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Adrià Auladell
@adriaula.bsky.social
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Bioinformatics and marine microbial ecology. Right now focused mainly protists + metatranscriptomics! Open science. He/Him/His.
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godi.bsky.social
🚀 New in @natmicrobiol.nature.com
EMCG — droplet-based single-particle genomics method 🧬⚠️Sequencing marine microbes one by one — in nL of seawater!

Ultra-high resolution — no culture, no bulk averaging. A new way to see the invisible 🫥 🌊 rdcu.be/eOsUF #protistsonsky @bigelowlab.bsky.social
Single-particle genomics uncovers abundant non-canonical marine viruses from nanolitre volumes
Nature Microbiology - Environmental micro-compartment genomics provides efficient and high-throughput single-particle DNA sequencing that captures overlooked members of microbial communities.
rdcu.be
November 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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evgenii-protasov.bsky.social
A Novel Protistan Trait Database Reveals Functional Redundancy and Complementarity in Terrestrial Protists(Amoebozoa and Rhizaria)
#protists #eukaryotes #amoeba
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 9, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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piwoszomonas.bsky.social
Our new paper on what heterotrophic nanoflagellates do in nature doi.org/10.1111/1462... or www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/.... Data available at doi.org/10.5281/zeno.... Funded by @ncn.gov.pl #ProtistsOnSky
High‐Temporal Resolution of Microbial Food Web Dynamics and Structure During Phytoplankton Blooms in the Baltic Sea
Heterotrophic nanoflagellates are typically considered to be bacterial grazers, but some are actually omnivores and predators, both eating also other eukaryotes. Thanks to a high-frequency sampling c...
doi.org
October 31, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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mariacoliveira.bsky.social
I had the honor of designing a field guide that spotlights 222 species of pollinators in Portugal. These creatures play a vital role in our ecosystems, supporting over 75% of agricultural crops. Yet, their populations are declining, a reality that makes this guide more urgent than ever.
October 28, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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drtomemery.bsky.social
Applications for MCSA are up 64%! 50% now come from outside the EU. Trump effect?

The European Research market just got a hell of a lot more crowded.

EU should turn on the tap

marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-po...
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 receives record number of 17,058 proposals
This year’s annual MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships call has attracted considerable interest from the research community with 17,058 proposals submitted.
marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu
October 22, 2025 at 2:11 PM
adriaula.bsky.social
a huge effort and a huge service!
November 3, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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tsbschm.bsky.social
Great to see this finally published!

Metalog: curated and harmonised contextual data for global metagenomics samples

now out in @narjournal.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
Metalog: curated and harmonised contextual data for global metagenomics samples
Abstract. Metagenomic sequencing enables the in-depth study of microbes and their functions in humans, animals, and the environment. While sequencing data
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October 31, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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banditelli.org
Perfect bird design 10/10 peak A+ no notes #birds 🗺️
August 2, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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snowden.st
Maybe my favorite Food Map, ever.
A map from the Economist, of how dumplings spread from Italy to Japan by way of the Mongolian Empire
April 11, 2024 at 3:13 PM
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darakhshann.bsky.social
Just learned you can convert JPG to PNG in R with {magick}. Did you know this? #rstats
October 28, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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oliverio.bsky.social
This was such a neat study it got posted twice on our 'cool papers' channel in lab slack 😅

#ProtistsonSky
rsrp27.bsky.social rsrp27.bsky.social @rsrp27.bsky.social · Oct 16
Ever wondered how single-celled predators in soil boost plant health?
🧬 Protists don't just eat bacteria -they team up with them to shape the rhizosphere.
📈 Auxin isn't just a plant hormone -it's an interkingdom signal influencing microbial and protist life.
🌱 Read: academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...
Diverse soil protists show auxin regulated growth in partnership with auxin-producing bacteria
Abstract. Predatory protists are single-cell eukaryotic organisms capable of hunting and ingesting bacteria and other microorganisms, which are thought to
academic.oup.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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pawelburkhardt.bsky.social
First neurons didn’t appear overnight. We trace their roots to ancient secretory cells - showing how lifestyle & behavior shaped the evolution of first synapses.🧠🌊 #Evolution #Neuroscience

Our latest in @natrevneuro.nature.com
Link: rdcu.be/eMX3E

@jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social
The evolutionary origins of synaptic proteins and their changing roles in different organisms across evolution
Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Recent studies have shed further light on the evolutionary origins of chemical synapses, In this Review, Colgren and Burkhardt explore how ancient proteins were...
rdcu.be
October 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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merenbey.bsky.social
Read the annual report from @elife.bsky.social:

elifesciences.org/inside-elife...

I welcome that eLife is no longer indexed by SCIE. And I admire that they have not backed away from their innovative model, which makes me even more motivated to send our best work to eLife.
Annual Report: 2024 in review
In 2024, eLife continued with its efforts to make peer review and publishing better for science and scientists.
elifesciences.org
October 23, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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xgrau.bsky.social
«A global coral phylogeny reveals resilience and vulnerability through deep time»

This looks great. Figure 2 is textbook material!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Partial snapshot of Figure 2 from the linked paper, showing the distribution of lineage ages for various coral taxonomic categories (from order Scleractinia to various families), together with environmental variables along the same timeline and reconstructed ancestral states for various traits (coloniality, symbiotic relationships, depth...).
October 24, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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merenbey.bsky.social
Please share this with anyone who may be interested in a post-doc in Germany:

jobs.awi.de/Vacancies/20...

This is quite an exciting opportunity to push the boundaries of what is known regarding the molecular basis of the formation and demise of photosymbiotic relationships in marine habitats.
October 22, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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rmcelreath.bsky.social
Sprache der Dichter und Denker (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=71740)
While native English speakers in the UK and Spanish speakers in Spain rattled off an average of 16 words, Germans more than tripled this with an average of 53 words ranging from intelligenzallergiker, a person allergic to intelligence, to hodenkobold, or “testicle goblin”, someone who is being annoying
October 22, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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sjtucker.bsky.social
I'm delighted our paper is out: doi.org/10.1093/isme...
With new SAR11 isolate genomes and time-series metagenomes, we reveal coastal and offshore SAR11 ecotypes, identify associated metabolic traits, and pinpoint selective gene sweeps as a likely evolutionary driver to niche partitioning. 🌊🦠
Habitat-specificity in SAR11 is associated with a few genes under high selection
Abstract. The order Pelagibacterales (SAR11) is the most abundant group of heterotrophic bacteria in the global surface ocean, where individual sublineages
doi.org
October 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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dsquintana.bsky.social
LLMs can be useful for some things, but simulating human research participant responses isn’t one of them
However, recent work demonstrates that demographically prompted LLMs cannot accurately simulate diverse identities. Prompted LLMs are more likely to represent majority groups' stereotypes about minority groups than minority groups' own standpoints [12,13]. For instance, one study [13] prompted LLMs with the identity of Black woman. GPT-4 started generations with phrases such as 'Hey girl' and 'Oh, honey'; Llama-2 started nearly every response with 'Oh, girl', and used phrases including I'm like, YAASSSSS' and 'That's cray, hunty!' In addition, demographic prompting flattens diverse identities into narrow categories, limiting researchers' ability to observe and understand diversity within those categories [13,55]. Demographic prompting misrepresents people who are chronically under-represented in cognitive science research, a form of representational harm [56].
October 22, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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kostchristian.bsky.social
#microsky #mevosky @spp2389.bsky.social

A PhD position is available in my lab to work on:

Emergence and self-organisation of bacterial metabolism in consortia of cross-feeding bacteria.

Please RT

Deadline: 12.11.25

More infos 👇
shorturl.at/rAKAT
October 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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profannawatts.bsky.social
Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.
Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."
October 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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godi.bsky.social
They are architects of the sea, engineers of the air—capturing carbon, atom by atom.

While you breathe, they build. While you sleep, they safeguard our climate.

#InvisibleHeroes #OceanGuardians #ClimateWarriors #protistsonsky
Illustrations by Rosie Sheward
October 7, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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tintinnman.bsky.social
Victor Hensen coined the term "Plankton" in 1887. By 1910 it was an industry (still is)! Steuer's book ran 722 pages!
October 8, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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stevenjrobbins.bsky.social
Curious, if someone wanted to annotate a large set of MAGs with KEGG, PFAM, CAZY, and then do some statistical comparison, how would you do that these days?

Back in the day I loved EnrichM, but the backend databases for KEGG, etc, are woefully out of date now.
October 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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alejandrorgijon.bsky.social
I am extremely happy to share our latest manuscript "Widely-distributed freshwater microorganisms with streamlined genomes co-occur in cohorts with high abundance". This project started back in 2021-2022 and after a long time, it sees the light today!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Widely-distributed freshwater microorganisms with streamlined genomes co-occur in cohorts with high abundance - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Widely-distributed freshwater microorganisms with streamlined genomes co-occur in cohorts with high abundance
www.nature.com
October 6, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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oschwengers.bsky.social
Dear community, Bakta needs your help!

To further improve the functional annotation of "hypothetical" CDS, me and @gbouras13.bsky.social, we are looking for the worst Bakta-annotated bacterial genomes ;-)

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October 6, 2025 at 7:27 AM