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Geoff McFadden @fad1.bsky.social · 3d

Fibonacci would have loved Australian wildflowers.

Geoff McFadden @fad1.bsky.social · 19d

I enjoyed these preprints. I like your approach ranging from genome mining, phylogeny, microscopy, and genetics to establish function. Lovely work. I found it ironic that the Chloroflexata had to again reinvent a signal transfer protein from the
chemotaxis system to steer with the archaellum.

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Tea Tomita @teagondii.bsky.social · 21d

[We are Hiring!]

The Weiss Lab at Albert Einstein College of Medicine (NY) is hiring a Postdoc Scientist to explore the Toxoplasma gondii cyst wall using XL-MS, Split TurboID, & U-ExM.

This project aims to unlock new strategies for treating toxoplasmosis.

DM for more info!

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Geoff McFadden @fad1.bsky.social · 20d

Wow, surprising that a wholesale swap of propulsion mechanism across Domains is possible.

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Geoff McFadden @fad1.bsky.social · 26d

Slow growth was always a very limiting factor in studying Paulinella. This could be a game changer @thealgaeman.bsky.social

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Geoff McFadden @fad1.bsky.social · Aug 27

A colleague has one of these in Seattle and loves it. Strong cooperative body because everyone lives in their building and all seek to make it a nice home.

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Geoff McFadden @fad1.bsky.social · Aug 27

Wow, cool findings.

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Geoff McFadden @fad1.bsky.social · Aug 19

True. What scenarios worry you most? I believe there is larval cannibalism, so that is a plausible mechanism for a drive to jump from malaria transmitting Anopheles to other species of mosquito.

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Geoff McFadden @fad1.bsky.social · Aug 19

Well met sir.

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Geoff McFadden @fad1.bsky.social · Aug 19

I think about mosquitoes like this. Adults don’t grow, they do little ecologically other than pollination and be food for bats, we fixate on the adults because they bite us & spread very serious diseases.The larval stages are massively important in aquatic ecosystems but get scant attention.

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Geoff McFadden @fad1.bsky.social · Aug 18

Congratulations Yash. Nice paper.

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Geoff McFadden @fad1.bsky.social · Aug 7

Oddly enough, our isn’t the apicoplast article. 🙃

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Geoff McFadden @fad1.bsky.social · Aug 7

Always an excellent experience publishing with you Pengfei.

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Trends in Parasitology @cp-trendsparasitol.bsky.social · Aug 7

Our 2025 August issue bit.ly/2N9R8Es reviews Trypanosoma cruzi cAMP compartments, Plasmodium apicoplast transportome, malaria transmission-blocking solutions, microbe-based mosquito control, miRNA-based cystic echinococcosis management, East Coast fever mRNA vaccines, & more

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Geoff McFadden @fad1.bsky.social · Aug 6

Additionally, the Manhattan Project cost ~$35b in today’s dollars. Many argue that there was an economic factor in the decision to use it.

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Geoff McFadden @fad1.bsky.social · Aug 3

My time on Moku O Lo’e is almost at an end. The coral spawning was not very successful. Only three of our 40 colonies spawned. Anyway, had a gorgeous visit and the surf was epic for 2.5 weeks. Biggest waves I’ve ridden in years. And that tsunami evacuation night was one to remember.

Ford and Giada taking me out to the reef

This was scary but was eventually no tsunami. We evacuated to the slopes of Diamond Head volcano.

Maybe the nicest lab I’ve ever worked at

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Geoff McFadden @fad1.bsky.social · Jul 30

SLJ also does advertising for online gambling, just saying.

Geoff McFadden @fad1.bsky.social · Jul 24

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SCNAT @scnat.ch · Jul 23

🧪 The #RigiWorkshop is back - Apply now for 3 days of cell #biology in the Swiss Alps! Our guest speakers include @dudinlab.bsky.social, @michaelraissig.bsky.social, @annikaguse.bsky.social, @gautamdey.bsky.social & @jandevries.bsky.social. Details here 👉 biol.scnat.ch/rigiworkshop26

The Rigi Workshop 2026 (with the motto "Endless Forms Most Beautiful") will take place from 25 to 27 January 2026. PhD students and Post-docs can apply now!

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Geoff McFadden @fad1.bsky.social · Jul 18

Touring the Pacific researching my book on the origin & evolution of Life. Last stop was in Palau 🇵🇼 to see this photosynthetic jellyfish in Ongeim'l Tketau seawater lake. They don’t sting and exist entirely through the food from their pink/brown algal symbionts. They swim to stay in the sunlight.

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Geoff McFadden @fad1.bsky.social · Jul 16

Emiliana huxleyi and Dinophysis sp in the top row and maybe a radiolarian skeleton bottom right. Stumped by the bottom left. Foram 🤔

These are lovely. For sale?

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Trends in Parasitology @cp-trendsparasitol.bsky.social · Jul 11

Drs @mlwilde.bsky.social Sarah Farrell, Christopher Goodman & @fad1.bsky.social review novel techniques for disrupting #malaria #transmission. #Plasmodium #Mosquito #GeneDrive #Paratransgenesis

authors.elsevier.com/a/1lPdi_XTJP...

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Geoff McFadden @fad1.bsky.social · Jul 13

Solid article, and using the Leonberger as an analogy is inspired.

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Geoff McFadden @fad1.bsky.social · Jul 6

Go @messorensen.bsky.social ! Excellent news.

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Geoff McFadden @fad1.bsky.social · Jul 2

Kodachrome was so good. Vivid reds.

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