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Javier del Campo @fonamental.bsky.social · Jul 22

Characterizing organisms from three domains of life with universal primers from throughout the global ocean www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · Jul 16

Happy to be involved in UNICIL, our new Wellcome Trust Discovery project coordinated by @micromotility.bsky.social

We will study ciliary dynamics across scales and organisms. A long-term #postdoc position will be available at Heidelberg University […]

[Original post on biologists.social]

scanning electron micrograph of a Platynereis larva showing a close-up of the prototroch ciliary band

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Joey Bernhardt @joeybernhardt.bsky.social · Jul 7

✨ The Bernhardt Lab at the University of Guelph is recruiting graduate students for 2026! Join us! We have several fully funded grad positions available ✨

Please spread the word!

www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us

#CSEE2025

A blue poster describing opportunities to join the Bernhardt Lab -- for more information please see https://www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us

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Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · Jul 6

It's shameful that we are so behind with endometriosis, but a landmark $50 million donation offers new hope. vajenda.substack.com/p/decades-be...

Decades Behind: The Shameful Neglect of Endometriosis Research

A Landmark $50 Million Donation Offers New Hope for One of Medicine's Most Overlooked Conditions

vajenda.substack.com

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Laura Eme @lauraeme.bsky.social · Jun 22

Excited to share our new paper in @cellreports.bsky.social that reshapes our understanding of chromosome organization's deep evolutionary roots! Our work dives into the origins of the machinery that structures our very genomes.

🔗: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

#Genomics #Evolution #CellBiology #LECA

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Julia Van Etten @couchmicroscopy.bsky.social · Jun 20

We have a new paper out today in Trends in Microbiology led by @bhattacharyalab.bsky.social, also ft. me, Tims Stephens and McDermott, and Gabby Panayotakis. Based on NASA + JGI-funded work on Cyanidiophyceae and other Yellowstone microbes.
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Der Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · Jun 20

Die AfD ist gesichert rechtsextrem. Medien dürfen sie deshalb nicht wie eine normale Partei behandeln. 14 konkrete Tipps, wie das geht. www.volksverpetzer.de/aktuelles/14...

14 Tipps für Medien beim Berichten über die rechtsextreme AfD

Die AfD ist gesichert rechtsextrem. Medien dürfen sie deshalb nicht wie eine normale Partei behandeln. 14 konkrete Tipps, wie das geht.

www.volksverpetzer.de

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Jürgen Strassert @strassert.bsky.social · Jun 13

Happy to have contributed to this great article: #Protist genomics: key to understanding eukaryotic evolution. Congrats Alexandra Schoenle et al. #ProtistsOnSky
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

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Omaya Dudin 𓂆 ¦🍉¦🦠¦🔬¦ @dudinlab.bsky.social · Jun 10

90% of you probably don’t need to read this.
But maybe some of you are curious & 10% will feel seen. Or a little less alone. This isn’t about seeking sympathy.
It’s about sharing something hard to say out loud;
partly to heal, partly in case someone needs to hear it too. (1/3)
tinyurl.com/DudinO

Omaya Dudin

Interview with Omaya Dudin, who uses Ichthyosporea as models to study how and why unicellular organisms evolved multicellularity at the University of Geneva.

www.cell.com

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ehehenberger.bsky.social @ehehenberger.bsky.social · Jun 11

Thank you, Omaya.

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Omaya Dudin 𓂆 ¦🍉¦🦠¦🔬¦ @dudinlab.bsky.social · Jun 3

Share with your network, group members, colleagues & friends.

We are extending the deadline till the 10th of June.

This is your last chance of joining us this summer.

#Science #ProtistsOnSky #Cell #Biology #Microscopy

Omaya Dudin 𓂆 ¦🍉¦🦠¦🔬¦ @dudinlab.bsky.social · Mar 28

With Guillermina Ramirez-SanJuan we are very happy to announce the upcoming Latsis Symposium " Shaping microbial life in a changing environment" over July 8-10 at #EPFL
Registrations are open til May 23rd.

LINK: www.epfl-latsis-2025.org

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ehehenberger.bsky.social @ehehenberger.bsky.social · Jun 4

What started during the #EMBLtrec Plankton Retreat last fall, is now out in the wild. Please join us for the first iteration of the DinoSphere Online Seminar Series and share with potentially interested colleges.

Manon Demulder @manondemulder.bsky.social · Jun 4

We’re kicking off the DinoSphere Online Seminar Series! Join us for our first session with Karel Mockaer (Heidelberg) & Yong Heng Phua (OIST)

📅 1 July 9AM CEST
🔗 tinyurl.com/4mjaverj

Spread the word!
@protistwtmostest.bsky.social @ehehenberger.bsky.social @chandnibhickta.bsky.social&Norico Yamada

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Rafal Mostowy @rafalmostowy.bsky.social · May 20

I'm looking for a postdoc in computational evolutionary phage genomics, with the goal to better understand how protein innovation arises in viruses, at @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social in Krakow (Poland).

Drop me a line if it sounds cool!

Deadline: 20.06.

Link here:
mcb.uj.edu.pl/documents/15...

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Micah Dunthorn @micahdunthorn.bsky.social · May 20

A competitive 3-year postdoc has opened at the Natural History Museum Oslo. Message me if you are interested in developing a project aimed as using digital PCR methods to evaluate apicomplexans in Norwegian migratory birds and tropical arthropods
#protist #parasite #ProtistsOnSky

Postdoctoral Fellow: Self-Developed Project (280531) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow: Self-Developed Project (280531), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, June 23, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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ehehenberger.bsky.social @ehehenberger.bsky.social · May 20

Supercool - I was looking forward to this since you mentioned the M8 at your talk at the St. Feliu meeting! And great video :)

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Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo @multicellgenome.bsky.social · May 20

😻 HUGE NEWS! One of the "Magnificent 8" – key missing lineages for understanding animal origins – is ALIVE in our lab!
Watch the video!
Massive thanks to @luisjagago.bsky.social (isolation wizard!) & @beaplab.bsky.social @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @prbb.org @csic.es @erc.europa.eu #protistsonSky

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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · May 5

The ERC welcomes the offer of substantial additional budget from @ec.europa.eu for the development of a new ERC funding instrument offering larger, longer-term grants, as announced by President Ursula Von der Leyen at the Sorbonne this morning.

👉 europa.eu/!NTYTTV

Choose Europe for Science: ERC welcomes new budget for 'super grants'

The Scientific Council of the European Research Council welcomes the offer of substantial additional budget from the European Commission for the development of a new ERC funding instrument offering la...

europa.eu

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Nicole Coots @nicolecoots.bsky.social · Apr 28

Algal symbiont diversity and host fitness variation in the amoebozoan photosymbiosis 🦠

by Yamagishi et al.
@jeukmicro.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Algal Symbiont Diversity and Host Fitness Variation in Amoebozoan Photosymbiosis

Photosymbioses, the symbiotic relationships between microalgae and non-photosynthetic eukaryotes, are sporadically found in many eukaryotic lineages. Only a few taxa, such as cnidarians and ciliates ....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Anthony M. Bonacolta @ambonacolta.bsky.social · Apr 28

🚨🧵 Out now in ISMEJ (@ismepublications.bsky.social)!
We find abundant corallicolid sequences within bearded fireworms (𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘢) across reefs and years in Curaçao 🇨🇼!

🪱🪸 This is the first report of corallicolids inside a non-anthozoan host!

#ProtistsOnSky #MicroSky #SymbioSky #Corals

Fireworms are a reservoir and potential vector for coral-infecting apicomplexans

Abstract. Corals (Cnidaria; Anthozoa) play critical roles as habitat-forming species with a wide range, from warm shallow-water tropical coral reefs to col

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Ricardo Henriques @henriqueslab.bsky.social · Apr 25

🚨🔬💗Whether investigating cell organelles or mapping proteins, together with Victor Puelles's lab we lay a roadmap for selecting optimal #ExM and #SuperResolution #microscopy combinations. Daria Aristova and Dominik Kylies review with amazing co-authors

pubs.aip.org/aip/apr/arti...

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ISEP @isepprotists.bsky.social · Apr 23

New #ISEPpapers #prerint! Drastic genome reduction driven by parasitic lifestyle: Two complete genomes of endosymbiotic bacteria possibly hosted by a dinoflagellate www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#bacteria #symbiosis #genomics #algae #protists

a figure from the linked paper that summarizes evolutionary events of gene loss during the evolution of the discussed bacteria

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ehehenberger.bsky.social @ehehenberger.bsky.social · Apr 22

POSTDOC position available in Ceske Budejovice & Cambridge, funded by ERC KLEPTOS, to study plastid endosymbiosis in kleptoplastidic taxa with spatial proteomics. Are you curious about this process and interested in proteomics and data analysis? Join us by applying here: jobs.bc.cas.cz/en/detail/250

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Eric McDaniel @ericm.cd · Apr 17

I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years.

This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration.

www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Haunted by hopelessness: 12 Zambians share their stories as HIV drugs run out

Mothers and children, husbands and wives, doctors, truck drivers and religious leaders are all grappling with the fallout from the sudden U.S. cuts in aid.

www.npr.org

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Kenneth Dumack @dumack.bsky.social · Apr 16

🚨 3-year Postdoc Opportunity! Join me and the Aquatic Ecosystem Analysis group @UniKoblenz. 🔬 Microbial #ecology, #protist predation, #algae #plankton & flexibility | 💻 Environmental -omics | 🌊 Rivers 📅 Apply by May 15 | 🔗 kennethdumack.de | tinyurl.com/dumack
Please share! #MicroSky #ProtistsOnSky

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Arnau Sebé-Pedrós @arnausebe.bsky.social · Apr 10

Registrations are now open for the next @embo.org EvoChromo meeting in December.
meetings.embo.org/event/24-evo...

Join us in beautiful Costa Brava to discuss chromatin evolution!

Co-organized with @tobiaswarnecke.bsky.social @sandraduharcourt.bsky.social @levine-lab.bsky.social and Nick Irwin

EvoChromo: Evolutionary approaches to research in chromatin

Chromatin is the complex of DNA, RNA and protein that is found making up the chromosomes in eukaryotic cells. Chromatin is essential for proper genome function and is involved in chromosome segregati…

meetings.embo.org

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