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Fabian Wittmers @fabianwittmers.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

If you were wondering how working in Biological Sciences in the US is going...

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Biological Sciences 2/11

A line curve showing number of awards for fiscal year 2026 compared to fiscal years 2021-2025 for the Biological Sciences Directorate. The fiscal year 2026 curve lies well below curves for other fiscal years.

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Fabian Wittmers @fabianwittmers.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Read about the work me and many many others have been doing for the past few years as part of the BIOS-SCOPE project at the Bermuda Atlantic Timeseries Study site! bios.asu.edu/currents/col...

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Collaboration That Catalyzes Discovery: Inside BIOS-SCOPE’s Role in Launching Ocean Science Careers | BIOS

Marine science is expanding as global programs like BIOS-SCOPE reveal the vital roles of ocean microbes.

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Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 08/11/2025

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

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James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers

James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.

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Marilena Heitger @marinelena.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Check out what we were up to during our most recent expedition. Extremely grateful to be part of this adventure 🌊

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Fabian Wittmers @fabianwittmers.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Some interesting work on vitamin B1 production in marine OMZ led by Kristin Bergauer at @geomarkiel.bsky.social just came out! I got to contribute some bioinformatics analysis to round it out. I think the final result is quite an interesting paper: academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

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Dark ocean archaeal and bacterial chemoautotrophs drive vitamin B1 production in oxygen minimum zones

Abstract. Vitamin B1 (thiamine) is essential for all cells, yet many marine microbes cannot synthesize B1 de novo. Dissolved thiamine and its related chemi

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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Eukfinder: a pipeline to retrieve microbial eukaryote genome sequences from metagenomic data journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs

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Andrew Roger @andrewjroger.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I'm pleased to introduce our new paper rooting the eukaryote Tree of Life (eToL) that resulted from a collaboration led by PhD student Kelsey Williamson and a large group of collaborators doi.org/10.1038/s415...htt

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A robustly rooted tree of eukaryotes reveals their excavate ancestry - Nature

The root of the eukaryote Tree of Life is estimated from a new, larger dataset of mitochondrial proteins including all known eukaryotic supergroups, showing it lies between two multi-supergroup assemb...

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Fabian Wittmers @fabianwittmers.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Happy to see a large chunk of my PhD work published today in Cell Host&Microbe: www.cell.com/cell-host-mi... We conducted fluorescence-activated single-cell sorting of active predatory protists in the ocean and recovered symbionts with cool evolutionary positions close to animal pathogens.

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Nicole Coots @nicolecoots.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

the third chapter of my PhD is now published! 🚨 We describe the protist symbiont diversity of the termite species Reticulitermes tibialis. This project was performed in a course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE) which was super fun 😊 #protistsonsky authors.elsevier.com/a/1kaMa56A9x...

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STCmicrobeblog @stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

@stevestuwill.bsky.social you posted on 𝕏 on Dec 5, 2020 this stunning video - why not repeat on 🔵bsky ? (sorry, I did)... "Time-lapse footage of a vampire amoeba: a microscopic organism that feeds on algal cells by breaking through their cell walls and sucking out their insides." #ProtistsOnSky

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Fabien Burki @fburki.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I am looking for an ERC-funded postdoc to work on spatial proteomics of microalgae (red algae and glaucophytes). The ideal candidate will have experience with mass spec and data analysis (R), but above all a keen interest in broad eukaryote evolution and protists #protistsonsky (1/2)

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