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Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo @multicellgenome.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We have a new branch in the family tree of animals: Atreyea- a previously unrecognized lineage among the closest unicell relatives of animals. Led by @konsmitsi.bsky.social & @freejakoba.bsky.social together with a fantastic team of collaborators. 🔗 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #protistsOnSky

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Anna Schrecengost @annaschreck.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Check out eukCHARMer, the new tool coming out of the Beinart Lab @symbiosisrox.bsky.social @urigso.bsky.social !! github.com/aschrecengos... (1/5)

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Johana Rotterova @micrott.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Last day to submit abstract to #ASLO2027! Check our session on Aquatic Deoxygenation and Microbes Across Domains of Life. 📅 Deadline: Sept. 21 🔗 aslo.org/san-juan-2027/ #ProtistsOnSky #SymbiosisSky #MicroSky #deoxygenation #bacteria #archaea

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Nicole Coots @nicolecoots.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The International Society of Protistology is funding community initiatives like workshops and symposia! The deadline is soon (09/30) but the funding will also be available next year :-) Send to anyone that might benefit from this/plz retweet! #ProtistsonSky protistologists.org/call-for-app...

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Call for Applications: Community Initiative Support Fund - International Society of Protistologists

The International Society of Protistologists is an association of scientists devoted to research on single-celled eukaryotes, or protists. The ISOP promotes the presentation and discussion of new or i...

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Dmitri Petrov @petrovadmitri.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We are searching for an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology! Looking for colleagues asking fundamental questions relating to evolutionary processes and drivers of evolutionary patterns. If you think it is you, please do apply! And please repost. facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...

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Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology - Stanford University, California, United States

The Department of Biology at Stanford University seeks applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology. A successful candidate will conduct research that asks fundamental que...

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beckybart.bsky.social @beckybart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at UC Berkeley currently has two open Assistant Professor positions (aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05382 & aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05522). Interested individuals are welcome to apply to one or both searches.

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Assistant Professor - Plant Responses to Environmental Changes - Department of Plant and Microbial Biology

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Johana Rotterova @micrott.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Getting the marine hypoxia abstract ready for #ASLO2027? There are 5 more days to submit to Session SS42 on Aquatic Deoxygenation and Microbes Across Domains of Life! #MicroSky #ProtistsOnSky #SymbioSky #microbes #aslo #hypoxia #anoxia #anaerobes #symbiosis

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Luciana Santoferrara @lusantof.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Only 5 more days to submit abstracts! #ASLO2027 #deoxygenation and its links to #bacteria, #archaea & #protists

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Dewi Langlet @dewilanglet.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I'm happy to share two new #symbiosis papers freshly out of the press: - Symbiont shuffling in foraminiferal holobiont doi.org/10.1093/isme... #foramfriday - Ciliates symbionts in #deepsea shrimps doi.org/10.1111/jeu....

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Thermal responses and Symbiodiniaceae shuffling in a Red Sea foraminifer holobiont

Abstract. Symbiont-bearing benthic foraminifera, like corals, rely on endosymbionts for growth and nutrition and experience bleaching under heat stress. So

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Michael Henson, Ph.D. @aquaticmicrolab.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Marine disease is more than a host–pathogen story, it can reshape host populations, food webs, nutrient cycling, and ecosystem resilience. 🦠🧬🔬🌊🪸🐟 Join us for SS12: Microbial Dimensions of Marine Disease in Waterscapes Under Pressure at @aslo.org in San Juan, Puerto Rico! #ASLO27 #microsky #ecosky

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Do you work in bioluminescent bays in the Caribbean? Do you love bioluminescent dinoflagellates? Especially Pyrodinium bahamense? Submit abstracts to our session on all things BioBay! Also, this is your reminder to book your biobay tours for after the conference :) 🌊🦠🧪 #oceanography

SS41 Bioluminescent Wonders: Integrating Research and Management to Better Understand and Protect Bioluminescent Bays

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Holly Bik @hollybik.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

My lab is HIRING - we have an opening for a #postdoc focused on marine invertebrate symbioses & evolution (heavy focus on microbial -Omics and bioinformatics, but lots of fun fieldwork opportunities too!) Full position info here: www.biklab.org/join-the-lab Please help spread the word! #SymbioSky

Neon flyer advertising a postdoc job at UGA

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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

What can the color of plankton tell us? At #ASLO2027 in San Juan, we’re convening SS10: The Color of Plankton 🌊 We welcome studies on color, transparency, fluorescence, & other optical traits, from ecology and evolution to biogeochemistry, imaging and remote sensing. www.aslo.org/san-juan-2027/

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Johana Rotterova @micrott.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Working with anaerobes, ocean deoxygenatation and going to #ASLO2027? Join our session SS42! #MicroSky #ProtistsOnSky #SymbiosisSky

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Luciana Santoferrara @lusantof.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

@micrott.bsky.social and I are co-chairing SS42 — Aquatic Deoxygenation and Microbes Across Domains of Life at #ASLO2027! 🌊🔬Abstract submissions are open. We welcome work on aquatic #deoxygenation and its links to #bacteria, #archaea & #protists. 📅 Deadline: Sept. 15 🔗 aslo.org/san-juan-2027/

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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Varsha Mathur @varshamathur.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

So happy to share our new paper out now in @natmicrobiol.nature.com! We establish Pirsonia-Coscinodiscus as a model pathosystem and uncover how this tiny parasite infects and kills bloom-forming marine diatoms 🌊🦠 rdcu.be/fuQyF

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Johana Rotterova @micrott.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The beautiful Odontostomatea are finally neglected no more! Check out new paper by Daniel Mendez-Sanchez!

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Johana Rotterova @micrott.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Thank you, lab, for another beautiful semester with you and all your protists, symbionts, urchins, manatees, oysters, sargassum, and corals. ❤️✨🦠🧫🦔🐘🦪🌿🪸 💚

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ISEP @isepprotists.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

New #ISEPpapers! Evolutionary assembly of a unique purple-green photosymbiosis revealed by expanded ciliate diversity academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... #Protists #Bacteria #Ciliates #Symbiosis #Evolution #Microbes

photos of microbial cells and their freshwater pond environment

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ISEP @isepprotists.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

#ISEPpapers 28: January to June 2026 www.isep-protists.com/post/iseppap... Your twenty-eighth digest of papers and preprints published by members of the International Society for Evolutionary Protistology is here! #Protists #Algae #Microbes #Evolution

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#ISEPpapers 28: January to June 2026

Your twenty-eighth digest of papers and preprints published by members of the International Society for Evolutionary Protistology is here!

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Brad Weiler @bradweilerdives.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Amazing opportunity to work with incredible scientists🧑‍🔬. Please share widely!! #ProtistsOnSky #coralreefs

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Johana Rotterova @micrott.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Grad students in Brazil - check this out!

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Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

#Ciliates are overlooked contributors to #nitrogen cycling, their niche is shaped by #symbiosis 🦠🔬🌎💧 mpi-bremen.de/en/Page6704.... academic.oup.com/ismej/articl... @isme-microbes.bsky.social @einzeller.bsky.social @sinaschorn.bsky.social @soerenahmerkamp.bsky.social @louison-nicolas.bsky.social

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Toni Gabaldón @tonigabaldon.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Our paper "Gene ancestries reveal diverse microbial associations during eukaryogenesis.” is finally out in Nature. Eukaryogenesis was likely a gradual process shaped by multiple microbial partners and virus-mediated gene transfer, rather than a single binary symbiosis. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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ISEP @isepprotists.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

New #ISEPpapers by @deemteam.bsky.social! Reversal to osmotrophy in eukaryotes www.nature.com/articles/s41... "Distant eukaryotic lineages convergently reverted from predation to osmotrophy through co-option of bacterial genes and their mobilization via eukaryote-to-eukaryote HGT" #Protists

a simplified evolutionary tree of eukaryotes

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Dr. Carly Kenkel @drcarl.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2027 is live! PIs enter your position info here: forms.gle/MAGd4ohyPeoY... students (and PIs not recruiting) share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely! 🧪

forms.gle

Ecology/Evolution/Marine Biology labs recruiting for Fall 2027

Please complete this form if you are a PI recruiting graduate students for a Fall 2027 start. If you are NOT recruiting, feel free to share the response sheet with prospective students looking for lab...

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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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Anna Schrecengost @annaschreck.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

New preprint about closely-related #methanogens living inside ciliates and animal guts!! We found that ciliate symbionts are functionally indistinct from free-living spp, while gut symbionts have streamlined genomes encoded for scavenging. read on if you're curious why 🤔 #ProtistsOnSky #SymbioSky

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ISEP @isepprotists.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

New #ISEPpapers! CSI-SSU: phylogenetic contamination screening of genomic datasets, demonstrated on The #Protist 10,000 #Genomes (P10K) Project link.springer.com/article/10.1... #Protists #Genomics #Evolution #Microbes

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Corey Holt @coreyholt.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The deadline for this project has been extended to June 9th as overseas applicants are now eligible! Looking for a fully funded studentship and a healthy mix of bioinformatics, imaging, and fieldwork? Get in touch!

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Dr. Roxanne Beinart @symbiosisrox.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Happy to share our new preprint led by @annaschreck.bsky.social with @micrott.bsky.social and Ivan Cepicka which capitalized on the rare opportunity to compare the genomes of closely related symbionts associated with animals vs. protists. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

If you feel sluggish and unproductive, just remember that hot spring archaea need decades to make a single copy of themselves. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Screenshot of a preprint on bioarxiv: Lipid Hydrogen Stable Isotope Probing Reveals Decadal-Scale Generation Times for Archaea in Hot Spring Sediments.

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Ulisse Cardini @symbiostoic.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

🪸 We're hiring a PhD student in microbial ecology of crustose coralline algae! Fully funded 3-year position jointly hosted at SZN Genova & MPI-MM Bremen, with fieldwork in Belize, Seychelles & Fiji. ⏰ Deadline: May 21, 2026 #PhD #MarineScience #Microbiology #OpenPosition

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Open position: PhD scholarship in microbial ecology of coralline algae - Marine Symbiomes Research Group

We invite applications for a PhD student to work on the microbiomes of crustose coralline algae (CCA) across tropical mangrove–seagrass–reef corridors.

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ISEP @isepprotists.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

New #ISEPpapers by Kateřina Koštířová et al.! Capturing the extensive diversity of marine anaerobic scuticociliates (Oligohymenophorea, #Ciliophora) through cultivation link.springer.com/article/10.1... #Protists #Ciliates #Microbes #Anaerobes

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 28/04/2026

More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.

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Board Ouster Raises Further Concerns About NSF’s Future

The White House axed all members of the board overseeing the National Science Foundation Friday, leaving the agency with no board, director or deputy director. It finally provided a reason Monday afte...

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Nature @nature.com · 26/04/2026

All 22 members of the board that advises and oversees the US National Science Foundation (NSF), a leading funder of basic science, were fired on 24 April without explanation. go.nature.com/42tkCGv

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Entire NSF science advisory board fired by Trump administration

Members of the National Science Board, which the US Congress founded in 1950, were given no explanation for their termination.

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty. "People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.” futurism.com/artificial-i...

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AI Use Appears to Have a "Boiling Frog" Effect on Human Cognition, New Study Warns

A new study claims to offer the first causal link between AI dependency and cognitive erosion. Researchers warn of long-term implications.

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Johana Rotterova @micrott.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

This whole post by @couchmicroscopy.bsky.social💯!!! When I found out she used to come to the island i work at, i wondered why (affected by others, assumed she joined her husband working in Arecibo, but no, she kept coming long after he was not), but then again, i am here, too, in a symbiosis oasis.

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John Burns @burnsajohn.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

To my #protistsonsky and 🦑friends, I am co-organizing this meeting: "Midwater Science and Engineering Community" (MidSEC) Conference. If you work with or are interested in midwater protists (radiolaria, foram, deep water coccolithophores, etc) (or animals) it may be of interest to you! midsec.info

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MidSEC 2026

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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

The Brown Lab at Mississippi State University seeks a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Phylogenomics. Applicants should have sequencing data analysis experience, preferably in Python/R. Details at: explore.msujobs.msstate.edu/cw/en-u… #postdoc

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Careers | MSU Jobs

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Javier del Campo @fonamental.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Environmental regulation of ciliates in corals: A secondary pathogen in coral disease www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #corals #protists #symbionts #holobiont #microbiome

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