The youngest Shaker in the world is 67 years old, his name is Arnold. He lives alongside Sister June, 86, in a magnificent brick building designed to sleep 70, the dwelling house of the last active Shaker village in the world, at Sabbathday Lake, Maine. nytimes.com/2024/09/05/mag…

Congrats to #GlycoNet Investigator David Vocadlo Simon Fraser University on being named a Royal Society of Canada Fellow! His work is illuminating the roles of #carbohydrates in cancer and neurodegenerative diseases. Read more: ow.ly/KZfS50ThWBR #glycotime #RoyalSocietyofCanada RSC // SRC

Save the date 📅 July 1–3, 2025 Beilstein Glyco-Bioinformatics Symposium 2025 “Omics meets structure - deciphering the #glycome” in Limburg, Germany. 🔗 beilstein-institut.de/en/symposia/gl… Follow the hashtag #BeilsteinGlyco2025 for updates on registration, speakers, program etc.

Today was for me the beginning of the operatic year. After six years we saw “Carmen” again Wiener Staatsoper. Unfortunately the classic Zeffirelli production was replaced 4 years ago by one by Calixto Bieito. Unnecessary stage noise (as usual with his productions!) detracted from

Small overlooked ORFs - I always thought gene annotations were substandard …

As hirers of staff, let’s all be A’s who hire A’s - let’s not be B’s who hire C’s! open.substack.com/pub/boriquagat…

Will probably need an update …

Should everyday objects be beautiful, or useful? Here's how to fight back against functionality. And why beauty matters in the mundane... (thread) 🧵

Today, I was in Musikverein Wien with the 11 year old to celebrate Schönberg’s 150th birthday with a performance of Gurre-Lieder. Schönberg suffered from triskaidekaphobia - a fear of the number 13. He was born on 13th September, died aged 76 (7+6=13) on a Friday 13th and his 150th

“Jagged pieces of fiberglass and other materials from a shattered blade drifted with the tide, forcing officials to close beaches on Nantucket and [worries about] the threat the fragments might pose to … fishing boats.” nytimes.com/2024/09/12/bus…

N-Glycoproteome profiling with pGlycoNovo and pGlyco3 across five evolutionarily distant species as well as reappraisal of Spike glycopeptide data. But a Hex is not always Man, certainly in highly fucosylated glycans in Caenorhabditis! #glycotime nature.com/articles/s4146…

Wasserpegel noch hoch, aber Donaukanalradweg ist nicht mehr unter Wasser!

New paper from The Hsieh-Wilson Lab and others on a new approach to label core a1,6-Fuc - using Caenorhabditis GALT-1 - I'm acknowledged as years ago we sent some fucosylated glycopeptide substrate. #glycotime pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Exciting News: We are hosting the first in person Alpha-Gal (meat allergy) symposium on Nov 20-21,2024 at the CCRC with amazing line up of speakers. Register here for FREE: ccrcweb.wixsite.com/alphagal2024 #glycotime #allergy Alpha-gal Syndrome Research

Alles bereit für das große Antrittskonzert von Petr Popelka als neuer Chefdirigent der Wiener Symphoniker!   Wir freuen uns auf Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowskis Konzert für Klavier und Orchester Nr. 1 in b-moll mit Anna Vinnitskaya als Solistin sowie Béla Bartóks Orchesterkonzert.

Heute wurde ein Paradigmenwechsel in der österreichischen Frauen- und Gleichstellungspolitik im #OeNR beschlossen - ausgerechnet im Bundesgleichbehandlungsgesetz. Warum ich der Abstimmung fern geblieben bin und was das bedeutet: 🧵

Evolution of E and E1E2 glycoproteins in flaviviruses: All species with a methyltransferase (MTase) also possess an E glycoprotein homologue, but species with E1E2 (hepaciviruses, pegiviruses and pestiviruses) lack MTase. Viruses with MTase undergo cap-dependent translation,

Parasite, Fungal & Vector database resources will be coming back online … fill out the form at VEuPathDB.org to be kept informed, and an anonymous survey to help define the future 🔗veupathdb.org

ÖVP schafft versehentlich das biologische Geschlecht ab: die ⁦Volkspartei⁩ zeigt wie gut ihre parlamentarische Arbeit ist. Reif für eine Auszeit in der Opposition? diepresse.com/18879779

Inaugural concert of the new subscription series of Wiener Symphoniker in Wiener Konzerthaus with their new chief conductor: Popelka conducting Tchaikovsky and Bartók!