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martinsteinegger.bsky.social
Folddisco finds similar (dis)continuous 3D motifs in large protein structure databases. Its efficient index enables fast uncharacterized active site annotation, protein conformational state analysis and PPI interface comparison. 1/9🧶🧬
📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🌐 search.foldseek.com/folddisco
July 7, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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ypriverol.bsky.social
We recently released a tool to help you with this. 🚀 Say hello to pridepy — your Python for grabbing data from the @pride-ebi.bsky.social!
To search metadata or download files via FTP, Aspera, Globus, or S3, and is perfect for bioinfo workflows.
Check it out 👉 github.com/PRIDE-Archiv...
June 6, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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nature.com
Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics

https://go.nature.com/4jGqiUc
Eugenics is on the rise again: human geneticists must take a stand
Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics.
go.nature.com
April 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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rickmartin.bsky.social
To be honest, when they're in season, every day is #TulipTuesday 🌱🌷📷

#Bloomscrolling #FlowerReport #Tulips
A sea of red fading to white pedalled tulips, interspersed with yellow primroses
April 24, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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mikemelton.bsky.social
Gray-headed subspecies of the Dark-eyed Junco. This lovely variation is found at Sandia Crest in New Mexico.

#birds #nature
A small bird with smooth gray feathers and a pale pink beak perches quietly on a slender branch, surrounded by soft, out-of-focus twigs and a light background.
April 25, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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biologists.bsky.social
ECRs can still apply for a funded place alongside our invited speakers at the 'Democratising Microscopy in Latin America: Imaging Across Scales and Regions' Workshop. The deadline has been extended to 4 April 2025.

https://bit.ly/4aXgFxq

#Microscopy #SciSky #ECR
Workshop Democratising Microscopy in Latin America: Imaging Across Scales and Regions Date: 12 - 15 October 2025 Location: Samari Spa Resort in Baños de Agua Santa, Ecuador Secure your place alongside leading experts and other early-career researchers. Applicants from diverse scientific backgrounds are encouraged. Extended deadline: 4 April 2025 Organisers: Constadina Arvanitis, Mario Del Rosario, Helena De la Torre, Mariana De Niz, Maria Fernanda Latorre Barragán and Licyel Lenny Paulas Condori
February 20, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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biologists.bsky.social
📆Deadline today: Friday, 4 April. Apply at bit.ly/4aXgFxq

#Microscopy #SciSky #ECR
April 4, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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events.embl.org
Do you want to gain theoretical knowledge on biological transitions and get a hands-on training using state-of-the-art methods? ⏰ Then hurry up and apply for #EMBLDevBio

📩 Application deadline: 2 April
➡️ s.embl.org/ptd25-01-bl
March 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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raflynn5.bsky.social
A nearly 9 year effort to design and implement new CLIP-based technologies to define multimeric protein assemblies on RNA.

Enables ‘watching’ of RNP assemblies inside living cells

Special congrats to Luca Ducoli, Brian Zarnegar, and Paul Khavari @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
March 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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pride-ebi.bsky.social
PXD039309 🚨

Detection of retinal progenitor cells and photoreceptors from mouse retinal organoids

🚨 New dataset alert! 🚨
March 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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focalplane.bsky.social
Voting is open in our image competition with @the-node.bsky.social.

Thanks to everyone that entered, and congratulations to our final 15. Now it's your turn to pick your favourite!

Look out for our gallery of images at the Biologists @ 100 conference #biologists100.
Vote for your favourite image - FocalPlane
Vote for your favourite image - News
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March 11, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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socdevbio.bsky.social
SDB will be hosting its Inaugural Art Show at the 20th International Congress of Developmental Biology in Puerto Rico June 18-22. Both 2D and 3D art submissions related to developmental biology are welcome. Learn more: www.sdbonline.org/2025icdb_art... #2025SDB #2025ICDB
Submit to the 2025 SDB Inaugural Art Show Image Credit: Amanda Powell and Elizabeth Ables Post-acquisition edited image of a mirrored Drosophila ovarian tumor showing the localization of the differentiation factor Bam (green) Submission deadline: May 1st, 2025 2D and 3D art submissions related to developmental biology are welcome, see submission form for details. Accepted submissions will be on display at the 20th International Congress of Developmental Biology in Puerto Rico for the duration of the conference and prizes awarded on the last day. QR code to Google form. https://forms.gle/Jb7ePs5s9RKkCmvU7
February 18, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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socdevbio.bsky.social
The Society for Developmental Biology has released a statement on how the Abrupt Dismissal of NIH and NSF Staff Undermines Government Efficiency. bit.ly/3X9VEKd
The Society for Developmental Biology (SDB) is alarmed by the recent workforce reductions at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and other federal research agencies. These sudden and far-reaching cutbacks jeopardize the breadth and depth of scientific inquiry—including in the field of developmental biology—and imperil immediate research goals, as well as long-term innovation, and the training of the next generation of scientists. These dismissals do not enhance government efficiency. To the contrary, they eliminate highly trained experts, grant administrators, and support staff whose collective knowledge underpins critical discovery and fuels scientific momentum. Without their efforts, essential research— including research on birth defects, which kill twice as many children as cancer—will face considerable delays. The loss of such institutional memory will also undermine the capacity of these agencies to evaluate grants, maintain databases, and spearhead cutting-edge projects. The SDB acknowledges the value of periodically reviewing and updating agency operations; however, large-scale workforce reductions taken without transparent input from those knowledgeable about these essential and complex agencies risks weakening the entire United States research enterprise. The consequences extend far beyond the laboratory bench, reducing our global competitiveness and hindering the development of breakthrough interventions for human health. Moreover, these actions, and the downstream effects on research teams, are causing trainees to rethink scientific research as a career. In short, these actions will erode the country’s leadership in the sciences, stifle innovation, limit job growth, and compromise the well-being of everyone in our society. Carole LaBonne, PhD, SDB President Ken Cho, PhD, SDB Past President Richard Behringer, PhD, SDB President-Elect Approved by SDB of Directors on February 19, 2025
February 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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zebrafishrock.bsky.social
Cross-section of a five-day-old #zebrafish head showing the brain and paired retinas. Credit to Dr. Joaquín Letelier at Universidad Mayor. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
Cryostat section of a 5 days post-fertilization zebrafish larva with phalloidin for the actin filaments (green) and DAPI for the nuclei (Blue).
January 19, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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plosbiology.org
Lipid mobilization helps growth of #malaria parasites inside 🦟🦟🦟, but does it affect #mosquito reproduction? Catteruccia lab show that maternal #lipolysis is essential for embryonic development, and could be a potential target for inducing mosquito sterility #PLOSBiology 🧪 plos.io/3Dih3JU
Nile Red staining of neutral lipids and DAPI staining of DNA show apparently normal development in Anopheles gambiae mosquito embryos from AgTL2-knockdown and control females at 4–7, 21–24, 35–38 h after oviposition.
December 19, 2024 at 9:45 AM
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methodsinecoevol.bsky.social
📖Published📖

Our new Application paper presents Whombat, a user-friendly, browser-based interface for managing audio recordings and annotation projects, with several visualization, exploration and annotation tools 🌎 🧪 Read more here 👇

https://buff.ly/3DddoNt
December 19, 2024 at 12:00 PM