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This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

that their introduction to the world – first track on their first album - is "break on through" is just 🤯🤯🤯

@phylieu.bsky.social has been gushing over this album lately, too

Assistant Professor of Biology The Biology Department at Oberlin College invites applications for a full-time tenure track faculty position in the College of Arts and Sciences in conservation ecology. Initial appointment to this po...

🚨🚨 New tenure track position in #ConservationBiology @oberlincollege.bsky.social in the #Biology department--come join us, and contribute to our brand new Environmental Science major too! #biologyjobs #ecologyjobs

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Sloan Lab Welcome! Our research focuses on the evolutionary process at the molecular level. In particular, we investigate how a mixture of natural selection and non-adaptive forces create and maintain the amazi...

Please share! Our lab is recruiting a PhD student to join us starting fall 2026. Our group is broadly interested in plant molecular evolution and comparative genomics. More info about our lab and grad programs at Colorado St. is available on our lab website.

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You'd probably like Monkey Wrench Gang then.

thanks for this. I read this in my 20s on a trip through the desert, even so I probably didn't appreciate it like you did – this thread makes me want to re-read it

Are you interested in how diatoms communicate with each other? Exciting post-doc position available in my lab to study the signalling mechanisms of cell-cell communication in diatoms. Deadline 14th July. @kehelliwell.bsky.social @thembauk.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNO210/p...

A host organelle integrates stolen chloroplasts for animal photosynthesis Sea slugs steal foreign chloroplasts and store them in specialized organelles that facilitate photosynthesis and eventual digestion to mediate starvation resistance.

📜 A host organelle integrates stolen chloroplasts for animal photosynthesis

🧑‍🔬 Corey A.H. Allard, Amy S.Y. Lee, @nbellono.bsky.social, et al.

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#️⃣ #PlantScience #Kleptosomes #Sacoglossan #SeaSlug #Photosynthesis

What a great meeting!

Looking back on last week's Molecular Life of Diatoms conference 🌊. Honored to be hosting this tight-knit, creative and collaborative community in Ghent! Topics ranged from single-cell approaches, imaging breakthroughs, new insights into photosynthesis and symbioses etc. #protistsOnSky #MLD8

Made my day, Bruce!

Amazing pictures – thanks for sharing!

Those are fully intact diatoms that are normally highly motile. Does it glue them all down so they can't move?

And it's all the same diatom species – are the diatoms dividing on the amoeba, or does it specifically collect the same diatom species? Wild.

Many amoebae incorporate diatoms in their shells, but Cylindrifflugia bacillariarum is the master. Third and fourth pics are close views of the glue that holds it all together. #ProtistsonSky #Amoebae #Peatlands

Wonderful set of co-authors: @phylieu.bsky.social, @reactionnorm.bsky.social, @evelinepinseel.bsky.social, @wrroberts.bsky.social, @karolina-brylka.bsky.social, and many others

Phylogenomics reveals the slow-burning fuse of diatom evolution | PNAS Evolution is often uneven in its pace and outcomes, with long periods of stasis interrupted by abrupt increases in morphological and ecological dis...

New paper on diatom phylogenomics from our lab. Ten years in the making, but it always took a backseat to student and postdoc papers.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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I had a chance to talk about the importance of #NSF on our local public radio station.
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The NSF Is Being Dismantled — With Broad Implications For The American Economy The economic consequences of cuts to the National Science Foundation and restricting scientific inquiry on this scale could be far-reaching.

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Dear @bsky.app, please let @atrupar.com keep posting so we don't have to go to the bad place to see his much needed videos.

Insights into global planktonic diatom diversity: The importance of comparisons between phylogenetically equivalent units that account for time AbstractMetabarcoding has offered unprecedented insights into microbial diversity. In many studies, short DNA sequences are binned into consecutively lower

We published a largely ignored paper about this several years ago.

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Happy Friday. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'm sympathetic though: all these lowly taxonomy, classification, and organismal biology problems represent extremely inconvenient truths that get in the way of high-throughput science. It's hard to know about all these things as organisms. It slows you down. Like a lot.

Worried if freshwater diatoms that can't withstand the teeniest tiniest dash of salt show up in the middle of the ocean?

Why state that taxonomic "classes" are monophyletic, even when no phylogenetic tree has ever, ever supported that? Wishing it were true?

What's your expectation for comparisons of species diversity and abundance in two genera that differ in age by 80 million years? What's your null? How about comparing two genera, when one is phylogenetically embedded within the other? 🤯

This is prevalent in the metabarcoding and metagenomics literature, where reads are classified into some ranked named group, and those names are compared. Many named groups are not monophyletic, and others names of equivalent taxonomic rank differ in age by tens of millions of years.

There tends to be a discounting of taxonomy and classification as "simple" and inconsequential exercises with no implications for the real world. The problem is that people use classifications to draw biological conclusions. Like all the time.

Sigh. academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

So cool!

Delighted to see our work on #diatom motility published in @pnas.org !🎉
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

These abundant single-celled algae are responsible for a significant portion of the air we breathe yet often overlooked. Here we show how how diatom (raphe) shape impacts their gliding function... 1/3