Det er valg! Lurer du på hvordan partiene står i forhold til hverandre? 📊 Her er en hovedkomponentanalyse (PCA) basert på NRKs valgomat. Fargene viser ideologisk blokktilhørighet, og linjene kobler partiene i et minimum spenntre – korteste vei som forbinder alle uten å lage løkker. #valg2025 #nrk

Another version of our DNA metabarcoding course coming to an end. Thanks to the students and teachers @krabberod.bsky.social @ramalok.bsky.social @kbohmann.bsky.social @daniel-vaulot.bsky.social @micahdunthorn.bsky.social

@krabberod.bsky.social presenting the Ribosomal Operon Database (ROD) at our ongoing DNA metabarcoding course onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

- The web interface now provides access to the ROD database that contains full-length eukaryotic ribosomal operons developed by @krabberod.bsky.social

I am very happy that ROD (The Ribosomal Operon Database) is now included in the outstanding PR2 web interface, enhancing its accessibility and utility. I hope to make some updates to ROD in the near future. with @drhyfe.bsky.social

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:

New paper by our group, mutation accumulation experiment in heat-stressed Arabidopsis! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Check out our latest preprint. Recurrence of STR length mutations in heat stressed Arabidopsis lines (over many generations) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Registration is now open for the ForBio/UiO course “Bioinformatics for environmental DNA sequencing” @biovitenskap.bsky.social @drhyfe.bsky.social @krabberod.bsky.social @ramalok.bsky.social www.forbio.uio.no/events/cours...

Let's kick of the New Year like an acantharian with a little #protistsonsky fireworks magic. Happy New Year 2025! 🦑

Last Sunday of 2024 - Hoping for better year beginning this week!!!

"Ants solving a geometric problem and it's amazing." This is a great example of 'emergent phenomenon': - None of the ants understand the problem they're solving. - None of them can see the whole shape. - A series of small decisions or rules add up to something with a new layer of complexity.

One of my favorite radiolarians. I call it a "little hat", but I guess it is probably Eucecryphalus sp. Here are two examples from Bermuda (Atlantic) and Puerto Rico (Caribbean). Exquisite little #protistsonsky. I love seeing these forms in different regions of the Oceans. #protistaday #marinelife

International Society of Protistologists is funding two symposia at the 16th International Congress of Protistology in Seoul, South Korea. Proposals are due 30 January 2025 #protist #protistsonsky protistologists.org/programs/fun...

The rhizarian testate amoeba Euglypha rotunda eats its co-cultured bacteria, but it will also chow down on GFP E. coli. One day I'll use these vids to measure digestion rates. @thealgaeman.bsky.social another answer to what they eat! #protistaday #protistsonsky

Sometimes you need to take your little shelled amoebas out for a walk. Rhizarian testate amoeba euglypha rotunda #protistsonsky #protistaday

New preprint led by Ruben Gonzalez-Miguens for a new coi database that should be useful to annotate metabarcoding datasets with protists. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Happy to be part of this effort led by Rubén González-Miguéns: A Novel Taxonomic Database for eukaryotic Mitochondrial Cytochrome Oxidase subunit I Gene (eKOI) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.05.626972v1 eKOI will be integrated into @pr2-database.bsky.social 🙌 #protistsonsky

🧬🦠 Exciting new resource for #protists lovers! The eKOI database to expand the power of COI metabarcoding with a focus on #protistsonsky & integrated in @pr2-database.bsky.social Lead by Rubén with @beaplab.bsky.social @fonamental.bsky.social @daniel-vaulot.bsky.social Link: t.co/3lqzRaFw9V

Palpitomonas: the movie. I like this blurry little video because it shows the cryptistid Palpitomonas with its two absurdly long flagella beating with two different patterns. I imagine it as a pianist playing different parts with each hand. #protistaday #protistsonsky

The rhizarian testate amoeba that I shared yesterday makes its shell out of intricate, self-constructed glass scales. Other testate amoebozoans in the same environment make their shells out of debris (left) or food (right). These are interesting examples of convergence! #protistsonsky #protistaday

Today's #protistaday is a scan through a multinucleated Acantharian cell from here in the Gulf of Maine. All of the larger Acantharians I've looked at have multiple nuclei like this... need to take a look at/stain the teeny "baby" ones to see how these structures develop! #marinelife #protistsonsky

Not a fish or a dragon scale, but a single cell of a #protistsonsky. This rhizarian testate amoeba creates perfect tiny glass scales to build it's shell. From a peat bog. #protistaday.

This #amoeba eats prey like #owls do www.sciencenews.org/article/amoe... The vampyrellid amoeba #Strigomyxa ruptor gen. et sp. nov. and its remarkable strategy to acquire algal cell contents onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #Protists #Algae #Amoebae #ProtistsOnSky #Microbes

Wild things out there! A likely ciliate cyst from the Arctic #protistsonsky

Inspired by @evocellbio.bsky.social, I think I found our gal: Conchoceras caudatum! Drawing from the Challenger expedition in the mid 1870's. Happy to share this again with the additional context. What an incredible cell. #protistaday #protistsonsky #marinelife

A nasselarian radiolarian with its podoconus (cone-like arrangement of long arms) out and lots of internal movement. Beautiful to see! In the water column, that cone of arms is probably oriented "up" for catching debris/prey and managing motion with the hard skeleton pointed "down" #protistaday

Is it a repeat? Sort of, but this is a radiolarian in motion! I wanted to see how dynamic the symbionts are. They mostly stay still over a couple of minutes. With @micrott.bsky.social and @evocellbio.bsky.social #protistaday #protistsonsky #marinelife

I am looking for an ERC-funded postdoc to work on spatial proteomics of microalgae (red algae and glaucophytes). The ideal candidate will have experience with mass spec and data analysis (R), but above all a keen interest in broad eukaryote evolution and protists #protistsonsky (1/2)

Field imaging setup with @micrott.bsky.social. I lug my inverted scope and a variety of little cameras around and am taking up space in her lab to image #protistsonsky in collaboration. It is amazing! Pictured are two spumellarian radiolarians #protistaday #marinelife

"Hey wait for meeee!" Said the little radiolarian. #protistaday #protistsonsky #marinelife. With @micrott.bsky.social and @evocellbio.bsky.social

Today a radiolarian #protistaday from the Caribbean. It is a privilege to have the means, support, and interest to Research the curious cell biology of radiolarians. I have many like this to share and will hopefully have opportunities to dive into their cell bio in the future. 🦑 #protistsonsky

Okay... #protistaday. I know this is a phaeodarian, but how does a cell evolve to build a glass mouth, teeth and all, to live inside? This is totally amazing. #protistsonsky #marinelife. With @evocellbio.bsky.social @micrott.bsky.social

Today's #protistaday is especially for @krabberod.bsky.social. A taxopodida from the Caribbean Sea. With its long, wide oars it looks pretty different from the species I encounter in Maine! #protistsonsky #marinelife

Today's #protistaday is not my most beautiful video, but it comes from a special location. This is a pair of ciliates that emerged from rainforest soil from El Yunque national forest 🇵🇷. Soils are amazing bc they look still at first, but a drop of water and a day wait brings motion! #protistsonsky

And a special double #protistsonsky from me today with a second protist from rainforest soil. This testate amoeba has awoken from stasis (dry soil), but hasn't quite emerged from its protective plug. At least that's how I interpret this... in cold weather back in Maine I see something similar!

Plankton tows in Puerto Rico with @micrott.bsky.social are going great! Lots of beautiful microeukaryotes and tiny animals. Today I'll share this Ornithocerus sp. dinoflagellate bc you can see it's little band of bacterial symbionts! #protistaday #protistsonsky #marinelife

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...

In hopes of finding lots of Carribean radiolarians today, my #protistaday image is a constellation of microscopic stars of the sea, acantharians. #marinelife #protistsonsky

A radiolarian colony with some beautiful features: golden symbionts close to the cell bodies, and glass spines--a simple form that is similar to the basic skeleton of many more elaborate single celled species. 🦑 #protistaday #protistsonsky #symbiosky

From a large, local, and unusual, bloom of the dinoflagellate Tripos muelleri in 2023. I trapped some cells in agar microwells to see if I could catch them dividing in a long timelapse. Those wells are 250 microns in diameter: the cells are large! #protistaday #protistsonsky #marinelife

The tiny heterotrophic cryptophyte palpitomonas with its small cell body, relatively large nucleus (shown with a green nuclear stain) and its strangely extra long pair of flagella. #protistaday #protistsonsky

Mitosis in a green alga. The cell grows until it is tetralogy, then divides twice to form 4 new haploid cells. This is one of my study algae, Oophila amblystomatis, a symbiotic green alga. #protistsonsky #protistaday

Keeping with the #symbiosky green alga from yesterday, this amazing video shows where each little algal cell is (green dots) inside a salamander embryo. The only vertebrate-alga endosymbiosis. We are still trying to understand the interaction. Light sheet microscopy. #protistaday #protistsonsky

Crawling through the water in slow motion, the tetraflagellate green alga Cymbomonas swims across the frame with its double-breaststroke like action pulling it forward. #protistaday #protistsonsky #marinelife

A gorgeous planktonic foram from the Atlantic Ocean near Bermuda. With @blancobercial.bsky.social. Your #protistaday! #protistsonsky #marinelife

A little #bogmonster #symbiosky ciliate captured by a visiting student in an agar microwell from the readily reproducible protocol by @arcadiascience.bsky.social. Look at it go! #protistaday #protistsonsky. Protocol links below.

Timelapse of a large phaeodarian #rhizaria and acantharians that stuck to it in a plankton tow in Bermuda with @blancobercial.bsky.social. It has a central capsule (or "little bean"--Natalia Llopis Monferrer) and brown stuff "phaeodium" that move around inside the cell #protistaday #protistsonsky 🦑

Drama when a ciliate colony encounters a zoop. #protistaday #protistsonsky #marinelife

A bunch of cells of the nasselarian radiolarian Plagiacantha arachnoides--like a group of little spiders! Plus a couple of bonus acantharians. From the gulf of maine #protistaday #protistsonsky #marinelife