BejaLab
@bejalab.bsky.social
the unculturables: exploratory research & beyond. EMBO-YIP 2003, EAM 2012, adERC 2013, EMBO 2024. https://beja.net.technion.ac.il/
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· Oct 12
Oceanic cyanobacterial photosynthesis is negatively affected by viral NblA proteins www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Probing the microbial mysteries of the deep sea
Miles beneath the ocean’s surface, Victoria Orphan is exploring the outer bounds of where life can persist and thrive.
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November 11, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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🌄 An opportunity to study at the University of the Year for Student Experience in the UK at The University of Sheffield. An additional bonus: being minutes away from the gorgeous Peak District.
November 11, 2025 at 8:42 AM
🌄 An opportunity to study at the University of the Year for Student Experience in the UK at The University of Sheffield. An additional bonus: being minutes away from the gorgeous Peak District.
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Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.
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I find this remarkable:
The Dresden Codex, one of the few surviving Mayan manuscripts, contains tables that give highly accurate timings of solar eclipses over more than 700 years, from 350 CE to the 12 century. 🧪🔭
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The Dresden Codex, one of the few surviving Mayan manuscripts, contains tables that give highly accurate timings of solar eclipses over more than 700 years, from 350 CE to the 12 century. 🧪🔭
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 11, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I find this remarkable:
The Dresden Codex, one of the few surviving Mayan manuscripts, contains tables that give highly accurate timings of solar eclipses over more than 700 years, from 350 CE to the 12 century. 🧪🔭
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The Dresden Codex, one of the few surviving Mayan manuscripts, contains tables that give highly accurate timings of solar eclipses over more than 700 years, from 350 CE to the 12 century. 🧪🔭
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Both are really freaking cool science
Absolutely loving these "unnatural constructs, genome-like patchworks of genes that have been stitched together into computer files by binning" (those who know, know)
Absolutely loving these "unnatural constructs, genome-like patchworks of genes that have been stitched together into computer files by binning" (those who know, know)
November 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Both are really freaking cool science
Absolutely loving these "unnatural constructs, genome-like patchworks of genes that have been stitched together into computer files by binning" (those who know, know)
Absolutely loving these "unnatural constructs, genome-like patchworks of genes that have been stitched together into computer files by binning" (those who know, know)
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A wonderful collaboration between my lab and Andy Ellington and Edward Marcotte here at UT.
We obtained lots of thermal stable plastic degrading enzymes from the deep sea (Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California)
We obtained lots of thermal stable plastic degrading enzymes from the deep sea (Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California)
Plastic degradation by enzymes from uncultured deep sea microorganisms
Abstract. Polyethylene terephthalate (PET)-hydrolyzing enzymes (PETases) are a recently discovered enzyme class capable of plastic degradation. PETases are
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November 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
A wonderful collaboration between my lab and Andy Ellington and Edward Marcotte here at UT.
We obtained lots of thermal stable plastic degrading enzymes from the deep sea (Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California)
We obtained lots of thermal stable plastic degrading enzymes from the deep sea (Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California)
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The most common #methanogen in the human gut, Methanobrevibacter smithii (aka Methanocatella smithii), is the microbe of the month in @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social
@sgribaldo.bsky.social
#microbiology #archaea #GutMicrobiota #GutMicrobiome
@sgribaldo.bsky.social
#microbiology #archaea #GutMicrobiota #GutMicrobiome
November 10, 2025 at 12:37 PM
The most common #methanogen in the human gut, Methanobrevibacter smithii (aka Methanocatella smithii), is the microbe of the month in @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social
@sgribaldo.bsky.social
#microbiology #archaea #GutMicrobiota #GutMicrobiome
@sgribaldo.bsky.social
#microbiology #archaea #GutMicrobiota #GutMicrobiome
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Documents discovered in 2023 revealed more about Rosalind Franklin’s role in solving DNA’s structure
go.nature.com/4hS2gpr
go.nature.com/4hS2gpr
How Rosalind Franklin’s story was rewritten
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 26 April 2023
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November 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Documents discovered in 2023 revealed more about Rosalind Franklin’s role in solving DNA’s structure
go.nature.com/4hS2gpr
go.nature.com/4hS2gpr
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אני לא יודע למה היצורים האלה שוב מציקים לי.
לא יצרתי אותם, אני לא אחראי עליהם, לא קשור למבול שהיה, וזו לא אות ברית. סתם אור השמש שנשבר בטיפות הגשם, שום הבטחה.
שיפסיקו להפריע כבר עם התפילות שלהם ויתנו לי ליהנות מאוסף החיפושיות בשקט.
10. הבטחה
#סיפורונובמבר #סיפורון
לא יצרתי אותם, אני לא אחראי עליהם, לא קשור למבול שהיה, וזו לא אות ברית. סתם אור השמש שנשבר בטיפות הגשם, שום הבטחה.
שיפסיקו להפריע כבר עם התפילות שלהם ויתנו לי ליהנות מאוסף החיפושיות בשקט.
10. הבטחה
#סיפורונובמבר #סיפורון
November 10, 2025 at 7:15 AM
אני לא יודע למה היצורים האלה שוב מציקים לי.
לא יצרתי אותם, אני לא אחראי עליהם, לא קשור למבול שהיה, וזו לא אות ברית. סתם אור השמש שנשבר בטיפות הגשם, שום הבטחה.
שיפסיקו להפריע כבר עם התפילות שלהם ויתנו לי ליהנות מאוסף החיפושיות בשקט.
10. הבטחה
#סיפורונובמבר #סיפורון
לא יצרתי אותם, אני לא אחראי עליהם, לא קשור למבול שהיה, וזו לא אות ברית. סתם אור השמש שנשבר בטיפות הגשם, שום הבטחה.
שיפסיקו להפריע כבר עם התפילות שלהם ויתנו לי ליהנות מאוסף החיפושיות בשקט.
10. הבטחה
#סיפורונובמבר #סיפורון
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Reminds me of this David Baker classic
Functional rapidly folding proteins from simplified amino acid sequences
doi.org/10.1038/nsb1...
Functional rapidly folding proteins from simplified amino acid sequences
doi.org/10.1038/nsb1...
October 31, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Reminds me of this David Baker classic
Functional rapidly folding proteins from simplified amino acid sequences
doi.org/10.1038/nsb1...
Functional rapidly folding proteins from simplified amino acid sequences
doi.org/10.1038/nsb1...
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Great work! Always wanted to do this myself
Design stable, folded proteins using only the 10 "ancient" amino acids.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 31, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Great work! Always wanted to do this myself
Microcompartments in Hodarchaeales: a bioenergetic engine that could have fuelled eukaryogenesis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 10, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Microcompartments in Hodarchaeales: a bioenergetic engine that could have fuelled eukaryogenesis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Sensing a rainbow of colors: algal photoreceptors🦠The diversity of microalgae and their rhodopsins🧬
frontiersin.org/journals/pla...
#OpenAccess
frontiersin.org/journals/pla...
#OpenAccess
November 10, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Sensing a rainbow of colors: algal photoreceptors🦠The diversity of microalgae and their rhodopsins🧬
frontiersin.org/journals/pla...
#OpenAccess
frontiersin.org/journals/pla...
#OpenAccess
Molecular properties of a viral heliorhodopsin, V2HeR2 www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/biop...
November 10, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Molecular properties of a viral heliorhodopsin, V2HeR2 www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/biop...
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Call for 2026-27 Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellowship!
A top-tier opportunity for postdocs (non-Israeli) in STEM, Humanities, & Social Sciences to conduct research in Israel.
Deadline: Nov 19, 2025.
Interested in joining our lab? DM us!
azrielifoundation.org/azrieli-fell...
A top-tier opportunity for postdocs (non-Israeli) in STEM, Humanities, & Social Sciences to conduct research in Israel.
Deadline: Nov 19, 2025.
Interested in joining our lab? DM us!
azrielifoundation.org/azrieli-fell...
Call for Applications for the Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellowship-2026-27 - The Azrieli Foundation
azrielifoundation.org
November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Call for 2026-27 Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellowship!
A top-tier opportunity for postdocs (non-Israeli) in STEM, Humanities, & Social Sciences to conduct research in Israel.
Deadline: Nov 19, 2025.
Interested in joining our lab? DM us!
azrielifoundation.org/azrieli-fell...
A top-tier opportunity for postdocs (non-Israeli) in STEM, Humanities, & Social Sciences to conduct research in Israel.
Deadline: Nov 19, 2025.
Interested in joining our lab? DM us!
azrielifoundation.org/azrieli-fell...
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“A team led by UC San Diego was able to mass-produce a key pigment, xanthommatin, that occurs in the psychedelic skin of many cephalopods. Until now, xanthommatin has proven impractical to collect from animals or make in a lab.”
#scicomm
www.sciencealert.com/scientists-r...
🧪 🐙 🦑
#scicomm
www.sciencealert.com/scientists-r...
🧪 🐙 🦑
Scientists Recreate Rare Pigment Behind Octopus 'Superpowers'
Octopuses and other cephalopods are masters of camouflage, thanks largely to color-changing skin that can help them seemingly vanish into the background.
www.sciencealert.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:49 AM
“A team led by UC San Diego was able to mass-produce a key pigment, xanthommatin, that occurs in the psychedelic skin of many cephalopods. Until now, xanthommatin has proven impractical to collect from animals or make in a lab.”
#scicomm
www.sciencealert.com/scientists-r...
🧪 🐙 🦑
#scicomm
www.sciencealert.com/scientists-r...
🧪 🐙 🦑
Call for Applications for the Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellowship-2026-27 azrielifoundation.org/azrieli-fell...
Call for Applications for the Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellowship-2026-27 - The Azrieli Foundation
azrielifoundation.org
November 9, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Call for Applications for the Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellowship-2026-27 azrielifoundation.org/azrieli-fell...
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🤯This is wow! Molecular mechanism of mRNA export. by @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social @plaschkalab.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 6, 2025 at 5:20 PM
🤯This is wow! Molecular mechanism of mRNA export. by @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social @plaschkalab.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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we're following closely... 👏👏👏
glad to see an "update" to > smallthingsconsidered.blog/schaechter/2...
glad to see an "update" to > smallthingsconsidered.blog/schaechter/2...
November 8, 2025 at 1:36 PM
we're following closely... 👏👏👏
glad to see an "update" to > smallthingsconsidered.blog/schaechter/2...
glad to see an "update" to > smallthingsconsidered.blog/schaechter/2...
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On the event of James Watson's death, I highly recommend this 2023 commentary from @matthewcobb.bsky.social and Nathaniel Comfort with crucial new insights into the discovery of the double helix. (And also check out Cobb's brand new biography of Francis Crick) www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
www.nature.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM
On the event of James Watson's death, I highly recommend this 2023 commentary from @matthewcobb.bsky.social and Nathaniel Comfort with crucial new insights into the discovery of the double helix. (And also check out Cobb's brand new biography of Francis Crick) www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
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It's International Women in Science Day ♀️, and I want to talk briefly about Rosalind Franklin.
A conventional choice for unconventional reasons: Dr. Franklin was one of the FIRST STRUCTURAL VIROLOGISTS. Let's talk about her work outside of the Crick & Watson debacle.
A conventional choice for unconventional reasons: Dr. Franklin was one of the FIRST STRUCTURAL VIROLOGISTS. Let's talk about her work outside of the Crick & Watson debacle.
February 11, 2024 at 2:31 PM
It's International Women in Science Day ♀️, and I want to talk briefly about Rosalind Franklin.
A conventional choice for unconventional reasons: Dr. Franklin was one of the FIRST STRUCTURAL VIROLOGISTS. Let's talk about her work outside of the Crick & Watson debacle.
A conventional choice for unconventional reasons: Dr. Franklin was one of the FIRST STRUCTURAL VIROLOGISTS. Let's talk about her work outside of the Crick & Watson debacle.
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We have wondered what a complex archaeal cell might look like ever since 2014. It’s been a long road (and the journey is far from over), but it’s a good time to pause for breath and look. These Asgard archaeal cells are a surprise! And that is the joy of being a cell biologist.
November 7, 2025 at 11:02 AM
We have wondered what a complex archaeal cell might look like ever since 2014. It’s been a long road (and the journey is far from over), but it’s a good time to pause for breath and look. These Asgard archaeal cells are a surprise! And that is the joy of being a cell biologist.
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excited to see this one with @leahtaylorkearney.bsky.social @prywes.bsky.social et al. out, bringing a truly interdisciplinary (comparative genomics/phylogeny + biochemistry) lens to our favorite enzyme rubisco
Diversity-driven biochemical survey reveals dimeric structural origin of rubisco https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.05.686826v1
November 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
excited to see this one with @leahtaylorkearney.bsky.social @prywes.bsky.social et al. out, bringing a truly interdisciplinary (comparative genomics/phylogeny + biochemistry) lens to our favorite enzyme rubisco