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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 5d

One of the crazy things about the AI bubble bursting is that consumer sentiment toward AI has always leaned skeptical to outright negative but it’s an industry propped up by pure billionaire greed, sycophancy, and childish fantasy

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Pedro Friedmann Angeli @angelifriedmann.bsky.social · 2d

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Jörg Vogel @jorg-vogel-lab.bsky.social · 6d

Two group leader positions available in the broader areas of RNA science, RNA technologies, and RNA medicine. Attractive packages and a great environment. Come and join us at Helmholtz RNA Würzburg, Bavaria.

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André Nadler @nadlerlab.bsky.social · 6d

This is going to be fun - we are really pleased with the program - there is some really exciting science on the menu! Do sign up!

GBM (Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie) @gbmev.bsky.social · 6d

Registration open: 77. Mosbacher Kolloquium "More than lipidic barriers - New horizons in membrane biology" from March 25-28, 2026
lnkd.in/dgsW4c3

Scientific Organizers: Britta Brügger, Robert Ernst, André Nadler, Christian Ungermann
Early registration & poster abstracts until January 31, 2026

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Pedro Friedmann Angeli @angelifriedmann.bsky.social · 6d

This is madness...
pure madness
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

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Humboldt-Stiftung @humboldt-foundation.de · 8d

✨✨✨ Huge congratulations to the winners of the #NobelPrize in Physics: John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis. Clarke and Martinis are both members of the Humboldt Network – as hosts for Feodor Lynen Research Fellows! 💚

Picture: Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach

Three drawn portraits of men – the Nobel Prize winners in physics in 2025

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Pedro Friedmann Angeli @angelifriedmann.bsky.social · 7d

only resubmit

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Pedro Friedmann Angeli @angelifriedmann.bsky.social · 11d

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

will be too late when people realise that is not about left and right

‘One rule for the rich’: the Salzburg mansion, the Porsche heir and the writer Stefan Zweig

The car magnate, who is restoring the Jewish author’s former villa, has been given permission to dig out a 500-metre road leading to a garage, causing consternation in the city

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Lisa Heinke @lisaheinke.bsky.social · 15d

Check out this new Roadmap, a fantastic team effort by a consortium of ER researchers. Glad we could provide the space for this synthesis, which came out of discussions at a fruitful meeting, see below:

Ishier Raote @ishier.bsky.social · 15d

ER exit sites are dynamic ER subdomains that integrate signals, reshape membranes and steer secretion. Twelve groups in the field came together to map their diversity, regulation, unanswered questions and future directions.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Towards a unified framework for the function of endoplasmic reticulum exit sites - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Endoplasmic reticulum exit sites (ERES) are specialized ER subdomains that regulate the export of secreted cargo. This Roadmap explores how ERES integrate biochemical and mechanical signals to coordinate trafficking and proposes a multidisciplinary strategy to investigate their function, including in disease.

www.nature.com

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Pedro Friedmann Angeli @angelifriedmann.bsky.social · Aug 6

🚨Preprint alert 🚨

We identify riboflavin (vitamin B₂) as a key modulator of ferroptosis sensitivity via stabilizing FSP1 & recycling lipid-soluble antioxidants.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1....

pls check @olzmannlab.bsky.social

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#ferroptosis #FSP1 #antioxidants

Riboflavin metabolism shapes FSP1-driven ferroptosis resistance

Membrane protection against oxidative insults is achieved by the concerted action of glutathione peroxidase 4 (GPX4) and endogenous lipophilic antioxidants such as ubiquinone and vitamin E. Deficienci...

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Pedro Friedmann Angeli @angelifriedmann.bsky.social · 18d

very interesting study from Gonzalo Cosa's lab adding to the discussion of ferroptosis initiations and propagation www.nature.com/articles/s41...
will there be a consensus? does it really matter? more studies definitely needed to settle this

Live-cell imaging with fluorogenic radical-trapping antioxidant probes reveals the onset and progression of ferroptosis - Nature Chemistry

Spatiotemporal information on ferroptosis progression is highly desired to develop new therapies. Now, the development of organelle-targeting fluorogenic radical-trapping antioxidants has enabled dissection of the dynamic subcellular evolution of ferroptosis through real-time live-cell fluorescence imaging.

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Pedro Friedmann Angeli @angelifriedmann.bsky.social · 18d

very interesting study from Gonzalo Cosa's lab adding to the discussion of ferroptosis initiations and propagation www.nature.com/articles/s41...
will there be a consensus? does it really matter? more studies definitely needed to settle this

Live-cell imaging with fluorogenic radical-trapping antioxidant probes reveals the onset and progression of ferroptosis - Nature Chemistry

Spatiotemporal information on ferroptosis progression is highly desired to develop new therapies. Now, the development of organelle-targeting fluorogenic radical-trapping antioxidants has enabled dissection of the dynamic subcellular evolution of ferroptosis through real-time live-cell fluorescence imaging.

www.nature.com

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Pedro Friedmann Angeli @angelifriedmann.bsky.social · 18d

meteoroptosis

Daniel Drucker @danieljdrucker.bsky.social · 19d

A therapeutically targetable pathway promoting MASH fibrosis involving a non-apoptotic function of caspase-8 and a newly discovered HSC activator, meteorin.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...

A non-apoptotic caspase-8–meteorin pathway in hepatocytes promotes MASH fibrosis - Nature Metabolism

Hepatocyte caspase-8 in MASH promotes the activation of hepatic stellate cells and liver fibrosis through an apoptosis-independent mechanism

www.nature.com

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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · Sep 15

Early-career researchers: want to run your own lab? 🌟Max Planck Research Groups offer 6+ years, up to €2.7M in funding, open-topic freedom, team support & tenure-track opportunities. Intrigued? 😃Apply by Oct 14, 2025! www.mpg.de/max-planck-r...

Graphic with a blue background and light green dots. The text 'call for applications' appears in green, and 'Ausschreibung' in white. A white arrow on the right points diagonally upward.

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Pedro Friedmann Angeli @angelifriedmann.bsky.social · Sep 12

Preach freedom of speech overseas, but ignore that weak institutions are what give clowns the spotligh

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André Nadler @nadlerlab.bsky.social · Sep 10

This is an really amazing opportunity. If you get it, you can essentially pick you institute. The package really is rather competitive.

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · Sep 9

Springboard for an international scientific career! 🧬🧪🔭⚛️🧠🌱 Call for #MaxPlanckResearchGroups launched; applications are possible until October 14, 2025 www.mpg.de/max-planck-r... #ScienceCareer

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Emmanuel Saliba @emmanuel-saliba.bsky.social · Sep 10

🔔PhD position open. Interested in building competencies in computational biology in spatial transcriptomics? Malte Luecken's lab and I have an open PhD position, part of the Munich School of Data Science.
Application deadline: Sept 26
Link: www.mu-ds.de

MUDS - Helmholtz Information & Data Science Academy

www.mu-ds.de

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Bettina Böttcher @boettchercryoem.bsky.social · Aug 29

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We were very surprised to find out that the MscS-like channel YnaI does not tilt its paddle helices to open.... almost overlooked the huge pore in our cryo-EM maps
Very proud that this is finally out: rdcu.be/eB3FF
Well done, Vanessa @uni-wuerzburg.de

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Markus Elsner @markuselsner.bsky.social · Aug 28

uuhh, wohl keine Müller Milch für mich mehr 🤮

Ann-Katrin Müller @akm0803.bsky.social · Aug 28

Molkerei-Milliardär Theo Müller ist mit AfD-Chefin Alice Weidel befreundet. So eng, dass er sie zu seiner pompösen Geburtstagsfeier Ende Mai einlud. Es waren noch andere extreme Rechte da - genauso wie gut vernetzte Wirtschaftsleute sowie Vertreter demokratischer Parteien. Unsere neue Recherche:

(S+) Unternehmer Theo Müller und seine Gäste: Ziemlich rechtsextreme Freunde

Der Molkerei-Milliardär Theo Müller ist mit AfD-Chefin Alice Weidel befreundet. So eng, dass er sie zu seiner pompösen Geburtstagsfeier einlud. Nicht als Einzige vom politischen Rand, wie SPIEGEL-Rech...

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eLife @elife.bsky.social · Aug 23

Membrane Biology: Nothing can replace polyunsaturated lipids

Genetic studies reveal that polyunsaturated lipids do more than simply increase the fluidity of the cell membrane.
buff.ly/qcLJNUN

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bioRxiv Biochemistry @biorxiv-biochem.bsky.social · Aug 19

SLC26A11 is an atypical solute carrier with dual transport-channel function mediating lysosomal sulfate transport https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.17.670773v1

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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · Aug 22

By the way, if you don't protest Trump weaponizing the Justice Department against his critics because they are people you don't like or agree with, you are assisting this fascist takeover. Wait until it happens to someone you like and it's too late.

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André Nadler @nadlerlab.bsky.social · Aug 21

Out today in @nature.com: Together with the Honigmann, Shevchenko, Drobot and Hof labs, we present a general workflow for imaging the localization and transport of individual lipids in cells and mapping their metabolism.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Hart @hart-frentz.bsky.social · Aug 19

Können wir bitte zuerst die Bahn sanieren 🫢

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André Nadler @nadlerlab.bsky.social · Aug 10

This. @erc.europa.eu, this is the way to go!

paveltomancak.bsky.social @paveltomancak.bsky.social · Aug 10

Looks like private funders, HHMI,CZI etc., are not going to “save” US research. Europe is setting up mechanisms to attract US researchers & it may work. But, common, target junior talent, don’t shower money on superstars who will be flying professors & return to US when the science winter passes.

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