John Michael Lastimoso
@taonglumot.bsky.social
Studying macroalgal evolution, ecology, and natural history collections in the Philippines. Exploring museomics!
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Excited that this is out as a preprint! ❇️
We are introducing a novel dinoflagellate giant virus that holds so many mysteries!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We are introducing a novel dinoflagellate giant virus that holds so many mysteries!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A dinoflagellate-infecting giant virus with a micron-length tail
Viral infection is a ubiquitous source of marine plankton mortality, but relatively few viruses that infect phytoplankton have been characterized. Here we describe a virus, PelV-1, with unusual morpho...
www.biorxiv.org
July 21, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Excited that this is out as a preprint! ❇️
We are introducing a novel dinoflagellate giant virus that holds so many mysteries!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We are introducing a novel dinoflagellate giant virus that holds so many mysteries!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Ok so I’m watching The Outrun (sad but good movie), and Saoirse Ronan BECOMES A PHYCOLOGIST! Unexpected turn of events 🌊 Someone needs to make this into a GIF
March 24, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Ok so I’m watching The Outrun (sad but good movie), and Saoirse Ronan BECOMES A PHYCOLOGIST! Unexpected turn of events 🌊 Someone needs to make this into a GIF
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I'm pleased to introduce our new paper rooting the eukaryote Tree of Life (eToL) that resulted from a collaboration led by PhD student Kelsey Williamson and a large group of collaborators doi.org/10.1038/s415...htt
A robustly rooted tree of eukaryotes reveals their excavate ancestry - Nature
The root of the eukaryote Tree of Life is estimated from a new, larger dataset of mitochondrial proteins including all known eukaryotic supergroups, showing it lies between two multi-supergroup assemb...
doi.org
March 14, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I'm pleased to introduce our new paper rooting the eukaryote Tree of Life (eToL) that resulted from a collaboration led by PhD student Kelsey Williamson and a large group of collaborators doi.org/10.1038/s415...htt
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seems like international fossil friends are mostly unaware of these folks - here's an interesting resource on (mostly) Southeast Asian fossil plants
www.fossilforests.org
www.fossilforests.org
Home | FossilForests.org
Friends of Fossil Forests is a team of citizen scientists, educators, and students share a common interest in petrified wood and the stories behind it
www.fossilforests.org
March 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
seems like international fossil friends are mostly unaware of these folks - here's an interesting resource on (mostly) Southeast Asian fossil plants
www.fossilforests.org
www.fossilforests.org
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🚨Preprint Alert🚨 I'm really happy to finally share our exploits in red algae and introduce the wider community to Bostrychia, the new model system we have been developing to tackle the molecular biology of red algae. Isn't she a beauty? Thread below 🧵 1/8 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
February 12, 2025 at 8:37 AM
🚨Preprint Alert🚨 I'm really happy to finally share our exploits in red algae and introduce the wider community to Bostrychia, the new model system we have been developing to tackle the molecular biology of red algae. Isn't she a beauty? Thread below 🧵 1/8 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Do you think marine evolution #MarEvol is cool? Maybe you were at the 2018 Marine Evolution meeting in Strömstad, Sweden? And surely you'd like us to do it again and organise MarEvol2? Why not in the South of France? Then fill in this questionnaire and spread the word:
framaforms.org/my-interest-...
framaforms.org/my-interest-...
framaforms.org
February 11, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Do you think marine evolution #MarEvol is cool? Maybe you were at the 2018 Marine Evolution meeting in Strömstad, Sweden? And surely you'd like us to do it again and organise MarEvol2? Why not in the South of France? Then fill in this questionnaire and spread the word:
framaforms.org/my-interest-...
framaforms.org/my-interest-...
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Charles Darwin was born OTD in 1809.
Though best known for evolution by natural selection, I’d venture that he devoted more time, and more published pages, to plant physiology and behavior than any other subject.
It was all to serve his evolutionary project, but still.
#HPBio #Evobio 🧪 #HistSTM
Though best known for evolution by natural selection, I’d venture that he devoted more time, and more published pages, to plant physiology and behavior than any other subject.
It was all to serve his evolutionary project, but still.
#HPBio #Evobio 🧪 #HistSTM
February 12, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Interesting! Made me think if the same thing can be observed for Sargassum here in the tropics (Philippines)! 🤔
We conducted a 'classic' kelp canopy removal exp in mixed Laminaria forests in southwest UK. Results show that loss of canopy increases 5-fold the light reaching the reef which leads to 7-fold increase in understorey algae & 9-fold increase in kelp recruits; ms: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
January 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Interesting! Made me think if the same thing can be observed for Sargassum here in the tropics (Philippines)! 🤔
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I hate the direction lab equipment design has gone in recent years.
I don't want touchscreens, I don't want wifi integration, I don't want centrifuges demanding to know what time zone they're in.
I just want reliable instruments - with physical buttons - that do the one task they were made for.
I don't want touchscreens, I don't want wifi integration, I don't want centrifuges demanding to know what time zone they're in.
I just want reliable instruments - with physical buttons - that do the one task they were made for.
January 2, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I hate the direction lab equipment design has gone in recent years.
I don't want touchscreens, I don't want wifi integration, I don't want centrifuges demanding to know what time zone they're in.
I just want reliable instruments - with physical buttons - that do the one task they were made for.
I don't want touchscreens, I don't want wifi integration, I don't want centrifuges demanding to know what time zone they're in.
I just want reliable instruments - with physical buttons - that do the one task they were made for.
Welcoming 2025 by using this app for scicomm (?) and other science endeavors! I really love the personalized feeds/timelines here!
January 3, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Welcoming 2025 by using this app for scicomm (?) and other science endeavors! I really love the personalized feeds/timelines here!