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Maxim Tsenkov @mitsenkov.bsky.social · 1d

The latest #AlphaFold DB update is out!

We synchronised with UniProt release 2025_03, predicted protein isoforms across all species, and provide MSAs used to generate each prediction.

Proud of the team at the PDBe for the hard work that went into this. Grateful to play my part in it!

EMBL-EBI @ebi.embl.org · 1d

We’re renewing our collaboration with Google DeepMind!

We'll keep developing the AlphaFold Database to support protein science worldwide 🎉

To mark the moment we’ve synchronised the database with UniProtKB release 2025_03.

www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/t...

🖥️🧬 #AlphaFold
@pdbeurope.bsky.social

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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 2d

Excited to participate and talk about how quantitative imaging analyses using #MorphographX helped see things that I didn’t know! #MGX 🌱🧪

Mingyuan Zhu @mingyuanzhu.bsky.social · 2d

🌱 Join us for our upcoming workshop Quantifying Plant Morphogenesis: 4D Insights with MorphoGraphX!
Learn how to quantitatively analyze plant confocal imaging data using MorphoGraphX.

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 4d

What is really happening with Bluesky and its moderation? A thread.

First, let’s use the accurate word to describe what Jay Graber (the CEO) and others at Bluesky have been receiving: it’s not criticism, it’s *harassment*

I’ve seen some of them being harassed for months by deranged people

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Charles Roussin-Léveillée @charlesrleveillee.bsky.social · 6d

NEW ARTICLE FROM THE LAB 🎉🍀🧫

Groundbreaking work performed by @hueihsuantsai.bsky.social and all!

Please, go have a read! Congrats to making it to the cover!!!

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

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Posit @posit.co · 8d

The new ggplot2 4.0.0 is here! 🎉

This major update includes a foundational rewrite of S7 and user benefits such as smarter labeling and a revamped theming system.

Check the details: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09...

BONUS: Join the release party on Oct 3, 3pm ET. bit.ly/join-gg-extenders

#RStats

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Ben Engel @cellarchlab.com · 8d

EXCITING NEWS!! We're searching for a new professor colleague at the Biozentrum🇨🇭. Ideal candidates are exploring novel biological questions with structure, biophysics, or high-resolution imaging. 🧪 🧶🧬 🔬

The call closes Nov 3. Please get in touch if you would like more information. Come join us! 👩‍🔬🤓

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ROOT-SHOOT RCN @root-shoot.bsky.social · Aug 20

We are incredibly excited & proud: our first publication is out in eLIFE!
"Making conferences in the plant sciences more inclusive through community recommendations"
elifesciences.org/articles/106...
This project was a team effort involving contributors from seven professional societies. #PlantSci

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: Making conferences in the plant sciences more inclusive through community recommendations

The ROOT & SHOOT project in the plant sciences has produced guidelines to help scientific societies organize conferences that are more inclusive and offer more supportive environments to all attendees...

elifesciences.org

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Sebastian Samwald (Basti) he/him @samwalds.bsky.social · 8d

I have no answer for the second question.
Only a suspicion. 😅

But I do know of an R wizard (hint hint) who might be able to figure this out? 😉
I would be quite interested to see that data.

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Sebastian Samwald (Basti) he/him @samwalds.bsky.social · 8d

Huh, I hadn't really thought about Arts & Humanities folks. In my nativity, I had assumed that they also have specialised trustworthy preprint servers already, that I was just unaware of.

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Sebastian Samwald (Basti) he/him @samwalds.bsky.social · 8d

I'm currently operating under the assumption that it is there to very purposefully funnel even more papers towards their own journals.
Which I am not a fan of.

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The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) @tairnews.bsky.social · 9d

📣Magnifying a new initiative from MASC (Multi-national Arabidopsis Steering Committee) to support colleagues in need
tinyurl.com/MASC-initiat...
Please read the document and return comments to Thorsten Hamann ([email protected]) by Oct. 15th. Please share.
#arabidopsis #community #plantscience

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Sebastian Samwald (Basti) he/him @samwalds.bsky.social · 8d

Like if I preprint something, why would I do so on an MDPI server?
And not just on bioRxiv/arXiv?
I don't want to imply that this MDPI preprint platform is predatory, but it seems like it is designed to enable predatory behaviour. Which would be another big "NO!" in my books...

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Sebastian Samwald (Basti) he/him @samwalds.bsky.social · 8d

Okay, so how are people feeling about MDPI having their own preprint server (www.preprints.org)?
I'm assuming they are doing it as a direct competition to bioRxiv/arXiv and to allow even more direct funnelling of preprints towards their paper publication pipelines? 🤔

www.preprints.org

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 11d

Bringing these shirts back for the fall, shipping in early November 🫡

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 11d

Sporting my super cool shirt from @sarahmackattack.bsky.social —design by @franzanth.bsky.social 😁

Selfie of me wearing a black T-shirt that says “biology is bigger than binaries.” It has a design with a fish, bee, and flower.

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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 16d

🚨 Calling all #PlantScience ECRs! 🚨

JXB is now inviting applications for its 2026 Editorial Internships 🌱✍️ 🧪

✨ You’ll gain:
🌿 Behind-the-scenes publishing experience
📝 Write commentary pieces
🤝 Join our 2026 Editorial Board meeting 👩‍💻

🗓️ Deadline: 30 Sept
👉 bit.ly/jxbinterns @sebiology.bsky.social

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Roeder Lab @roederlab.bsky.social · 16d

We have an open Assistant Professor position in Evolutionary Cell and Molecular Biology in the @weillinstitute.bsky.social at Cornell University. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30607

Cornell University, Molecular Biology & Genetics

Job #AJO30607, WDR-00055221 Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology & Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US

academicjobsonline.org

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Christophe 🔬 L @christlet.bsky.social · 19d

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Sebastian Samwald (Basti) he/him @samwalds.bsky.social · 21d

Let’s hope for some good seed yield 🤞🤞

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Itay Budin @ibudin.bsky.social · 23d

Very excited to share new work out today in @natchembio.nature.com on a new approach - FACES - for selectively imaging of phospholipids and other biomolecules at spatial resolutions down to individual membrane leaflets (1/n) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Leaflet-specific phospholipid imaging using genetically encoded proximity sensors - Nature Chemical Biology

An approach combining bioorthogonal chemistry with genetically encoded fluorogen-activating proteins enables subcellular imaging of phospholipids and glycans, as well as the visualization of lipid tra...

www.nature.com

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Edel Pérez-López 🇨🇦 @edelplopez.bsky.social · 22d

Nominate your amazing colleagues! 💚

American Phytopathological Society (APS) @plantdisease.bsky.social · 22d

Do you know someone making an impact in their field? Celebrate their achievements by submitting an APS award nomination before December 1.

Learn more and nominate today: bit.ly/3TRNPad

#awardnominations #APSawards

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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · 24d

I'm making a collage of Arabidopsis habitats for a seminar. If you have photos to share, such as these iconic ones from @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social & @coevolution.bsky.social, please send to [email protected]. Please let me also know how to attribute them. 🙏🙏🙏🙏

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Trevor Lithgow @trevor-lithgow.bsky.social · 25d

@UniBasel is setting up a new endowed professorship at the Biozentrum to make fundamental discoveries at the interface between biophysics and climate-relevant environmental biology
www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/news/detail/...

New endowed professorship strengthens climate research at the University of Basel

The University of Basel is setting up a new endowed professorship at the Biozentrum to make fundamental discoveries at the interface between biophysics and climate-relevant environmental biology. This...

www.biozentrum.unibas.ch

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 27d

These four pin designs are the absolute super heroes of my store. The profits from these ones offset the losses from my other designs while I wait for them to break even. I'm really thankful to everyone who's bought one and helped me make new cool art!
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Circular pins that say "It's Dr, Actually" on non-binary, trans, agender, genderqueer, genderfluid, bigender, intersex, progress LGBTQ, and lesbian flag backgrounds. Plus black, white, hot pink, pearlescent purple, pearlescent dark green, pearlescent light pink, pearlescent light blue, and pearlescent light green backgrounds

a colour changing enamel pin of a flower in a plant pot. indoors the petals are white and outdoors they are a pastel rainbow

a pin in the shape of a tree with progress pride colours. The backing card says LGBTreeQ.

three enamel pins in the shape of game changer loop de loops that say we've been here the whole time. they have either trans, nonbinary, or progress pride backgrounds

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Prof Rachel Oliver @profrachelgan.bsky.social · 29d

Please can I encourage UK colleagues to participate in this survey?

IGNITE Network+ @ignitenetplus.bsky.social · Jul 2

🔍 Survey Call - We Need Your Voice! 🔍

The @ignitenetplus.bsky.social survey to advance Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in #STEM and #Energy #research sector is live

👥STEM Researchers
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yx8u6uyx
📢 Please share to help us reach a wide audience

#EDI #Inclusion #YourVoice

Promotional graphic for a survey - text reads 'Call for Participants: IGNITE’s EDI in STEM and the Energy Research Sector Survey.' The image features logos for IGNITE Network+ and UKRI EPSRC at the top. A large speech bubble contains the survey title. To the right, a hand holds a smartphone displaying a QR code with the label 'SCAN ME.' The background includes illustrations of diverse individuals and scientific icons like light bulbs, gears, molecules, and hydrogen symbols (H2).

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Mariana Schuster @marischuster.bsky.social · 29d

This is absolutely beautiful! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@arisadanandom.bsky.social

Elucidating tissue and subcellular specificity of the entire SUMO network reveals how stress responses are fine-tuned in a eukaryote

A spatial map of an entire protein modification system reveals tissue and subcellular diversification of SUMO components.

www.science.org

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