Sara Palestini
@sarapalestini.bsky.social
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aspiring oceanographer | intrepid arctic explorer | microbial ecologist in training | part-time human being | full time PhD Student at @concordiau studying Arctic ocean microbial biodiversity and dynamics.🧬🦠🌊🌎
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So many of us cited your name when we were asked what we wanted to be when we grew up.

Jane Goodall's is a legacy was cemented long ago. She was a pioneer, and a tireless advocate, researcher, and mentor.

From this young researcher: thank you for your example.
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jcellsci.bsky.social
One of our most read articles is Martin's essay on the importance of stupidity in scientific research: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
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Saturday morning on Mount Royal participating in Mission Monarque with www.linkedin.com/company/les-...

Here's some finds from our group!
sarapalestini.bsky.social
Hey, good point! I haven't accessed the discord yet. A concensus on fathomverse still hasn't been reached so I'll try there. I was thinking maybe a quick moving camera caught a blanket octopus in the shallows or something. maybe distorted perspective on a phantom jelly 😂 it's just so silky looking.
sarapalestini.bsky.social
Hello all! Can anyone here recognize this creature? This is an image as of yet unclassified in the @fathomverse.bsky.social game. Also please download and play if you have an interest in marine taxonomy and/or want to contribute to science. It's super fun!
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This week I participated in the 74th annual conference for the Canadian Society of Microbiologists.
It was a pleasure to share my work, and above all to engage with such a diverse collective of researchers in the field of microbiology.
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jcamthrash.bsky.social
Denitrification genes in SAR11 confirmed with cultures and closed genomes!

Denitrification genes in SAR11 and other ubiquitous lineages of marine bacteria isolated from the northern Benguela Upwelling System www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs 🌊
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Reposted by Sara Palestini
science.org
Bacteria may have adapted to oxygen well before Earth’s atmosphere was saturated with it, according to a new study in Science. The findings underscore the dynamic relationship between biological evolution and Earth's geological history. scim.ag/3YpwMyu
A geological timescale for bacterial evolution and oxygen adaptation
Microbial life has dominated Earth’s history but left a sparse fossil record, greatly hindering our understanding of evolution in deep time. However, bacterial metabolism has left signatures in the ge...
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