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Michael Eisen @mbeisen.bsky.social · 14h

Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com

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Luis Javier Galindo @luisjagago.bsky.social · 1d

Our study on the first rhodopsin channels known to respond to UV light is now published in PNAS! And they come from our favourite protists, apusomonads! #protistonsky

www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 3d

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 2d

It’s #worldalgaeday and my most favourite of algae is the diatoms! Single-celled and microscopic, these algae are so important, storing carbon, making oxygen, cycling nutrients, providing food, and even helping innovations in science and medicine! #marineplankton 🦑

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Metabarcoding and Metagenomics @mbmg.pensoft.net · 7d

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...

doi.org

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Filip Husnik @filiphusnik.bsky.social · 8d

OIST is seeking up to four tenure-track or tenured faculty in Ecology, Environmental Science, Earth Science, and Oceanography. Application deadline: Oct 15. Please share. Thx!
www.oist.jp/careers/facu...

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Jean-Yves Tinevez @jytinevez.bsky.social · 8d

Job alert!

We are looking for a bioimage analysis to work in an image analysis core facility in beautiful Paris. Can I ask you to share this opportunity with your networks?

See also on the forum:
forum.image.sc/t/research-e...

Research engineer in Bioimage Analysis for the researchers of the inIdEx FORMULA

Hi all We are looking for a bioimage analysis to work in an image analysis core facility in beautiful Paris. Can I ask you to share this opportunity with your networks? The position is in the Instit...

forum.image.sc

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Edward T Eng @edwardteng.bsky.social · 11d

Muyuan Chen has turned structural biology into an immersive experience with his new video game Meowtabolism, now available on Steam.
Try the demo here: store.steampowered.com/app/4045010/...
Give Muyuan feedback: steamcommunity.com/app/4045010
#ScienceGaming #StructuralBiology #CryoEM #STEMOutreach

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Jelena Godrijan 🫧❾🌊🦋 @godi.bsky.social · 10d

⚠️New paper ➡️ isolating >600 freshwater microbes using dilution-to-extinction and low-nutrient, lake-mimicking media.

🤯Expands cultured diversity to ~70 % of detected genera and enables physiological studies of streamlined oligotrophs.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#protistsonsky

Bringing the uncultivated microbial majority of freshwater ecosystems into culture - Nature Communications

A large fraction of aquatic bacteria remains uncultured. Here, the authors cultivated 627 strains of abundant freshwater bacteria from 14 European lakes, thus generating a collection that includes many previously uncultured, oligotrophic bacteria that may serve as model organisms.

www.nature.com

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 11d

Conventional wisdom says motherhood should wait for tenure as before you land a permanent post, #academia is just not that family friendly🙁

@carersinstemm.bsky.social are calling for change and to celebrate their new report, a Saturday🧵on parenting & academia! 1/9 👩‍🔬🧪🔭⚛️

ℹ️: carersinstemm.co.uk

From 2006. A younger and shell-shocked looking Catherine on a balcony holding a very tiny baby with the mountains of Vancouver in the background. The baby is so new, Catherine still has the pregnant bump.

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Ewerslab @ewerslab.bsky.social · 11d

🚂 A peine lancés et déjà supprimés ? Sauvons les trains de nuit Paris-Berlin et Paris-Vienne, un voyage bas-carbone largement plébiscité par ses utilisateurs
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🚂 Sauvons les trains de nuit Paris-Berlin et Paris-Vienne

Signez la pétition maintenant !

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Armando Rubio Ramos @bioarm.bsky.social · 13d

Really nice contribution of @arcadiascience.com of open high quality drawings across the tree of life. Take a look!
research.arcadiascience.com/pub/resource...
😍😍

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The Marine Biological Association @thembauk.bsky.social · 13d

“Eating Anything in Their Path” – that’s how The New York Times recently described the surge of octopus sightings in the English Channel.

But how significant is this so-called octopus bloom? What’s fact, what’s myth – and what does it really mean for our seas?

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PeerJ @peerj.bsky.social · 13d

Studying copepods? The WAC Hub is your go-to platform—connect with specialists, publish faster with a 10% APC discount, and gain exposure in your niche field.

Explore the Hub: bit.ly/4eAjDcK

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BioImaging North America @bioimagingna.bsky.social · 26d

#HappyFluorescenceFriday!

#microscopycommunity- want to learn open source image analysis or share your knowledge to help others? We’ve got a FREE virtual workshop Nov 17-19! Now accepting workshop session applications!

Learn more & sign up: buff.ly/esGIotD

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ISME - International Society for Microbial Ecology @isme-microbes.bsky.social · 13d

We are looking for photos or videos of microscopy images and microbial ecologists at work! The winning photos and videos will be used to promote the ISME Society and our publications. Submit your entry by 11 November! More information: isme-microbes.org/call-for-mic...
#MicrobialEcology #microbes

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napari @napari.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 13d

napari 0.6.5 is out! 🚀

Rapid-fire highlights are: colorbar overlay, custom startup script, and better and prettier documentation! Check out the full release notes here: https://napari.org/dev/release/release_0_6_5.html

Image depicting the napari viewer in grid mode with scale bars and color bars enabled

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Jelena Godrijan 🫧❾🌊🦋 @godi.bsky.social · 13d

🌊🔬 Looking for a postdoc to join our team!
Cocco-Channel project ➡️ studying coccolithophore phycospheres and their role in ocean carbon cycling.
✔️ Plus if you bring experience in microbial ecology, molecular/microscopy tools & fieldwork
👉 More info: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/375178
#protistsonsky

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Lucien Hinderling @lhinderling.bsky.social · 14d

Now featuring contributions from 6 microscope brands (Inscoper, Zeiss, openUC2, Luxendo, Cytely, Nikon)
@inscoper.bsky.social @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social @openuc2.bsky.social @healthcare.nikon.com ...

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Ben Engel @cellarchlab.com · 15d

EXCITING NEWS!! We're searching for a new professor colleague at the Biozentrum🇨🇭. Ideal candidates are exploring novel biological questions with structure, biophysics, or high-resolution imaging. 🧪 🧶🧬 🔬

The call closes Nov 3. Please get in touch if you would like more information. Come join us! 👩‍🔬🤓

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Ignacio Arganda-Carreras @iarganda.bsky.social · 15d

📣 We’re hiring, please RT! Fully funded 4-year PhD position in our CVPD group at @informatikaehu.bsky.social!

Research at the intersection of AI, deep learning & bioimage analysis. 🧠🔬

📅 Applications open Oct 6 (deadline: ~Oct 27)
📍 San Sebastian, Spain.
👉 cvpd.github.io/post/2025-09...

📢 Open 4-year PhD Position in Deep Learning for Bioimage Analysis! | CVPD Research group

The Computer Vision and Pattern Discovery (CVPD) group at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) is offering a fully funded 4-year PhD position within the recently awarded project TOSBI: Towar...

cvpd.github.io

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John Burns @burnsajohn.bsky.social · 15d

The radiolarian hipster says to the diatoms "I was a spiky glass cell before it was cool" (first radiolarians appeared ~500 million years ago; first diatoms ~200 million years ago).

But the diatoms grow *much* faster. No one even knows how radiolarians grow at all! They don't seem to eat diatoms 😅

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Biozentrum, University of Basel @biozentrum.unibas.ch · 16d

Assistant/Associate Professor in Structural Biology, Biophysics or Biological Imaging

www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/open-positio...

#biozentrum #University #Basel #Professor #Structural #Biology #Biophysics #Biological #Imaging

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Siân Culley @superresolusian.bsky.social · 16d

BioImage analysis friends - King's are recruiting for a full-time, permanent facility position! Come and work with fun microscopes and fun people (and me!) - please share! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/126345-...

Bioimage Analysis Specialist | King's College London

www.kcl.ac.uk

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Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle @mnhn.fr · 19d

La Biennale du Vivant a commencé ! 🪸

Retrouvez Lucie Bittner, chercheuse en microbiologie au Muséum, le 27 septembre de 10h à 11h30 à l'ENSAD.

Pour découvrir la programmation complète : mnhn.fr/fr/actualites/biennale-du-vivant

Nous avons hâte de vous voir !
#Biennaleduvivant #vivant

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