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Insta Science @instascience.bsky.social · Aug 23

A microscopic Tardigrade (water bear), walking across a glass slide. Extremely resilient, they can survive decades without food or water and can survive in direct exposure to space.

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New Scientist @newscientist.com · Jul 30

A harder form of diamond that has eluded scientists for decades can now be synthesised in the laboratory, and could be used to make extremely tough cutting and drilling tools.

Extra-hard hexagonal diamonds can now be grown in a lab

Hexagonal diamond up to 60 per cent stronger than normal diamonds could be used to create super-tough drilling and cutting tools for industrial applications

www.newscientist.com

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MitoCarriers @mitocarriers.bsky.social · Jul 25

Our review on the peculiar properties of mitochondrial carriers of the SLC25 family out: portlandpress.com/biochemj/art...

Characterised members of the human SLC25 mitochondrial family. Members of the mitochondrial carriers are shown in rainbow (blue to red) cartoon and surface representations with their primary substrates shown in sphere representations to scale. Only one paralogue is shown.

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Insta Science @instascience.bsky.social · Jul 13

The Queen of the Night (Epiphyllum oxypetalum) blooms once a year at night.

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eLife @elife.bsky.social · Jul 12

While academic publishing may not be broken, it isn’t built to serve science either. It runs on a chain of perverse incentives, but everything we need to rebuild it is already in our hands.

#OpenScience #AcademicSky
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Screenshot of article summary of: Toward Science-Led Publishing by Damian Pattinson, George Currie published as an opinion piece, in Learned Publishing Summary The current dynamic of scholarly publishing prioritises the wants of the publishing industry over the needs of the research community. This article explores this theme through the lens of ‘publisher-led science’ as a description of our current status quo, and through ‘science-led publishing’ as an improved future state. We argue that financial motivations central to most publishing distort how research is presented, how it is assessed and even what research is undertaken, leading to a system that hinders, rather than facilitates, scientific progress. We propose three elements of a science-led publishing approach that would accelerate research communication, incentivise collaboration between authors, editors and reviewers, and create a more transparent and equitable research landscape. We believe that research funding and research assessment are two of the primary levers for wider change in research and research culture and consider the future purpose of scholarly publishing in a world where these proposals have been widely adopted.

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Martin Enserink @martinenserink.bsky.social · Jul 12

The White House has concerns about allegedly risky research on viruses, bacteria, and other pathogens. In response, the National Institutes of Health is cracking down on dozens of studies it was funding. By @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social and @cohenjon.bsky.social. www.science.org/content/arti...

Exclusive: NIH suspends dozens of pathogen studies over ‘gain-of-function’ concerns

Trump executive order leads to pauses on U.S.-funded research into TB, influenza, COVID-19, and other diseases, dismaying some scientists

www.science.org

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Blue Travel Channel 📸 @bluetravelchannel.bsky.social · May 25

Japanese snow fairy bird 🇯🇵 😃

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MitoCarriers @mitocarriers.bsky.social · May 13

Thank you, Homa!

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · Apr 25

Remember to look up

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MitoCarriers @mitocarriers.bsky.social · Apr 25

Trinity Hall covers our discovery
www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/news/unwrapp...

Molecular basis of pyruvate transport and inhibition of the human mitochondrial pyruvate carrier | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Unwrapping the secrets of sugar metabolism - Trinity Hall Cambridge

Ever wondered why eating something sugary gives you such an energy boost? It turns out that the secret lies within our cells, specifically in tiny structures called mitochondria, often dubbed the cell...

www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · Mar 11

🎓Higher Education🎓
The UK’s universities are beleaguered and besieged. Redundancies continue to be announced. Cardiff, Dundee, Edinburgh, Kent, Queen’s Belfast, Sheffield; the list goes on and on. Perhaps 10,000 jobs will go in this academic year, and that’s just the beginning. #AcademicSky

The UK’s academic recession is in full swing

This university crisis is a grim scrabble for numbers

www.ft.com

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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology @mrclmb.bsky.social · Apr 23

A colder frontier in cryo-EM 🧪🔬

Chris Russo’s group, inc. Joshua Dickerson, adapted #cryoEM to work at liquid helium temperatures (13 kelvins), where every frame captured contains more information than the equivalent using liquid nitrogen (81 kelvins).

Read more: tinyurl.com/mwwcunkc

#LMBResearch

The electron cryo-microscope adapted for use at liquid nitrogen temperatures within its custom-made black box.

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MitoCarriers @mitocarriers.bsky.social · Apr 23

Excellent summary of our paper and its implications for therapy.
wms-site.com/press-media/...

Mitochondrial Pyruvate Carrier: A Gateway to Future Metabolic Therapies

Structural and mechanistic insights unveil MPC as a strategic target in cancer, liver disease, and mitochondrial medicine. World Mitochondria Society 2025 Copyright Fifty years after the mitochondrial...

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MitoCarriers @mitocarriers.bsky.social · Apr 18

Proposed pH-dependent mechanism of the mitochondrial pyruvate carrier. In the outward-open state, positively charged K49 and H86 bind pyruvate, initiating conformational changes to the inward-open state. The high matrix pH deprotonates H86, allowing pyruvate to leave.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · Apr 17

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Here is Earth's rotation realized in an unusual way: using a camera scanning the landscape of Tivoli, Namibia, Bartosz Wojczyński focused on the sky.

He created a timelapse spanning 24 h that has a focal point in the sky rather than on the ground.

➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap20070...

🔭 🧪 #galactic

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MitoCarriers @mitocarriers.bsky.social · Apr 18

Thank you! There was a terrible delay, but it is finally out!

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MitoCarriers @mitocarriers.bsky.social · Apr 18

Throwing a ‘spanner in the works’ of our cells’ machinery could help fight cancer, fatty liver disease… and hair loss | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Throwing a ‘spanner in the works’ of our cells’ machinery could help fight cancer, fatty liver disease… and hair loss

Fifty years since its discovery, scientists have finally worked out how a molecular machine found in mitochondria, the ‘powerhouses’ of our cells, allows us to make the fuel we need from s...

www.eurekalert.org

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Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social · Apr 18

The Caribbean reef squid out on quite the show today. Wait for the dramatic 180 color change reverse off stage! 🦑🔄👻💨 #caribbeanreefsquid #reefsquid #squid #chromatophores #colorchange #poof #cephalopod #coral #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #bfi #noaa #aoml #coralcity

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · Apr 18

Albert Einstein died on this day, April 18, 1955.

It is incredible to hear Albert Einstein explain his famous formula, E=mc².

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Angie Voyles Askham @avaskham.bsky.social · Apr 17

A leaked HHS proposal outlines an approximately 40% cut to the NIH budget and significant changes to its organization. That would spell destruction for U.S. science, Joshua Gordon told me.

My latest for @thetransmitter.bsky.social:

#neuroskyence 🧪

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · Apr 17

“A 40 percent cut [in the NIH budget] would mean dramatic and immediate changes in the ability of scientists in the United States to conduct their work,” says Joshua Gordon, former director of the National Institute of Mental Health.

By @avaskham.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/funding/prop...

Proposed NIH budget cut threatens ‘massive destruction of American science’

A leaked draft of a Trump administration proposal includes an approximately 40 percent cut to the National Institutes of Health’s budget and a major reorganization of its 27 institutes and centers.

www.thetransmitter.org

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MitoCarriers @mitocarriers.bsky.social · Apr 18

Thank you!

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MitoCarriers @mitocarriers.bsky.social · Apr 18

Our paper is finally out: Molecular basis of pyruvate transport and inhibition of the human mitochondrial pyruvate carrier | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#mitochondria #cryo-EM

Molecular basis of pyruvate transport and inhibition of the human mitochondrial pyruvate carrier

The mitochondrial pyruvate carrier transport mechanism is ΔpH driven and is inhibited competitively by distinct compound classes.

www.science.org

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · Mar 31

Here’s the better link: www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Standing up for science in an age of political interference

Science is under siege. Political forces are undermining expertise, dismantling research institutions, and replacing evidence based policymaking with ideology. This is a global crisis. The covid-19 pa...

www.bmj.com

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MitoCarriers @mitocarriers.bsky.social · Mar 27

Our review on Current Understanding of Pathogenic Mechanisms and Disease Models of Citrin Deficiency is out! The disease is caused by the dysfunction or absence of the mitochondrial aspartate/glutamate carrier 2, also known as citrin doi.org/10.1002/jimd... #mitochondria

The transport activity of reconstituted citrin is not regulated by calcium.

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