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Peter Mace @petermace.bsky.social · 9h

Excellent course content for my scientific writing class!

Ellinor Alseth @ellinoralseth.bsky.social · 18h

Obsessed with this Journal of Immaterial Science article 🔥

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Peter Mace @petermace.bsky.social · 3d

You do make more sense to me after several sips of beer..... ;)

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Edward T Eng @edwardteng.bsky.social · 4d

Muyuan Chen has turned structural biology into an immersive experience with his new video game Meowtabolism, now available on Steam.
Try the demo here: store.steampowered.com/app/4045010/...
Give Muyuan feedback: steamcommunity.com/app/4045010
#ScienceGaming #StructuralBiology #CryoEM #STEMOutreach

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Josh Hardy @joshuamhardy.bsky.social · 10d

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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Peter Mace @petermace.bsky.social · 24d

Don't get me wrong, it is an excellent department doing diverse research, supportive colleagues, etc etc! But also there is this for the weekends.....

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Peter Mace @petermace.bsky.social · 24d

We're hiring! Come join us as a Lecture/Senior Lecturer in the fantastic supportive Biochemistry Department at the University of Otago.

Dunedin is a super-liveable city, which just happens to have some of the best access to nature (and biking) in Aotearoa......

otago.taleo.net/careersectio...

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Sep 6

Peer reviewers are exhausted. It's common to spend *months* inviting reviewers, getting refusals, inviting more, maybe 12 or more, then 2 agree but 1 doesn't complete, so you go again. That's why your paper is in limbo. I'm very sorry, it's awful, but it's also an untenable academic labour issue.

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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · Aug 31

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Mikhail Spivakov @mspivakov.bsky.social · Jul 19

Translational research is digging for gold. Basic research is learning where and what to dig. The more funding is diverted to translation, the more we deplete the research ecosystem, driving the supplies of "gold" - immediately translatable findings and innovations - to unsustainably low levels.

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Peter Mace @petermace.bsky.social · Aug 30

Awesome to have such a bunch of legends down under. Thanks @pseudokinase.bsky.social !!

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Otago Biochemistry @otagobiochemist.bsky.social · Aug 26

Biochemistry Special Seminar
Wed 27 Aug 1pm Rm BIG13
Distinguished Professor Natarajan Kannan, University of Georgia
Evolution of regulation in signaling systems: From ancient cores to modern complexity

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Peter Mace @petermace.bsky.social · Aug 21

Vinnie Tagliabracci kicking off the final morning of #iubmbkinases, post conference dinner crowd still strong (with coffee....)

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James Murphy @pseudokinase.bsky.social · Aug 20

Onward into metabolism. Kicking off the pm session with Grace Gong (LMB) and John Burke (UVic) #iubmbKinases @iubmb.bsky.social We thank @biochemsoc.bsky.social #BiochemJ for their support of this session. The weather couldn’t even lure us away!

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Peter Mace @petermace.bsky.social · Aug 20

Welcoming Grace Gong back to NZ to kick off afternoon number 3, lipid kinases at #iubmbkinases

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James Murphy @pseudokinase.bsky.social · Aug 19

Day 3 of #iubmbKinases @iubmb.bsky.social and many of us sprung up to take this photo through the conference room window - even during talks. Queenstown turning on a stunner of a day, matched only by some terrific science

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James Murphy @pseudokinase.bsky.social · Aug 18

Flying start to the #iubmbkinases meeting in beautiful Queenstown, NZ. Jubilee Award from IUBMB to Kevan Shokat yesterday, and a kinase masterclass from Susan Taylor this morning

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Troy Baisden @troybaisden.bsky.social · Aug 15

Robust debate in Parliament yesterday, with questions from Scott Willis to Shane Reti MP about cuts, job losses and whether reprioritisation will yield clarity or any benefits. The answers aren't reassuring but it is good to see this getting attention. youtu.be/Vam6UmnvtyY

RSIT in Parliament – Oral Q5 14 Aug 2025

YouTube video by New Zealand Association of Scientists

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Tigist Tamir @phosphotig.bsky.social · Aug 15

This!
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Why would anyone want to be a scientist?

It is difficult to fathom why anyone intelligent enough to be a scientist would actually choose to be one. Doing good science requires the utmost exertion of body, mind and spirit, yet is consistently...

journals.biologists.com

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Peter Mace @petermace.bsky.social · Aug 2

The NZSBMB are committed to our meeting as a community event with ample opportunity for ECRs to present, travel awards, education focussed talks, and plenty of chances to connect.
@otagobiochemist.bsky.social @pletzerlab.bsky.social

Peter Mace @petermace.bsky.social · Aug 2

Four weeks left for abstract submission and early-bird registration for the NZ Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology annual meeting!! Adele Williamson and William Kelton are putting together an amazing program including outstanding plenary speakers!

www.nzsbmb.org/conference-2025-rotorua

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Peter Mace @petermace.bsky.social · Jul 29

Excited to see this work led by Cameron Reddington and Annabel Walsh out in @febsj.bsky.social — ASXL proteins share a PHD domain that is not a PHD domain, evolved to bind an MBD domain that is not an MBD domain!

febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

FEBS Press

A plant homeodomain (PHD) at the C terminus of additional sex combs-like (ASXL) proteins is recurrently truncated in disease. In the current study, the ASXL PHD was shown not to bind histone modifica...

febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Amro Hussien @amrohussien.bsky.social · Jul 25

For every €1 invested in Horizon Europe programme, Europe is expected to get as much as €11 in GDP return

Source: www.innovationnewsnetwork.com/horizon-euro...

Horizon Europe delivers €11 GDP return for every €1 invested

Learn how Horizon Europe is driving innovation and growth across the EU, with up to €11 in GDP returns and sixfold societal benefits by 2045.

www.innovationnewsnetwork.com

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Peter Mace @petermace.bsky.social · Jul 25

Congratulations from Dunedin Thornton! Tagging @adamjmm.bsky.social

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Peter Mace @petermace.bsky.social · Jul 10

We can accept registrations until July 25th, but space is filling up! @iubmb.bsky.social @iubmbtrainee.bsky.social @pseudokinase.bsky.social

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Peter Mace @petermace.bsky.social · Jul 10

A fantastic oral program is now in place, but you can still register and submit an abstract for the IUBMB Focussed Meeting on (Pseudo)kinases in signal transduction! Outstanding setting, with ample chances to exchange ideas with the top kinase minds in the world!

www.ivvy.com.au/event/IUBMB25/

A pseudokinase emerging from Lake Wakatipu at night

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