Martin Černý

Russia actively used the civilian infrastructure of Belarus, in particular cell towers, to lay routes of drones.

This allowed them to provide a stable signal and attack targets located on the northern and western borders of Ukraine. They even flew into the territory of NATO countries, no accident.

🇺🇦💻 Ukrainian hackers have been secretly monitoring Russian UAV operators for over six months and have discovered how Russia is using the territory of Belarus, — InformNapalm.

They managed to hack accounts of Russian military and gain access to the monitoring systems used by drone operators.

I’m happy to share the main result of my PhD, which you can find on bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6.... If you are interested in learning about a new way to perform DNA-PAINT multiplexing, which we call Combi-PAINT, or if you are interested in the study of mRNA conformation, keep reading! 1/10

We’re excited to share our latest preprint on the mechanism of excised linear intron stabilization in yeast! This work was led by PhD student @glennli.bsky.social and was a wonderful collaboration with @maxewilkinson.bsky.social. Link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... (1/4)

Just shifted the view to the left from the original image or vice versa.

Marburg: soon to be my new home (at least for a few years). Is it any wonder I’m going there? So much great microbiology, past and present

This year (I mean previous), thanks to do amazing comments, I was allowed to continue in research by my PI and thanks to that, I have a publication and an opportunity to finish PhD. Maybe wind of change? 🥳 congratulations 🥂

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

I have to say, between writing a thesis and running experiments, I would rather be back in the lab 🥼 #phd

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😵‍💫 Putin’s 2001 meeting with Bush and talks about territory!

This just popped up on my feed, what the heck is accidentally incestuous. And am I missing something? 🫣😂

Who else has a fish on top of the Christmas tree? 🎄

And is actively being investigated/prosecuted in France.

The Truth Is Out There, but Can We Believe It? Elisabeth Bik and the Quest for Science Integrity — The Experimentalist Flavia-Bianca Cristian What does scientific fraud have to do with science communication? Their relationship may be complicated, but addressing the persistent issue of public mistrust in science is c...

If you’re a #microbiologist, @elisabethbik.bsky.social needs no introduction. Her relentless work uncovering image manipulation across publications and outspoken advocacy for stronger research scrutiny is popular.

Latest by @curlyneuron.bsky.social
www.theexperimentalist.org/sci-comm/the...

A big shoutout to Mahmoud Shoman and Jarmila Hnilicova, who allowed me to join this story! This paper would not be possible without the amazing collaboration between several laboratories and facilities of @ceitec.eu, @czechacademy.bsky.social, @charlesuni.cuni.cz
Congratulations to all authors! 🥳🥳🥳

We used NMR, ITC, ChIP_seq and other methods to investigate the binding mechanism and examine the unique structural system. CrsL can transition from disordered to structured protein upon binding to CarD and possibly RNAP in RPos.

We discovered and characterised a novel interacting partner of CarD, a major transcription regulator in mycobacteria - CrsL. This small 5.7 kDa protein is intrinsically disordered, yet upon binding to CarD, adapts a distinct HTH structure. We explored its function in Mycolicibacterium smegmatis 🧪🧲

Expanding the CarD interaction network: CrsL is a novel transcription regulator in actinobacteria Abstract. Bacterial transcription regulation is critical for adaptation and survival. CarD is an essential transcription factor in mycobacteria involved in

I am incredibly pleased to announce our joint first-author publication in the current issue of @narjournal.bsky.social , Expanding CarD interaction network: CrsL is a novel transcription factor in actinobacteria. You can read our findings here: academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

What are you even supposed to do after PhD? #phd

Michel Goedert, sat in front of a computer screen which displays filament fold structures

Excellent opportunity for a #postdoc to join Michel Goedert’s group, investigating the mechanisms which cause the formation of amyloid filaments in neurodegenerative diseases, in collaboration with @sjorsscheres.bsky.social’s group.
More details: www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Closes 04 JAN

The vault associates with membranes in situ The eukaryotic vault particle is a giant ribonucleoprotein complex that assembles into an iconic barrel-like cage. Its cellular function has remained elusive despite extensive characterization. Using ...

Vaults. They are cell biology's greatest puzzle! This preprint from Martin Beck's lab shows them docked on ER membranes with a ribosome inside. What on earth is going on there??

#CellBiology #WTFology

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Ecole Normale Supérieure is expanding its #NMR capabilities with a relaxometry system developed in collaboration with Bruker and coordinated by Dr. Fabien Ferrage.

@normalesup.bsky.social @fabferrage.bsky.social

Read more: goto.bruker.com/4iOCAe5

#Relaxometry #ENSPSL #ResearchInnovation #Bruker

New antibiotics hailed as ‘turning point’ in treating drug-resistant gonorrhoea First new treatments for sexually transmitted disease in decades approved by US Food and Drug Administration as number of cases worldwide surge to 82m

This deserves a clap. 🧪💊

The first new treatments for gonorrhoea in decades could be a “huge turning point” in efforts to combat the rise of superbug strains of the bacteria.

Zoliflodacin emerged from a new, not-for-profit approach for antibiotic development.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Last Christmas party as part of @ceitec.eu and NCBR at @masarykuniversity.bsky.social.

What an amazing blast I had over the time. No its time to finish a thesis and hopefully defend in spring.

Any postdoc positions in structural biology? 🫣 have a happy festive times, saturnalias, jules and so on!

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

"This is the final stage of corporatization: public education transformed into a delivery system for private capital."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-destroying-the-university-and-learning-itself

It's a difficult needle to thread because a bully (AI industry) has no moral compass nor will stop bullying if we acquiesce. But that doesn't also mean we don't fight back. We try to make this clear from the abstract here too: "AI cannot be allowed to drive change."

doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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🇺🇸👀 If Home Alone 2 were filmed in 2025, Trump would force Kevin to give the criminals the veranda and one of the rooms, make him reduce the number of traps, take all the pizza and Coca-Cola for himself — and assure everyone it was a “mutually beneficial deal.”

I tried an even harder example on Gemini Pro image generation and this is quite scary/amazing. I asked for a microscopy image of around 20 HeLa cells, GFP tagged 20% nuclear, 10% membrane, +1 nuclear staining, + overlap. Image below and prompt in the following post.