Do trophic strategies shape biogeography and environmental niches? Marine dinoflagellates as a case study academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a... #jcampubs

New preprint 🌊🫶 "A diverse community constitutes global coccolithophore calcium carbonate stocks" Three large coccolithophores together hold about half of the global CaCO₃ stock! G. huxleyi <10% ➡️ climate models need to include this broader diversity! 📄 doi.org/10.1101/2025... #protistsonsky

A rare and exceptional opportunity at the laboratory - we're looking for a new Head of Group for Marine Processes and Observations. Join us at the forefront of tackling the ocean’s greatest challenges: biodiversity loss, pollution, and climate change. Find out more & apply: pml.ac.uk/working-with...

Structure and function of a huge photosystem I–fucoxanthin chlorophyll supercomplex from a coccolithophore | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... - don't like it when they are not open access 🥜

#Arctic #algae aren't immobile or entombed. They're not just surviving either—they're gliding into record books phys.org/news/2025-09... Ice gliding #diatoms establish record-low temperature limits for motility in a eukaryotic cell www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #protists #microbes #extremophiles

... just me thinking there's no water on Mars, and this Jezero article pops up 😱

Come join the BioGOSHIP team. In search of a postdoc at NOAA/Miami.

Extraordinary paper. I LOVE this sentence: “This translates to a net lateral gene transfer rate of ~250 genes L−1 seawater day−1 and involves both “flexible” and “core” genes. “ Must read in detail, but these numbers are amazing. academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

High‐frequency sampling unveils biotic and abiotic drivers of rapid phytoplankton morphological changes - Škaloud - New Phytologist - Wiley Online Library nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📣 We are excited to share our latest paper, led by @taliashaler.bsky.social! We explore the transcriptional basis of #microalgae resistance to #viral_infection and identified a core group of resistance-related genes. >> (1/3) #New_Phytologist #Marine_Biology #Viruses

Here is the talk schedule for 🪩Advances in coccolithophore research 2025 🪩 🔗 shorturl.at/EXJxd 🌊 #protistsonsky We have a healthy mix of on-site and on-line talks! 📧👨🏾‍🏫💻👩🏼‍🏫 There is still time to register on line! Until ➡️ Friday 5th Sep 2025 at 12.00 UK (BST). Join us! 🪩

How do diatoms cope with nitrogen and phosphorus colimitation? — Happy to share our new paper: "Nitrogen status exerts dynamic control over phosphorus sensing and acquisition via PSR1 in colimited marine diatoms" 🔗 doi.org/10.1126/scia... @exetermarine.bsky.social @thembauk.bsky.social

Here is the talk schedule for 🪩Advances in coccolithophore research 2025 🪩 🔗 shorturl.at/EXJxd 🌊 #protistsonsky We have a healthy mix of on-site and on-line talks! 📧👨🏾‍🏫💻👩🏼‍🏫 There is still time to register on line! Until ➡️ Friday 5th Sep 2025 at 12.00 UK (BST). Join us! 🪩

Phosphorus constrains global photosynthesis more than nitrogen does www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

💬 We are recruiting! ⚠️🌊 2️⃣❕Two fully funded salary positions for students who want to do their PhD work on coccolithophores and future ocean! One is more bioinformatics 🧬 oriented and the other is more linked to organic chemistry 🧪 ➡️if interested write❕ ✍🏼 ✉️ #AcademicTwitter

How diverse are the individual strains within your species? How broad is their Pangenome? How will you choose representatives from the whole collection? Look no further! PanGene-O-Meter is here for you! From @haimashkenazy.bsky.social @plantevolution.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New Phaeobacter species are now out! 🦠🔬 We found two new species - I am especially fascinated by the really, really long cells P. cretensis makes, something we have never seen in Phaeobacter before! Please comment your thoughts about why that is 🤔 1/2 www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

A call for early-career teams in interdisciplinary microbiology research www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How do microbes become permanent partners? 🌊🔬🦠 Check out our new study published in Current Biology showing how cyanobacterial genomes evolve step-by-step into endosymbionts of diatoms. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @currentbiology.bsky.social @mehrshmali.bsky.social

The JEDI marker (Joint, cellular life-Encompassing DIversity) a universal SSU rRNA fragment is proposed as a standardized biodiversity metric across all domains of life. In silico covering: Bacteria-Archaea-Eukaryota & plastids, outperforming taxon-specific primers. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Touchy subject... www.science.org/content/arti...

Some food chain business today at Krka estuary!

The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

The first paper from my PhD is out now! doi.org/10.1111/jeu.... We describe a new photosynthetic #Paulinella species from a brackish beach in British Columbia 🇨🇦 Big thanks to the co-authors Maia Palka and @alive-in-the-ocean.bsky.social, and my supervisor @fburki.bsky.social #protistsonsky

Usually I’m torn between two writing personalities: 📖 the meticulous word sculptor type and 🧨 the just-finish-the-damn-thing type. Recently, I painfully realized the word sculptor has an even bigger counterpart: 📚 paragraph sculptor...

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Genomes of nitrogen-fixing eukaryotes reveal an alternate path for organellogenesis #protistsonsky

Passionate about driving positive change in science communication? We need your guidance! asapbio.org/asapbio-seek... @asapbio.bsky.social @katiecorker.bsky.social @iaincheeseman.bsky.social @ludowaltman.bsky.social

🚀 Exciting opportunity to launch your independent research career! @thembauk.bsky.social Reach out if you'd like to hear more. @mldiatoms.bsky.social #protistsonsky #ECR #AcademicJobs #Protistology #marinemicrobes

🦋 Carbon dioxide confuses moth egg-laying A new study shows female cotton bollworms choose egg sites using CO₂ cues from young leaves. Higher CO₂ disrupts this, threatening ecosystems and crops. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/nsr/... #SciComm 🧪 #ClimateCrisis

If you are planning a short (one-to three-month) research visit to another laboratory, don’t miss your opportunity to apply for funding via our Research visit grant Check your eligibility and apply before 01 October 2025 at 23.59 BST. microb.io/ResearchVisi...

Notorious #SciHub — bane of major academic publishers — has grown into an organisation: #SciNet (sci-net.xyz). ➜ Offering access to post-2022 papers missing since Sci-Hub stopped updating. ⚠️ Joining could grant access to an extensive range of publications 📚 🧐 Got an invite code? Please share!

Droplet microfluidics for single-cell studies: a frontier in ecological understanding of microbiomes academic.oup.com/femsre/advan... #jcampubs

Dynamic change of calcium-rich compartments during coccolithophore biomineralization www.science.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs

CONTACT UPDATE - August 2025 ​​Due to a recent cyber-attack affecting the Ruđer Bošković Institute, strict internal security protocols have been implemented. As a result, I currently do not have access to my work email. Please contact me via my Gmail address: jelena_godrijan_at_gmail_dot_com

How to deal with the multiscale nature of evolution, which displays different time scales of change? We need to replace classic genotype spaces with multiscapes. Here's a great paper by my friend Susanna Manrubia and coworkers @mncn-csic.bsky.social rsob.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/royo... …

#protistsonsky Direct link to the Chaetoceros Quick Guide if you want to learn more :) @sorayazwahlen.bsky.social @currentbiology.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/a/1lYLj3QW8S...

Synergy in viral-bacterial coinfection expedites algal bloom demise www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Ultrastructure of the Endoplasmic Reticulum in Eukaryotic Microalgae #protistsonsky

The Central Collection of Algal Cultures (CCAC) at @unidue.bsky.social is advertising a 3-year PhD position supervised by the current Curator, Dr. Olga Matantseva! This PhD will take place in close collaboration with the @jgi.doe.gov. 🦠🧬💻 Apply here: www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste...

Another field trip this week for #CoccoChannel! 🌊 We headed to the Krka River estuary to sample the halocline using a horizontal water sampler. The microbial life was buzzing #protistsonsky! 🦠 This one was caught extending its pseudopodia to feed on bacteria. Nature’s lunch at its finest!

A niche construction-based perspective on chemical evolution before replication and reproduction https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.29.667458v1

🌊Planktonic foraminifera increase shell weight with habitat depth, allowing living cells to increase density as water density increases. @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social @mudwaterclimate.bsky.social @icta-uab.bsky.social 👉Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

New CO2 proxy just dropped! Micrometeorites! ⚒️🧪 phys.org/news/2025-07...

🌊Curious how multi-nutrient scarcity impacts marine microbes🦠? Excited to announce our #OSM26 session, Glasgow Feb 22-27! Join us in bridging cell biology, modelling & oceanography! tinyurl.com/zzt5s9su @exetermarine.bsky.social @thembauk.bsky.social @proteocean.bsky.social @cmarkmoore.bsky.social

Biologist folk (especially in evolutionary biology and/or ecology, but it don’t matter): Can you give me your favorite examples of trade offs in biology? Organism or system don’t matter. Primary literature or reviews preferred.

A list of #marinebiology starter packs! 🌊 go.bsky.app/4PTX62K Marine Ecology go.bsky.app/RS5zQHv Marine Biologists I go.bsky.app/8DoyTMs Marine Biologists II go.bsky.app/Qo5Gh2H Coral reef science go.bsky.app/E8vrnd6 LGBTQIA+ Grads go.bsky.app/7MdiLgo Ocean Women go.bsky.app/4wMsfX4 Ocean Women II

We are looking for a new @thembauk.bsky.social Anne Warner Research Fellow (5 year post) to develop an independent research group in the area of cell and molecular biology of marine organisms here in #Plymouth 🔬🦠🧫🧬 mymba.mba.ac.uk/job-listing....

Are you a researcher 5+ years post-PhD and interested in moving to Ireland? We have a new scheme which will support relocation and start-up costs.

From short to long reads: enhanced protist diversity profiling via Nanopore metabarcoding #protists #protistsonsky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Darkness to Discovery: A Comprehensive Mini-Review on Culturable and Non-Culturable Microbial Diversity from Deep Sea link.springer.com/article/10.1... #jcampubs