⚠️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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DAY 441 SPECIES 441 - Syracosphaera nodosa STAGE: Protists MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen S. nodosa is a marine calcifying single celled phytoplankton species. It has little radiating plates from the center, but it ended up looking like sliced kiwi! 😅 #sciart #protistsonsky

Face it, plankton are pretty important 🤷 #Plankton

🧵Women Pioneers in Palaeontology in Central & Eastern Europe & Asia 🇭🇷 Vanda Kochansky-Devidé (1915-1990), founder of Yugoslav micropalaeontology. Author of key field textbooks. First woman member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences (1973).

Integration and regulation of stolen organelles in a marine protist academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... #jcampubs

Integration and regulation of stolen organelles in a marine protist

Abstract. Chloroplast-stealing (a.k.a., “kleptoplastidic”) plankton transiently obtain and integrate prey metabolic machinery into their own cells. To do s

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Don't miss out! Register and submit your abstract now until 30 September for the EMBO Young Scientists’ Forum #EYSF2026 taking place in Dubrovnik, #Croatia, 28–30 October 2026! 🧪 https://event.fourwaves.com/eysf #LifeSciences #EarlyCareerResearchers

I started a marine biogeochemistry podcast, where I ask scientists questions about the cycling of elements through the ocean. This is a place where we can nerd it out, for scientists and marine science students. Listen here, or spotify/apple podcasts applied-marine-biogeochemistry.org/podcast/

Podcast | Applied Marine Biogeochemistry Group

Marine biogeochemistry studies how elements like carbon and phosphorus move through the ocean. In this podcast, we explore the processes that drive this...

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Behind the paper: the tiny shell, the stubborn alga, and the PhD question that refused to die communities.springernature.com/posts/behind...

Behind the paper: the tiny shell, the stubborn alga, and the PhD question that refused to die

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Nature interviewed five artists from a variety of backgrounds about how to create engaging images that accurately convey scientific/medical concepts, & how they see the future, in light of AI developments. Insightful nuanced piece, with beautiful visuals from talented real-life human illustrators. 🧪

‘Good design takes mastery’: scientific illustrators sketch out AI’s future

Nature talks to five artists about their approaches to communicating science visually.

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Some microalgae smartly switch energy systems to support growth under nutrient limitation communities.springernature.com/posts/some-m...

Some microalgae smartly switch energy systems to support growth under nutrient limitation

In a recent article published in Nature Microbiology, we show how marine diatoms, a globally important group of microalgae can switch between photosynthesis and a light-driven rhodopsin proton pump to...

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It's out! Excited to present the Great Barrier Reef Microbial Genomes Database (GBR-MGD), a comprehensive DB of 1000s of high-quality prokaryote, virus, plasmid, and chromosome-level eukaryote MAGs using Nanopore long reads. Subthreads incoming. Please share widely. 🙂 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The planktonic microbiome of the Great Barrier Reef - Nature

The Great Barrier Reef Microbial Genomes Database compiles prokaryotic, viral and eukaryotic genomes from seawater collected from the Great Barrier Reef, providing a rich resource for the study of mar...

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Join us at the EMBO Young Scientists’ Forum 2026 in Dubrovnik, 28–30 October. All areas of life sciences are welcome! ⏰ Early-bird registration ends 15 July. #EYSF2026 #LifeSciences

#coccolithophores and two amazing scientists #protistsonsky

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The cell that wasn't there grist.org/science/nitr...

This year #EYSF2026 is in Dubrovnik, Croatia! 🔗 event.fourwaves.com/eysf/pages ▶️ For early-career life scientists across Europe: interdisciplinary presentations, networking, collaborations, and creative scientific exchange. & we have a special session #ProtistsOnSky

From pulsed disturbance to steady-state mixing: Succession of microbial ecological strategies in the estuarine ecosystem www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #jcampubs

From pulsed disturbance to steady-state mixing: Succession of microbial ecological strategies in the estuarine ecosystem

Estuarine ecosystems are subject to pronounced hydrological fluctuations driven by both natural cycles and anthropogenic interventions. Using the anth…

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🌊 postdoc opening

Mark Moore@cmarkmoore.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We are recruiting two postdocs: jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

🌊🧪 DEGREE OF CALCITE SATURATION - To understand the relationship between the distribution of CaCO₃ in sediments and the distribution of biologically utilized constituents within the sea, we need to define the designations: saturation, undersaturation, and supersaturation. For any mineral

Congratulations to Gautam Dey (EMBL) and Omaya Dudin (University of Geneva) for being awarded the EMBO Gold Medal 2026 in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the #LifeSciences in Europe! 🧪 https://www.embo.org/press-releases/embo-gold-medal-2026-awarded-to-gautam-dey-and-omaya-dudin/

New paper using coccolithophorids strains from the RCC www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Exploring proteins within the coccolith matrix - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Exploring proteins within the coccolith matrix

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How can funders rethink research excellence with their communities? New @embo.org guest post shares insights from a workshop bringing researchers together to explore fairer, more inclusive assessment aligned with DORA & @coarassessment.bsky.social principles. Explore the full story 👉 bit.ly/RRA-EMBO

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The biennial EMBO Young Investigator Network retreat is taking place this week at the Ringhotel Schorfheide in the forest north of Berlin. 🧪 A week of #training, #networking and a chance to get away from the lab and consider their #research from a different perspective awaits network members.

GetGenome wiki A living, open science database of bacterial, fungal and plant genomes sequenced through the GetGenome programme for global genomic equity. getgenome-wiki.net/campaigns/

New funding opportunity from the Symbiosis in Aquatic Systems Initiative. We’re inviting teams of two researchers to pursue ambitious, high-risk projects advancing aquatic symbiosis (marine + freshwater). Open globally. Details + how to apply:  moore.org/SymbiosisRFP #RFP #AquaticSymbiosis

NG: The metadata embedded in the image file itself is only there, if it was set up properly. If a file is converted from a proprietary format, some data might be lost. Our guidelines for image presentation (crop, rotate, insets, adjustments, scale bar): www.nature.com/articles/s41... #WCRI2026

Community-developed checklists for publishing images and image analyses - Nature Methods

Community-developed checklists offer best-practice guidance for biologists preparing light microscopy images and describing image analyses for publications.

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Nitrogen limitation promotes particulate inorganic carbon accumulation in Gephyrocapsa huxleyi: Transcriptomic insights into nitrogen and carbon metabolism www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #jcampubs

Nitrogen limitation promotes particulate inorganic carbon accumulation in Gephyrocapsa huxleyi: Transcriptomic insights into nitrogen and carbon metabolism

Coccolithophores play dual roles as the biological pump and the carbonate counter pump in the marine carbon cycle. However, how nutrient conditions sh…

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Diel remodeling and cellular integration of the nitroplast www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Holococcoliths are superstructures assembled from rhombohedral calcite crystals by a group of unicellular algae known as coccolithophores. Cryo-electron microscopy is used to investigate the nucleation and growth of these crystals. In PNAS Nexus: https://ow.ly/tQVV50YR7Ps

🌊🧪 Why N and P are present in sea water in the same ratio as in organisms is a little like the chicken and the egg problem. - Broecker and Peng (1982), Tracers in the Sea

The first student blog post of the day today is by Anna P.K. and is all about the theory of endosymbiosis! Did you know that some of the things that exist inside all of your cells used to be free-living organisms that we held hostage?! Let Anna tell you all about it and click below!

Tiny guests turned roommates: The story of Endosymbiosis.

This student blog post is written by Anna P.K. and is about the theory of endosymbiosis! Have you ever wondered how mitochondria came to…

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Our first collaboration with the Levine lab! Defining metabolic niches for marine microbial heterotrophs www.science.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs 🌊

Defining metabolic niches for marine microbial heterotrophs

Understanding carbon cycling requires simplifying bacterial diversity into functional groups defined by genetic signatures.

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