sarahejbowman
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scientist, structural biologist, poet, reader, gardener, cat lover
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sarahejbowman
@xtalmaker.bsky.social
· Nov 17
👋. Since there are so many new faces here on bluesky, a quick reintroduction. Structural biologist using X-Ray crystallography, XFEL, electron diffraction, spectroscopy.💎 Metals in biology. 🧪
Support DEI & women in science.
Scicomm & science art 🎨
Poet ✒️ Reader 📚 Gardener 🌿 Cat lover 🐾
Support DEI & women in science.
Scicomm & science art 🎨
Poet ✒️ Reader 📚 Gardener 🌿 Cat lover 🐾
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Best two minutes of your day.
Trust me.
Trust me.
December 21, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Best two minutes of your day.
Trust me.
Trust me.
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Your annual reminder that:
- when submissions peak, editors may become more selective in what they send out for peer review,
and
- submissions peak right before Christmas
Make of that what you will.
- when submissions peak, editors may become more selective in what they send out for peer review,
and
- submissions peak right before Christmas
Make of that what you will.
December 20, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Your annual reminder that:
- when submissions peak, editors may become more selective in what they send out for peer review,
and
- submissions peak right before Christmas
Make of that what you will.
- when submissions peak, editors may become more selective in what they send out for peer review,
and
- submissions peak right before Christmas
Make of that what you will.
THREAD.
My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.
I've collected his work here...
My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.
I've collected his work here...
December 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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NSF bio hour - NSF BIO lost 40% of its staff 😑
December 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
NSF bio hour - NSF BIO lost 40% of its staff 😑
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From 3 reviews per proposal - down to at least 2 reviews. BIO will still strive to have 3 reviews per proposal.
December 18, 2025 at 6:25 PM
From 3 reviews per proposal - down to at least 2 reviews. BIO will still strive to have 3 reviews per proposal.
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BIO reorganization:
Foundations of life
Living systems
Bioinnovation and infrastructure
"Science we are interested in has not changed"
Foundations of life
Living systems
Bioinnovation and infrastructure
"Science we are interested in has not changed"
December 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
BIO reorganization:
Foundations of life
Living systems
Bioinnovation and infrastructure
"Science we are interested in has not changed"
Foundations of life
Living systems
Bioinnovation and infrastructure
"Science we are interested in has not changed"
Come to Buffalo & be my colleague!
The Department of Biochemistry at Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo is seeking applications at the Assistant or Associate Professor level.
We have a collegial & active department!!
The Department of Biochemistry at Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo is seeking applications at the Assistant or Associate Professor level.
We have a collegial & active department!!
Assistant or Associate Professor HS, Department of Biochemistry
The Department of Biochemistry is seeking (2) faculty positions at the Assistant or Associate Professor level. We seek candidates who will develop a research program in understanding the molecular bas...
www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu
December 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Come to Buffalo & be my colleague!
The Department of Biochemistry at Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo is seeking applications at the Assistant or Associate Professor level.
We have a collegial & active department!!
The Department of Biochemistry at Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo is seeking applications at the Assistant or Associate Professor level.
We have a collegial & active department!!
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New interview alert! We had a chat with Mike Cianfrocco, Scott Stagg and Jan-Hannes Schäfer about their CryoSift tool – details in the thread. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROlc...
CryoSift: an accessible and automated CNN-driven tool for cryo-EM 2D class selection
YouTube video by International Union of Crystallography
www.youtube.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
New interview alert! We had a chat with Mike Cianfrocco, Scott Stagg and Jan-Hannes Schäfer about their CryoSift tool – details in the thread. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROlc...
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Confused by all the histones that are cropping up in organisms that are decidedly NOT eukaryotes? check out our review - fantastic work by team NucEvo in the #Lugerlab
The Expanding Histone Universe: Histone-Based DNA Organization in Noneukaryotic Organisms - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
The Expanding Histone Universe: Histone-Based DNA Organization in Noneukaryotic Organisms - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
December 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Confused by all the histones that are cropping up in organisms that are decidedly NOT eukaryotes? check out our review - fantastic work by team NucEvo in the #Lugerlab
The Expanding Histone Universe: Histone-Based DNA Organization in Noneukaryotic Organisms - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
The Expanding Histone Universe: Histone-Based DNA Organization in Noneukaryotic Organisms - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Garden & outdoorsy folk, please spread this news: The great people at Monarch Watch have a program where schools, nonprofits & large restoration projects can apply for FREE MILKWEED (only thing Monarch caterpillars eat, can't have too much of it IMO). Check it out! monarchwatch.org/bring-back-t...
Free Milkweeds - Bring Back The Monarchs
Free milkweeds for large restoration projects Free milkweeds for schools and educational non-profits
monarchwatch.org
December 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Garden & outdoorsy folk, please spread this news: The great people at Monarch Watch have a program where schools, nonprofits & large restoration projects can apply for FREE MILKWEED (only thing Monarch caterpillars eat, can't have too much of it IMO). Check it out! monarchwatch.org/bring-back-t...
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"there's a new serif in town"
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
"there's a new serif in town"
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In honor of the Secretary of Transportation I will be wearing my PJs while traveling today
December 7, 2025 at 7:25 PM
In honor of the Secretary of Transportation I will be wearing my PJs while traveling today
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Hey friends. I’m looking for a postdoc interested in studying host-pathogen interactions and immunology of tuberculosis. Send me some good people! We have a great group here! Email me joanne@pitt.edu. Thanks!
December 4, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Hey friends. I’m looking for a postdoc interested in studying host-pathogen interactions and immunology of tuberculosis. Send me some good people! We have a great group here! Email me joanne@pitt.edu. Thanks!
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there's a reason we have less chronic hepatitis B infections in the USA -
December 4, 2025 at 1:48 PM
there's a reason we have less chronic hepatitis B infections in the USA -
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🎉 So excited for the new instrumentation in the National Crystallization Center! We can't wait to set up new crystallization 💎 experiments with the new 🦟 🤖!
📷 @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social, Tiffany Wright & @mirandalynchphd.bsky.social - instrument in 📦.
www.getacrystal.org
@ubuffalo.bsky.social
📷 @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social, Tiffany Wright & @mirandalynchphd.bsky.social - instrument in 📦.
www.getacrystal.org
@ubuffalo.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 2:44 PM
🎉 So excited for the new instrumentation in the National Crystallization Center! We can't wait to set up new crystallization 💎 experiments with the new 🦟 🤖!
📷 @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social, Tiffany Wright & @mirandalynchphd.bsky.social - instrument in 📦.
www.getacrystal.org
@ubuffalo.bsky.social
📷 @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social, Tiffany Wright & @mirandalynchphd.bsky.social - instrument in 📦.
www.getacrystal.org
@ubuffalo.bsky.social
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What coding with an LLM feels like sometimes.
December 3, 2025 at 9:29 AM
What coding with an LLM feels like sometimes.
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If you'd like to celebrate the biology of viruses - or the fight against viral diseases - this winter, try out our free and updated #VirusSnowflake designs.
Please share, and if you have any photos of Virus Snowflakes in your area it would be lovely to see them!
cvr-engagement.co.uk/virus-snowfl...
Please share, and if you have any photos of Virus Snowflakes in your area it would be lovely to see them!
cvr-engagement.co.uk/virus-snowfl...
November 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
If you'd like to celebrate the biology of viruses - or the fight against viral diseases - this winter, try out our free and updated #VirusSnowflake designs.
Please share, and if you have any photos of Virus Snowflakes in your area it would be lovely to see them!
cvr-engagement.co.uk/virus-snowfl...
Please share, and if you have any photos of Virus Snowflakes in your area it would be lovely to see them!
cvr-engagement.co.uk/virus-snowfl...
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Happy 100th, structural biology pubs.aip.org/aca/sdy/arti...
Delightful perspective by George Phillips and Ed Lattman. Have a piece of cake everyone.
Delightful perspective by George Phillips and Ed Lattman. Have a piece of cake everyone.
Happy 100th, structural biology
About 100 years ago, the field of structural biology was born, led by James B. Sumner who recognized that enzymes were molecules with specific functions. In its
pubs.aip.org
November 22, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Happy 100th, structural biology pubs.aip.org/aca/sdy/arti...
Delightful perspective by George Phillips and Ed Lattman. Have a piece of cake everyone.
Delightful perspective by George Phillips and Ed Lattman. Have a piece of cake everyone.
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I have posted about this before, but...
Researchers at Pitt School of Public Health (with NIH funding) developed Project Tycho where they digitized reportable disease data from across the country going back to ~1900.
graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...
1/6
Researchers at Pitt School of Public Health (with NIH funding) developed Project Tycho where they digitized reportable disease data from across the country going back to ~1900.
graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...
1/6
Battling Infectious Diseases in the 20th Century: The Impact of Vaccines
The number of infected people, measured over 70-some years and across all 50 states and the District of Columbia, generally declined after vaccines were introduced.
graphics.wsj.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I have posted about this before, but...
Researchers at Pitt School of Public Health (with NIH funding) developed Project Tycho where they digitized reportable disease data from across the country going back to ~1900.
graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...
1/6
Researchers at Pitt School of Public Health (with NIH funding) developed Project Tycho where they digitized reportable disease data from across the country going back to ~1900.
graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...
1/6
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Are you looking for female speakers in CryoEM for seminars and conferences? Are you a woman in CryoEM and not yet on the ‚woman in CryoEM‘ list? Find your speakers and add/update name and affiliation! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
November 18, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Are you looking for female speakers in CryoEM for seminars and conferences? Are you a woman in CryoEM and not yet on the ‚woman in CryoEM‘ list? Find your speakers and add/update name and affiliation! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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A new Review discusses how degrons of different types, with an emphasis on high-order structural ones, regulate substrate-E3 interactions and how their dysregulation is linked to human diseases
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Degrons and degradation signals beyond short linear motifs - Nature Chemical Biology
Degrons are degradation signals in target proteins to direct recognition and degradation by the ubiquitin–proteasome system. Wang et al. introduce degrons of different types, with an emphasis on high-...
www.nature.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
A new Review discusses how degrons of different types, with an emphasis on high-order structural ones, regulate substrate-E3 interactions and how their dysregulation is linked to human diseases
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Here's a big thank you to everyone at NIH who is trying to get everything regarding grants and reviews re-started!!!
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Here's a big thank you to everyone at NIH who is trying to get everything regarding grants and reviews re-started!!!
@gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social Operations Manager in the @getacrystal.bsky.social & Research Scientist extraordinaire in my research group, is a candidate to join the Communications Committee for ACA @acastructuralsci.bsky.social!! 👩🏻🔬 🧪 🔬 💎 🎙️
Vote in ACA election by tomorrow 11/14!
Vote in ACA election by tomorrow 11/14!
November 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
@gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social Operations Manager in the @getacrystal.bsky.social & Research Scientist extraordinaire in my research group, is a candidate to join the Communications Committee for ACA @acastructuralsci.bsky.social!! 👩🏻🔬 🧪 🔬 💎 🎙️
Vote in ACA election by tomorrow 11/14!
Vote in ACA election by tomorrow 11/14!
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CSR, which handles this process, is no doubt missing a lot of employees due to the doge shenanigans. Be patient (I remind myself) if your #NIHgrant application remains in limbo for a few weeks.
November 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
CSR, which handles this process, is no doubt missing a lot of employees due to the doge shenanigans. Be patient (I remind myself) if your #NIHgrant application remains in limbo for a few weeks.
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The NIH passed three major #NIHGrant submission deadlines during the shutdown with a fourth hitting on Monday. There is a huge backlog of proposals needing to be referred to study sections and ICs for potential funding.
November 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The NIH passed three major #NIHGrant submission deadlines during the shutdown with a fourth hitting on Monday. There is a huge backlog of proposals needing to be referred to study sections and ICs for potential funding.