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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
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November 9, 2025 at 9:57 AM
evgenii-protasov.bsky.social
Half of microbial eukaryote literature focuses on only twelve human parasites
#microbiology #protists #eukaryotes
@isme-microbes.bsky.social
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Half of microbial eukaryote literature focuses on only 12 human parasites
Abstract. Although microbial eukaryotes comprise the majority of eukaryotic phylogenetic diversity and inhabit nearly all ecosystems globally, most researc
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November 9, 2025 at 10:10 AM
delcampolab.bsky.social
.@rociomozo.bsky.social is officially a PhD student in our lab! Her thesis project will explore the evolutionary history of Suessiales and the origin of symbiosis in the group🦠 Welcome!!🥳 #protists #corals #symbiosis #protistsonsky
November 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
adabehncke.bsky.social
Stunning imaging, gorgeous creatures. The amazing world of #protists
amunts.bsky.social Alexey Amunts @amunts.bsky.social · 10d
What a gem from @dudinlab.bsky.social @gautamdey.bsky.social @centriolelab.bsky.social in Cell! Expansion microscopy atlas of >200 eukaryotes comparing cytoskeletal architectures revealing structures not seen before. Stunning visualisation! Exactly the kind of transformative cell biology we need.
November 1, 2025 at 11:49 AM
embldbunit.bsky.social
✨Thomas Beavis, a PhD student in the Vincent group
@floravincent.bsky.social @embl.org , was our speaker at this week's DB seminar. He discussed his research on how diatom-ciliate symbiosis affects cell fate and function #symbiosis #marinebiology #protists
October 31, 2025 at 10:59 AM
pymundgenealogy.com
Are you saying this in your capacity as a professor, Dr. Belkessa, or as a researcher of protists?
— a dirty Jew
October 30, 2025 at 10:53 AM
arvidagren.bsky.social
*NEW PAPER*

How much of a threat are within-organism conflicts, really?

In Biology & Philosophy, @martijnschenkel.bsky.social, Manus Patten, and I present a mathematical framework to measure evolutionary individuality in the face of internal conflicts. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Screenshot of the abstract. It reads In biology, individuals can be identified at various levels of organization, ranging from the molecular and cellular—e.g., viruses and protists—to the organismal and societal—e.g., termites and termite colonies. This nested biological hierarchy results from evolutionary transitions in individuality, in which lower-lying entities (particles) come together to form higher-level entities (collectives). These collectives are then taken to be individuals in their own right, capable of being the units on which selection acts and where adaptations may reside. Challenges arise, however, when we recognize the possibility for internal conflict, for example from selfish genetic elements within organisms. Here we develop a quantitative approach to biological individuality, in which collectives qualify as individuals to the extent that their particles possess a unity of purpose—i.e., that they possess aligned fitness interests. We propose a mathematical framework that measures the degree of individuality exhibited by organisms and other biological collectives in the presence of internal conflicts. This framework not only helps pinpoint where in the hierarchy biological individuality sits, but also identifies the level at which adaptation may reside. We develop two metrics: fitness unity, which measures the threat posed by internal conflicts to a collective individual’s status as an optimizing agent; and trait unity, which measures differences in optimal strategies among its particles. Finally, we consider cases where internal conflicts become so disruptive to individualized biological collectives so that it no longer makes sense to think of them as individuals, but instead as compromises of multiple competing particles.
October 31, 2025 at 1:24 PM
prakashlab.bsky.social
“Cellular Olympics” our catalog of freeky ultra fast cellular superhero’s is freely available “Ann Rev of microbiology”

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This is a compilation of world’s fastest single cell organisms - enjoy this buffet of rare delightful protists with mind bending speeds. 🧪
October 24, 2025 at 10:57 AM
pathonick.bsky.social
The Microbiology Society returns to Belfast in April. From microbiomes to natural products, phage to protists, infection models to plant pathogens, together with all the usual fora, and ECM development opportunities. There truly is something for everyone! Get your abstracts in now and join us! 🦠
microbiologysociety.org Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 22d
Submit your abstract for the UK’s largest annual gathering of microbiologists, Annual Conference 2026. Held in Belfast, UK, this year’s conference now features two-day attendance tickets.
Night view of Belfast City Hall illuminated with colourful lights, promoting abstract submission closing for Annual Conference 2026 at ICC Belfast from April 13-16.
October 22, 2025 at 7:34 AM
michaelaye.bsky.social
thanks for this small innocent comment. it led me to discover that kelp isn't actually a plant but a fourth eukaryotic lifeform next to plants, animals, and fungi, called protists !?! #wikipedia FTW ! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protist
Protist - Wikipedia
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October 22, 2025 at 8:54 AM
biovitenskap.bsky.social
New publication: "A novel taxonomic database for eukaryotic mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit I gene #eKOI, with a focus on #protists diversity" with Daniel Vaulot @daniel-vaulot.bsky.social from @biovitenskap.bsky.social
Published in Database by @oxfordacademic.bsky.social
A novel taxonomic database for eukaryotic mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit I gene (eKOI), with a focus on protists diversity
Abstract. Metabarcoding has emerged as a robust method for assessing biodiversity patterns by retrieving environmental DNA directly from ecosystems. While
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October 20, 2025 at 8:27 AM
rsrp27.bsky.social
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
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October 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
luisjagago.bsky.social
Our study on the first rhodopsin channels known to respond to UV light is now published in PNAS! And they come from our favourite protists, apusomonads! #protistonsky

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October 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM
ankarn.bsky.social
Excited to share our new work on nanopore metabarcoding — showing how it can be used for protists and combined with short reads!
Led by my PhD student Małgorzata Chwalińska, with our team at @ibe-warszawa.bsky.social and @fabnot.bsky.social & Sarah Romac at @sbroscoff.bsky.social
#ProtistsOnSky
mbmg.pensoft.net Metabarcoding and Metagenomics @mbmg.pensoft.net · 27d
"Want to start using Nanopore technology to research protistan diversity? Check out our paper introducing a pipeline for creating OTUs from Nanopore metabarcodes — bridging the gap between short- and long-read metabarcoding." - Anna Karnkowska

doi.org/10.3897/mbmg...
October 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
bodhi000.bsky.social
#rainworld #oc
Maybe it's some strange protists
October 8, 2025 at 2:23 PM
trin.bsky.social
I've been eating Fifth Meat basically???? What?????? This conception has really fucked me up. Most vegans eat protists I bet.
October 7, 2025 at 9:47 PM
fonamental.bsky.social
How to upgrade stolen organelles into permanent plastids: A comparative transcriptomic perspective www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... #protists #protistsonsky
October 7, 2025 at 10:01 AM
fonamental.bsky.social
Genome-resolved biogeography of Phaeocystales, cosmopolitan bloom-forming algae www.nature.com/articles/s41... #protists #protistsonsky
October 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
regularslimeguy.bsky.social
Here are some multicellular macroscopic protists: a water mold, a ciliate colony, a collodarian jelly tube, & the giant kelp. All of these organisms are HAROSANS, a kingdom more closely related to plants than to animals, fungi, and amoebozoans.
A water mold infecting the roots of a plant; photo by Rasbak (wikimedia) A colony of ciliates with shared active anatomical structures A collodarian jelly tube from Rhizaria Giant kelp from the Monterrey Bay Aquarium
October 6, 2025 at 1:56 PM
troynovaunt.bsky.social
There are protists living in heat vents at the bottom of the ocean writing op-eds about how the faculty are the problem with modern universities. There are bacteria in slightly melted potholes in glaciers that are starting educational consulting firms that will help you discipline your faculty.
October 4, 2025 at 12:24 PM
fonamental.bsky.social
A New Age of Advanced Volume Microscopy for Protists onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #protists #protistsonsky
October 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
jimmybernot.bsky.social
I’ve been waiting for years to play that is Scrabble ever since I took a parasitology class. Among other things, the term is used for how certain protists line up to mate. Unfortunately not in the Scrabble dictionary 😆
September 30, 2025 at 9:25 PM
adabehncke.bsky.social
Curious about #protists and #anaerobic metabolism? 🦠🔬Well, it's out!
It is such a privilege to have taken part of this amazing work by Julie @protistsforthewin.bsky.social and Karla at @cstairs.bsky.social lab during my MSc. Thank you!😄
September 29, 2025 at 6:53 PM
micromotility.bsky.social
Love #protists? Then you'd love this! Beautiful collection of hand-drawn critters represented here at the Oxford-Japan symposium on ethological dynamics in diorama environments sites.google.com/view/oxford-... #ciliates #testateamoeba #diatoms
September 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
turkeycleverness.bsky.social
So, be aware that there already IS a level above kingdom, which is Domain. There are three domains--Eubacteria, Archaebacteria, and Eukarya. Because the two types of bacteria are more different from each other than animals, plants, fungi and protists are.
September 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM