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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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Lukas VF Novak @animalculum.bsky.social · 25d

#Arctic #algae aren't immobile or entombed. They're not just surviving either—they're gliding into record books phys.org/news/2025-09...

Ice gliding #diatoms establish record-low temperature limits for motility in a eukaryotic cell www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

#protists #microbes #extremophiles

schematic pictures and microscopic photos showing various aspects of movement in single-celled algae

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Sorek Lab @soreklab.bsky.social · 27d

Phage "satellites" that produce capsids but have no genes to produce tails have puzzled scientists for a long time. These are abundant as prophages in bacteria, but it was unclear how they can infect without tails

Now, Penadés & co show that they hijack tails from other phages. Incredible!

José R Penadés @jrpenades.bsky.social · 29d

Thrilled to share our two latest papers with the @tcostalab.bsky.social
lab! In the first, we uncover a new mechanism of satellite transfer: cf-PICIs hijack tails from diverse phages to spread across species.
@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Chimeric infective particles expand species boundaries in phage-inducible chromosomal island mobilization

Capsid-forming PICIs (cf-PICIs) produce their own capsids and exploit phage tails from unrelated species to transfer their DNA across bacterial hosts. This tail piracy enables broad dissemination and ...

www.cell.com

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Maliheh Mehrshad @mehrshmali.bsky.social · 27d

Please help me identify these. They are of freshwater origin and have chlorophyll.

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Thibaut Brunet @thibautbrunet.bsky.social · 29d

New short paper from our lab @currentbiology.bsky.social, in which we discover of a new mode of cell motility for choanoflagellates: flagellar gliding. www.cell.com/current-biol... - A 🧵

Flagellar gliding in choanoflagellates

Freire-Delgado and Brunet discover a new mode of cell motility in choanoflagellates, the closest relatives of animals. Under mild confinement, choanoflagellate move over surfaces without cell deformat...

www.cell.com

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Fabien Burki @fburki.bsky.social · Sep 4

Congrats to all grantees but a special 👏 to @messorensen.bsky.social. It’s always so nice to see past lab members go on to great successes. Also this is not the first time that my department (dept of Organismal Biology) is the only department at #UppsalaUniversity receiving an ERC grant

European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · Sep 4

In 2025, successful ERC Starting Grant applicants have 51 different nationalities and will carry out their projects in 25 countries. This round of grants is estimated to create some 3,000 jobs within the teams of the new grantees.

More facts and figures 👉 buff.ly/ixs2NRf

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Mahwash Jamy @mjamy.bsky.social · Sep 3

Check out our new paper on adopting a trait-based framework for protist diversity! We make the case for a unified protist trait database, how to build it, and how it could transform research on protist ecology and evolution.
#protistsonsky

Pierre Ramond @pierreramond.bsky.social · Sep 3

Hello there 🦋
Happy to share our piece "Towards a trait-based framework for protist ecology and evolution" in @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social

Let's build a unified trait 📏 database to unlock transformative insights into protist 🔬 ecology 🌍 and evolution ⏳

▶️ doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

#protistsonsky

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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · Sep 2

Phosphorus constrains global photosynthesis more than nitrogen does www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Phosphorus constrains global photosynthesis more than nitrogen does - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Nitrogen and phosphorus limitations are both key to spatial patterns and temporal trends in primary production. This global analysis indicates that phosphorus limitation on terrestrial primary product...

www.nature.com

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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · Sep 2

Behind the Paper by Michaela M Salcher
Why cultivation still matters in microbiology
communities.springernature.com/posts/why-cu...

Why cultivation still matters in microbiology

The majority of aquatic microbes are still uncultivated. Here, we cultivated 627 strains of abundant freshwater bacteria from 14 lakes, thus generating a collection that includes many previously uncul...

communities.springernature.com

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Vesna Grujcic @vesnagrujcic.bsky.social · Aug 30

Thank you 😘

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Vesna Grujcic @vesnagrujcic.bsky.social · Aug 30

Thanks! Credit for artwork goes to @mehrshmali.bsky.social

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Vesna Grujcic @vesnagrujcic.bsky.social · Aug 30

How do microbes become permanent partners? 🌊🔬🦠 Check out our new study published in Current Biology showing how cyanobacterial genomes evolve step-by-step into endosymbionts of diatoms. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@currentbiology.bsky.social @mehrshmali.bsky.social

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Mahwash Jamy @mjamy.bsky.social · Aug 21

Interested in eukaryotic algal evolution, metagenomics, new plastid diversity, and more? Check out my poster (P175) today at #eseb2025 ! #protistsonsky

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Fabien Burki @fburki.bsky.social · Mar 28

On hidden protist diversity (unfortunately the data is not available yet) #protistsonsky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Global Metagenomics Reveals Hidden Protist Diversity

Protists, defined as unicellular eukaryotes distinct from animals, plants, and fungi, are a polyphyletic group that predominates the eukaryotic tree of life, exhibiting significant phylogenetic divers...

www.biorxiv.org

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