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Merja Joensuu @joensuulab.bsky.social · 8d

🌟 Thrilled to share that my lab’s first publication is now out in @natmetabolism.nature.com. Congrats to the team 🎉

🧠 We discovered that neurons use endogenous fatty acids as an energy fuel, challenging long-standing models of sugars being the exclusive energy source for neurons. 1/3

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Biozentrum, University of Basel @biozentrum.unibas.ch · 9d

Assistant/Associate Professor in Structural Biology, Biophysics or Biological Imaging

www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/open-positio...

#biozentrum #University #Basel #Professor #Structural #Biology #Biophysics #Biological #Imaging

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Felix Campelo @felixmendu.bsky.social · 9d

Join us for the first @embo.org meeting on Intracellular mechanics and organelle mechanobiology! Registrations are open, submit your abstract by November 14: we have plenty of slots for short talks! #EMBOMechanobio

Felix Campelo @felixmendu.bsky.social · Jul 4

Announcing a new @embo.org Workshop on "Intracellular mechanics and organelle mechanobiology" that we are organizing with Michael Krieg and Verena Ruprecht at @icfo.eu (Barcelona) on 16-20 February, 2026. Please, repost and spread the word! 🙏 #EMBOmechanobio

meetings.embo.org/event/26-org...

Intracellular mechanics and organelle mechanobiology

Mechanobiology is an interdisciplinary field that emerges at the cross-section of biology, physics and engineering. It aims to understand how living cells, tissues and animals sense and respond to me…

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Markku Hakala @mhakala.bsky.social · 9d

Undergraduate/internship/master's thesis position: jobs.helsinki.fi/job-invite/4...

Research Assistant or Master Thesis worker, group Hakala

jobs.helsinki.fi

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Markku Hakala @mhakala.bsky.social · 9d

PhD student position: jobs.helsinki.fi/job-invite/4...

Doctoral Researcher, group Hakala

jobs.helsinki.fi

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Markku Hakala @mhakala.bsky.social · 9d

I have a PhD student and an undergrad student positions open at the Institute of Biotechnology @helsinki.fi We are using reconstitution, cell and structural biology to study protein-membrane interactions and membrane microdomain formation. Links to calls below! Feel free to drop a message and share!

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Beth Cimini 🔬💻📊 @bethcimini.bsky.social · 15d

Halfway to I2K is BACK, friends of all kinds! Last year, 650 people attended 30+ TOTALLY FREE image analysis workshops of all kinds, across many timezones.

If you make image analysis software and want to teach it, workshop submissions are open now! We'd love to have your tool highlighted.

BioImaging North America @bioimagingna.bsky.social · 19d

#HappyFluorescenceFriday!

#microscopycommunity- want to learn open source image analysis or share your knowledge to help others? We’ve got a FREE virtual workshop Nov 17-19! Now accepting workshop session applications!

Learn more & sign up: buff.ly/esGIotD

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Pilhofer Lab 🦠❄️🔬 @pilhoferlab.bsky.social · 28d

Story on our Asgard microtubule paper by Nikki Greenwood: www.quantamagazine.org/tiny-tubes-r...
Thanks to all interviewees🎤

Tiny Tubes Reveal Clues to the Evolution of Complex Life | Quanta Magazine

Scientists have identified tubulin structures in primitive Asgard archea that may have been the precursor of our own cellular skeletons.

www.quantamagazine.org

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Omaya Dudin 𓂆 ¦🍉¦🦠¦🔬¦ @dudinlab.bsky.social · 28d

For all of you #Actin folks ... It's out !
Happy to help at anypoint

Spirochrome @spirochrome.com · 28d

Discover HAK-actin™: A New Tool To Visualize The Actin Cytoskeleton by Expansion Microscopy

• Stronger signal via post-expansion labeling
• Broad cell lines & species compatibility
• Endogenous actin labeling
• Can be multiplexed with other targets

spirochrome.com/product/hak-...

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Omaya Dudin 𓂆 ¦🍉¦🦠¦🔬¦ @dudinlab.bsky.social · Aug 28

A new #UExM probe for #Actin!

Fun times thinking/developing/testing with @centriolelab.bsky.social & @lreymond.bsky.social !

Congrats to all !

If interested in #UExM, or #HAK-Actin, feel free to reach out !

Soon available at @spirochrome.com

#Expansion #Microscopy #ProtistsOnSky

Paul & Virginie - Centriole Lab @centriolelab.bsky.social · Aug 28

Trouble imaging actin in ExM? Meet HAK-Actin, a probe for U-ExM, cryo-ExM & iU-ExM. Enables post-expansion labeling for max signal. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Soon at @spirochrome.com
Led by O.Mercey and @lreymond.bsky.social, in collab with @dudinlab.bsky.social and @marinelap.bsky.social

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Misha Kudryashev @mishakudryashev.bsky.social · Aug 4

Postdoc program at the MDC in Berlin, @mdc-berlin.bsky.social : take a look 👇👇

For this call, collaborative projects between two groups will be funded. Take a look at the call and the groups and drop me an email if interested. Share with colleagues too!

www.mdc-berlin.de/postdocs#t-g...

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Vera Mikkilä @veramikkila.bsky.social · Jun 27

Suomen Akatemia tuomitsee jyrkästi tutkijaan kohdistuvan häirinnän ja vihapuheen.

”In Finland, academic freedom is a core value. Researchers must be able to explore, question and share knowledge openly.”

”Let’s protect the freedom to do science, and the people who make it possible.”

Suomen Akatemian LinkedIn-päivitys:

The Research Council of Finland firmly condemns the harassment and hate speech that RCF-funded researchers have recently faced online.

This kind of targeting behaviour is highly inappropriate and dangerous. It threatens academic freedom, narrows public debate, and undermines trust in science and the people behind it.

𝗜𝗻 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱, 𝗮𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗼𝗺 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲. Researchers must be able to explore, question and share knowledge openly. The RCF funds research through open competition and international peer review, and our staff work to ensure the 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 of the process.

Debate and disagreement are part of a healthy democracy. But there is a line that is crossed when the conversation turns into personal attacks or intimidation.

We call on everyone to help keep that line clear. 𝗟𝗲𝘁’𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲, and the people who make it possible.

In 2023, we released a statement on the online targeting of researchers: https://lnkd.in/dbRrUDBu

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Derivery Lab - MRC LMB @deriverylab.bsky.social · Jun 23

🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨
We're hiring a Research Assistant – no PhD needed!
Join us to explore the molecular mechanisms of receptor sorting in endosomes.
Experience in protein expression/purification, cloning & cell culture desired 🧫🔬
Apply now 👉 www.nature.com/naturecareer...

#STEMCareers #ResearchJobs

A picture of 3 rows of people on steps at the MRC LMB. From left to right - top row: Akaash, Vic, Lara - Middle row: Kerrie, Manu, Paddy - bottom row: Meg and Julie

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Markku Hakala @mhakala.bsky.social · Jun 23

The EMBO workshop on ESCRT proteins is up and running at Caux Palace. The view from the hotel room to Lac Leman is rather amazing!

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Markku Hakala @mhakala.bsky.social · Jun 22

I'm grateful for the Research Council of Finland for granting me the Academy Research fellowship! After getting over the shock I will soon move back to Finland to start as a group leader at the Institute of Biotechnology @helsinki.fi. Looking for a PhD student soon! www.aka.fi/en/about-us/...

RCF winter call results: funding decisions in biosciences, health and environmental research

The Research Council of Finland’s Scientific Council for Biosciences, Health and the Environment has granted funding for 38 Academy Research Fellowships, 12 Clinical Researchers and 76 Academy P...

www.aka.fi

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Mara Duncan @mcduncanlab.bsky.social · Jun 16

🧪Hey Sciencers,

We're looking to make a library of 50-100 plasmids that differ in ~60bp stretch. The differences will be designed (not random). The library will then be screened for a phenotype.

What is the best way to do this?

Cost is an issue.

An illustration showing a set of lines of different colors labeled library of oligos and a broken circle labeled backbone. Then an arrow with a question mark and ligase polymerase and on the other side a sect of circles with the colored lines added into the gap labeled library of plasmids.

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Misha Kudryashev @mishakudryashev.bsky.social · May 19

It's fellowship season in the EU. If you want to talk and join our group at the amazing MDC in Berlin on a fellowship, please write me an email.

We do cryo-EM/ET, membrane proteins, data science/AI, our work: scholar.google.com/citations?so...

Fellowships: Marie Curie, EMBO, HFSP, Humboldt...

scholar.google.com

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Rafeeque Mavoor @rafeeque.com · May 13

🧵5 Top Free Alternatives to BioRender for Scientific Illustrations!

These five websites offer free scientific illustrations for biologists. Great for presentations, research papers and other research communication needs.

Save and share the post!

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Christophe 🔬 L @christlet.bsky.social · Apr 9

We have a new review out! In this Microscopy & Microanalysis piece, Louisa Mezache and I survey some of the latest commercially available microscope technologies: Nikon NSPARC, Re-scan Gaia, CSR Biotech MI-SIM, refinements to STED, SMLM from Bruker and Abbelight… Check it out with free access:

Advancing Super-Resolution Microscopy: Recent Innovations in Commercial Instruments

Abstract. Super-resolution microscopy techniques have accelerated scientific progress, enabling researchers to explore cellular structures and dynamics wit

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Joanna Pylvänäinen @jwpylvanainen.bsky.social · Mar 17

Fresh from the press! @lankylaste.bsky.social, @guijacquemet.bsky.social and I put together a practical guide on how to develop software for life science applications.

Practical recommendations for developing software for life science applications

ABSTRACT. Developing user-friendly image analysis software is essential for advancing biological and life science research. However, the interdisciplinary gap between software developers and life scie...

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Roux Lab, Geneva @rouxlab.bsky.social · Feb 10

ESCRT-III is an ancient complex, present in Archaea, with only two proteins and all membrane remodelling functions. Great work by @javierespadas.bsky.social, @diorgeps.bsky.social, @sami-c.bsky.social, thanks to the @buzzbaum.bsky.social lab! Drawing by Julie Polge.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Ishier Raote @ishier.bsky.social · Jan 15

Exciting news! #MembraneTrafficking online seminars with @felixmendu.bsky.social @franbottanelli.bsky.social and me are back!
Check the spectacular Jan-April 2025 lineup.
Details (Zoom links, calendar invites) on the mailing list, Slack group & website: felixcampelo.wixsite.com/membranetraf...

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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · Dec 17

Continuing the peer review discussion: @katherine-brown.bsky.social on principles for effective peer review:
1) Be respectful to authors
2) Request reasonable revisions
3) Focus on whether data support the conclusions
4) Be transparent about expertise limits

thenode.biologists.com/peer-review-...

Peer review - why we need it and what we need - the Node

Hopefully some of you will have seen the recent editorial in Development on our approach to peer review. If you haven't read it yet, please do take a

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Beata Science Art @beatascienceart.bsky.social · Dec 9

Are you a San Diego local or coming to #CellBio2024? Come join our very special #SciArt Show & Reception on Dec 17, bringing together amazing researchers and artists who have been inspired by the wonders of biology. Please spread the word and RSVP here: beatascienceart.com/artshow2024/

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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · Dec 5

Did you know that FocalPlane now has a #cellbio events calendar? This runs alongside our #microscopy calendar, which is powered by MicroscopyDB. You’re welcome to upload your cell bio event on FocalPlane or use the calendar to help plan your year!
focalplane.biologists.com/cell-biology...

Yellow icon with 'Events' in white text above a white representation of a calendar with a square circled.

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