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Johana Rotterova @micrott.bsky.social · 12h

With all the craziness in the world, good lab news bring real joy.💚🪇 With Breitbart's Lab help, long lab hours & determination not to give up, Gina has established a culture of the coral-eating Philaster!🪸🧫🔬I'm so proud of her!🥇 @gfullller.bsky.social
@miapi314.bsky.social #ProtistsOnSky #MicroSky

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Jarrett Byrnes @jebyrnes.bsky.social · 1d

Heeeeey #Microbial #Ecology folk! My department has a job opening for a tenure track Microbial Ecologist! Feel free to DM me with questions. Come join our awesome supportive whip-smart & kind crew in the Biology Department of @umassboston.bsky.social! employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us...

The ISC - your new home at UMass Boston?

The view of Boston Harbor from front of campus

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Filip Husnik @filiphusnik.bsky.social · 1d

OIST is seeking up to four tenure-track or tenured faculty in Ecology, Environmental Science, Earth Science, and Oceanography. Application deadline: Oct 15. Please share. Thx!
www.oist.jp/careers/facu...

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 4d

Conventional wisdom says motherhood should wait for tenure as before you land a permanent post, #academia is just not that family friendly🙁

@carersinstemm.bsky.social are calling for change and to celebrate their new report, a Saturday🧵on parenting & academia! 1/9 👩‍🔬🧪🔭⚛️

ℹ️: carersinstemm.co.uk

From 2006. A younger and shell-shocked looking Catherine on a balcony holding a very tiny baby with the mountains of Vancouver in the background. The baby is so new, Catherine still has the pregnant bump.

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Johana Rotterova @micrott.bsky.social · 5d

Such a huge loss. Jane Goodall did so much for nature conservation as we know it, and kept doing so until her last breath. She has been my hero since very early childhood, and I had to pinch myself when I got to meet her a couple years ago in Prague.

Mongabay @mongabay.com · 6d

Jane Goodall, who revealed the intimate lives of chimpanzees and gave the modern world a language of hope, has died at the age of 91.

“Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference,” she told audiences. Those words remain her truest epitaph.

Jane Goodall (1934–2025): primatologist, conservationist, and messenger of hope

Jane Goodall, who revealed the intimate lives of chimpanzees and gave the modern world a language of hope, has died at the age of 91. Over the course of six decades, she moved from an unlikely young…

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 6d

Jane Goodall, who revealed the intimate lives of chimpanzees and gave the modern world a language of hope, has died at the age of 91.

“Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference,” she told audiences. Those words remain her truest epitaph.

Jane Goodall (1934–2025): primatologist, conservationist, and messenger of hope

Jane Goodall, who revealed the intimate lives of chimpanzees and gave the modern world a language of hope, has died at the age of 91. Over the course of six decades, she moved from an unlikely young…

news.mongabay.com

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Ada Behncké Serra @adabehncke.bsky.social · 9d

Curious about #protists and #anaerobic metabolism? 🦠🔬Well, it's out!
It is such a privilege to have taken part of this amazing work by Julie @protistsforthewin.bsky.social and Karla at @cstairs.bsky.social lab during my MSc. Thank you!😄

Julie Boisard @protistsforthewin.bsky.social · 11d

Now completely published :)
Really proud of this paper led with Karla at @cstairs.bsky.social lab.
doi.org/10.1093/isme...

Anaerobic breviate protist survival in microcosms depends on microbiome metabolic function

Abstract. Anoxic and hypoxic environments serve as habitats for diverse microorganisms, including unicellular eukaryotes (protists) and prokaryotes. To thr

doi.org

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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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Microbetv @microbetv.bsky.social · Aug 29

Let’s take a deep dive into chemoautotrophy!

Dr. Roxanne Beinart, Associate Professor of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island, joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss how some marine creatures use bacterial symbioses to provide organic compounds for growth and reproduction.

Matters Microbial #105: Snails Farming Bacteria in the Deep Sea

YouTube video by MicrobeTV

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Johana Rotterova @micrott.bsky.social · May 21

Job Alert - please RT! Tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Physical Oceanography at UPRM just opened! Candidates with expertise in coastal & shelf-scale processes, coastal ocean modelling, marine engineering, open-ocean research are encouraged to apply. See more at tinyurl.com/4eaf8rfr

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · Mar 25

My OpEd in @elife.bsky.social

“It feels as if we are trying to fight a series of attacks on science with one arm tied behind our back and our lips half sewn shut.”

“Yet we are not beaten, and some of us are downright energized.”

elifesciences.org/articles/106...

Science Under Threat in the United States: Feeling abandoned but energized

Many individual researchers are frustrated by the response - or the lack of a response - from universities to a growing crisis.

elifesciences.org

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ehehenberger.bsky.social @ehehenberger.bsky.social · Mar 12

PhD position available in Ceske Budejovice (Czechia), funded by ERC KLEPTOS, to study plastid endosymbiosis in kleptoplastidic protists. Are you curious about this process and do you like sampling/cultivation of protists? Join our team by applying here: jobs.bc.cas.cz/en/detail/243

#protistsonsky

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Jaime Palter @jaimepalter.bsky.social · Feb 28

I’ll be reposting frequently till March 7. Let’s make sure the world knows we are trying. For our colleagues at NIH, US-AID, NOAA, EPA, NSF: you are valued and your work is invaluable!

Jaime Palter @jaimepalter.bsky.social · Feb 25

Stand up for Science Rally Providence State House March 7, 2025! See you there

A flyer for Stand up for Science Rally Providence State House March 7, 2025 from 12-4. Visit bit.ly/RIregistration or standupforscience2025.org for more information

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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · Feb 19

“ERC succeeds because it’s different. Its simple, tailored procedures allow Europe’s best researchers to thrive. Bureaucratic processes designed for other programmes should not be imposed on it.”

@marialep.bsky.social spoke up for an independent ERC with a doubled budget today @europarl.europa.eu

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Feb 12

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025!

Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!

#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

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Brayan Vilanova-Cuevas @brayan-vilanova.bsky.social · Feb 19

🧵 Exciting Research Alert! 🌊🚨 Our latest study investigates the impact of Diadema antillarum scuticociliatosis (DSc) on the microbiome of sea urchins! Here are some key findings.
#MarineScience #Microbiome #SeaUrchins

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journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Investigating the influence of Diadematidae scuticociliatosis on host microbiome composition | mSystems

The mass mortality of Diadematidae urchins due to Diadema antillarum scuticociliatosis (DSc) has had significant ecological impacts, spreading from the Caribbean to the eastern Mediterranean, Red Sea,...

journals.asm.org

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · Feb 10

Get in dorks, we're going protesting!

STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025
WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL

Because science is for everyone!

Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org

#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

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Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · Feb 7

'In Germany in the 1930s, scientific institutions and societies failed at every level to offer any significant resistance to Nazism,' writes @philipcball.bsky.social. 'Donald Trump’s United States is not Hitler’s Germany. But the point is surely to learn from it anyway.'

Scientific institutions have a long history of anticipatory obedience

Societies should learn from this and speak up to support inclusion

www.chemistryworld.com

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Johana Rotterova @micrott.bsky.social · Feb 6

It works!!!! Somewhat!! I was teaching basic sequence work in a class today and it started working midst the class for one student, and then for all of us. Still gives occasional error but refreshing helps. So hopefully it was just an overload problem afterall.

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Johana Rotterova @micrott.bsky.social · Feb 6

Hopefully. But the timing of it 😵‍💫

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Johana Rotterova @micrott.bsky.social · Feb 6

Im keep checking since yesterday but starting to think it may have to do with the situation at NIH. Someone recently predicted here that GenBank is next, I thought it was a joke.

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Johana Rotterova @micrott.bsky.social · Feb 6

Still nothing.

Johana Rotterova @micrott.bsky.social · Feb 6

So.. I really hope NCBI GenBank is not working just.. very temporarily and for unrelated reasons.

Johana Rotterova @micrott.bsky.social · Feb 6

🥺. i can't access anything

Johana Rotterova @micrott.bsky.social · Feb 6

So.. I really hope NCBI GenBank is not working just.. very temporarily and for unrelated reasons.

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