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Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.

Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Finally, we’ve solved a long-standing mystery: what tintinnid shells are actually made of:
A new class of biomaterial formed by remarkable structural proteins unique to tintinnids.
A major milestone after 3 years of work! Read about it in our preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202...
#ProtistsOnSky

Microbial eukaryotes keep challenging assumptions about eukaryotic cell and genome biology.

Our upcoming workshop explores the frontier of protist genomics and how it shapes cell biology, ecology and evolution.

Please save the date! Talks, posters and ECR events

Websites and details coming soon

🎉 The #SeqCode has reached a significant milestone: with the validation of the genus Skiveiella, a total of 1,000 #names have now been validly published under the SeqCode.

This achievement marks a major step forward in the adoption and impact of the SeqCode within the scientific community.

a white fan is sitting on a red background . ALT: a white fan is sitting on a red background .

*Listens to white noise playlist while traveling*

Spotify: “And here’s a special message from your favorite artist of 2025!”

Yeah, not much else really moves like that. It’s a skinny one!

Need to defeat a slime that resists all physical damage but your party is all fighters? Problematic mage gap.

Love vibrant colors on your walls, but your spouse insists on tan walls? Problematic beige gap.

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

1. Postdoc in plant-fungal interactions: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research...

2. Postdoc in molecular plant-microbe interactions: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research...

3. Research technician: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Technici...

(Pls share!)

This paper has been a must! Great collaboration with @mkrupovic.bsky.social and @yifanzhou.bsky.social, a N&V by a legend of halophilic archaea tinyurl.com/yc3dcv72, and one picture of one of our expeditions to Dallol making the cover of the November issue of @natmicrobiol.nature.com

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🚨Our collaboration with @centriolelab.bsky.social & @gautamdey.bsky.social is out today in @cp-cell.bsky.social
We show that #Expansion #Microscopy is a broad-spectrum modality for Euks, enabling 3D phenotypic maps rooted to phylogeny.
#ProtistsOnSky #SciComm #SciSky

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Congrats!

Many people massed outside the RI state capitol for the No Kings Protest on Oct. 18 2025

Many people massed outside the RI state capitol for the No Kings Protest on Oct. 18 2025

A young woman stands dancing and holding a sign that says “No Kings since 1776. We are not going back.”

32,000 in Providence on a gorgeous day!

I think we need to keep repeating this point —that decisions by this admin, by the EPA Secretary confirmed by our Senators, by DOGE as Nick Begich III & Dan Sullivan enthusiastically cheered it on —directly impacted Kipnuk’s destruction. Alaskans need to see that politics affect homes, bodies, lives

ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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...

The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices.

NEW

WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened.

This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it

www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion.

Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

We just created a huge number of political prisoners for no reason.

In our current environment, when very weird things happen, ask “how will this be weaponized”?

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

What I see when people post pics of their food in the UK.

At no point in this title will you be able to guess the next word.

This is the same amount as the entire National Science Foundation's R&D spending for the entire field of *engineering* for the whole country. All of it.

In taxonomy, if you speak on an unnamed taxon, a name will appear bsky.app/profile/zlat...

Phylogenetic position and mitochondrial genome evolution of ‘orphan’ eukaryotic lineages The phylogenetic tree of eukaryotes is divided into a handful of highly diverse ‘supergroups’; only a few so-called ‘orphan’ lineages branch in uncertain positions outside of these large clades. We fo...

New protist supergroup: Promethea! From @zlatogursky.bsky.social et al #ProtistsOnSky

Une baguette.

This is happening *now* in the 2025 fiscal year.

We have no guarantee that if Congress does not pass the severe budget cuts the administration wants that the administration simply won't fund things.