Basil Greber

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Waking up to unexpected good news is nice.

I just want to name that people overcame this. Even against a stacked deck, the good fight is worth it. Win or lose, it's worth it. And sometimes the good guys win.

A carefully planned Russian propaganda operation is underway. Having starved people in Oleshky for months, Russia, with the 'intervention' of Melania, will allow people to leave and pretend Ukraine was at fault. Read @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social www.kyivpost.com/analysis/88041

It would be nice if the most powerful man in the world wasn't a delusional lunatic.

Today together with Prof. John McCutcheon lab @arizonastateuni.bsky.social we have visualized by cryoEM what looks like a very funky ribosome from an insect endosymbiont. We believe there are important evolutionary implications. Here the pre-print: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

One of the coolest use of RAPPL by John McCutcheon and Israel Fernandez.They RAPPL isolated ribosomes of bacterial endosymbiont from 2 wild cicadas and solve structures of mosaic ribosomes. Great work here and very happy that our method help them solve structures. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Our work out today in @nature.com! We identified a previously unknown function for WEE1 in cell cycle control that could explain some of the inhibitor side-effects. We found WEE1 inhibits APC/C(Cdh1) to promote S-phase and cell cycle entry. Inhibit Wee1 , block or impair cell cycle entry.

Our plus/minus cryo-tide CDK11-cyclin L-SAP30BP #cryoEM reconstructions are now publicly available: www.emdataresource.org/EMD-59987 www.emdataresource.org/EMD-59992

Innocent people were killed by a belligerent foe of the United States because of this choice made by the President and the richest man in the world. It is gross failure and they should both be stripped of all power.

Here the latest of our research on #SMC complexes and in particular Condensin II and its timely activation at #mitosis. Particularly proud of this one, all authors and research from amazing @humantechnopole.blsky.social ! kudos to superstar Postdoc @aleborsellini.blsky.social rdcu.be/Cn2SBGxH54ka

Together with other scientists I’m suing the 🇺🇸 US National Institutes of Health for violating our 1st Amendment rights & censoring our health science. I’m ready to shine a light on the darkest days. Buckle up, read on. This gets pretty wild… THREAD

Nowhere in that long, rambling word salad would you ever get any inkling, if you didn’t know it, that Putin attacked and invaded Ukraine unprovoked & could end the war at any instant simply by… not doing that anymore.

New paper from the lab. A fantastic collaboration with the Nijhawan and DeBrabander labs led by Holly Guo, Ye Tao and Victor Cruz.

We recently had one of the most renowned & decorated US researchers present to us by zoom. They requested we not, as we usually would, record the session. This was so they could speak freely about things like climate change without fear of funding cuts, sth they gave examples of happening to peers🫥

I knew it was time to bring out the good stuff when my phone camera started capturing odd colours in the sky: A few shots from last Saturday's #aurora extravaganza in the UK.

Was just on Threads and this was my "For you" algorithm when I posted a comment debunking the story. Say what you will about BlueSky being a bubble, but its not designed to enrage and deceive its users

they never learn bsky.app/profile/oluf...

Selling out Ukraine to side with Russia in order to marginally reduce the negative impacts of his dumb war with Iran

Who doesn't love a good spreadsheet error. Especially when it informs policy. Wonderful.

I’m very excited to share my postdoc work in the @plaschkalab.bsky.social, where we investigated the very final act of splicing – spliceosome termination, revealing the stepwise dismantling of the spent spliceosome www.nature.com/articles/s41... (1/11)

Structural basis of PARP2 recognition of nucleosomal DNA breaks and inhibitor trapping pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42831429/ #cryoEM

Travelling through Lisbon without having a go at taking a photo of Vasco da Gama Bridge at sunrise? Impossible!

Also happened when I applied for faculty positions in Europe, and as far as I can tell it still happens.

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This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

Congratulations Tanmay, on receiving the @embo.org Gold Medal! @mrclmb.ac.uk @embl.org @dunnschool.bsky.social

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"An ambulance was seen arriving at the prison where Pike was to be executed and then leaving. Medical aid was being administered, according to online federal court records." The utter absurdity of the state trying twice to kill someone and then calling an ambulance. We must end the death penalty.

I spoke with @nature.com about the Nikon Small World controversy. As AI becomes part of scientific imaging, we need greater transparency about what was measured, inferred or generated. It's not about excluding AI. It’s about preserving trust in scientific evidence. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This further highlights the risks of using tools that were created by companies who were, well, "not very selective" with how they sourced the information required to develop their models. It is becoming increasingly unlikely that users of these tools are being treated any differently.

The obvious conclusion (to me): if you have proprietary research & you upload it into the Plagiarism Nexus, it's not YOUR proprietary research anymore. Behave accordingly.

Ignore for a moment the question about whether Anthropic trains on user sessions. I am I right in reading this as saying that Anthropic's "never-before-discovered" reverse transcriptase was *patented* three years ago?

I think it is very important that Big Balls, personally, goes to jail there are a lot of young goons who think they are invincible and it is important to make it clear that they are not

Yes, yes, I'm sure that will stop all interest in the film.

IPTG >>> ChatGPT More wetlab for everyone!