Living together: evolutionary and ecological dimensions of protist endosymbiosis From symbionts to organelles: evolutionary integration of microbial partners into eukaryotic cells.

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AI Use Appears to Have a "Boiling Frog" Effect on Human Cognition, New Study Warns A new study claims to offer the first causal link between AI dependency and cognitive erosion. Researchers warn of long-term implications.

NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty.

"People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.”

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This whole post by @couchmicroscopy.bsky.social💯!!! When I found out she used to come to the island i work at, i wondered why (affected by others, assumed she joined her husband working in Arecibo, but no, she kept coming long after he was not), but then again, i am here, too, in a symbiosis oasis.

I can share a folder I have for my students! Will send a link.

To my #protistsonsky and 🦑friends, I am co-organizing this meeting: "Midwater Science and Engineering Community" (MidSEC) Conference. If you work with or are interested in midwater protists (radiolaria, foram, deep water coccolithophores, etc) (or animals) it may be of interest to you!

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The Brown Lab at Mississippi State University seeks a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Phylogenomics. Applicants should have sequencing data analysis experience, preferably in Python/R. Details at: https://explore.msujobs.msstate.edu/cw/en-us/job/510010 #postdoc

Environmental regulation of ciliates in corals: A secondary pathogen in coral disease www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #corals #protists #symbionts #holobiont #microbiome

Rare microbial relict sheds light on an ancient eukaryotic supergroup - Nature The discovery of an unusual protist named Solarion arienae, which has a mitochondrial genome with some intriguing features, provides insight into the early radiation of eukaryotic groups.

Nature research paper: Rare microbial relict sheds light on an ancient eukaryotic supergroup

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Beware, Solarion pops in between cat videos now. #ProtistsOnSky #MicrobeSky

I'm personally keen to not introduce new names when the original work/are valid. Marek's paper (and Disparia) was out as a preprint since May and the question could go both ways. Solarion + Meteora as Caelestes work well imo. But, I'm fan of Promethea and I think both papers are awesome! One love 😁

Sent!

When I've first seen the transformation under a microscope, the integration and disappearance of the flagellum, back then we had no idea what group of protists it could be, if it's even a eukaryote, it blew my mind. One can be seen in the Supplemental video 3. It keeps blowing my mind.

Thank you! Well, but.. it IS a tiny ball, forming extrusome tentacles, when it is NOT a flagellate!

✨ A study in nature.com from our Faculty at @unikarlova.cuni.cz reveals Solarion arienae, a rare #protist forming a newly identified eukaryotic supersroup Disparia. A unique window into early #eukaryotic cell #evolution. 🌍🔬👏

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Is it a flagellate? A tiny ball with tentacles? Contamination in my ciliate culture? NEW SUPERGROUP OF EUKARYOTES? Yes to all 4! Meet Solarion - just out in #Nature doi.org/10.1038/s415... Huge congrats to Marek Valt, Cepicka Lab & the star team! Very happy to be part of this project. #ProtistsOnSky

now i've seen everything... 😱
don't care what anybody says but #protists are cognitive

THERKILDSEN LAB The Therkildsen Lab at Cornell University. Conservation Genomics and Molecular Ecology

Cornell University invites applications for a PhD in Evolutionary Genomics for Marine Conservation, starting Fall 2026. Interested candidates should contact Nina Overgaard Therkildsen at nt246@cornell.edu. More info: https://www.therkildsenlab.org/ #phd

Join the GRACE project as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Evolutionary Genomics and Climate Resilience. Conduct genomic analyses on marine species to study responses to climate change. Apply by March 1st, 2026. More info: https://umr-sebio.fr #postdoc

Right?! Thank you, i still don't feel like i even deserve to be a pi..but i do have amazing students and im grateful for them! one of them hopefully going to cesky krumlov for genomics this january!

Career Opportunities at the University of Hawai'i | University of Hawai'i

Come be my colleague at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. We're hiring an assistant professor in Ocean Biogeochemical Modeling. 🌊

Wow, congrats!! I will definitely use it in my lectures, last time i told the students that the sponge door hasn't closed yet and to stay tuned! 😂

Marine Ecologist tenure track job, here at URI. Come join a thriving research environment with a major focus on all things marine!

jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960

The University of Puerto Rico seeks candidates for a tenure-track Neuroscience faculty position starting August 1, 2026. Details: www.uprrp.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/... #job

We are looking for a PhD student to work on an exciting plastid endosymbiosis in microbial eukaryotes. This position involves sampling, exciting microscopy such as CARDFISH, ExM and FIBSEM, single-cell transcriptomics and more. #protistsonsky 1/2

Deep‐branching eukaryotes and early events in protist evolution The first eukaryotes evolved from their archaean ancestors in the early Proterozoic, likely ca. 2000–1800 million years ago (Mya). Their macroscopic multicellular descendants, such as plants, heterok...

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9 days till registration closes!
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“Cellular Olympics” our catalog of freeky ultra fast cellular superhero’s is freely available “Ann Rev of microbiology”

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This is a compilation of world’s fastest single cell organisms - enjoy this buffet of rare delightful protists with mind bending speeds. 🧪

Hi folks! Is anyone recruiting masters students that pay a livable stipend? I have an excellent senior who is an incredible researcher and seeking a position. She is top notch and really interested in mechanistic questions- currently working on Aiptasia, Astrangia and Nematostella.

Structural and Spectroscopic Insights into Catalytic Intermediates of a [NiFe]‐hydrogenase from Group 3 Hydrogenases catalyze reversible H2 production and are potential models for renewable energy catalysts. Here, the full redox landscape of a group 3 [NiFe]-hydrogenase from methanothermococcus thermol....

F420 is a key redox carrier in methanogenic archaea, and it receives electrons from Group 3 [NiFe]-hydrogenases. Writing in @chemistryeurope.bsky.social Zebger and Wagner now characterize the hydrogenase from a marine methanogen by XRD, FTIR, Raman, and EPR spectroscopy 👌
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wohoooo!!!! 💥