See the intricate worlds of parasites and algae — March’s best science images The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team.

Our ExM Atlas of eukaryotes is moving along with more and more images coming in - some featured in nature last month!
Culture we’re provided by @ccapoban.bsky.social & Julius Lukeš during visits last year

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

GOOD NEWS! Our BRILLIANT Red-ALERT CDT (@redalertcdt.bsky.social) has funding for one more home studentship at the University of Bath so we're re-advertising this project!

New deadline: May 18th

Come explore protist and invertebrate diversity with us!

Saving this for our new undergraduate microbiome unit. Would recommend! Thank you, @merenbey.bsky.social and Iva.

Attending Protistology Open? Check out @nicolecoots.bsky.social & I's ISOP-sponsored symposium "The Symbiotic Continuum across the Tree of Life" (April 20th @ 11 AM)! We have an amazing lineup of speakers including Ondřej Pomahač, @mixotrophe.bsky.social, & Gillian Gile #ProtistsOnSky #Symbiosis

LCAB Postdoctoral recruitment The Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity (LCAB) is a major research centre funded by the Leverhulme Trust to increase knowledge of how the relationship between humanity and the natural worl...

Are you looking for a Post-doc related to biodiversity? We might have just the role for you! @anthropocenebio.bsky.social are curently advertising 10 (yes!) post-docs covering natural & social science of biodivesity. Come work with us & share with anyone appropriate! sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l...

If you want to be part of this movement and make your own automated 3D microscope—sign up by TOMORROW and join us in #Roscoff in June for
"Smart DIY Microscopy for Marine Biology"
www.sb-roscoff.fr/system/files...
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@sbroscoff.bsky.social
@gdrimabio.bsky.social
@embrc-france.bsky.social

Two weeks left to apply for our Master’s Programme “Microbiome Science” at @cemess.bsky.social | @univie.ac.at! Explore microbial communities shaping health, the environment, and ecosystems.

Application Deadline: April 7

All Details: studieren.univie.ac.at/en/degree-pr...

A parting gift 🎁

Aerobic sister lineage of breviates has gene-rich mitochondrial genomes Cho et al. describe a novel, aerobic sister lineage of Breviatea using flow cytometric single-cell sorting and genome amplification. The new lineage harbors gene-rich mitochondrial genomes, unlike Bre...

Aerobic sister lineage of breviates has gene-rich mitochondrial genomes
#microbiology #eukaryotes #mitochondria #protists #MicroSky #ProtistsOnSky
@cellpress.bsky.social
www.cell.com/current-biol...

Image of the cover of the 1st volume of ISME Host Microbe a new official journal of the International Society for Microbial Ecology. Cover images shows a plant stomata with bacteria around and entering.

Excited to announce our new journal from @isme-microbes.bsky.social ISME Host Microbe is live and now accepting submissions. Look forward to receiving your papers! #Microsky 🧫 🦠

So you are using IQ-TREE to estimate a tree for "deep time" phylogenetics using amino acid alignments. There is a lot of confusion about how to test model fit. Here are some suggestions.

Love this paper. Covered the preprint with our final year undergraduates just a couple of weeks ago! Congratulations, all!

We’re recruiting new Research Group Leaders!
We offer:
🔬 Core funding
💻 Access to world-leading infrastructure
👩🏽‍🔬A network of world-leading scientists
…and much more.
Apply by 11 April: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
#ResearchCareers #Bioinformatics @timcoorens.bsky.social @embl.org

🤩 Woahhh! Sounds like a blast! Not to be missed!

Phylogenomic tree of Cercozoa based on single-cell transcriptomes from 100 uncultured cells - BMC Biology Background Cercozoa are single-celled eukaryotes (protists) and are part of the supergroup Rhizaria. Cercozoans have vastly different morphologies and are defined by their phylogenetic affinity. While...

Great to see this paper in all its glory online: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A huge effort from Gordon and the team at @pjkeelinglab.bsky.social!

Phylogenomic tree of Cercozoa based on single-cell transcriptomes from 100 uncultured cells

@ubcbotany.bsky.social @science.ubc.ca

Be part of OMGN! Open to all researchers with an interest in oomycetes, from molecular genetics & genomics to biology, population biology, and ecology, at either an experimental or a computational level. Investigators new to the field are always welcome oomycetes.com

Some more generative aRt for your eyeballs. You'll have to imagine the birdsong...
🌷geom_meadow

Have a novel protist's genome or transcriptome and want to predict it's mitochondrial proteome? Look no further than CoMR, this handy bioinformatic workflow to help you: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #phylogenetics

Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Bath Searching for an academic job? Explore this Postdoctoral Research Associate opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

New postdoc position available in the Tooke lab in our department. Perfect if you like molecular microbiology, structural biology and biochemistry!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQP592/p...

🗣️Protist friends! I'm looking to put together a list of key protistology resources for new students joining the lab. What are some of your favourite papers???
🧪 #protistsonsky

How specific are heritable symbioses?

And what can we learn from swapping obligate symbionts across host species?

We address this in our latest, led by @inespons.bsky.social & in our collaboration w/ @microbiome.bsky.social 🦠🪲 Out today in @natcomms.nature.com!

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www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Applications are now open for our EMBO Practical Course in Computational and Experimental Microbiomics! 🧫🔬🖥️

meetings.embo.org/event/26-mic...

Come learn a mix of computational and experimental microbiome techniques from 6-8th July in beautiful Bath, UK!

Registration Deadline: 11 May 2026

Addressing pandemic-wide systematic errors in the SARS-CoV-2 phylogeny - Nature Methods This Resource paper presents a global SARS-CoV-2 phylogenetic tree of 4,471,579 high-quality genomes consistently constructed by Viridian, an efficient amplicon-aware assembler.

A long time ago in a galaxy far away, there was a SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Our paper, led by @martibartfast.bsky.social
a) correcting errors in 4.5 million genomes & their phylogeny
b) improving representation of the Global South in public data
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Spatial Proteomics Workshop for Protists

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Registration
Early Bird Monday 22nd June 2026.
Regular Monday 10th August 2026.
There will be a conference dinner on day 1. To register visit protistology.org.uk/autumn-meeti...

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(CODE M) How do Division of Labour and Gene Mobility Impact Microbial Bioremediation? at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - (CODE M) How do Division of Labour and Gene Mobility Impact Microbial Bioremediation? at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

Exciting new PhD programme CODE-M Control and Design of Engineered Microbial Systems @officialuom.bsky.social Projects now advertised!

Ours is on division of labour & horizontal gene transfer in microbial communities @biotechdixon.bsky.social @coytelab.bsky.social

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

New PDRA position with @knightjar.bsky.social @coytelab.bsky.social & me

Community assembly processes in soil microbiomes with focus on bioinformatics and computational modelling of data from field and lab experiments

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

A Practical Approach to Study Uncultivated Protists Using Single‐Cell Techniques for Electron Microscopy Protists represent a significant portion of eukaryotic diversity with a wide range of ecological roles, lifestyles, and diverse morphological traits. Despite their widespread importance in ecological...

A great resource from Maia and friends! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Comparative Genomics of Unicellular Eukaryotes (San Feliu, Spain):
Abstract submission is open, with a short deadline! comparativegenomics2026.com

Join us as we explore the most diverse, surprising, and still largely uncharted branches of the eukaryotic tree.