Berks and @smlea.bsky.social labs also found yet a different BAM architecture in Flavobacterium johnsoniae, another member of Bacteroidota.

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

It really is amazing. Another related point is that Academia wouldn't actually be doing its job if it *didn't* send the bulk of its knowledge and highly trained individuals into other parts of society.

Always amazes me that numerate folks can’t see that if one Prof has multiple trainees in their group over a career you need expansion of the sector for more than one trainee to become a Prof…and massive expansion for even 60% to stay in academia…we have to be training them for non-academic careers!

Also, it is a pyramidal structure. Not all post docs can progress to become PIs. I would wish that there were some mid-level permanent staff scientist positions for those that would like to continue bench work instead of taking a more administrative role as PI, but as things are now, it is PI or out

As a structural biologist the only sensible hypothesis is - if I see what it looks like I’ll understand it better…

Ben Barres was a wonderful person and his insights were incredibly important for highlighting structural issues - but I feel uncomfortable that this is another example of a man’s views having more weight. Why does it take a male presenting person (be they ally or transgender) to get our voice heard?

The year I was elected to EMBO the news of that came through followed a couple of weeks later by a stage one rejection from the ERC…essentially the ‘we haven’t heard of her’ stage of evaluation…best thing was it meant I was blocked from reapplying so didn’t have to write another for a while…

You may recall, we used a similar technique to find plasmid-dependent phages, by putting the same plasmid in two different bacteria. Now we do it for all sorts of phages!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Meet Dante - he wants me to tell you he’s a very good boy ;-)