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Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social · 15d

Love #protists? Then you'd love this! Beautiful collection of hand-drawn critters represented here at the Oxford-Japan symposium on ethological dynamics in diorama environments sites.google.com/view/oxford-... #ciliates #testateamoeba #diatoms

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American Society for Cell Biology @ascbiology.bsky.social · 20d

From MBoC: Wallace F. Marshall (UCSF) and team profile the giant ciliate Stentor pyriformis—symbiotic algae in microtubule baskets, symbiont-dependent phototaxis, and a standard genetic code. Paper: www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/... #CellBiology

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 7d

What a lovely find! I adore that I’m always seeing new things, even after 3 years of looking at plankton. This is a ciliate from the family Folliculinidae (thanks for the ID @microbe_guru !). I adore its colour!
#marineplankton 🦑

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Mya Breitbart @viromegirl.bsky.social · 7d

We're hiring for several positions (a post-bac researcher in #transcriptomics, a #phage #postdoc, a senior researcher (broad topics) and a graduate student to work on #ciliates) - find info here: www.marine.usf.edu/genomics/app...

Apply - Genomics

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Dr. Michelle Hauer @michelle-hauer.bsky.social · 6d

New publication out!

Dr. Roxanne Beinart @symbiosisrox.bsky.social · 6d

Happy to share our new paper led by Corinna Breusing about how the Hunga volcanic eruption's decimation of nearby hydrothermal vent snails and mussels led to a significant reduction in the genomic diversity of their bacterial symbionts.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Dr. Roxanne Beinart @symbiosisrox.bsky.social · Sep 4

I had such a great time doing this podcast! Thanks @markowenmartin.bsky.social for the chance to talk about snails and their microbial friends.

Mark O. Martin @markowenmartin.bsky.social · Aug 29

New week-new episode of the #MattersMicrobial podcast!! Dr. Roxanne Beinart of the University of Rhode Island joins the #QualityQuorum to chat about the work her group does on deep sea chemoautrophic communities & symbioses! Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord?

youtu.be/mERRJOuEsB4?...

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Anna Schrecengost @annaschreck.bsky.social · Jun 3

Sorry I am just seeing this! I remember that this paper has a good discussion of a few tools available for this: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

A broadscale analysis of host‐symbiont cophylogeny reveals the drivers of phylogenetic congruence

Symbioses exert substantial biological influence, yet a major unanswered question is the extent to which symbiont phylogenies mirror those of their hosts and if patterns differ for parasites and mutu...

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · May 31

How bad will it be? Catastrophic.

Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come.

But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget.

Speak up now before it is too late.

(inflation adjusted $-s below)

NSF, NASA and NIH budgets per year, inflation adjusted from 2000-2025 along with the proposed cuts. NSF includes research component only. Massive cuts across all sectors, well below support spanning 25 years.

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography @scrippsocean.bsky.social · May 30

Propaganda we're not falling for:

🦈Sharks are scary (amazing creatures, important for the ecosystem)
🌊Benthic invertebrates aren’t cute (they are precious)
🪨Geology is boring (rocks ROCK)
📈Long-term data sets aren't important (they are SO important!)
🔬Science isn’t cool (science rules, obviously)

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · May 29

RFK Jr. says the top scientific journals are “corrupt”. Yet his MAHA disinformation report includes fake references and grossly false statements.

Reviewers and editors at any of these journals would have caught these, resulting in its wholesale rejection.

Don’t give an inch to this charlatan.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · May 28

🎺🚨👀 WATCH TODAY: over 200 climate scientists and meteorologists (including NOAA and NASA veterans) are hosting a 100-hour livestream starting **today at 1 PM ET**, exploring how DOGE is impacting weather & climate science.

Trailer: youtu.be/-Go-RCg3AjI
Watch: wclivestream.com/watch

Weather and climate science needs your help

YouTube video by The Weather & Climate Livestream

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · May 26

An open letter highlighting the co-optation of open science language in the latest Executive Order to justify policies that are, in fact, antithetical to open science principles.

Read and consider signing with your support.

www.standupforscience.net/open-letter-...

Open Letter in Support of Science — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

www.standupforscience.net

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Anna Schrecengost @annaschreck.bsky.social · May 20

Question for #protistsonsky #SymbioSky: what are examples of prokaryotic genera which form mutualistic symbioses with both animals and free-living protists? i know about methanogenic endosymbionts of protists/animals, and examples of pathogenic microbes e.g. with amoeba, looking for more examples!

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · May 19

🎓🌊 A weekend full of celebration, tradition, & new beginnings. Congrats to the Class of 2025! We were proud to honor our graduates at the GSO Shirting Ceremony on Friday & commencement ceremony on Saturday. Here’s to the next chapter for this incredible group of ocean scientists.

➡️ buff.ly/2dXsHqX

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Anna Schrecengost @annaschreck.bsky.social · May 19

Where did you get those made?? They look great

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · May 16

Abolish ICE is the compromise position. We need to abolish the entire Department of Homeland Security, which was created after 9-11 with the express purpose of terrorizing immigrant communities, activists, and ordinary people in a sickening display of security theater that does not make anyone safer

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · May 15

Organic food doesn't cause autism. Neither do vaccines. Help stop the madness, spread the word with the new Stand Up For Science microflyer! #StopRFK #SaveScience www.standupforscience.net/microflyer1

Organic food doesn't cause autism. Neither do vaccines. — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

www.standupforscience.net

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Anna Schrecengost @annaschreck.bsky.social · May 9

Very honored to receive this award!

URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · May 9

🎉 Join us in congratulating #URIGSO's @annaschreck.bsky.social as the recipient of a 2025 URI Research & Scholarship Excellence Award! She is a Ph.D. candidate in biological oceanography in the Beinart Lab @symbiosisrox.bsky.social, studying marine anaerobic ciliates & their prokaryotic symbionts. 🌊

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Andrew Roger @andrewjroger.bsky.social · May 6

Eukfinder: a pipeline to retrieve microbial eukaryote genome sequences from metagenomic data | mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Eukfinder: a pipeline to retrieve microbial eukaryote genome sequences from metagenomic data | mBio

Advancements in next-generation sequencing have made whole-genome shotgun (WGS) metagenomic sequencing an efficient method for de novo reconstruction of microbial genomes from various environments. Th...

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500 Women Scientists @500womensci.bsky.social · May 6

Survival of the fittest is not a health care policy - at best it's based on junk science at worst it's rooted in eugenics. #Resist
www.theverge.com/health/66136...

Death is the policy

RFK Jr.‘s measles response is junk science and social Darwinism.

www.theverge.com

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · Apr 28

Dear Tenured Facility,

Over the past 100 days my career trajectory has turned into a question mark. At best, the TT job market just got even crazier, at worst there won’t be research career options in the US when I finish my PhD. It took me a while to find my path and I love being a scientist. 1/x

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · Apr 26

For #factcheckfriday we want to make it clear RFKJ is NOT banning artificial food dyes. 🍬🍭🍬

But for 2 rare dyes, all he did was ASK food companies to phase out petro-based dyes.

The same food companies that will no longer be inspected by the FDA since they canceled routine food inspection.
🙈🙉🙊

RFK Jr.'s effort to phase out artificial food dyes is not an outright ban — nor effective immediately

Kennedy's plan to eliminate the dyes needs the food companies to go along — he doesn't appear to have an enforcement mechanism in place.

www.snopes.com

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · Apr 25

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · Apr 24

Brilliant. The "Science Homecoming" project helps scientists place articles in local papers about how Trump & Musk's cuts to science harm their communities. 🧪 on @nature.com

How we’re battling Trump’s science cuts across small-town America

Neuroscientist Jessica Cantlon is urging scientists to use the power of local newspapers in the fight against US research-funding cuts.

www.nature.com

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Apr 23

One of the most shocking things I have read for a while:
t.co/lg46ijHLDF

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