Glycan recognition by a plant damage-sensing immune receptor: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... A pair of chitosan receptors confer broad-spectrum fungal resistance www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Structural basis for size-selective perception of chitin in plants: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Glycan recognition by a plant damage-sensing immune receptor

Pathogens target and degrade the extracellular matrix surrounding plant cells. A central question is how cell wall–derived damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) are recognized and integrated to...

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This brilliant IDP paper from Richard Kriwacki, Peter Wright et al was published OTD 30 years ago Structural studies of p21Waf1/Cip1/Sdi1 in the free and Cdk2-bound state: conformational disorder mediates binding diversity doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Can the LLM-based AI agents that are supposed to be able to help with scientific research distinguish real work from pseudoscience, from fraud, or from long-discredited retracted starting papers? Take a guess.

How LLMs Deal With Fraudulent Papers

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@rollingstone.com and @katherineeban.bsky.social keep crushing it with their reporting 👏

Katherine Eban@katherineeban.bsky.social · 2d ago

SCOOP 🚨: Expiring grant $$ drove CDC officials and Danish researchers to push last month for a hasty vote from a U. of Southern Denmark ethics panel to approve a controversial Hep B vax clinical trial in Guinea-Bissau. New in @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Potentially controversial #TeamMassSpec #glycotime statement: it's time to start using ETD-based methods over HCD for both N- & O-glycopeptides A new @riley-research.bsky.social preprint led by Dr Haley Schramm speeds up ETD scan acquisition to make it the MS/MS method of choice for glycoproteomics

bioRxiv SysBio@biorxiv-sysbio.bsky.social · 2d ago

Unifying N- and O-glycopeptide dissociation methods with expedient electron transfer dissociation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.12.758703v1

Tip: today's #wordle is brought you by notable world leaders and politicians in the news today

Homer Simpson: Wordle Solved!

Alt: Homer Simpson running on green hills saying Wordle Solved!

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Would be nice if someone from the actual Labour government could say things like this so clearly

GylesNaMopaleen@gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 3d ago

This is quite extraordinary. I don't think I have heard a more coherent, articulate and accurate deconstruction & demolition of Nigel Farage's ReformUK, Tory & Restore policy than this. In under 85 seconds! @rafaelbehr.bsky.social is on here folks and worth a follow.

Do you want to be my colleague? We are recruiting a tenured #Associate #Professor in #Biochemistry to the Department of Chemistry for Life Sciences at #Uppsala University. Deadline for application November 20. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

In the lab, bleached corals recovered within just seven weeks of being put in brief contact with healthy corals. ➡️ https://l.euronews.com/OJKa

“To be out of the cell was amazing. It literally, literally allows you to escape.” 📚The power of reading.📚 www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

The Book That Changed My Life review – these joyful tales of the power of reading are TV magic

Wonderful, exuberant stories spill out in these honest tales of lives genuinely transformed by literature – while Queen Camilla has an off-with-their-heads moment

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LoL-align is out in @natmethods.nature.com! It aligns protein structures without superposition. More sensitive than TM-align and DALI, producing better alignments 5–20× faster. Now available in Foldseek! 📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 💾 github.com/steineggerlab/foldseek 🌐 search.foldseek.com

Apologies forgot to post this yday. Larry might look a lil worse for wear but he's still napping, stretching and patrolling. he has been having treatment for his cysts for some time. so none of this is new. but he is ok and doing his usual. all is well folks

We are here today because the Government made an active choice to prioritise fast food restaurants and data centres and not to prioritise teachers, nurses, carers, Gardaí and the rest of us who keep the state running.

We are on strike today, so you don't get a Maths Week Joke. I will give you a picture of a Möbius strip, which may be a good symbol for collective negotiations: it is never two-faced and if you try to divide it by splitting it down the middle, it remains united!

"Estonia has shown that it is possible to buck that trend. A 2022 doctoral education reform replaced a student stipend of around €8,000 a year with a salary of about 2.5 times that amount, boosting applications for doctoral positions" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Guardian obituary for biochemist and crystallographer Ada Yonath, née Lifshitz (1939-2026) who won a Nobel Prize for mapping the ribosome #chemsky 🧪 www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Ada Yonath obituary

Nobel prizewinning biochemist who succeeded against the odds in mapping the ribosome

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I'm dying laughing at how the cat has conformed to her flower shaped bed today

Today’s health challenges are too big for any one organization to solve alone. That’s why WHO is announcing Together for Science & Health — a global movement to turn trusted science into healthier lives for everyone, everywhere. 🔗 bit.ly/4ea2PKJ

Fellow Blueys! (Bleeps? Blueps?) Someone asked me for a recommendation for reading on critical thinking, the scientific method, research practices, or really anything solid and accessible on the subject of analysing claims. Any suggestions?

A small precision regarding the LBTDays. If you want to submit an abstract, do it right after filling the registration form. We won't be able to accept all the applications (as the IBPC library is too small), so we need to know if you'd like to share your work during the meeting.

Dr. Hab Sophie Sacquin-Mora@sacquin-mo.eurosky.social · 4d ago

We also kept a few slots for young researchers (PhD students and postdocs, so do not hesitate to submit an abstract (after registering) here: lbtdays2026.sciencesconf.org/user/submit

I literally saved this video earlier.

This is completely insane, like so many other things associated with the all-in AI cultists. Just because it can bang out ugly-but-usable code for you does not mean it’s about to be able to rewire your cells, you fools.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 3d ago

"AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer, says Palantir CTO"

It is so so so so so so unbelievably evil to manufacture an abuse-enabling product, and then intentionally chain that product to the function of a disability aid as a marketing / regulatory delay tactic. It blows my mind how evil that is. Meta is the worst

In 2026, the LBTDays will take you on a journey across the cellular world using the computational microscope ! The meeting's website is now online. Due to space limitation in the IBPC library, registration is mandatory : lbtdays2026.sciencesconf.org

Spikevaxxed 💪🏻 My cells are now busy busy making the furry Spike shown with dark Casalino-blue glycans (fig 2, right) 😎🧪

(They) finish their draft to avoid being overshadowed by an OpenAI press release (..) and posted a 95-page paper online with a disclaimer “The current version of the manuscript is complete mathematically, but it is not in the shape we wished to share in.” www.quantamagazine.org/as-ai-closed...

As AI Closed In on ‘Unique Games’ Proof, Researchers Raced to Beat the Machines | Quanta Magazine

In the shadow of a rumored AI proof of one of the biggest problems in their field, three computer scientists rushed to publish their own milestone result.

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Genuinely inspiring! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

Family turns bare island into reef oasis after guano mining destroys it

Lady Elliot Island sat bare, bleak and silent for 100 years after guano miners ravaged it, leaving a moonscape devoid of life. Then in the 1960s, one family started planting trees.

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Dahlias breakout (big pink and yellow) and liquid desire (pink, purple, yellow) have been a gift that keeps on giving since the end of August 😍 and still going 🌱

What amazing biased illogic that the only party which did better in the by-election is the one all the mass media are saying failed and it's leader should resign ... meme via Dianne Drew

The GoAT 🐐 wins the Melbourne Marathon breaking the course record at 2h09.10 changing gears mid race at around 2:14 x km, absolute legend 😎🎉🌈🔝🎩

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 5d ago

‘My body is still peaking’: Eliud Kipchoge wins first marathon in three years