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)
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A paper was submitted with 4 authors. During revision, the *entire* group of 4 original authors was replaced with others during revision.
No explanation.
The authors *disagree* with the retraction 😅
Reese Richardson
Cryo-EM: the revolution continues doi.org/10.1107/S205...
The world has become much more resilient to disaster events over the last century.
In the chart here, you can see estimates of average death rates — measured as the number of deaths per 100,000 people — by decade since the early 20th century.
Alejandro Montenegro
The increasing democratization and implementation of electron cryo-microscopy appears poised to drive a new revolution in digital structural biology.
Solar looks exponential whereas the growth of wind seems to be slowing down (why?). Once again, excellent presentations by @ourworldindata.org
100% agreement here!
ATG16L2 creates a VAIL-dedicated heterodimer with ATG16L1
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
I suggest someone write an article about service contract costs called "The Revolution Eats Its Children".
Obituary of Bernard Roizman, the Godfather of research on Herpes Simplex Virus. R.I.P.
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/s...
Not to ignore how upsetting and unethical this is, but there is some dark humor in the western blot GIF, or? To me, it pairs well with a jingle like
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNv2...
Cryo-EM: the revolution continues doi.org/10.1107/S205...
Lars-Anders Carlson
Lars-Anders Carlson
“the best way to work with cryoET data is to engage with it directly, […] build familiarity with what is actually there. As tempting as it sometimes is to lean in to automation entirely, we cannot do visual proteomics by relying blindly on automation.”
mgflast.github.io/easymode/use...
Lars-Anders Carlson
Lars-Anders Carlson
Lars-Anders Carlson
The increasing democratization and implementation of electron cryo-microscopy appears poised to drive a new revolution in digital structural biology.
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)
Beate Sodeik
Alexey Amunts
(This Data Insight was written by @hannahritchie.bsky.social and @parriagadap.bsky.social.)
Explore how electricity sources are changing in other countries: ourworldindata.org/grapher/shar...
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Alister Burt
Reese Richardson
An interactive visualization from Our World in Data.
