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Avert your eyes if you have "trypophobia"! Here are some close views of the beautiful organic "glue" the amoeba Difflugia microclaviformis uses to cement together bits of quartz and diatoms, to build its shell. #ProtistsonSky #amoebae #peatlands #NatureisLit

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Really great to see so many abstracts and registrations come in! Working on the scientific programme as we speak! 😉

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WOW absolutely stunning movies and excellent ablation approaches! Congratulations to @micromotility.bsky.social and group as well as @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy for an amazing showcase of the precision ablation using the caliburn system from @rappopto.bsky.social.

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Thank you, Kirsty @micromotility.bsky.social and the sponsor, ARIA @aria-research.bsky.social, for organising the diverse collective assembly for the Biological Computation Away Day at RAMM, Exeter. Looking forward to the follow-up and more!

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We (Marco Mazza, @jcammann.bsky.social, Hannah Laeverenz-Schlogelhofer and I) just posted a review on the physics of biological filaments across scales, enjoy! doi.org/10.48550/arX...

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Anyone else seeing cortical rows of #cilia everywhere? Okay just me... #grccilia2025

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Excited to announce that registration for UK Maths Bio 2025 is open. We have an exciting list of confirmed speakers and are looking for more exciting talks and posters from the community. Please submit your abstract by 31 March 25. ukmathbioconference.github.io

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Ah... to eat, drink, and breathe #cilia for an entire week at #GRCcilia2025 🎉

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Quick thread on our new study doi.org/10.1101/2025...! 👇 Most ciliated epithelia exhibit some form of synchrony, this can help minimise energy dissipation, increase flow generation and improve efficiency. Review on why ciliary coordination is important for function here doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... 1/

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New preprint from Rebecca's PhD! did you know that the ciliary band metachronal wave in #Platynereis is a series of tiny waves within each multiciliated cell! What happens if you ablate some cilia?? 🌊😱 Cool #cilia collab w/ @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy! Revealed here doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Snakelocks sea anemones point their tentacles, packed with symbiotic algae, toward the sun so their lodgers can photosynthesize and now @venky-vnm.bsky.social & co have discovered that photosynthesis by the algae guides their host's tentacles towards the sun journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

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A visit to Heidelberg in the Spring? Yes please! Join us for the 2025 ed of this conference with a difference! So much to explore at the intersection of biology, physics and maths, help us build this community! 🤝 Send us your abstracts NOW! (check out these cryptic notes from the 2023 meeting...)

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Quantitative biology ftw! pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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In the early 1900s, Emmy Noether explored the mathematical consequences of symmetries. In doing so, she shook the very foundations of fundamental physics. https://buff.ly/414iuVL

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Very much looking forward to this conference @embl.org in May! Abstract deadline coming up soon!

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the third chapter of my PhD is now published! 🚨 We describe the protist symbiont diversity of the termite species Reticulitermes tibialis. This project was performed in a course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE) which was super fun 😊 #protistsonsky authors.elsevier.com/a/1kaMa56A9x...

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The evolution of shape diversity through the lens of physics—explored in our new paper! A fruitful collaboration between our lab @EMBL, Salbreux’s lab @unige & others, led by @BailleulRichar1—now independent at @ENS_ULM—& Nicolas Cuny. bit.ly/3WRqdEa

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#Biology Rising: My version of volvox, the freshwater algae where daughter colonies live inside their mother cells and work together to move towards the light to survive. We are in a volvox moment, now. These are hand printed monotypes on sewing patterns, dipped in beeswax. #sciart #STEAM #art

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The very basics behind modern genetic analysis started by people asking how bacteria can reproduce in thermal hot springs. The basics behind diseases of kidneys, eyes, liver, muscles, fingers, and toes started by people studying microorganisms with little cilia the twist and turn.

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New preprint from the lab on #coral larval light responses, including ciliary arrests and body-wide contractions. Led by Emelie Brodrick, in collaboration with @micromotility.bsky.social #biology #cilia @ERC_Research #hfsp https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.06.636794v1

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Would you expect that Bacteria use an archaellum for swimming? We didn't, but we found that some Chloroflexota do! Find the story here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A little thread below 1/n

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These sand dollars are giving off #Fuzzy vibes for #SensoryArt #MarineLife #SandDollars #Clypeasteroida #Echinoderm #Cilia #Urchin #Invertebrate #Photography

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

@stevestuwill.bsky.social you posted on 𝕏 on Dec 5, 2020 this stunning video - why not repeat on 🔵bsky ? (sorry, I did)... "Time-lapse footage of a vampire amoeba: a microscopic organism that feeds on algal cells by breaking through their cell walls and sucking out their insides." #ProtistsOnSky

submitted 22 days ago • 6 comments

this is like forensics but for #cilia... pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... @bungoakiyoshi.bsky.social so one question is - do the two flagella beat differently in Diplonema?? (feel free to send us some to take a look!)

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🚨🚨Please repost!! 📢📢 Following last year’s success, International workshop Physics of Biological Systems is back in May! Free registration! Submit talk or poster abstract. Join us in Edinburgh @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social bit.ly/EdinPBS2025

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I had some time to look through my #microscope today and captured this Amoeba engulfing a ciliate. (MoticBA310e - Labcam Ultra/iPhone15) Enjoy the cycle of life in the #Microcosmos! #microscopy #cell #scicomm #biology #Science

submitted 37 days ago • 6 comments

The world is full of crazy and sad news, but here is a protein that localizes to only one of the two flagella

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