My department at UT Austin is looking to hire an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology, broadly defined. Feel free to reach out to me with any questions you may have. apply.interfolio.com/177547

Can confirm. I am okay and more motivated than ever to speak up. Nothing scares this administration more. Their power lies in our silence.

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Come and Join Us. Not only will it be fun, but you will be learning a lot of methods & travel some more ;)!

We are looking for a PhD student to work on an exciting plastid endosymbiosis in microbial eukaryotes. This position involves sampling, exciting microscopy such as CARDFISH, ExM and FIBSEM, single-cell transcriptomics and more. #protistsonsky 1/2

This is a beautiful thread on mechanisms of a property of [some? only giant?] unicellular #protistsonsky that I wouldn't even believe is possible if it wasn't demonstrated so clearly: the ability of a single cell to heal cuts! 🤯🤯🤯

An Asgard archaeon with internal membrane compartments Brilliant study led by @fmacleod.bsky.social and Andriko von Kügelgen. Tight collaboration with @buzzbaum.bsky.social and lab. Congrats to all authors! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The lost art of scientific illustration: The copepods of Wilhelm Giesbrecht (1854-1913)

A Novel Protistan Trait Database Reveals Functional Redundancy and Complementarity in Terrestrial Protists(Amoebozoa and Rhizaria) #protists #eukaryotes #amoeba onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Half of microbial eukaryote literature focuses on only twelve human parasites #microbiology #protists #eukaryotes @isme-microbes.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

The eye of the teeny tiny ciliate storm. A rare look down the opening of a tintinnina lorica. #marineplankton 🦑

The amoeba Difflugia bacillifera builds its shell from things that contain silica, and it is not particular about the source. These ones have incorporated whole shells from another testate amoeba (Euglypha), along with diatoms, algal cysts and chunks of rock. #Amoebae #ProtistsOnSky #peatlands

I was trying to culture a local alga, but instead I created this tiny "amoebopolis". I think they ate the algae. Better luck next time, me!

TIL about brackish water jellyfish like this Bay Nettle in the Chesapeake Bay. Cute little things. www.vims.edu/bayinfo/jell...

Only the second radiolarian I’ve seen in my life, and this one is a chonks! #marineplankton #protistsonsky 🦑

🚀 New in @natmicrobiol.nature.com EMCG — droplet-based single-particle genomics method 🧬⚠️Sequencing marine microbes one by one — in nL of seawater! Ultra-high resolution — no culture, no bulk averaging. A new way to see the invisible 🫥 🌊 rdcu.be/eOsUF #protistsonsky @bigelowlab.bsky.social

NEW Publication🥳 Rapid #evolution is thought to be disadvantageous due to the accumulation of deleterious #mutations. We identify multiple lineages of rapidly evolving and stable #yeast that are many millions of years old 🔗: academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...

Scaling back DEI isn’t just a moral setback—it’s a loss of innovation. Bhalla, Trejo & @marymunson4.bsky.social in Nature Cell Biology: limiting who can participate in science “weakens research capacity and stifles discovery.” doi.org/10.1038/s415...

#fall stroll

On DHS’s unauthorized use of Norman Rockwell’s paintings across social media, an op-ed from our family today in @usatoday.com www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Funders must recognise that great discoveries often come from studies that seeks to advance knowledge for its own sake go.nature.com/3X5lbUg

Exciting day for the lab: our 1rst paper is officially out in @currentbiology.bsky.social 🥳 Wonderful collaboration wt @gautamdey.bsky.social showing how Cryo-ExM achieves consistent immunostaining in diverse diatoms, from the lab and the natural environment 1/n #ProtistsOnSky tinyurl.com/2zxaund7

Success. Nearly 259 Foldscope deployed in hands of unsuspecting candy crazy kids. Halloween is always more colorful with the microscopes - specially in a few weeks they could look at the micro-fauna of the teeth with so much sugar consumption.

🚨Our collaboration with @centriolelab.bsky.social & @gautamdey.bsky.social is out today in @cp-cell.bsky.social We show that #Expansion #Microscopy is a broad-spectrum modality for Euks, enabling 3D phenotypic maps rooted to phylogeny. #ProtistsOnSky #SciComm #SciSky www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Agglutinated forams (forams that make their shells by adding or agglutinating sorrounding stuff) make their shells by gluing things they find around them: sand, minerals, and skeletons of other organisms! This includes other forams, sponge spicules, even radiolaria! 😱😱

I've finally got around to curating a selection of films about the #climate crisis 🎥 There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️ They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬 Thread:🧵Plz RT

What a gem from @dudinlab.bsky.social @gautamdey.bsky.social @centriolelab.bsky.social in Cell! Expansion microscopy atlas of >200 eukaryotes comparing cytoskeletal architectures revealing structures not seen before. Stunning visualisation! Exactly the kind of transformative cell biology we need.

New preprint out! Evolutionarily conserved transcriptional regulators control monoaminergic neuron development. We uncover how ancient regulatory programs orchestrate the neurons that produce serotonin and dopamine across 550 million years of evolution. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Check out the recent publication in Annual Reviews of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics where the authors explore genomic species delimitation in depth. You'll see a number of #sciart figures I created to help explain some of the concepts! www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Great issue! Bonus: includes Daniel's work on incorporation of tagged tubulin in flagella!

Lab’s first paper is out!! We show the first structures of #Asgard #chromatin by #cryo-EM 🧬❄️ Asgard histones form closed and open hypernucleosomes. Closed are conserved across #Archaea, while open resemble eukaryotic H3–H4 octasomes and are Asgard-specific. More here: www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

We have to absolutely hammer this home: Science suffers without the values embedded in DEI 🧪

Finally read the paper and it's worth the buzz. mRNA vaccines saved 20 million lives in a global pandemic and the technology is opening up new avenues for the treatment of deadly cancers. This is really one of the most impactful scientific developments of our time. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We have a bunch of new job ads out @arcadiascience.com. If you haven’t checked them out, take a look! www.arcadiascience.com/careers

“Cellular Olympics” our catalog of freeky ultra fast cellular superhero’s is freely available “Ann Rev of microbiology” www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... This is a compilation of world’s fastest single cell organisms - enjoy this buffet of rare delightful protists with mind bending speeds. 🧪

Excited to share our new paper out today in Science led by Patrizia Ziveri and the BIOCAL Working Group! With @willerstorfi.bsky.social, @nanophyto.bsky.social, @tdegaridel.bsky.social and many colleagues! @climatecerege.bsky.social @icta-uab.bsky.social 🔗 science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq8520

My town has an annual giant pumpkin festival where it collects the biggest pumpkins from across the state, displays them around town, and has artists turn them into magical creations. Each year it is one of the best weekends I have experienced anywhere on Earth.

Many years ago, choano legend Barry Leadbeater told me that chain colonies of certain choanos could be flexible and dynamically change curvature (like C. flexa sheets) - but I had never really seen it until these beautiful Cassis samples from @jujumathieu.bsky.social. As usual, Barry was right!

We have recently shown the large potential of organellar genome-resolved metagenomics by assembling 100s of new marine plastid MAGs (ptMAGs), including revealing the new deep-branching algal group leptophytes: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🔎Check out this image from one of the articles in our Sept/Oct issue: 🔬Two Nanochloropsis gaditana cells visualized by quick-freeze deep-etch electron ▶️Read the article: Goodenough & Roth. Ultrastructure of the Endoplasmic Reticulum in Eukaryotic Microalgae. doi.org/10.1111/jeu.... #protistsonsky

Observed on a building in Portland, ME. Submitted without comment 😂

Always happy to be involved in work that better explains how parasite cells function. Especially in a group like apicomplexans with such a global health impact (Malaria, Theileria, Cryptosporidium). The more we know, the better people are able to find ways to combat them. doi.org/10.1083/jcb....

Towards a trait-based framework for protist ecology and evolution #microbiology #protists #ecology #evolution @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...