Nick Stroustrup
@nstroustrup.bsky.social
A British/American group leader at @crg.eu . We study the biology of aging using molecular genetics, engineering, systems biology, and probabilistic machine learning. Lab page: http://lifespanmachine.crg.eu
We're hiring! Join our growing team at the @crg.eu as a postdoc. Curious about how mRNA translation and decay cross-talk? We're looking for a postdoctoral researcher to lead a project in the field of RNA biology and gene regulation. Apply here: recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs... Please share!
Postdoc in the Dynamics of Protein Synthesis and RNA Decay Lab | CRG Online Recruitment Portal
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How do wealthy parents help their offspring? By giving them ribosomes! Optimal ribosome provisioning is key to fast development in unpredictable environments. The fastest path to ribosomal wealth in nematodes is a maternal inheritance. Happy we could play a small part in this fascinating work.
Benjamin Towbin@betowbin.bsky.social · 4mo agoNew paper alert: Our latest shows how maternal diet impacts ribosome levels and early growth intergenerationally in #Celegans Led by Sigma Pradhan and in collab with @nstroustrup.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... @plosbiology.org @izb-unibern.bsky.social @unibe.ch
-- New Open Research Game -- I reached the rank of Asst. Prof in #TenureRun! 🎓 I published 98 papers and paid $115.000 in APCs to publishers. My grant money is gone and I am exhausted. 💸 How far can you make it? Play now at forrt.org/TenureRun/
It's very sad to learn of David Botstein's passing. I worked in David's lab as an undergraduate--one of the most formative periods of my academic life and probably the biggest reason I work in biology today. I vividly remember my first meeting with David. I was a 3rd year engineering student,
We found 24 neuron classes that are excited or inhibited by environmental H2O2, spread across the nose, mouth, and inner pharynx. Different neurons trigger at different H2O2 levels (from 1 µM early warning to >1 mM lethal), and many adapt, so responses encode dose + recent history. 7/
I was today years old when I discovered that "npj Aging" and "Nature Aging" are separate journals, despite being published with identical titles by Springer Nature!
Please consider joining us--the new restrictions on academic freedom are coupled with a move to make all syllabi public and secretly record our classes--UNC's status as a top public university is at stake
North Carolina Conference of the AAUP@ncaaup.bsky.social · 6mo agoHere's a QR code so you can share our petition:
I knew about the downward part, but not the upward part, and now I'm not okay.
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli@banditelli.org · 6mo agoWow, today was a real fucked one. Let's do some of that again, but not most of it. Definitely not most of of it. Here's something that happened you DIDN'T know about, for I was the only one capturing, thus everyone NOT on bluesky is missing out! I give you January 30th's Full Pelican 🪶
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 🧪 Don't forget to send in your nominations for the FEBS | EMBO #WomenInScience Award. Deadline: 15 May Read more: https://www.embo.org/the-embo-communities/febsembo-women-in-science-awardees/nominate-for-the-women-in-science-award/ #award
📣 Please spread: we’re hiring a Lab Manager! It is a critical position in our new lab. As our lab moves to Barcelona and joins the @crg.eu, we’re looking for a Lab Manager to help build the lab and set the lab atmosphere. 🔗 Apply here 👉 recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs...
"Results from experiments with N = 4 or less are shown to be highly misleading (...). For a cut-off of 2-fold expression differences, we find an N of 6-7 mice is required to consistently decrease the false positive rate to below 50%, and the detection sensitivity to above 50%"
Optimized murine sample sizes for RNA sequencing studies revealed from large scale comparative analysis - Nature Communications
Determining the appropriate sample size (N) for bulk RNA sequencing experiments is critical to ensure reliable results. Here the authors perform an unusually large N experiment (N = 30 per group), ana...
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Yet one more reason we cannot allow LLMs to serve as epistemic grounding is that we cannot triangulate among them the way you can among reasonable independent sources. They bullshit in the same way and end up agreeing with one other about things that are completely false.
Organelles do NOT have a single uniform pH. And if you think they must, because “protons diffuse fast,” this paper is for you. A thread on why that assumption is wrong; and what we found instead. 🧵 1/n
bioRxivpreprint@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 8mo agoOrganelles harbour pH gradients https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.12.694065v1
What tools do we need to start engineering #aging and #longevity ? A🧵about something we've been cooking up in lab with Jeremy Vicencio at the @crg.eu : technology that lets us reach inside living animals and precisely dial multiple proteins' levels up and down. 1/10
Multi-lingual children can end up with very random gaps in their vocab. I've asked my 4 y/o daughter every day after school *for years* what she ate for lunch. She would never tell me and I always wondered why. Today just before bedtime, we were talking and she asked me: baba, what is "lunch"?
So happy to announce our new preprint, “A geothermal amoeba sets a new upper temperature limit for eukaryotes.” We cultured a novel amoeba from Lassen Volcanic NP (CA, USA) that divides at 63°C (145°F) 🔥 - a new record for euk growth! #protistsonsky 🧵
bioRxiv Microbiology@biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 8mo agoA geothermal amoeba sets a new upper temperature limit for eukaryotes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.24.690213v1
Doing non-causal inference (and being explicit about it), yet using a causal word as second word in the title. If you pay Nature € 10.690, they will publish this in Nature Ageing. I can tell you what I think of that for free. www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Today we had a great EvoMG Seminar by Dario Valenzano @dvalenzano.bsky.social from FLI, who told us about some of their recent aging work using the fascinating short-lived killifish. Hosted by @mirimiam.bsky.social evomedgenomics.com/events/exter...
What is the origin of diversity in allometric laws scaling across species? Check our new paper led by Andrea Tabi where we propose a new theory of metabolic scaling grounded in thermodynamics and stochastic fluctuations at the cellular level. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A detIled account of all the characters involved. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
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Come hear us talk about causality in biology, next Monday and Tuesday!
Barcelona Collaboratorium@barcelonacollaboratorium.com · 10mo ago🧬 1 month to go! Join us at the Collaboratorium Annual Symposium: Causality in Biology & AI. 12 speakers, big questions. #CRG #EMBL #EMBLBarcelona #BCNCollaboratorium
Are you looking for a PhD? Join us in Barcelona! You'll dive into a community of >100 PhD students from 30 countries exploring the frontiers of biology. You can also join an online workshop on 6 November (15:00 CET) to learn how to find the right lab for you. More info: www.crg.eu/en/content/t...
In 2018, Charles Murray challenged me to a bet: "We will understand IQ genetically—I think most of the picture will have been filled in by 2025—there will still be blanks—but we’ll know basically what’s going on." It's now 2025, and I claim a win. I write about it in The Atlantic.
Your Genes Are Simply Not Enough to Explain How Smart You Are
Seven years ago, I took a bet with Charles Murray about whether we’d basically understand the genetics of intelligence by now.
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A response from MIT rejecting "The Compact"... orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...
Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart
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