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20, Biochemistry Undergrad in the UK Posts will be things I find interesting or look nice

[asapscience]

😶 [Reddit]

[currentsinbiology]

How bacterial organelles assemble

Scientists are providing the clearest view yet of an intact bacterial microcompartment, revealing at atomic-level resolution the structure and assembly of the organelle’s protein shell.

The work, led by scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Michigan State University (MSU), will appear in the June 23 issue of the journal Science. They studied the organelle shell of an ocean-dwelling slime bacteria called Haliangium ochraceum.

“It’s pretty photogenic,” said corresponding author Cheryl Kerfeld, a Berkeley Lab structural biologist with a joint appointment as a professor at the MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory. “But more importantly, it provides the very first picture of the shell of an intact bacterial organelle membrane. Having the full structural view of the bacterial organelle membrane can help provide important information in fighting pathogens or bioengineering bacterial organelles for beneficial purposes.”

Markus Sutter, Basil Greber, Clement Aussignargues, Cheryl A. Kerfeld. Assembly principles and structure of a 6.5-MDa bacterial microcompartment shell. Science, 2017 DOI: 10.1126/science.aan3289

Researchers at Berkeley Lab and MSU have obtained the first atomic-level view of an intact bacterial microcompartment, shown here.Credit: Markus Sutter/Berkeley Lab and MSU

[expressions-of-nature]

[gif87a-com]

Animal Gaits for Animators by Stephen Cunnane

[fyphysica]

This shows that the probability of a random variable is maximum at the average and diminishes as one goes away from it, eventually leading to a bell-curve.

[botanyshitposts]

look y'all Pokémon eeveelutions are great but eevee has nothing on wild mustard

[botanyshitposts]

[khe1archive-deactivated20191104]

milk of magnesia with universal indicator + HCL

[rudescience]

Gayest chemical reaction I’ve seen so far. 

[rudescience]

This is my life goal. 

[shortvideosandstuff]

Computer simulations that teach themselves to walk.

[icetigris]

Please cite the papers this is from, this is no better than posting stolen, unsourced art. This is someone’s results from their research: their PhD dissertation, ACM TOG, and SIGGRAPH/Eurographics.

DON’T JUST REPOST IT WITHOUT CITING THE PAPERS.

Thomas Geijtenbeek’s research page

Animating Virtual Characters using Physics-Based Simulation

Flexible Muscle-Based Locomotion for Bipedal Creatures

Simple Data-Driven Control for Simulated Bipeds

[banimals]

Mood: generation 80 emu.

[musta--krakish-deactivated20170]

ive seen these gifs for years and *finally* someone fucking sources them

[sheepsheeples]

Gen80 of the wibbley biped creature is beautiful and trying it’s best

[biolegend]

Never has a fortune cookie summed up academia so well. Reposted from https://twitter.com/AcademiaObscura

[topshotpicks]

When scientists get too honest

> I would love to see more science posts on Tumblr. I particularly liked, “The postdoc who did all the work has since left to start a bakery.”

[maplejustice-deactivated2021090]

@vertebrae-in-cursive

[o-ceti]

@evasivemilk

[number031]

Typographical sins

I ≠ l

[smilesandvials]

I’m not affiliated with this at all but I was just messing around on Youtube and I found this. This looks like a super easy, lost-cost, effective outreach activity about a very modern technology. There is another video in more detail on paper microfluidics that might be helpful, here. This is something I think would engage both parents and children at a museum day or similar event.

[laughingsquid]

Women of NASA, An Upcoming Official LEGO Set Featuring Five Female Pioneers of Outer Space

[staedtlers-and-stabilos]

Newton's 4th law: A student in bed will remain in bed unless acted upon by a large enough panic.

[science]

[amoebasisters]

Here’s a few isolation types that can lead to speciation!

[sciteachers]

#evolution