Der #Hitzesommer hat gezeigt: Wir müssen klimaresilienter werden. Der neue Nationale Forschungsschwerpunkt CLIM+, co-geleitet von der #ETHZürich und der #unibern, bringt Forschung und Gesellschaft zusammen, um Lösungen für Klimaextreme zu entwickeln. Zum Kick-off: sohub.io/j018.
Torsten Schwede
@torstenschwede.bsky.social
Computational Structural Biology @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch @sib.swiss | President of the Research Council of the @snsf-ch.bsky.social | Team Science 🧪
‼️CASP17 - early bird registration deadline: 10 September 2026. ‼️🧪 events.humanitix.com/casp17 Rome, Italy, December 1–5, 2026 The conference will bring together the international structural biology and computational modeling community to discuss the latest results from the CASP17 experiment.
📣 Good news! 📣 Results of the ERC 2026 Starting Grant call are out! Funding worth a total of €705 million will go to 421 early-career researchers across Europe. Discover who, what and where 👉 link.europa.eu/9M3MmN 🧪 #ERCStG #FrontierResearch #HorizonEurope 🇪🇺 @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu
I'm really frustrated by the constant fear-mongering about AI-designed superviruses. Can we focus on the things that should actually worry us, such as measles? blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/im-sorry-y...
I'm sorry, you're not going to die from an AI-engineered supervirus
God save us from economists who think they can competently talk about biology
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Can we predict the stoichiometry of proteins in a complex from their sequences - fast and accurately? Congratulations to the #ECCB2026 🧬 proceedings paper award 🎉 @daniil-litvinov.bsky.social @ninjani.bsky.social @cellarchlab.com academic.oup.com/bioinformati...
“Don’t wait for somebody else to solve the problem, don’t wait for somebody else to make the case for science.” Jeremy Farrar (WHO) opening keynote “Science in a changing world” at #ECCB2026 on the power of science beyond politics 🧬
The president of Switzerland, federal councilor Guy Parmelin, highlights in his opening speech of #ECCB2026 the importance of bioinformatics and trusted data science for science and society. 🧬
Excited that #ECCB26 is about to start! Looking forward to three days filled with exciting talks and poster presentations, interesting discussions and encounters, and, of course, catching up with colleagues from across the community.
Congratulations Jay! If I could start my career again from the beginning, your group would be my first choice.
Some exciting news: I'm joining the University of Lausanne @unil.bsky.social @dbc-unil.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor next month 🎉 My group will work on context-aware deep learning for protein structure, interaction & design. Postdoc and PhD openings coming soon - keep an eye out!
What is the state-of-the-art in predicting protein and RNA structures, immune and ligand complexes? Find out at the CASP17 Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction conference in Rome, Italy, December 1–5, 2026. EARLY REGISTRATION ENDS SEPTEMBER 10, 2026. events.humanitix.com/casp17 🧪 #AI
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CASP17 - Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction 3D Structure of Proteins, RNA, and Complexes, Immune Complexes, Ligand Binding, Conformational Ensembles
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The daily global average sea surface temperature has reached its highest level on record. On 22 August 2026, data from the #CopernicusClimate showed 21.1°C, exceeding the previous record set in March 2024. 🔗Read the press release: climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-d... @ecmwf.int ⬇️
Book review 📚 Why AI systems are most useful as designers of new scientific tools go.nature.com/45wbMJK
Why AI systems are most useful as designers of new scientific tools
History shows that breakthroughs are often sparked by innovative instruments, and AI’s ability to help design them might be its most important scientific contribution.
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The Trump Admin’s attack on science hurts American lives directly with public health pseudoscience & climate change denialism. Fighting back against the Trump Admin isn’t just a fight for science - it’s also a fight for every American. Article: zurl.co/VX3UD
With their assault on science, Trumpists aren’t just harming America – they’re harming themselves | Jan-Werner Müller
The administration is subjugating science to political imperatives, a major blow to US soft power and technological progress
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Europe always chooses science and partnership. Japan too. Japan is now officially associated with Horizon Europe. This means Japanese researchers and organisations can take part in the world's largest public research and innovation programme. Let's break new frontiers together.
One month left to apply!! 🧪 @biozentrum.unibas.ch seeks a group👩🔬 exploring molecular questions relevant to climate 🌍, including biogeochemical cycles (e.g., carbon, nitrogen) ♻️, bioenergetic energy conversion (e.g., photosynthesis, chemosynthesis) ☀️⚗️, and the adaptation to environmental change 🌊🌡️🦠🌾
Super excited to launch this search for a new endowed professor at the @biozentrum.unibas.ch! Join us to build a research cluster in Climate Biophysics! 🌍🌊🌾🔬🧪 This is a unique opportunity to create a community in Basel🇨🇭working together on this timely topic! ⏳🌡️ Questions? Please reach out! 👩🔬👨🔬
📣 Mise au concours Ambizione: Pour les chercheuses·eurs en début de carrière qui souhaitent réaliser et diriger un projet planifié de manière autonome. Pour en savoir plus, participez à l’événement en ligne le 13.08.2026. 📆 Délai de soumission : 03.11.2026 ➡️ Plus d'info : sohub.io/dpm4
📣 #OpenCall: Ambizione Ambizione grants are aimed at early-career researchers who wish to conduct and lead a project of their own. Interested in learning more about this call? Take part in our online info event on 13 August 2026. 📆 Submission deadline: 3 November 2026 ➡️ Read more: sohub.io/806i
📣 Ausschreibung Ambizione: Für Forschende in frühen Karrierephasen, die selbstständig ein Projekt durchführen und leiten möchten. Sie möchten mehr erfahren? Nehmen Sie an unserer Online-Infoveranstaltung vom 13.08.2026 teil! 📆 Eingabefrist: 03.11.2026 ➡️ Mehr dazu: sohub.io/c9nc
Die Geisteswissenschaften und die Öffentlichkeit – Szenen einer Legitimationskrise Mein Aufsatz über die Forderung, Geisteswissenschaften sollten öffentlicher sein oder sich verweigern, und über die Angst, Richard David Precht zu werden, ist erschienen (open access). brill.com/edcollchap-o...
'Google DeepMind has dismantled the team behind AlphaFold, its Nobel Prize-winning AI system for predicting protein structures, as the company overhauls the research strategy that made it one of the world’s leading AI laboratories.' www.ft.com/content/61b2...
Google DeepMind dismantles Nobel-winning AlphaFold team in strategy shift
Landmark project that solved protein folding gives way to a wider race to build AI systems for scientific discovery
ft.com
Japan has officially become Horizon Europe's 23rd associated country, giving its researchers direct access to EU funding in Pillar 2 consortia. It is the most populous nation to join the programme so far, following New Zealand, Canada and South Korea: sciencebusiness.net/news/horizon...
Japan and EU sign off Horizon Europe association
Japan has officially signed off a deal that associates the country to Horizon Europe, allowing Japanese researchers to apply to some of the programme on an equal basis to Europeans. The deal is the la...
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More on the Trump / Kratsios "Golden Age of Science" report, from @theverge.com
The tech-broification of American science has officially begun
Trump’s ‘Golden Age’ of American science starts with dismantling it, while funneling billions into AI.
theverge.com
1/10 🚨Preprint! One RING to rule them all (phages)👑💍⚔️ Bacteria build giant DNA-scaffolded RNase rings (larger than the ribosome!) to shut down viral infection🧬🧵👇 biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
CASP17, the 17th Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction conference, will take place in person in Rome, Italy, December 1–5, 2026. Registration is open now. What is the state-of-the-art in predicting protein and RNA structures, immune complexes, and ligands? events.humanitix.com/casp17 🧪 #AI
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CASP17 - Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction 3D Structure of Proteins, RNA, and Complexes, Immune Complexes, Ligand Binding, Conformational Ensembles
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Wegen Cloud-Zwang und geopolitischer Abhängigkeit von den USA migrieren die Cyber-Spezialisten der Schweizer Armee in Rekordzeit zur deutschen Lösung OpenDesk. #Open Source
Schweizer Armee bricht mit Microsoft: „Kommando Cyber“ setzt auf Open Source
Wegen Cloud-Zwang und geopolitischer Abhängigkeit von den USA migrieren die Cyber-Spezialisten der Schweizer Armee in Rekordzeit zur deutschen Lösung OpenDesk.
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Why have papers by one of history’s most famous physicists been retracted? www.science.org/content/arti...
Why have papers by one of history’s most famous physicists been retracted?
Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck. A bot may be to blame
science.org
Call NCCR 6+ for social sciences and humanities published. Information webinar for interested researchers and their home institutions: 8. July, 11:00 AM 🧪
📣 New National Centres of Competence in Research (NCCRs): additional call for proposals published. It is aimed at researchers from the social sciences and humanities. 📆 Submission deadline: 1 September 2026 (declaration of interest) ➡️ Read more: sohub.io/zflq
📣 Call for Nominations: Open Research Europe (ORE) Scientific Advisory Board. As Open Research Europe (ORE) enters its new phase in autumn 2026, we are pleased to launch a call for nominations for membership of the new ORE Scientific Advisory Board. Application deadline: 10 July 2026 ore.eu 🧪🔬📖
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Congratulations, Günther! I wish you every success in your new role and look forward to working with you in the coming years. ethz.ch/en/news-and-...
Günther Dissertori to become next President of ETH Zurich
At the request of the ETH Board, the Federal Council today voted to confirm Günther Dissertori as the next President of ETH Zurich. The particle physicist, who currently serves as Rector of the univer...
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