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Johana Rotterova

@micrott.bsky.social

@JohanaProtists | Assistant Professor at Department of Marine Sciences University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez | MIC.Rott Lab | Protists | Symbioses in Marine Anaerobes | Microbial Interactions in Ciliates | www.microttlab.org | newPI

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jessamyn@librarian.bsky.social · 5d ago

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
Brad Weiler@bradweilerdives.bsky.social · last mo.

Amazing opportunity to work with incredible scientists🧑‍🔬. Please share widely!! #ProtistsOnSky #coralreefs

Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (IBE)@ibe-barcelona.bsky.social · last mo.

📣 WE ARE HIRING! 📣 Join @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social with a new Laboratory Technician position in #delCampoLab!🤿🦠 🧬In the #CORALPROS project investigates the protists (unicellular eukaryotes) living within corals. #JoinOurTeam 👉https://shorturl.at/vGg1E

Dr. Carly Kenkel@drcarl.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2027 is live! PIs enter your position info here: forms.gle/MAGd4ohyPeoY... students (and PIs not recruiting) share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely! 🧪

Ecology/Evolution/Marine Biology labs recruiting for Fall 2027

Please complete this form if you are a PI recruiting graduate students for a Fall 2027 start. If you are NOT recruiting, feel free to share the response sheet with prospective students looking for lab...

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Anna Schrecengost@annaschreck.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New preprint about closely-related #methanogens living inside ciliates and animal guts!! We found that ciliate symbionts are functionally indistinct from free-living spp, while gut symbionts have streamlined genomes encoded for scavenging. read on if you're curious why 🤔 #ProtistsOnSky #SymbioSky

Dr. Roxanne Beinart@symbiosisrox.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Happy to share our new preprint led by @annaschreck.bsky.social with @micrott.bsky.social and Ivan Cepicka which capitalized on the rare opportunity to compare the genomes of closely related symbionts associated with animals vs. protists. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Corey Holt@coreyholt.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The deadline for this project has been extended to June 9th as overseas applicants are now eligible! Looking for a fully funded studentship and a healthy mix of bioinformatics, imaging, and fieldwork? Get in touch!

Corey Holt@coreyholt.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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!

Evgenii Protasov@evgenii-protasov.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Protists are everywhere, including the depths of the ocean abyss... #microbiology #protists #eukaryotes #MicroSky @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Protist-dominated hard substrate faunas thrive at the deepest ocean depths

Deep-sea hard substrates host faunal novelties and distinct evolutionary lineages. However, sessile organisms on rocks are difficult to sample and largely unknown at extreme hadal depths. Here, we rep...

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Ulisse Cardini@symbiostoic.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🪸 We're hiring a PhD student in microbial ecology of crustose coralline algae! Fully funded 3-year position jointly hosted at SZN Genova & MPI-MM Bremen, with fieldwork in Belize, Seychelles & Fiji. ⏰ Deadline: May 21, 2026 #PhD #MarineScience #Microbiology #OpenPosition

Open position: PhD scholarship in microbial ecology of coralline algae - Marine Symbiomes Research Group

We invite applications for a PhD student to work on the microbiomes of crustose coralline algae (CCA) across tropical mangrove–seagrass–reef corridors.

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Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 3mo ago

More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.

Board Ouster Raises Further Concerns About NSF’s Future

The White House axed all members of the board overseeing the National Science Foundation Friday, leaving the agency with no board, director or deputy director. It finally provided a reason Monday afte...

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Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 4mo ago

NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty. "People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.” futurism.com/artificial-i...

AI Use Appears to Have a "Boiling Frog" Effect on Human Cognition, New Study Warns

A new study claims to offer the first causal link between AI dependency and cognitive erosion. Researchers warn of long-term implications.

futurism.com

Johana Rotterova@micrott.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This whole post by @couchmicroscopy.bsky.social💯!!! When I found out she used to come to the island i work at, i wondered why (affected by others, assumed she joined her husband working in Arecibo, but no, she kept coming long after he was not), but then again, i am here, too, in a symbiosis oasis.

Julia Van Etten@couchmicroscopy.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I would not be a scientist without Lynn Margulis. I never would have gotten a PhD or developed a curiosity for the research topics I currently work on if I didn’t read her book, “Symbiotic Planet” when I was 21. So many male scientists I’ve worked with knew her and many say things like…(1/2)