Otworzyliśmy nabór w konkursie #Dioscuri 5. Wybitne naukowczynie i naukowcy z całego świata mogą otrzymać w nim finansowanie na stworzenie w Polsce interdyscyplinarnych Centrów Doskonałości Naukowej. Na wnioski czekamy do połowy września. www.ncn.gov.pl/aktualnosci/...

Piąty konkurs Dioscuri otwarty

Otwieramy nabór w konkursie Dioscuri 5. Wybitne naukowczynie i naukowcy z całego świata mogą otrzymać w nim finansowanie na stworzenie w Polsce interdyscyplinarnych Centrów Doskonałości Naukowej. Na w...

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True, it was mega interesting 😊

Anthony M. Bonacolta@ambonacolta.bsky.social · 4mo ago

ISOP-sponsored symposium on protistan symbioses across the Tree of Life went fantastic! Thanks all contributors (Ondrej, Gillian, and @mixotrophe.bsky.social) and the best co-host, @nicolecoots.bsky.social! #ProtistsOnSky @protistologyopen.bsky.social

It's started, finally 🤩

protistologyopen.bsky.social@protistologyopen.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Morning programme for Protistology Open 2026!

Our takeaway: if we want to understand forest soils, we need to look beyond fungi. Metatranscriptomics reveal important players that PCR-based approaches miss. Really happy to share our new article: Protistan Predators Outshine Fungi in Forest Soil Activity. #ProtistsOnSky #MicrobialEcology #Soil

I’ve seen hundreds of these little tubes, empty, but this is the first time I’ve seen one occupied! A little ciliate from the family Tintinnidiidae. #marineplankton 🦑 #protistsonsky

#ProtistsOnSky forams!

Schmidt Ocean Institute@schmidtocean.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Wow. Foraminifera! ROV pilots paused and carefully zoomed in to collect footage of these single-celled microorganisms, or protists, at 843 m during the #OBVI #LivingBioreactors expedition w/ @schmidtsciences.bsky.social offshore of Argentina. Read the full caption: youtube.com/shorts/Yv_ud...

Time lapse of an odd little monster. Presumably some kind of cercozoan from brackish water. #protistsonsky

Here is a myxomycete plasmodium that I isolated off a wet leaf onto the bottom of a vented flask. Realtime phase microscopy. #ProtistsOnSky

#ProtistsOnSky no 'swimming' by 𝘝𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘺𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢, definitively no 'staying still'. just a relaxed walk towards the lunch...

eLife@elife.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Do microbes get more food by swimming or staying still? Turns out both work, and cilia help them pull in nutrients no matter the strategy. buff.ly/vK3GmK5

Water from a vase seen with a pocket microscope #protistsonsky

Be aware of Tyrannomonas regina while having a swim this summer 🦖🦠🙀. Congratulations to @smallthingslab.bsky.social #protistsonsky academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

Cultivation, genomics, and giant viruses of a ubiquitous and heterotrophic freshwater cryptomonad

Abstract. Heterotrophic nanoflagellates are the chief agents of bacterivory in the aquatic microbial loop but remain underrepresented in culture collection

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Excited to be at #SMBE2026 in Copenhagen! Don’t miss Symposium #17: “Unicellular organisms in major evolutionary transitions.” Registration is now open! #protistsonsky

Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution@official-smbe.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Organisers - Victoria Shabardina | @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social - @ankarn.bsky.social | University of Warsaw Invited Speaker - @vikramalva.bsky.social | @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social

I've been gone for awhile because bluesky was (is) banned in Mississippi :) Now that I have a VPN, here is a timelapse of diatoms from @hhmijanelia.bsky.social pond! #protistsonsky #protists

Thanks nature news for featuring our recent preprint on 𝘐𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘦𝘣𝘢 led by @hbrappap.bsky.social (check out preprint here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...) #protistsonsky

Nature@nature.com · 9mo ago

This single-celled amoeba can thrive at temperatures that kill all other known eukaryotic life go.nature.com/4452LXP

Beware, Solarion pops in between cat videos now. #ProtistsOnSky #MicrobeSky

🧪If you are interested in #microbial growth data, you may have have a look at μGrowthDB; an open repository designed to store, visualize, analyze & share quantitative measurements of species abundances and metabolite profiles from monocultures & communities of known composition. #microsky #mevosky

Is it a flagellate? A tiny ball with tentacles? Contamination in my ciliate culture? NEW SUPERGROUP OF EUKARYOTES? Yes to all 4! Meet Solarion - just out in #Nature doi.org/10.1038/s415... Huge congrats to Marek Valt, Cepicka Lab & the star team! Very happy to be part of this project. #ProtistsOnSky

This is a beautiful thread on mechanisms of a property of [some? only giant?] unicellular #protistsonsky that I wouldn't even believe is possible if it wasn't demonstrated so clearly: the ability of a single cell to heal cuts! 🤯🤯🤯

Wallace Marshall@wallaceucsf.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Wound healing is a hallmark feature of all life, including single cells. In a new preprint, Ambika Nadkarni @biochembika.bsky.social investigates a new dimension in cellular wound healing: how cells recover AFTER the wound has been closed www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Typhoon #Fungwong has made landfall in the #Philippines, where more than 900,000 people have been evacuated and two people have died. The #storm was upgraded to a #SuperTyphoon before landfall, with sustained winds of around 185 km/h and gusts of 230km/h share.google/V4CqlwJEpEh6...

Fung-wong: Super typhoon hits Philippines as nearly a million evacuate

Typhoon Fung-wong, with sustained winds of 185 km/h (115mph), made landfall on Sunday evening local time.

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EndolithComparative genomics reveals adaptive traitsin novel Antarctic lithic cyanobacteria link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Comparative genomics reveals adaptive traits in novel Antarctic lithic cyanobacteria - BMC Genomics

Terrestrial polar cyanobacteria persist at the cold limits of life, enduring a suite of extreme stressors including sub-zero temperatures, frequent freeze–thaw cycles, oligotrophic soils, variable lig...

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Our new paper on what heterotrophic nanoflagellates do in nature doi.org/10.1111/1462... or www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/.... Data available at doi.org/10.5281/zeno.... Funded by @ncn.gov.pl #ProtistsOnSky

High‐Temporal Resolution of Microbial Food Web Dynamics and Structure During Phytoplankton Blooms in the Baltic Sea

Heterotrophic nanoflagellates are typically considered to be bacterial grazers, but some are actually omnivores and predators, both eating also other eukaryotes. Thanks to a high-frequency sampling c...

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For decades, Palestinians have resisted occupation, violence, and oppression. Now, those who tried to bring them aid say they faced the same brutality. Members of the Global Sumud Flotilla - activists, journalists and lawyers - report being beaten, humiliated and detained by Israeli forces:

Hello there 🦋 Happy to share our piece "Towards a trait-based framework for protist ecology and evolution" in @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social Let's build a unified trait 📏 database to unlock transformative insights into protist 🔬 ecology 🌍 and evolution ⏳ ▶️ doi.org/10.1016/j.ti... #protistsonsky

Chapter 3 of my thesis is now available as a preprint in @biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social We compared 3+ years of coastal microbial time-series from an equatorial site (EAMO, 6°S) and a temperate site (BBMO, 41°N). Our work reinforces the need for observatories across latitudes to track ocean change.

Ecological processes shaping marine microbial assemblages diverge between equatorial and temperate time-series

Marine microbial communities are structured by a complex interplay of deterministic and stochastic processes, yet how these vary across latitudes remains poorly understood. Most long-term microbial ob...

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It's heartbreaking it's over 😭 We're lucky we have #SAME19 to look forward to ❤️❤️❤️

SAME18-BCN@same18-bcn.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Adeu SAME18, it’s been a tremendous experience. Thank you all for coming to Barcelona, bringing your awesome science to the conference and contributing to maintaining strong the SAME spirit! Looking forward to SAME19 at České Budějovice! 🙌🫶

Group pic SAME18!

@same18-bcn.bsky.social finally has started with a plenary by Stefan Bertilsson #SAME18

SAME18 is taking off!

Some scientific stories, like the one we just heard from @johncork.bsky.social at the #mbkceesme2025 on human harnessed and highly exploited #yeasts, could easily inspire a movie or a TV series!!!

Yes, there’s more to worry about how we do our science with microbes #bioeconomy #nagoya #biodiversity #cbd @unep.org Lene Lange in #mbkceesme2025