iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 03/01/2026

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

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Maximilian Ganser @mhganser.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Finally, we’ve solved a long-standing mystery: what tintinnid shells are actually made of: A new class of biomaterial formed by remarkable structural proteins unique to tintinnids. A major milestone after 3 years of work! Read about it in our preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202... #ProtistsOnSky

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Laura Eme @lauraeme.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Microbial eukaryotes keep challenging assumptions about eukaryotic cell and genome biology. Our upcoming workshop explores the frontier of protist genomics and how it shapes cell biology, ecology and evolution. Please save the date! Talks, posters and ECR events Websites and details coming soon

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SeqCode @seqcode.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

🎉 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.

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Chris Lane @lanelaburi.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

*Listens to white noise playlist while traveling* Spotify: “And here’s a special message from your favorite artist of 2025!”

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a white fan is sitting on a red background .

ALT: a white fan is sitting on a red background .

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Chris Lane @lanelaburi.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Yeah, not much else really moves like that. It’s a skinny one!

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Greta Garchomp 🇵🇭𓄿 @cvlove.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Need to defeat a slime that resists all physical damage but your party is all fighters? Problematic mage gap.

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Chris Lane @lanelaburi.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Love vibrant colors on your walls, but your spouse insists on tan walls? Problematic beige gap.

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Katie Field @katiefield4.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

1. Postdoc in plant-fungal interactions: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research... 2. Postdoc in molecular plant-microbe interactions: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research... 3. Research technician: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Technici... (Pls share!)

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Research Associate: Plant-fungal interactions

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DEEMteam_Orsay @deemteam.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

This paper has been a must! Great collaboration with @mkrupovic.bsky.social and @yifanzhou.bsky.social, a N&V by a legend of halophilic archaea tinyurl.com/yc3dcv72, and one picture of one of our expeditions to Dallol making the cover of the November issue of @natmicrobiol.nature.com rdcu.be/eLtCH

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Omaya Dudin 𓂆 ¦🍉¦🦠¦🔬¦ @dudinlab.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

🚨Our collaboration with @centriolelab.bsky.social & @gautamdey.bsky.social is out today in @cp-cell.bsky.social We show that #Expansion #Microscopy is a broad-spectrum modality for Euks, enabling 3D phenotypic maps rooted to phylogeny. #ProtistsOnSky #SciComm #SciSky www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

32,000 in Providence on a gorgeous day!

Many people massed outside the RI state capitol for the No Kings Protest on Oct. 18 2025

A young woman stands dancing and holding a sign that says “No Kings since 1776. We are not going back.”

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Laura Norton-Cruz, LMSW, CLC @lauritadianita.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

I think we need to keep repeating this point —that decisions by this admin, by the EPA Secretary confirmed by our Senators, by DOGE as Nick Begich III & Dan Sullivan enthusiastically cheered it on —directly impacted Kipnuk’s destruction. Alaskans need to see that politics affect homes, bodies, lives

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Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

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Filip Husnik @filiphusnik.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

OIST is seeking up to four tenure-track or tenured faculty in Ecology, Environmental Science, Earth Science, and Oceanography. Application deadline: Oct 15. Please share. Thx! www.oist.jp/careers/facu...

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

NEW WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened. This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

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The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers

WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

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Chris Lane @lanelaburi.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

We just created a huge number of political prisoners for no reason.

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Chris Lane @lanelaburi.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

In our current environment, when very weird things happen, ask “how will this be weaponized”?

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Mahwash Jamy @mjamy.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Interested in eukaryotic algal evolution, metagenomics, new plastid diversity, and more? Check out my poster (P175) today at #eseb2025 ! #protistsonsky

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Chris Lane @lanelaburi.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

What I see when people post pics of their food in the UK.

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Chris Lane @lanelaburi.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

At no point in this title will you be able to guess the next word.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 27/07/2025

This is the same amount as the entire National Science Foundation's R&D spending for the entire field of *engineering* for the whole country. All of it.

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Chris Lane @lanelaburi.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

In taxonomy, if you speak on an unnamed taxon, a name will appear bsky.app/profile/zlat...

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

This is happening *now* in the 2025 fiscal year. We have no guarantee that if Congress does not pass the severe budget cuts the administration wants that the administration simply won't fund things.

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Chris Lane @lanelaburi.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Saw a good size coyote while walking the dog. It didn’t stick around for a decent pic.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 11/07/2025

DO NOT GIVE UP! Our advocacy is working. A key Senate committee has indicated that it will reject Trump’s proposed cuts to science agencies including NASA and the NSF. Keep speaking up and calling your electeds 🗣️🗣️🗣️

Nature: US senators poised to reject Trump’s proposed massive science cuts

Committee gives first hint that policymakers might preserve, rather than slash, funding for US National Science Foundation and other agencies.

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Chris Lane @lanelaburi.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Whatever you do, don't look up Warnowiaceae dinoflagellates.

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Chris Lane @lanelaburi.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Who among us has not wanted to snack on the discarded houses of Appendicularian tunicates?!?! Let them cast the first stone!

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Chris Lane @lanelaburi.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

But it also meant that every time someone tried to name a combination of lineages he had already done it 7 years ago.

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Chris Lane @lanelaburi.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Yeah, it may turn out that this is stable, but until we have more information it's not really worth adding new names. There was a giant in the field (Tom Cavalier Smith) who named every combination of organisms like three times a year and it introduced a lot of confusion.

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Chris Lane @lanelaburi.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

For that reason, people in the field can be hesitant to name groups that only have a few very long branches, because often finding intermediate taxa break those long branches and the groups behave differently in the tree.

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Chris Lane @lanelaburi.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

There's also a pesky artifact in phylogenomics called "long branch attraction", which we try to account for but it's really hard to deal with when you have individual taxa on these super divergent branches. That artifact can artificially pull long branches together.

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Chris Lane @lanelaburi.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

The other issues is simply that new organisms like this are being described all the time so putting names on "groups" that are only groups because we don't know anything about what's in between, doesn't really help people follow classification. Adds a lot of unnecessary names.

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Chris Lane @lanelaburi.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Put another way, if we think about animals as a "kingdom" and they're about 500 million years old (give or take), the divergence between Meteora and Hemimastigophora is almost certainly more than a billion years ago. So if animals are a kingdom, what do we call a group that is easily twice as old?

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Chris Lane @lanelaburi.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

If you see the length of the lines that unit Hemimastigophora and Meteora, they are very long and join deep in this tree. That means that their common ancestor was a very long time ago. If we roughly compare it to the brown "SAR" group below, you're talking the divergence between kelp and malaria.

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Chris Lane @lanelaburi.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Not a boring question at all. The simple answer is that evolutionary distance isn't just about your closest neighbor. Let's use the figure from the paper describing Meteora. Think of the vertical lines as a rough proxy for time.

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Chris Lane @lanelaburi.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Always the problem! And there really has been some amazing stuff described recently. Always amazing how little we still understand about eukaryotic diversity.

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Chris Lane @lanelaburi.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

In fairness, we don't really use Kingdoms anymore and there's a number of these new deep lineages that have been described in the last 5-10 years. Ancyromonads, Hemimastigophora..... but Meteora does have the funniest movement.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

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Nicholas Fitzkee @fitzkeelab.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

As someone who has greatly benefited from the NSF MRI program, I'm sad to see that the 2025 submission window was canceled. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

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Chris Lane @lanelaburi.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

We're living an unprecedented shift and it's going to cause generational harm to science, trainees and progress.

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Chris Lane @lanelaburi.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Yeah, generally there is more sustained funding with occasional pulses like the "cancer moonshot", etc. But if these cuts are sustained in the US budget, they will be the largest in history.

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Chris Lane @lanelaburi.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

No one has funded science like the US for such a sustained time, which is why taking a wrecking ball to the infrastructure will have global implications.

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Chris Lane @lanelaburi.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

France, in particular, has been short-changing the research community for decades, to the point that these efforts are PR, masking shockingly low salaries and complete lack of administrative support. Additionally, the money being invested is a drop in the bucket and finite.

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