Increased prey choice is associated with higher kleptoplastidic reliance in Mesodinium ciliates Kleptoplastidic organisms display varying levels of reliance on stolen plastids, with some lineages evolving complex strategies for plastid (and other organelle) integration into metabolism. More com...

I know late to the party and all but very excited to see this: support for the hypothesis that increased prey specificity correlates with more tightly integrated kleptoplasts – from @mixotrophe.bsky.social lab (wrong image associated with link)
#protistsonsky
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Please join us tomorrow morning (9 AM CEST) to hear about Rocío Mozo Muñoz's work on the phylogenomics of Symbiodiniaceae (from the lab of @fonamental.bsky.social)

#protistsonsky

DinoSphere - Online talks Video credits: Liz Cooney

Tune in this week to the DinoSphere seminar to hear Rocío Mozo Muñoz (IBE-UPF-CSIC) talk about her work in phylogenomics of Symbiodiniaceae!

📆 16 April - 9AM CEST
🔗 tinyurl.com/5fje3s55

@ehehenberger.bsky.social @manondemulder.bsky.social @chandnibhickta.bsky.social Norico Yamada, Edmée Royen

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...

Extremely cool PhD position alert! Plus a great supervisor!

Please join us next week for the second iteration of the DinoSphere Seminars! This time our two speakers will talk about host-associated dinoflagellates and any challenges they might have encountered when working with them. All current and future friends of dinoflagellates welcome!
#ProtistsOnSky

#Expansion #Microscopy #Atlas of #Microbial #Eukaryotes is getting up to speed.

We will be at full speed soon, but we are lucky to have a welcoming #protistology #community. Thx

🙏 to @Marine @fmikus.bsky.social @Julius & @Galina
⏭️Stop: @ccapoban.bsky.social
#ExpandThemAll #ExAME #ProtistsOnSky

Characterizing organisms from three domains of life with universal primers from throughout the global ocean www.nature.com/articles/s41...

scanning electron micrograph of a Platynereis larva showing a close-up of the prototroch ciliary band

Happy to be involved in UNICIL, our new Wellcome Trust Discovery project coordinated by @micromotility.bsky.social

We will study ciliary dynamics across scales and organisms. A long-term #postdoc position will be available at Heidelberg University […]

[Original post on biologists.social]

A blue poster describing opportunities to join the Bernhardt Lab -- for more information please see https://www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us

✨ The Bernhardt Lab at the University of Guelph is recruiting graduate students for 2026! Join us! We have several fully funded grad positions available ✨

Please spread the word!

www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us

#CSEE2025

Decades Behind: The Shameful Neglect of Endometriosis Research A Landmark $50 Million Donation Offers New Hope for One of Medicine's Most Overlooked Conditions

It's shameful that we are so behind with endometriosis, but a landmark $50 million donation offers new hope. vajenda.substack.com/p/decades-be...

Excited to share our new paper in @cellreports.bsky.social that reshapes our understanding of chromosome organization's deep evolutionary roots! Our work dives into the origins of the machinery that structures our very genomes.

🔗: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

#Genomics #Evolution #CellBiology #LECA

We have a new paper out today in Trends in Microbiology led by @bhattacharyalab.bsky.social, also ft. me, Tims Stephens and McDermott, and Gabby Panayotakis. Based on NASA + JGI-funded work on Cyanidiophyceae and other Yellowstone microbes.
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14 Tipps für Medien beim Berichten über die rechtsextreme AfD Die AfD ist gesichert rechtsextrem. Medien dürfen sie deshalb nicht wie eine normale Partei behandeln. 14 konkrete Tipps, wie das geht.

Die AfD ist gesichert rechtsextrem. Medien dürfen sie deshalb nicht wie eine normale Partei behandeln. 14 konkrete Tipps, wie das geht. www.volksverpetzer.de/aktuelles/14...

Happy to have contributed to this great article: #Protist genomics: key to understanding eukaryotic evolution. Congrats Alexandra Schoenle et al. #ProtistsOnSky
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Omaya Dudin Interview with Omaya Dudin, who uses Ichthyosporea as models to study how and why unicellular organisms evolved multicellularity at the University of Geneva.

90% of you probably don’t need to read this.
But maybe some of you are curious & 10% will feel seen. Or a little less alone. This isn’t about seeking sympathy.
It’s about sharing something hard to say out loud;
partly to heal, partly in case someone needs to hear it too. (1/3)
tinyurl.com/DudinO

Thank you, Omaya.

Share with your network, group members, colleagues & friends.

We are extending the deadline till the 10th of June.

This is your last chance of joining us this summer.

#Science #ProtistsOnSky #Cell #Biology #Microscopy

What started during the #EMBLtrec Plankton Retreat last fall, is now out in the wild. Please join us for the first iteration of the DinoSphere Online Seminar Series and share with potentially interested colleges.

I'm looking for a postdoc in computational evolutionary phage genomics, with the goal to better understand how protein innovation arises in viruses, at @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social in Krakow (Poland).

Drop me a line if it sounds cool!

Deadline: 20.06.

Link here:
mcb.uj.edu.pl/documents/15...

Postdoctoral Fellow: Self-Developed Project (280531) | University of Oslo Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow: Self-Developed Project (280531), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, June 23, 2025

A competitive 3-year postdoc has opened at the Natural History Museum Oslo. Message me if you are interested in developing a project aimed as using digital PCR methods to evaluate apicomplexans in Norwegian migratory birds and tropical arthropods
#protist #parasite #ProtistsOnSky

Supercool - I was looking forward to this since you mentioned the M8 at your talk at the St. Feliu meeting! And great video :)

😻 HUGE NEWS! One of the "Magnificent 8" – key missing lineages for understanding animal origins – is ALIVE in our lab!
Watch the video!
Massive thanks to @luisjagago.bsky.social (isolation wizard!) & @beaplab.bsky.social @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @prbb.org @csic.es @erc.europa.eu #protistsonSky

Choose Europe for Science: ERC welcomes new budget for 'super grants' The Scientific Council of the European Research Council welcomes the offer of substantial additional budget from the European Commission for the development of a new ERC funding instrument offering la...

The ERC welcomes the offer of substantial additional budget from @ec.europa.eu for the development of a new ERC funding instrument offering larger, longer-term grants, as announced by President Ursula Von der Leyen at the Sorbonne this morning.

👉 europa.eu/!NTYTTV

Algal Symbiont Diversity and Host Fitness Variation in Amoebozoan Photosymbiosis Photosymbioses, the symbiotic relationships between microalgae and non-photosynthetic eukaryotes, are sporadically found in many eukaryotic lineages. Only a few taxa, such as cnidarians and ciliates ....

Algal symbiont diversity and host fitness variation in the amoebozoan photosymbiosis 🦠

by Yamagishi et al.
@jeukmicro.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Fireworms are a reservoir and potential vector for coral-infecting apicomplexans Abstract. Corals (Cnidaria; Anthozoa) play critical roles as habitat-forming species with a wide range, from warm shallow-water tropical coral reefs to col

🚨🧵 Out now in ISMEJ (@ismepublications.bsky.social)!
We find abundant corallicolid sequences within bearded fireworms (𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘢) across reefs and years in Curaçao 🇨🇼!

🪱🪸 This is the first report of corallicolids inside a non-anthozoan host!

#ProtistsOnSky #MicroSky #SymbioSky #Corals

🚨🔬💗Whether investigating cell organelles or mapping proteins, together with Victor Puelles's lab we lay a roadmap for selecting optimal #ExM and #SuperResolution #microscopy combinations. Daria Aristova and Dominik Kylies review with amazing co-authors

pubs.aip.org/aip/apr/arti...

a figure from the linked paper that summarizes evolutionary events of gene loss during the evolution of the discussed bacteria

New #ISEPpapers #prerint! Drastic genome reduction driven by parasitic lifestyle: Two complete genomes of endosymbiotic bacteria possibly hosted by a dinoflagellate www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#bacteria #symbiosis #genomics #algae #protists

POSTDOC position available in Ceske Budejovice & Cambridge, funded by ERC KLEPTOS, to study plastid endosymbiosis in kleptoplastidic taxa with spatial proteomics. Are you curious about this process and interested in proteomics and data analysis? Join us by applying here: jobs.bc.cas.cz/en/detail/250

Haunted by hopelessness: 12 Zambians share their stories as HIV drugs run out Mothers and children, husbands and wives, doctors, truck drivers and religious leaders are all grappling with the fallout from the sudden U.S. cuts in aid.

I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years.

This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration.

www.npr.org/sections/goa...