Real Professor Moody
@petermoody.bsky.social
Macromolecular Crystallography, enzymology, particle accelerators, X-rays, neutrons, protons, electrons, motorcycles.
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Dr Emma Hesketh @heskethemma.bsky.social tells us about what we can do with the Midlands Regional CryoEM facility
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Dr Emma Hesketh @heskethemma.bsky.social tells us about what we can do with the Midlands Regional CryoEM facility
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We have an unused stopped flow accessory from Applied Photophysics. We traded in our Chirascan CD instrument so we have no use for this anymore. Reach out if you are interested and can find a home for this setup. Will ofcourse only work with a Chirascan!
We have an unused stopped flow accessory from Applied Photophysics. We traded in our Chirascan CD instrument so we have no use for this anymore. Reach out if you are interested and can find a home for this setup. Will ofcourse only work with a Chirascan!
October 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Spread the word if you can.
We have an unused stopped flow accessory from Applied Photophysics. We traded in our Chirascan CD instrument so we have no use for this anymore. Reach out if you are interested and can find a home for this setup. Will ofcourse only work with a Chirascan!
We have an unused stopped flow accessory from Applied Photophysics. We traded in our Chirascan CD instrument so we have no use for this anymore. Reach out if you are interested and can find a home for this setup. Will ofcourse only work with a Chirascan!
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💠 The ACA community mourns the loss of Dr. Benno P. Schoenborn (1938–2025), a pioneer in neutron protein crystallography whose work transformed structural biology.
Read more and share memories: 🔗 bit.ly/42wNvlM
#crystallography #InMemoriam #ACACommunity #neutrondiffraction
Read more and share memories: 🔗 bit.ly/42wNvlM
#crystallography #InMemoriam #ACACommunity #neutrondiffraction
October 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
💠 The ACA community mourns the loss of Dr. Benno P. Schoenborn (1938–2025), a pioneer in neutron protein crystallography whose work transformed structural biology.
Read more and share memories: 🔗 bit.ly/42wNvlM
#crystallography #InMemoriam #ACACommunity #neutrondiffraction
Read more and share memories: 🔗 bit.ly/42wNvlM
#crystallography #InMemoriam #ACACommunity #neutrondiffraction
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✒️ Parliament has been accused of an “outrageous abuse” that is “worthy of the Trump White House”, after refusing to issue us a media pass.
Thousands have signed a petition calling on the government to give us access.
Help defend press freedom, sign today.
secure.declassifieduk.org/page/178447/...
Thousands have signed a petition calling on the government to give us access.
Help defend press freedom, sign today.
secure.declassifieduk.org/page/178447/...
Defend Press Freedom
I stand with Declassified UK - I've just signed my name. Join me in telling Westminster that you care about freedom of the press.
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September 29, 2025 at 1:50 PM
✒️ Parliament has been accused of an “outrageous abuse” that is “worthy of the Trump White House”, after refusing to issue us a media pass.
Thousands have signed a petition calling on the government to give us access.
Help defend press freedom, sign today.
secure.declassifieduk.org/page/178447/...
Thousands have signed a petition calling on the government to give us access.
Help defend press freedom, sign today.
secure.declassifieduk.org/page/178447/...
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How do protons get delivered to the active site of heme peroxidases? A combination of solvent channels and electric fields, say @petermoody.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Solvent Channels and Electric Fields Guide Proton Delivery to the Active Site of Heme Peroxidases
Electrostatic potential surfaces and electric field lines reveal that local fields guide proton delivery through multiple conserved solvent channels in heme peroxidases, enabling efficient access to ....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
How do protons get delivered to the active site of heme peroxidases? A combination of solvent channels and electric fields, say @petermoody.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Leicester Temperature 1850-2024 showyourstripes.info/s/europe/uni...
June 27, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Leicester Temperature 1850-2024 showyourstripes.info/s/europe/uni...
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Ecstatic to have played a small part in this, we find that the first aerobes predate the GOE by almost a billion years! Photosynthesis implications
Lead by Adrián Davín, @benjwoodcroft.bsky.social @xrefugee13.bsky.social @tweethinking.bsky.social @ssolo.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Lead by Adrián Davín, @benjwoodcroft.bsky.social @xrefugee13.bsky.social @tweethinking.bsky.social @ssolo.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A geological timescale for bacterial evolution and oxygen adaptation
Microbial life has dominated Earth’s history but left a sparse fossil record, greatly hindering our understanding of evolution in deep time. However, bacterial metabolism has left signatures in the ge...
www.science.org
April 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Ecstatic to have played a small part in this, we find that the first aerobes predate the GOE by almost a billion years! Photosynthesis implications
Lead by Adrián Davín, @benjwoodcroft.bsky.social @xrefugee13.bsky.social @tweethinking.bsky.social @ssolo.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Lead by Adrián Davín, @benjwoodcroft.bsky.social @xrefugee13.bsky.social @tweethinking.bsky.social @ssolo.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Can AlphaFold refine structures for X-ray & Cryo-EM/ET data? Now it can! Great collab with @moalquraishi.bsky.social and @randyjread.bsky.social led by @alisiafadini.bsky.social and @minhuanli.bsky.social. 🧵below. Code to follow...
Structural biology is in an era of dynamics & assemblies but turning raw experimental data into atomic models at scale remains challenging. @minhuanli.bsky.social and I present ROCKET🚀: an AlphaFold augmentation that integrates crystallographic and cryoEM/ET data with room for more! 1/14.
February 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Can AlphaFold refine structures for X-ray & Cryo-EM/ET data? Now it can! Great collab with @moalquraishi.bsky.social and @randyjread.bsky.social led by @alisiafadini.bsky.social and @minhuanli.bsky.social. 🧵below. Code to follow...
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George Sheldrick will be missed🕯️🕯️🕯️#SHELX #crystallography #education
February 22, 2025 at 12:42 AM
George Sheldrick will be missed🕯️🕯️🕯️#SHELX #crystallography #education
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Well over 600 signatories now. Please keep the momentum going.
Sign and share to show how much the wider scientific community is concerned by the Royal Society's silence over Musk's FRS.
Members of the UK and international scientific community are all welcome to sign.
Sign and share to show how much the wider scientific community is concerned by the Royal Society's silence over Musk's FRS.
Members of the UK and international scientific community are all welcome to sign.
Now almost 450 signatories to my open letter calling on the @royalsociety.org to stand up for its values & deal with the widespread concerns raised by Elon Musk's Fellowship. Please consider signing & sharing: forms.gle/miDciq35oxyw...
List of signatories here: occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...
List of signatories here: occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...
Open letter to the President of the Royal Society – time to stand up for your values
If you wish to show your support for the letter below regarding apparent inaction by the Royal Society in the face of breaches of its code of conduct by Elon Musk FRS, please sign below. I invite anyo...
forms.gle
February 12, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Well over 600 signatories now. Please keep the momentum going.
Sign and share to show how much the wider scientific community is concerned by the Royal Society's silence over Musk's FRS.
Members of the UK and international scientific community are all welcome to sign.
Sign and share to show how much the wider scientific community is concerned by the Royal Society's silence over Musk's FRS.
Members of the UK and international scientific community are all welcome to sign.
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Really cool project to work on, happy to see it out!
Happy to share our paper’s final version on the evolution, structure, and membrane binding / remodeling of Asgard ESCRT-III proteins! And my first 🦋 post! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Asgard archaea reveal the conserved principles of ESCRT-III membrane remodeling
Asgard archaea have two ESCRT-III subunits with the conserved traits that drive stepwise membrane remodeling in eukaryotes.
www.science.org
February 8, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Really cool project to work on, happy to see it out!
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**ALERT**
Just a couple of days left to apply for this PhD opportunity in the Hopkinson and Tanaka groups in Leicester.
Evaluating the impact of chemically reactive metabolites in premature ageing
BBSRC MIBTP studentship - 4 years fully funded
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Just a couple of days left to apply for this PhD opportunity in the Hopkinson and Tanaka groups in Leicester.
Evaluating the impact of chemically reactive metabolites in premature ageing
BBSRC MIBTP studentship - 4 years fully funded
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Evaluating the impact of chemically reactive metabolites in premature ageing at University of Leicester on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Evaluating the impact of chemically reactive metabolites in premature ageing at University of Leicester, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
January 14, 2025 at 12:16 PM
**ALERT**
Just a couple of days left to apply for this PhD opportunity in the Hopkinson and Tanaka groups in Leicester.
Evaluating the impact of chemically reactive metabolites in premature ageing
BBSRC MIBTP studentship - 4 years fully funded
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Just a couple of days left to apply for this PhD opportunity in the Hopkinson and Tanaka groups in Leicester.
Evaluating the impact of chemically reactive metabolites in premature ageing
BBSRC MIBTP studentship - 4 years fully funded
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Crystals on front cover of Imperial alumni mag! 👍Shame the story it links to is narcissistic self-congratatory bollocks
December 21, 2024 at 8:50 PM
Crystals on front cover of Imperial alumni mag! 👍Shame the story it links to is narcissistic self-congratatory bollocks
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Wow! A real honour to be included on this year's list, thanks @quantamagazine.bsky.social and of course all the vital collaborators involved in the work youtu.be/p9XHI_26cPE?...
2024's Biggest Breakthroughs in Biology and Neuroscience
YouTube video by Quanta Magazine
youtu.be
December 19, 2024 at 4:35 PM
Wow! A real honour to be included on this year's list, thanks @quantamagazine.bsky.social and of course all the vital collaborators involved in the work youtu.be/p9XHI_26cPE?...
Thank you everyone who contributed, I will post a list later.
December 4, 2024 at 12:18 PM
Thank you everyone who contributed, I will post a list later.
Electron diffraction! From the awesome Hanna Kwon and Marcus Gallagher-Jones
November 21, 2024 at 2:45 PM
Electron diffraction! From the awesome Hanna Kwon and Marcus Gallagher-Jones
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Great to see it out! Paper itself wouldn't be possible, of course, without a veritable horde of collaborators, and thanks very much for @jonlambert.bsky.social for writing such a wonderful commentary!
Really nice commentary by Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social @quantamagazine.bsky.social about our study of the age and nature of LUCA, led by the awesome Ed Moody @emoody.bsky.social
www.quantamagazine.org/all-life-on-...
www.quantamagazine.org/all-life-on-...
All Life on Earth Today Descended From a Single Cell. Meet LUCA. | Quanta Magazine
The clearest picture yet of our “last universal common ancestor” suggests it was a relatively complex organism living 4.2 billion years ago, a time long considered too harsh for life to flourish.
www.quantamagazine.org
November 20, 2024 at 4:19 PM
Great to see it out! Paper itself wouldn't be possible, of course, without a veritable horde of collaborators, and thanks very much for @jonlambert.bsky.social for writing such a wonderful commentary!
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Our manuscript describing the VMXm beamline at Diamond Light Source is out! The manuscript describes how we coupled a nano focus X-ray beam with an innovative in vacuum sample position to measure micron sized crystals and build a unique MX beamline. journals.iucr.org/s/issues/202...
VMXm – A sub-micron focus macromolecular crystallography beamline at Diamond Light Source
The VMXm beamline at Diamond Light Source enables macromolecular micro-crystallography near the physical limits achievable using synchrotron radiation.
journals.iucr.org
October 31, 2024 at 9:36 AM
Our manuscript describing the VMXm beamline at Diamond Light Source is out! The manuscript describes how we coupled a nano focus X-ray beam with an innovative in vacuum sample position to measure micron sized crystals and build a unique MX beamline. journals.iucr.org/s/issues/202...
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Tomorrow, in Bath, I'm giving a public talk on early life and some of my most recent research, if you have nothing better to do and are in the area please drop by: www.brlsi.org/whatson/luca...
LUCA: the Last Universal Common Ancestor of all life – Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
All living things on Earth are related; they share a common ancestor (LUCA). Recent work has allowed us to determine when LUCA lived, its way of life, and what kind of genes it had, thus firmly placin...
www.brlsi.org
October 30, 2024 at 6:51 PM
Tomorrow, in Bath, I'm giving a public talk on early life and some of my most recent research, if you have nothing better to do and are in the area please drop by: www.brlsi.org/whatson/luca...
BCA British Crystallographic Association Spring meeting- abstract deadline extended to THIS FRIDAY
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hg3.co.uk/bca/
January 22, 2024 at 10:48 AM
BCA British Crystallographic Association Spring meeting- abstract deadline extended to THIS FRIDAY
hg3.co.uk/bca/
hg3.co.uk/bca/
Applications for ~14 36-month AMBER (Advanced Multiscale Biological imaging using European Research infrastructure) postdoc fellowship positions, deadline 18.3.24 now open ambercofund.eu
euraxess.se/jobs/178170
@LeicStructBio @LINXS_Sweden
euraxess.se/jobs/178170
@LeicStructBio @LINXS_Sweden
January 19, 2024 at 10:04 AM
Applications for ~14 36-month AMBER (Advanced Multiscale Biological imaging using European Research infrastructure) postdoc fellowship positions, deadline 18.3.24 now open ambercofund.eu
euraxess.se/jobs/178170
@LeicStructBio @LINXS_Sweden
euraxess.se/jobs/178170
@LeicStructBio @LINXS_Sweden