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SAME18-BCN @same18-bcn.bsky.social · 7d

Group pic SAME18!

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 8d

🎨 Theming got a huge overhaul with the latest #ggplot2 release. In honour of that @teunbrand.bsky.social has written a comprehensive deep-dive into styling your plots, covering both old and new functionality. Grab a coffee and dive in!

#rstats

ggplot2 styling

This post discusses one function in ggplot2: `theme()`. Find out about the glamour of graphics in this deep-dive article.

www.tidyverse.org

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Jean-François Mangot @jfburp.bsky.social · Mar 12

Eukaryotic phytoplankton drive a decrease in primary production in response to elevated CO2 in the tropical and subtropical oceans
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Lucie Zinger @luciezinger.bsky.social · Feb 28

Happy to share the preprint of our work on rain #eDNA to study tropical forest biodiversity 🌧️🧬🌴

bioRxiv Ecology @biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social · Feb 28

Rainwash eDNA to monitor tropical rainforest biodiversity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.26.640397v1

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Javier del Campo @fonamental.bsky.social · Feb 17

Symbionts of predatory #protists are widespread in the oceans and related to animal pathogens #symbiosis https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1931312825000277

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Jean-François Mangot @jfburp.bsky.social · Dec 3

Global population structure of a unicellular marine predator
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Global population structure of a unicellular marine predator

Unicellular predators, especially marine heterotrophic flagellates (HFs), are fundamental to marine food webs, facilitating the flow of nutrients from bacteria and the smallest primary producers to up...

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Roli Roberts @roliroberts.bsky.social · Nov 25

What did the Last Eukaryotic Common Ancestor (#LECA) look like? Consensus View in #PLOSBiology; massive authorship including @AncestralState, @lauraeme.bsky.social, John Archbald, @andrewjroger.bsky.social, @dackslabecb.bsky.social, Jeremy Wideman. plos.io/4g0alq4

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Jean-François Mangot @jfburp.bsky.social · Nov 26

An undiscovered circadian clock to regulate phytoplankton photosynthesis
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · Nov 23

Some do like it COLD, like -1.5° cold: big tintinnid ciliate in its fancy lorica from the Arctic at 75°N #protistsonsky

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

‘A place of joy’: why scientists are joining the rush to @bsky.app

‘A place of joy’: why scientists are joining the rush to Bluesky

Researchers say the social-media platform — an alternative to X — offers more control over the content they see and the people they engage with.

www.nature.com

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Kostas Kormas 🐟🦞🐚🦭💩🔬🧪🧬📝 ✈️ 🏳️‍🌈 @kkormas.bsky.social · Nov 21

"Openly available illustrations as tools to describe #eukaryotic #microbial #diversity" a much-needed aid for microbiology educators, too!!! Thank you,authors
#phytoplankton #protist #algae #education #biodiversity #limnology #oceanography #soil #marine #freshwater
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Openly available illustrations as tools to describe eukaryotic microbial diversity

The microbial world is diverse and critically important to understanding evolution and global ecology, but we lack teaching and communications resources. This Essay provides a series of technical diag...

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Jean-François Mangot @jfburp.bsky.social · Nov 21

Stable dominance of parasitic dinoflagellates in Antarctic sponges
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Stable dominance of parasitic dinoflagellates in Antarctic sponges

Background Marine sponges are dominant components of Antarctic benthos and representative of the high endemism that characterizes this environment. All microbial groups are part of the Antarctic spong...

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Jean-François Mangot @jfburp.bsky.social · Nov 21

Non-photosynthetic lineages sibling to Cyanobacteria associate with eukaryotes in the open ocean www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Non-photosynthetic lineages sibling to Cyanobacteria associate with eukaryotes in the open ocean

Margulisbacteria are elusive uncultivated bacteria that have illuminated evolutionary transitions in the progenitor of Cyanobacteria, the latter being…

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Jean-François Mangot @jfburp.bsky.social · Nov 21

The global mass and average rate of rubisco www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The global mass and average rate of rubisco | PNAS

Photosynthetic carbon assimilation enables energy storage in the living world and produces most of the biomass in the biosphere. Rubisco (d-ribulos...

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · Nov 21

"i'm sorry i used your pipette i thought it was mine"

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Javier del Campo @fonamental.bsky.social · Nov 21

Reconstructing Early Microbial Life

Reconstructing Early Microbial Life | Annual Reviews

For more than 3.5 billion years, life experienced dramatic environmental extremes on Earth. These include shifts from oxygen-less to overoxygenated atmospheres and cycling between hothouse conditions...

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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · Nov 14

Changes in Arctic Ocean plankton community structure and trophic dynamics on seasonal to interannual timescales bg.copernicus.org/articles/21/... #jcampubs 🌊