Otworzyliśmy nabór w konkursie #Dioscuri 5. Wybitne naukowczynie i naukowcy z całego świata mogą otrzymać w nim finansowanie na stworzenie w Polsce interdyscyplinarnych Centrów Doskonałości Naukowej. Na wnioski czekamy do połowy września. www.ncn.gov.pl/aktualnosci/...

True, it was mega interesting 😊

It's started, finally 🤩

Our takeaway: if we want to understand forest soils, we need to look beyond fungi. Metatranscriptomics reveal important players that PCR-based approaches miss. Really happy to share our new article: Protistan Predators Outshine Fungi in Forest Soil Activity. #ProtistsOnSky #MicrobialEcology #Soil

I’ve seen hundreds of these little tubes, empty, but this is the first time I’ve seen one occupied! A little ciliate from the family Tintinnidiidae. #marineplankton 🦑 #protistsonsky

#ProtistsOnSky forams!

Time lapse of an odd little monster. Presumably some kind of cercozoan from brackish water. #protistsonsky

Here is a myxomycete plasmodium that I isolated off a wet leaf onto the bottom of a vented flask. Realtime phase microscopy. #ProtistsOnSky

#ProtistsOnSky no 'swimming' by 𝘝𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘺𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢, definitively no 'staying still'. just a relaxed walk towards the lunch...

Water from a vase seen with a pocket microscope #protistsonsky

Be aware of Tyrannomonas regina while having a swim this summer 🦖🦠🙀. Congratulations to @smallthingslab.bsky.social #protistsonsky academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

Excited to be at #SMBE2026 in Copenhagen! Don’t miss Symposium #17: “Unicellular organisms in major evolutionary transitions.” Registration is now open! #protistsonsky

I've been gone for awhile because bluesky was (is) banned in Mississippi :) Now that I have a VPN, here is a timelapse of diatoms from @hhmijanelia.bsky.social pond! #protistsonsky #protists

Thanks nature news for featuring our recent preprint on 𝘐𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘦𝘣𝘢 led by @hbrappap.bsky.social (check out preprint here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...) #protistsonsky

Beware, Solarion pops in between cat videos now. #ProtistsOnSky #MicrobeSky

🧪If you are interested in #microbial growth data, you may have have a look at μGrowthDB; an open repository designed to store, visualize, analyze & share quantitative measurements of species abundances and metabolite profiles from monocultures & communities of known composition. #microsky #mevosky

Is it a flagellate? A tiny ball with tentacles? Contamination in my ciliate culture? NEW SUPERGROUP OF EUKARYOTES? Yes to all 4! Meet Solarion - just out in #Nature doi.org/10.1038/s415... Huge congrats to Marek Valt, Cepicka Lab & the star team! Very happy to be part of this project. #ProtistsOnSky

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! 🤯🤯🤯

Typhoon #Fungwong has made landfall in the #Philippines, where more than 900,000 people have been evacuated and two people have died. The #storm was upgraded to a #SuperTyphoon before landfall, with sustained winds of around 185 km/h and gusts of 230km/h share.google/V4CqlwJEpEh6...

EndolithComparative genomics reveals adaptive traitsin novel Antarctic lithic cyanobacteria link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Our new paper on what heterotrophic nanoflagellates do in nature doi.org/10.1111/1462... or www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/.... Data available at doi.org/10.5281/zeno.... Funded by @ncn.gov.pl #ProtistsOnSky

For decades, Palestinians have resisted occupation, violence, and oppression. Now, those who tried to bring them aid say they faced the same brutality. Members of the Global Sumud Flotilla - activists, journalists and lawyers - report being beaten, humiliated and detained by Israeli forces:

Hello there 🦋 Happy to share our piece "Towards a trait-based framework for protist ecology and evolution" in @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social Let's build a unified trait 📏 database to unlock transformative insights into protist 🔬 ecology 🌍 and evolution ⏳ ▶️ doi.org/10.1016/j.ti... #protistsonsky

Chapter 3 of my thesis is now available as a preprint in @biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social We compared 3+ years of coastal microbial time-series from an equatorial site (EAMO, 6°S) and a temperate site (BBMO, 41°N). Our work reinforces the need for observatories across latitudes to track ocean change.

It's heartbreaking it's over 😭 We're lucky we have #SAME19 to look forward to ❤️❤️❤️

Group pic SAME18!

@same18-bcn.bsky.social finally has started with a plenary by Stefan Bertilsson #SAME18

SAME18 is taking off!

Some scientific stories, like the one we just heard from @johncork.bsky.social at the #mbkceesme2025 on human harnessed and highly exploited #yeasts, could easily inspire a movie or a TV series!!!

Yes, there’s more to worry about how we do our science with microbes #bioeconomy #nagoya #biodiversity #cbd @unep.org Lene Lange in #mbkceesme2025

It's great to listen to great talks at #mbkceesme2025 @mikrobiokosmos.bsky.social @isme-microbes.bsky.social @cristian-vi-al.bsky.social and Aleks Stanojković

It is a pleasure to attend @mikrobiokosmos.bsky.social and CEESME from @isme-microbes.bsky.social and meet great scientist and friends @tijanamartin.bsky.social @piwoszomonas.bsky.social

While it could have been a wild goose chase, finding this one is special to me because we were stacked against the odds

Eco-evolutionary strategies drive viral diversification in nutrient-poor soils across elevation gradients academic.oup.com/nsr/advance-...

Warming seas threaten key phytoplankton species that fuels the food web, study finds #MarineEcology #research apnews.com/article/phyt...

So proud of this collaboration led by @cssn.org 110 top experts from around the world 13 chapters on who is blocking or slowing action on climate change A quantum leap in our understanding of why society has failed to solve this Will be free online Oct 14 1/x global.oup.com/academic/pro...

I’m excited to share our effort to obtain one of the first estimates of the net rate, in physical time, of lateral gene transfer (LGT) – nature’s own genetic engineering - across a complex, global microbiome: doi.org/10.1093/isme...

With the redirection of climate.gov to a politically directed web page we lost access to a lot of historical information, such as the CO2 concentration time series. But now, the team from www.climate.us will make that data accessible again. Follow @climate.us for the updates!!

How do microbes become permanent partners? 🌊🔬🦠 Check out our new study published in Current Biology showing how cyanobacterial genomes evolve step-by-step into endosymbionts of diatoms. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @currentbiology.bsky.social @mehrshmali.bsky.social

Tangkoko National Park

Kill another green law? The EU wants to continue protecting polluters spreading greenwashing lies. Finally political momentum is on our side to stop this. Sign to demand the anti-greenwashing law. action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-07...

Local wildlife in a forest at the south Baltic Sea coast (Gniewowo, Poland)

Thank you for the overwhelming interest in SAME18! We have reached the maximum number of participants that can be accommodated at the venue. We will open a waiting list shortly for those still interested in attending. For any questions, feel free to contact the secretariat

OK, I knew cats were bad for birds but I did not realize just HOW bad. (Window collisions are less surprising to me. We regularly find dead birds in our yard from window collisions, despite putting stuff on the windows that are supposed to make the birds notice there's a window there.)

A reminder that dotted lines on a map do not prevent ocean acidification or rising sea temperatures. Australia’s marine parks are being destroyed by policies that promote more fossil fuel pollution until 2070. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Botany legend Catherine "Kate" Furbish was born 191 years ago today. From 1870 to 1908 she roamed the forests of Maine, collecting some 4000 sheets of botanical specimens, and illustrating her finds in 7 folios she donated to Bowdoin College. #WomenInSTEM #Botany #SciArt 🌱

An old video of a Nassula sp. (ciliate) cell swimming around in darkfield where you can get a sense of its 3-D structure, but I also feel like it just looks like a jellybean. #protistsonsky

🌊 The SAME18 website is now live! 📍 Barcelona, Spain | 🗓️ Sept 28 – Oct 3, 2025 @prbb.org 🔗 same18barcelona.com 📢 Key dates: 📝 Abstract submission deadline: 25 May 2025 💳 Early bird registration deadline: 25 July 2025 We look forward to welcoming you to Barcelona! 🌞 Please repost!

Talking with Anna Stempniak Juśkiewicz about resurrection of diatoms recovered from 7000 years old sediment (academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...) on the way to www.advmicro2025.pl for Eureka 🇵🇱📻 Jedynka jedynka.polskieradio.pl/audycje/5098. If you understand Polish, check out this Tuesday at 7 pm CEST.