Are you interested in learning how genomes of weird fungi and protists evolve and are you looking for an exciting PhD opportunity? Jolien van Hooff and I are looking for an enthusiasic PhD candidate at Wageningen University: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p... #TEworldwide #Fungi #Protists #Genome

PhD position in genome evolution and architecture in unicellular eukaryotes

Are you fascinated by how eukaryotic genomes evolve? Do you want to look beyond model organisms and point mutations to uncover the complexity of genome evolution?

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Ákos T Kovács@evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · 7d ago

@floravincent.bsky.social on symbiosis in marine unicellular eukaryotes - online presentation at #MibiNet first on diatom cell structure, see their @currentbiology.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

Today I sat in the grass and saw a weevil and that was enough.

Wow!

Archaea Biology Vienna@archaea-vienna.bsky.social · 6d ago

Our paper on the dynamics of Asgard archaea (Promethearchaeota) is now out in Nature! Huge thanks to the reviewers for helping make the manuscript stronger. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Two “Lokis” stained for Lokiactin (FastAct, magenta), reaching toward each other to celebrate 🎉 #archaea

Really happy to be here at Bigelow Labs with John Burns and a bunch of my other favorite scientists 😊😊😊 we're hunting for John's pet radiolarian, called Plagiacantha 💕 @burnsajohn.bsky.social @bigelowlab.bsky.social #protistsonsky

A planktic melange from the Gulf of Maine featuring juicy diatom chains from 100m depth waters.

We have a new branch in the family tree of animals: Atreyea- a previously unrecognized lineage among the closest unicell relatives of animals. Led by @konsmitsi.bsky.social & @freejakoba.bsky.social together with a fantastic team of collaborators. 🔗 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #protistsOnSky

Loved this NYT article abt @couchmicroscopy.bsky.social and @burnsajohn.bsky.social discovering new Paulinella species (in Journal of Phycology!). Cool science, good reporting, & reminded me of past fun hotel labs ❤️🤓🦠🌊 What was your best nontraditional lab? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/s...

The International Society of Protistology is funding community initiatives like workshops and symposia! The deadline is soon (09/30) but the funding will also be available next year :-) Send to anyone that might benefit from this/plz retweet! #ProtistsonSky protistologists.org/call-for-app...

Very picturesque sampling today at @colbycollege.bsky.social

Took my Evo Cell Bio @ColbyCollege class out for field sampling of protists today and in the meantime grabbed a quick snap of stomata on an aquatic plant with a #foldscope. I was surprised to see it... didn't even know about structure of aquatic plants!

While the Fields Medal celebrates the under-40s, the mathematician Joan Birman has, at the age of 99, solved a major open problem in representations of the Braid groups, a topic she has worked on for more than 60 years.

#BigelowLab is hiring three new Senior Research Scientists in natural products chemistry, deep-sea ecosystem exploration and research, or another area aligned with our strategic plan (linked from the listing). Applications due Nov. 1. FMI: https://www.bigelow.org/about/careers.html #sciencejobs

Very happy to share my postdoc paper is out now in @natcellbio.nature.com titled "Tissue flow acts as a guidance cue for immune cell polarization and directional migration". If you love imaging and immune cells, this is for you! #microscopymonday www.nature.com/articles/s41... A 🧵: 1/n

This is a beautiful and important study with mechanistic structural insights into ESCRT function. Congrats Mareike!! 🧪

mareikejordan.bsky.social@mareikejordan.bsky.social · last mo.

Check out our preprint on the structural mechanisms of how LEM2 and ESCRTs seal the nuclear envelope. Awesome collaboration with @karenpalacior.bsky.social who brought my structures to life 💃🔬❄️🌀 @hummerlab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I was late to the party, but it was super fun to contribute to this project. And what a beautiful result. And I got to see my first IRL paulinella, see the dedication and leadership of @couchmicroscopy.bsky.social, and make new friends! Bonus [probably] P. murrayi rolling around while dividing.

Julia Van Etten@couchmicroscopy.bsky.social · last mo.

Our paper describing two new photosynthetic Paulinella species is out today in JPhycol! This is the kind of work I love to do and even it though took many years to finish, we had a lot of fun stomping around together in the marsh! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #protistsonsky

I encourage everyone to read this excellent thread. You will learn amazing science. You will also get to walk the path of observation, intense curiosity, and dedicated experimentation that leads to real discovery. Absolutely stunning work, shared with palpable delight.

Thibaut Brunet@thibautbrunet.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨 Choanoflagellates reorganize their global cytoskeletal architecture within seconds to explore confined microspaces. This is the main PhD work of the amazing @maitefreired.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A tread 🧵⬇️

🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨 Choanoflagellates reorganize their global cytoskeletal architecture within seconds to explore confined microspaces. This is the main PhD work of the amazing @maitefreired.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A tread 🧵⬇️

Rapid repurposing of microvillar content drives a flagellate-to-amoeboid switch in the closest relative of animals

Animal cells extensively remodel their cytoskeleton during differentiation and can notably switch between two major motility modes: flagellum-based swimming and actin-based crawling. We previously sho...

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⚠️New genomic model for #coccolithophore biology: the haploid genome of Calcidiscus leptoporus! Its genome, resolved alongside six recurrent phycosphere bacteria, reveals a distributed B-vitamin network linking host genomic gaps to microbial capacity. Paper: doi.org/10.1093/isme... 🌊 #ProtistsOnSky

The Calcidiscus leptoporus genome reveals vitamin-mediated holobiont interactions

Abstract. Coccolithophores are major marine phytoplankton that contribute to ocean carbon cycling through both organic carbon fixation and calcium carbonat

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Pls share: We have a new position for an Assistant Professor of Evolutionary Biology at UNLV. tinyurl.com/4uhpav4j

Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology, School of Life Sciences [R0153361]

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) appreciates your interest in employment. We ask that you keep in mind the following when completing your application: Once you start the application process ...

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Someone awesome in my circle shared some terrific news with me today but was hesitant to do so because of all that is going on in the science world. It may appear insensitive that you are celebrating when other colleagues are struggling but I entreat you to celebrate & share good news. 1/

Our new preprint is out! We’ve made some updates to Arcellidae, a family of shelled amoebae that build tiny gold pavilions out of their own secreted proteinaceous goop. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #ProtistsOnSky #amoebae #taxonomy #peatlands

Integrative morphology and phylogenetics of Arcellidae (Amoebozoa:Arcellinida), with redescription of Arcella leidyana and Arcella artocrea and description of Galeripora purdoni sp. nov

Arcellidae is a family of testate amoebae within Arcellinida (Amoebozoa), comprising three recognized genera: Arcella , Galeripora , and Antarcella . Although species in the family have been studied f...

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What has population genomics told us about the dynamics of selection and plant adaptation? academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... After a quarter century, what have we learned from plant resequencing studies? Thanks to Brandon Graut, Stephen Wright, and Tianpeng Wang for being great coauthors. 1 of 2

What has population genomics told us about the dynamics of selection and plant adaptation?

Abstract. Population genomics has transformed our understanding of how natural selection shapes plant genomes. The explosion of whole-genome resequencing d

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🧵 #Bacterial #Multicellularity: We discovered that Ca2+ signaling controls cellular junctions in #cyanobacteria, similar to Euks @embojournal.org A great collab. w/ @weiss-lab.bsky.social #TeamTomo @hhu.de @spp2389.bsky.social @cmfi.bsky.social @mibinet.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The calcium-binding protein CSE links Ca2+ signaling with cell-cell communication in cyanobacteria - The EMBO Journal

Multicellular cyanobacteria have evolved sophisticated cell–cell communication machinery to exchange, synchronize, and coordinate the efforts of individual cells. Analogous to gap junctions that have ...

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Pinheiro de Castro et al. trace the evolution of cyanogenic glucosides biosynthesis in Heliconiini butterflies, providing evidence for the genetic basis of this phenotype and empirical evidence for plasticity-first evolution. 🔗 academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... #societyjournal #evobio #molbio

So very happy for my dear friend and colleague, Jyotika who absolutely, totally deserves this!!!! @schmidtocean.bsky.social's Jyotika Virmani Earns Captain Don Walsh Award ecomagazine.com/news/coastal... 🌊 🦑 ⚒️ 🧪

Schmidt Ocean Institute's Jyotika Virmani Earns Captain Don Walsh Award - environment coastal & offshore

Dr. Jyotika Virmani, Executive Director of Schmidt Ocean Institute, has been named the 2026 Captain Don Walsh Award recipient by MTS and SUT, honoring her leadership in deep-ocean exploration, marine ...

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Right on schedule: the first radiolarian at the Bigelow dock of 2026. Bloom incoming. And a whole lot of cell picking with friends. #protistsonsky

No brain required: This is how the single-celled Stentor learns phys.org/news/2026-04... Molecular pathways for learning in the single-cell #Stentor coeruleus www.cell.com/current-biol... #Protists #Microbes #Ciliates #ProtistsOnSky

Widespread Association of Ciliates Colonizing Gills of Shrimps Inhabiting Vents and Seeps Across the Pacific Ocean - Hey et al - 2026 - Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #ProtistsOnSky

A new preprint from the lab! "Green algal symbionts are stably retained and provisioned in the dark despite a clear physiological cost" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Green algal symbionts are stably retained and provisioned in the dark despite a clear physiological cost

Photosymbioses, or associations between heterotrophs and photoautotrophs, are widespread and indispensable in today's ecosystems. The chloroplasts of algae and land plants, which are at the heart of m...

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