Sex at birth is not always random — mum’s age and genetics can play a part Families with three or more boys, for example, are more likely to have another boy than a girl as the next child.

I stumbled over article: Sex at birth is not always random — mum’s age and genetics can play a part.
Wow, that is really interesting.

...but actually the study doesn’t look at the influence of male partners.
Isn't that important??!

www.nature.com/articles/d41... (with ref to the full paper)

Fast, Bright and Reversible Rhodamine Tags for Live-Cell Imaging We present Rho-tag and SiR-tag, engineered protein tags derived from bacterial multidrug-resistance proteins that bind unsubstituted (silicon-) rhodamines with nanomolar affinity, enabling fast, rever...

Teaching an old bacterial protein new tricks: Fast, bright and reversible rhodamine tags for live-cell imaging:

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

Congratulations to Julian Kompa and the entire team.

We are at Innovative Imaging for 3D Cell Biology Conference in #Utrecht.
Come to talk to us! 😉

conference.imagine-microscopy.nl/programme

Far-red chemigenetic kinase biosensors enable multiplexed and super-resolved imaging of signaling networks - Nature Biotechnology Far-red kinase biosensors are applied to image kinase signaling networks at super resolution.

Happy to see my Postdoc work out @natbiotech.nature.com. Using HaloTag and synthetic fluorophores instead of FPs enables us to shift the spectral properties of kinase activity reporters (KARs) to the far-red 🔬. Huge thanks to everyone involved @jinzhanglab.bsky.social!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Exclusive: the most-cited papers of the twenty-first century A Nature analysis reveals the 25 highest-cited papers published this century and explores why they are breaking records.

The most-cited papers of the twenty-first century

...and the reflection of the capricious citation culture:
🤖
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A highly stable monomeric red fluorescent protein for advanced microscopy - Nature Methods The red fluorescent protein mScarlet3-H is bright, photostable and very robust to high temperature, chaotropic conditions and oxidative environments. mScarlet3-H works well in correlative light and el...

mScarlet3-H (aka mYongHong), a highly stable monomeric red fluorescent protein, works well for long-term super-resolution imaging, rapid tissue clearing, and CLEM www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Exciting opportunity at @CZBiohub SF! Join us as an Optical Scientist developing cutting-edge light-sheet microscopy to map vertebrate development. PhD in Optics/EE/Physics preferred. #ScienceJobs #Microscopy #BioImaging 🧪🔬💻

job-boards.greenhouse.io/chanzuckerbe...

For our annual Project Design Contest - postdoc, the winner is Solène Lefebvre with "STaRS = Smart Targeting and Release System" to improve drug delivery and development process.

Congratulations! 🥳🏆
#winner
#projectdesign

Our Una Europa team consists in KU Leuven 🇧🇪, Uni Zürich 🇨🇭, Uni Helsinki 🇫🇮 and Uni Leiden 🇳🇱.

Nice start of the year with kick-off meeting of our #UnaEuropa team at University of Zurich!🇨🇭
Exciting project plan settled, fondue eaten 🥳

@robinvde.bsky.social
@ninahartrampf.bsky.social (thanks for hosting!)
@ShiqiWang
@JoachimVanGuyse

Hello science friends on bluesky!
After many years of doing molecular biophysics and optics/microscopy, I just want to share that I'm leaving science and academia next month. I don't have concrete plans for my next step yet so I might just take a break for a while but we shall see how things go.

Silke Denis is the winner of our annual Project Design Contest - PhD, with her “FPpace” project for fast continuous directed evolution of fluorescent proteins! 🏆
Congrats! 🥳
#winner
#projectdesign

JCS-FocalPlane Training Grants About JCS-FocalPlane Training Grants JCS-FocalPlane Training Grants are aimed at early-career researchers, working in an area covered by JCS, who would like to attend a microscopy training course. The...

Nice opportunity from the JCS: www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-f...

It is official! The fourth edidtion of our winter school on "Fluorescence markers for advanced microscopy" will take place on March 15-20 2026 in Les Houches, in the french Alps.
fluorescenceleshouches.wordpress.com
Selection of participants will start in 2025. Signup on the website to be informed.

‘A place of joy’: why scientists are joining the rush to Bluesky Researchers say the social-media platform — an alternative to X — offers more control over the content they see and the people they engage with.

‘A place of joy’: why scientists are joining the rush to Bluesky

For me, it certainly feels good to be here!

@natureportfolio.bsky.social @bsky.app

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

UZH: PhD Position in Solid-Phase Peptide Synthesis (Industry Collaboration) A PhD position is available in the group of Prof. Dr. Nina Hartrampf at the Department of Chemistry, University of Zurich (Switzerland), in collaboration with the company Novo Nordisk in Måløv, Denmar...

Are you looking for a PhD position in peptide synthesis, automation, and computational analysis? 🧪 💊💻

We have an open position for a collaborative PhD thesis (with Novo Nordisk). For more details, please see: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

⏰ Application deadline = November 15

ChatGPT is transforming peer review — how can we use it responsibly? At major computer-science publication venues, up to 17% of the peer reviews are now written by artificial intelligence. We need guidelines before things get out of hand.

ChatGPT is transforming peer review — how can we use it responsibly? https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03588-8

#Kinderuniversiteit2024 was a lot of fun ! In our workshop "How does DNA look like?" 🧬, the kids extracted DNA from strawberries and build their own DNA model from marshmallows (they didn't last long). Thanks a lot to Iris Govaerts and Valerie de Groote ! 🙂
@KU_Leuven

Hohoho! It's #KinderUniversiteit tomorrow! Getting ready for a fun workshop with FPs...and strawberries, yes! ;) Looking forward for the little curious scientists!
@KU_Leuven @KinderuniLive #sciencecom

Open discussion about Future directions in Super-Res microscopy. #SMLMS2024 Who else than @rita_strack @JonasRies @Melike_Lak @christlet and Debora Olivier! 🥳
🔬✨😎

Sweet tooth before #SMLMS2024!
🌉🔬

Let the summer school begin!! 🧫🔬🦠🥳
#summerofscience
#KULeuven

Thank you all for coming to #IYSNConf2024! ☺️🔬
@aklymchenko
@UEndesfelder
@VittoreScolari
@GDR_ImaBio

See you in 2026 ! ;) twitter.com/YSNImabio/status/1806614...

Networking
Discussing
Fun...at #IYSNConf2024! 😍🎉
@GDR_ImaBio @YSNImabio #Lille #conference

The 4th #IYSNConf2024 is about to start! 🔬
We have great goodies 🤩
@LinaElHajji1
@YSNImabio
@GDR_ImaBio https://t.co/uZrc7KZ0ka

ImaBio Young Scientists - Program The 4th Imabio YSN conference will extend over 3 days, from Wednesday 26th to Friday 28th June in the campus of the Lille University. The program will cover following topics: Microscopy & Image analysis Biology Chemistry Career Development There will be three keynote speakers and the rest of the

Tomorrow starts the 4th Imabio YSN Conference!
I can't wait! 🥳
👉 https://shorturl.at/1J7f1

@YSNImabio @GDR_ImaBio
#IYSNConf2024

Hey hey hey - it is the last day to register for the 4th Imabio YSN Conference 🚨🥳
👇 twitter.com/YSNImabio/status/1791000...

Interesting position open at The Twinkle Factory: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3856976761

Happy to see this paper out! 😊🔬

We developed exNEEMO = method that allows you to do multiplex imaging and per-pixel unmixing of fluorophores of the same color!

Thanks @FBierbuesse to make this happen!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S003...
#photoswitching #unmixing

Come to discover the Fluo World at @dagvdwetenschap! 🧫🧪🔬
We’re ready for you in Muntpunt in Brussels ;) #DVDW2023
@vandenberglab @DedeckerLab