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Ed Twomey @cryoet.bsky.social · 22d

🚨🧠🔬 A major breakthrough in molecular neuroscience:

I am excited to share a new story from our lab, published in accelerated format today by @nature.com:

"Delta-type glutamate receptors are ligand-gated ion channels"

Read more here (free article link): rdcu.be/eGIKz

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Camilo Perez @camiloperezc6h6.bsky.social · Aug 21

We are hiring a Postdoc in membrane protein cryo-EM at the University of Georgia. Looking for candidates with expertise in membrane protein purification and biochemistry. Fully funded for up to 5 years. Join us in Athens, GA. Apply: [email protected]

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · Aug 21

It's horrific what's happening in Gaza right now and nobody talks about it on this platform

Ramy Abdul ا رامي عبده
@RamAbdu
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What you see in this scene cannot be found in books of fiction or history... this is an Israeli airstrike on a displaced persons camp made of nothing but fabric tents.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · Aug 17

I wish people would stop talking about international law like it's a real thing

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Aug 4

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

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A. Reza Mehdipour @rezamehdipour.bsky.social · Aug 5

Thank you!

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A. Reza Mehdipour @rezamehdipour.bsky.social · Aug 5

This work is the result of a fantastic collaboration [email protected]!
@warred.bsky.social, @a-dsantos.bsky.social , @alisterburt.bsky.social , @tom-hale.bsky.social, @mrclmb.bsky.social,

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A. Reza Mehdipour @rezamehdipour.bsky.social · Aug 5

We discovered that the SUN5-Nesprin3 LINC complex forms a hexagonal lattice at the sperm HTCA, which radically reshapes the nuclear membrane locally!
Our findings also provide the structural basis for understanding the severe ASS (Acephalic Sperm Syndrome) male infertility phenotype.

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A. Reza Mehdipour @rezamehdipour.bsky.social · Aug 5

We are excited to announce the first in-cell structure of a LINC complex within a native nuclear envelope at subnanometer resolution!! #In-cell cryo-ET + #atomistic MD simulations! @tomdendooven.bsky.social et al!!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Aug 1

Photo of the Day.

Israel threatened reprisals if the press filmed Gaza from above during airdrops.

This is why. A scene of destroyed & burnt out buildings in what is left of Gaza City, the pre-war home to 800,000 people.

Credit to Post photographer Heidi Levine who defied the ban & took this.

From above everything looks grey or black. Smoke is seen rising from building ga at the top of the photo. In the foreground many buildings have collapsed entirely. Photo credit to Heidi Levine taken for the Washington Post.

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Allegretti Lab @matteoall.bsky.social · Aug 1

Dear all, we are looking for a research assistant in protein biochemistry / cell biology to support our work on nuclear reshaping in human cells. Here the link to the call, please spread: mrc.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...

Research Support Officer - Structural Studies - Dr Matteo Allegretti - LMB 2674 - Medical Research Council

Location: Cambridge. Vacancy: Research Support Officer - Structural Studies - Dr Matteo Allegretti - LMB 2674. Closing Date: 31/08/2025, 23:55

mrc.tal.net

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · Jul 29

Palestinian activist Odeh Hadalin (a.k.a. Awdah Hathaleen), who was featured in the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, was shot to death in the West Bank on Monday.

'No Other Land' Contributor Odeh Hadalin Killed in West Bank Settler Attack

Odeh Hadalin, a contributor to the Oscar-winning documentary 'No Other Land,' was reportedly killed in an attack by Israeli settlers in the West Bank.

www.rollingstone.com

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RL Stine Action @anothersmd.bsky.social · Jul 27

this is what beit hanoun looked like (from arabi21.com/story/155862...)

an aerial shot overlooking a city of medium density buildings interpersed with greenery, and to the right a large green area

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Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · Jul 11

having blown up all the hospitals in Gaza and normalised killing starving people who are queuing for food, this: killing women and children queuing for supplements at a medical centre.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

Women and children among 15 killed in Gaza medical centre strike

Health authorities in Gaza have accused Israeli forces of killing women and children queuing for supplements and medicine near a medical centre in the strip.

www.abc.net.au

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Noura watermelon mafia thank you very much @sonourable.bsky.social · Jun 16

The occupation admitting to war crimes

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · Jun 16

Israel’s Defense Minister confirms the Israeli strike on Iran’s state broadcaster.

He writes: “The Iranian regime’s propaganda and incitement broadcasting authority was attacked by the IDF.”

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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · Jun 13

Israel's attack on Iran, yet another demonstration of its contempt for international law, was also a smokescreen for yet another step in the ethnic cleansing and annexation of the West Bank. Israel is laughing in the face of the West's fake support of the 2 state solution

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A. Reza Mehdipour @rezamehdipour.bsky.social · Jun 6

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A. Reza Mehdipour @rezamehdipour.bsky.social · May 30

Well AF paper says less than 35%

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Ruwa Romman @ruwaromman.bsky.social · May 20

Babies can only have milk. They can’t even have water. Since Israel is banning all aid including baby formula, these babies will die. And since Israel is also starving everyone in Gaza, moms can’t nurse their babies either. They’re just watching their babies die as they die to.

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · May 20

14,000 babies are at risk of dying in the next 48 hours in Gaza if aid doesn’t reach them, warns Tom Fletcher, the UN’s under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs – a figure he called “utterly chilling.”

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/x26ghx

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Al Quds News Network @alqudsnewsnet.bsky.social · May 16

Breaking | Israeli occupation drones set fire to the tents of displaced Palestinians in Jabalia refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip.
#Gaza

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Tom Fletcher @tomfletcherun.bsky.social · May 14

So, for those killed and those whose voices are silenced: what more evidence do you need?

Will you act now – decisively – to prevent genocide in Gaza and to ensure respect for international humanitarian law?

This Council must prevail. Demand this ends.

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A. Reza Mehdipour @rezamehdipour.bsky.social · May 12

Finally, it's out in Nat Commun! Excellent collaboration with my colleagues and friends in Frankfurt, especially @ihaenelt.bsky.social and Janet Vonck.
This work demonstrates the role of the intrinsically disordered N-terminus of KtrAB in channel opening.

Full story here: rdcu.be/elDYO

A short intrinsically disordered region at KtrB’s N-terminus facilitates allosteric regulation of K+ channel KtrAB

Nature Communications - KtrAB is a major potassium uptake system that has been linked to the pathogenesis of many infectious bacteria. Here the authors show that KtrB from Vibrio alginolyticus...

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · May 7

Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...

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Siewert-Jan Marrink @cg-martini.bsky.social · Apr 28

Pre-announcement: MARTINI tutorial workshop, August 11-15th 2025 in Groningen, The Netherlands !!
Learn basic and advanced Martini from the cocktail masters themselves. Registration will open soon.

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Arne Möller @arnemoeller.bsky.social · Apr 28

Dear all,

I am very excited about the upcoming 842 WE-Heraeus-Seminar #Cryo-EM on the Move. @djanuliene.bsky.social and I are looking forward to a great conference with many exciting speakers!

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