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Sven T. Stripp
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The Spectroscopy & Biocatalysis Group @ Uni Potsdam | DFG Heisenberg Fellow | Guest-Prof TU Berlin 2023/24 | Born at 338 ppm | Not a Strip Club
https://uni-potsdam.de/en/specbiocat | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ZtfyzRoAAAAJ&hl=en
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Sven T. Stripp @stripplab.bsky.social · Dec 1
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The cat is out of the bag 👍🏻
doi.org/10.22128/jha...
November 26, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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Not anymore ancient than bacteria tho 😑
science.org Science Magazine @science.org · 15h
Some archaea—an ancient group of microorganisms—have an entirely novel genetic code, according to a new study in Science.

The findings expand our understanding of how alternative genetic codes evolve and hint at new molecular tools for biotechnology applications. https://scim.ag/4omApQ7
An archaeal genetic code with all TAG codons as pyrrolysine
Multiple genetic codes developed during the evolution of eukaryotes and bacteria, yet no alternative genetic code is known for archaea. We used proteomics to confirm our prediction that certain archae...
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November 25, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Newest preprint from our lab: a new family of promising synthetic CO2 fixation cycles that may outcompete the Calvin cycle and that Vittorio Rainaldi realized to a great extent in E. coli! Up to 11 heterologous enzymes in a cascade supporting CO2 fixation & growth! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Modular in vivo engineering of the reductive methylaspartate cycles for synthetic CO2 fixation
Biological carbon fixation is currently limited to seven naturally occurring pathways. Synthetic carbon fixation pathways have the potential to surpass aerobic natural pathways in efficiency, but none...
www.biorxiv.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Ornithology 🤝🏻 Inorganic Chemistry
November 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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On the topic of weird "hydrogenases", I stumbled upon this slightly older paper from Heider and Szaleniec et. al: W-dependent aldehyde oxidoreductase (AOR) using H2 to reduce aromatic carboxylic acids (via ACS Catalysis) 🤯
doi.org/10.1021/acsc...
November 19, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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What Helena says
helenajambor.bsky.social Helena Klara Jambor @helenajambor.bsky.social · 20h
Make your own sticker against #Fascism

Woody Guthrie used his music to fight in the 1940ies. Let his guitar be a reminder to us that we all have tools available to stand up.
As biologists, we are trained to See, Understand, Document, and Report - let's apply these today!

doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
Woody Guthrie inspired sticker with a microscope - and photo of Woody Guthrie with his guitar that famously was decorated with the words "this machine kills fascists".
November 25, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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With collaborators including Claire Rousay, Patrick Shiroishi and Maisie Stewart, the Chicago-based cellist and composer draws rich seams of resonance from snatches of everyday audio

Lia Kohl - Various Small Whistles and a Song

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Lia Kohl - Various Small Whistles and a Song album cover. A black and white photograph of a view through a window in which can be seen the back of five statue busts.
November 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Interested in a postdoc studying non-equilibrium redox biology in the Greene lab? The Irving S. Sigal Postdoctoral Fellowship is a great opportunity to be recognized and to provide the financial support for exciting research. DM me if you or anyone you know is interested. Nomination-based.
November 24, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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This deserves a #NightScience tag
November 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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This is what "Editor decision started" looks like
November 24, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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They didn't accept me into art school 🤷🏻‍♂️
recursecenter.bsky.social Recurse Center @recursecenter.bsky.social · 14d
What’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?
November 24, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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While spending time with records on this otherwise uneventful Sunday, I was reminded of a compilation we published in 2010. On "Fly Russia" we showcased Moscow's budding beat scene. Would not be possible today, I guess? 😑😑
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Fly Russia, by Various Artists
17 track album
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November 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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As if Kleptoplasty wasn't weird enough already...
chenxinli2.bsky.social Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 3d
Photosynthetic sea slugs can decapitate themselves & regenerate whole body from the detached head (without the heart or guts), while the shed body do not regenerate. The process takes ~2-3 weeks. A new model for regeneration?

From: www.cell.com/current-biol...
Extreme autotomy and whole-body regeneration in photosynthetic sea slugs
Autotomy, the voluntary shedding of a body part, is common among animals. Mitoh and Yusa report an extreme case of autotomy with the shedding of the main body, including the whole heart, and subsequen...
www.cell.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Meiner Erfahrung nach leidet das 🇩🇪 Wissenschaftssystem an:

1. Keine formelle Schulung Gutachtenschreiben

2. Maßstäbe schwer zu definieren

3. Prätention & Animosität

und dann kommt die @dfg.de idR mit nur 2 Gutachten um die Ecke - ich habe eine Hall of Shame of inadequate and incorrect reviews 🤡
November 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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The perfect tattoo does not exi...
A nice fish tattoo
November 22, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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November 22, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Catching up on blog posts: a biochemical role for the element tungsten, of all things. Don't look for it in your multivitamins any time soon, though:
Biochemical Tungsten - Really
www.science.org
November 21, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Perhaps the most important topic in molecular biology #chemchat
iocbprague.bsky.social IOCB Prague @iocbprague.bsky.social · 4d
#research #hydrogenbonding

NMR spectroscopy studies of hydrogen bonding
(Dračínský) – Coord. Chem. Rev.: doi.org/10.1016/j.cc...

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November 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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#NewResearch

A widespread hydrogenase supports fermentative growth of gut bacteria in healthy people

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#microsky

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A widespread hydrogenase supports fermentative growth of gut bacteria in healthy people - Nature Microbiology
A previously uncharacterized microbial enzyme is responsible for the production of molecular hydrogen in the gut, which drives the growth of other bacteria and has implications for human health.
www.nature.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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POV Rubisco
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
a cartoon sloth is making a funny face and saying ahhh .
ALT: a cartoon sloth is making a funny face and saying ahhh .
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November 20, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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New Ni enzyme just dropped!
Congrats @xilehu-epfl.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Nachgefragt: Prof. Dr. Gert Bange im Interview
www.biospektrum.de/artikel/nach...

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November 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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We are back, soon!
The secrets of bacterial cell envelopes' our free online seminar series is due to resume in January 2026 after a long break.
Hosted by Georgina Benn and Syma Khalid- supported by the Microbiology Society. More details soon.
@microbiologysociety.org
Please spread the word
November 20, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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POV you eventually decide to rebuttal
November 17, 2025 at 7:57 PM