Impressive, and I am sure amazing genomics, but it feels as some zoology carelessness. "Microscopic phyla"-??? Have you heard about acanthocephalans? giant thorny-headed worm starts crying 😭 Can anyone clarify which organ systems (!) were reinvented (!!!)? Please correct me if I missed anything.

Promethea = PROvora + MEteora + HEmimastigophora. The new supergroup, unifying previously “orphan” lineages with gene-rich mitogenomes. Position of #telonemids is still uncertain. #protistsonsky tinyurl.com/yk9xkt49

When you are Stentor #ciliate and someone poring 🥛 milk on you 😵 More on teaming up for #multicellariaty and even on social cheating in Shekhar et al. 10.1038/s41567-025-02787-y. Also more psychodelic videos! Nature physics today. #protistsonsky

@amoebadiscovery.bsky.social made an iteresting interview with me about #heliozoa and #centrohelids - I think these organisms are really important, understudied and gorgeous 😍 Also lots other intresting reading and beatiful pictures! #protistsonsky link: tinyurl.com/adiscovery1

I am amazed by visual rhyme of these two subsequent posts in my feed! 😍

Hello #ProtistsOnSky, just by chance is anyone interested to have the culture of this cute Parauronema #ciliate? Don't really know what to do with it and need to clear my collection before changing lab. Grows quite well!

Soooo cool! "Rhabdamoeba marina is a heterotrophic relative of chlorarachnid algae" Shiratori & Ishida 10.1111/jeu.13010 #protistsonsky

Filamentous virus-like particles are present in coral dinoflagellates across genera and ocean basins. Howe-Kerr et al. DOI: 10.1038/s41396-023-01526-6. #protistsonsky

"Predation-resistant Pseudomonas bacteria engage in symbiont-like behavior with the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum" Steele et al. DOI: 10.1038/s41396-023-01535-5. #protistsonsky

thraustochytrid genome! Colier et al. "The protist Aurantiochytrium has universal subtelomeric rDNAs and is a host for mirusviruses" 10.1016/j.cub.2023.10.009 #protistsonsky