New preprint out! Using ~75k environmental OTUs + 77 fossil calibrations, we reconstructed a Proterozoic timeline of eukaryote evolution. Our results show crown eukaryotes were already diversifying >1.6 Ga, long before the first undisputed fossils (~1.05 Ga). 🔗 DOI: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Researchers present the BaNaNA (Barcoding Nanopore Neat Annotator) pipeline and display the effectiveness of long-read Nanopore sequencing for protist biodiversity, ecology and evolution research. 🔗 doi.org/10.3897/mbmg... @ankarn.bsky.social @fabnot.bsky.social

Thank you so much to the amazing LoRe crew for giving me this wonderful opportunity ! It’s been a great time spent chatting together and an honor to get this series of podcasts started 🤩🙏. #protistonsky

Despite 150+ years of Radiolaria diversity research, we have just scratched the surface. Nearly half of Radiolaria diversity might be naked hiding in plain sight! We unveiled the diversity and evolution of Radiolaria beyond "the stars of the ocean" doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Congrats @sandinmm.bsky.social et al, very nice paper: www.cell.com/current-biol... #protistsonsky

Why do some planktonic protists develop a gelatinous matrix? We suggest that this original adaptation is a strategy to cope with ocean oligotrophy: doi.org/10.1111/1462... Led by @n-llopis-m.bsky.social, and thanks to all co-authors, I'm very happy to finally see it out! #protistsonsky

🌊 Save the Date! 🌍 #SAME18 — Aquatic Microbiomes on a Changing Planet 📍 Barcelona, Spain | 🗓️ Sept 28 – Oct 3, 2025 At the iconic PRBB 🧬🌿 Join us to explore the frontiers of aquatic microbial ecology. 📢 Stay tuned for more info and follow us on Bluesky! #MicrobialEcology #MarineMicrobiology #SAME18

Stoked about this manuscript, many years in the making. We present an original resource of ~700 highly curated plastid MAGs of marine pelagic algae. Among these we found a novel deep branching group of plastid genomes; we informally call them leptophytes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

La Station Biologique de Roscoff vous souhaite une très belle année 2025 ! Pour cette Année de la Mer, la préservation, la recherche et le partage des connaissances sur l'Océan seront au coeur de nos engagements.

Next Monday 13 we have the 6th session of The Life of Retaria Seminar Series! Join us at 08h00 (CET) and discover symbiosis in these wonderful protists with Caroline Juery and @filiphusnik.bsky.social Check it out: thelifeofretaria.github.io #radiolaria #foraminifera #theLifeOfRetaria #protistsonsky

🚨 Job alert! There is still some time! Join the Seaphony team working on marine soundscapes to study key habitats within the European TREC and Biocean5D projects. Job application here: luciadiiorio.site/wp-content/u... #postdoc #acoustics

Do you like aquatic microbes and computational work? Join my team as a Postdoctoral Researcher! Apply here: hofstra.peopleadmin.com/postings/4504

Difficult to be more #protistsonsky that this. Very cool journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...