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Levental Lab
@leventallab.bsky.social
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laboratory on structure and functions of living membranes lab at University of Virginia ; also posts occasional nonsense - views our own, not UVA
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alexiii.bsky.social
#30DayMapChallenge
Day 11: Minimal map
Population in Iceland: coast vs interior.
November 11, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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odedrechavi.bsky.social
You and the text you need to trim in order to meet the word limit
November 10, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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kiswanson.medsky.social
Ryan Moulton @moultano Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists. You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth, made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
November 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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markusdeserno.bsky.social
The “canonical” story how Rosalind Franklin got wronged by Watson and Crick inadvertently makes her look far less scientifically competent than she was (“She did not realize the significance of her own data!”). This article offers a much more nuanced account of what happened.
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 An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.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 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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pattymo.com
Gotta say, I’m not so confident that you do
Hand written sign at shop reading “WE HAVE” “CHICKEN” “NOODLE” “SOUP”
November 7, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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franbottanelli.bsky.social
They call it “hairdresser appointment”, I call it “haircut plus free one hour conversation class with a real Berliner” #expatslife
November 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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kaytrue.bsky.social
Multiple-Awesome-Colleague Alert! The first is Fred Heberle (not on bsky). His group made a series of 3-component vesicles (high-Tmelt PC-lipid, low-Tmelt PC-lipid and chol) and varied only the high-Tmelt lipid. Then they measured liquid-liquid phase transition temperatures (Tmix) of the membranes 🧵
biorxiv-biophys.bsky.social bioRxiv Biophysics @biorxiv-biophys.bsky.social · 13d
Nanodomain formation in lipid bilayers II: The influence of mixed-chain saturated lipids https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.28.685012v1
November 7, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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mattyglesias.bsky.social
Clearly the worst thing Trump has done on the merits, though obviously not going to be the centerpiece of anyone's midterm ads.
November 7, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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mattyglesias.bsky.social
College has gotten cheaper in real terms and much more affordable relative to incomes, but good luck trying to convince anyone to ignore the nominal price ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
November 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
I think about this post every day 🧪
Screenshot of a Tweet pointing out that academic spam is actually in its own way kind of encouraging.
November 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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thedailyshow.com
Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
November 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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ditzkoff.bsky.social
Homer (talking to a sandwich he pulled from the trash): oh, how can I stay mad at you?
November 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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physfoley.bsky.social
"Why do you like membrane bending simulations so much?"
Marge Simpson, holding a CG membrane simulation snapshot: "I just think they're neat!"
November 6, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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ameliacervera.bsky.social
Tumblr post by aylwyyn228: "My PhD research was focused on grief in the 19th century. I can tell you exactly how much they would have wanted modern medicine. I've read so many accounts of people writing about how they would have done anything to save their children, their spouses, their siblings. Mothers and fathers who sat up all night praying that their baby would see the morning. People giving huge sums of money to quack doctors in the hope that they could save their wives. Mothers writing about how they would do anything to not leave their children alone. One father after the loss of his fifth child in a month retelling how he had wanted to go outside and scream, but that he was too tired, so he lay down on the dining room floor instead. After I read all that it feels like an insult that anyone in the modern world would turn down vaccines, when for thousands of years countless people would have given everything they had for the opportunity to save their loved ones."
November 5, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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drnereide.bsky.social
In this splendid photo from Valerio Minato three wonders were captured in a single shot:

- the Basilica of Superga, located near Turin (Italy)
- the Monviso, the highest mountain of the Cottian Alps
- the setting Moon, captured in a crescent phase

➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap23122...

🔭 🧪 #sciart

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Look at this night, it seems hand-painted. In front of everything is Superga, illuminated as if someone had turned on only the hottest bulbs: the dome and the golden columns; the lights outline arches and balconies as if the church were breathing softly. Thirty kilometers away, Monviso appears like a giant of gray-blue rock like the sky. And right towards the summit, there's a thin, ivory-colored crescent moon. It's so bright you can see the entire circle: the dark part is illuminated by that terrestrial reflection called "da Vinci light." The photo is a long, 30-second expanse: the silence is palpable. Imagine the cold stone, the Alpine wind, the scent of distant snow.
November 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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adambonica.bsky.social
I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.
November 6, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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grill-lab.bsky.social
The Lab of Stephan Grill at MPI-CBG has finally made it to Bluesky and we also have a brand new homepage: grill-lab.org
Check it out.
November 6, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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theonion.com
Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time
Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time
November 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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gladfelterlab.bsky.social
Delighted to share the latest chapter in the mystery series on how septins sense membrane curvature. Grateful to reviewers for thoughtful critiques and @jcb.org for publishing our work! doi.org/10.1083/jcb....
Lipid packing and local geometry influence septin curvature sensing
Localization of the septin cytoskeleton is controlled by regulatory factors, membrane curvature, and charge. In this study, changes to lipid composition th
doi.org
November 4, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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schiracha.bsky.social
As someone who tries very hard tonl communicate with people the way they wish, I will now be using this emoji excessively when speaking to people younger than me. Because that is whack. If you dont know what whack means... bfy.tw/UQbK
November 4, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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schiracha.bsky.social
Eulers formula is for crystalline solids. Proteins are more plastic than crystal.
One small push from mankind, one giant shift in assembly geometry.
www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/16...
Others have shown compensatory mutes can save this nearly (but not completely) dead virus.
November 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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faldalf.bsky.social
🚨 #PhD Opportunities 🚨
🧵

How does plasma membrane structure underpin tissue development?
Let’s find out!

Opportunity to do a PhD with me, co-supervised by Darius Koester, at Warwick.
Fully funded studentship by #MIBTP.

🔬✨🐟

More info:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Interested? Reach out!
October 31, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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ldobsonhughes.bsky.social
One of my enduring rules for political change is differentiating between those you can persuade, and those who are hostile

Often, we mistake one for the other. We waste time arguing with extremists, and in doing so legitimize them

And we treat those who are reachable as enemies, and push them away
October 31, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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sjportugal.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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sykhalid.bsky.social
Quantum computers - what are they and how will they change things?
Have a listen/watch here: @timcoulson.bsky.social and I chat with Ian Walmsley, newly appointed director of the Oxford Quantum Institute: The Science and Promise of Quantum Computing
youtu.be/sPTyvBKJruU
Science Of The Times Ep 29_Entangled Futures: The Science and Promise of Quantum Computing
YouTube video by Science Of The Times Podcast
youtu.be
November 1, 2025 at 8:24 AM