paralkarlab.bsky.social · 5d

This is beautiful! 🥲

Eladio Bobadilla @eladiobobadilla.com · 5d

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Jeremy Baskin @jeremybaskin.bsky.social · 5d

How do cells sense & respond to lipid imbalances? What happens when a disease-relevant enzyme is blocked? Shiying Huang investigates phosphoinositide lipids with the Balla lab & discovers an integrated cellular response that boosts alternate lipid synthesis pathways! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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André Nadler @nadlerlab.bsky.social · 5d

Very exciting work. Shows how interfering with the levels of one lipid class leads to changes of other lipids that are not directly metabolically connected as the cell tries to maintain both lipid flux balance and biophysical membrane properties.

Jeremy Baskin @jeremybaskin.bsky.social · 5d

How do cells sense & respond to lipid imbalances? What happens when a disease-relevant enzyme is blocked? Shiying Huang investigates phosphoinositide lipids with the Balla lab & discovers an integrated cellular response that boosts alternate lipid synthesis pathways! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Gautam Dey @gautamdey.bsky.social · 4d

If you’re applying to your dream lab for an internship/PhD/postdoc, always send a second email 1-2 weeks after the first one if you don’t hear back.

I promise we will be grateful rather than annoyed. My email inbox is a disaster and I’m quite junior - and very few of us have secretarial support

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Zheng Shi @zs-biophys.bsky.social · 5d

Can’t believe Germany 🇩🇪 has an entire day off so that people can listen to the new Taylor Swift album 🎧🎶 😂

Any lab here open to hosting a visiting scientist next year?
For someone who is interested in advanced microscopy and cellular mechanics (and can still do experiments 🙋)?

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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 5d

German Reunification Day invites both gratitude and reflection.
Gratitude, because the peaceful revolution of 1989 was nothing short of a miracle — a bloodless dismantling of a repressive regime.
Reflection, because the wounds of the transition still mark the country —and because

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 6d

not going to pretend I am an expert on the studies, some conflicting somewhat, on gifted programs in schools but one beef I have with those types of programs is they often prioritize the kind of gifted kids who end up being the dumbest mother fuckers in the country, like people who go to Yale law

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Michael Clarke @mtclarke.bsky.social · 6d

Yes, yes, Europe has its benefits. Walkable cities. Cultural heritage. Amazing food. Little gun violence. Healthcare. Governments that are not shut down. But the number of website pop-ups asking one to accept cookies renders the continent pretty much unlivable.

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 7d

This is the list I've always wanted.

Physics World @physicsworld.bsky.social · 7d

We're starting our countdown to next week's #nobelprize by looking at Nobel prizes you've definitely never heard of - starting with a curious from of colour photography that won in 1908. @drmlharris.bsky.social reveals all. ⚛️🧪

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Nobel prizes you’ve never heard of: how an obscure version of colour photography beat quantum theory to the most prestigious prize in physics – Physics World

Gabriel Lippmann received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1908 for an interference-based method of colour photography that was never commercially successful. Margaret Harris finds out why

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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 7d

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

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Dimova Lab @dimovalab.bsky.social · 7d

Kandice @leventallab.bsky.social showed a great construct for resolving membrane organization around transmembrane domains
#BiomembraneDays25

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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 8d

I think the R01 is basically a non-starter at NIGMS now. Data from NIH Reporter for new and competing awards, comparing number of R01s issued relative to R35s (MIRA). This has major ramifications for basic science and basic science investigators that are not yet in the MIRA pool

Graph showing total R35+R01 awards issued by NIGMS from 2020 to 2025. R01 in black showing a steep decline. R35 showing an increase. Total awards in 2025 slightly up from 2024 but these years are lower than 2020-2023

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Levental Lab @leventallab.bsky.social · 8d

Gerry Hammond @gerryhammond.bsky.social rocking #BiomembraneDays25 with an awesome story on how PIP lipids are regulated!

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