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Astra Demertzi

@astrademertzi.bsky.social

PhD Candidate Microbial Evolution & Bioinformatics ~ my views are my own ~

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Haven’t read the Wayfarer series yet, but I absolutely loved this one.

21.08.2025 08:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I am also interested in that. It'd be nice to know :)

09.07.2025 06:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New vacancy in my team!

PhD student position on microbial genome evolution, focusing on the evolutionary principles underlying bacterial genome architecture.

Please repost and share with talented MSc students in #evobio, bioinformatics or related :)

www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

#MEvoSky #MicroSky

14.05.2025 14:07 β€” πŸ‘ 84    πŸ” 105    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3
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Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.
Professor microbe knows the drill.

#Evomics

11.04.2025 13:01 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Only a few more days to apply for this exciting postdoc position (deadline: 6th of April)!

31.03.2025 10:45 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Poster showing two tourists shocked with the news about the Tempi traincrash

Poster showing two tourists shocked with the news about the Tempi traincrash

Welcome to Greece: Where Time Stops and So Do the Trains πŸš‚πŸ’₯

πŸš† In February 2023, 57 people died in a train collision. Two years later, you can still buy a ticket on that same line β€” with the same dangers.
🎯 Help us make it visible.

#TrainCrashGreece #Tempi #VisitGreeceSafely

27.03.2025 12:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I think it’s PTSD at this point

#MEvoSky #ArchaeaSky #Eukaryogenesis #Evomics

28.03.2025 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Loki’s ever the trickster, but thankfully Thor knows how to put him in his place

#ArchaeaSky #Asgard #comics #comedy

20.03.2025 19:49 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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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...

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨

A robustly rooted tree of eukaryotes sheds light on their deep evolutionary ancestryβ€”suggesting that the Last Eukaryotic Common Ancestor (LECA) may have had an excavate-like cell architecture. πŸ§΅πŸ”¬ (1/) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

12.03.2025 16:39 β€” πŸ‘ 141    πŸ” 75    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 5
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It's my #birthday tonight.
I'm turning 30 πŸ˜€πŸ˜±

I'm hosting a dinner with some friends, and I have hanged one A1 print in the living room πŸ„

If you would like to support me and to really see this project grow up, #repost today one of my posts as a birthday gift 🎁🎁

Would you put this on your wall?

21.02.2025 17:53 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

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