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Delighted to publish my new molecular animation: DNA Break Repair by Homologous Recombination youtu.be/Xe-83tBcxhs

Interested in molecular animation? Give ProteinBlender a try! It's free and open source. animation-lab.github.io/ProteinBlend... The latest tools include a DNA builder (shown in the tutorial video below). We'd love to hear what you think! We have short tutorials that cover all the features!

Snuffleupagus pipefish - new Australian species

Delighted to receive recognition from the Royal Society of Victoria for my contributions to science engagement and education, and to add the initialism FSRV to my name...!

1/13 So excited to share our new preprint!! How do organelles pack together in a crowded cytoplasm? we know organelles interact via contact sites, but how does competition for space contribute to organelle morphology and interactions? @wallaceucsf.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Excited to share our discovery of a new programmable RNA-guided DNA-targeting system hiding inside bacteriophages that predates CRISPR. We call it VIPR (Viral Interference Programmable Repeat), and it uses an entirely new logic to find its targets. Thread + link below.

Finally learned Celtic visions weave and it’s such a lovely one! I got these really neat smokey quarts briolette tear drops and rounded beads that felt perfect for it. Gonna take some nice photos and post on the store!

Noise is key to evolution; entropy is key to metabolism. We have to stop pretending that biology fights against these things rather than relying on them!

A Beautiful 1897 Illustrated Book Shows How Flowers Become Art Nouveau Designs

I've seen these animations here and there on the net, but I just found their source: this amazing YouTube channel by @drewberry.bsky.social , which is a goldmine. From malaria lifecycle to signal transduction - full of super cool stuff! youtu.be/Xe-83tBcxhs?...

This weekend we projected cells and filaments on the roof of the @museeorsay.bsky.social in Paris, then we contracted it with a pinch of myosin. And it was fabulous! Grateful to have been part of this art/science project & thx to @manuelthery.bsky.social @lblanchoin.bsky.social & the CytoMorphoLab

🦑 Die Cephalopoden der Plankton-Expedition Kiel: Lipsius & Tischer, 1912. [Source]

🪷 Den Norske Nordhavs-expedition, 1876-1878 Christiania, Grøndahl & søns bogtrykkeri, 1880-1901. [Source]

The wonders of Chemistry by @philipcball.bsky.social youtube.com/watch?v=a3Md... #spectacularchem

Paired with the show, Bob Goldstein created the world's longest microtubule, ascending the Genome Science Building's spiral stairs, to honor Emeritus Professor Ted Salmon

🌟 Merry Christmas from a newborn star. Earlier this year the NASA/ESA/CSA #Webb Space Telescope took this stunning image of HH30, an edge-on protoplanetary disc. 🧪🔭 🔗 esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_investigates_a_dusty_and_dynamic_disc

Final version is out! Our large-scale cryo-ET dataset 🔬 of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii 🦠 is now published in @cp-molcell.bsky.social Huge collaborative effort! So glad to see the community already using it to develop new resources & tools. Check it out here: shorturl.at/z4i4c #CryoEM #CryoET

When art meets science! 🤩 Check out Drew's stunning animation of the cellular machinery behind homologous recombination — featuring our favorite DNA repair complex MRN, and other DNA repair heroes! 🧬🔧 @drewberry.bsky.social

Loving @drewberry.bsky.social's beautiful animation of DNA break repair by HR - featuring the MRN complex architecture and function inspired by the research from @hopfnerlab.bsky.social! Dive into the science behind it🧬 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#LivingArchitectures We put cells and cytoskeleton filaments on the architecture of the musée d'Orsay. www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/agenda/ev... Scientists of the #CytoMorphoLab adapted their protocols to illustrate the questions that keep them awake at night. -> Two shows on the 24th and 25th of January.

Our Science paper is out! Huge congratulations to @huabin-zhou.bsky.social, Mike Rosen, and the brilliant @janhuemar.bsky.social @juliamaristany.bsky.social and @kieran-russell.bsky.social from our group News: bit.ly/4avnkAr and bit.ly/3XBGVHS Great perspective by @vram142.bsky.social +K Zhang

Today, our animation synthesizing decades of research on actin-mediated endocytosis in budding yeast was published: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... The result of a fantastic Iwasa-Drubin lab collaboration. @margotriggi.bsky.social @jiwasa.bsky.social movie.biologists.com/video/10.124...

Some cells are just in it for the drama! The bottom 5 microns of cells videoed through a microscope by @EmmaKoory. The middle cell rounds up (for fun?) and subsequently rounds up to divide. We missed so much of the action by just sampling the bottom. @CellBiology

Proteins are dynamic structures, but structural biology often shows them as static snapshots. Inspired by long-exposure photography and generative art, I built ProteinCHAOS, an artistic tool inspired by molecular dynamics to capture protein flexibility over time, much like long-exposure images.

GOD - My pal [Australia, teen garagepunk (?)] (1987) https://redd.it/69u0jk https://youtu.be/IQdA3M1tag4

Animation I made 19 years ago of sperm whale hunting giant squid – INCREDIBLE to see the real thing! youtu.be/8GeUy4_aH2Y?...

Our PhD student Louis Romette is optimizing long-term live-cell imaging. He just casually dropped this 65-hour movie of a growing neuron (div 3 to 6) with knocked-in actin 🔥🕶️ #realtimemicroscopy

Do you LOVE organelles?? Well I am THRILLED to announce that Nellie has been published in @naturemethods.bsky.social! Nellie a fully automated pipeline for organelle segmentation, tracking, and hierarchical feature extraction in 2D, 3D, timelapse, multichannel live-cell microscopy 🧵1/N

vizbi.org/2025 earlybird registration closes TODAY! 2025 includes keynotes from @lauragarrison.bsky.social @tisenberg.bsky.social & Marc Marc Streit (JKU Linz & Datavisyn, Austria), and masterclasses from @drewberry.bsky.social and @andylomas.bsky.social @magdalenecollege.bsky.social #datavis

This blew my mind youtu.be/Xe-83tBcxhs The double Holliday junction comes to life! Gorgeous work from @drewberry.bsky.social and team.

@stevestuwill.bsky.social you posted on 𝕏 on Dec 5, 2020 this stunning video - why not repeat on 🔵bsky ? (sorry, I did)... "Time-lapse footage of a vampire amoeba: a microscopic organism that feeds on algal cells by breaking through their cell walls and sucking out their insides." #ProtistsOnSky

JWST spectrum of K2-18b’s atmosphere. The detections of methane and carbon dioxide suggest the presence of an ocean underneath a hydrogen-rich atmosphere. There’s also a hint of DMS, which on Earth is tied to biological activity.

I'm happy and humbled to take on a new role with @rcsbpdb.bsky.social. I'll be continuing David Goodsell's work on the Molecule of the Month, starting with my first article on Assembly Line Polyketide Synthases! Check it out (animation included!) pdb101.rcsb.org/motm/301

🚨Version of Record of our ppaer 📜is out In @eLife: Fluid mechanics of luminal transport in actively contracting endoplasmic reticulum doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

🤩 Art by @drewberry.bsky.social @loliboldu.bsky.social @patriciabondia.bsky.social @jayeperview.bsky.social @hudrewthis.bsky.social @molmir.bsky.social @munafomarzia.bsky.social @snowotarski.bsky.social @marykoreilly.bsky.social @biyolokum.bsky.social @ahnaskop.bsky.social @bryanwelm.bsky.social

High-resolution template matching of the human ribosome in situ by Lippincott-Schwartz Lab @hhmijanelia.bsky.social @hhmi.bsky.social. >40 conformations within together reveal molecular dynamics of the elongation cycle with previously unknown bending and “spring-like” motion.

Wonderful new work by @drewberry.bsky.social Beautifully animated and wonderful sound design #sciart

Shout out to the sound designer Franc Tétaz on these animations too. This one on DNA is very satisfying and Lynchian. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hk9...

The sound design & choir music for this 2 min molecular simulation video is just perfect. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT5A...

One of the coolest videos I’ve ever seen!

This is peak scientific illustration. The SOUNDS!!