Check this FRESH REVIEW about how the #wildlife #microbiome can shape infection ecology and #parasite #evolution led by @jingdi.bsky.social - which I got to contribute for! 🕺 NOW OUT in Molecular Ecology 🦋🐸🐝🐻🦠 #MicroSky #SymbioSky @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social @science.ubc.ca

A new era for #ONT amplicon sequencing? We show that #ONT #amplicon sequencing now achieves accuracy sufficient for #ASV resolution using standard Illumina-based pipelines. We validated this by sequencing identical amplicons on #ONT and #PacBio. @nanoporetech.com www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

If you are protist enthusiast early in your career and you want hands-on training in collecting and handling protists for all your research goals, please apply to join us in Roscoff for a week-long course this summer! opbc.sciencesconf.org

Protist lovers: Please apply for a week of rhapsody! Learn by doing: MicroSEA (Microbial Sea Eukaryotes) course is a one-week, field-based summer school to train early-career researchers in the diversity, ecology, and single-cell biology of marine protists. opbc.sciencesconf.org #protistsonsky

Great to see this paper in all its glory online: link.springer.com/article/10.1... A huge effort from Gordon and the team at @pjkeelinglab.bsky.social! Phylogenomic tree of Cercozoa based on single-cell transcriptomes from 100 uncultured cells @ubcbotany.bsky.social @science.ubc.ca

Coral microbiomes as reservoirs of unknown genomic and biosynthetic diversity www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs 🌊

Clonal-aggregative multicellularity tuned by salinity in a choanoflagellate www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Before he passed away in 2021, Tom Cavalier-Smith had drafted parts of his autobiography. It's now 'published' because Gáspár Jékely put a lot of effort in! Please enjoy and share: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

If you're looking for some fun weekend reading, check out our recent review on marine apicomplexans, out now in ICB (@sicbjournals.bsky.social)! #ProtistsOnSky

have you ever seen 𝘊𝘩𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘺𝘥𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘴 doing a perfect breast stroke? here you go... #ProtistsOnSky

It was great being involved in this paper. Check it out for an update on what’s going on in the world of Cyanidiophyceae biology!

New paper from my team detailing a greatly expanded genomic database of Asgard archaea revealing of high energy metabolism those related to eukaryotes! Led by @katyappler.bsky.social lots of help from @jameslingford.bsky.social @valdeanda.bsky.social @kassipan.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Temporal rhythms govern coral-symbiont relationship Changes in gene expression & microbiome of reef-building coral & algal symbionts through diel cycles. Dawn is time for host molecular activation; microbes shift metabolic contributions between day/night www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

🗣️Protist friends! I'm looking to put together a list of key protistology resources for new students joining the lab. What are some of your favourite papers??? 🧪 #protistsonsky

"Research and management of coral reefs is increasingly shifting from a coral-centric approach toward more holistic strategies that consider the roles of the algal symbiont and other microbes in coral health." #SymbioSky #ProtistsOnSky

Cool perspective piece by @chancx.bsky.social on our recent pub in Cell Host & Microbe. Read it here 👉 tinyurl.com/33uxf3ts

Exciting announcement! My new department is launching a postdoc fellowship in quantitative biology. Fellows will be co-advised by two Bio faculty, one that is quant focused (not me) and one that is not (me???). I would love to co-sponsor a postdoc and build a collaboration so please reach out!

Applications are now open for our EMBO Practical Course in Computational and Experimental Microbiomics! 🧫🔬🖥️ meetings.embo.org/event/26-mic... Come learn a mix of computational and experimental microbiome techniques from 6-8th July in beautiful Bath, UK! Registration Deadline: 11 May 2026

Curaçao sampling trip 2026 🇨🇼. Such a beautiful island 🏝️ 🪸🐠

This is a beautiful case of how real science happens & serious scientists work. Kudos to both set of authors: “This has been a humbling experience, but one that speaks to the self-correcting nature of the scientific endeavor.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

To my #protistsonsky and 🦑friends, I am co-organizing this meeting: "Midwater Science and Engineering Community" (MidSEC) Conference. If you work with or are interested in midwater protists (radiolaria, foram, deep water coccolithophores, etc) (or animals) it may be of interest to you! midsec.info

Contrasting physiological adaptation strategies to natural environmental change in two Red Sea coral holobionts academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a... #jcampubs

open.spotify.com/episode/1iYc... #ProtistsOnSky

A great resource from Maia and friends! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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

Really cool work from Rossin et al. 🪸 More evidence supporting SCTLD as a disease of the symbionts 🟠

@michaeltconnelly.bsky.social et al. sequenced 342 Pocillopora coral samples from the Eastern Tropical Pacific, revealing four distinct species; algal symbiont community profiling identified dominant symbionts that varied according to host species. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf235 #genome #evolution

Excited to share that @michelle-hauer.bsky.social's paper with @katiekliermicrobe.bsky.social @maggielangwig.bsky.social @karthik-a.bsky.social on phage interactions with chemosynthetic symbionts was published today. #NSF and @schmidtocean.bsky.social supported. academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #protistsonsky

#Mediterranean seafloors are heating fast 🌊🔥. Our new study shows bottom marine #heatwaves will intensify, last longer, and threaten benthic species—often year-round by 2100. A growing #ClimateRisk for benthic #biodiversity. #ClimateChange 🌍🌐🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Announcing a new tool for "denoising" long-read amplicon sequences: savont. Savont enables amplicon sequence variants (ASVs) directly from nanopore (or HiFi) long reads. Tested on 16S nanopore amplicons -- seems to work okay. 1/4 github.com/bluenote-157...

Really awesome work led by @bradweilerdives.bsky.social looking at the transcriptomic & microbial patterns of a coral holobiont every 6 hours for 3 days! 🪸 🦠 🇨🇼 🤿 Out now in Cell Host & Microbe! 📘 Author share-link here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1mWb66t8JE...

This project was so fun thanks to @ambonacolta.bsky.social and @fonamental.bsky.social through the lack of sleep during those 6 hr interval dives over 3 days. Massive thank you to everyone involved, including CARMABI marine station in Curaçao, our collaborators, and @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social

Despite a relatively stable microbiome, we reveal that microbial co-occurrence networks shift between daytime carbohydrate catabolism and nighttime methylotrophy, indicating metabolic hand-offs across domains of life within the holobiont. #SymbioSky #ProtistsOnSky

To help reduce the annotation gap of functional assignment in non-model organisms like corals, we supplemented our host gene ontology enrichment terms using protT5 protein language model to predict functions for poorly annotated proteins, adding more context beyond standard homology-based pipelines.

We uncover transcriptional rhythms in the coral, including dawn initiated RNA biosynthesis, midday & dusk regulation of phosphate metabolism, and midnight activation of stress and repair pathways. Breviolum sp. displays tightly regulated cell cycle dynamics and nutrient transport oscillations.

🚨New Pub Alert🚨 We present a system-level molecular framework of natural diel regulation in the stony coral P. strigosa, integrating host & symbiodiniaceae transcriptomics with microbiome dynamics over 6hr intervals. Amazing to publish this PhD work @miamirosenstiel.bsky.social 👉 shorturl.at/TzYEr

🌙 When the sun sets, corals recover from the stress accumulated during the day, caused by the intense activity of their symbiotic microorganisms. 💤 #DiscoveringLife #ConservingBiodiversity 👉https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2026.01.004

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

#NatMicroPicks A bacterial symbiont wraps its flagllar filaments around its cell body to propel itself through narrow gut passages in its stinkbug host and hook flexibility is key for this 🪲🦠 by Yoshitomo Kikuchi & co @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cozy-maxed the writing retreat🌲☕️✍️💻😌🌲

🐟🐚🦪🦐🦀 Seeking candidates for a PhD/postdoc opportunity via IMPACT+ program in protistology+aquaculture in Halifax. For more info, contact me by Feb 5th or see: slamo.biochem.dal.ca/call-for-app... #aquaculture #microsky #marinelife #protistsonsky #microalgae #protists

Thanks to all our collaborators and funders, with a special shoutout to the @univmiami.bsky.social Frost Institute for Data Science & Computing (IDSC) to making this all possible! @fonamental.bsky.social @ambonacolta.bsky.social

Night #2 was somehow better 🤩

Little aurora tease on our first day up at the @hakai.org station on Quadra Island 🌌

New #ISEPpapers! Single-cell #phylogenomics identifies major groups of marine eugregarine endosymbionts (Apicomplexa) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #protists #microbes #parasites #evolution #phylogeny #symbiosis

Call for abstracts ENDS MONDAY!! details below :)

📢 Open faculty position – Origins of Life We have an opening in our section at the University of Geneva! 🧬🚀 SPREAD THE WORD Apply here: jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...

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