driving up route 1 - california dreamin 😎 looking forward to giving a talk at Stanford tomorrow...working title: The garden in the machine: Neuronal diversity in the ribosome core

For the past 30 years, “whole-genome sequencing” has been a misnomer. Today the T2T Consortium publishes a dozen papers heralding a future of truly complete genomes for humans and nearly any vertebrate 👨‍🔬🐒🐦🐀🦒🐎🫏🐹🐟 (sorry, no salamanders): www.cell.com/consortium/t... 🧵[1/15]

Riboseek is a fast RNA/DNA search. More sensitive than nhmmer at 250x speed. Structure-aware realignment produces MSAs approaching rMSA quality. Plus 1.7M precomputed RNA MSAs, and an API to search your own 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 💾 github.com/steineggerla... 🌐 search.foldseek.com/riboseek

The US Government aims to defund basic science, dismantle academia & intellectual freedom ➡️ in service of political ideology & corporate interest In its own words 🚨 Was chapters in Project2025 static.heritage.org/project2025/... 🚨 Now official blueprint published www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

A reminder that UC _faculty_ and Faculty Associations — not the universities themselves nor their administrators — are waging this battle in court, demonstrating great bravery and moral clarity.

White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants

Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COV...

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length and weight on a birth announcement like they fished the baby 🎣

congrats to the new FKNE scholars! rock on Dafni @drosostalis.bsky.social 🤘 and Vanessa @avstempel.bsky.social 🤘

@fkne-scholars.bsky.social · last mo.

Welcome to the 15 newly selected #FENSKavliScholars! Representing 12 European countries, they join a network of 30 Scholars across 21 countries and 25 nationalities. 🧠✨With thanks to @fens.org, @kavlifoundation.org, @alleninstitute.org and our partners for supporting FKNE. h1.nu/1t8Lw

LOS 👏 GEHT'S 👏 Grand Départ 2029 - Tour de France in Mitteldeutschland granddepartallemagne.de/en/

Grand Départ 2029 - Tour de France in Mitteldeutschland

We are bringing the Tour de France to Central Germany!

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We face great challenges, but our resolve is greater & vision clearer for the future of neuroscience. The @young-pi-neuro26.bsky.social network is stronger than ever. Thanks co-organizers, speakers @tjryan.bsky.social, @drosostalis.bsky.social, @anne-schreiter.bsky.social, & our core ➡️ participants!

and the paper title-of-the-year award goes to www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Underwater Suit-Wearing Cyborg Insect Capable of Hours-Long Diving and Terra-Aqua Travel - Nature Communications

A wearable diving suit enables terrestrial cyborg cockroaches to maintain respiration and locomotion underwater for up to 3 hours. This biohybrid system facilitates sustained exploration through hybri...

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So much looking forward to this!

Young PI Neuroscience Symposium'26@young-pi-neuro26.bsky.social · last mo.

Our @fens.org Satellite meeting is tomorrow! #FENS2026 Check out our updated program👇 youngpisymposium2026.com/program/ We are all super excited to have everyone joining! Safe travels everyone 🚅 ✈️ 🚲 See you in Barcelona 🔆😎

Our @fens.org Satellite meeting is tomorrow! #FENS2026 Check out our updated program👇 youngpisymposium2026.com/program/ We are all super excited to have everyone joining! Safe travels everyone 🚅 ✈️ 🚲 See you in Barcelona 🔆😎

🚨📢 New paper from the lab: Age-dependent vulnerability to spatial memory interference in APP/PS1 mice (a preclinical model of Alzheimer's disease) 🧵1/6 www.frontiersin.org/journals/agi...

Frontiers | Age-dependent vulnerability to spatial memory interference in APP/PS1 mice

BackgroundWhile Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is well known for progressive memory impairment, less is understood about how amyloid pathology affects flexible upd...

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Hola 👋 On my way ✈️ Looking forward to seeing you there

Young PI Neuroscience Symposium'26@young-pi-neuro26.bsky.social · last mo.

Our @fens.org Satellite meeting is tomorrow! #FENS2026 Check out our updated program👇 youngpisymposium2026.com/program/ We are all super excited to have everyone joining! Safe travels everyone 🚅 ✈️ 🚲 See you in Barcelona 🔆😎

On my way✈️

Young PI Neuroscience Symposium'26@young-pi-neuro26.bsky.social · last mo.

Our @fens.org Satellite meeting is tomorrow! #FENS2026 Check out our updated program👇 youngpisymposium2026.com/program/ We are all super excited to have everyone joining! Safe travels everyone 🚅 ✈️ 🚲 See you in Barcelona 🔆😎

one of the best things about being a scientist is teaming up with your scientific heroes from across the globe 🌎 Judith Frydman (Stanford) & Elke Deuerling (Konstanz) 💫 the future is bright ☀️ stay tuned for some science! ✨

thanks for the shout out Dafni! i don't often tell this story in my current life as a scientist ... but this story is a big piece of who i am, and what i stand for 🤝

Dafni Hadjieconomou @drosostalis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Some positivity. We need to hold those in political power accountable for changes that serve the majority not the few. Non negotiable. But we need to push for change together, as a community. Science and society alike. @matthewkraushar.bsky.social well done! www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz_v...

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🦠💫💫💫

Antibiotics stimulate protein transfer to persister cells

The exchange of biological matter between bacterial cells drives adaptation and evolution. However, whether bacteria can exchange functional proteins remains unclear. In this work, we found that antib...

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Congrats 👏 to the newly minted Master's student Arie Maeve Brueckner in the Kraushar Lab @molgen.mpg.de, who defended her thesis with the highest honors 🤩 Arie is an exceptionally talented scientist with a bright future ☀️ Stay tuned for Arie's discoveries in the literature soon ...

Let's step inside a neuron together, and ask, "how did all this get here?" 🤔 In this review, I trace the history and transformations of a neuron's molecules, pay homage to major discoveries in brain development ... and make a call to action for neuroscience. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

The Translation of Genetic Information in Neurodevelopment

Neurodevelopment is the transformation of genetic information into diverse neuronal phenotypes. Developmental signals initiate patterns of gene transcription and translation that drive progenitors tow...

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Kraushar lab open house: Berlin Long Night of Science 2026 🤩 A heartfelt thanks to the public - you make our research possible 🤝 Our visitors came full of enthusiasm for our research, especially those visitors who struggle with neurological diseases - we are working hard for you! @molgen.mpg.de

Structural motif search across the protein universe with Folddisco - @martinsteinegger.bsky.social go.nature.com/4g8lCb0

Structural motif search across the protein universe with Folddisco - Nature Biotechnology

Folddisco enables protein structural motif search in million scale databases.

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Build a smarter feed in 30 seconds ⏱️ At MaxIT, we’ve bundled 80+ Max Planck accounts into one handy link 🔗 Follow our Max Planck Starter Pack on Bluesky for scientific breakthroughs and better scrolling 🧠🚀🔬✨ https://bsky.app/starter-pack/maxit.mpg.de/3mmtiqka3wx25

Today, it was Lisa's turn to defend her PhD thesis and she did an absolutely fantastic job 😍 Especially going into full structure of the RNA Pol2 catalytic core and explaining the mutants. It was an outstanding discussion! I am really proud of her performance today 🥹

sunday evening, berlin (sound on)

I finally got around to reading this piece by @mariafarrell.eurosky.social and @robin.berjon.com, and it's fantastic. Drawing comparisons to ecology, it's a superb manifesto for the open web.

We Need To Rewild The Internet  | NOEMA

The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.

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Puma Blue @ Gretchen 19/5/26 pure magic 🪄

Excited to share our work uncovering SNOR, a ribosome-associated factor that promotes translation restart after dormancy published in Nature!! This was, as usual, a wonderful collaborative effort between our group and the Mattei Lab @simonemattei.bsky.social @embl.org www.nature.com/articles/s41...

1/9 New preprint from the Sternberg Lab in collaboration with the Nishimasu Lab! We uncover how the DRT3 antiphage immune system pairs two reverse transcriptases, one RNA-templated and one protein-templated, to build a double-stranded DNA effector. doi.org/10.64898/202...

spring in Neukölln