We are looking for a PhD student to work on an exciting plastid endosymbiosis in microbial eukaryotes. This position involves sampling, exciting microscopy such as CARDFISH, ExM and FIBSEM, single-cell transcriptomics and more. #protistsonsky 1/2

The Center for Microscopy and Image Analysis at the University of Zurich is seeking a new Head: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie... It is super fun to work with them, tons of expertise and cutting edge instrumentation in ❄️🔬 Application deadline: December 15, 2025.

What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma. It's *scientific publishing*. We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

🚀 Exciting news for the imaging community! The EMBO Practical Course – Hack Your Microscope is coming to ITQB NOVA (Oeiras, Portugal) on April 20–25, 2026 🧠🔬 👉 Course details & registration: meetings.embo.org/event/26-mic... #Microscopy #OpenScience #Bioimaging #EMBOmicroscope

Sensing a rainbow of colors: algal photoreceptors🦠The diversity of microalgae and their rhodopsins🧬 frontiersin.org/journals/pla... #OpenAccess

Half of microbial eukaryote literature focuses on only twelve human parasites #microbiology #protists #eukaryotes @isme-microbes.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

An Asgard archaeon with internal membrane compartments Brilliant study led by @fmacleod.bsky.social and Andriko von Kügelgen. Tight collaboration with @buzzbaum.bsky.social and lab. Congrats to all authors! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Testing out the new hyped AI peer review tool (@qedscience.bsky.social) on one of my old papers and saw many of the errors people are posting about online, but this comment made me laugh! Thank you LLM for blindly trusting my movies are amazing even if you have not seen them

Oligonucleotide design meets big data: We present oligoN-design, a simple, reproducible and versatile open-source tool to design specific primers and probes directly from large environmental DNA datasets. 🔗 DOI: doi.org/10.1101/2025... 👉 github.com/MiguelMSandi...

🌊 By 2100, Arctic phytoplankton blooms will start ~34 days earlier, last ~15 days longer, and become less dominant overall, as warming reduces the seasonality of ocean productivity Climate change is rapidly reshaping the timing and importance of Arctic productivity www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Laurence Wilson and Martin Bees use high-speed 3D holographic imaging to capture the flagellar beat of single algal cells, revealing changes in the ‘handedness’ of the flagellar shapes at different points in their cycle. #JCSciliaSI journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

My new ImageJ / Fiji toolkit is out 🔥! The goal is to make image handling & visualization easy, with an intuitive interface! Install it on Fiji with the "Image Viewer" update site #microscopy #ImageJ #FluorescenceFriday #microscopyMonday imagej.net/plugins/imag...

The beauty of protist ultrastructures never ceases to fascinate me. 🤩 Great effort to systematically test their accessibility to Expansion Microscopy and immunolabeling protocols! 👏🏻 (And very useful supplementary table—77 succesfully processed strains from @roscoff-collection.bsky.social. Yay! 🥳)

So good news, I got a job offer in London! 🎉 Bad news, my husband has applied for 30 positions with no interviews. If anyone has any connections in London in the information security space, I would be eternally grateful

In the 1600s, thousands of people were buried in crypts under a Milan hospital & preserved by unusual conditions. “What is striking is how much you can extrapolate from an ancient body,” says one researcher, “and how much you can understand from that about the period they lived in." @science.org

We are hiring an Imaging Scientis. Apply here: go.mbl.edu/AS1887

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

🚨 A fantastic opportunity to join HIRI to start your research group on RNA Biology 👇 www.nature.com/naturecareer...

PhD available in my group to work on polar nitrogen fixation www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

PAPER OUT ✨ What if you could use your microscope as a 3D printer? Prototype microfluidics in-house, <5$ in material costs per chip. From idea to experiment within a day. Now published in Lab-on-a-Chip (open-access): doi.org/10.1039/D5LC...

I can only assume that this is the detached tentacle of a ctenophore. Any other ideas are welcome! Even though it’s detached, it’s still moving about, as this timelapse shows. #marineplankton 🦑

Postdoc vacancy: Microbial dormancy in the cryosphere @erc.europa.eu #ERC_SIESTA 📢 PLEASE RT 🧬 Single cell microbial activity measurements, flow cytometry, cell sorting, omics, ecological interpretation ☀️ Marseille, France ‼️ Apply ASAP & before 7 Nov Link: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

Happy birthday to Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, the "Father of Microbiology" and first person to observe bacteria with a microscope! 🔬 Learn how microscopes made microbiology possible, leading to innumerable insights for biology, medicine & technology. asm.org/articles/202...

“Cellular Olympics” our catalog of freeky ultra fast cellular superhero’s is freely available “Ann Rev of microbiology” www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... This is a compilation of world’s fastest single cell organisms - enjoy this buffet of rare delightful protists with mind bending speeds. 🧪

👇🏻opportunity!

New in @science.org: Calcifying plankton #coccolithophores, #foraminifera & #pteropods quietly drive the ocean carbon pump. Their traits (incl. “shallow dissolution”) are missing from many climate models. Time to put CaCO₃ back in the picture. #ClimateScience 🌊 doi.org/10.1126/scie... #protistsonsky

See you all in #BeautifulRoscoff next Spring 🙌🏻

Campus based Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK Genomics and computational biology 3 years, renewable to 9y max Closing Date 08/11/2025

Those dangerous commies over at the FT think that maybe the Laffer Curve is not the best solutions for the France equation

🔬 Turn a 3D printer into a smart microscope? That’s the idea behind EnderScope, a low-cost open imaging system developed with IBMP’s support. 📄 More in SoftXJournal : doi.org/10.1016/j.so... #OpenScience #Microscopy #DIYbio #Python

We hire! The CytoMorpho Lab is looking for an engineer with a background in cell and molecular biology to join our team in Paris. This is a 18-month contract position, but we're open to exploring long-term opportunities. More details here: cytomorpholab.com/index.php/jo...

Feat. @guignardlab.bsky.social @pflenne.bsky.social @shamtlili.bsky.social @philipperoudot.bsky.social The Tapenade pipeline is fully open-source with user-friendly notebooks and Napari plugins: github.com/GuignardLab/... 🫒

📰 #Mifobio dans la presse 👉 france3-regions.franceinfo.fr/nouvelle-aqu... Merci @france3-naquitaine.bsky.social pour cet article sur #Mifobio2025 @cnrs.fr @cnrsingenierie.bsky.social @institutfresnel.bsky.social @healthcare.nikon.com @leicamicrosystems.bsky.social @abbelight.bsky.social

“Now Scientific American has updated and re-released what it calls the “classic graphic” that shows that a human on a bicycle—able to coast, or freewheel, without pedaling—remains the world’s most energy effecient traveler.” @carltonreid.com on the re-release of the iconic graph in @forbes.com.

Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com

Our study on the first rhodopsin channels known to respond to UV light is now published in PNAS! And they come from our favourite protists, apusomonads! #protistonsky www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

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It’s #worldalgaeday and my most favourite of algae is the diatoms! Single-celled and microscopic, these algae are so important, storing carbon, making oxygen, cycling nutrients, providing food, and even helping innovations in science and medicine! #marineplankton 🦑

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

OIST is seeking up to four tenure-track or tenured faculty in Ecology, Environmental Science, Earth Science, and Oceanography. Application deadline: Oct 15. Please share. Thx! www.oist.jp/careers/facu...

Job alert! We are looking for a bioimage analysis to work in an image analysis core facility in beautiful Paris. Can I ask you to share this opportunity with your networks? See also on the forum: forum.image.sc/t/research-e...

Muyuan Chen has turned structural biology into an immersive experience with his new video game Meowtabolism, now available on Steam. Try the demo here: store.steampowered.com/app/4045010/... Give Muyuan feedback: steamcommunity.com/app/4045010 #ScienceGaming #StructuralBiology #CryoEM #STEMOutreach

⚠️New paper ➡️ isolating >600 freshwater microbes using dilution-to-extinction and low-nutrient, lake-mimicking media. 🤯Expands cultured diversity to ~70 % of detected genera and enables physiological studies of streamlined oligotrophs. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #protistsonsky

Conventional wisdom says motherhood should wait for tenure as before you land a permanent post, #academia is just not that family friendly🙁 @carersinstemm.bsky.social are calling for change and to celebrate their new report, a Saturday🧵on parenting & academia! 1/9 👩‍🔬🧪🔭⚛️ ℹ️: carersinstemm.co.uk

🚂 A peine lancés et déjà supprimés ? Sauvons les trains de nuit Paris-Berlin et Paris-Vienne, un voyage bas-carbone largement plébiscité par ses utilisateurs agir.greenvoice.fr/petitions/sa...

Really nice contribution of @arcadiascience.com of open high quality drawings across the tree of life. Take a look! research.arcadiascience.com/pub/resource... 😍😍

“Eating Anything in Their Path” – that’s how The New York Times recently described the surge of octopus sightings in the English Channel. But how significant is this so-called octopus bloom? What’s fact, what’s myth – and what does it really mean for our seas?

Studying copepods? The WAC Hub is your go-to platform—connect with specialists, publish faster with a 10% APC discount, and gain exposure in your niche field. Explore the Hub: bit.ly/4eAjDcK

#HappyFluorescenceFriday! #microscopycommunity- want to learn open source image analysis or share your knowledge to help others? We’ve got a FREE virtual workshop Nov 17-19! Now accepting workshop session applications! Learn more & sign up: buff.ly/esGIotD