what's your preference? wrapped or kudzu?

a reminder: #OTD four years ago, #russia launched its full-scale invasion of #ukraine – the actual war began already in 2014 with the occupation of crimea.

"So ein herrlicher Tag, und ich soll gehen. Aber was liegt an unserem Leben, wenn wir es damit schaffen, Tausende von Menschen aufzurütteln und wachzurütteln" (Sophie Scholl) Heute vor 83 Jahren wurden Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl und Christoph Probst von den Nazis ermordet.

gut, dass es diesen artikel jetzt auch in der übersetzung ins englische gibt 👏

𝘌𝘱𝘪𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘦 is just jealous of the basiliplasts 👇 #ProtistsOnSky

danke, adrienne, dies ist genau die info, auf die ich gewartet hatte 👇 🙏

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#FungiFriends 🍁🍄🍁

didn't know that the 'spherical cow' meme goes back to the 1950s. but here we are...

cool stuff indeed! 👇 #MicroSky

any explanatory words are completely superfluous.

bedenkenswert 👉 www.taz.de/!6140139 (3 min)

#FungiFriends extremely useful 'scale bar' 👌

para mí se ha hecho una tradición muy querida enviarte mis mejores deseos el día de reyes

happy new year #PhageSky #RNASky @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social

replicationists take note 👇 #MicroSky no train wreck, rather 'last train home' (pat metheny) youtu.be/Tb6h7rjRAYs

is mRNA half-life even a thing? yes, says RNase J #RNASky

#PhageSky #cryoET #cryoEM #teamtomo

#FungiFriends I can't help, but barry flanagan could just as well have called his sculpture 𝘊𝘭𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘢.

#MicroSky #SymbioSky

Caulophiles take note 👇👇 #MicroSky

Lac operon: Two gems from the early days (2|2) by Christoph — When I recently wrote about noise in the basement of the lac operon, I stumbled across two papers in said basement, both of which I – and not only I – consider gems of early molecular biology: 'Isolation of the lac repressor'…

Into the Deep Blue by Christoph — Just let the deep ultramarine blue of the frontispiece sink in at your leisure. Take your time. Surely, You will soon realize that it is not a photograph of the night sky with the milky way and myriads of stars, but a de­tail from an oil painting...

indeed, 𝘙𝘶𝘨𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘢 𝘰𝘳𝘺𝘻𝘢𝘦 looke like fusilli, which are notably better at holding on salsa di pomodoro than spaghetti... and as pasta addicts, we fell instantly in love with the shape of this newly described alphaproteo from the Rhizobiales 🤭 #MicroSky

seems that protists were way ahead of us with the invention of the circular economy 😊 great to hear of 'holobionts' again 👍 #SymnioSky #MicroSky #ProtistsOnSky

@philipcball.bsky.social have you seen this 😳 tiny Asgards dancing like crazy! (live microscopy recording of anaerobes, fenomenal) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

rare phyla ? *scratches head*

RNASky

What a great story from Heidi. "“We need a molecular definition of what is normal.” In the light of this work, one has to wonder if the molecular is the right place to look for that at all.

christoph: great you did identify the spaghetti as 𝘔𝘦𝘪𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘶𝘴 𝘳𝘶𝘣𝘦𝘳! the time-lapse of the feeding is a charm 👏 as a child, I always dreamed of eating single spaghetti (spaghetto!) exactly like this: slurping them up (but wasn't allowed to, *sigh). #ProtistsOnSky

"Neugründung der AfD-Jugend in Gießen blockieren" am 29.11. danke dafür! 🤗 www.taz.de/!6132815

I like the term "intercellular biodiversity" (much more than the old trope of "parasitism") #MicroSky

RIP Jimmy Cliff (1944–2025)

do you enjoy traveling to islands? perhaps even volcanic islands? are you interested in microbiology? Then this old STC post might be of interest to you... #MicroSky

adios helme heine 👋

#Ukraine it reeks like a the munich agreement 2.0. who will play chamberlain this time? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_...

...when your grain stalk (𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘦 𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘦) is simply too damn long to print out its image or display it on a screen.

All nations committed under the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to 1.5 degC for good reason. Instead many governments are beholden to the fossil fuel lobby and even subsidize fossil fuel use with your money. We’re now at 1.4 degC & emissions are rising not falling. unfccc.int/process-and-...

hi tanmay, this is definitively worth giving it the #MicroSky hashtag, why not doing it yourself? well, I did 😉