This seems rather remarkable to me. These fish are all female, and use sperm from closely related species to get embryogenesis started while incorporating none of the male alleles. So reproduction is clonal - but accumulation of mutations is avoided by swapping them back out.
Come and talk to our amazing panelists!
You’ll do great! Though please take it slow; many of us are stuck in the check-in line 😭
Hmmm…
It is my first @pacifichem.bsky.social conference! Exciting:)
Well deserved!
❤️
"Something that seems fundamental to me about ChatGPT which gets lost over and over again: When you inter text into it, you're asking "what would a response to this sound like?"...But people keep wanting the "say something that sounds like an answer" machine to be doing something else, and believing it *is* doing something else.
My daughter, who's an ivy leaguer who's well aware of the phenomenon of ivy leaguers spouting BS & who seriously studied computer science made the following observation.
(Basically for ChatGPT hallucinations are a major feature, not a bug:
Oh wow another PhD-level expert answer - AI is “really” gonna take over the scientific research.
Did you know about the BPS Bridging Funds Program?
If you're a biophysicist navigating a difficult time, this program is for you to defray costs for attending the BPS Annual Meeting!
I am grateful to the @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social for supporting our members!
www.biophysics.org/2026meeting/...
🚀 New preprint out!
"Fast Parameterization of #Martini3 Models for Fragments and Small Molecules" is now on #bioRxiv
👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#AutoMartiniM3 – tool for automated #CG modeling. With @matthchavent.bsky.social, @tbereau.bsky.social and others.
#CoarseGraining #MD #DrugDiscovery
🚨We've updated our preprint "Frustration, Dynamics, and Catalysis" ✨ We appreciate RT ☺️
A short 🧵1/8: We expanded the conceptual connection between the energy landscapes theory and catalysis, added new figures, and clarified how local frustration shapes enzyme function.
arxiv.org/pdf/2505.00600
Post chemistry & cats! #chemsky
This is cool. An archaeal species with no metabolic genes. Just replicative genes (ribosomes, messenger and transfer RNAs). 238kb genome.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Was hoping to see you:(
Free Energy, Rates, and Mechanism of Transmembrane Dimerization in Lipid Bilayers from Dynamically Unbiased Molecular Dynamics Simulations | The Journal of Physical Chemistry B pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
DataViz protocols - An introduction to data visualization protocols for wet lab scientists by @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social: joachimgoedhart.github.io/DataViz-prot...
In 1869, Prof. Mendeleev needed a chemistry textbook in Russian.
Since there were no Russian textbooks, he started writing one.
◼️ The need to explain motivated organizing the elements into his famous table.
Teaching & research are synergistic 🔀
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nikolai.slavovlab.net/Research,-me...
Happy ending (of the year): the release of our preprint, "The Martini 3 Lipidome: Expanded and Refined Parameters Improve Lipid Phase Behavior", now available on @ChemRxiv.
👉 Read the full preprint here: chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...
and get the parameters here: github.com/Martini-Forc...
Martini 3 lipid parameters are finally out ❤️🎄🥂
Image source: https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/last-action-hero
Here’s a Christmas present for y’all: a new physics post! I’ve done these things on “the other side”—let’s see how many people are interested on 🦋!
I’ll be talking about a famous principle in classical mechanics: that of “least action.” And I’ll tell you why it’s a misnomer!
Buckle up!
1/26
Worth reading if you mentor PhD students…
Lots of multicolor dots, glomming into an amorphous shape - and a panel on the right to control a bunch of settings.
Something cool (though temperatures may vary) for your Friday - Interactive Molecular Dynamics.
It's a particle simulation that's great for exploring thermodynamics, or Newtonian mechanics, gas laws, etc. Created by Dan Schroeder. ⚛️
physics.weber.edu/schroeder/md/
4 different grid paitnings of cells and microbes in watercolor
I made some new small watercolors of cells and microbes artologica.etsy.com #sciart 🧪🎨
A complex of the lipid transport ER proteins TMEM24 and C2CD2 with band 4.1 at cell-cell contacts www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12....
Data from an unmodified commercial confocal instrument that we jerry-rigged into taking tumbling measurements. A proof of principle & far from what you could do with a custom rig!
Want to measure protein-protein interactions? We recently did some dreaming about how you can do this with a single fluorescent tag using molecular "tumbling." We simulated how you'd do this on a lightsheet, a flow cytometer, or a cheap handheld device. We even took prelim data on a commercial rig:
Contact-FP: a dimerization-dependent fluorescent protein toolkit for visualizing membrane contact site dynamics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09....
Membrane Bound O-Acyltransferase 7 (MBOAT7) Shapes Lysosomal Lipid Homeostasis and Function to Control Alcohol-Associated Liver Injury www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09....
ER mediates spatial regulation of lysosome-endosome interactions via motion switch at junction sites www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09....
Rape statistics shown in a grid represented by little ppl showing how many (estimated) rapes accure compared to how many are reported and then from those how many faced trail and how many are actually convicted. The amount of raped is staggeringly higher then how many face a single consequence much less face actual justice of any kind. There are 2 lone little ppl down in the right hand corner in black that rep how many are falsely accused.
Here’s a handy graphic ppl may want so I’m sharing it. Yes, it’s timing today for a specific celeb (Russell Brand) but unfortunately it’s also needed every day.
wHy dOnT tHeY cOmE fOrWaRd rIgHt aWaY?
