Beautiful cover this time - makes me miss the days when they were still produced to adorn real print issues in all their glory!

Microtubule end stabilisation by cooperative oligomers of Ska and Ndc80 complexes - The EMBO Journal During mitosis, properly aligned chromosomes stabilise microtubule ends with the help of kinetochores to ensure timely segregation of chromosomes. Microtubule-binding components of the human outer kin...

Happy to see the first paper from the lab published in the EMBO J today: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

In it, we reconstitute self-assembling cooperative oligomers of human Ndc80 and Ska kinetochore complexes that stabilise microtubule ends, and study these samples using cryoET and TIRF

Only three more days, excited to meet the ubiquitin crowd again at #KSUbiquitin26 @keystonesymposia.bsky.social
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Mitotic entry: Bora takes Polo to Aurora, and gives them a hug - The EMBO Journal The EMBO Journal - Cell division involves the complete reorganization of the cellular architecture, requiring precise coordination of cellular processes in space and time, but how does this control...

See also the great News&Views comment by Monica Gobran and @plenart.bsky.social - highlighting all three papers!
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Indeed!

Cannot help but feeling the Impact Factor hype may have gone awry by now...?

Happy Advent! !!!🎄✨
Day 2.
Today's puzzle is about paper mills' red flags! Do you spot the problem?
papermills.tilda.ws/advent2025

My seminar will only be on Nov 26th though - so still a chance to catch it 😀

Looking forward to my upcoming site visit in Madrid!

As my conference year draws to a close: still one last highlight coming up #EESNucleus on home turf @events.embl.org!

It's been an amazing year for the new PTM field of #MARUbylation - happy that I could get involved first-hand!

SUMOylation: From discovery to translation Sumoylation is an essential post-translational modification that regulates thousands of target proteins in a dynamic manner. Small ubiquitin-like modifiers (SUMOs) can be attached to target proteins …

On the train to Montpellier for the #EMBOsumoylation conference - looking forward to the 2nd recurrence of this #EMBOevents workshop and to the latest research in the SUMO field!
meetings.embo.org/event/25-sum...

I continue to be astounded by the recent resurgence of intriguing studies revolving around #PARPs and the interplay of ADP-ribosylation with other PTMs! Latest example that we published in @embojournal.org:

Was fun to work on this manuscript - never would have thought that an E1 enzyme could be involved in selecting a particular #ubiquitin -like protein isoform over another!

Our RNA & translation editor Cornelius Schneider is excited to be at #EMBLProtein starting tomorrow – make sure to say Hi to him and drag him to your posters 😀
@events.embl.org ‬

Fascinating new insights into evolutionary conservation/diversification/repurposing in the chromosome segregation machinery!

hasn't been an issue anymore in recent years, almost no-one opts out anymore. Maybe because we allow removal of referee figures that authors may want to include in future studies

Opt-out frequency was up to 1/3 when we first started our Transparent Peer Review process @embojournal.org but I don't recall any obvious trends towards certain author groups

Another week, another great conference - happy to be at #EESAgeing on home turf

Partisan battle lines form over Trump's plan to defund NPR & PBS Senate Democrats warn Trump plan to wipe out public broadcasting funding will shut down stations, eliminate essential services. But House GOP scheduled to vote to clawback $1.1 billion next week.

Senate Democrats warn Trump plan to wipe out public broadcasting funding will shut down stations, eliminate essential services. But House GOP scheduled to vote to clawback $1.1 billion next week.

Drosophila Genetic Database The Drosophila Genetic Database, FlyBase, is on the brink of collapse due to the sudden termination of the FlyBase NIH grant, which includes salaries for 5 literature curators based at the University ...

This vital resource @flybase.bsky.social is in acute peril: its funding blocked by the vindictiveness of Trump. Emergency funds needed *now*, pending longer term solutions. Personal donations from Europe can be made here (UK taxpayers can gift-aid); other routes also possible. US appeal to follow.

A scary situation!

‘Anyone can do this’: Sleuths publish a toolkit for post-publication review For years, sleuths – whose names our readers are likely familiar with – have been diligently flagging issues with the scientific literature. More than a dozen of these specialists have teamed up to cr...

‘Anyone can do this’: Sleuths publish a toolkit for post-publication review

@averyorrall.bsky.social reports on an initiative from @reeserichardson.bsky.social and colleagues

If you are interested in pursuing a postdoc combining proteomics a genomics with functional molecular biology to study ubiquitin (-like) signaling in genome biology we are looking for candidates for the next MSCA Fellowships call!!!!

Today, these amazing NKI researchers are pushing their limits by climbing the Alpe d’Huez. Go for it lovely people! We are proud to see so many of you dedicate your time and effort to supporting cancer research.
With @oncodeinstitute.bsky.social

#AlpedHuZes #cancerresearch #ad6 #NKI

Grateful for the opportunity to meet with so many enthusiastic early-career scientists and sharing behind-the-scenes insights with them #wUeBI2025

Excited that the symposium #wUeBI2025 @grk2243.bsky.social is now about to start - looking forward to exciting news from the #ubiquitin field, and to meeting this great community again!

Ever wondered how it would be as an Editor?
Here's your chance to try as an absence cover with our wonderful colleagues from @emboreports.org!

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