Rahul K
@theresearch.bsky.social
I run, ski, and engineer cells and materials; asking how nutrient sensing & signaling work: bit.ly/RK-GoogleScholar
🇪🇪: TalTech| Ex: Tartu Ülikool; 🇸🇪: Karolinska Institutet, Chalmers; 🇯🇵: Kyutech; 🇮🇳: IITD
🇪🇪: TalTech| Ex: Tartu Ülikool; 🇸🇪: Karolinska Institutet, Chalmers; 🇯🇵: Kyutech; 🇮🇳: IITD
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Rahul K
@theresearch.bsky.social
· Nov 11
I’d like to invite everyone working on engineering living materials to share this starter pack. Please drop me a message or leave a comment if you like to join the #ELMs community. go.bsky.app/RinsDZh
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We are hiring!
Looking for curious and motivated new colleagues to join my lab at the Karolinska Institute @ki.se.
If you are interested in studying cell identity and pancreas biology using human organoids, (spatial)omics genome and bioengineering please reach out!
#hiring #sciencejob #STEMJobs
Looking for curious and motivated new colleagues to join my lab at the Karolinska Institute @ki.se.
If you are interested in studying cell identity and pancreas biology using human organoids, (spatial)omics genome and bioengineering please reach out!
#hiring #sciencejob #STEMJobs
January 3, 2026 at 10:49 PM
We are hiring!
Looking for curious and motivated new colleagues to join my lab at the Karolinska Institute @ki.se.
If you are interested in studying cell identity and pancreas biology using human organoids, (spatial)omics genome and bioengineering please reach out!
#hiring #sciencejob #STEMJobs
Looking for curious and motivated new colleagues to join my lab at the Karolinska Institute @ki.se.
If you are interested in studying cell identity and pancreas biology using human organoids, (spatial)omics genome and bioengineering please reach out!
#hiring #sciencejob #STEMJobs
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January 4, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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I 💚 ☕️ in 🇮🇹
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(The drawing is a two color silkscreen print “Mattina Romana” that comes with the new calendar we released in December. shop.christophniemann.com )
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(The drawing is a two color silkscreen print “Mattina Romana” that comes with the new calendar we released in December. shop.christophniemann.com )
January 4, 2026 at 1:28 PM
I 💚 ☕️ in 🇮🇹
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(The drawing is a two color silkscreen print “Mattina Romana” that comes with the new calendar we released in December. shop.christophniemann.com )
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(The drawing is a two color silkscreen print “Mattina Romana” that comes with the new calendar we released in December. shop.christophniemann.com )
January 4, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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Phage-associated Cas12p nucleases require binding to bacterial thioredoxin for activation and cleavage of target DNA www.nature.com/articles/s41...
January 4, 2026 at 5:56 AM
Phage-associated Cas12p nucleases require binding to bacterial thioredoxin for activation and cleavage of target DNA www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Happy New Year 2026 🥳 🎆 🎊
Thank you all for following along here, and may all of us stay curious about the world around us!
Starting off 2026 with @edyong209.bsky.social ‘s brilliant book, #animmenseworld, beautifully explaining the concept of #Umwelt 🇩🇪: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umwelt
Thank you all for following along here, and may all of us stay curious about the world around us!
Starting off 2026 with @edyong209.bsky.social ‘s brilliant book, #animmenseworld, beautifully explaining the concept of #Umwelt 🇩🇪: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umwelt
January 1, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Happy New Year 2026 🥳 🎆 🎊
Thank you all for following along here, and may all of us stay curious about the world around us!
Starting off 2026 with @edyong209.bsky.social ‘s brilliant book, #animmenseworld, beautifully explaining the concept of #Umwelt 🇩🇪: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umwelt
Thank you all for following along here, and may all of us stay curious about the world around us!
Starting off 2026 with @edyong209.bsky.social ‘s brilliant book, #animmenseworld, beautifully explaining the concept of #Umwelt 🇩🇪: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umwelt
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An excellent use case overview of Estonian countrywide implementation of A.I. (OpenAI Edu)
📰 Tech giants race to embed A.I. in schools around the world - in @nytimes.com (h/t @kateconger.com)
📰 Tech giants race to embed A.I. in schools around the world - in @nytimes.com (h/t @kateconger.com)
January 3, 2026 at 9:01 AM
An excellent use case overview of Estonian countrywide implementation of A.I. (OpenAI Edu)
📰 Tech giants race to embed A.I. in schools around the world - in @nytimes.com (h/t @kateconger.com)
📰 Tech giants race to embed A.I. in schools around the world - in @nytimes.com (h/t @kateconger.com)
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The first dataset from the Billion Cells Project to be released publicly.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Genome-scale perturb-seq in primary human CD4+ T cells maps context-specific regulators of T cell programs and human immune traits
Gene regulatory networks encode the fundamental logic of cellular functions, but systematic network mapping remains challenging, especially in cell states relevant to human biology and disease. Here, ...
www.biorxiv.org
January 3, 2026 at 9:54 AM
The first dataset from the Billion Cells Project to be released publicly.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Grok issued an apology; however an air fryer and a Maytag top-load washer close to the situation have told us he was lying.
January 3, 2026 at 6:02 AM
Grok issued an apology; however an air fryer and a Maytag top-load washer close to the situation have told us he was lying.
An excellent use case overview of Estonian countrywide implementation of A.I. (OpenAI Edu)
📰 Tech giants race to embed A.I. in schools around the world - in @nytimes.com (h/t @kateconger.com)
📰 Tech giants race to embed A.I. in schools around the world - in @nytimes.com (h/t @kateconger.com)
January 3, 2026 at 9:01 AM
An excellent use case overview of Estonian countrywide implementation of A.I. (OpenAI Edu)
📰 Tech giants race to embed A.I. in schools around the world - in @nytimes.com (h/t @kateconger.com)
📰 Tech giants race to embed A.I. in schools around the world - in @nytimes.com (h/t @kateconger.com)
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I finally got around to putting together a quick overview of what my book is all about.
youtu.be/xPt1xy4_i-o?...
#epigenetics #epigeneticsbook #epigenome
youtu.be/xPt1xy4_i-o?...
#epigenetics #epigeneticsbook #epigenome
Epigenetics: History, Molecules, and Diseases -- Book overview
YouTube video by John Greally
youtu.be
January 2, 2026 at 7:26 PM
I finally got around to putting together a quick overview of what my book is all about.
youtu.be/xPt1xy4_i-o?...
#epigenetics #epigeneticsbook #epigenome
youtu.be/xPt1xy4_i-o?...
#epigenetics #epigeneticsbook #epigenome
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Here is our first publication of 2026 which is the first article of a special issue that mark the journal 40 anniversary - happy new year to all the #yeast community
In this #Yeast review article, Jens Nielsen discusses how Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been used as both a model organism and a cell factory, shedding light on the molecular mechanisms of eukaryotic life but also boosting industrial biotechnology 💪💪💪
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The Power of Yeast
Yeasts have been intimately connected with human civilization for millennia, originally used for fermentation in food and beverage production. This article explores the multifaceted roles of yeasts—p...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 2, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Here is our first publication of 2026 which is the first article of a special issue that mark the journal 40 anniversary - happy new year to all the #yeast community
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📆In the second of our annual reviews, we bring together ten posts examining the culture of academic publishing. Enjoy!
#ScholComm #AcademicPublishing
#ScholComm #AcademicPublishing
2025 in review – The culture of academic publishing - Impact of Social Sciences
The second of our annual reviews brings together ten of the best posts published in 2025 on the Impact Blog exploring the culture of academic publishing.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
January 2, 2026 at 10:08 AM
📆In the second of our annual reviews, we bring together ten posts examining the culture of academic publishing. Enjoy!
#ScholComm #AcademicPublishing
#ScholComm #AcademicPublishing
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Signalling by ubiquitination is... ubiquitous !
It regulates virtually all cellular processes in eukaryotes.
Bacteria do not encode a functional ubiquitin system, yet some can manipulate ubiquitin signalling in their host.
This example 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐬 !
1/3
It regulates virtually all cellular processes in eukaryotes.
Bacteria do not encode a functional ubiquitin system, yet some can manipulate ubiquitin signalling in their host.
This example 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐬 !
1/3
January 2, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Signalling by ubiquitination is... ubiquitous !
It regulates virtually all cellular processes in eukaryotes.
Bacteria do not encode a functional ubiquitin system, yet some can manipulate ubiquitin signalling in their host.
This example 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐬 !
1/3
It regulates virtually all cellular processes in eukaryotes.
Bacteria do not encode a functional ubiquitin system, yet some can manipulate ubiquitin signalling in their host.
This example 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐬 !
1/3
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Delighted to have our work on 🧬 resilience to 🩸cancer led by @g-agarwal.bsky.social & amazing collaborators, including @kharaslab.bsky.social, published in @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵
January 2, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Delighted to have our work on 🧬 resilience to 🩸cancer led by @g-agarwal.bsky.social & amazing collaborators, including @kharaslab.bsky.social, published in @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵
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"hard to measure social and economic impacts of making papers and data free...little strong evidence of long-lasting and widespread effects [but] indicators remain to be fully developed" www.science.org/content/arti...
Is ‘open science’ delivering benefits? Major study finds proof is sparse
It’s hard to measure social and economic impacts of making papers and data free, researchers say
www.science.org
January 2, 2026 at 3:14 PM
"hard to measure social and economic impacts of making papers and data free...little strong evidence of long-lasting and widespread effects [but] indicators remain to be fully developed" www.science.org/content/arti...
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Amen.
"Potential degradation of the literature by technology reinforces the value of a record maintained with human scientific experience and expertise"
Editorial by @holdenthorp.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
"Potential degradation of the literature by technology reinforces the value of a record maintained with human scientific experience and expertise"
Editorial by @holdenthorp.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Resisting AI slop
It’s hard to talk about any topic in science or education today without the subject of artificial intelligence (AI) coming up—whether large language models should be allowed to aid in searching for a ...
www.science.org
January 2, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Amen.
"Potential degradation of the literature by technology reinforces the value of a record maintained with human scientific experience and expertise"
Editorial by @holdenthorp.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
"Potential degradation of the literature by technology reinforces the value of a record maintained with human scientific experience and expertise"
Editorial by @holdenthorp.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Great opportunity!
We are looking for a Postdoc at the Center for Gene Expression in Copenhagen. Deadline for applications is the 11th of January. If you are interested in 3D chromatin, SMC complexes, and super-resolution microscopy, join us. www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Postdocs at Center for Gene Expression in Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine - Copenhagen, Hovedstaden (DK) job with University of Copenhagen | 12849488
We are looking for 2 or more highly motivated postdocs interested in ribosome biology, 3D chromatin organisation, or regulation of protein turnove...
www.nature.com
January 2, 2026 at 8:56 AM
Great opportunity!
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Preprint on the Stanford #RNA 3D folding Kaggle challenge is out. My scientific new year’s resolution is to brush up on template-based modeling. #gofai
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Template-based RNA structure prediction advanced through a blind code competition
Automatically predicting RNA 3D structure from sequence remains an unsolved challenge in biology and biotechnology. Here, we describe a Kaggle code competition engaging over 1700 teams and 43 previous...
www.biorxiv.org
December 31, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Preprint on the Stanford #RNA 3D folding Kaggle challenge is out. My scientific new year’s resolution is to brush up on template-based modeling. #gofai
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Resource Competition and Growth Dilution Modulate Synthetic Gene Cascade Dynamics
doi.org/10.1021/acss...
doi.org/10.1021/acss...
Resource Competition and Growth Dilution Modulate Synthetic Gene Cascade Dynamics
In synthetic biology, a key goal is to design robust and stable genetic circuits with accurate and predictable behavior. Modularity is a central principle in circuit design, enabling the construction ...
doi.org
January 1, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Resource Competition and Growth Dilution Modulate Synthetic Gene Cascade Dynamics
doi.org/10.1021/acss...
doi.org/10.1021/acss...
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Autonomous biogenesis of all thirty proteins of the Escherichia coli translation machinery
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Autonomous biogenesis of all thirty proteins of the Escherichia coli translation machinery - Nature Communications
The cell-free biogenesis of the protein translation machinery is essential for the creation of a self-regenerating synthetic cell. Here the authors synthesise all 30 E. coli translation proteins in a ...
doi.org
January 1, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Autonomous biogenesis of all thirty proteins of the Escherichia coli translation machinery
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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January 1, 2026 at 10:53 AM
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"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction."
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books
We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.
www.publicbooks.org
December 16, 2025 at 5:27 PM
"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction."
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...