Claudio Slamovits 🇦🇷🇨🇦🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
@cslamo.bsky.social
Biologist at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia. Researcher of genomes and evolution. Salido de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. 🇦🇷🇨🇦
🎄 Just published 🎉! Our ongoing genome sequencing of the basal dinoflagellate Oxyrrhis marina uncovered a new lineage of endogenized Polinton-like viruses, OmPLV. Notably, OmPLV encodes ... [cont]
#VirEvol #MicroSky #Mevosky #SymbioSky #ProtistsOnSky
#VirEvol #MicroSky #Mevosky #SymbioSky #ProtistsOnSky
Endogenized polinton-like viruses in the dinoflagellate Oxyrrhis marina uncover novel PolB fusion
Marine viruses are ubiquitous entities that impact the biology of a large fraction of prokaryotic and eukaryotic diversity. Dinoflagellates are heterotrophic, mixotrophic and photosynthetic eukaryotes...
doi.org
December 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
🎄 Just published 🎉! Our ongoing genome sequencing of the basal dinoflagellate Oxyrrhis marina uncovered a new lineage of endogenized Polinton-like viruses, OmPLV. Notably, OmPLV encodes ... [cont]
#VirEvol #MicroSky #Mevosky #SymbioSky #ProtistsOnSky
#VirEvol #MicroSky #Mevosky #SymbioSky #ProtistsOnSky
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Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :)
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
December 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :)
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
My giant acrylamide sequencing gels were pretty good
My giant acrylamide sequencing gels were pretty good
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
Archival research feels like it’s full of these, but then there’s always one throwback archive with a microfiche machine or a paper catalogue (or, indeed: NARA)
Archival research feels like it’s full of these, but then there’s always one throwback archive with a microfiche machine or a paper catalogue (or, indeed: NARA)
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
Summer of '95 I had a job assembling single-use film cameras, which I did enough that I can still perform the actions. I don't think they even sell them anymore, but even if they do I'm certainly never going to be making them again!
Summer of '95 I had a job assembling single-use film cameras, which I did enough that I can still perform the actions. I don't think they even sell them anymore, but even if they do I'm certainly never going to be making them again!
December 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
My giant acrylamide sequencing gels were pretty good
My giant acrylamide sequencing gels were pretty good
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#OtD 6 Dec 1928 the banana massacre took place in Ciénaga, Colombia, when soldiers killed up to 2000 striking workers of the United Fruit Co., and their wives and children, who were fighting for one day off per week and pay in money rather than coupons stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1059...
December 6, 2025 at 8:55 PM
#OtD 6 Dec 1928 the banana massacre took place in Ciénaga, Colombia, when soldiers killed up to 2000 striking workers of the United Fruit Co., and their wives and children, who were fighting for one day off per week and pay in money rather than coupons stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1059...
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Check out our latest paper on mirusviruses, one of the most remarkable new groups of protist viruses - extremely diverse, carry lots of spliceosomal introns (including new homing introns) and are at the evolutionary crossroads between tailed phages and herpesviruses! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Widespread and intron-rich mirusviruses are predicted to reproduce in nuclei of unicellular eukaryotes - Nature Microbiology
Environmental metagenomic explorations show that Mirusviricota lineages lack essential replication and transcription genes and contain spliceosomal introns, suggesting nuclear reproduction.
www.nature.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Check out our latest paper on mirusviruses, one of the most remarkable new groups of protist viruses - extremely diverse, carry lots of spliceosomal introns (including new homing introns) and are at the evolutionary crossroads between tailed phages and herpesviruses! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Come join us! Soon I will be advertising a postdoc vacancy in my group as part of my @erc.europa.eu AdG project 'DARK ROOTS'. Focus of the project will be on phylo- and metagenomic mining of novel prokaryotic lineages. I will soon post a link here - stay tuned, and please repost! #asgardarchaea
a man walking in a field with an umbrella
ALT: a man walking in a field with an umbrella
media.tenor.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Come join us! Soon I will be advertising a postdoc vacancy in my group as part of my @erc.europa.eu AdG project 'DARK ROOTS'. Focus of the project will be on phylo- and metagenomic mining of novel prokaryotic lineages. I will soon post a link here - stay tuned, and please repost! #asgardarchaea
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According to the microbial ecologist Puri López-García, pictured here at a salt flat in the Chilean Andes, some 25% to 50% of all bacterial cells may be parasites of other cells.
A Cell So Minimal That It Challenges Definitions of Life | Quanta Magazine
The newly described microbe represents a world of parasitic, intercellular biodiversity only beginning to be revealed by genome sequencing.
www.quantamagazine.org
November 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM
According to the microbial ecologist Puri López-García, pictured here at a salt flat in the Chilean Andes, some 25% to 50% of all bacterial cells may be parasites of other cells.
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So happy to announce our new preprint, “A geothermal amoeba sets a new upper temperature limit for eukaryotes.” We cultured a novel amoeba from Lassen Volcanic NP (CA, USA) that divides at 63°C (145°F) 🔥 - a new record for euk growth!
#protistsonsky 🧵
#protistsonsky 🧵
November 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
So happy to announce our new preprint, “A geothermal amoeba sets a new upper temperature limit for eukaryotes.” We cultured a novel amoeba from Lassen Volcanic NP (CA, USA) that divides at 63°C (145°F) 🔥 - a new record for euk growth!
#protistsonsky 🧵
#protistsonsky 🧵
Today in What Could Go Wrong with AI.
NEW: Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.
And despite expert concerns about potential disaster, the US government is on board.
And despite expert concerns about potential disaster, the US government is on board.
Power Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants
Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.
www.404media.co
November 14, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Today in What Could Go Wrong with AI.
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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...
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...
November 7, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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...
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...
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🚀 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
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
🚀 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
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
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New 🧬✂️ pre-print! We show that paired prime editing can efficiently generate large deletions — even >1 Mb — with high precision and at scale. We use this to perform the first pooled prime deletion screen across the human genome.
🔗 biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A short thread (by Juliane Weller)👇
🔗 biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A short thread (by Juliane Weller)👇
November 5, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Our diatom paper walks in the footsteps of giants :) Meet the mother paper also out today from the @dudinlab.bsky.social @centriolelab.bsky.social @gautamdey.bsky.social in @cellpress.bsky.social on a full catalogue of 200 microeuks... 3/n
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Charting the landscape of cytoskeletal diversity in microbial eukaryotes
An imaging resource of over 200 microbial eukaryotic species provides a glimpse into
the remarkable universe of cytoskeletal diversity.
www.cell.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Our diatom paper walks in the footsteps of giants :) Meet the mother paper also out today from the @dudinlab.bsky.social @centriolelab.bsky.social @gautamdey.bsky.social in @cellpress.bsky.social on a full catalogue of 200 microeuks... 3/n
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications:
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
October 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications:
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
Metazooa
Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!
metazooa.com
October 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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If sovereign data servers outside the reach of US law are the goal, why doesn’t the government just create a Crown corporation to build & run them?
This unthinking fetish for public-private partnerships is yet another example of how this government remains beholden to 1980s-era economic ideologies.
This unthinking fetish for public-private partnerships is yet another example of how this government remains beholden to 1980s-era economic ideologies.
Canada wants to detangle its data from U.S. tech giants. Can it be done?
In the middle of a tense trade war, Canadian tech companies and policy-makers carve a path for data sovereignty
www.theglobeandmail.com
October 17, 2025 at 10:04 AM
If sovereign data servers outside the reach of US law are the goal, why doesn’t the government just create a Crown corporation to build & run them?
This unthinking fetish for public-private partnerships is yet another example of how this government remains beholden to 1980s-era economic ideologies.
This unthinking fetish for public-private partnerships is yet another example of how this government remains beholden to 1980s-era economic ideologies.
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I’m saddened by recent layoffs of departmental staff by @dalhousieu.bsky.social Dalhousie University’s
Faculty of Engineering on Tuesday Oct 7, 2025.
Please join me in signing this petition to express our collective concern ⬇️
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Faculty of Engineering on Tuesday Oct 7, 2025.
Please join me in signing this petition to express our collective concern ⬇️
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
October 14, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I’m saddened by recent layoffs of departmental staff by @dalhousieu.bsky.social Dalhousie University’s
Faculty of Engineering on Tuesday Oct 7, 2025.
Please join me in signing this petition to express our collective concern ⬇️
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Faculty of Engineering on Tuesday Oct 7, 2025.
Please join me in signing this petition to express our collective concern ⬇️
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Direct single-molecule detection and super-resolution imaging with a low-cost portable smartphone-based microscope www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs
Direct single-molecule detection and super-resolution imaging with a low-cost portable smartphone-based microscope - Nature Communications
Loretan and colleagues present a low-cost smartphone-based microscope capable of detecting single-molecule fluorescence. This approach opens doors to personalised and widely distributed applications in diagnostics, biosensing, and science education.
www.nature.com
October 9, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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1. The $20 billion taxpayer-funded rescue package for Argentina, announced last week by the Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, delivers an enormous windfall to hedge fund billionaire Rob Citrone.
Citrone has a longstanding personal and professional relationship with Bessent.
Citrone has a longstanding personal and professional relationship with Bessent.
Trump’s Argentina bailout enriches one well-connected billionaire
A $20 billion taxpayer-funded rescue package for Argentina is a gift for a hedge fund manager with personal and professional ties to the Treasury Secretary
popular.info
September 29, 2025 at 11:50 AM
1. The $20 billion taxpayer-funded rescue package for Argentina, announced last week by the Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, delivers an enormous windfall to hedge fund billionaire Rob Citrone.
Citrone has a longstanding personal and professional relationship with Bessent.
Citrone has a longstanding personal and professional relationship with Bessent.
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"The sheer number of American elites willing to acquiesce to the destruction of democratic institutions is demoralizing. But it’s worth noting that many ordinary people seem to be made of sterner stuff."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Lower Than Cowards
The surrender of America’s elites
www.theatlantic.com
September 26, 2025 at 2:02 AM
"The sheer number of American elites willing to acquiesce to the destruction of democratic institutions is demoralizing. But it’s worth noting that many ordinary people seem to be made of sterner stuff."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Excellent piece on the ideological antecedents of Trumpism and MAGA, from @mattpolprof.bsky.social. Core point: MAGA is expressly anti-egalitarian, something that constantly gets airbrushed away or just passes unnoticed in mainstream pundit depictions of it
www.commonwealmagazine.org/sam-francis-...
www.commonwealmagazine.org/sam-francis-...
Only Power Matters
Few writers have argued against modern egalitarianism with more flourish than Samuel Francis. Donald Trump and his gang now practice what Francis preached.
www.commonwealmagazine.org
September 23, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Excellent piece on the ideological antecedents of Trumpism and MAGA, from @mattpolprof.bsky.social. Core point: MAGA is expressly anti-egalitarian, something that constantly gets airbrushed away or just passes unnoticed in mainstream pundit depictions of it
www.commonwealmagazine.org/sam-francis-...
www.commonwealmagazine.org/sam-francis-...
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SMU Part-Time Faculty remain some of the lowest paid across the entire country at one of the top undergrad Canadian universities.
SMU has offered us a 1% pay increase, and a shrug on contract timelines.
@caut.bsky.social / Canadian academics, please send a letter:
win.newmode.net/canadianasso...
SMU has offered us a 1% pay increase, and a shrug on contract timelines.
@caut.bsky.social / Canadian academics, please send a letter:
win.newmode.net/canadianasso...
September 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
SMU Part-Time Faculty remain some of the lowest paid across the entire country at one of the top undergrad Canadian universities.
SMU has offered us a 1% pay increase, and a shrug on contract timelines.
@caut.bsky.social / Canadian academics, please send a letter:
win.newmode.net/canadianasso...
SMU has offered us a 1% pay increase, and a shrug on contract timelines.
@caut.bsky.social / Canadian academics, please send a letter:
win.newmode.net/canadianasso...
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This is the most accurate mainstream news article I’ve seen on the lockout.
Dalhousie Faculty Association ratifies collective agreement, return-to-work protocol
The Dalhousie Faculty Association (DFA) has voted to accept the collective agreement and return-to-work protocol that was presented Wednesday, ending a month-long lockout.
www.ctvnews.ca
September 19, 2025 at 1:04 AM
This is the most accurate mainstream news article I’ve seen on the lockout.
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In Canada, proposed cuts of 15% across the federal government would have a dramatic effect on already globally decimated research & science.
Join Canada's research & science community and tell PM Mark Carney to preserve the funding promised in 2024.
Send a letter: win.newmode.net/canadianasso...
Join Canada's research & science community and tell PM Mark Carney to preserve the funding promised in 2024.
Send a letter: win.newmode.net/canadianasso...
September 18, 2025 at 9:30 PM
In Canada, proposed cuts of 15% across the federal government would have a dramatic effect on already globally decimated research & science.
Join Canada's research & science community and tell PM Mark Carney to preserve the funding promised in 2024.
Send a letter: win.newmode.net/canadianasso...
Join Canada's research & science community and tell PM Mark Carney to preserve the funding promised in 2024.
Send a letter: win.newmode.net/canadianasso...
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La trampa de la falsa libertad.
September 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
La trampa de la falsa libertad.