Piotr Lukasik
@sympiotr.bsky.social
Researching the diversity, evolution, and roles of insect-microbe interactions at Jagiellonian University, Poland. Nature lover. Traveler. Photographer.
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Please consider signing a petition to increase the spending on science in Poland / List otwarty w sprawie finansowania nauki, w tym @ncn.gov.pl www.petycjeonline.com/list_otwarty...
List otwarty do Prezydenta RP, Marszałka Sejmu RP, Marszałka Senatu RP, Prezesa Rady Ministrów oraz Wiceprezesów Rady Ministrów w sprawie finansowania nauki, w tym zwłaszcza Narodowego Centrum Nauki
Szanowni Państwo,
W niniejszej petycji prezentujemy List otwarty, który będzie wysłany do Kancelarii Prezydenta, Marszałków Sejmu i Senatu, Prezesa Rady Ministr&oacut...
www.petycjeonline.com
September 29, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Please consider signing a petition to increase the spending on science in Poland / List otwarty w sprawie finansowania nauki, w tym @ncn.gov.pl www.petycjeonline.com/list_otwarty...
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Based on feedback from applicants, reviewers and broader research community, the ERC Scientific Council decided to make changes in the 2026–27 calls for proposal for research funding.
More details from the ERC President 👉 europa.eu/!hP3WWF
What’s your take on this? Tell us! 👇
More details from the ERC President 👉 europa.eu/!hP3WWF
What’s your take on this? Tell us! 👇
September 15, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Based on feedback from applicants, reviewers and broader research community, the ERC Scientific Council decided to make changes in the 2026–27 calls for proposal for research funding.
More details from the ERC President 👉 europa.eu/!hP3WWF
What’s your take on this? Tell us! 👇
More details from the ERC President 👉 europa.eu/!hP3WWF
What’s your take on this? Tell us! 👇
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🚨 Save the date! Thrilled to be co-organizing the next iteration of the @embl.org Symposium on the Cellular Mechanics of Symbiosis (📅 March 17-20), w/ @floravincent.bsky.social, @hassansalem.bsky.social & Tom Richards.
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#EESSymbiosis #Symbiosis #SymbioSky #MicroSky 🦠
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#EESSymbiosis #Symbiosis #SymbioSky #MicroSky 🦠
The cellular mechanics of symbiosis: sensing friend from foe
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September 8, 2025 at 10:24 AM
🚨 Save the date! Thrilled to be co-organizing the next iteration of the @embl.org Symposium on the Cellular Mechanics of Symbiosis (📅 March 17-20), w/ @floravincent.bsky.social, @hassansalem.bsky.social & Tom Richards.
www.embl.org/about/info/c...
#EESSymbiosis #Symbiosis #SymbioSky #MicroSky 🦠
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#EESSymbiosis #Symbiosis #SymbioSky #MicroSky 🦠
Last Wednesday, my first Ph.D. Student, Junchen Deng, defended his thesis! So proud!
Check some of the underlying papers - on planthopper phylogenomics doi.org/10.1111/syen..., origins of Auchenorrhynchan symbionts doi.org/10.1093/gbe/..., and planthopper symbiont evolution doi.org/10.1101/2025... !
Check some of the underlying papers - on planthopper phylogenomics doi.org/10.1111/syen..., origins of Auchenorrhynchan symbionts doi.org/10.1093/gbe/..., and planthopper symbiont evolution doi.org/10.1101/2025... !
September 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Last Wednesday, my first Ph.D. Student, Junchen Deng, defended his thesis! So proud!
Check some of the underlying papers - on planthopper phylogenomics doi.org/10.1111/syen..., origins of Auchenorrhynchan symbionts doi.org/10.1093/gbe/..., and planthopper symbiont evolution doi.org/10.1101/2025... !
Check some of the underlying papers - on planthopper phylogenomics doi.org/10.1111/syen..., origins of Auchenorrhynchan symbionts doi.org/10.1093/gbe/..., and planthopper symbiont evolution doi.org/10.1101/2025... !
New preprint from our lab! We show that #Bartonellaceae bacteria, mostly known as mammalian #pathogens, also colonizes #planthoppers. The planthopper #symbionts typically resemble related ant symbionts in nutritional functions, but show a much greater breadth of #genome sizes and functions. 1/2
August 28, 2025 at 6:25 AM
New preprint from our lab! We show that #Bartonellaceae bacteria, mostly known as mammalian #pathogens, also colonizes #planthoppers. The planthopper #symbionts typically resemble related ant symbionts in nutritional functions, but show a much greater breadth of #genome sizes and functions. 1/2
A new paper by our team @ioes-ju.bsky.social just published in J Invert Pathol @jinvertpathol.bsky.social!
In Diptera-#Entomophthora system, we show how simultaneously #sequencing #insect, #fungal #pathogen, and bacterial marker genes can aid biodiversity and biological interaction discovery.
In Diptera-#Entomophthora system, we show how simultaneously #sequencing #insect, #fungal #pathogen, and bacterial marker genes can aid biodiversity and biological interaction discovery.
August 25, 2025 at 4:53 AM
A new paper by our team @ioes-ju.bsky.social just published in J Invert Pathol @jinvertpathol.bsky.social!
In Diptera-#Entomophthora system, we show how simultaneously #sequencing #insect, #fungal #pathogen, and bacterial marker genes can aid biodiversity and biological interaction discovery.
In Diptera-#Entomophthora system, we show how simultaneously #sequencing #insect, #fungal #pathogen, and bacterial marker genes can aid biodiversity and biological interaction discovery.
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NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀
Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯
A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛
Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x
Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯
A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛
Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x
April 9, 2025 at 10:07 AM
NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀
Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯
A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛
Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x
Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯
A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛
Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x
New preprint by our team @ioes-ju.bsky.social! Using custom multi-target amplicon sequencing on diverse pathogen-killed dipterans from Greenland, we find multiple #Entomophthora genotypes with notable host specificity, and reconstruct bacterial communities associated with the killed insects.
March 26, 2025 at 3:58 AM
New preprint by our team @ioes-ju.bsky.social! Using custom multi-target amplicon sequencing on diverse pathogen-killed dipterans from Greenland, we find multiple #Entomophthora genotypes with notable host specificity, and reconstruct bacterial communities associated with the killed insects.
A convincing demonstration of a unique transmission strategy of a widespread #insect #endosymbiont
--- check out the recent publication in @currentbiology.bsky.social @kaltenpoth-lab.bsky.social et al. www.cell.com/current-biol...
--- check out the recent publication in @currentbiology.bsky.social @kaltenpoth-lab.bsky.social et al. www.cell.com/current-biol...
Maternal symbiont transmission via envenomation in the parasitoid wasp Spalangia cameroni
Intracellular symbionts of insects are typically transmitted transovarially. Weiss
et al. find that in a nascent symbiosis between a Sodalis bacterium and a parasitoid
wasp, Sodalis is injected with w...
www.cell.com
March 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
A convincing demonstration of a unique transmission strategy of a widespread #insect #endosymbiont
--- check out the recent publication in @currentbiology.bsky.social @kaltenpoth-lab.bsky.social et al. www.cell.com/current-biol...
--- check out the recent publication in @currentbiology.bsky.social @kaltenpoth-lab.bsky.social et al. www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Thank you, @einsteinberlin.bsky.social, for recognizing the importance of raising concerns about scientific papers. Often, science sleuths face professional, personal, and legal threats.
Awards like these are vital to acknowledging the significance of our work.
Awards like these are vital to acknowledging the significance of our work.
🏆 Research integrity consultant and image forensics expert @elisabethbik.bsky.social has uncovered fraudulent data in over 7,600 scientific papers and exposed the practices of ‘paper mills’ that produce counterfeit scientific articles. She is honoured with the €200K Individual Award. Congrats!
March 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Thank you, @einsteinberlin.bsky.social, for recognizing the importance of raising concerns about scientific papers. Often, science sleuths face professional, personal, and legal threats.
Awards like these are vital to acknowledging the significance of our work.
Awards like these are vital to acknowledging the significance of our work.
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Our new #OpenAccess paper
How can long-term #ecology studies survive & resist political & social change, authoritarianism, war, but also embrace positive change?
The Białowieża Forest as an example of the resilience of long-term studies in a changing world:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/
How can long-term #ecology studies survive & resist political & social change, authoritarianism, war, but also embrace positive change?
The Białowieża Forest as an example of the resilience of long-term studies in a changing world:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/
March 1, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Our new #OpenAccess paper
How can long-term #ecology studies survive & resist political & social change, authoritarianism, war, but also embrace positive change?
The Białowieża Forest as an example of the resilience of long-term studies in a changing world:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/
How can long-term #ecology studies survive & resist political & social change, authoritarianism, war, but also embrace positive change?
The Białowieża Forest as an example of the resilience of long-term studies in a changing world:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/
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Recommended read: A @theguardian.com interactive mapped the record heat experienced by two-thirds of the Earth’s surface in 2024.
Two-thirds of the Earth’s surface experienced record heat in 2024. See where and by how much – visualised
In oceans and on land, from the north to the south pole, records were smashed for the monthly average temperature
buff.ly
February 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Recommended read: A @theguardian.com interactive mapped the record heat experienced by two-thirds of the Earth’s surface in 2024.
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Dark Taxonomy: From unknown to ready for biomonitoring in 5 steps. By describing 120 species, most species of fungus gnats routinely caught in Malaise traps in Singapore now have names. Bees, butterflies and birds, make room for your new friends. Read here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
February 21, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Dark Taxonomy: From unknown to ready for biomonitoring in 5 steps. By describing 120 species, most species of fungus gnats routinely caught in Malaise traps in Singapore now have names. Bees, butterflies and birds, make room for your new friends. Read here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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It’s not the head, it’s the butt!
Meet a completely unknown organism: a blow fly (Calliphoridae) that evolved social integration in termite nests using a false termite head in the posterior part of the body.
@CurrentBiology www.cell.com/current-biol...
Meet a completely unknown organism: a blow fly (Calliphoridae) that evolved social integration in termite nests using a false termite head in the posterior part of the body.
@CurrentBiology www.cell.com/current-biol...
February 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
It’s not the head, it’s the butt!
Meet a completely unknown organism: a blow fly (Calliphoridae) that evolved social integration in termite nests using a false termite head in the posterior part of the body.
@CurrentBiology www.cell.com/current-biol...
Meet a completely unknown organism: a blow fly (Calliphoridae) that evolved social integration in termite nests using a false termite head in the posterior part of the body.
@CurrentBiology www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Hardly new info, but BSky should know:
Warsaw's water quality is monitored by eight clams with magnets attached to their shells. If contamination in the water causes the clams to close, the magnets trigger an alarm and shut off the city's water supply.
Thank you, little guardian molluscs.
🧪🌏🚰
Warsaw's water quality is monitored by eight clams with magnets attached to their shells. If contamination in the water causes the clams to close, the magnets trigger an alarm and shut off the city's water supply.
Thank you, little guardian molluscs.
🧪🌏🚰
February 7, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Hardly new info, but BSky should know:
Warsaw's water quality is monitored by eight clams with magnets attached to their shells. If contamination in the water causes the clams to close, the magnets trigger an alarm and shut off the city's water supply.
Thank you, little guardian molluscs.
🧪🌏🚰
Warsaw's water quality is monitored by eight clams with magnets attached to their shells. If contamination in the water causes the clams to close, the magnets trigger an alarm and shut off the city's water supply.
Thank you, little guardian molluscs.
🧪🌏🚰
A #gingerbread Christmas #cicada - a sure sign that the much-needed vacation is just around the corner!
December 20, 2024 at 3:12 AM
A #gingerbread Christmas #cicada - a sure sign that the much-needed vacation is just around the corner!
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How to write a grant?
1. The application is for the reviewer, not you, the applicant.
2. Communicate in stories.
3. Make your story cohesive—leave no puzzling gaps.
4. Make your story resonate to keep the reviewer reading.
5. Accept chance and noise in peer-review.
www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....
November 24, 2024 at 3:38 PM
How to write a grant?
1. The application is for the reviewer, not you, the applicant.
2. Communicate in stories.
3. Make your story cohesive—leave no puzzling gaps.
4. Make your story resonate to keep the reviewer reading.
5. Accept chance and noise in peer-review.
www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....
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A forest of neurons inside your head, happy #FluorescenceFriday! 🔬🧪🧠
November 22, 2024 at 7:21 PM
A forest of neurons inside your head, happy #FluorescenceFriday! 🔬🧪🧠
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Hope I'm the first to post this all time classic on this platform
November 19, 2024 at 4:51 AM
Hope I'm the first to post this all time classic on this platform
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Three (!) positions as Assistant Professor in #Biodiversity
We hope to get one to our department #biogeography
A super recruitment within Life sciences. Maximum of 7 since PhD 🌍🧪
#biodiversity #academic #climatechange #lifescience #ecology #StockholmUniversity
Please re-🦋
www.su.se/english/news...
We hope to get one to our department #biogeography
A super recruitment within Life sciences. Maximum of 7 since PhD 🌍🧪
#biodiversity #academic #climatechange #lifescience #ecology #StockholmUniversity
Please re-🦋
www.su.se/english/news...
Faculty of Science is recruiting Assistant Professors in Biodiversity - Stockholm University
Faculty of Science is recruiting Assistant Professors in Biodiversity - Stockholm University
www.su.se
November 12, 2024 at 3:37 PM
Three (!) positions as Assistant Professor in #Biodiversity
We hope to get one to our department #biogeography
A super recruitment within Life sciences. Maximum of 7 since PhD 🌍🧪
#biodiversity #academic #climatechange #lifescience #ecology #StockholmUniversity
Please re-🦋
www.su.se/english/news...
We hope to get one to our department #biogeography
A super recruitment within Life sciences. Maximum of 7 since PhD 🌍🧪
#biodiversity #academic #climatechange #lifescience #ecology #StockholmUniversity
Please re-🦋
www.su.se/english/news...
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I’m not sure most people appreciate how many different species our planet holds.
Here are just some (maybe 20%?) of the plant- and leaf-hopper bugs, from just one state, Texas.
Here are just some (maybe 20%?) of the plant- and leaf-hopper bugs, from just one state, Texas.
Hoppers of Texas - Alex Wild
An incomplete guide to common Texas planthoppers, leafhoppers, treehoppers, spittlebugs, and relatives.
www.alexanderwild.com
November 11, 2024 at 2:02 PM
I’m not sure most people appreciate how many different species our planet holds.
Here are just some (maybe 20%?) of the plant- and leaf-hopper bugs, from just one state, Texas.
Here are just some (maybe 20%?) of the plant- and leaf-hopper bugs, from just one state, Texas.
I'm new to BlueSky - it's fun exploring this new site!
And here is a photo of me at another site that was new to me this year: collecting insects for microbiome research in Ilulissat, #Greenland. It's turned out great.
#microbiome #symbiosis #insects #biodiversity #sequencing
And here is a photo of me at another site that was new to me this year: collecting insects for microbiome research in Ilulissat, #Greenland. It's turned out great.
#microbiome #symbiosis #insects #biodiversity #sequencing
November 12, 2024 at 12:16 AM
I'm new to BlueSky - it's fun exploring this new site!
And here is a photo of me at another site that was new to me this year: collecting insects for microbiome research in Ilulissat, #Greenland. It's turned out great.
#microbiome #symbiosis #insects #biodiversity #sequencing
And here is a photo of me at another site that was new to me this year: collecting insects for microbiome research in Ilulissat, #Greenland. It's turned out great.
#microbiome #symbiosis #insects #biodiversity #sequencing