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Edwin Antony @professorantony.bsky.social · 2d

Spread the word if you can.
We have an unused stopped flow accessory from Applied Photophysics. We traded in our Chirascan CD instrument so we have no use for this anymore. Reach out if you are interested and can find a home for this setup. Will ofcourse only work with a Chirascan!

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ACA: The Structural Science Society @acastructuralsci.bsky.social · 3d

💠 The ACA community mourns the loss of Dr. Benno P. Schoenborn (1938–2025), a pioneer in neutron protein crystallography whose work transformed structural biology.
Read more and share memories: 🔗 bit.ly/42wNvlM
#crystallography #InMemoriam #ACACommunity #neutrondiffraction

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 11d

✒️ Parliament has been accused of an “outrageous abuse” that is “worthy of the Trump White House”, after refusing to issue us a media pass.

Thousands have signed a petition calling on the government to give us access.

Help defend press freedom, sign today.

secure.declassifieduk.org/page/178447/...

Defend Press Freedom

I stand with Declassified UK - I've just signed my name. Join me in telling Westminster that you care about freedom of the press.

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Leicester Institute for Structural and Chemical Biology @leicstructbio.bsky.social · 18d

How do protons get delivered to the active site of heme peroxidases? A combination of solvent channels and electric fields, say @petermoody.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Solvent Channels and Electric Fields Guide Proton Delivery to the Active Site of Heme Peroxidases

Electrostatic potential surfaces and electric field lines reveal that local fields guide proton delivery through multiple conserved solvent channels in heme peroxidases, enabling efficient access to ....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Real Professor Moody @petermoody.bsky.social · Jun 27

showyourstripes.info/c/europe/uni...

Show Your Stripes

Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe

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Real Professor Moody @petermoody.bsky.social · Jun 27

Leicester Temperature 1850-2024 showyourstripes.info/s/europe/uni...

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ERR_Moody @emoody.bsky.social · Apr 4

Ecstatic to have played a small part in this, we find that the first aerobes predate the GOE by almost a billion years! Photosynthesis implications

Lead by Adrián Davín, @benjwoodcroft.bsky.social @xrefugee13.bsky.social @tweethinking.bsky.social @ssolo.bsky.social

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A geological timescale for bacterial evolution and oxygen adaptation

Microbial life has dominated Earth’s history but left a sparse fossil record, greatly hindering our understanding of evolution in deep time. However, bacterial metabolism has left signatures in the ge...

www.science.org

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Hekstra Lab @hekstralab.bsky.social · Feb 24

Can AlphaFold refine structures for X-ray & Cryo-EM/ET data? Now it can! Great collab with @moalquraishi.bsky.social and @randyjread.bsky.social led by @alisiafadini.bsky.social and @minhuanli.bsky.social. 🧵below. Code to follow...

Alisia Fadini @alisiafadini.bsky.social · Feb 24

Structural biology is in an era of dynamics & assemblies but turning raw experimental data into atomic models at scale remains challenging. @minhuanli.bsky.social and I present ROCKET🚀: an AlphaFold augmentation that integrates crystallographic and cryoEM/ET data with room for more! 1/14.

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Shao-Liang Zheng @shaoliangzheng.bsky.social · Feb 22

George Sheldrick will be missed🕯️🕯️🕯️#SHELX #crystallography #education

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · Feb 12

Well over 600 signatories now. Please keep the momentum going.

Sign and share to show how much the wider scientific community is concerned by the Royal Society's silence over Musk's FRS.

Members of the UK and international scientific community are all welcome to sign.

Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · Feb 12

Now almost 450 signatories to my open letter calling on the @royalsociety.org to stand up for its values & deal with the widespread concerns raised by Elon Musk's Fellowship. Please consider signing & sharing: forms.gle/miDciq35oxyw...

List of signatories here: occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...

Open letter to the President of the Royal Society – time to stand up for your values

If you wish to show your support for the letter below regarding apparent inaction by the Royal Society in the face of breaches of its code of conduct by Elon Musk FRS, please sign below. I invite anyo...

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ERR_Moody @emoody.bsky.social · Feb 8

Really cool project to work on, happy to see it out!

Diorge Souza @diorgeps.bsky.social · Feb 8

Happy to share our paper’s final version on the evolution, structure, and membrane binding / remodeling of Asgard ESCRT-III proteins! And my first 🦋 post! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Asgard archaea reveal the conserved principles of ESCRT-III membrane remodeling

Asgard archaea have two ESCRT-III subunits with the conserved traits that drive stepwise membrane remodeling in eukaryotes.

www.science.org

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Hopkinson Research Group @hopkinsongroup.bsky.social · Jan 14

**ALERT**

Just a couple of days left to apply for this PhD opportunity in the Hopkinson and Tanaka groups in Leicester.

Evaluating the impact of chemically reactive metabolites in premature ageing

BBSRC MIBTP studentship - 4 years fully funded

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Evaluating the impact of chemically reactive metabolites in premature ageing at University of Leicester on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Evaluating the impact of chemically reactive metabolites in premature ageing at University of Leicester, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Real Professor Moody @petermoody.bsky.social · Jan 8

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Real Professor Moody @petermoody.bsky.social · Dec 21

Crystals on front cover of Imperial alumni mag! 👍Shame the story it links to is narcissistic self-congratatory bollocks

Picture of crystals viewed with polarised light. Photo credit Christopher Hutchinson

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ERR_Moody @emoody.bsky.social · Dec 19

Wow! A real honour to be included on this year's list, thanks @quantamagazine.bsky.social and of course all the vital collaborators involved in the work youtu.be/p9XHI_26cPE?...

2024's Biggest Breakthroughs in Biology and Neuroscience

YouTube video by Quanta Magazine

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Real Professor Moody @petermoody.bsky.social · Dec 4

Thank you to all the contributors

Real Professor Moody @petermoody.bsky.social · Dec 4

Better picture!

Front cover of Methods in Enzymology vol 709 edited by Hanna Kwon & Peter Moody

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Real Professor Moody @petermoody.bsky.social · Dec 4

Thank you everyone who contributed, I will post a list later.

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Real Professor Moody @petermoody.bsky.social · Nov 22

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Real Professor Moody @petermoody.bsky.social · Nov 21

Electron diffraction! From the awesome Hanna Kwon and Marcus Gallagher-Jones

$Electron diffraction from protein crystal$

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ERR_Moody @emoody.bsky.social · Nov 20

Great to see it out! Paper itself wouldn't be possible, of course, without a veritable horde of collaborators, and thanks very much for @jonlambert.bsky.social for writing such a wonderful commentary!

Philip Donoghue @phil-donoghue.bsky.social · Nov 20

Really nice commentary by Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social @quantamagazine.bsky.social about our study of the age and nature of LUCA, led by the awesome Ed Moody @emoody.bsky.social

www.quantamagazine.org/all-life-on-...

All Life on Earth Today Descended From a Single Cell. Meet LUCA. | Quanta Magazine

The clearest picture yet of our “last universal common ancestor” suggests it was a relatively complex organism living 4.2 billion years ago, a time long considered too harsh for life to flourish.

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Adam Crawshaw @adamcrawshaw.bsky.social · Oct 31

Our manuscript describing the VMXm beamline at Diamond Light Source is out! The manuscript describes how we coupled a nano focus X-ray beam with an innovative in vacuum sample position to measure micron sized crystals and build a unique MX beamline. journals.iucr.org/s/issues/202...

VMXm – A sub-micron focus macromolecular crystallography beamline at Diamond Light Source

The VMXm beamline at Diamond Light Source enables macromolecular micro-crystallography near the physical limits achievable using synchrotron radiation.

journals.iucr.org

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ERR_Moody @emoody.bsky.social · Oct 30

Tomorrow, in Bath, I'm giving a public talk on early life and some of my most recent research, if you have nothing better to do and are in the area please drop by: www.brlsi.org/whatson/luca...

LUCA: the Last Universal Common Ancestor of all life – Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution

All living things on Earth are related; they share a common ancestor (LUCA). Recent work has allowed us to determine when LUCA lived, its way of life, and what kind of genes it had, thus firmly placin...

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Real Professor Moody @petermoody.bsky.social · Jan 22

BCA British Crystallographic Association Spring meeting- abstract deadline extended to THIS FRIDAY
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Real Professor Moody @petermoody.bsky.social · Jan 19

Applications for ~14 36-month AMBER (Advanced Multiscale Biological imaging using European Research infrastructure) postdoc fellowship positions, deadline 18.3.24 now open ambercofund.eu

euraxess.se/jobs/178170

@LeicStructBio @LINXS_Sweden

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