Fantastic work done with a very large number of RCC strains.

Another piece of fascinating work done with RCC strains.

We have added more than 900 new GenBank sequences to the RCC database that are linked to the web page of the corresponding strains.

New version of PR2 that now includes the eKOI coi database recently published.

PR2 primers version 2.1.0 has been released. This does not include any new primer, but now the database uses the latest version of PR2 (5.1.1) to perform in silico analyses. Access here: app.pr2-primers.org

New publication: "A novel taxonomic database for eukaryotic mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit I gene #eKOI, with a focus on #protists diversity" with Daniel Vaulot @daniel-vaulot.bsky.social from @biovitenskap.bsky.social Published in Database by @oxfordacademic.bsky.social

New publication: "Towards a trait-based framework for #protist ecology and evolution" with Daniel Vaulot @daniel-vaulot.bsky.social from @biovitenskap.bsky.social Published in Trends in Microbiology @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social by @cellpress.bsky.social

The lost art of scientific illustration: from August Brauer's deep-sea fish

metaPR2 version 3.0 has just been released. Here are the major changes: - Metabarcodes (ASVs) are now annotated with the latest version of the PR2 reference sequence database (5.1.0). - 8 new published datasets have been added from the Arctic and from the South West Pacific. app.metapr2.org

A paper just came out in Science about giant photosystem complex in Gephyrocapsa huxleyi RCC6660 www.science.org/doi/full/10....

A new video from the MarinnoNET proejct to which RCC is a partner. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkD8...

It was so nice and so fulfilling to interact with you both...

Very nice led by Clarence and Adriana...

We have contributed to a paper led by Kenneth Timmis on the murky world of predatory journals: enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We have an A in house with a brillant master thesis defence of Sandra Irén!!! First master student of the GEEK lab in Norway! 😍 Thanks to @maritbjorbaekmo.bsky.social and Inger Skrede for a delightful & constructive discussion. #protists #proudadvisor 🔬🧬👩‍💻 @biovitenskap.bsky.social

Dose of Protist Art: Chatton's chapter 1952 "Classe des Dinoflagelles ou Péridiniens" in Traité de Zoologie, Tome 1A. Fig. 1 Euglena intermedia; Fig. 2 Gyrodinium melo; Fig. 3 Amphidinium corpulentum; Fig. 4 Warnowia maculata; Fig. 5 radiolarian Auloceros elegans #protistsonsky

Fantastic work led by Hie Lim, my office neighbour for 4 years in Singapore

Join us @thembauk.bsky.social in Plymouth for the 4th edition of the Advances in Coccolithophore Research 🌊 🔬🦠🧪📈 <Coccolithophore emoji> ⚠️Register Now: shorturl.at/ly1LT #Coccolithophores #protistsonsky Coccolithophore research on: Biogeochemistry, Cell Biology, Climate Change, Ecosystems

The RCC is participating in the MALDIBANK project. MALDIBANK’s main goal is to conceptualize a global, cloud-based, open MALDI spectra databank in order to promote identification of microorganisms.

Deep origin of eukaryotes outside Heimdallarchaeia within Asgardarchaeota www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

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

Very nice work led by Miguel

🚗🚌🚲 How does your city commute? Compare global travel patterns in 876 cities—from Paris to New Delhi—in this interactive viz by Liuhuaying Yang from CSH. A finalist for the 2025 Information is Beautiful Awards! Dive in 👉 bit.ly/4atdQmg #DataViz #UrbanMobility #Commuting #CityLife #Transport #Cars

Avec #ChooseCNRS, le CNRS invite les scientifiques du monde entier à rejoindre ses 28.000 chercheurs et chercheuses, dont un tiers venus de l’étranger. 🌍 Cet appel est ouvert à tous les niveaux de carrière. #RejoignezleCNRS

#OTD in 1868 Elsie Sexton was. Born Alice Wilkins Tring, Elsie studied at the Truro School of Art before moving to Plymouth. Through her husband, Louis, she met Director of the MBA Dr Edgar Allen and began illustrating for his scientific publications, eventually publishing her own research in 1908.

Spot the microbes! I am looking fwd to grabbing a copy of this book but the tree of life does not look like this. Animals, plants, and mushrooms are almost invisible on the ToL. Sorry for this rant on publication day, congrats on your book

After 7,000 years without light and oxygen in #BalticSea mud, researchers bring prehistoric #algae back to life phys.org/news/2025-03... Resurrection of a #diatom after 7000 years from anoxic Baltic Sea sediment: Sarah Bolius et al. academic.oup.com/ismej/articl... #Protists #Diatoms #Microbes

ISME congratulates Tess Brewer, Hans Bernstein, and @rkmicrobes.bsky.social for winning the Outstanding Editorial Board Member Awards for their contributions to The ISME Journal. 🔗 isme-microbes.org/editorial-bo... #MicrobialEcology #microbes

Interested in doing a PhD with living planktonic foraminifera? Come work with us! Check our PhD subject and get in touch! @tdegaridel.bsky.social

A dream come true: the first expansion microscopy images of C. flexa 🤩 Generated by Mylan & Uzuki who learned from the best (@hiralshah.bsky.social @gautamdey.bsky.social @dudinlab.bsky.social). We will learn so much from these!

The only Pope to have ever mentioned plankton- he will be missed! Obviously also Advocate for protecting migrants, homeless, vicitims of senseless wars.

Happy to have played a small part in this. Prometheid is a proposed supergroup that contains previously deep orphan lineages. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #protistsonsky

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #protistsonsky

On Per Theodor Cleve (1840-1905) the amazing part-time protistologist: ejournals.eu/en/journal/a... #protistsonsky

New paper using an RCC strain.

Enjoyed the course very much but missed the group picture... 😉

Protistologists work around the world in many languages and alphabets. At JEM, we want to meet you as you see yourself. Now authors can also include their names in any script they want in published papers at JEM. Learn how in our Checklist for Manuscript Preparation: bit.ly/3G3PANH #protistsonsky

Curious on what the #TEELab has been up to during two weeks adventure in Sepilok-Kabili #rainforest check out our blog to find out our #fieldwork & #digitising #dungbeetle reference collection at FRC, Sandakan 🪲 teelabntu.wiz site.com/home/post/into-the-understories-of-sepilok-sandakan-malaysia

Very nice course...

Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous! Coscinodiscus concinnus (I think). I only see these once in blue moon! 🦑 #plankton

The first issue of Amoeba Discovery is here! This marks the beginning of a new magazine for exploration, creativity, and collaboration across #protistsonsky. Endless thanks to @zlatogursky.bsky.social for the stunning cover illustration! Read the full (free) issue: stefanluketa.com/amoeba-disco...

🔎 Did you know that the shortest name of a prokaryotic species with standing in nomenclature is Sala cibi 🦠, while the longest name is Myxococcus llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogochensis? 😳 👉 Read more about species names on #LPSN at lpsn.dsmz.de/text/longest...

If you’re opposed to fascism and you still use X, then no you aren’t.

The "Virus Day" is an outreach event that will take place on May 8th in the public aquarium of the Observatory! If you wish to contribute, send us your “representations of aquatic viruses” (images; 3D structures, videos, models, etc.) by April 26th. See you in a month!

Latest bits of history Folly: 1795 print of Villefranche (drawing by Albanis Beaumont, aquatint ectching by Cornelis Apostool) showing what is now the Station Zoologique

BOOM!! Bluesky now has more than 34 MILLION users! Share the good news!! 💙 🦋 bsky-users.theo.io

Apply for the position as #Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Evolutionary and Comparative Genomics @unioslo-cees.bsky.social @biovitenskap.bsky.social This Postdoc project will investigate the #evolution of genetic variation on three lineages within the #Asteraceae family in the #Galápagos

We’ve spoken to senior US Officials. They confirmed they’ve tariffed our lovely Islands in order to force us to sell our precious flightless bird eggs to America at discounted rates given egg prices there, and their Health Secretary raving about the benefits of fertilized Penguin eggs and whale skin