There's a PhD position now available with me in Bath, on the evolution of symbiosis. www.findaphd.com/phds/project.... The supervisory team also includes @anja1.bsky.social @phil-donoghue.bsky.social and others. NB, this is open both to UK-based students *and* to international students :)

It’s worth trying!!!

That would be awesome! It is beautiful, but it also bursts when you look at it too long, lol.

Five years later, I have my own lab. In Puerto Rico. And guess who's here!!! During one of our first lab field trips, we sampled a hypersaline shallow lagoon. Yes, Spirorhynchus was in there. Also by our dock. Trying to get in the lab?! We have welcomed him in and are interviewing his tufty friends!

One year later, in Beinart Lab @symbiosisrox.bsky.social, I got an incredible opportunity to join Joan Bernhard & Ginny Egdcomb on another cruise to SBB and pulled Spirorhynchus out of its cosy stinky home myself (well, watched the A-frame operator do it). Best bday (shared with the captain) EVR!!

The only paper I found showing micrograph of Spirorhynchus was Joan Bernhard's Nature paper 'Santa Barbara Basin is a symbiosis oasis' from 2000. A couple years after seeing it, to my amazement, Joan went to SBB again and brought a sample. It was still there!! www.nature.com/articles/47476

Well, yes way! It looks just like the drawing, over 110 years old. When I first saw a live cell in a saltmarsh sample in Cape Cod, over 10 years ago, I couldn't contain my happiness. It exists! Then, we found it again in several sites in Rhode Island with @symbiosisrox.bsky.social!

When I first saw the drawing of Spirorhynchus in da Cunha, 1915, isolated from Brazilian Manguinhos, I thought nothing can really look like that - ectosymbionts organized in tuft balls spiralling around the cells? No way! #ProtistsOnSky #MicroSky

New paper out! 💌🔬Spirorhynchus verrucosus is a Muranotrichean and its sister has been livin' in the deep sea Santa Barbara Basin since the 90's! See them TUFTS!! Wonderful work of B Bourland & Cepicka Lab, R Beinart, & J Bernhard enabling deep sea sampling. Read h1.nu/spiror #ProtistsOnSky #MicroSky

With all the craziness in the world, good lab news bring real joy.💚🪇 With Breitbart's Lab help, long lab hours & determination not to give up, Gina has established a culture of the coral-eating Philaster!🪸🧫🔬I'm so proud of her!🥇 @gfullller.bsky.social
@miapi314.bsky.social #ProtistsOnSky #MicroSky

Heeeeey #Microbial #Ecology folk! My department has a job opening for a tenure track Microbial Ecologist! Feel free to DM me with questions. Come join our awesome supportive whip-smart & kind crew in the Biology Department of @umassboston.bsky.social! employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us...

OIST is seeking up to four tenure-track or tenured faculty in Ecology, Environmental Science, Earth Science, and Oceanography. Application deadline: Oct 15. Please share. Thx!
www.oist.jp/careers/facu...

Conventional wisdom says motherhood should wait for tenure as before you land a permanent post, #academia is just not that family friendly🙁

@carersinstemm.bsky.social are calling for change and to celebrate their new report, a Saturday🧵on parenting & academia! 1/9 👩‍🔬🧪🔭⚛️

ℹ️: carersinstemm.co.uk

Such a huge loss. Jane Goodall did so much for nature conservation as we know it, and kept doing so until her last breath. She has been my hero since very early childhood, and I had to pinch myself when I got to meet her a couple years ago in Prague.

Jane Goodall, who revealed the intimate lives of chimpanzees and gave the modern world a language of hope, has died at the age of 91.

“Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference,” she told audiences. Those words remain her truest epitaph.

Curious about #protists and #anaerobic metabolism? 🦠🔬Well, it's out!
It is such a privilege to have taken part of this amazing work by Julie @protistsforthewin.bsky.social and Karla at @cstairs.bsky.social lab during my MSc. Thank you!😄

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...

Let’s take a deep dive into chemoautotrophy!

Dr. Roxanne Beinart, Associate Professor of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island, joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss how some marine creatures use bacterial symbioses to provide organic compounds for growth and reproduction.

Job Alert - please RT! Tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Physical Oceanography at UPRM just opened! Candidates with expertise in coastal & shelf-scale processes, coastal ocean modelling, marine engineering, open-ocean research are encouraged to apply. See more at tinyurl.com/4eaf8rfr

My OpEd in @elife.bsky.social

“It feels as if we are trying to fight a series of attacks on science with one arm tied behind our back and our lips half sewn shut.”

“Yet we are not beaten, and some of us are downright energized.”

elifesciences.org/articles/106...

PhD position available in Ceske Budejovice (Czechia), funded by ERC KLEPTOS, to study plastid endosymbiosis in kleptoplastidic protists. Are you curious about this process and do you like sampling/cultivation of protists? Join our team by applying here: jobs.bc.cas.cz/en/detail/243

#protistsonsky

I’ll be reposting frequently till March 7. Let’s make sure the world knows we are trying. For our colleagues at NIH, US-AID, NOAA, EPA, NSF: you are valued and your work is invaluable!

“ERC succeeds because it’s different. Its simple, tailored procedures allow Europe’s best researchers to thrive. Bureaucratic processes designed for other programmes should not be imposed on it.”

@marialep.bsky.social spoke up for an independent ERC with a doubled budget today @europarl.europa.eu

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025!

Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!

#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence