I am hiring a computational postdoctoral fellow or bioinformatics scientist! Please apply here if interested, or share with anyone who may be. This position will be following up on our work studying the virus-host conflict. Reposts appreciated! aithyra.onlyfy.jobs/en/job/v2gwu...

Postdoctoral Fellow or Bioinformatics Scientist, Nomburg Lab (all genders)

About AITHYRAAITHYRA is a pioneering biomedical research institute in Vienna, Austria, where artificial intelligence meets life sciences to drive the next biological revolution. AITHYRA is an institut

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Jason Nomburg@jnoms.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ad forthcoming, but I am hiring for a postdoc or staff scientist to advance related investigations of the virus-host conflict. This position is ~80-100% computational, but with opportunities for experimental work if desired. If interested, shoot me an email with your CV! Reposts appreciated! 15/15

Happy to share the first preprint out of the Nomburg lab! Many aspects of cellular immunity are shared across the tree of life. Here, we show that some of these conserved aspects of cellular immunity are mirrored by conserved effectors of immune antagonism. Thread below! 1/15

bioRxiv Microbiology@biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 2w ago

Conserved folds enable immune antagonism across the tree of life https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.21.739742v1

How do you indicate in a slide deck that an image is AI-generated (and not real data or human-made artwork) in a clear yet unobtrusive way? Today I saw a great solution: a small astroid (the geometric shape, not an asteroid), similar to the Gemini logo. Simple, subtle, and easily recognizable.

This is so cool live.infrared.city

Liebe Autofahrer:innen, in Straßen wie diesen könnt und dürft ihr nicht überholen, weil der Mindestabstand (1,5 Meter) nicht eingehalten werden kann. Also entspannt euch, nehmt den Fuß vom Gas und fahrt brav hinterher. Und zwar nicht nur am #Weltfahrradtag. #WorldBicycleDay

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)

The 2026 West Nile virus season is underway. Our first weekly seasonal surveillance report is now available. As of 27 May 2026, one human case of West Nile virus infection has been reported in Europe, from North Macedonia. wnv-weekly.ecdc.europa.eu #IDsky #EpiSky #PublicHealth #WestNileVirus

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Science sleuths uncover more than 100 suspicious images in Thermo Fisher antibody catalogue

Scientists have long worried about the reliability of commercial antibodies, and the latest findings have sparked fresh concerns.

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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

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Around 21,000 demonstrators gathered in Vienna today to protest the budget cuts for public universities #UnisRetten

Big demonstration planned for tomorrow to protest the Austrian government’s proposed budget cuts for public universities #UnisRetten

MedUni Wien@meduniwien.ac.at · 3mo ago

📢 #unisretten Die geplanten Kürzungen der Universitätsbudgets bedrohen Forschung, Lehre und Innovation in Österreich. Deshalb gehen die österreichischen Universitäten gemeinsam auf die Straße: 📍 27. Mai 2026 | 13 Uhr 📌 Hauptgebäude der @univie.ac.at​ Gemeinsam ein Zeichen für Universitäten. ✊

How do sperm and egg fuse? Surprisingly, we still don’t fully know… Our field has uncovered many pieces of the fertilization puzzle, but not how they fit together. We identify ✨ SPARK ✨ - a conserved sperm complex that couples sperm-egg binding to fusion. tinyurl.com/34cm4xat Read on! 🧵👇

#thermogate

Reese Richardson@reeserichardson.bsky.social · 3mo ago

@johanduchene.bsky.social @sholtodavid.bsky.social Spent the last hour looking, found ten more apparently manipulated Western blots in Thermo Fisher's antibody verification data (across eight different catalogued products). Thread below. www.thermofisher.com/antibody/pro...

Excited to share our discovery of a new programmable RNA-guided DNA-targeting system hiding inside bacteriophages that predates CRISPR. We call it VIPR (Viral Interference Programmable Repeat), and it uses an entirely new logic to find its targets. Thread + link below.

The number of grant applications is rising sharply. Our capacity for their evaluation isn’t. ERC President Maria Leptin explains why stricter resubmission limits are being introduced for 2027 calls and what they mean for applicants. 🔗 link.europa.eu/xF7kjc

ERC President explains stricter application measures amid rising demand for funding

The text of an open letter sent by ERC President Maria Leptin to ERC panel members, grantees and other stakeholders on 16 April 2026.

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#Artemis II - We have the first image from yesterdays Lunar flyby captured by the crew on Orion EARTHSET. April 6, 2026. Humanity, from the other side. First photo from the far side of the Moon. Captured from Orion as Earth dips beyond the lunar horizon. 🚀🌕🌍

Our newest piece of lab equipment: Bio-Rad’s “Buffer C dispenser”, developed in cooperation with De’Longhi. A discreet bench-top device that won’t raise suspicions with the lab safety officers.

Exciting job offer: PhD Program Manager. Lead recruitment, support PhD candidates, and shape doctoral training at a top international life sciences campus. https://ow.ly/3YkN50YAuGM Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Max Perutz Labs Vienna, IMP, Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology

We are excited to share our new paper in Molecular Cell uncovering how the viral lncRNA RNA2.7 reshapes host cell biology! sciencedirect.com/science/authShare/S1097276526001565/20260324T143400Z/1?md5=16c84051c2f253c4665427f837a529d3&dgcid=author A thread 🧵

To better understand the ubiquitin-proteasome system, Suzanne Elsasser, Dan Finley, and the Human Proteostasis Consortium have systematically surveyed its components: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... I would encourage you to check out this valuable resource! @harvardcellbio.bsky.social

We are grateful to FWF for their support! It is a privilege to be part of this amazing team and work on this exciting truly collaborative project! Stay tuned!

Marco Hein@marco.heinlab.org · 5mo ago

I’m very happy to be part of our FWF “Emerging Fields” consortium! Together with @gekaragoz.bsky.social, @sebastianfalk.bsky.social and CCRI/CeMM/VetMedUni colleagues Eleni Tomazou, @dseruggia.bsky.social and @floriangrebien.bsky.social, we will study the ribosome code in pediatric cancers.

I’m very happy to be part of our FWF “Emerging Fields” consortium! Together with @gekaragoz.bsky.social, @sebastianfalk.bsky.social and CCRI/CeMM/VetMedUni colleagues Eleni Tomazou, @dseruggia.bsky.social and @floriangrebien.bsky.social, we will study the ribosome code in pediatric cancers.

Max Perutz Labs Vienna@maxperutzlabs.ac.at · 5mo ago

A strong Perutz presence in a new @fwf-at.bsky.social consortium: @elifkaragoz.bsky.social will coordinate the Emerging Fields project 'Translating the Ribosome Code of Pediatric Cancers' 🤝 The team includes @sebastianfalk.bsky.social and @marco.heinlab.org ➡️ tinyurl.com/3d6z3ry5

Fantastic news! 🙌 The Perutz is excited to welcome Danny Nedialkova as a new group leader starting this April! 🎉 She will strengthen the institute's research on the fundamental mechanisms that shape cellular physiology and disease ➡️ www.maxperutzlabs.ac.at/research/res...

Die Gesellschaft für Virologie begrüßt und unterstützt die Corona-Enquetekommissionen in den verschiedenen Parlamenten. Allerdings nehmen wir mit großer Sorge zur Kenntnis, dass darin auch wissenschaftlich nicht tragbare Behauptungen aufgestellt werden, wie kürzlich in der Kommission des … (1/2)

#Grippe-Welle in Österreich Zunahme der Influenzafälle - im Sentinelsystem überwiegen Nachweise von Influenza A Subtyp H3N2 und H1N1 (3:1) Weiterhin Aktivität von #SARS-CoV2 #Parainfluenza #saisonaleCoronaviren #Rhinoviren, sporadische RSV-Infektionen #ZentrumVirologie #MedUniWien

🎉 Congratulations to Max Kellner, former PhD student in the Penninger Lab, who was presented with the ÖGBMT Life Sciences PhD Award Austria. The award recognizes Kellner’s PhD research on how dangerous viruses emerge from natural reservoirs like bats. More: https://imba.science/3KiRYSN

Our Autumn call is now open with over 20+ fully funded positions in various disciplines in the life sciences. Interested? Check out our vacancies in computational biology, genomes & evolution and the exciting projects being offered here: ow.ly/aBgQ50WY1S2

I couldn’t be prouder of my team! Kavya and Sebastian both won DOC fellowships from the Austrian Academy of Sciences! Congratulations to all awardees!

Max Perutz Labs Vienna@maxperutzlabs.ac.at · last yr.

The DOC-torate dream team! 🎓 Seven Perutz PhD students just secured @oeaw.bsky.social DOC Fellowships - the most we've ever had in one year! Huge Congrats! 🎉➡️ tinyurl.com/29nvtf7j @univie.ac.at @meduniwien.ac.at

We found a new asymmetry in the large-scale chromosome structure: sister chromatids are systematically shifted by hundreds of kb in the 5′→3′ direction of their inherited strands! The work was led by Flavia Corsi, in close collaboration with the Daniel Gerlich lab. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/

Join us at the Perutz, part of the Vienna Biocenter! Opening for a full professorship in Molecular Mechanisms of Disease 👇🏻 @maxperutzlabs.bsky.social @viennabiocenter.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

Max Perutz Labs Vienna@maxperutzlabs.ac.at · last yr.

📢 Open Call! The Max Perutz Labs invite applications for a Full Professorship in Molecular Mechanisms of Disease. More information ➡️ tinyurl.com/3yn883b8