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angela oliverio @oliverio.bsky.social · 5d

#ProtistsOnSky

Mya Breitbart @viromegirl.bsky.social · 5d

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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ISEP @isepprotists.bsky.social · Sep 7

New #ISEPpapers! Towards a trait-based framework for protist ecology and evolution: Mahwash Jamy et al. www.cell.com/trends/micro...

#protists #algae #microbes #ecology #evolution

illustration of some important traits to include in protist trait databases

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K. Skruber @skruberk.bsky.social · Aug 26

I wrote about how revoking access to medical care for trans people affects all of us in science. reskeets (are we calling them that?) appreciated. www.ascb.org/society-news...

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angela oliverio @oliverio.bsky.social · Aug 25

haha we played this game as a lab group!

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angela oliverio @oliverio.bsky.social · Aug 22

Thanks!!

angela oliverio @oliverio.bsky.social · Aug 22

The source of our inspiration to do this analysis was this nice paper that came out a few months ago by Paul Jensen considering the distribution of research effort across bacterial species (doi.org/10.1101/2025...)

Ten species comprise half of the bacteriology literature, leaving most species unstudied

Microbiology research has historically focused on a few species of model organisms. Our bibliographic analysis finds extreme bias in the distribution of bacteriology research across species, with half...

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angela oliverio @oliverio.bsky.social · Aug 22

but when we DO study non-models we find really cool examples that force us to redefine the 'rules' of eukaryotic biology - like non-canonical genetic codes in ciliates and other lineages, NEW organelles being discovered still (hello nitroplast!) etc.

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angela oliverio @oliverio.bsky.social · Aug 22

Second we sought to highlight bias in the distribution of what clades and types of protists are researched and where our major gaps are within protists - TDLR - most organisms studied are parasites biasing our understanding of the capabilities of eukaryotic cells...

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angela oliverio @oliverio.bsky.social · Aug 22

First, protists are often forgotten when we talk about microbiology. This is obviously reflected in the number of ALL mentions of protists, including all parasites on pubmed (242,844) vs ONLY e. coli (312,057) (Jensen, 2025)

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angela oliverio @oliverio.bsky.social · Aug 22

New lab pre-print up! "Twelve species of human parasites make up half the literature on microbial eukaryotes"
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

We (led by UG Joanna Lepper and with @hbrappap.bsky.social) quantified all mentions of protist species in the scientific literature 🧵

#protistsonsky #microsky

Twelve species of human parasites make up half of the literature on microbial eukaryotes

Although microbial eukaryotes comprise the majority of eukaryotic phylogenetic diversity and inhabit nearly all ecosystems globally, most research focuses on only a few species of human parasites. Her...

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Katie Rocci, PhD @katie-rocci.bsky.social · Jul 17

📣 New paper alert 📣

Out TODAY in GCB!

We have a lot of evidence that microbial communities are important for litter decomposition but we haven't evaluated those microbial community effects in ecosystem-scale models using empirical data. Now this work has!

doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

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Integrating Microbial Community Data Into an Ecosystem‐Scale Model to Predict Litter Decomposition in the Face of Climate Change

Representing observational drivers of ecological processes like litter decomposition in computer models is important for improving confidence in climate change predictions. We calibrate an ecosystem-...

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angela oliverio @oliverio.bsky.social · Jul 17

Woohoo, congrats Katie!!

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angela oliverio @oliverio.bsky.social · Jun 27

Wish I were there this year 😭 have a great time!!

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Jennifer Goff, PhD @jlgoff.bsky.social · May 31

I am working with ASM to re-launch the Central NY ASM Branch! 🧫🦠

We have funds allocated for us and now just need 25 signatures from ASM members in the geographic region in support of this branch.

More info is in the form and also I’ve attached a FAQ sheet.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Dr. Carly Kenkel @drcarl.bsky.social · May 15

Its that time again - the list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2026 is live!
PIs enter your position info here: forms.gle/2XTHBP6CZGEn...
Prospective students (and PIs not recruiting) share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Please share! 🧪

Ecology/Evolution/Marine Biology labs recruiting for Fall 2026

Please complete this form if you are a PI recruiting graduate students for a Fall 2026 start. If you are NOT recruiting, feel free to share the response sheet with prospective students looking for lab...

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angela oliverio @oliverio.bsky.social · May 6

absolutely! and why community-level insights from MAGs so much harder w/more diverse ecosystems

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angela oliverio @oliverio.bsky.social · May 6

definitely expected to be a lot lower! more diversity... harder to capture full comm via mags... so less recruitment - not sure what good is these days but 10% seems reasonable / expected for soil.. perhaps even lower

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Tami Lieberman @contaminatedsci.bsky.social · Apr 7

Our commentary on the elegant in vitro microbiome coalescence experiments from @goldmandoran.bsky.social @ksxue.bsky.social et al is out.

It was a pleasure to write about one of my favorite microbiome papers of the last few years.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Mixing microbiomes in vitro reveals rules of community assembly | PNAS

Mixing microbiomes in vitro reveals rules of community assembly

www.pnas.org

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The PR2 database @pr2-database.bsky.social · Apr 3

Announcing the new release of the PR2 database, version 5.1.
pr2-database.org/post/news/20...

Very big thanks to all the contributors: @fonamental.bsky.social @ambonacolta.bsky.social @krabberod.bsky.social and more...

A few highlights:

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Apr 1

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is being decimated right now. Mass layoffs happening across agencies (NIH, FDA, CDC etc).

Some employees found out by security badge being denied. Others got email.

Line outside Health Resources and Services Administration this AM shared with me:

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angela oliverio @oliverio.bsky.social · Mar 26

Link here- www.sujobopps.com/postings/108...

Please get in touch if you are interested!

angela oliverio @oliverio.bsky.social · Mar 25

We are hiring a postdoctoral scholar to join us in the sometime in the next ~6 months. oliveriolab.org with a focus on microbial eukaryotes in extreme environments.

Please email w/CV if you'd like to chat. Official ad soon.

#MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky #ProtistsOnSky

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angela oliverio @oliverio.bsky.social · Mar 25

Specific research goals will be developed collaboratively, with extensive opportunity for independence and to pursuit projects that are aligned with the interests and expertise of the postdoc. This position is fully funded for up to 3 years, starting salary 62k.

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angela oliverio @oliverio.bsky.social · Mar 25

Open to a variety of expertise and backgrounds - projects will include a combination of approaches: bioinformatics, genomics and 'omics, culturing, fieldwork, microscopy - so expertise in one or more of these areas is a plus.

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angela oliverio @oliverio.bsky.social · Mar 25

We are hiring a postdoctoral scholar to join us in the sometime in the next ~6 months. oliveriolab.org with a focus on microbial eukaryotes in extreme environments.

Please email w/CV if you'd like to chat. Official ad soon.

#MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky #ProtistsOnSky

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Andrew Roger @andrewjroger.bsky.social · Mar 14

I'm pleased to introduce our new paper rooting the eukaryote Tree of Life (eToL) that resulted from a collaboration led by PhD student Kelsey Williamson and a large group of collaborators doi.org/10.1038/s415...htt

A robustly rooted tree of eukaryotes reveals their excavate ancestry - Nature

The root of the eukaryote Tree of Life is estimated from a new, larger dataset of mitochondrial proteins including all known eukaryotic supergroups, showing it lies between two multi-supergroup assemb...

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