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In recognition of Juneteenth, Cell is honored to share the voices, stories and perspectives of over 70 Black scientists across several Leading Edge articles in our current issue. bitly.ws/IjCN 🧵(1/9)

Hi everyone~ I am super excited to pre-print my PhD work 🍾 biorxiv.org/content/10.110… See these fireworks (calcium signals)? These are your immune cells, and this is what happens when they talk to one another to try and organize the very earliest stage of your immune response!

Seen on arXiv today

ECRs/MCRs in #STEM applying for jobs. It's *so* important that your application addresses in detail the SELECTION CRITERIA. You might be good, but you won't get to the starting gate if you don't. Please don't set your applications up to fail by neglecting this important point.

New content online: DNA-origami-directed virus capsid polymorphism dlvr.it/SsKMBW

In Australian Journal of Chemistry for the upcoming Royal Australian Chemical Institute awards special issue, I've written a little intro to protein cages for chemists. publish.csiro.au/CH/CH23102 Spotlighting Australian research in the field from Frank Sainsbury Andrew Care Guy Jameson Claudia Vickers and more

Are you a budding artist who loved proteins? Then enter the competition to design the Lorne Proteins t-shirt! Your design could be worn by attendees, commemorating the experience and spreading inspiration. lorneproteins.org/t-shirt-design…

I sat in parli yesterday as Labor and the Liberals refused to agree to a Greens amendment to condemn Israeli war crimes and call for ceasefire, instead the Gov insisted "Israel has a right to defend itself". Israel is carrying out a genocide in Gaza, it's not "defending itself"

Why are we still publishing complicated descriptions of #DNA constructs when they can be fully sequenced? B Thuronyi (they/them) @[email protected] Erika Alden DeBenedictis & Jeffrey Barrick suggest that outdated #methods narratives should be replaced with DNA #sequence files in publications. plos.io/47Ahg4Z

Biofoundry-assisted Golden Gate cloning with AssemblyTron ift.tt/qa1FbGu #biorxiv_synbio

At this stage it would be nice to see Australia make ANY research a strategic priority 🙃

Hypnosis, 233 chars #つぶやきGLSL for (O *= m; m < 170.;O += .0007 / (abs(length( a + abs(sin(m* mix(.02,.07, sin(f)*.5 + .5) - f)) * vec2(cos(x = m*.05-f), sin(x)))-.5) + .02) * (1.+cos(m++*.1 + length(a)*6. - f + vec4(0,1,2,0))));

Day 20? 30? 40??? of polishing all my VLP samples. Lucky I saved the pretty ones for last 💖🌸🌷🎀💅🏻

Merry Xmas in 388 chars! #つぶやきGLSL for (O*=i;i++<8.;O+=.004/abs(sin(length(u=fract((U-vec2(0,1))*r(-t*.05)*(1.5+i*.1))-.5)*exp(length(u)*1.5-l)*7.+sin(t)*.05)/8.-.3*s*.6+U.x+1.4+sin(U.y*13.+3.)*.1-2.*s+2.2)))*(1.+cos(i*.5+l*5.-t*4.+vec4(0,1,2,0)))); shadertoy.com/view/4fs3WS

E. coli pellets 💛🩷 Left to right: no fluorescent protein, EYFP and mScarlet-I

My mutant plants should belong to contemporary art museums. #confocal #thisisart

Working in a lab when you're sensitive to bad smells

normalise concluding academic articles with “to be continued”

Making the case for permissive licensing in #bioimageanalysis.