Today we celebrated the official launch of BRIGHT, a research program funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation at DTU. Many had to join online due to the snow, but luckily our Minister for Higher Education and Science, @christinaegelund.bsky.social was able to join along with many others 💚
NEW: In a world first, researchers from @oxengsci.bsky.social have engineered quantum behaviour inside proteins.
The breakthrough could lead to new medical technologies, including tracking genes and molecules inside living cells.
Find out more ⬇️
The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased.
Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power.
Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable.
But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.
Remember this.
I would suggest that it was completely deliberate, and that he actually referred to Iceland in that section of his speech. They are starting to make 'joke' comments about taking it over, which is also how it somewhat started with Greenland. Next up, Norway?
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
Great speech from Mark Carney today in Davos. Let's stand together and build a more just and sustainable World for the mutual benefit of us all 💚
Link to Full speech here.
www.youtube.com/live/dE981Z_...
Call is open!
Even the many sweet republicans I have met in e.g. Texas, Utah, and Montana are still my friends and not my 'enemies', right?
I would really wish, that even more senators and house members on both sides (and maybe in particular republicans) would speak up about this 💔
As a Dane, having met a lot of wonderful Americans during my years of travelling there, it is hard to even comprehend the thought of possibly being at some level of 'war' with them. I mean, they are my friends, right?
And here is the link to a demonstration in Greenland taking place on Saturday as well, if you are in Nuuk ❤️
www.facebook.com/events/21553...
For those of you located in other cities in Denmark, there are also demonstrations in
Aarhus:
www.facebook.com/events/73887...
Aalborg: www.facebook.com/events/65443...
Odense: www.facebook.com/events/12933...
Dear colleagues and #expatinDenmark
This Saturday there are a number of peaceful demonstrations in Denmark for support of Greenland.
In Copenhagen we meet at Rådhuspladsen at 12:00 and walk together to the American embassy.
Hope to see many of you there ❤️
www.facebook.com/events/12052...
❤️∞🤍
You can check here if you are eligible to vote in the local/regional elections.
lifeindenmark.borger.dk/rights/elect...
Dear international colleagues in Denmark.
Remember that many of you can also vote in the upcoming election the 18th of November.
I don't care what you vote, but please consider voting 💚
1/3 To those interested in microbial iron & metal transport: In 1992, the late JB Neilands (UCB), the pioneer in the study of Fe transport entrusted me with his collection of purified siderophores from a wide range of microbes—many of them unique chemical species that can no longer be reproduced
Bacteria in hot springs can move against fast water flow without flagella. Instead, they use pili like grappling hooks to crawl upstream, revealing a surprising survival strategy in extreme environments.
isme-microbes.org/hot-spring-b...
#microbes #bacterialmotility #extremophiles #hotsprings
Jane Goodall, known for her pioneering work with chimpanzees, has passed away aged 91
go.nature.com/46QHIZk
Jane Goodall, pioneering chimpanzee zoologist who revealed the animals’ links to humans, dies aged 91
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
En "lille" overset detalje
Ved ikke om jeg nogensinde vil kunne få et normaliseret forhold til de fleste Israelere igen (medmindre de går igennem deradikalisering), men det bliver da kun sværere, hvis ingen af dem der bla. har været med til at sulte folk ihjel bliver dømt for deres forbrydelser 💔🕊️
Really excited to share my first paper from the Whitney lab, alongside an amazing grad student, Polina. Here we identify a chaperone family required for the folding of a central domain of T7SS toxins, and solve the structure of the chaperone-toxin complex. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Please repost!
Postdoc in adaptive laboratory evolution and C1 synthetic metabolism!
Location: DTU Biosustain
🦠🧬🔬
Starting in 01/2026!
Fell free to reach out if you have questions!
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We have cloned several of this size for replicative (low copy) in gram negative but integrative in gram positives. The homolog arms and double antibiotic resistance cassettes makes them quite big though. Might be worth considering integrase mediated genome integrations for these purposes.
New York Times article discusses @nature.com paper by our Rune Dietz, Christian Sonne, and others at @au.dk and the University of Copenhagen 🌐🐋🧪🌏
@newyorktimeshaiku.bsky.social @ucph.bsky.social
#Science #Research #impact #Mercury #Arcticchange
#Synthetic C1 #metabolism in #Pseudomonas putida enables strict formatotrophy and methylotrophy via the reductive glycine pathway—led by J. Turlin, M. G. Alván, @oscarpuiggene.bsky.social w/@stefanodonati.bsky.social & @sebwenk.bsky.social @mbio.bsky.social #SynBio
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
3/3 The destruction of peat swamp forest is of particular concern as they are not only habitat for a number of species but also function as carbon sinks. Their destruction can lead to the release of billions tons of CO2.
Let's do what we can to protect these wonderful species and their habitats ♥️
2/3 Orangutans are threatened by poachers, illegal wildlife trade and habitat loss. Humans increasing demand for fatty acids used not only in food, but also in various products and as first generation biodiesel is nowadays the greatest threat to the existence of our close cousin.
1/3 Today is #worldorangutanday so here some pictures of these magnificent great apes from when we visited Borneo/Kalimantan in 2018. Orangutan means 'people of the forest' (orang=person; hutan=forest), and this critically endangered species is one of humans closest relatives.
1/ 🚨 New preprint!
We've developed a robust IDMS-based LC-MS/MS workflow for high-throughput intracellular metabolomics in diverse bacteria. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#Metabolomics #MassSpec #SystemsBiology
Harvard today, your institution tomorrow.
It's all part of the Project 2025 plan to destroy high education in America.
All leading US universities depend on federal funding and tuition dollars from international students. They severely curtailed the former. Now they're eliminating the latter.
