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I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

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Adaptations in Plasmodium tubulin determine distinct microtubule architectures, mechanics and drug susceptibility Nature Communications - Tubulin conservation presents a challenge to understanding microtubules’ diverse functions in eukaryotes. Here, the authors characterize the structures of P....

In vitro reconstitution is powerful: we can rebuild Plasmodium microtubule architectures from purified components and recapitulate what cells actually do 🤩

Thanks to an incredible team that made this possible 🙌 @carolynmoores1.bsky.social in particular

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The Biophysical World Inside a Jam-Packed Cell | Quanta Magazine Innovations in imaging and genetic engineering are coming together to probe the biophysics of cytoplasm inside living animals.

Density. Crowding. Tomato. Tomato 🍅

@gabepopkin.bsky.social kin.bsky.social @quantamagazine.bsky.social Thx for covering the debate! We promise we're all friends 🥰 @liamholt.bsky.social & @gwgl.bsky.social

Nothing would have been possible without @gucklab.bsky.social @vasilyzaburdaev.bsky.social

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The origin of life wasn't fat-free James Sáenz studies how fatty molecules might have helped life get started

Lipids are kind of the ignored middle children of origins of life research. It's time they got a bit of attention, too!

This week's post is a Q&A with geoscientist-turned-??? (interdisciplinary folks know the struggle) @jamessaenz.bsky.social about why there's no cutting the fat from origins. 🧪

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Registration is OPEN for the 2026 Santa Cruz Meeting on Developmental Biology!!! Please spread the word!

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2nd postdoc job alert in the Crick Institute in London. Project will examine the role of motors & the cytoskeleton (actin, septins and microtubules) during vaccinia virus egress using biochemical, structural & cellular approaches + live cell imaging. spread the word.
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PhD position in my lab!

Luke Lavis, a Senior Group Leader at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus, in his lab

CLOSING SOON: Applications for Group Leader roles at our Janelia Research Campus close Feb. 3! Have original, transformative ideas for experimental approaches in imaging, molecular engineering, protein chemistry, mass spectrometry, & beyond? Learn more: janelia.org/groupleader 🧪

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Figures very much look like @tobiaskletter.bsky.social 😉🤩
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Mitosis has a timing system. If chromosomes attach properly, cells divide on schedule and keep proliferating. If attachment is slow or incomplete, the delay is recorded — and daughter cells stop dividing.
We explore this link in our new preprint.

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Chirality of malaria parasites determines their motion patterns Nature Physics - Malaria parasites move on helical trajectories when infecting their hosts. Now it is shown that they use right-handed chirality to control their motion patterns, and that this...

Chirality shapes life & infection! 😍

Beautiful work by @freddyfrischknecht.bsky.social & @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social labs! Congrats 🍾🍾🍾

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We encounter some bureaucratic problems importing our fish...Does anybody have a transgenic zebrafish line that marks the basement membrane/ECM in the UK? Would need to mark optic cup and final eye for our purposes. And/or an ras-GFP/RFP line? Thanks for looking and reposting!

#HappyBirthday Ernst Abbe 💐 Auf den Gründer der Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung!

Abbes sozialpolitisches und philanthropisches Wirken ist bis in unsere Zeit beispielgebend. Wir setzten seinen Willen in zeitgemäßer Form um, indem wir Forschung und Lehre in den MINT-Disziplinen fördern.

📣 Please spread: we’re hiring a Lab Manager! It is a critical position in our new lab. As our lab moves to Barcelona and joins the @crg.eu, we’re looking for a Lab Manager to help build the lab and set the lab atmosphere.
🔗 Apply here 👉 recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs...

graphic entitled 'Mini Motors'

New research in Nature Physics from #FlatironCCB's Henry Mattingly and Yuhai Tu proposes a different mechanism for how swimming bacteria change direction: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2026/01/08/a-tug-of-war-explains-a-decades-old-question-about-how-bacteria-swim/ #science #biology

We are hiring! Join the Gerlich lab as a scientific programmer/bioinformatician and join an interdisciplinary team studying fundamental mechanisms of chromosome organization, DNA repair, and cell division.

Cellular Interfaces reloaded: Join us for the @sfb1348.bsky.social International Meeting on „Mechanochemical signals at cellular interfaces" in Münster from May 27–29, 2026.
Registration opens in February! Limited spots – first come, first serve! More info: tinyurl.com/ypyzd23w
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We have an opening at our Microscopy Core Facility in Turku 🇫🇮.
If you love imaging 🔬 and helping scientists succeed, we want you! 👇

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