Kasia Piwosz
@piwoszomonas.bsky.social
Aquatic microbial ecologists. Favourite habitat: Baltic Sea. Favourite microbes: heterotrophic nanoflagellates (MAST-2 group currently). Associated prof. at National Marine Fisheries Research Institute (Gdynia).
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Beware, Solarion pops in between cat videos now. #ProtistsOnSky #MicrobeSky
November 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Beware, Solarion pops in between cat videos now. #ProtistsOnSky #MicrobeSky
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🧪If you are interested in #microbial growth data, you may have have a look at μGrowthDB; an open repository designed to store, visualize, analyze & share quantitative measurements of species abundances and metabolite profiles from monocultures & communities of known composition.
#microsky #mevosky
#microsky #mevosky
October 14, 2025 at 8:59 AM
🧪If you are interested in #microbial growth data, you may have have a look at μGrowthDB; an open repository designed to store, visualize, analyze & share quantitative measurements of species abundances and metabolite profiles from monocultures & communities of known composition.
#microsky #mevosky
#microsky #mevosky
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Is it a flagellate? A tiny ball with tentacles? Contamination in my ciliate culture? NEW SUPERGROUP OF EUKARYOTES? Yes to all 4! Meet Solarion - just out in #Nature doi.org/10.1038/s415... Huge congrats to Marek Valt, Cepicka Lab & the star team! Very happy to be part of this project. #ProtistsOnSky
November 19, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Is it a flagellate? A tiny ball with tentacles? Contamination in my ciliate culture? NEW SUPERGROUP OF EUKARYOTES? Yes to all 4! Meet Solarion - just out in #Nature doi.org/10.1038/s415... Huge congrats to Marek Valt, Cepicka Lab & the star team! Very happy to be part of this project. #ProtistsOnSky
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This is a beautiful thread on mechanisms of a property of [some? only giant?] unicellular #protistsonsky that I wouldn't even believe is possible if it wasn't demonstrated so clearly: the ability of a single cell to heal cuts! 🤯🤯🤯
Wound healing is a hallmark feature of all life, including single cells. In a new preprint, Ambika Nadkarni @biochembika.bsky.social investigates a new dimension in cellular wound healing: how cells recover AFTER the wound has been closed
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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November 11, 2025 at 9:25 AM
This is a beautiful thread on mechanisms of a property of [some? only giant?] unicellular #protistsonsky that I wouldn't even believe is possible if it wasn't demonstrated so clearly: the ability of a single cell to heal cuts! 🤯🤯🤯
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Typhoon #Fungwong has made landfall in the #Philippines, where more than 900,000 people have been evacuated and two people have died.
The #storm was upgraded to a #SuperTyphoon before landfall, with sustained winds of around 185 km/h and gusts of 230km/h
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The #storm was upgraded to a #SuperTyphoon before landfall, with sustained winds of around 185 km/h and gusts of 230km/h
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Fung-wong: Super typhoon hits Philippines as nearly a million evacuate
Typhoon Fung-wong, with sustained winds of 185 km/h (115mph), made landfall on Sunday evening local time.
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November 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Typhoon #Fungwong has made landfall in the #Philippines, where more than 900,000 people have been evacuated and two people have died.
The #storm was upgraded to a #SuperTyphoon before landfall, with sustained winds of around 185 km/h and gusts of 230km/h
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The #storm was upgraded to a #SuperTyphoon before landfall, with sustained winds of around 185 km/h and gusts of 230km/h
share.google/V4CqlwJEpEh6...
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EndolithComparative genomics reveals adaptive traitsin novel Antarctic lithic cyanobacteria
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Comparative genomics reveals adaptive traits in novel Antarctic lithic cyanobacteria - BMC Genomics
Terrestrial polar cyanobacteria persist at the cold limits of life, enduring a suite of extreme stressors including sub-zero temperatures, frequent freeze–thaw cycles, oligotrophic soils, variable lig...
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November 6, 2025 at 3:41 AM
EndolithComparative genomics reveals adaptive traitsin novel Antarctic lithic cyanobacteria
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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...
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October 31, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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
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For decades, Palestinians have resisted occupation, violence, and oppression.
Now, those who tried to bring them aid say they faced the same brutality.
Members of the Global Sumud Flotilla - activists, journalists and lawyers - report being beaten, humiliated and detained by Israeli forces:
Now, those who tried to bring them aid say they faced the same brutality.
Members of the Global Sumud Flotilla - activists, journalists and lawyers - report being beaten, humiliated and detained by Israeli forces:
October 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
For decades, Palestinians have resisted occupation, violence, and oppression.
Now, those who tried to bring them aid say they faced the same brutality.
Members of the Global Sumud Flotilla - activists, journalists and lawyers - report being beaten, humiliated and detained by Israeli forces:
Now, those who tried to bring them aid say they faced the same brutality.
Members of the Global Sumud Flotilla - activists, journalists and lawyers - report being beaten, humiliated and detained by Israeli forces:
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Hello there 🦋
Happy to share our piece "Towards a trait-based framework for protist ecology and evolution" in @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social
Let's build a unified trait 📏 database to unlock transformative insights into protist 🔬 ecology 🌍 and evolution ⏳
▶️ doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
#protistsonsky
Happy to share our piece "Towards a trait-based framework for protist ecology and evolution" in @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social
Let's build a unified trait 📏 database to unlock transformative insights into protist 🔬 ecology 🌍 and evolution ⏳
▶️ doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
#protistsonsky
September 3, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Hello there 🦋
Happy to share our piece "Towards a trait-based framework for protist ecology and evolution" in @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social
Let's build a unified trait 📏 database to unlock transformative insights into protist 🔬 ecology 🌍 and evolution ⏳
▶️ doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
#protistsonsky
Happy to share our piece "Towards a trait-based framework for protist ecology and evolution" in @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social
Let's build a unified trait 📏 database to unlock transformative insights into protist 🔬 ecology 🌍 and evolution ⏳
▶️ doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
#protistsonsky
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Chapter 3 of my thesis is now available as a preprint in @biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social
We compared 3+ years of coastal microbial time-series from an equatorial site (EAMO, 6°S) and a temperate site (BBMO, 41°N).
Our work reinforces the need for observatories across latitudes to track ocean change.
We compared 3+ years of coastal microbial time-series from an equatorial site (EAMO, 6°S) and a temperate site (BBMO, 41°N).
Our work reinforces the need for observatories across latitudes to track ocean change.
Ecological processes shaping marine microbial assemblages diverge between equatorial and temperate time-series
Marine microbial communities are structured by a complex interplay of deterministic and stochastic processes, yet how these vary across latitudes remains poorly understood. Most long-term microbial ob...
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August 26, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Chapter 3 of my thesis is now available as a preprint in @biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social
We compared 3+ years of coastal microbial time-series from an equatorial site (EAMO, 6°S) and a temperate site (BBMO, 41°N).
Our work reinforces the need for observatories across latitudes to track ocean change.
We compared 3+ years of coastal microbial time-series from an equatorial site (EAMO, 6°S) and a temperate site (BBMO, 41°N).
Our work reinforces the need for observatories across latitudes to track ocean change.
It's heartbreaking it's over 😭 We're lucky we have #SAME19 to look forward to ❤️❤️❤️
Adeu SAME18, it’s been a tremendous experience. Thank you all for coming to Barcelona, bringing your awesome science to the conference and contributing to maintaining strong the SAME spirit! Looking forward to SAME19 at České Budějovice! 🙌🫶
October 4, 2025 at 12:59 PM
It's heartbreaking it's over 😭 We're lucky we have #SAME19 to look forward to ❤️❤️❤️
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@same18-bcn.bsky.social finally has started with a plenary by Stefan Bertilsson #SAME18
September 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
@same18-bcn.bsky.social finally has started with a plenary by Stefan Bertilsson #SAME18
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SAME18 is taking off!
September 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
SAME18 is taking off!
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Some scientific stories, like the one we just heard from @johncork.bsky.social at the #mbkceesme2025 on human harnessed and highly exploited #yeasts, could easily inspire a movie or a TV series!!!
September 23, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Some scientific stories, like the one we just heard from @johncork.bsky.social at the #mbkceesme2025 on human harnessed and highly exploited #yeasts, could easily inspire a movie or a TV series!!!
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Yes, there’s more to worry about how we do our science with microbes
#bioeconomy #nagoya #biodiversity #cbd @unep.org Lene Lange in #mbkceesme2025
#bioeconomy #nagoya #biodiversity #cbd @unep.org Lene Lange in #mbkceesme2025
September 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Yes, there’s more to worry about how we do our science with microbes
#bioeconomy #nagoya #biodiversity #cbd @unep.org Lene Lange in #mbkceesme2025
#bioeconomy #nagoya #biodiversity #cbd @unep.org Lene Lange in #mbkceesme2025
It's great to listen to great talks at #mbkceesme2025 @mikrobiokosmos.bsky.social @isme-microbes.bsky.social @cristian-vi-al.bsky.social and Aleks Stanojković
September 22, 2025 at 1:48 PM
It's great to listen to great talks at #mbkceesme2025 @mikrobiokosmos.bsky.social @isme-microbes.bsky.social @cristian-vi-al.bsky.social and Aleks Stanojković
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It is a pleasure to attend @mikrobiokosmos.bsky.social and CEESME from @isme-microbes.bsky.social and meet great scientist and friends @tijanamartin.bsky.social @piwoszomonas.bsky.social
Conferences are not only about sharing research, but also about meeting friends, discovering new ideas, and listening to inspiring talks, even outside of my own field. @cristian-vi-al.bsky.social delivering excellence, as usual 😊 #mbkceesme2025 @mikrobiokosmos.bsky.social @isme-microbes.bsky.social
September 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
It is a pleasure to attend @mikrobiokosmos.bsky.social and CEESME from @isme-microbes.bsky.social and meet great scientist and friends @tijanamartin.bsky.social @piwoszomonas.bsky.social
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While it could have been a wild goose chase, finding this one is special to me because we were stacked against the odds
Excited to share our third heterotrophic #Paulinella culture from Haida Gwaii, Canada! :)
#ProtistsOnSky
#ProtistsOnSky
September 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
While it could have been a wild goose chase, finding this one is special to me because we were stacked against the odds
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Eco-evolutionary strategies drive viral diversification in nutrient-poor soils across elevation gradients
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September 13, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Eco-evolutionary strategies drive viral diversification in nutrient-poor soils across elevation gradients
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Warming seas threaten key phytoplankton species that fuels the food web, study finds
#MarineEcology
#research
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#MarineEcology
#research
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Warming seas threaten key phytoplankton species that fuels the food web, study finds
New research suggests that a tiny phytoplankton that is an essential part of the marine food web may decline sharply as oceans warm.
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September 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Warming seas threaten key phytoplankton species that fuels the food web, study finds
#MarineEcology
#research
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#MarineEcology
#research
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So proud of this collaboration led by @cssn.org
110 top experts from around the world
13 chapters on who is blocking or slowing action on climate change
A quantum leap in our understanding of why society has failed to solve this
Will be free online Oct 14 1/x
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110 top experts from around the world
13 chapters on who is blocking or slowing action on climate change
A quantum leap in our understanding of why society has failed to solve this
Will be free online Oct 14 1/x
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
September 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
So proud of this collaboration led by @cssn.org
110 top experts from around the world
13 chapters on who is blocking or slowing action on climate change
A quantum leap in our understanding of why society has failed to solve this
Will be free online Oct 14 1/x
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
110 top experts from around the world
13 chapters on who is blocking or slowing action on climate change
A quantum leap in our understanding of why society has failed to solve this
Will be free online Oct 14 1/x
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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I’m excited to share our effort to obtain one of the first estimates of the net rate, in physical time, of lateral gene transfer (LGT) – nature’s own genetic engineering - across a complex, global microbiome:
doi.org/10.1093/isme...
doi.org/10.1093/isme...
September 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I’m excited to share our effort to obtain one of the first estimates of the net rate, in physical time, of lateral gene transfer (LGT) – nature’s own genetic engineering - across a complex, global microbiome:
doi.org/10.1093/isme...
doi.org/10.1093/isme...
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With the redirection of climate.gov to a politically directed web page we lost access to a lot of historical information, such as the CO2 concentration time series. But now, the team from www.climate.us will make that data accessible again. Follow @climate.us for the updates!!
Climate.us
www.climate.us
September 2, 2025 at 5:47 AM
With the redirection of climate.gov to a politically directed web page we lost access to a lot of historical information, such as the CO2 concentration time series. But now, the team from www.climate.us will make that data accessible again. Follow @climate.us for the updates!!
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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
@currentbiology.bsky.social @mehrshmali.bsky.social
August 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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
@currentbiology.bsky.social @mehrshmali.bsky.social