🚨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...

Just looking for two guests for my #MattersMicrobial podcast. Slots open between 7AM and noon on Friday, November 28th and Friday, December 26th. DM me, email, and please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord. Always looking for #MicrobialEnthusiasts.

And this paper! @jfreude2.bsky.social @dumack.bsky.social I've been so curious about Rhogostoma since they can be incredibly abundant in soils, awesome to see this!! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This was such a neat study it got posted twice on our 'cool papers' channel in lab slack 😅 #ProtistsonSky

Accepted version of our article "Half of microbial eukaryote literature focuses on only twelve human parasites" now out in ISMEJ! Awesome effort led by undergrad Joanna Lepper and with @hbrappap.bsky.social.

New #ISEPpapers! Towards a trait-based framework for protist ecology and evolution: Mahwash Jamy et al. www.cell.com/trends/micro... #protists #algae #microbes #ecology #evolution

I wrote about how revoking access to medical care for trans people affects all of us in science. reskeets (are we calling them that?) appreciated. www.ascb.org/society-news...

New lab pre-print up! "Twelve species of human parasites make up half the literature on microbial eukaryotes" doi.org/10.1101/2025... We (led by UG Joanna Lepper and with @hbrappap.bsky.social) quantified all mentions of protist species in the scientific literature 🧵 #protistsonsky #microsky

📣 New paper alert 📣 Out TODAY in GCB! We have a lot of evidence that microbial communities are important for litter decomposition but we haven't evaluated those microbial community effects in ecosystem-scale models using empirical data. Now this work has! doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... 1/n

I am working with ASM to re-launch the Central NY ASM Branch! 🧫🦠 We have funds allocated for us and now just need 25 signatures from ASM members in the geographic region in support of this branch. More info is in the form and also I’ve attached a FAQ sheet. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Its that time again - the list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2026 is live! PIs enter your position info here: forms.gle/2XTHBP6CZGEn... Prospective students (and PIs not recruiting) share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share! 🧪

Our commentary on the elegant in vitro microbiome coalescence experiments from @goldmandoran.bsky.social @ksxue.bsky.social et al is out. It was a pleasure to write about one of my favorite microbiome papers of the last few years. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Announcing the new release of the PR2 database, version 5.1. pr2-database.org/post/news/20... Very big thanks to all the contributors: @fonamental.bsky.social @ambonacolta.bsky.social @krabberod.bsky.social and more... A few highlights:

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is being decimated right now. Mass layoffs happening across agencies (NIH, FDA, CDC etc). Some employees found out by security badge being denied. Others got email. Line outside Health Resources and Services Administration this AM shared with me:

Link here- www.sujobopps.com/postings/108... Please get in touch if you are interested!

We are hiring a postdoctoral scholar to join us in the sometime in the next ~6 months. oliveriolab.org with a focus on microbial eukaryotes in extreme environments. Please email w/CV if you'd like to chat. Official ad soon. #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky #ProtistsOnSky

I'm pleased to introduce our new paper rooting the eukaryote Tree of Life (eToL) that resulted from a collaboration led by PhD student Kelsey Williamson and a large group of collaborators doi.org/10.1038/s415...htt

An PLEASURE chatting with @markowenmartin.bsky.social on the #mattersmicrobial podcast about microbial **eukaryotes**, including the super high temp amoebae we (notably @hbrappap.bsky.social) have found in geothermal springs. 
If you want to hear more:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxxi... #microsky 🧪🦠

Exactly this 👇👇👇

People who left tenured positions recently to come to NSF now terminated...

What’s happening today to many of our amazing and dedicated colleagues at numerous scientific agencies is heartbreaking. I keep vacillating between thoughts that this must be a nightmare I’ll wake up from soon and knowing this is exactly who we’ve become.

This.

Librarians are awesome. Our data librarian has been compiling efforts to archive and preserve federal data. Preliminary list here: researchguides.library.syr.edu/data

NSF's budget is about 10 billion but only has about 1500 employees. Cutting employees will save very little money. The goal is to cripple the US system of generating scientific research, including higher education.

This is how you do it. Thank you @sicbjournals.bsky.social Read their whole email to membership here mailchi.mp/sicb.org/sic...

It has been brought to my attention that my article has been censored to exclude certain terms: asm.org/Articles/202... web.archive.org/web/20250114... #MicroSky

I’m furious about this. I’ve published in ASM journals for 20 years, been a reviewer, editorial board member, senior editor, and served on the MICROBE program committee. In the past 10 years ASM has taken inclusivity seriously and has actively recruited diverse members and leadership… 1/2

I’m on one of ASMs IDEAA committees and we have received 0 communication from ASM staff on why this is happening. I had to find out via social media. Extremely disappointing.

Happy to share this work that just came out. Emily Bechtold and co-authors collated a huge amount of field microbiome data to identify microbial signals associated with high methane fluxes from freshwater terrestrial wetlands - more here 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congrats to Tim and the rest of our team on a thorough and well-researched project that was a lot of fun to work on, albeit many years of hard work!

Anyone have steam pipes or tunnels on their campus that they'd be willing to sample? (scraping nearby wall/puddle/soil) We've had awesome success so far culturing high temp amoebae (TY @micromaresca.bsky.social and @tacaro.bsky.social for sample collection) and want to broaden efforts! #MicroSky 🧪⚒️

The 2025 #MicrobesandSocialEquity virtual speaker series is open for registration! Each month, we'll hear talks on microbiology and health of people, animals, plants, and the environment. Registration is required but free. Check the lineup and register: microbesandsocialequity.org/events/speak...

I know everything is on fire, literally and existentially, but I'm really proud of this paper out today, led by my lab manager, Kristina Terpis, with some amazing collaborators. We expanded sampling in photosynthetic stramenopiles and show total plastid loss twice! www.cell.com/current-biol...

#MicroSky undergraduates! Please check out our summer REU opportunity!

Hey #Microbiome peps - has anyone generated ONT (10.4) data for full length 16s rRNA analysis and has a data analysis/OTU clustering pipeline they are happy with and are willing to share? TIA! #nanopore #MicrobiomeSky

A good time to re-share this starter pack of protistology folks (e.g. anyone who studies microbial eukaryotes), since many new people have joined. Let me know if you'd like to be added! #protistsonsky #Microsky 🦠🧪 go.bsky.app/HQhnxbC

Our new paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #protistsonsky Here there is a download link if the previous one doesn't work: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kC9d3m3nN...

At selective institutions, legacy applicants enjoy admission rates five times higher than non-legacy applicants, with Harvard's legacy admission rate at 33% compared to just 6% for non-legacies.

Eight years later, I revisit the tree of life. “Future trees may need to distinguish not only between cultured and uncultured lineages, but between extant and extinct” rdcu.be/dPNpB

Hi, #AcademiaSky! I'm a #newPI gearing up to teach a mid-level #CellBio course in spring 25. I'm implementing a final project where students work in small groups to make a poster on an emerging model organism in cell bio. Please suggest potential taxa! Bonus points if you include a paper! (1/N)

For a number of years now, I’ve had a policy that I don’t submit to nor will I review for MPDI and Frontiers. This analysis supports that decision. It’s no reflection on the many excellent papers and studies that have been published in them, but rather on their editorial and business practices.

go.bsky.app/CK1kS44 I have created an Upstate NY microbiology starter pack. Please let me know who else I should add!

Undergrads keeping our lab current on viral #memes 🧪 (actually I didn't even know what #broadcity was, so I have some deeper work to do...)

Our latest discovery of “lowest recorded temperature for eukaryotic cell motility” going all the way down to -15deg C. Come for the crazy cold Arctic & stay for diatoms. Will write longer thread - but enjoy video below of diatoms gliding on frozen ice surfaces. Congrats @zqing.bsky.social & team.

Our latest team effort on the characterization of ancyromonads diversity. Why should we care? 🧵 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.29.538795v1

Hello CNY Microbiology (and beyond!) friends! I am organizing a KBase bioinformatics workshop at SUNY ESF on December 11. This event is open to all our friends in the region and has a Zoom option. Please reach out if you have any questions! Register here: forms.gle/qkifXoMSH2uN...

Calling all early-career env. microbiologists! Join us for the 2025 Applied & Environmental Microbiology GRS 🦠🌎 🎯 Theme: Macro Consequences of the Microbial Realm 📅 July 12–13, 2025 📍 Mt Holyoke College, MA, USA 📢 Apply by April 6, 2025 to be considered for a talk! 👉 More info: shorturl.at/XNz7Z

If you... like me... have found a lot of cool/relevant starter packs only to lose them again, here is a really useful tool - search starter packs: blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack... 🧪

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