Geoff McFadden
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Geoff McFadden
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Identified the apicoplast in 1996. Coasting ever since.
My reviews with catchy titles receive less citations. Sad truth is that people search for a review on particular theme to cite in their Introduction, and if it has a clear title, they cite it rather than a funky title. They likely don’t read it BTW, just cite it 🫤
November 27, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Bah humbug. Last night was waxing crescent.
November 26, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Notebook LM does it. You can load several papers and it will contrast and compare. You can even throw questions to it during the podcast, which is mind boggling. Still hallucinates though, so buyer beware.
November 21, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Very cool
November 20, 2025 at 2:41 AM
They got the idea from this guy.
October 20, 2025 at 12:20 AM
So cool. Ciliates are the most amazing single cell critters. They do such complex things. Keep the fun biology coming.
October 20, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Great piece. Makes good sense to optimise the clock to the growing environment. Is it simple to breed for clock traits?
October 16, 2025 at 6:37 AM
I enjoyed these preprints. I like your approach ranging from genome mining, phylogeny, microscopy, and genetics to establish function. Lovely work. I found it ironic that the Chloroflexata had to again reinvent a signal transfer protein from the
chemotaxis system to steer with the archaellum.
September 19, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Wow, surprising that a wholesale swap of propulsion mechanism across Domains is possible.
September 18, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Slow growth was always a very limiting factor in studying Paulinella. This could be a game changer @thealgaeman.bsky.social
September 12, 2025 at 9:07 AM
A colleague has one of these in Seattle and loves it. Strong cooperative body because everyone lives in their building and all seek to make it a nice home.
August 27, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Wow, cool findings.
August 27, 2025 at 8:52 AM
True. What scenarios worry you most? I believe there is larval cannibalism, so that is a plausible mechanism for a drive to jump from malaria transmitting Anopheles to other species of mosquito.
August 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I think about mosquitoes like this. Adults don’t grow, they do little ecologically other than pollination and be food for bats, we fixate on the adults because they bite us & spread very serious diseases.The larval stages are massively important in aquatic ecosystems but get scant attention.
August 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Congratulations Yash. Nice paper.
August 18, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Oddly enough, our isn’t the apicoplast article. 🙃
August 7, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Always an excellent experience publishing with you Pengfei.
August 7, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Additionally, the Manhattan Project cost ~$35b in today’s dollars. Many argue that there was an economic factor in the decision to use it.
August 6, 2025 at 3:17 AM
SLJ also does advertising for online gambling, just saying.
July 30, 2025 at 11:32 PM