Pour celles et ceux que ça intéressent, il existe une association "Mothers in Science" qui milite en faveur de l'égalité et de l'inclusion et propose de nombreuses actions afin d'améliorer les perspectives de carrière des femmes scientifiques avec des enfants
www.mothersinscience.com
This is why I’m not allowed in the wet lab anymore 🥼 🕺. My technique is too effective! 🤪
#PILife #TeamTomo 🧪
A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)
More context on this #Artemis II image:
* This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right
* The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon:
☀️🌍🚀🌕
Exposure to different viruses linked to Alzheimer's and vaccines prevent this, more and more proof accumulates over time (reviewers in higher impact journals: "but what's the mechanism?")
IMPACT OF PARENTHOOD ON UNIVERSITY EMPLOYMENT. Line graph shows how the probability of holding a research position changes from four years before to seven years after having children.
Becoming a parent is much more detrimental to women’s academic careers than it is to men’s
Read the full story: go.nature.com/4v4rxmQ
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“Not many problems can be solved by simply taking a daily pill,” Maia Szalavitz writes in a guest essay. “HIV infection is one of them, and we can’t afford to go back to the time when it wasn’t.”
Hard life according to my cat.
AlphaFold database has entered the era of complexes. Together with NVIDIA, DeepMind and EBI, we use ColabFold, OpenFold and MMseqs2-GPU to predict ~31 million complexes (homo & hetro-dimers) resulting in 1.8 million high-quality predictions
📄 research.nvidia.com/labs/dbr/ass...
🌐 alphafold.ebi.ac.uk
Transposable elements, such as retrotransposons and endogenous retroviruses, are being recognized for their important roles in genome function and impact on disease development. How can we translate our growing understanding of the 'dark genome' into therapeutics? go.nature.com/4tQ1zTn
rdcu.be/e7D2N
"Russian flu," the pandemic that hit in 1977, bears an evolutionary signature of having emerged from a lab, perhaps as part of a failed vaccine effort. Covid, mpox, Ebola, and other influenza pandemics don't. Here's my story on a new way to trace the origins of pandemics. Gift link: nyti.ms/46N0W33
🔬✊ One year later, we #StandUpForScience again.
Attacks multiply. Funding shrinks. But our determination doesn't.
Science isn't opinion, it's the foundation of democracy.
Institut Pasteur researchers are mobilizing. Join us.
#StandUpForScience2026 #ScienceMatters #ResearchMatters
This is why we need to study persistent infections beyond the primary diseases they cause.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I aspire to exude as much confidence as this little Kinesin protein strutting along a microtubule while hauling intracellular cargo.
Look at that little guy go! 🔬🧪
🎙️R2D2-MH coordinator @thomasbourgeron.bsky.social and #cocreation member Stéf Bonnot-Briey participated in a radio broadcast on #Autism, discussing #cocreation, science, lived experience and #inclusion.
🎧 Recommended for French speakers: www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...
#HorizonEU #Resilience
[Resources]
#AlphaFold protein and PPI prediction databases
1️⃣ Predictomes (genome maintenance & H2A/H2b) predictomes.org
2️⃣ Flypredictome www.flyrnai.org/tools/fly_pr...
3️⃣ Human interactome prodata.swmed.edu/humanPPI
4️⃣ BFVD (viral proteins) bfvd.steineggerlab.workers.dev
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Science is not truth.
Science is finding the truth.
When science changes its opinion, it didn't lie to you. It learned more.
Despite decades of intensive research, current approaches to treating #NeurodegenerativeDiseases only slow down the seemingly inevitable. Could recent data associating #vaccines with reduced risk of #dementia offer an unexpected beacon of hope?🧪 @sparrerlab.bsky.social
How could a simple self-replicating system emerge at the origins of life? RNA polymerase ribozymes can replicate RNA, but existing ones are so large that their self-replication seems impossible. Could they be smaller?
Excited to share our latest work in @science.org on a new small polymerase.
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No, DeepMind has not solved the protein folding problem.
#Alphafold predictions are valuable hypotheses and accelerate but do not replace experimental structure determination.
Integrated structural biology at its best with fantastic talks in cryo-EM, NMR, and X-ray techniques
Also integration with other Instruct Centres, in this case Kay Grünewald Instruct-DE @cssbhamburg.bsky.social 'Conformational flexibility and molecular plasticity in herpesvirus entry and egress'
Vibrant color portrait of Jane S. Richardson, the visionary biophysicist and artist who revolutionized structural biology with her invention of ribbon diagrams. She gazes warmly at the camera with a bright, knowing smile that radiates quiet brilliance and decades of curiosity. Her silver-blonde hair woven with gentle waves. Large, elegant dangling earrings catch the light, and she wears a richly patterned brown blouse embroidered with intricate turquoise paisley motifs and delicate beadwork that echoes the molecular elegance she has spent her life depicting. Behind her floats a luminous, dreamlike backdrop of glowing molecular structures--interlocking hexagonal and ribbon-like forms in electric blues, teals, and greens--blending science and art in a single, living canvas.
Hand-drawn and hand-colored (by Jane Richardson) scientific artwork known as a Richardson ribbon diagram (or “ribbon model”), one of the iconic visual inventions of Jane Richardson that transformed the way we see and understand protein structures. A graceful, three-dimensional tangle of protein backbone ribbons twists and spirals through space, rendered in soft pencil lines and luminous watercolor hues. Smooth golden-brown coils represent α-helices that curl like elegant ribbons, while broad teal-green arrows trace the flat, pleated strands of β-sheets slicing through the molecule with directional purpose. Thin, looping golden threads connect the secondary structures, creating a delicate, almost dance-like choreography of biology’s hidden architecture. The entire form is framed by a simple olive-green mat and dark border, giving the drawing the quiet dignity of both fine art and precise scientific illustration—a timeless bridge between molecular reality and human imagination.
Jane Richardson was born #OTD in 1941
+ Developed the Richardson (ribbon) diagram to represent proteins' 3D structure (becoming a standard representation for protein structures)
+ MacArthur Fellow, 1985
+ Elected, Nat'l Academy of Sciences, 1991
+ President, Biophysical Society, 2012
#WomenInSTEM
Color photograph of Joan Steitz (Joan Argetsinger Steitz), the distinguished American molecular biologist and biochemist renowned for her groundbreaking discoveries in RNA biology, including the identification of small nuclear ribonucleoproteins (snRNPs) essential to RNA splicing. She is pictured in a close-up portrait within a laboratory or research setting, smiling warmly and directly at the camera with an engaging, approachable expression that conveys enthusiasm and expertise. Steitz has gray hair pulled back, striking blue eyes, and is wearing large, elaborate dangling earrings adorned with purple gemstones and metallic accents. She is dressed in a rich purple blouse. The softly blurred background includes scientific elements such as lab benches, equipment, monitors, charts, and partial signage, evoking the environment of her long career at Yale University where she served as Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry. #JoanSteitz #MolecularBiology #WomenInScience #Biochemistry #RNA
Biochemist/molecular biologist Joan Steitz was born #OTD in 1941.
She (& team) figured out how our cells read/use genetic instructions to make proteins. A key person who helped crack the code on RNA—the molecule that acts like a messenger between DNA & and the proteins our bodies need. #WomenInSTEM
Have no fear if you weren't in the packed audience this week for @martinpacesa.bsky.social's awesome seminar, because you can check out the recording 👇
youtu.be/qQihl6If9vU
Huge congratulations @nboyd.bsky.social with Mosaic that absolutely killed in the competition! 𝑩𝒊𝒏𝒅𝑪𝒓𝒂𝒇𝒕2 did also pretty well with the second highest hit rate in the competition!
proteinbase.com/collections/...
Excellent overview of the (mind-blowing) effects of the Shingles vaccine against dementia by @erictopol.bsky.social Ground Truth 🧪 "Two new studies add to a remarkable body of evidence for benefit" ⬇️
open.substack.com/pub/erictopo...
"Not sure if _name_ (my husband) would be ok with this?" - answer from a PI to my suggestion to go to a month-long training outside of country.
"If Covid was a fire alarm, our response, incredibly, has been to rip out the wiring. Instead of correcting the underbuilt public health systems that allowed thousands to die in the dark, we are choosing to institutionalize blindness." 👇
www.statnews.com/2026/01/18/t... via @statnews.com
Published in Cell, a new study shows that the immune system’s reaction to the common Epstein-Barr virus can ultimately damage the brain and contribute to multiple sclerosis, from a team @ki.se
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
