Nikolas Alansson

PhD candidate @IBS_Grenoble
Avid sailor and stargazer
Icelandic, German, American. He/Him
All views are my own.

[Académie des sciences @AcadSciences]

Yvain Nicolet remporte le prix du Docteur Henri Labbé et de Madame Henri Labbé !

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

2024 #NobelPrize laureate in chemistry David Baker has succeeded with the almost impossible feat of building entirely new kinds of proteins.

In recent years, one incredible protein creation after the other has emerged from Baker’s laboratory. They range from new nanomaterials where up to 120 proteins spontaneously link together…

Animation: ©Terezia Kovalova/The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

#NobelPrize

[Caroline Lynn Kamerlin 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇸🇪🇮🇷 ☀️ 🇪🇺🦓 @kamerlinlab]

🚨 Upcoming Info Session on Graduate Recruitment at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Georgia Tech @GT_CHEM 🚨

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[Caroline Lynn Kamerlin 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇸🇪🇮🇷 ☀️ 🇪🇺🦓 @kamerlinlab]

Redefining the limits of functional continuity in the early evolution of P-Loop NTPases, a truly heroic computational effort by my grad student Andrey Demkiv, collaboration with @LiamLongo and colleagues.
https://t.co/aQ0qGdg1At

[Animarchy History 🇦🇺🍕🦨 @AnimarchyYT]

Ok. That’s it. This is the funniest interaction on this website I’ve ever seen. Nothing can beat this, absolutely nothing.

[Nikolas Alansson @niksipher]

looking forward to reading the discussions in the OoL community about this one...

[nature @Nature]

Something is pumping out large amounts of oxygen at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, at depths where a total lack of sunlight makes photosynthesis impossible https://t.co/89l1iYzS5s

[@Iceland_Review @Iceland_Review]

If you live in Iceland and want to adopt a cat, now would be a really good time to do so

https://t.co/suvRPgULlK

[Nikolas Alansson @niksipher]

Happy to share my first co-authorship, where we investigated the pH -dependencies of a regulatory protein. Grateful for the collaboration and support from my co-authors and especially my excellent mentor @kamerlinlab

[Caroline Lynn Kamerlin 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇸🇪🇮🇷 ☀️ 🇪🇺🦓 @kamerlinlab]

Combining theory and experiment to understand the pH-dependence of wild-type and variant forms of SHP-1 (and implications for PTPs more broadly). SHP-1 plays important roles in both immune regulation and cancer signaling. Just out in @JACS_Au ! https://t.co/STVOsVjA02

[Caroline Lynn Kamerlin 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇸🇪🇮🇷 ☀️ 🇪🇺🦓 @kamerlinlab]

Combining theory and experiment to understand the pH-dependence of wild-type and variant forms of SHP-1 (and implications for PTPs more broadly). SHP-1 plays important roles in both immune regulation and cancer signaling. Just out in @JACS_Au ! https://t.co/STVOsVjA02

[Years Progress @YearsProgress]

2024 is 50% complete. [183 days remaining]

[Nikolas Alansson @niksipher]

Happens to anybody who plays Kerbal Space Program.

[Ars Technica @arstechnica]

Chinese space firm unintentionally launches its new rocket https://t.co/vdb8BJ9ztC

[Stephanie Wankowicz @stephanie_mul]

We were incredibly disappointed with the lack of code or executable accompanying the publication of AF3 in @Nature . This contradicts scientific principles of the ability to evaluate, use, and build upon existing work. https://t.co/8fOYWffXLv

[Scott Bagley @BagPhos]

It’s Metal-free so must be ok…

[Reader, it is not OK]

[and that bis azide…shiver me timbers]

[@Iceland_Review @Iceland_Review]

This is still a developing story, with more information to follow soon
https://t.co/bFzkqlOFl8

[Joao Pereira @jdpereira]

This is.. weird and feels off.

All of them are viable reasons, but isn’t the main reason why these people stayed in academia: “because they could”?

Scientists are leaving academia not because they don’t relate to these reasons but because there are no:

a) positions

b) pay.

[Science Robotics @SciRobotics]

The March issue of Science #Robotics is now out!

On the cover, an autonomous snake-like #robot that could one day search for life on the icy, geologically active surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus. https://t.co/nWhn3jtq75

[Yan Holtz @R_Graph_Gallery]

You're starting a new Data Analysis project with #rstats or #pythonprogramming.

➡️How do you organise your work files? 🤔

Here is a thread about how I do it.

Any other best practice you use??

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[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

«Tell Schrödinger I survived»

[nature @Nature]

The origin of life is one of the greatest challenges in science

Explaining isolated steps on the road from simple chemicals to complex living organisms is not enough. Looking at the big picture could help to bridge rifts in this fractured research field https://t.co/e4Rsw0W5mw

[Caroline Lynn Kamerlin 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇸🇪🇮🇷 ☀️ 🇪🇺🦓 @kamerlinlab]

Our latest tool to identify everything evolutionarily conserved protein interaction networks across protein families is now online at Protein Science! @ProteinSociety with @DYehorova Rory Crean @kassonlab. https://t.co/8OGpbbNSdf