Hi #membrane folks! This is today, last talks to close this academic year's trafficking seminar season :) 👇
Thermo Fisher now has a page up in response to our observations. They flatly deny that images were manipulated or fabricated while repeating that images were "optimized for presentation and clarity on the website", no lie, six times.
www.thermofisher.com/us/en/home/l...
Holy smoke--Thermo Fiasher stonewalling after being caught re-handed. How does copying and pasting bands fit into optimized for presentation and clarity???
If you like podcasts about math and science, I hope you'll check out The Joy of Why, which I cohost with my pal @jannalevinastro.bsky.social. Our first guest is the wonderful Jennifer Doudna, who discusses RNA, the CRISPR gene-editing mechanism, and her rebellious streak. youtu.be/T1SzNRElup0?...
Felix Campelo
The endolysosomal system in conventional and unconventional protein #secretion. A Perspective by Eloïse Néel, Marioara Chiritoiu-Butnaru, Julien Villeneuve and colleagues: rupress.org/jcb/article/...
📕 Part of #Lysosomes 2026: rupress.org/jcb/collecti...
Reese Richardson
www.thermofisher.com
”Overall, the group’s trajectory is considered very good with respect to its scientific contributions, even he should diversify more the journals where he publishes his studies and not focus in @elife.bsky.social, a journal with a peculiar evaluation process in which he is senior editor.” 😭🙈
The sad irony is that this very funding agency has signed DORA @dorassessment.bsky.social
Procollagen 1 assembles into phase-separated condensates in the endoplasmic reticulum rupress.org/jcb/article/...
Mark Peifer (He, him)
The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes:
🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting
🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)
Journal of Cell Biology
Steven Strogatz
From Segmentation to Pipelines: AI-Assisted Bioimage Analysis with Python
21-24 September 2026, Erasmus MC Rotterdam (The Netherlands)
Application deadline: 25 July 2026
More information & signing up:
courses.microscopie.nl?event_id=527
Thermo Fisher now has a page up in response to our observations. They flatly deny that images were manipulated or fabricated while repeating that images were "optimized for presentation and clarity on the website", no lie, six times.
www.thermofisher.com/us/en/home/l...
Reese Richardson
www.thermofisher.com
The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes:
🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting
🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)
