John Michael Lastimoso

A dinoflagellate-infecting giant virus with a micron-length tail Viral infection is a ubiquitous source of marine plankton mortality, but relatively few viruses that infect phytoplankton have been characterized. Here we describe a virus, PelV-1, with unusual morpho...

Excited that this is out as a preprint! ❇️

We are introducing a novel dinoflagellate giant virus that holds so many mysteries!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

21.07.2025 07:14 — 👍 18    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 0

Ok so I’m watching The Outrun (sad but good movie), and Saoirse Ronan BECOMES A PHYCOLOGIST! Unexpected turn of events 🌊 Someone needs to make this into a GIF

24.03.2025 04:36 — 👍 17    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

A robustly rooted tree of eukaryotes reveals their excavate ancestry - Nature The root of the eukaryote Tree of Life is estimated from a new, larger dataset of mitochondrial proteins including all known eukaryotic supergroups, showing it lies between two multi-supergroup assemb...

I'm pleased to introduce our new paper rooting the eukaryote Tree of Life (eToL) that resulted from a collaboration led by PhD student Kelsey Williamson and a large group of collaborators doi.org/10.1038/s415...htt

14.03.2025 11:38 — 👍 152    🔁 64    💬 3    📌 7

Home | FossilForests.org Friends of Fossil Forests is a team of citizen scientists, educators, and students share a common interest in petrified wood and the stories behind it

seems like international fossil friends are mostly unaware of these folks - here's an interesting resource on (mostly) Southeast Asian fossil plants
www.fossilforests.org

04.03.2025 17:20 — 👍 40    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 0

🚨Preprint Alert🚨 I'm really happy to finally share our exploits in red algae and introduce the wider community to Bostrychia, the new model system we have been developing to tackle the molecular biology of red algae. Isn't she a beauty? Thread below 🧵 1/8 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

12.02.2025 08:37 — 👍 82    🔁 33    💬 4    📌 6

Do you think marine evolution #MarEvol is cool? Maybe you were at the 2018 Marine Evolution meeting in Strömstad, Sweden? And surely you'd like us to do it again and organise MarEvol2? Why not in the South of France? Then fill in this questionnaire and spread the word:
framaforms.org/my-interest-...

11.02.2025 06:26 — 👍 15    🔁 19    💬 2    📌 1

Photo portrait of Darwin surrounded by leaves and flowers, from SmithsonianMag.bsky.social.

Charles Darwin was born OTD in 1809.

Though best known for evolution by natural selection, I’d venture that he devoted more time, and more published pages, to plant physiology and behavior than any other subject.

It was all to serve his evolutionary project, but still.

#HPBio #Evobio 🧪 #HistSTM

12.02.2025 06:33 — 👍 87    🔁 24    💬 3    📌 1

Interesting! Made me think if the same thing can be observed for Sargassum here in the tropics (Philippines)! 🤔

13.01.2025 19:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I hate the direction lab equipment design has gone in recent years.

I don't want touchscreens, I don't want wifi integration, I don't want centrifuges demanding to know what time zone they're in.

I just want reliable instruments - with physical buttons - that do the one task they were made for.

02.01.2025 16:29 — 👍 2708    🔁 204    💬 151    📌 46

Welcoming 2025 by using this app for scicomm (?) and other science endeavors! I really love the personalized feeds/timelines here!

03.01.2025 16:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0