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Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Move over C. elegans... single celled protist wriggles forwards and backwards! Check out the beautiful ciliary metachronal waves #didinium #protistsonsky

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Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

ooh Bluesky can do videos now... here's an emergency #cilia movie

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Cells & Development @cellsdev.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We heard through the vines that #cilia are hot (or not?) right now so here is a cool article by the Saxena lab about how Notch signalling inhibit zebrafish olfactory multiciliated cells differentiation 🐟 AND we got a cool movie with it too! #FluorescenceFriday www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Anh Hoang Le, PhD 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇻🇳 @anhhle2702.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy #FluorescenceFriday. The first time I imaged a 🐸 embryo, I didn't realise they had these ciliated cells on the outer surface. So you can imagine how surprised and curious I was! These cilia are similar to those found in the human airway. And yes, this is just a good old confocal + 🔥LUT!

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Valentin Dunsing-Eichenauer @dunsingvalentin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#FluorescenceFriday: Given the recently grown interest in ciliary beating, here is a movie of beating cilia in a human airway model that I captured last week with lattice light-sheet microscopy. No AI „processing“, this is the raw data! Frame rate is ca. 170fps, displayed here at 25fps.

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Mia Konjikusic, PhD @konjikusicmia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

To add to all the lovely videos of non-AI processes multicilia beating: ctenophore multiciliated cells! They can reach up to 1mm long, causing a rainbow light refraction effect with the correct light positioning! Taken by myself at MBL in 2019 embryology. Realtime frame-rate!

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Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The (another) weird thing about this is where the 'flow' comes from, they are beating quite randomly to start off with but then suddenly all bend to one side when the 'camera' sweeps across the field of view

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Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The link states that the cilia were imaged with "diffractive super resolution microscopy" which is not a technique I have ever heard of... anyone?? Apparently based on this paper? (which at first glance does not seem as outrageous as the Nikon video) arxiv.org/abs/2512.13432

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Spatiotemporally decoupled super-oscillatory microscopy enables label-free reconstruction of human ciliary waveforms

Imaging native motile cilia requires label-free contrast, sub-diffraction spatial discrimination, and millisecond temporal sampling. We introduce Super-Oscillatory Label-free Inertia-free Scanning (SO...

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Caitie McCafferty @computingcaitie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I am looking for a lab manager for my group that I will be starting at the @fmiscience.bsky.social in February! We will use in situ structural biology to investigate dynamic ciliary processes. More info here —> bsky.app/profile/comp... #cilia #teamtomo #proteomics #protistsky

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Matthew Sparkes @sparkes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Terence Tao says AI companies are harming mathematics by dropping new results without engaging with academia. “These companies are dumping carcasses of raw meat onto our table and saying ‘here you go, I solved your food problem’ and then they just leave." www.newscientist.com/article/2588...

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Terence Tao: AI companies are harming mathematics | New Scientist

AI companies are making new mathematical discoveries at a rapid pace but not sticking around to help unpick the new proofs. That is not the way to advance our understanding, says mathematician Terence...

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Eugene Katrukha 🇺🇦 @ekatrukha.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A very persistent, tireless cowboy! Very pretty choanoflagellates, imaged today on LLS together with Babette van Amen from @agathechaigne.bsky.social lab.

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Luis Alberto Bezares Calderón @lbezarescalderon.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Our team is recruiting a PhD student to investigate the evolution of pressure sensation in Zooplankton! The project will use marine invertebrate larvae to explore the molecular, cellular, and neuronal mechanisms behind this fascinating sensory system. More details here: bit.ly/3TTeF4Q

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Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Wow someone really made our Pterosperma flagellate into a QWOP game... one key per cilium. check it out! surprisingly difficult not to be eaten by copepods... poke.mino.mobi/qwop (presumably, that's why the real cell has a super fast 'reorientation' mode)

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QWOP — four cilia, four keys, one ocean

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Eugene Katrukha 🇺🇦 @ekatrukha.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I really like this work, from imaging to analysis. Here is my 5 cents on why it is cool. In short, to acquire a shape of a beating cilium without a smear, you need to record at ~1000 fps, i.e. have time resolution of ~ 1 ms. This is a current limit of modern "high-end" scientific cameras. (1/N)

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Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

What does a single-celled organism tell us about the origins of complex behaviour? Delighted to see the final version of our paper: Embodied behavioural complexity in a ciliated microorganism out in@natcomms.nature.com (Funded by @erc.europa.eu ERC) doi.org/10.1038/s414... #cilia #protistsonsky

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Tristan @tristamoeba.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Checkout 𝘚𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘢 𝘭𝘶𝘬𝘰𝘭𝘪, a new species of amoeba isolated from cow poop that aggregates on the tips of dung fibers doi.org/10.64898/202... #ProtistsOnSky

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Cahir O'Kane @cahirokane.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Laser scan versus spinning disc

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Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

A primary cilium & all the centriolar satellites? 🤔 Had a great time at @faseborg.bsky.social #cilia meeting learning that as we have always suspected, cilia are always at the centre (and indeed at the periphery) of everything!

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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Cilia alert! Last year Juyeon Hong described a new domain in 9+2 cilia called the EDT, the extreme distal tip. Now, she's found a new protein required for its assembly, but only in non-mammalian vertebrates. A cool evo-cell / protein evolution story in @cellreports.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2xvdskx6

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Here are some nice mushrooms

A tuft of crown-tipped coral mushrooms grow from a crevice on a decayed log in a forest bathed in late summer sunshine. All photos by me

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koseskalab.bsky.social @koseskalab.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Thrilled to announce that together with Klaus Lehnertz and Timo Bröhl, Universitätsklinikum Bonn , Wolfram Barfuss, The University of Bonn and Mehrnaz Anvari, Fraunhofer SCAI we are organizing the XLVII Dynamic Days Europe 2027 in Bonn! #DynamicDaysEurope @mpinb.mpg.de

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Chris Gug @gugunderwater.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Cool new behavior caught on video! This is a special type of octopus known as a #papernautilus (aka #argonaut) and her shell is a little less than 5cm. Watch as she extends and retracts her fleshy mantle - at the end, she rapidly retracts it all! #blackwater #blackwaterdiving

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Greg Egan @gregegansf.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

While the Fields Medal celebrates the under-40s, the mathematician Joan Birman has, at the age of 99, solved a major open problem in representations of the Braid groups, a topic she has worked on for more than 60 years.

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Kei Jokura @kei-jokura.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Our review paper on nerve nets has just been published!! @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy

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EuroCilia2027 @eurocilia.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

📣 Abstract submission and early registration are now OPEN for the 7th European Cilia Conference—an official EMBO workshop! 📅 8–12 March 2027 📍 Stresa, Italy Submit and register: meetings.embo.org/event/27-cilia www.eurocilia.eu #EMBOCilia #Cilia2027

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Scott Coyle @cellraiser.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Had a blast putting this video abstract together with colleagues for @zjmaggiexu.bsky.social story in @currentbiology.bsky.social on how the "vampire cell" P. collini builds the perfect feeding trap 👀. Be sure to check out the full paper: www.cell.com/current-biol... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikzm...

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A cellular vampire builds the perfect feeding trap / Curr. Biol., June 24, 2026 (Vol. 36, Issue 14)

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Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Do #tintinnids dream of electric sheep? 🤯 Here is a single cell capable of building a lorica and living inside it for protection... it also swims, feeds, hunts Can even detect and habituate to mechanical cues! #celllearning #protistsonsky #cilia Read more in our preprint doi.org/10.64898/202...

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EMBL Events @events.embl.org · 15/06/2026

Last Friday, we wrapped up #EESMechanobiology 🧪 Thank you to our participants, speakers, and organisers for making this symposium a success. Together, we explored how new technologies and approaches are advancing mechanobiology across biological systems. We're looking forward to the next edition!

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Mu He @mh-lab.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Thanks @jcellsci.bsky.social and @katiepickup.bsky.social for the opportunity! It was fun to reflect on the years I spent in different labs and institutes.

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Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Large-brained vertebrates are overrated

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Thomas Lecuit @thomaslecuit.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Exciting @embo.org Symposium @embl.org Heidelberg. Congrats to organizers. 🙏🏼 for the invitation! Inspiring to hear from so many systems bacteria, fungi, plants, ciliates, choanos, hydra, nematodes, insects, vertebrates to get at Principles. EMBL is a wonderful place, my Alma Mater 🤩 Great mug!

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Sarah Goetz @sarahgoetz.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Cilia and Centrosome 2026 Meeting Update: We have extended the abstract deadline until June 23! Submit yours today to join a fantastic scientific program!

Image of Washington DC advertising the FASEB Cilia and Centrosomes meeting with a list of speakers

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RAPP OptoElectronic @rappopto.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

🔬 The #EMBO | #EMBL Symposium "Mechanobiology across the tree of life" is well underway here in Heidelberg. 💡 Come by our booth to talk about #photomanipulation, laser ablation, #FLUCS, and custom microscopy solutions for #mechanobiology experiments. 👋 See you at the booth! #EESMechanobiology

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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Very excited that #EESMechanobiology is about to start at EMBL Heidelberg. Check out the details on the website: s.embl.org/ees26-06-bl

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Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Made it to Leeds for the annual @ukcilianetwork.bsky.social meeting! Great opening talk by @helenfoster.bsky.social on how ciliary axonemes are assembled!! #cilia

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Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I've been just a wee bit swamped and so haven't managed to bleet/skeet about a few preprints we've posted lately. Will do soon. But in the meantime, please check them out. Lab's been on a tear! #cilia #thermosensory doi.org/10.64898/202... doi.org/10.64898/202... doi.org/10.64898/202...

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kuba sędziński @kuba-sedzinski.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Basal bodies (BBs) are what eventually become motile cilia. So, if they don't get positioned correctly on the apical surface, the whole tissue-level function can go wrong → ciliopathies. We know actin is involved… but how does it actually control this process? 🤔 (3/17)

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Ben Larson @blarson.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

And now it's out! Happy that PNAS selected for the cover this SEM image snapped by @samjlord.bsky.social, one of the most evocative visualizations of Euplotes that I have ever encountered. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Stay tuned for what is shaping up to be some fascinating follow-up in the lab...

Scanning electron microscopy image of the ciliate Euplotes gigatrox on the cover of the journal PNAS. Distinct punk rock vibes

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LSI-Exeter @lsiexeter.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Thank you very much to Prof Joe Howard, Yale University for his fantastic talk at the LSI Distinguished Seminar Series on “How molecular motors drive the motility of cilia and flagella”. @micromotility.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

ECRs - there is one month left to apply for a funded place at our Workshop on Rethinking Cell Differentiation and Development: A Unicellular Perspective, organised by Elena Casacuberta & James Gahan jgahan.bsky.social More at biologists.com/workshops/de... #BiologistsWorkshops Deadline: 12 June

Rethinking Cell Differentiation and Development: A Unicellular Perspective
Organisers: Elena Casacuberta and James Gahan

Date: 6 – 9 December 2026

Venue: Buxted Park, East Sussex, UK

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Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Classical conditioning of a mathmo: *Sees epsilon *Expands for epsilon <<1

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Marine Biological Laboratory @mblscience.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Happy #MicroscopyMonday! Confocal image of a Schistosoma mansoni miracidium larva with alpha-tubulin stained cilia in green and nuclei in magenta. Imaged by Sarah Kerr and Karel Mocaer in the Nikon Imaging Center at Heidelberg University.

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Royal Microscopical Society @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

We are very pleased to announce Prof. Paul Guichard and Dr. Virginie Hamel @centriolelab.bsky.social as joint winners of the RMS Award for Light Microscopy 🔬 👏 🏅 Huge congratulations to both! Read more about Paul and Virginie's achievements: www.rms.org.uk/resource/pro...

Prof. Paul Guichard (left) and Dr. Virginie Hamel both pictured smiling against a plain background. Head and shoulders images.

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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/05/2026

We still have a few places to register for our "Heidelberg Wild Thinking Workshop - The organism, its self and its environment: from philosophy to physics." 19-20 May 2026, Heidelberg www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/wild-t… […] [Original post on biologists.social]

Phyllodesmium and Prionospio | Peter Godfrey-Smith, Jürgen Berger, Gáspár Jékely | CC BY 4.0

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Jeremy Reiter @reitergroup.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Please come join me in Washington, DC August 2-6th for the FASEB SRC on Cilia and Centrosomes meeting! Over 40 talks will be selected from abstracts. We are also excited to launch our first North American Ciliopathy Summit, held at the same venue on August 2. events.faseb.org/event/cilia-...

Flier describing the speakers for the FASEB cilia and centrosome conference.

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Peter Godfrey-Smith @petergs.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Link here to a preprint of my short article about consciousness, "biological naturalism," and electrical brain rhythms published by IAI TV earlier this year. Preprint: petergodfreysmith.com/wp-content/u... Published (no longer open access): iai.tv/articles/stu...

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 03/05/2026

Up close, these tiny organisms in cow stomachs are surprisingly beautiful and evocative. Known as rumen ciliates, these microbes could be playing a more significant role in climate change than previously understood, according to new research. wapo.st/422MqS5

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Megan Sorensen @messorensen.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Interested in working on the evolution of photosynthetic endosymbioses? Come join us! I have 2 open positions in my new group @cemess.bsky.social in Vienna 3yr postdoc info: tinyurl.com/4emkjpn4 4yr PhD info: tinyurl.com/mtxmsjpy Apply by 1st June! Please share/repost #Protists #Symbiosis #PhD

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