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Celestial alignment: Mars, Jupiter and Venus. #astrophotography #astrosky #zen 🔭🪐

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I will keep the letter open until 3rd March, the date of the meeting called by the Royal Society to discuss principles around the public pronouncements and behaviours of its fellows. So one more week to add your voice to the call for the RS to stand up for its values.

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Chilling read… Solidarity to all the colleagues at Cardiff University. “Some colleagues were told that offering to teach in Kazakhstan might save their jobs. Apparently the university will decimate itself in Cardiff and rebuild itself in Astana”.

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#microsky

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Royal Society must choose between Musk and its integrity. When science itself is under attack, neutrality becomes complicity, says Kit Yates. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

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Evolution of Eukaryotic Specific DNA Binding Sites in Asgard Archaeal RecA Recombinases https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.19.639135v1

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"ROCKET.. refines [Alphafold2] predictions using cryo-EM, cryo-ET, and X-ray crystallography data... this approach captures biologically important structural variation that AlphaFold2 does not... ROCKET automates difficult modeling tasks, such as flips of functional loops and domain rearrangements"

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Legitmately thrilled to share our latest work, in which @fernpizza.bsky.social solved an experimental challenge in plasmid biology as old as the field: measuring how plasmids compete and evolve within individual cells!

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🧬🖥 🦠🧫🧪🔬 #Roche revealed their truly novel seq tech: - #SBX Sequencing By eXpansion - Stratos eXpandomers + Genia nanopores - Customizable Q:len - 200bp len but 150-1500 range - Q29 - 15-30B reads throughput - reusable I'm about to forget #the454incident omicsomics.blogspot.com/2025/02/roch...

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Our new review on how the #chromatin domain is formed in the cell is now available @Curr Opin Struct Biol.📄✨ We critically discuss the domain formation mechanism from a physical perspective, including #phase-separation and #condensation. 📥 Free-download link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1keGn,LqAr...

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"Retaining a fellow [Musk] whose actions contradict the ethical principles that the Royal Society purports to hold is tantamount to tacit approval and runs the risk of eroding public confidence in the Society’s commitment to its own standards." substack.com/home/post/p-...

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In @molecularmicro.bsky.social: two special issues on Prokaryotic Chromosome Organization. Many excellent contributions, including a vision article: 'Future directions of the Prokaryotic Chromosome Field', outcome of BioPhyChrom 2023 @biophychrom.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Frontiers | Archaeal DNA replication initiation: bridging LUCA's legacy and modern mechanisms https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/microbiology/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2025.1561973/full?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_content&utm_campaign=imp_impartaut-_05-24_fmicb_en_n--ww

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The Royal Society must choose between Musk and its integrity. When science itself is under attack, neutrality becomes complicity, says Kit Yates. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

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#microsky #chromosome

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All you wanted to know about chromosome segregation in Staphylococcus aureus and were afraid to ask - check our new preprint! A great collaboration with Xindan Wang´s lab! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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The BioEmu-1 model and inference code are now public under MIT license!!! Please go ahead, play with it and let us know if there are issues. github.com/microsoft/bi...

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Excited to share our work on archaeal 3D genome! This paper revealed how an archaeal SMC complex sculpts TAD-like domains by cooperating with a roadblock NAP and physical properties of DNA. Many congrats to our talented PhD student Kodai! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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New review from Lisa R. Racki and Lydia Freddolino: Polyphosphate: The “Dark Matter” of Bacterial Chromatin Structure! #MicroSky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Polyphosphate: The “Dark Matter” of Bacterial Chromatin Structure onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #jcampubs

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There are now over 3000 signatories to my letter asking the Royal Society to explain why it has taken no action and said nothing about evident contraventions of its code of conduct by Elon Musk FRS. forms.gle/dBGaHk7SYUNA...

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Unlike bacteria (except mycoplasma), archaea don't ubiquitously have a peptidoglycan equivalent at all. However, some lineages have pseudomurein. This study characterises its biosynthesis, contributing genes and evolutionary links with bacterial counterparts 🔗 journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....

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Just reposting this because it quickly got buried by everything happening in the US.

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💫NEW: Hervé, Scelfo et al. show that #chromosome missegregation induces #mTORC2 - & ATR-mediated p53 activation via a mechanosensitive checkpoint at the nuclear envelope triggered by altered heterochromatin content and increased nuclear membrane tension. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Phylogenomic analyses reveal that Panguiarchaeum is a clade of genome-reduced Asgard archaea https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.13.637844v1

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(1/2) Preprint alert! In collaboration with @yifanzhou.bsky.social and @mkrupovic.bsky.social we describe host-parasite layers in hypersaline systems of the Danakil Depression. Haloarchaea host nanohaloarchea and both are infected by viruses (12 new families found). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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ActSeek: Fast and accurate search algorithm of active sites in Alphafold database | bioRxiv https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.11.637678v1

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#microsky 🦠

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Please consider signing this letter to the Royal Society if you have not signed already. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Over 2400 scientists have signed. #microsky #archaesky #astrosky 🧪🦠🧫🔭

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#archaeasky #microsky 🧪🦠 @mkrupovic.bsky.social

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I am signatory 1698 #MuskMustGo

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Now over 2200 signatures and still rising.

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After becoming the 2nd FRS to quit over Elon Musk, @andrewmillar.bsky.social explains why Musk's actions "are not compatible with the conduct required of a fellow...they undermine the purpose of the Royal Society" The @royalsociety.org has called fellows to a 3rd March meeting as the crisis grows

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My open letter and FRS resignations reported in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Prokaryotic genome enthusiasts, don’t forget to register for this excellent meeting

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The Royal Society in London has called a meeting to discuss the behaviour of fellows following a growing campaign by scientists over the membership of Elon Musk. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Thanks to the more than 1100 members of the scientific community who have signed the letter to insist that the Royal Society remains true to values that we all hold dear but that Musk FRS has ridden roughshod over. Please keep signing & sharing. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Latest blogpost on Musk/Royal Society debacle: deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/02/seve... I look at the reasons that have been given for inaction, and find them wanting. @royalsociety.org

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Imagine that you are a low-copy extra-chromosomal genetic elements invading a host cell. What’s your best strategy to survive? Check our new study of prokaryotic #plasmid for the answer! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... led by Johannes Effe with @iwangtoknow.bsky.social and more! (not on bsky)

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Breaking: Second Royal Society fellow resigns over Musk’s membership More than 750 scientists, including multiple fellows, criticise academy’s lack of action www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...

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In a new study, @mcvickermicro.bsky.social and @bugsinyourguts.bsky.social characterize the hipBA toxin-antitoxin system in Klebsiella michiganensis, demonstrating that it acts as a potent antibacterial toxin and significantly contributes to plasmid stability. academic.oup.com/jambio/artic...

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Happy to have this deep dive into polysaccharide lyase family 33 out: www.pnas.org/doi/suppl/10... We define features driving substrate specificity, catalytic mechanism, and evolutionary links with multiple lyases and epimerises #glycotime @PNASNews

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OK folks, I have now created a google form that allows people to sign to show their support for my open letter to the President of the Royal Society. Please sign and share widely: forms.gle/miDciq35oxyw...

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Scientists isolate ultrasmall #bacteria that #parasitize #methanogenic #archaea. #Minisyncoccus #Methanospirillum phys.org/news/2025-02...

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I’ve heard various arguments for inaction from FRSs. But not a single one has argued that Musk should be kept on because he’s a great thing for science. They all say “Of course, I think Musk is terrible, but…”

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