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Archaea Biology Vienna @archaea-vienna.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Our paper on the dynamics of Asgard archaea (Promethearchaeota) is now out in Nature! Huge thanks to the reviewers for helping make the manuscript stronger. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Two “Lokis” stained for Lokiactin (FastAct, magenta), reaching toward each other to celebrate 🎉 #archaea

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Nicole Coots @nicolecoots.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Really happy to be here at Bigelow Labs with John Burns and a bunch of my other favorite scientists 😊😊😊 we're hunting for John's pet radiolarian, called Plagiacantha 💕 @burnsajohn.bsky.social @bigelowlab.bsky.social #protistsonsky

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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New paper out with @kaylastoy.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...

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Holly Moeller @mixotrophe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🚨We're hiring!🚨 Join us as a laboratory technician to work on acquired metabolism, from tree-fungal mutualisms to the evolution of protistan photosynthesis. Apply by Oct. 7 at careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucsb/EMP...

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Lawrence Rudy Cadena @rudycadenabioevo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Our paper on the subcellular proteome of Paulinella is finally out! A possible oxygen-scavenging mechanism to enhance RuBisCO carboxylation highlights how protists can reveal unexpected solutions to challenges in photosynthesis. Big kudos to everyone involved! @evanowack.bsky.social

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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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Julia Van Etten @couchmicroscopy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Our paper describing two new photosynthetic Paulinella species is out today in JPhycol! This is the kind of work I love to do and even it though took many years to finish, we had a lot of fun stomping around together in the marsh! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #protistsonsky

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Nessa O'Connor @nessocon.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

We are recruiting 4 Postdoctoral Fellows! 🌊🌊🌊 Applications are open now! Deadline is 10th October 2026. More details and updates here: climate-hub.ie/msdm/ #postdoc #marine #MarieSkłodowska-Curie #MarineLife!

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Marine Species Distribution Modelling – AIB Trinity Climate Hub

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ISEP @isepprotists.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

New #ISEPpapers! An endogenous energy-metabolizing organelle www.cell.com/current-biol... #Protists #Microbes #Organelles #Evolution

a schematic picture summarizing an evolutionary scenario about the origin of the organelles discussed in the paper

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Anonymous Potato @anonymouspotato.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

EcoEvoJobs 2026-27 just opened for business and we've already got 79 faculty / permanent jobs listed. Please repost! ecoevojobs.net

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ecoevojobs.net 2026-27

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Nicole Coots @nicolecoots.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

It's Bring Your Dog to Work Day for me and me alone 🐶

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Holly Moeller @mixotrophe.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Freaking finally! A massive compilation of data that sat on various desks for almost a decade is finally out. On the positive side, gave me time to learn expansion microscopy and make Fig 1 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Emergent metabolic parasitism driven by organelle sequestration

Chloroplast-stealing ciliates evolve, increasing reliance on their prey for all aspects of metabolism, including photosynthesis.

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Alex de Mendoza @alexdemendoza.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Sailing in @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social ready for summer, our study on the iconic Portuguese man o' war 🪼 is out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6.... We use (epi)genomics to understand a critter that fascinates me since childhood. Massive team effort with @obog.bsky.social, Cummins and Neely groups. 🧵

the indo-pacific bluebottle (Physalia utriculus)

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Nicole Coots @nicolecoots.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Dives in Bermuda a couple times ---> changes research focus so that I ✨️have✨️ to dive for sample collection, and literally no other reason 🤩😍🤩😍

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Nicole Coots @nicolecoots.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Every time I'm here it feels more and more like my home away from home 😊

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James Barrett @james-r-barrett.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Check it out! Deeper insights into the pyrenoid of Chlorella. More evidence Rubisco has convergently evolved as an organising hub, cool membrane architectures and evidence that most of the rest of the CCM is conserved with other green pyrenoids! 💚 Preprint here 🔗: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🔗

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 20/07/2024

People say scientists are serious but marine biologists will spend hours quietly sitting around tables drawing on styrofoam cups and then tying said cups to deep sea submarines Because ocean pressure will squeeze the air from the cups And we are but human & we want tiny cup

A hand holding four shrunken styrofoam cups the size of shot glasses. Two with jellyfish colored on them and two with black and white lines

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Miguel Méndez Sandín @sandinmm.eurosky.social · 17/07/2026

Apparently the "boring billion" was actually exciting! We provide molecular evidence of complex Mesoproterozoic eukaryotic communities. So happy to see this out 🥳 Thanks to @phoebefossil.bsky.social , Hélène Morlon & @fburki.bsky.social for a lovely collab! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

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Nicole Coots @nicolecoots.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Back in Bermuda @biosstation.bsky.social again for fieldwork!!! I am here alone, despite my prolific attempts to convince people to join me on this trip 😜

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Mark Phillips @maphillips.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Oregon State University's Department of Integrative Biology is currently hiring up to three tenure-track faculty members, with an emphasis on organismal biology. Note: Previous links are no longer active due to a change in our hiring system. oregonstate.wd501.myworkdayjobs.com/OSU_Careers_...

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Assistant Professor

Department: Special Instructions to Applicants: To ensure full consideration, applications must be received by 10/1/26. Applications will continue to be accepted after the full consideration date, unt...

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Holly Bik @hollybik.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It’s #WormWednesday and we’re busy processing buckets of sand we just brought back from the Florida Keys! We’re picking out Stilbonematid nematode worms to study their bacterial symbionts. We call this one “Chewbacca” because…well, it looks like a Wookie’e leg (the “hairs” are Thiosymbion bacteria)

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John Burns @burnsajohn.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I recently did this interview with NEB covering a lot of the work I've been involved with lately (e.g. @dudinlab.bsky.social) Hopefully there's something interesting in there and nothing too egregious! Some of the work fits #protistsonsky. Enjoy? www.neb.com/en-us/podcas...

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Interview with John Burns: Unravelling Marine Mysteries

John Burns of Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences shares how he thinks about the information that drives biology.

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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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Liz Cooney @protistwtmostest.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Meet Holdonia, a new member of the chrompodellid clade. Found clinging to a polychaete, this little guy reveals that similar patterns in plastid reduction have occurred independently across chrompodellid and related lineages. @rhizalyssa.bsky.social @pjkeelinglab.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2t25xb6z

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The evolutionary transition from alga to parasite in the sister lineage of apicomplexans

The chrompodellids are a collection of photosynthetic “chromerids” and heterotrophic “colpodellids,” which are together the sister lineage to the apic…

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Geoff McFadden @fad1.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Today marks 30 years since we identified the apicoplast, a relict plastid in human and animal parasites (PMID 8632819). Apicoplasts are the target of the widely used antimalarial prophylactic doxycycline, which has saved many thousands of malaria infections.

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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

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Nicole Coots @nicolecoots.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

it has been a real pleasure to co-run the Life of Retaria with such a lovely group of organizers 💕Happy two years of the Life of Retaria Seminar Series!!!! 🎉 it feels right that our paper should come out around the anniversary!

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Fabien Burki @fburki.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

If you want to read a cool story today, look no further: A billion-year-old bacterial machinery replicates plastid DNA and supports kleptoplastidy #protistsonsky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Nicole Coots @nicolecoots.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

((reposting partially because those are two REALLY cool speakers, so that'll be totally awesome 🤯 but also partially sharing because that dino video is stunning!!!!!! 💕))

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Gautam Dey @gautamdey.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Multinucleate cells challenge deeply-held assumptions about complexity, ecological success and evolution. Postdoc extraordinaire and gifted writer @mrosjac.bsky.social tackles this subject with aplomb - tell us what you think! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @currentbiology.bsky.social

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Multinucleation as a recurring evolutionary strategy for scaling and plasticity

Multinucleate cells — single cells containing multiple nuclei in a shared cytoplasm — are found across the eukaryotic tree of life. Having evolved ind…

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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

In fisheries models, natural mortality (M) is often set to 0.2 per year. A detailed derivation of this result was provided by John Pope in 1975, see below:

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Nicole Coots @nicolecoots.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

@ambonacolta.bsky.social and I co-hosted (and gave talks in) a special symposium for @protistologyopen.bsky.social today. It was super fun to put this together, & glad all of these amazing scientists were able to join us!! @mixotrophe.bsky.social

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Nicole Coots @nicolecoots.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

just a lil cytoplasmic streaming for your Monday 😌 #protistsonsky

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Anthony M. Bonacolta @ambonacolta.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Attending Protistology Open? Check out @nicolecoots.bsky.social & I's ISOP-sponsored symposium "The Symbiotic Continuum across the Tree of Life" (April 20th @ 11 AM)! We have an amazing lineup of speakers including Ondřej Pomahač, @mixotrophe.bsky.social, & Gillian Gile #ProtistsOnSky #Symbiosis

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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

🌊 BIOS is hiring a post doc! The Maas lab invites applications for a Postdoctoral Scientist to participate in the BIOS-SCOPE project to explore the role of zooplankton and mesopelagic fish in the biological pump and microbial food webs in the Sargasso Sea. More info below! bios.asu.edu/careers

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Careers

Current career opportunities at ASU BIOS. This page is updated regularly; please bookmark or check back often for new openings

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Liz Cooney @protistwtmostest.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

If you are protist enthusiast early in your career and you want hands-on training in collecting and handling protists for all your research goals, please apply to join us in Roscoff for a week-long course this summer! opbc.sciencesconf.org

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MicroSEA: Microbial Sea Eukaryotes - Summer course 2026 - Sciencesconf.org

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Julia Van Etten @couchmicroscopy.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I have a new review out in TiG titled, “The ecology of horizontal gene transfer”! I’ve been thinking about these ideas for years and this field is growing so fast it’s becoming impossible to review it. I hope this paper sparks discussion on different ways we can look at DNA transfer!

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The ecology of horizontal gene transfer

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) generates genetic variation in populations across all domains of life; however, most studies focus on individual transf…

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Vasily Zlatogursky @zlatogursky.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I don't know, but very curious what his might be. The pseudopodia on one end only, suggest some shell, probably organic and poorly visible...

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