Pim Huis in 't Veld

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Chromosome biology and reconstitution of cell division machinery; Postdoc at MPI Dortmund πŸ‘¨β€πŸ‘©β€πŸ‘§β€πŸ‘§ πŸ‘©β€πŸ”¬πŸ‘¨β€πŸ”¬πŸ§ͺπŸ”¬πŸŽ“ @APieFrmScratch
In Dutch there is a special word for tolerating offences without legalising them: gedoogbeleid (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gedogen)
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Controversial: sci-hub is tolerated by major publishers since it became essential to maintain the status quo

Impression from having most πŸ’Έ subscriptions, still tempted to download from sci-hub 27 times in 2024 (πŸ™ŠπŸ™ˆπŸ™‰ it would work flawlessly, especially for older literature)

I would really like to do a 2nd iteration (& regular series) of this posting conceptπŸ‘‡.

I'm looking for #BIPOC/#BAME scientists to share their stories not of what they do, but of what inspired them to follow a career in #STEM. Maybe a teacher? A friend of the family? A TV programme?

Message me/reply if interested. #MySciMoment

http://totalinternalreflectionblog.com/2020/10/29/myscimoment-bame-scientists-share-their-inspirations/

MySciMoment – BAME scientists share their inspirations

A lack of visible role models can make it harder for Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) scientists to feel they belong. Here, a selection of BAME scientists tell TIR what inspired them to fol…

Total Internal Reflection

For #Apple fans out there: 10 hidden Easter Eggs in macOS. I was aware of some of these but 3, 6 and 10 were new to me.

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/08/07/10-hidden-easter-eggs-in-macos/

10 Hidden Easter Eggs in macOS

In computing lore, an Easter egg typically refers to a secret message, image, or feature intentionally left in software, often (but not always)...

MacRumors

Want to X twitter, but there is a crowd and community there...

Unlike here, it seems.. Let's try to change!

As I am unwrapping boxes and starting my journey as a PI, I will post a few things here in the next days and stay away from X

Follow, follow-back, and content

There's something delicious about a brilliant, Nobel-prize-winning scientist being wrong.

I'm reading Richard Feynman's (throroughly enjoyable) "Six Easy Pieces" (https://amzn.to/45ie510). In a fine bit of epistemic trespassing, he decides to sum up biology. This is how he starts...

Amazon.ca

Why is a short loop in the extended #Ndc80 #kinetochore complex essential for #mitosis?
In vitro studies by Soumitra Polley @andreamusacchio @microtubule_guy @pim et al reveal its contribution to end-on #microtubule attachment via homotypic interactions between adjacent Ndc80 molecules
https://www.embopress.org/doi/10.15252/embj.2022112504

See this superb online resource by Catherine Oikonomou & @theJensenLab: The Atlas of Bacterial & Archaeal Cell Structure - open-access digital textbook with cutting-edge 3D electron microscopy

now includes animated videos illustrating methods‼️

https://www.cellstructureatlas.org

The Atlas of Bacterial & Archaeal Cell Structure

The Atlas of Bacterial & Archaeal Cell Structure, an open-access digital textbook, showcases microbial cells imaged by 3D electron microscopy

Remember what you were doing on Halloween 2018? We neither, but these authors were submitting their manuscript to Nature and yesterday, in 2023, it was published. Wow.

I am grateful to start my lab Max Perutz Labs in Vienna in Summer '23. What a place to do Chromosome Biology and Reconstitution Biochemistry! Looking forward to study how dividing cells recognise and process DNA bridges in anaphase.

Thanks to my postdoctoral advisor @andreamusacchio for all the support. A special shout-out to our collaborators @microtubule_guy and @MarileenD

It's exciting and all your congratulations and kind words in the past days mean a lot. Thanks!