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Read my 🔥rant about Evaluation Letters and why we should GET RID OF THEM. I argue that by relying on promotion letters academia generates pleasers, playing-it-safe, unoriginal, cookie-cutter scientists. Please share and tell me what you think! Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology nature.com/articles/s4158…

Our work on hallucinating de novo symmetric protein assemblies w/ #AlphaFold + #ProteinMPNN is out: doi.org/10.1126/scienc… Major collaborative effort w/ Basile Wicky and A. Courbet, @RobertRagotte Justas Dauparas Elias 👾 Sam Tipps Ryan Kibler Minkyung Baek, at Institute for Protein Design 1/5

🎨 The best way to see Van Gogh's "Starry Night" is to stare at the center of the spiral for 20 seconds and then look at the painting. RT when it works for you.

We've released the protein emoji source files and instructions for how to include protein emojis in your LaTeX documents 🚀 github.com/whitead/protei…

Calling all undergraduate/master’s students, don’t forget the deadline to apply for this PhD opportunity is on Wednesday at 5 pm (UK time)

Released EMDB - EMPIAR @EBI & Protein Data Bank, & published bioRxiv, the 1.6 Å #CryoEM structure of a #Translating 70S #Bacterial #Ribosome by Simon Fromm, Pramod R Bhatt Gary Loughran, John Atkins Ahmad Jomaa Simone Mattei et al. from EMBL Imaging Centre UCC Ireland UVA & EMBL Heidelberg. 1/2

Time for a pharmacology tweetorial (of sorts) on one-eyed sheep. It’s an odyssey that began on Idaho ranches in the 1950s and ended over half a century later with the approval of several new cancer drugs for basal cell carcinoma and AML. 1/

A few PhD and Postdoc positions will be immediately available on topics covering membrane transporter biophysics and EPR/ESR spectroscopy. Please RT

Here we present tomoBEAR - our workflow for processing cryo-ET data for solving structures in situ. It helps us a lot in our group and we are happy to share it. Preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Presented by: Nikita Nikita Balyschew Artsemi Artsemi Yushkevich Vasilii @mikahydrolysis et al

pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Next generation of membrane protein single particle cryo-EM is here. Amazing works from my colleagues Chen Zhao and Xiao Tao. High resolution structure of Slo1 in near native conditions - no detergent at all!

Yes, most of us "put up with it because (we) want to publish in prestigious journals that will help (our) careers .” As scientists, we should pause and ask: Is this true? Isn't our work that makes the journals prestigious? We are part of the problem. theguardian.com/science/2023/m…

Are you from the Engineering/Physics/Math/CS streams and looking to use your quantitative skills to do research in biology? Apply for the new ICTS/NCBS Physics of Life graduate program National Centre for Biological Sciences Tata Institute of Fundamental Research ICTS Details at pol.ncbs.res.in

Chemists & Biochemists, join our growing team to work on designing artificial enzymes! Deadlines for postdoc and PhDs in January. 3-year postdoc (UK or international) to design stereoselective biaryl cross-coupling enzymes eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%… 1/3