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Membrane cytoskeleton, specifically septins. Nanobodies, superresolution. Developing microscopy assays for cell biology. We love complicated experiments! Opinions my own as scientist, parent, citizen.
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„Was Wolfram Weimer als ‚linken Kulturkampf’ beschreibt, ist oft nichts anderes als ein Diskurs im demokratischen Raum um Anerkennung und Teilhabe. Der Kulturkampf von rechts hingegen zielt auf Kontrolle, Einschränkung, Ausgrenzung.“ www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/kultu...

big if true

#letsgoberlin

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Thank you @jcellsci.bsky.social, Sara Morais da Silva and Co for highlighting me as “cell scientists to watch”! It means a lot to me and I feel so honored as you guys are such a great community of amazing cell biologists! journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

For the few of you who don‘t know Fran yet, here‘s the ‚Cell scientist to watch‘ of our rising (science rock) star here in Berlin.

Lehrer vor fünf Jahren: „Übernehmt nicht alles blind von Wikipedia!“ Lehrer heute: „Prüft doch bitte wenigstens auf Wikipedia gegen, bevor ihr von ChatGPT copypasted!“

The jobs of 2035 don't exist yet—but the #science that will foster them is being discovered today. Think about it: Data scientists didn't exist when we invented the internet. Genetic counseling wasn’t a career when we first discovered DNA's structure. 1/

Glückwunsch!

Ende April stufte der Verfassungsschutz die AfD als »gesichert rechtsextrem« ein. Das 1108 Seiten lange Gutachten enthält über 1000 Zitate von Mitgliedern der AfD oder der Jungen Alternative. Wir haben diese Zitate nun interaktiv und als Datenbank zugänglich gemacht: www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

Another big FU from Harvard… free online courses on the US government, the US constitution, civic engagement, and more. pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...

Berlin’s local government is ruining the city’s scientific landscape, by further cuts into the under-financed Universities. www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/kurzu...

#Exzellenzstrategie: 💪 5 Berliner #Exzellenzcluster erhalten Förderung! @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social @tuberlin.bsky.social #ChariteBerlin 👉 Zur Pressemitteilung: www.berlin-university-alliance.de/items/2025/2... #BerlinUAlliance #WirsindBUA #ExzellentimVerbund

5 days left to register at discounted rate, and 3 weeks left from Sunday for FASEB - Septins: spatial regulators of cell biology. An exciting program of over 50 talks. Daily meet the speakers luncheons/dinners Career development sessions Poster prizes & a killer dance party mix in the making!?!

idk, with the new spam filter the deep appreciation of the profound impact of my work has somewhat suffered...

This study shows a small effect on ADAR2 editing of GluA2 and a resulting change in cobalt uptake. I think it's hard to know what happens when you have a 5% reduction in Q->R editing, perhaps GluA2 (Q) substitutes GluA2 (R), maybe it substitutes GluA1/3 (Q). www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Fantastic work from Alice Podesta to work through this puzzle. Be careful - NASPM inhibits NMDARs, and works better if you're not in voltage clamp. Happy to be part of this interesting study - we did the checks in heterologous cells. Shout out to @laetitiamony.bsky.social for her precious insight!

(almost) every talk from OME 2025 is now on YouTube! If you care about microscopy data and about open-source, you should definitely check them out. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

This is a great webinar and thus Thursday especially worthwhile:

typical corrupt science

What happens to science under autocracy? The rise of the National Socialist Party in 1930s Germany provides an (admittedly extreme) example. Prior to the early 1930s, scientists at German institutions won a third of Nobels. 10 years later, that number was 5%, and has never recovered.

Looking forward to the @mesospim.bsky.social #lightsheet #Microscopy anniversary symposium in October with @preibischs.bsky.social @adamkglaser.bsky.social @christellelangevin.bsky.social & many more! And to the next mesoSPIM decade! 🔬 Thanks @nvladimus.bsky.social & Co for organizing it!

thoughts and prayers

from the dad joke archives: "I went to the zoo and saw a baguette in a cage. At first I was confused but then the zookeeper told me it was bread in captivity."

"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people." - Commander William Adama, Battlestar Galactica

LAST CALL for FASEB Septins - Spatial Regulators of Cell Biology June 15-19, Niagara Falls, New York Register now: events.faseb.org/event/septin... Submit abstract by Monday or DM me after that. 80 participants and counting cant be wrong!

The 2025 version of Biomembrane Days is online for registration! Sign up now, it is going to be spectacular as always! Looking forward to an outstanding lineup of speakers both invited and selected. We look forward to having experts in the Cell Biology and Biophysics of membranes!

Madhavi Krishnans lab with an absolutely amazing new measurement technique: Measurements of molecular size and shape on a chip | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Interessante Vertiefung des „Deutschlandtrends“ hier

Exactly.

Bleak. nymag.com/intelligence...

#letsgoBerlin

Nein, liebe ARD, so geht das nicht weiter. Mit der heutigen Einstufung der AfD als gesichert rechtsextreme Partei haben sich die Umstände geändert und das muss auch Konsequenzen im Programm haben.