Sophie Hesketh, PhD
@soph-hesk.bsky.social
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Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at NIH | Cryo-EM and Cryo-ET | Neuroscience | Enjoyer of life | No pronouns, just Sophie | Views my own 🙂
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doc-jlmeier.bsky.social
Great news: NIH postbac program is recruiting again! If your grad school plans were affected by program cutbacks or admissions freezes this year I highly encourage you to apply, this could be a perfect opportunity. Please repost.

www.training.nih.gov/research-tra...
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soph-hesk.bsky.social
This is a wonderful tool for customising your own 2025 Remarkable planner - had to give it a shout out.
Well worth it for a coffee 😊 ☕️
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Remarkably Organized
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astburycentre.bsky.social
👋👋 Hi everyone! The Astbury Centre is now on Bluesky. Follow along for updates about exciting Astbury Centre science. For now, we have put together a starter pack of members of the Astbury Centre community.
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labliston.bsky.social
Our paper on nurturing a #PositiveResearchCulture within your #research #team published by @wellcometrust.bsky.social gives useful tips for your lab. As well as making you a good team leader, nurturing culture pays off in building your science: 1/11

wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/9-3...
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clairedeo.bsky.social
We made a photoswitchable HaloTag (psHaloTag), which can reversibly turn-on fluorogenic dyes upon illumination 💡. Congrats to Franzi, Bego and all co-authors, check out our preprint below 👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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ezgikaraca.bsky.social
The legendary EMBO Integrative Modeling Course is back! If you want to be in this picture in the 2025 edition, just go ahead and register at meetings.embo.org/event/25-bio...

Organized by myself & @amjjbonvin.bsky.social & @arneelof.bsky.social & @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social
soph-hesk.bsky.social
Kinesin-2 beta hairpin autoinhibition

Such a tiny motif, with such a big impact! Extremely cool 👏
kattoropova.bsky.social
Excited to share our latest work on how the intriguingly heterotrimeric kinesin-2s are controlled using a beta-hairpin motif!
tinyurl.com/biorxiv15Oct
Congrats to the 2 Stephs & Aakash from me and Anthony! - Stephanie Nofal was the 1st summer and Stephanie Webb 1st PhD student in the Roberts lab 💕
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rospearce.bsky.social
Looking for a job in Britain? Check out our ranking of companies by pay, promotion and hiring practices #dataviz

www.economist.com/interactive/...
soph-hesk.bsky.social
Wow - 'If people are saying there's a problem, there's a problem.'
As the only female postdoc in my lab of 7 postdocs, this hit hard.
Ignorance is bliss, but can be harmful. Awareness and visibility are important.
Strong emphasis on working with the institution, not against it👌
soph-hesk.bsky.social
A few more minutes until we're live!
Join the videocast here: videocast.nih.gov
soph-hesk.bsky.social
📢 Ever hear of the 16 women who published findings on gender discrimination at MIT?

Join us live tomorrow at 9.30am EST / 2.30pm GMT to hear from the incredible Nancy Hopkins herself, with Q&A from 1.30pm EST / 6.30pm GMT. 📅

Videocast link and further details in repost below!
alexchesler.bsky.social
Super excited to be co-hosting scientist Nancy Hopkins and author Kate Zernike at NIH this Wednesday as part of a event jointly organized by the Porter Book Club, Women Scientists Advisors (WSA) and Women Scientist Fellows (WSF).

Details:
linktr.ee/wsf.nih?utm_...
videocast.nih.gov/watch=55349
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kmichie.bsky.social
So many people added to pack 1 this weekend we had to make pack 2. Makes sure you refresh for followers on pack one to see them all!
🧶🧬

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soph-hesk.bsky.social
Could I please be added here, too? :)