Ben Schulz
@benschulz.bsky.social
Proteins | Sugars | Yeast | Beer | Mass Spectrometry | Professor in Biochemistry UQ. CW chickens, fungi, cats, pups.
Mint Brisbane summer morning
November 30, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Mint Brisbane summer morning
Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences Xmas party time 🎄💃🍻🌈😎 @chancx.bsky.social @fabianruperti.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences Xmas party time 🎄💃🍻🌈😎 @chancx.bsky.social @fabianruperti.bsky.social
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To wish our friend and main O-glycan 3D structure contributor extraordinaire @silviadandrea.bsky.social all the best with the submission of her PhD thesis tomorrow, today's 🥄🍬 is dedicated to sialic acid 💜 with a mini 🧵 about all the wonderful functions Silvia worked on
November 27, 2025 at 6:14 PM
To wish our friend and main O-glycan 3D structure contributor extraordinaire @silviadandrea.bsky.social all the best with the submission of her PhD thesis tomorrow, today's 🥄🍬 is dedicated to sialic acid 💜 with a mini 🧵 about all the wonderful functions Silvia worked on
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The success rate for NHMRC Ideas Grants announced yesterday was just over 8%. That means 11 of every 12 people who applied got rejected. This is a culture changing level of rejection and frankly a point of national shame. This is a crisis for research.
I will not rest until we see this resolved.
I will not rest until we see this resolved.
November 26, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The success rate for NHMRC Ideas Grants announced yesterday was just over 8%. That means 11 of every 12 people who applied got rejected. This is a culture changing level of rejection and frankly a point of national shame. This is a crisis for research.
I will not rest until we see this resolved.
I will not rest until we see this resolved.
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Vaccines save lives
November 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Vaccines save lives
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Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine.
If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.
#sciencematters
If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.
#sciencematters
November 25, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine.
If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.
#sciencematters
If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.
#sciencematters
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Now finally peer-reviewed and published in @springernature.com Experimental & Molecular Medicine (EMM)🥳:
www.nature.com/articles/s12...
Our story was published back-to-back with the intriguing paper by Kim et al.:
www.nature.com/articles/s12...
www.nature.com/articles/s12...
Our story was published back-to-back with the intriguing paper by Kim et al.:
www.nature.com/articles/s12...
November 18, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Now finally peer-reviewed and published in @springernature.com Experimental & Molecular Medicine (EMM)🥳:
www.nature.com/articles/s12...
Our story was published back-to-back with the intriguing paper by Kim et al.:
www.nature.com/articles/s12...
www.nature.com/articles/s12...
Our story was published back-to-back with the intriguing paper by Kim et al.:
www.nature.com/articles/s12...
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a “Space Force”, if you will
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
a “Space Force”, if you will
Does anyone know how tall David Crisafulli is? He just gives such short vibes.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Does anyone know how tall David Crisafulli is? He just gives such short vibes.
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"Worst comes to worst, we can protect them from social media by locking them up." chaser.com.au/national/gov...
November 12, 2025 at 6:22 AM
"Worst comes to worst, we can protect them from social media by locking them up." chaser.com.au/national/gov...
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Another bump for the postdoc and PhD positions still open at the center and postdoc specifically within my group (same link to apply). We’re looking for wet/dry lab, and I’m specifically after people who do magic with computers!
employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...
Hi all! We’re hiring at our brand new Center for Glycocalyx Research, across all areas - but I am also looking for postdocs to join my group specifically!
Hi all! We’re hiring at our brand new Center for Glycocalyx Research, across all areas - but I am also looking for postdocs to join my group specifically!
Postdoc at the Copenhagen Center for Glycocalyx Research at the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
employment.ku.dk
November 11, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Another bump for the postdoc and PhD positions still open at the center and postdoc specifically within my group (same link to apply). We’re looking for wet/dry lab, and I’m specifically after people who do magic with computers!
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
James Watson in his own words
“Some anti-Semitism is justified” “Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them” “Japan should be bombed for d…
liorpachter.wordpress.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
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This is what a New Era looks like.
November 5, 2025 at 11:57 PM
This is what a New Era looks like.
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The semiliterate people who use chatgpt like to point to calculators as a precedent of assistive technology but the thing is: calculators actually calculate.
A calculator really does let you outsource calculation. It does exactly what it is supposed to do, and marketed as doing, reproducibly.
A calculator really does let you outsource calculation. It does exactly what it is supposed to do, and marketed as doing, reproducibly.
June 24, 2025 at 8:17 AM
The semiliterate people who use chatgpt like to point to calculators as a precedent of assistive technology but the thing is: calculators actually calculate.
A calculator really does let you outsource calculation. It does exactly what it is supposed to do, and marketed as doing, reproducibly.
A calculator really does let you outsource calculation. It does exactly what it is supposed to do, and marketed as doing, reproducibly.
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A person using chatgpt will never get better at the activity than they were the day before they started using it.
They will literally have removed learning, and gaining experience, from the process in a way no actual tool does.
They will literally have removed learning, and gaining experience, from the process in a way no actual tool does.
June 24, 2025 at 8:36 AM
A person using chatgpt will never get better at the activity than they were the day before they started using it.
They will literally have removed learning, and gaining experience, from the process in a way no actual tool does.
They will literally have removed learning, and gaining experience, from the process in a way no actual tool does.
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I reverse engineered MaDonalds reciept/survey code generator. I can now create as many codes as I want for £2.99 meal deals. It's great for birthday parties and a valuable lesson for my kids on why Python is important in life.
November 2, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I reverse engineered MaDonalds reciept/survey code generator. I can now create as many codes as I want for £2.99 meal deals. It's great for birthday parties and a valuable lesson for my kids on why Python is important in life.
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Paul Nurse describing the main job of a PI
(From ‘The Thinking Game’, 2024)
(From ‘The Thinking Game’, 2024)
October 31, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Paul Nurse describing the main job of a PI
(From ‘The Thinking Game’, 2024)
(From ‘The Thinking Game’, 2024)
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Since early 2024 we have been working with @brukercorporation.bsky.social on the first prototype timsOmni instrument, integrating an Omnitrap into a timsTOF. Here we report for the first time on the use of this instrument for protein-centric antibody sequencing. See www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 31, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Since early 2024 we have been working with @brukercorporation.bsky.social on the first prototype timsOmni instrument, integrating an Omnitrap into a timsTOF. Here we report for the first time on the use of this instrument for protein-centric antibody sequencing. See www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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That’s Elon Musk, Fellow of the Royal Society, I’ll have you know. Because the Royal Society can only seem to come up with throat-clearing noises as a response to these sorts of statements instead of actually throwing him out.
Elon Musk: "It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die" 29th October 2025. 2 million views in its first hour.
October 29, 2025 at 11:22 AM
That’s Elon Musk, Fellow of the Royal Society, I’ll have you know. Because the Royal Society can only seem to come up with throat-clearing noises as a response to these sorts of statements instead of actually throwing him out.
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It's the Fesshole/Vagina Museum crossover event you've all been waiting for. Tons of you tagged us into this across all of our socials, asking for a fact-check. The consensus of the reply guys is that it Didn't Happen. However, this is in fact very possible. Here's why...
October 28, 2025 at 10:48 AM
It's the Fesshole/Vagina Museum crossover event you've all been waiting for. Tons of you tagged us into this across all of our socials, asking for a fact-check. The consensus of the reply guys is that it Didn't Happen. However, this is in fact very possible. Here's why...
The Supreme Court of Queensland has ruled that the Crisafulli government failed to properly consult with executives of hospitals and health services, as required under the state law, before implementing the puberty blocker ban.
Queensland’s controversial puberty blocker ban overturned by supreme court
Queensland’s controversial puberty blocker ban overturned by supreme court
Parent of transgender child successfully challenged decision by Crisafulli government to halt treatment for under 18s
Queensland’s controversial ban on puberty blockers for transgender patients has been overturned by the supreme court.
On Tuesday, Justice Peter Callaghan ruled in favour of a challenge by the parent of a transgender child, judging that the directive establishing the ban was made improperly and is unlawful. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:36 AM
The Supreme Court of Queensland has ruled that the Crisafulli government failed to properly consult with executives of hospitals and health services, as required under the state law, before implementing the puberty blocker ban.
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Queensland’s controversial puberty blocker ban overturned by supreme court
Queensland’s controversial puberty blocker ban overturned by supreme court
Parent of transgender child successfully challenged decision by Crisafulli government to halt treatment for under 18s
Queensland’s controversial ban on puberty blockers for transgender patients has been overturned by the supreme court.
On Tuesday, Justice Peter Callaghan ruled in favour of a challenge by the parent of a transgender child, judging that the directive establishing the ban was made improperly and is unlawful. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Queensland’s controversial puberty blocker ban overturned by supreme court
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This was the "polite society" way of saying what I wrote in my blog, for those who can´t see behind the StatNews paywall. 🔽
October 25, 2025 at 2:23 PM
This was the "polite society" way of saying what I wrote in my blog, for those who can´t see behind the StatNews paywall. 🔽
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For the first time I have felt a shiver of fear because an AI can do my job exactly as well as I can.
October 25, 2025 at 11:08 PM
For the first time I have felt a shiver of fear because an AI can do my job exactly as well as I can.