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Metabarcoding and Metagenomics @mbmg.pensoft.net · 8d

Researchers present the BaNaNA (Barcoding Nanopore Neat Annotator) pipeline and display the effectiveness of long-read Nanopore sequencing for protist biodiversity, ecology and evolution research.

🔗 doi.org/10.3897/mbmg...

@ankarn.bsky.social @fabnot.bsky.social

From short to long reads: enhanced protist diversity profiling via Nanopore metabarcoding

In the last decades, environmental metabarcoding has revolutionised biodiversity research, particularly for microbial organisms such as protists, enabling large-scale assessments of diversity and ecol...

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Nicole Coots @nicolecoots.bsky.social · May 12

My friends in the Life of Retaria group decided to make a podcast! In the first episode, they interview @fabnot.bsky.social about his journey as a scientist. I loved the first episode, hope you do too! @juliemeilland.bsky.social @sandinmm.bsky.social et al.

thelifeofretaria.github.io/podcast.html

The Life of Retaria Experience

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Fabrice Not @fabnot.bsky.social · May 12

Thank you so much to the amazing LoRe crew for giving me this wonderful opportunity ! It’s been a great time spent chatting together and an honor to get this series of podcasts started 🤩🙏. #protistonsky

Nicole Coots @nicolecoots.bsky.social · May 12

My friends in the Life of Retaria group decided to make a podcast! In the first episode, they interview @fabnot.bsky.social about his journey as a scientist. I loved the first episode, hope you do too! @juliemeilland.bsky.social @sandinmm.bsky.social et al.

thelifeofretaria.github.io/podcast.html

The Life of Retaria Experience

thelifeofretaria.github.io

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Fabrice Not @fabnot.bsky.social · May 8

Congratulations Miguel !!

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Miguel Méndez Sandín @sandinmm.bsky.social · May 8

Despite 150+ years of Radiolaria diversity research, we have just scratched the surface. Nearly half of Radiolaria diversity might be naked hiding in plain sight! We unveiled the diversity and evolution of Radiolaria beyond "the stars of the ocean"
doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

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Fabien Burki @fburki.bsky.social · May 7

Congrats @sandinmm.bsky.social et al, very nice paper: www.cell.com/current-biol... #protistsonsky

Extant diversity, biogeography, and evolutionary history of Radiolaria

Sandin et al. reveal a vast, overlooked molecular diversity of Radiolaria, likely skeleton-less, contrasting the traditional view of their star-shaped skeleton. Such comprehensive Radiolaria diversity...

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Miguel Méndez Sandín @sandinmm.bsky.social · May 5

Why do some planktonic protists develop a gelatinous matrix? We suggest that this original adaptation is a strategy to cope with ocean oligotrophy: doi.org/10.1111/1462...
Led by @n-llopis-m.bsky.social, and thanks to all co-authors, I'm very happy to finally see it out!
#protistsonsky

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SAME18-BCN @same18-bcn.bsky.social · Mar 22

🌊 Save the Date! 🌍
#SAME18 — Aquatic Microbiomes on a Changing Planet
📍 Barcelona, Spain | 🗓️ Sept 28 – Oct 3, 2025
At the iconic PRBB 🧬🌿
Join us to explore the frontiers of aquatic microbial ecology.

📢 Stay tuned for more info and follow us on Bluesky!

#MicrobialEcology #MarineMicrobiology #SAME18

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Fabrice Not @fabnot.bsky.social · Mar 14

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Metabolic interdependence and rewiring in Radiolaria-microalgae Photosymbioses

Abstract. Marine planktonic Radiolaria harboring symbiotic microalgae are ubiquitous in the oceans and abundant in oligotrophic areas. In these low-nutrien

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Fabrice Not @fabnot.bsky.social · Feb 5

Congratulations Camille ! All the best for the next adventures

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Fabien Burki @fburki.bsky.social · Jan 19

Stoked about this manuscript, many years in the making. We present an original resource of ~700 highly curated plastid MAGs of marine pelagic algae. Among these we found a novel deep branching group of plastid genomes; we informally call them leptophytes
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Miguel Méndez Sandín @sandinmm.bsky.social · Jan 10

Next Monday 13 we have the 6th session of The Life of Retaria Seminar Series!
Join us at 08h00 (CET) and discover symbiosis in these wonderful protists with Caroline Juery and @filiphusnik.bsky.social
Check it out: thelifeofretaria.github.io
#radiolaria #foraminifera #theLifeOfRetaria #protistsonsky

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Station Biologique de Roscoff / Roscoff Marine Station @sbroscoff.bsky.social · Jan 10

La Station Biologique de Roscoff vous souhaite une très belle année 2025 !
Pour cette Année de la Mer, la préservation, la recherche et le partage des connaissances sur l'Océan seront au coeur de nos engagements.

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Fabrice Not @fabnot.bsky.social · Dec 9

bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Protists and protistology in the Anthropocene: challenges for a climate and ecological crisis - BMC Biology

Eukaryotic microorganisms, or “protists,” while often inconspicuous, play fundamental roles in the Earth ecosystem, ranging from primary production and nutrient cycling to interactions with human heal...

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Fabrice Not @fabnot.bsky.social · Dec 9

Protists and protistology in the Anthropocene: challenges for a climate and ecological crisis

Lucia DI IORIO @diioriolucia1.bsky.social · Nov 22

🚨 Job alert!

There is still some time! Join the Seaphony team working on marine soundscapes to study key habitats within the European TREC and Biocean5D projects.

Job application here: luciadiiorio.site/wp-content/u...

#postdoc #acoustics

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Luciana Santoferrara @lusantof.bsky.social · Nov 1

Do you like aquatic microbes and computational work? Join my team as a Postdoctoral Researcher!
Apply here: hofstra.peopleadmin.com/postings/4504

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Fabien Burki @fburki.bsky.social · Nov 21

Difficult to be more #protistsonsky that this. Very cool

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Openly available illustrations as tools to describe eukaryotic microbial diversity

The microbial world is diverse and critically important to understanding evolution and global ecology, but we lack teaching and communications resources. This Essay provides a series of technical diag...

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