Come join us in beautiful Cambridge to uncover the fascinating biology of eukaryotic parasites! #Postdoc #Cambridge #cryoEM #parasitology #cilia #Trypanosoma #Leishmania

UK Cilia and Centrosome Network@ukcilianetwork.bsky.social · last wk.

Exciting postdoc opportunity in the lab of newly minted PI Aakash Mukhopadhyay @aakash89.bsky.social in Cambridge. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/56371/

Excited to share our now published paper @cp-cell.bsky.social highlighting advances in modeling the evolution of protein-protein interactions with MSA Pairformer. Big thanks to Zhidian Zhang, Olivia Tang, @eunbelivable.bsky.social @milot.bsky.social @martinsteinegger.bsky.social and @sokrypton.org!

Expanding the scope of protein language modeling to protein-protein interactions with MSA Pairformer

Protein language models have excelled at modeling individual proteins, but extending these capabilities to protein complexes remains a major challenge. MSA Pairformer, a parameter-efficient protein la...

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💯 - up until now making MD data accessible has been a real pain, kudos to @wheelerlab.org and colleagues.

Martin Steinegger 🇺🇦@martinsteinegger.bsky.social · 3w ago

@wheelerlab.org is talking about his effort to build a resource for protein dynamics (PDB for MD). MDRepo is a repository to store simulation data. This is really needed to push the needle in design, function and more. Please help make it successful by sharing your MD data. #ismb2026 🌐 mdrepo.org

"Our findings likewise suggest that scientific impact does not translate into happiness. This gap reflects a deeper misalignment: the external recognition conferred by citations may not satisfy researchers’ intrinsic psychological needs" doi.org/10.1093/rese...

Scientific impact at the expense of happiness? Work/life balance in performance-driven research careers

Abstract. Research evaluation systems place increasing emphasis on scientific impact, yet their consequences for researchers themselves remain underexplore

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Well done to Shrestha, who had a tough slot as second talk of #bunya2026 (straight after the keynote) but did a great job presenting her work on computational affinity maturation of nanobodies against emerging #Oropouche virus variants 💪

The Cambridge crew after a good dinner in a local bar last night, ready for #bunya2026 to kick off!

Where in the world is @atomicvirology.bsky.social ...

Tell a tragic tale in two images...

I know a lot of people on the fence about frontiers… hopefully this is all you need to come down

Michael Okun@michael-okun.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

What do you think, should I go and try to reclaim some of my gold from abcam?

The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes: 🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting 🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)

Is this the future of peer review? New from @biologyopen.bsky.social: expanded Fast & Fair trial paying reviewers £220 per paper The result: rapid peer review with no drop in quality or change in acceptance rate Paying referees makes peer review faster & fairer www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Postdoc openings on experimental data integration integration into BioEmu-next, focusing on cryo-EM and binding affinities. Join us at @msftresearch.bsky.social Cambridge or Berlin. #AI #MachineLearning #Protein #Biology apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job/...

AI for Science Postdoctoral Researcher - Biomolecular AI & Experimental Data Integration | Microsoft Careers

Design and scale experimental datasets for ML Develop workflows that connect noisy experimental signals to actionable model insights 1. Bridging Models with Real-World Experimental Signals Develop met...

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The Cambridge Protein Screening Facility has launched their new website! This facility, aims to enable the development of novel antibody binders for research, diagnostics and therapeutics using phage and yeast display. See our news post here: www.phar.cam.ac.uk/news/announc...

This is an interesting analysis of AlphaFold3. I don't claim to understand all of the technicalities, but the conclusion matches our own anecdotal experience that evolutionary depth is important for the most confident AlphaFold predictions. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Thermo Fisher has responded to research integrity activists who spotted apparent manipulation in its antibody catalog: "In ... preparing antibody images for publication on our website, some images may have been adjusted to clarify for presentation purposes." More: cen.acs.org/research-int...

This is shocking (but also not terribly surprising)! Blatant manipulation of antibody validation data on the Thermo website... As Mulder said, trust no-one 👽

Reese Richardson@reeserichardson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

TL;DR: We've identified more than 100 cases of apparent manipulation in Thermo Fisher Scientific's antibody verification data. @sholtodavid.bsky.social @johanduchene.bsky.social reeserichardson.blog/2026/05/28/h...

TL;DR: We've identified more than 100 cases of apparent manipulation in Thermo Fisher Scientific's antibody verification data. @sholtodavid.bsky.social @johanduchene.bsky.social reeserichardson.blog/2026/05/28/h...

How much of Thermo Fisher’s antibody data has been manipulated?

We’ve documented more than 100 instances of apparent data manipulation in Thermo’s catalog

reeserichardson.blog

📢 Funded #PhD studentship (UK Home students) for a multidisciplinary project on the disinfection of wastewater using novel technologies. Collaboration with environmental engineering firm Hazen & Sawyer, covering microbiology, virology, chemistry. Apply here: tinyurl.com/28he6ztp @dmu.ac.uk

Where in the world is @atomicvirology.bsky.social? (And what in the world is going on 👨‍🚒🚒?!)

Surprised to discover that Thermo Fisher appears to show a fake western blot for the validation of one of their p53 antibodies. I've added a diagram to show the very similar bands. This does not appear to be one of the "published figures" but their own internal data.

And so it begins...

We just had our second -80 freezer failure in four years... On a Friday evening of course. All samples transferred safely, thanks to the amazing dedication of my team. Eppendorf CryoCube is disappointing in every possible way - it's neither a cube, nor does it stay cold.

Want to do a PhD combining cryo-EM, AI-driven binder design, and deep virology in a cutting-edge environment and in an international team? We're hiring @CSSB_Hamburg 🔬 You: curious, rigorous, MSc in biochem, biophysics, virology, related Interested? DM me. Please RT 🙏 #PhDposition #cryoEM #virology

A virus doesn’t become a pandemic simply because it’s deadly.

Hantavirus is very different to COVID. Here’s why the ‘Andes virus’ won’t cause the next pandemic

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Still time to apply for one of three joint virology PhDs @cvrinfo.bsky.social and @pirbrightinst.bsky.social, including one with myself and the fantastic @peacockflu.bsky.social! Informal enquiries welcome by e-mail (including re the primary location of ours, which is negotiable), deadline 8th May

Ed Hutchinson@socialinfluenza.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Are you excited by virology? Would you like to do a PhD? Three fantastic opportunities are available to do joint PhDs between @cvrinfo.bsky.social and @pirbrightinst.bsky.social Details in the thread below - please share! Deadline 8th May 2026, fully funded for UK Home students (1/4)

Congratulations to @danielacl.bsky.social for winning a poster prize at the @isaricar.bsky.social international conference on antiviral research #ICAR2026 🎉🥳🏅👩‍🔬

Where in the world is @atomicvirology.bsky.social? #ICAR2026

My colleague @socialinfluenza.bsky.social has written an absolutely excellent explainer for @theconversation.com about our recent paper with @dalan-bailey.bsky.social identifying a new human surface receptor for alphacoronaviruses: theconversation.com/scientists-h...

Scientists have found a safer way to hunt for the next pandemic virus

Scientists are learning to spot pandemic threats without touching dangerous pathogens.

theconversation.com

Heart-nosed bat alphacoronaviruses use human CEACAM6 to enter cells www.nature.com/articles/s41...