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Awesome new work from @labschneeberger.bsky.social (with a small contribution from the Weigel lab). Experimentally observed mutational patterns in centromeres underpin a model that recapitulates intra-specific centromere divergence! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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A big thanks to the @sfbd.bsky.social , @maitrejl.bsky.social & @embo.org YIP for what has been a very sunny & exciting #DevBio + beautiful hikes around #Cassis. & now everyone in there knows about #Ichthyosporea & #Expansion #Microscopy Which is a big ➕️ #ShapingLife3

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Highlighted paper! Daisuke Yamagishi, et al. open a new front in the drive to understand photosymbiosis in protists. Article➡️ doi.org/10.1111/jeu.... #protistsonsky

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EMBO is delighted to announce that this year the EMBO Gold Medal is awarded to Tanmay Bharat @tbharat-lab.bsky.social ‬ @mrclmb.bsky.social and David Bikard @dbikard.bsky.social @pasteur.fr for their remarkable contributions to the #LifeSciences. www.embo.org/press-releas... #award 🧪

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The failure of the National Academy of Sciences USA to make a clear and unequivocal statement about the disastrous Trump administration science policies — it lets all of us down and dooms them to eventual irrelevance.

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I contributed an essay and some images to the new Living Futures series, an outgrowth of the fantastic Living Histories series organized by Sri Biswas and others. medium.com/@thelhseries... iyerbiswas.com/outreach/liv... 1/3

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An amoeba movie I made: "hungry" #protistsonsky #amoeba

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Share with your network, group members, colleagues & friends. We are extending the deadline till the 10th of June. This is your last chance of joining us this summer. #Science #ProtistsOnSky #Cell #Biology #Microscopy

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We’re kicking off the DinoSphere Online Seminar Series! Join us for our first session with Karel Mockaer (Heidelberg) & Yong Heng Phua (OIST) 📅 1 July 9AM CEST 🔗 tinyurl.com/4mjaverj Spread the word! @protistwtmostest.bsky.social @ehehenberger.bsky.social @chandnibhickta.bsky.social&Norico Yamada

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How many paths lead to evolutionary innovation? How versatile are genomic toolkits? Excited to announce my new @pnas.org paper addressing these questions in collaboration with @rokaslab.bsky.social, @hittingerlab.bsky.social, and the Pennell lab! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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This is truly BRILLIANT science communication—clear, compelling, & convincing while also fast, funny, & entertaining Like most of those working in science & public health, based on the best available evidence I believe Covid was zoonotic in origin—& this superb episode makes me even more convinced

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We are highlighting Pleasantine Mill, 2025 @bsdb.bsky.social Wolpert Medal winner, as an extraordinary biologist this week. Pleasantine is also coordinating a @jcellsci.bsky.social Special Issue and co-organised the 2024 @dmmjournal.bsky.social‬ Journal Meeting. #100biologists @cilialab.bsky.social

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Are you a scientist with an interest in photography? We're delighted to announce that the Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition is now open for entries until 15 August 2025! 🎉 Find out more: royalsociety.org/journals/pub... #RSPphotocomp

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👋 Are you looking for a postdoc position? Do you think microtubules are fascinating? Then we might have the job for you! 2-year funded postdoc to join our lab! 👉 deadline 20/06 👇 check it out www.godinholab.com

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Unicore is now published on GBE 🚀 Unicore rapidly identifies structural single-copy core genes from input species proteomes for phylogenetic analysis. Powered by Foldseek and ProstT5, Unicore enables linear-scale structure-based phylogeny of any given set of taxa. 🧵1/n 📃 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf109

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50 Years of Cell Biology: German Society for Cell Biology Meeting, October 26 – 29, 2025 | Heidelberg, Germany Early bird registration deadline: June 15, 2025

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Check out this brand new fellowship from the Simon’s Foundation in Ecology and Evolution. Incoming grad students this year are eligible to apply. No citizenship restrictions. www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

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The Montpellier Institute of Molecular Genetics is recruiting group leaders (open rank). IGMM studies fundamental mechanisms underlying cellular processes and their links to human pathologies. Montpellier 🇨🇵 is an absolutely wonderful place to live. Deadline 31st October. jobrxiv.org/job/montpell...

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Shocking. 🙄 Also, dear NYT, are we supposed to feel sorry for this blight on humanity?

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Regenerative agriculture "is limited as a climate solution. Other science-based actions for the food system, including a shift to plant-rich diets allowing for ecosystem restoration, can provide far greater decarbonization.” www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...

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This is incredible.

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After the success of our 2023 Imaging Cell Dynamics conference, we’ll be hosting a second #JCSImaging meeting in 2026, organised by @franbottanelli.bsky.social, @guijacquemet.bsky.social‬, @drmichaelway.bsky.social‬ & Giulia Zanetti. To register your interest: www.biologists.com/meetings/jcs...

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Looks like an awesome programme! Thanks for including me @michaelraissig.bsky.social @dudinlab.bsky.social

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The amazing Sofia Lövestam initiated the below project, when she became interested in the vault particles that we sometimes observe in #cryoEM images of brain-derived #amyloid filaments. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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For the few of you who don‘t know Fran yet, here‘s the ‚Cell scientist to watch‘ of our rising (science rock) star here in Berlin.

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Job Alert! We are recruiting one postdoc to work on spiralian embryos and their crazy polar lobes. More info about this HFSP-funded position on our website baronelab.org: scroll to the end, click on "this could be you"...start your adventure!

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Dose of Protist Art: Chatton's chapter 1952 "Classe des Dinoflagelles ou Péridiniens" in Traité de Zoologie, Tome 1A. Fig. 1 Euglena intermedia; Fig. 2 Gyrodinium melo; Fig. 3 Amphidinium corpulentum; Fig. 4 Warnowia maculata; Fig. 5 radiolarian Auloceros elegans #protistsonsky

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Evidence for #recombination, and maybe #meiosis, in free-living #Rhizaria! I wish the results were clearer. As so often we raised more questions than we could answer :) If you are into #sex and the #meiosis-toolkit, this is an important read! #ProtistsOnSky link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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We’ve uncovered Asgard chromatin structures formed by a Hodarchaeal histone : closed hypernucleosome conserved in archaea and an open form resembling the H3-H4 eukaryotic octasome. Fantastic work by @harshranawat.bsky.social! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #Chromatin #Asgard #Archaea #cryoEM

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Applications are now open for the 4th edition of the “Ecole de Physique des Houches” on Fluorescence Markers for Advanced Microscopies, a WE-Heraeus seminar. March 15th-20th 2026 Join us to learn everything you wanted to know about Fluorescent Markers for advanced microscopies.

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Are you into 🐟🦐 ,🌊&💻📈? Come join us at the Theoretical Ecology Group @unibergen.bsky.social We’ve got 2 #PhD and 1 #Postdoc openings—fully funded, all for 3 years, all part of a funtastic team. 🔗 PhD: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... 🔗 Postdoc: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... #AcademicJobs

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Want to know more about the ecology of wild yeasts, their association with oak trees, temperature, and rainfall? Read the latest by @chloehbk.bsky.social and @javo-pinto.bsky.social

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Learn about the EMBO Fellowship Programme and the EMBO Scientific Exchange Grants in the upcoming #webinar we are co-organizing with the #Japan Science and Technology Agency on 3 June from 16:00–17:00 JST. 🧪 Register by 29 May: buff.ly/pF9qM6m #funding #opportunity

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I had an excellent time at Choanocon in Paris meeting old friends (some who I had never met in 3D!) and making new ones. Congratulations to @thibautbrunet.bsky.social and team for some excellent organising. There was a squeaky pig, there were baguettes, there were weird bugs, the people were happy.

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Happy to announce that our study on the latent cis-regulatory potential of mobile DNA is officially published! TLDR: mobile DNA in bacteria (Insertion Sequences) have a proclivity for evolving new promoters. At least 25% of them probably already encode functional promoters as well.

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Today is #BiodiversityDay 🌍 At EMBL, we explore life in context, advancing scientific understanding of ecosystems and addressing major global challenges to preserve biodiversity for the benefit of future generations. Learn more here: www.embl.org/topics/biodi...

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🚨New paper alert!🚨 We show that hummingbird beaks have changed in shape & size since around WWII, driven by the rise of commercialized feeders! 🧵 📄 Paper: dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... #ornithology #evolution #GlobalChangeBiology

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New paper from the lab: Our teeth arose as sensory organs on the outside of the body of ancient jawless fish.!! Congrats to Yara Haridy and the team! Background and video: phys.org/news/2025-05... Open Access Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... News and Views: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Question for #protistsonsky #SymbioSky: what are examples of prokaryotic genera which form mutualistic symbioses with both animals and free-living protists? i know about methanogenic endosymbionts of protists/animals, and examples of pathogenic microbes e.g. with amoeba, looking for more examples!

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Session 2: Cytoskeletons & Genomic Evolution 🔷Hélène de Maleprade (Sorbonne Universités): Active and passive control of micro-algal collective motion 🔷 @dudinlab.bsky.social: Cytoskeletal architecture of ichthyosporean development

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It’s the most wonderful (conference) time of the year. 🎶 Happy to be a part of BioMalPar XXI @EMBL in Heidelberg (obligatory picture of the ATC below 😊). Come see me at poster number 44 tomorrow to see what we have been up to. #EMBLMalaria

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Book review 📚 How ‘organized looting and plunder’ drove Britain’s second scientific revolution https://go.nature.com/4kMCxiP

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Learn about the #cytoskeleton: From #evolution to #biophysics and more at EMBO Workshop "Frontiers in Cytoskeleton Research" in Pune, India, 3–7 Nov Abstract submission deadline: 20 Jun Registration deadline: 15 Jul buff.ly/b7zAyw8 #EMBOcytoskeleton #StructuralBiology #CellBiology #EMBOevents 🧪

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✨We are looking for a PhD student interested in physical cell bio, imaging 🔬, biochemistry, #Xenopus 🐸 & #microtubules ✨ Join us @mpiib-berlin.mpg.de!

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Huge congratulations to @hbelda.bsky.social and David Bradley for their publication on the extraordinarily interesting FIKK kinase family (I am biased) of the malaria causing parasite Plasmodium falciparum. 1/n

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Just out work lead by @mycomile.bsky.social @fungage-lab.bsky.social in A. fumigatus that demonstrate how large scale gene cluster movement is driving heterogeneity in this fungus -- Giant transposons promote strain heterogeneity in a major fungal pathogen pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40353686/

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Calling all last-minute legends! The formal deadline to apply for the GMI GLs call is tomorrow—so there’s still time to make it look like you planned this all along 😉

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