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Javier del Campo @fonamental.bsky.social · 2d

Cell size matters: a unifying theory across the tree of life www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Varsha Mathur @varshamathur.bsky.social · 2d

How to upgrade stolen organelles into permanent plastids: A comparative transcriptomic perspective | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... #protistsonsky

PNAS

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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Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · Sep 19

Everybody makes money out of academic authors except the authors...News.

Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.

Wiley set to earn $44m from AI rights deals, confirms “no opt-out" for authors

The US publisher is the latest to capitalise on deals to give tech firms access to its authors’ content to train their Large Language Models (LLMs).

www.thebookseller.com

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Thibaut Brunet @thibautbrunet.bsky.social · 3d

Latest from ours: www.cell.com/cell-reports...

This is two stories in one: a case study/cautionary tale on developing genetic tools in new organisms, and the first hint at a gene regulatory network for choanoflagellate multicellular development (which turn out to involve a Hippo/YAP/ECM loop!) A 🧵

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Pavel Skaloud @skaloud.bsky.social · 7d

🌊 Happy to share our recent study on phytoplankton dynamics! We found that communities can shift dramatically in just a few days - driven by grazers like Cladocera and environmental factors such as silica concentration and wind speed.
t.co/PaL0QcofrV

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Vasily Zlatogursky @zlatogursky.bsky.social · 6d

quite scared one! If you give quiet time it will show its "ears" :)

Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 7d

What a lovely find! I adore that I’m always seeing new things, even after 3 years of looking at plankton. This is a ciliate from the family Folliculinidae (thanks for the ID @microbe_guru !). I adore its colour!
#marineplankton 🦑

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Evgenii Protasov @evgenii-protasov.bsky.social · 10d

Clarifying Terminology in Microbial Ecology: A Call for Precision in Scientific Communication
#MicrobialEcology #microbiology
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Clarifying Terminology in Microbial Ecology: A Call for Precision in Scientific Communication

The rapid evolution of microbiology as a field of research has led to the introduction of new terminology and the adaptation of existing terms. However, inconsistencies in the use of these terms, inc...

enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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American Society for Cell Biology @ascbiology.bsky.social · 19d

From MBoC: Wallace F. Marshall (UCSF) and team profile the giant ciliate Stentor pyriformis—symbiotic algae in microtubule baskets, symbiont-dependent phototaxis, and a standard genetic code. Paper: www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/... #CellBiology

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Vasily Zlatogursky @zlatogursky.bsky.social · 13d

mmmm, among other things I appreciate a fare representation of #centrohelids 😍

Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social · 14d

Love #protists? Then you'd love this! Beautiful collection of hand-drawn critters represented here at the Oxford-Japan symposium on ethological dynamics in diorama environments sites.google.com/view/oxford-... #ciliates #testateamoeba #diatoms

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Wenying Shou @shougroup.bsky.social · 18d

Again I am years behind: I have only recently noticed that critical information such as equal-contribution authorship is lost in important platforms such as PubMed, Google Scholar, ORCID...

Fairness is critical to every one. Why nothing has been done to correct this?

Something needs to be done!

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John Burns @burnsajohn.bsky.social · 18d

Some little circus performers. #protistsonsky

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Vasily Zlatogursky @zlatogursky.bsky.social · 19d

If, unlike me you are a member Linnean Society and like me a fun of #Protistsonsky, consider nominating two amazing amateur protist naturalists: Ferry Siemensma (arcella.nl) and Eckhard Voelcker (penard.de), their contribution is outstanding!

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Yash Pardasani @thealgaeman.bsky.social · 20d

Excited to share our third heterotrophic #Paulinella culture from Haida Gwaii, Canada! :)

#ProtistsOnSky

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Sonja-Verena Albers @archaellum.bsky.social · 21d

Happy to share that our story on the bacterial archaellum was published today in @natmicrobiol.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congrats to the authors: @sshamphavi.bsky.social @loumollat.bsky.social @mariejoest.bsky.social Najwa Taib and @sgribaldo.bsky.social

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Jelena Godrijan 🫧❾🌊🦋 @godi.bsky.social · 20d

New preprint 🌊🫶
"A diverse community constitutes global coccolithophore calcium carbonate stocks"
Three large coccolithophores together hold about half of the global CaCO₃ stock!
G. huxleyi <10%
➡️ climate models need to include this broader diversity!
📄 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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The morphology of notable coccolithophore species. The Scanning Electron Microscopy images are coloured by the ratio between the cellular organic and inorganic carbon (CIC:COC) contents.

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Guillermina Ramirez-SanJuan @guille-rochelle.bsky.social · 20d

In another exciting development our new preprint is online:
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

This is the work of my brilliant graduate student Katerina Kourkoulou in collaboration with Maggie Liu and Arnold Mathijssen. Here is a video of the subject of our study:

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Yash Pardasani @thealgaeman.bsky.social · 27d

Our 2nd heterotrophic #Paulinella culture!
Really proud of this one. After days at the microscope picking cells, I finally got it growing happily :)

#protistsonsky

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Anthony M. Bonacolta @ambonacolta.bsky.social · 28d

Environment-dependent mutualism–parasitism transitions in the incipient symbiosis between Tetrahymena utriculariae and Micractinium tetrahymenae

From Mostafa et al

Environment-dependent mutualism–parasitism transitions in the incipient symbiosis between Tetrahymena utriculariae and Micractinium tetrahymenae

Abstract. Mutualistic endosymbiosis is a cornerstone of evolutionary innovation, enabling organisms to exploit diverse niches unavailable to individual spe

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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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Qing (Andie) Zhang @zqing.bsky.social · 28d

Did you know tiny algae can "skate" within Arctic sea ice? ⛸️ Our new study in @pnas.org reveals the secret life of ice diatoms: they are actively gliding to navigate the ice! This adds a new dimension to the sea ice ecosystem, revealing an active, dynamic ecological niche. @prakashlab.bsky.social

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Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo @multicellgenome.bsky.social · 29d

What you're looking at is a brand new protist species! 🤯🔬
Isn't it beautiful?
This image is just a glimpse of what's to come. We can't wait to share our full findings soon, in partnership with Guifré @beaplab.bsky.social @luisjagago.bsky.social. Stay tuned! #NewSpecies #protistsonSky #diversity

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Vasily Zlatogursky @zlatogursky.bsky.social · 29d

Either scenario is possible, as well as a combination of both to some degree, anyway, thanks for the links, very interesting!

Vasily Zlatogursky @zlatogursky.bsky.social · 29d

Yes I agree, but the small size reinforces the snail-pecking scenario, since the bigger object has more chances to attract the bird. But anyway, this is fortune-telling, it needs to be confirmed, actually the whole situation seems to be suitable for lab experiment.

Vasily Zlatogursky @zlatogursky.bsky.social · 29d

Did anyone try? What would be an alternative explanation to bird-pecking hypthesis? I definitely saw the detached eyestalks with Leucochloridium, but there were no birds around 🙄

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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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