Da ich jetzt Morddrohungen bekomme für diesen Artikel (nachdem bild ihn skandalisiert) hier nochmal zur Klarstellung: gewaltfreier Widerstand hat eine lange prodemokratische und verfassungsschützende Tradition, und das befürworte ich. Gewalt ist antidemokratisch und hilft der AfD, ich lehne sie ab.

taz@taz.de · last mo.

Exakt 100 Jahre nach der NSDAP hält die AfD am Wochenende in Thüringen ihren Parteitag ab. Wo die Politik versagt, muss die Zivilgesellschaft einspringen.

Both totally unnecessary and extremely funny that the Guardian has an interactive graphic for you to change the color of the US flag's blue to the color of the Reflecting Pool from 8 to 19 June and counting

𝘛𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘹 - a honorary member of the #ProtistsOnSky club? @nicoledubilier.bsky.social @prakashlab.bsky.social

Raphaël Clément@raphclement.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Our work on Trichoplax locomotion and mechanosensing capabilities is out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social. Congrats Marvin Leria & all co-authors! authors.elsevier.com/c/1n8Ig3QW8S...

I predicted someone like Trump many years ago, in THE DEAD ZONE. So now I'm saying this--in the next 12-16 months, we're going to find out if the two machines for the removal of a man unable to fulfill his duties actually work. They are impeachment and the 25th amendment. He is deeply unwell .

Choanoflagellates — our closest animal relatives — form multicellular colonies in two ways: cell division AND aggregation. This previously unknown "mixed multicellularity" suggests our animal origins are more complex than thought. 📄 @thibautbrunet.bsky.social ↘️

Evolutionary biology: what an aquatic microorganism can tell us about our distant origins

Over a period of two to three billion years, the only living beings on Earth were single-celled organisms. In what conditions did living organisms with multiple cells emerge? How did life become more ...

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1/11 🔥 New preprint alert 🔥 We wanted to know what plants in the wild really care about. So we asked them 🎤. Here is what we learned: “Biotic-response networks are an important organizer of the transcriptome in wild Arabidopsis thaliana populations” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#OnThisDay in 1938, American evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis was born. Margulis is most known for developing and popularising the endosymbiotic theory, which explains how eukaryotic cells evolved organelles from simpler prokaryotic organisms that resided within another and became incorporated.

VERY cool - congratulations!

Sorek Lab@soreklab.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Out today: We discovered new viral proteins that target immune signaling molecules, solely based on their AlphaFold-predicted shapes www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Congrats Nitzan Tal and coauthors! Thank you Kranzusch lab for the fun collaboration! Linking below previous thread on our findings

Should biology put complexity first? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... - excellent essay by @philipcball.bsky.social. I would add epistasis to polygenicity and pleiotropy as a ubiquitous and fundamental phenomenon, not some optional complication that we can try to account for afterwards

Should biology put complexity first?

The dictum “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler” poses a problem for biology. How simply can it be told without doing dama…

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Beyond Mendel. FINALLY. Brilliant, thought-provoking read! This new perspective argues that our obsession with single genes and clean knock-outs is holding us back. Couldn't agree more, and I hope Reviewer #2 reads this. academic.oup.com/genetics/art...

Finally out in @nature.com: a new piece of the puzzle of how complex life evolved. Lead by @archaeal.bsky.social & @katyappler.bsky.social. Great collab with @greening.bsky.social and @kassipan.bsky.social. More pieces to follow soon! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper from my team detailing a greatly expanded genomic database of Asgard archaea revealing of high energy metabolism those related to eukaryotes! Led by @katyappler.bsky.social lots of help from @jameslingford.bsky.social @valdeanda.bsky.social @kassipan.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Alright bsky science + art community, I need your help. I was p confident we could get a grant to fund our upcoming biodiversity mural in Kensington. Last night, they called to say our partner school is 2 blocks outside of their service area. But ya know what? We're gonna do it anyway.

🧵 New preprint! Our 4-lab team evolved Streptococcus pneumoniae in antibiotic-treated mice of varying immune states and discovered something surprising: bacteria rarely evolved resistance. Instead, they found a different way to survive — by rewiring RNA turnover. 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Our latest preprint: Together with the team of Jan Löwe, @danieltamarit.bsky.social and many others we discovered and characterized several Asgard tubulin genes and propose that microtubule architecture and dynamics evolved in Asgard archaea prior to eukaryogenesis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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! 1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Two more weeks to apply - come join us () in The Netherlands as a postdoctoral researcher on large-scale metagenomic exploration of new lineages!

Thijs J. G. Ettema 🦠🔬🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺@ettema.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I have a postdoc position in metagenomic exploration available in my group. Candidates with documented experience in phylo & metagenomics and preferably with petabase-scale data mining and GLM workflows are encouraged to apply. Come join us! 🧬🦠💻 Please repost Apply here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...

The ISME20 abstract submission deadline has been extended to 22 February. Microbial ecologists worldwide are invited to submit abstracts for oral, short talk, or poster presentations and contribute to the ISME20 programme. isme-microbes.org/isme20-abstr... #ISME20 #MicrobialEcology

Many thanks for the invitation and great hosting @imibirmingham.bsky.social! It was a real pleasure to meet so many interesting scientists and hear about the fascinating research at IMI. Special thanks to @pathogenomenick.bsky.social and @halllab.bsky.social for nominating me!

Institute of Microbiology and Infection @imibirmingham.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Fantastic Harry Smith Memorial Lecture given by Prof Nicole Dubilier @nicoledubilier.bsky.social today 'Eating your Microbiome: Nutritional Symbioses between Chemosynthetic Bacteria and Marine Invertebrates' with thanks to @pathogenomenick.bsky.social for hosting

We’re looking for the discoverers and the ones who inspire a generation of scholars. Nominations are now open for the @psumbiome.bsky.social 2026 Microbiome Medal —the highest honor for extraordinary contributions to the global scientific community. Submit by April 10. www.psu.edu/news/researc...

Nominate the next Microbiome Medal Laureate | Penn State University

The One Health Microbiome Center is seeking nominations for the next Microbiome Medal scholar, an honor established in 2025 to recognize outstanding contributions to scientific discovery and service.

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This is pure, unabashed bigotry. If a politician said this about any other faith, they would rightfully be run out of their party. But this kind of despicable anti-Muslim rhetoric is so normalized that a sitting Senator uses it without consequence. A stain on our Congress.

We mourn the passing of Peer Bork, EMBO Member since 2000: https://www.embl.org/news/embl-announcements/in-remembrance-of-peer-bork/

In remembrance of Peer Bork  | EMBL

EMBL and its community are deeply saddened by the death of Peer Bork, the organisation’s Interim Director General. 

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Toby Kiers is the Jane Goodall of underground fungi (paraphrasing @rosemarcario.bsky.social)

Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement@tylerprize.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement names Toby Kiers as the 2026 Laureate. Her research reveals how underground fungal networks support life on Earth. Explore the hidden world beneath our feet: tylerprize.org/laureates/toby-kiers spun.earth/underground-atlas @spun.earth

Now published in Nature Biotechnology: go.nature.com/44P7nSm If you missed it, the TL;DR is in my April thread below

Troubleshooting common errors in assemblies of long-read metagenomes - Nature Biotechnology

Long-read sequence assemblies from metagenomes contain frequent errors.

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Florian Trigodet@floriantrigodet.bsky.social · last yr.

I am very happy (and anxious) to share with you our most recent work in which we evaluated four of the most popular long-read assemblers, www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... and tell you just a little bit about it in the following 🧵

in 2013, Elio was so fascinated by the 'heterologous multicellularity' of 𝘊𝘩𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘢𝘨𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘮 that he chose a cross-section to celebrate STC's 10th anniversary 🙂 👉 smallthingsconsidered.blog/schaechter/2... #MicroSky

STCmicrobeblog@stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social · 8mo ago

have you ever heard of "bacterial heterologous multicellularity" ? meet 𝘊𝘩𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘢𝘨𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘮, once thought to be one species, but it's actually two... #MicroSky #SymbioSky (from the STC archive)

all fans of 𝘛𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘹 take note 👇(including @nikobiota.bsky.social, @nicoledubilier.bsky.social, @grubervodicka.bsky.social et al.) super cute video by charlotte brannon and great 🧵from manu prakash's lab #MicroSky

Tri­choplax & Com­pany I.

by Christoph — Take a few thousand small eukaryotic cells, allow for a few different cell types, and season the cells generously with endosymbionts (no, not mitochondria, they already have these!)…

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Prakash Lab at Stanford@prakashlab.bsky.social · 8mo ago

(1/n) What if you never had to make your bed? What if your laundry could fold itself? Folding is everywhere around us - but did you know that folding flat sheets are at the ❤️ of diversity of shapes in the animal world - since 500 million years ago. Our latest work: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nudC...

When I’m on here yap yap yapping about merch I’m selling or needing monthly donors or whatever, it’s so I can run events like this for projects like the native plant project, which will distribute 10,000 packets of native plant seeds across the city this winter/spring. The system is working 😎

Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.@sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 8mo ago

45 people out to the native plant prep party tonight and packaged a collective 3400 packets of native seeds and folded 200 zines. Absolutely killer work by this crew.

🎉 The #SeqCode has reached a significant milestone: with the validation of the genus Skiveiella, a total of 1,000 #names have now been validly published under the SeqCode. This achievement marks a major step forward in the adoption and impact of the SeqCode within the scientific community.

Our recent collaborative paper is now published in the latest issue of Cell Reports @cp-cellreports.bsky.social accompanied by a cover image highlighting how Bacillus gathers iron in the biofilm for promoting plant growth www.cell.com/issue/S2211-...

"...and a new member, 𝘌𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘻𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘴" according to nicole @nicoledubilier.bsky.social , 𝘌𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘻𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘴 is the "𝙀. 𝙘𝙤𝙡𝙞 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗮𝗻" (no rumor, she confirmed it) #MicroSky

Marta Lidia Sudo@martasu.bsky.social · 8mo ago

It’s exciting to see converging evidence across systems! 😀 Alongside the new work on gutless worms, our study shows that organosulfur cycling is also essential in lucinid holobionts. Lucinid host provides DMSP to its symbionts, sulphur-oxidising Thiodiazotropha and, a new member, Endozoicomonas.