Good luck Morgan! We shall expect great things.

Morgan Jones@04mjone.bsky.social · 4d ago

After nearly 7 years, it’s time to move on from the LMB 😭 Huge thanks to Joe and all the fantastic members of the lab, as well as all the talented people I was lucky enough to work with. Really excited to be starting my own group at the Department of Biochemistry in Oxford. Wish me luck 🤞

Congratulations to Chris Russo, Group Leader in the LMB’s Structural Studies Division, who has been awarded the 2026 K. H. Kuo Award for Distinguished Scientist in Biological Electron Microscopy. www.bsc.org.cn/KuoSymposium... #LMBintheNews

Where is all the money going? Every day we read about massive cuts by @ukri.org, but their budget wasn't cut.

Julian Sale@juliansalelab.bsky.social · last wk.

Growing up in the Northwest, Jodrell Bank helped inspire my interest in science. To hear of its funding being cut by @ukri.org is extremely sad, and an act of monumental vandalism that diminishes UK science in so many ways, including its ability to excite little kids... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I am quite happy taking medicines that I know were tested rigourously for efficacy and safety at the speed that takes... www.theguardian.com/business/202...

AstraZeneca boss urges western drugmakers to move at ‘Chinese speed’

Europe and US risk being outpaced on innovation, as happened in the car industry, warns Pascal Soriot

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New preprint from the lab! Led by graduate student @lainahall.bsky.social we show a new method to thin cells for cryo-EM imaging with minimal damage. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Optimized cryo-FIB milling strategy to generate thin, minimally damaged biological lamellae

Focused ion beam (FIB)-milling has been adapted to thin frozen cells for visualization of macromolecular structures in situ with cryogenic electron microscopy. However, only a few large and abundant c...

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With half of Europe on fire, can our politicians finally get serious about the climate crisis? Burnham could look to the Spanish PM for inspiration.

I have often seen Microsoft software spread within organisations due to IT and procurement people being "captured" by effective lobbying and sales pitches. Microsoft software is not particularly good, safe or cheap, and researchers benefit from having choice over what they use. @ukri.org

Sjors Scheres@sjorsscheres.bsky.social · 2w ago

Some inside the @ukri.org wish to push @microsoft.com software too far down into research. This is a risk that didn't work out well for the ICC! @ukri.org should focus on funding good science rather than homogenise for the sake of homogenisation. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Some inside the @ukri.org wish to push @microsoft.com software too far down into research. This is a risk that didn't work out well for the ICC! @ukri.org should focus on funding good science rather than homogenise for the sake of homogenisation. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The ICC is far from perfect – but it can hold the likes of Trump, Putin and Netanyahu to account | Steve Bloomfield

The US threat to shut down the international criminal court is chilling: actions must have consequences, says Steve Bloomfield, former international editor of the Observer

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Sorry, I usually don't do politics on here, but this is so funny. You have to give it to the Brits: their sense of humour can be very powerful. share.google/oaD90DqioZAe...

Count Binface on Clacton byelection: ‘I didn’t know old Farage was going to self-detonate’

‘Perhaps it’s all a fever dream,’ suggests parody candidate, expected to be Reform leader’s only challenger for seat

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LMB spinout company @trimtechtx.bsky.social has now raised $47M in seed funding. Building on research by Leo James and @w-mcewan.bsky.social, TRIMTECH Therapeutics will utilise targeted protein degradation to develop novel neurodegeneration treatments. Read more here: shorturl.at/LeTaZ #LMBintheNews

TRIMTECH Therapeutics@trimtechtx.bsky.social · last mo.

Delighted to announce increasing our total seed round to $47M, with an additional $14M investment to support further development of our targeted protein degrader portfolio. Read more: shorturl.at/DfaXn

With all this talk about decentralisation in UK politics this week, I wonder when @ukri.org will be up. Wouldn't it be great to devolve power to the research councils, whose expert staff care deeply about their area of science? 🤔

Ten years after Brexit. The front page of @theindependent.bsky.social

I wear a lot of orange! 🧡

Assemblymember Rick Chavez Zbur@asmrickzbur.bsky.social · 2mo ago

No other peer nation allows gun violence to steal the lives of so many of their children. This crisis is uniquely American. Today on National Gun Violence Awareness Day, we #WearOrange because our children deserve to grow up without the fear of being shot. #NationalGunViolenceAwarenessDay

This week the @ukri.org MRC will review the Structural Studies division at @mrclmb.ac.uk. I look forward to discussing our science with the panel. I left Spain 16 years ago and still remember how refreshing it felt that the quality of the science is what matters most in the UK. 😀

I was at the @royalsociety.org tonight for a @nobelprize.org dialogue about #AI with Hassabis & Nurse. An upcoming golden age for Science, or will benefits be limited for the go-getters? I will encourage my children to keep studying hard to better their chances of benefiting from it all.

I just came back from a lovely visit to the life science campus in Leiden, The Netherlands. >30,000 people working there, no traffic in sight, just cycle paths and a good train network nearby!

road.cc@roadcc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

An open letter to the Prime Minister states that more support for active travel will reduce the UK’s vulnerability to volatile energy markets.

I hope @ukri.org will be able to find a scientist for this role.

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 3mo ago

UKRI are recruiting for a new Exec Chair for Research England (£160k-£170k). It is a crucial role including QR funding and the REF. I hope they get a great field. But I worry a bit. It's hard to find on their website (see link below) fa-evzn-saasfaukgovprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Recommended for those who want to do a postdoc in neurodegeneration in the US. Mike is a great scientist and colleague. 🤗

Henderson Lab@hndlab.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We’re hiring a Postdoc in the Henderson Lab @ Van Andel Institute! Join a growing team studying neurodegenerative disease across scales (molecular → circuits). Flexible, high-impact projects + strong mentorship. Apply: vai.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/VAICar... Please share!

It's great to see this important paper by Alexander Shtyrov out. If you hadn't read it yet on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social, you can now do so in @pnas.org. 😀

cryoEM papers@cryoempapers.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Measurement of atomic scattering factors by cryoelectron microscopy pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42101996/ #cryoEM

Job navigation in table view, searchable tags, 3D mesh optimized for masks, and many more features! 👉👉👉 github.com/hanjinliu/hi... Let's make our RELION directory a better place.

A little Sunday fun - syntax highlighting for STAR files and MDOC files.

This looks really good! 🥳

Dimitry Tegunov@dtegunov.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We're super excited to share MissAlignment: a new ML-based approach to reference-free tilt series alignment, spearheaded by @martenchaillet.bsky.social. We think it's going to make your cryo-ET life a lot better. Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Code: github.com/warpem/miss-... 🧶 Thread:

Come and work with us on #cryoEM of alpha-synuclein amyloid filaments from #Parkinsons disease! 🥳 fa-evzn-saasfaukgovprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Postdoctoral Scientist | Neurobiology | Dr Michel Goedert | LMB 2253

£42,694 per annum | Fixed-term for 3 years | Full-time | Closing date: 17 May 2026

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Lori is a ⭐!

MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology@mrclmb.ac.uk · 3mo ago

Congratulations to @lapassmore.bsky.social, Joint Head of the LMB’s Structural Studies Division, who has been elected an international member of @nationalacademies.org Congratulations to #LMBalumni Andrea Brand who has also been elected. Read more: mrclmb.ac.uk/news-events/... #LMBNews

Thrilled with this result, tune in for more soon!

Kai Yi@kaiyi94.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Thrilled with the our results with @kjamali.bsky.social and @sjorsscheres.bsky.social from the recent binder competition! 🎉 2 of our 7 designs successfully bound to the target, with affinities ranking 2nd and 3rd overall. All of these designs targeted the disordered region of the protein.

The #ADFLIP approach by @kaiyi94.bsky.social and @kjamali.bsky.social, combined with their approach to backpropagation through #AlphaFold2, is really powerful. Keep tuned for more exciting results! 🥳

Kai Yi@kaiyi94.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Thrilled with the our results with @kjamali.bsky.social and @sjorsscheres.bsky.social from the recent binder competition! 🎉 2 of our 7 designs successfully bound to the target, with affinities ranking 2nd and 3rd overall. All of these designs targeted the disordered region of the protein.

Don’t miss the 20th Graduate Student Symposium at the LMB in July, organised by students from the LMB and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) School of Life Sciences. Registration is open now ➡️ www3.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/sites/gsasym... Follow @lmbphdsymposium.bsky.social for updates!

Feeling somewhat frustrated this afternoon with the amount of work that is required for the final submission of an article that has passed review at one of the journal st @cellpress.bsky.social...

The LMB Rising Talent Fellowship is open for new applicants! Aimed at Black heritage scientists, the Fellowship offers a 3-year postdoctoral position beginning Oct-Dec 2026. Visit our website for more info: mrclmb.ac.uk/careers-and-... Please circulate this post to anyone who might be interested!

The LMB is proud to launch the Career Returner Fellowship, a three-year, fully funded postdoc placement for scientists who have had a career break of over 1 year. Applications are open now! More details: mrclmb.ac.uk/careers-and-... Please share this post with anyone who may be interested!