🧐 What if metabolic defects are not just a consequence of inflammatory disease - but actively contribute to it?
Inflammation and metabolism are deeply intertwined, but the molecular links remain unclear.
Our new paper in Cell Death & Differentiation uncovers one. 🧵👇
nature.com/articles/s41...
It's shaping up to be an amazing line up at the Gordon Cell Death meeting! Register now! www.grc.org/cell-death-c...
It feels like anything, no matter how bizarre, is on the table 🤬
In 🇧🇷portuguese this will be cleanly translated to "Capitão do mato" -
you cant make this stuff up...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_c...
BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
Modern lipid biology has grown far beyond its roots. Advanced technologies offer novel opportunities to unravel the role of lipids in the organization of biological systems. Build on this momentum and join The EMBO Workshop "The Lipid Code to Life" Sept 7-11, 2026 meetings.embo.org/event/26-lip...
In today’s European politics, consensus is dead, unless the topic is Greenland. Thanks, Trump.
seems like the second Dark Age has officially started
Tech lords lining up at the vet
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The unimaginable is happening in the US government, but the muted response of Americans against it surprises me. Brazilians may have something to contribute, explaining how to organize a good Panelaço (which in English is apparently a "casserole protest"): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cacerol...
„Never forget: whenever Elon Musk walks up to a podium to bullshit you about colonizing Mars or whatever, he is walking on the bodies of dead children. He yanked their food and medicine away while telling lies and cracking stupid jokes.“
@dereklowe.bsky.social as usual not pulling any punches
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Things will improve in 2026
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If 2025 was a lot… here’s a reminder: keep moving, keep flowing 🌊
Happy holidays from Foz do Iguaçu 🇧🇷
We are hiring dedicated and motivated new members to join our basic and clinical research team at INIMS (www.inims.de), Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf.
- Medical Scientist (Postdoc)
- Clinician Scientist (Neurology)
Apply here:
www.uke.jobs/index.php?ac...
www.uke.jobs/index.php?ac...
If 2025 was a lot… here’s a reminder: keep moving, keep flowing 🌊
Happy holidays from Foz do Iguaçu 🇧🇷
We have a great line-up of speakers including:
Jennifer Andexer, Helge Bode, Stephan Hammer, Akane Kawamura, Alexandria (Ali) Deliz Liang, Carina de Oliveira Mann, Stefan Raunser, Schraga Schwartz, Pierre Stallforth, Carine Tisné, Satpal Virdee, Wilfred van der Donk
#Chemistry #Meeting
CC: @gdch.de
Are you interested in cutting-edge #Biochemistry and #ChemBio? Join us for the GDCh #Biochemistry2026 conference in Würzburg on March 16th to 18th, 2026.
Registration is now open and you can submit an abstract until January 10th, 2026: veranstaltungen.gdch...
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2025 feelings -
www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/p...
That’s not politics. That’s basic lack of adult supervision.
🔬 PhD opportunities in Würzburg, Germany!
The RTG 3190 is offering 11 funded PhD positions focused on thrombo-inflammation.
📅 Apply by January 16, 2026
👉 Don’t miss your chance to be part of a new DFG-funded research training group!
#platelets #thrombo-inflammation #inflammation #megakaryocyte
🔬 Call to create junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur
Focus: Infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions, vaccines
Special interest: AI methodologies
📅 Deadline: Feb 9, 2026
👥 2-12 years post-PhD
Apply now 📝 research.pasteur.fr/en/call/crea...
#JobOpportunity #Research
Group outing - we visited Bamberg and toured the city learned a bit about it history and ended up trying some smoked bier 🙃🥓
Want to join us next time?
We are currently looking for potential new colleagues PhD and Postdoc level entry - please reach to see if our research interests align!
We have an open call for a group leader at the Rudolf Virchow Center for Integrative and Translational Bioimaging in Würzburg, Germany.
Generous starting package, vibrant and highly interdisciplinary biomedical research environment.
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Please spread the word.
thats the sort of news the word is needing right now
Several people, close and distant, have reached out to me to express their concern that my critique of the LLPS field and more specifically of the role of @hymanlab.bsky.social is personally motivated. I thank them for expressing their concerns.
Debates about the so-called nuclear matrix and lipid rafts were polarizing and aggressive but nothing like what’s brewing with phase separation…
I believe that we are about to see a major scientific conflict play out here on BlueSky, for better or for worse. I'll weigh in on this on the blog once I'm sure that I understand everyone's positions:
