Claudio Slamovits 🇦🇷🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

A 3-year delay. At most. No problem

Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance (‘¡Dios Mío!’ Cry Millions Of Panicking Republicans) BOISE, ID—Crying out “¡Dios mío!” and “¡Ayúdame!” as soon as they heard the opening notes of the Puerto Rican superstar’s “EoO,” millions of terrified conservatives reportedly lost the ability to spea...

“Oh, what a crock-load of mierda—¿qué?—¿qué está pasando? ” said local 43-year-old Randy Hance

"Congratulations on your award" comes close second I suppose

13% success rates at #CIHR, is a really 87% fail rate for>4000 scientists. At a time when 🇨🇦 is investing millions to recruit more scientist into a broken funding environment. 🇨🇦, U need a strong science foundation 2 attract success. #CIHR, fix your science foundation, it is eroding in real time

Great thread!

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Seeking candidates for a PhD/postdoc opportunity via IMPACT+ program in protistology+aquaculture in Halifax.

For more info, contact me by Feb 5th or see:

slamo.biochem.dal.ca/call-for-app...

#aquaculture #microsky #marinelife #protistsonsky #microalgae #protists

"Algo habrán hecho" (they must have done something) was the catchphrase people used to overlook illegal kidnappings during Argentina's dirty war

European Alternatives We help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products.

Se me ha ocurrido hoy hacer un site rápidamente de alternativas europeas a servicios digitales afincados en EEUU

Bueno pues resulta que ya existe

Hay que apoyar Europa

european-alternatives.eu

Plato too woke for Texas

We Are the Bad Guys The swaggering threat to global stability is us.

“What do we call it when a stronger person decides to rob a weaker person because he can? It is just gangsterism. We are the most dangerous gangsters in the world today. Not in the sense of being charming rogues or alluring antiheroes. We are the bad guys.”

Canada's dependency on professional services firms is scandalous Among the federal government's expenditures, one category of the 2024-25 Public Accounts stands out in particular.

Deploying and testing third-party technology products on citizens through mandatory processes that are neither transparent nor accountable also risks producing inequalities and further severing trust in public institutions, writes Matt Malone. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/31/o...

The world is finally united

Great to see!! Congrats Sergio!

Endogenized polinton-like viruses in the dinoflagellate Oxyrrhis marina uncover novel PolB fusion Marine viruses are ubiquitous entities that impact the biology of a large fraction of prokaryotic and eukaryotic diversity. Dinoflagellates are heterotrophic, mixotrophic and photosynthetic eukaryotes...

... of degradation that suggests it's adopting a transposable element-like lifestyle. Read it at doi.org/10.1099/jgv....
#VirEvol #MicroSky #Mevosky #SymbioSky #ProtistsOnSky

Endogenized polinton-like viruses in the dinoflagellate Oxyrrhis marina uncover novel PolB fusion Marine viruses are ubiquitous entities that impact the biology of a large fraction of prokaryotic and eukaryotic diversity. Dinoflagellates are heterotrophic, mixotrophic and photosynthetic eukaryotes...

a unique ~1,500 amino acid fused DNA Helicase SF1–pPolB, the largest replication protein known so far in Preplasmiviricota. It shows signs of recent endogenization and a pattern ... [cont] #VirEvol #MicroSky #Mevosky #SymbioSky #ProtistsOnSky

Endogenized polinton-like viruses in the dinoflagellate Oxyrrhis marina uncover novel PolB fusion Marine viruses are ubiquitous entities that impact the biology of a large fraction of prokaryotic and eukaryotic diversity. Dinoflagellates are heterotrophic, mixotrophic and photosynthetic eukaryotes...

🎄 Just published 🎉! Our ongoing genome sequencing of the basal dinoflagellate Oxyrrhis marina uncovered a new lineage of endogenized Polinton-like viruses, OmPLV. Notably, OmPLV encodes ... [cont]
#VirEvol #MicroSky #Mevosky #SymbioSky #ProtistsOnSky

I hope he didn't read the lebensraum part

That tree changed a lot since my postdoc. I feel very old!

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :)

The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used

> neal.fun/size-of-life/

What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?

My giant acrylamide sequencing gels were pretty good

#OtD 6 Dec 1928 the banana massacre took place in Ciénaga, Colombia, when soldiers killed up to 2000 striking workers of the United Fruit Co., and their wives and children, who were fighting for one day off per week and pay in money rather than coupons stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1059...

Even the nazis picked up survivors

Of course those papers will only be read by LLMs...

Widespread and intron-rich mirusviruses are predicted to reproduce in nuclei of unicellular eukaryotes - Nature Microbiology Environmental metagenomic explorations show that Mirusviricota lineages lack essential replication and transcription genes and contain spliceosomal introns, suggesting nuclear reproduction.

Check out our latest paper on mirusviruses, one of the most remarkable new groups of protist viruses - extremely diverse, carry lots of spliceosomal introns (including new homing introns) and are at the evolutionary crossroads between tailed phages and herpesviruses! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Did you try it on microbial eukaryotes (other than fungi)?

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Come join us! Soon I will be advertising a postdoc vacancy in my group as part of my @erc.europa.eu AdG project 'DARK ROOTS'. Focus of the project will be on phylo- and metagenomic mining of novel prokaryotic lineages. I will soon post a link here - stay tuned, and please repost! #asgardarchaea

A Cell So Minimal That It Challenges Definitions of Life | Quanta Magazine The newly described microbe represents a world of parasitic, intercellular biodiversity only beginning to be revealed by genome sequencing.

According to the microbial ecologist Puri López-García, pictured here at a salt flat in the Chilean Andes, some 25% to 50% of all bacterial cells may be parasites of other cells.

So happy to announce our new preprint, “A geothermal amoeba sets a new upper temperature limit for eukaryotes.” We cultured a novel amoeba from Lassen Volcanic NP (CA, USA) that divides at 63°C (145°F) 🔥 - a new record for euk growth!
#protistsonsky 🧵

Glad to be old enough to have seen that