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Mya Breitbart @viromegirl.bsky.social · 6d

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

www.marine.usf.edu

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Andrian Gajigan @adi-gajigan.bsky.social · 6d

A Bradyrhizobium isolate from a marine
diatom induces nitrogen-fixing nodules in a
terrestrial legume
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A Bradyrhizobium isolate from a marine diatom induces nitrogen-fixing nodules in a terrestrial legume - Nature Microbiology

A non-cyanobacterial diazotroph previously isolated from a marine eukaryotic phytoplankton triggers formation of nitrogen-fixing root nodules when inoculated onto a terrestrial legume.

www.nature.com

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Andrian Gajigan @adi-gajigan.bsky.social · 19d

A host organelle integrates stolen chloroplasts for animal photosynthesis: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

A host organelle integrates stolen chloroplasts for animal photosynthesis

Sea slugs steal foreign chloroplasts and store them in specialized organelles that facilitate photosynthesis and eventual digestion to mediate starvation resistance.

www.cell.com

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Noam Vogt-Vincent @nvogtvincent.co.uk · 21d

Interested in doing a PhD in environmental research at Oxford? We offer fully-funded positions through ILESLA, now open for applications at iles.web.ox.ac.uk!

Happy to discuss applications with students whose interests align with modelling marine dispersal or oceanic forcing of coral reefs.

Lettuce coral, Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, Red Sea
Image credit: Renata Romeo / Ocean Image Bank (https://www.theoceanagency.org)

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Andrian Gajigan @adi-gajigan.bsky.social · 21d

Naiavirus: an enveloped giant virus with a pleomorphic, flexible tail
nature.com/articles/s41467-025-63463-6

Naiavirus: an enveloped giant virus with a pleomorphic, flexible tail - Nature Communications

Rodrigues and Queiroz et al. report the discovery of Naiavirus, the largest enveloped virus, isolated from a Brazil biome. With an oval capsid and flexible tail, its giant genome holds many novel gene...

nature.com

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Ewan Birney @ewanbirney.bsky.social · 23d

Bioinformaticians / computational biologists take note - know where you should take your OS tool chain from and do not introduce backdoors.

James Bonfield @jbonfield.bsky.social · 23d

Heads up: ignore samtools dot org, similarly minimap2 dot com and likely others. It's owned by a known phishing site and while the binaries they offer look valid currently (but note they may be serving us different binaries to others), that could change.

Ie: it's not us (Samtools team)! Be warned

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Tonyo Cruz @tonyocruz.bsky.social · 27d

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EMBL-EBI @ebi.embl.org · Sep 4

Looking for a postdoc that combines wet and dry lab experience?

The EMBL-EBI-Sanger postdoctoral fellowships might be the thing for you!

Choose one of our pre-defined topics or propose your own.

www.ebi.ac.uk/research/pos...

@sangerinstitute.bsky.social

#postdoc #sciencecareers
🧬🖥️🔬

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Pierre Ramond @pierreramond.bsky.social · Sep 3

Hello there 🦋
Happy to share our piece "Towards a trait-based framework for protist ecology and evolution" in @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social

Let's build a unified trait 📏 database to unlock transformative insights into protist 🔬 ecology 🌍 and evolution ⏳

▶️ doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

#protistsonsky

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The Manila Times @themanilatimes.bsky.social · Aug 30

MANILA, Philippines — Floods swamped parts of Quezon City on Saturday after an hour of record-breaking rainfall that exceeded levels seen during Trolical Storm 'Ondoy' in 2009, the local government said.

Read more:
tmt.news/2176398

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Mya Breitbart @viromegirl.bsky.social · Aug 1

Do you love phage? I have an opening for a postdoc in my lab at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science (@cmarinescience.bsky.social) looking at interactions between marine phage and iron, which is an important limiting trace metal in the oceans (1/5) 🧵#phagesky 🦠🌊

Electron micrograph of two phage infecting a host cell side-by-side, with hearts between them

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · Aug 15

"if we do the work only for rewards and recognition, we have gone astray. It becomes hollow. Creative work of every sort (not just science) occurs in a niche where the inner drive to understand or express and the outer drive to be rewarded achieve some balance."

Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social · Aug 15

Why would anyone want to be a scientist?

Check out our new Essay from Martin Schwartz: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Screenshot of Essay from Martin Schwartz on 'Why would anyone want to be a scientist'. An anniversary article from The Company of Biologists published in Journal of Cell Science.

The first few lines are: It is difficult to fathom why anyone intelligent enough to be a scientist would actually choose to be one. Doing good science requires the utmost exertion of body, mind and spirit, yet is consistently filled with failure and rejection. But, strange even to myself, I not only don't question the unfavorable risk-to-reward ratio but consider myself astonishingly lucky to be a scientist. There are three fundamental pleasures that have sustained me through 50 years of this madness.

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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · Aug 10

If you are planning a short (one-to three-month) research visit to another laboratory, don’t miss your opportunity to apply for funding via our Research visit grant Check your eligibility and apply before 01 October 2025 at 23.59 BST. microb.io/ResearchVisi...

Research Visit Grant

Login to apply

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Science X / Phys.org @sciencex.bsky.social · Aug 10

PelV-1, a newly identified giant virus infecting dinoflagellates, features a 2.3 µm tail and a diverse genome, expanding current understanding of marine viral diversity and morphology. doi.org/g9wn3r

A giant virus wags its tail

University of Hawai'i at Mānoa oceanographers have identified PelV-1, a dinoflagellate-infecting giant virus whose micron-length tail reaches 2.3 µm, stretching current notions of viral architecture.

phys.org

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Orthanc @orthanc.nz · Aug 9

Ons thing that's really bugging me about the "PhD level intelligence" is that a PhD isn't a measure of intelligence, it's a measure of commitment to study and specialisation in a narrow field (and opportunity to do so).

"PhD level intelligence" isn't really a meaningful phrase

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Elinne Becket, PhD @bielleogy.bsky.social · Aug 5

Trainees: If you haven't already, learn the value of implementing the Bat Signal with your peers. When you're stuck and need a body double, a review, a brainstorm, an escape... this can be game-changing. Don't worry about being a bother, instead: pay it forward. We all need it a some point. 1/3

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Curtis Suttle @virosphere.bsky.social · Aug 5

Very proud of the work from lab members and collaborators that coincidentally came out today www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... and www.nature.com/articles/s41.... A bacterial and viral pathogen associated with mass mortality in seastars and oysters. @kevinzhong2006.bsky.social @rhizalyssa.bsky.social

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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · Aug 4

Academia is basically a collection of people who got lucky early on and mistook it for genius. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

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Andrian Gajigan @adi-gajigan.bsky.social · Jul 31

Our work is featured on @science.org 🥰

Giant virus with record-long tail discovered in Pacific Ocean | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Giant virus with record-long tail discovered in Pacific Ocean

Infecting marine plankton, the pathogen may use its extreme appendage to enter host cells

www.science.org

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Andrian Gajigan @adi-gajigan.bsky.social · Jul 28

The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations

“In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is...

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Prakash Lab at Stanford @prakashlab.bsky.social · Jul 13

You can spend a life time on a boat - and still be looking at new things every single day! Here is a quick glimpse of what’s just under our feet/boat!!

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Andrian Gajigan @adi-gajigan.bsky.social · Jul 25

Fifteen years later, Science retracts ‘arsenic life’ paper despite study authors’ protests | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Fifteen years later, Science retracts ‘arsenic life’ paper despite study authors’ protests

Belated decision on widely disputed 2010 study pleases some critics but puzzles and dismays others

www.science.org

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Andrian Gajigan @adi-gajigan.bsky.social · Jul 21

So many interesting features and so many questions and hypothesis. Happy to further chat about this new dinoflagellate-virus system. But hereʻs a quick summary of what we found:

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Andrian Gajigan @adi-gajigan.bsky.social · Jul 21

We then purified and sequence its genome. We found tail protein homologs and interesting cellular homologs (common to giant viruses), as well as co-occurring, albeit low abundance virus (named co-PelV)

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Andrian Gajigan @adi-gajigan.bsky.social · Jul 21

This is reminiscent of an archaeal virus that develops it tails outside of its host! Possibly through a self assembling protein.

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