Plant Science Spotlight @plant-sci.bsky.social Spotlighting global #plantscience that drives the field forward. We share AI-generated summaries of key papers/news that deserve more eyes, always with source links.
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CGUE 2026 @cgue2026.bsky.social Comparative Genomics of Unicellular Eukaryotes
October 5-10, 2026 - Sant Feliu de Guixol (Spain)
#Eukaryotes #Protists #Microbiology #Genomics #EvolutionaryBiology #ComparativeGenomics #Protistology #CellBiology- K kroeger-lab.bsky.social @kroeger-lab.bsky.social Diatom Research group at TU Dresden interested in Biomineralization and Bioadhesion
Mari Muñoz Marín @vesynech.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Córdoba studying vesicles and nanotubes in marine cyanobacteria. VESYNECH/INTERCYANO /UCOIMPULSA Projects
Joanna Masel @joannamasel.bsky.social Theoretical biologist and advisor to data scientists at the University of Arizona. Mostly theoretical population genetics and molecular evolution, but I've also published in biochemistry, infectious disease, aging, economics, education. Opinions are my own
@phylowheeler.bsky.social @phylowheeler.bsky.social
Another Green @anothergreen.bsky.social #ClimateChange #Renewables #Ecosocialism #Think32 #ElinorOstrom #Commons #CorneliusCardew #GaeilgeGachLá #Marx
The Amoeba Lab @amoeba-lab.bsky.social David Evans and the ‘Amoeba’ Lab at the University of Southampton (UK), researching (foraminifera) biomineralisation and climate change in Earth’s past
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social As the only "marine" institute within the Max Planck Society, we do basic research in order to better understand microbial life in the oceans and its impacts the environment.
Marie Walde 🌊🦠🔬 @mariescopy.bsky.social Biophysicist using #microscopy and image analysis to study eukaryotic #microbes ( #protists) in the #marine #plankton
@roscoff-collection.bsky.social
🇩🇪🇫🇷
🦣 ecoevo.social/@mariescopy
🔬 mariescopy.github.io
📑 orcid.org/0000-0002-4071-7677
Kate Littler @palaeoclimate.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Palaeoclimate | Department of Earth & Environmental Science, University of Exeter (Cornwall) | Marine geology | Micropalaeontology | Geochemistry | IODP | Birding | Parenting small humans
Megan Sorensen @messorensen.bsky.social Interested in the evolution of endosymbiosis, especially those that photosynthesise. And more broadly in evolutionary microbiology, symbiosis, organelles and protists.
Assistant Professor at CeMESS, University of Vienna.
Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social 2nd longest-running livestream on YouTube. Live from an urban coral reef in Miami. A public art & scientific research project by Coral Morphologic (https://bsky.app/profile/coralmorphologic.bsky.social) ◦ coralcitycamera.com
Amy Courtney @amycourtneyyy.bsky.social Anne Warner Research Fellow at the Marine Biological Association, UK
Florent Waltz @florentwaltz.bsky.social SNSF Ambizione Project Leader
Looking at tiny frozen mitochondria with big microscopes 🔬 cryoEM/cryoET
Green organisms 🌿 & evolution 🦠
Biozentrum, hosted in the Engel Lab, CH
🇫🇷 -> 🇩🇪 -> 🇨🇭
Website: https://www.waltzresearch.com/
Courtney Stairs @cstairs.bsky.social Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University || Anaerobes, mitochondria, evolution || #ERC_stg #tango2uppsala www.thelabupstairs.online
Allan Carrillo-Baltodano @allancarbal.bsky.social Developmental biologist interested in marine embryos and larvae; postdoc at Queen Mary University of London; tico 🇨🇷 in London 🏴; #embryo2019
Philippe Van der Stappen @phaips.vd.st Cryo-ET of Rubisco phase separation
PhD @ Engel & Hondele Lab Biozentrum Basel 𝗖𝗛
#TeamTomo
Liat Adler @noodlyscientist.bsky.social Postdoc in the Burlacot lab at Carnegie Science
Stanford Energy Postdoctoral Fellow
Interested in all things photosynthetic 🧪💚
Geetha _G @algalalchemist.bsky.social PhD student @BiologyCentre CAS, Algal biology, Music and avid reader
Fred Chaux @fredchaux.bsky.social Research associate
Division for Marine and Environmental Research
Laboratory for marine and atmospheric biogeochemistry
Institut Ruđer Bošković, Croatia
Chris Cornwall @chrisecornwall.bsky.social Kelp forests, coral reefs, climate change, coralline algae, ecologist, physiologist, geochemist. Senior Lecturer of Marine Biology. Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington. Group leader of coastal eco physiology group (CEG)
This Is Anfield @thisisanfield.com Independent Liverpool FC Website, Online Since 2001
www.thisisanfield.com
Tom Chalk @chalkyoceans.bsky.social Dr Chalk, destined to be a researcher of carbonates. CO2, & ocean-climate links, resident isotope geochemist @exoceanlab.bsky.social,
@cerege.bsky.social, France.
Equalist, technologist, environmentalist. #climatevegan 🌱.
🇬🇧🤝🇲🇫. 🏳️🌈 but always with the 🏳️⚧️.
Dan Kliebenstein @spicybotrytis.bsky.social Dogs, Horses and Gardening, with a side of research on complexity and metabolic warfare in plants
Katherine Helliwell @kehelliwell.bsky.social Algae enthusiast, Associate Professor @UniofExeter, joint appointment @thembauk
Algal ecophysiology | signalling | microbiome | molecular microbiology | diatoms!
@alisonsmith25.bsky.social @alisonsmith25.bsky.social
Miguel Méndez Sandín @sandinmm.eurosky.social Understanding eukaryotic molecular diversity and evolution. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow @IBE_Barcelona @beaplab.bsky.social
https://miguelmsandin.github.io/
https://thelifeofretaria.github.io/
Mastodon: @SandinMM@ecoevo.social
Thorsten Reusch @thorstenreusch.bsky.social Marine evolutionary ecology, genomics and restoration at GEOMAR Kiel, Germany's Ocean Institute. Fascinated with ocean life, its adaptation and protection. Focus Baltic Sea & other world areas. Pet species cod, seagrass, comb jellies, phytoplankton
Finkemeier Lab @ifink-lab.bsky.social Plant Physiology & Functional Proteomics group of Iris Finkemeier @uni_muenster. Focus on #PTMs in #plant acclimation #acetylation #organelles #proteomics
Plant Energy Biology Lab @schwarzlanderlab.bsky.social Metabolism, organelles, stress, transport & redox.
Live monitoring with biosensors @uni-muenster.de
Posts by Markus
Alex Costa @labcosta.bsky.social Editorial Board @PlantCellEnvir, Board of Advisors @New Phytol, and @Facultyopinions
#Calcium #signaling #Arabidopsis #organelles #PCS #imaging
Marc Knight Lab @marcknightcalcium.bsky.social Calcium signalling, abiotic and biotic stress responses and plant hormone interactions.
Personal Chair in Plant Cell Signalling, Durham University, UK & Professorship, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.
Posts by Marc.
Thomas Mock @thomasmock.bsky.social Ocean Microbiome | Evolution | Algae | Diatoms | Genomics | Genetics | Biology | Ecology | Biotechnology | Co-Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Phycology
https://mocklab.com/
https://www.omicroncr.co.uk/
James Clark @drjimclark.bsky.social I am an oceanographer who works within the Marine Systems Modelling group at Plymouth Marine Laboratory.
Web: https://www.pml.ac.uk/people/Dr-James-Clark/
GitHub: https://github.com/jimc101
Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social Cilia and cell motility enthusiast, basal cognition, weird organisms esp protists and larvae, how do living systems compute?
Professor of Cellular & Biophysical Dynamics, Living Systems Institute, Exeter (past: DAMTP, Cambridge)
www.micromotility.com
Karen Grace Bondoc-Naumovitz @seeseamic.bsky.social currently working on diatom motility
previous research: marine viruses, Ehux, HABs, sea cucumbers.
Patrick Keeling @pjkeelinglab.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist working on protists
Deeks Lab @deekslab-cytoarc.bsky.social Researchers interested in all things connected to the plant cytoskeleton
Otti Croze @otticroze.bsky.social Biophysicist/math biologist (Newcastle University) working on microswimmers and the physics of microbes 🦠; passionate about nature and sustainability ♻️; mental health advocate; he/him/his; opinions personal.
Knut Drescher @knutdrescher.bsky.social I love science and discovering new things.
Flora Vincent @floravincent.bsky.social Group Leader at EMBL spying on the social life of marine microbes and pushing for more inclusive sciences | Tara Oceans | Plankton Manifesto
https://www.embl.org/groups/vincent/
https://planktonmanifesto.org/
Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy Professor at the Centre for Organismal Studies (COS), University of Heidelberg, Germany
and at the
Living Systems Institute (LSI), University of Exeter, UK […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://biologists.social/@jekely, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Dacks Lab (Evolutionary Cell Biology) @dackslabecb.bsky.social This is the professional account for the Evolutionary Cell Biology lab of Prof. Joel Dacks.
Maria Sachkova @mariasachkova.bsky.social Scientists studying the evolution of neurons and venoms in marine invertebrates. Lecturer at University of Bristol
Prakash Lab at Stanford @prakashlab.bsky.social Curiosity Driven Science
Fabien Burki @fburki.bsky.social Exploring the great microbial eukaryote diversity and evolution, one protist at a time. I’m fascinated by this question: how have #plastids evolved? #ProtistsOnSky | Associate Prof at Uppsala University. My lab: https://www.burki-lab.net/
Pawel Burkhardt @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social Evolution of neurons and nervous systems / choanoflagellates / sponges / ctenophores. Deputy Director & Group leader at the Michael Sars Centre, University of Bergen. Webpage: https://www4.uib.no/en/find-employees/pawel.burkhardt
Matthew Terry @mjtplantbiology.bsky.social Molecular plant biologist at sotonbiosciences.bsky.social, Director of SoCoBio DTP. Views are my own.
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/5wyk8h/professor-matthew-terry
Nora Salland @noramare.bsky.social Marine Ecologist | Kelp Lover 🌊🌱 | Ocean/forest/science nerd & skull enthusiast
Previously: Postdoc at @ubcbotany.bsky.social & @hakai.org (🇨🇦); PhD at @thembauk.bsky.social (🇬🇧); MSc & BSc at University of Rostock (🇩🇪)
Ansgar Gruber @ansgargruber.bsky.social Looks at life and tries to understand.
Michi A Mausz @michiamausz.bsky.social Marine microbiologist working on lipid remodelling in cyanobacteria and microalgae, interested in carbon sequestration, climate change and everything marine.
Jed Fuhrman @jedfuhrman.bsky.social Dad, husband, nature lover, microbial ecologist, oceanographer, USC Professor. American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Am Acad Microbiology. Interested in how all life works together in the functioning of ocean ecosystems. Still just scratching the surface.
Prof David Sims @thesimslab.bsky.social Marine biologist, university professor #ERCAdG researching #Shark movements, behaviour, conservation & climate change w/ biologging #GlobalSharkMovementProject - views my own
Prof Martin Attrill @martinattrill.bsky.social Prof Marine Ecology Plymouth Uni; Chief Scientific Advisor Ocean Conservation Trust; Trustee Manta Trust; Loves Seagrass; Originator National Marine Park concept; Founder MSc Marine Conservation @PlymUni. Green-tinged humanist.
Bryce Stewart @bd-stew.bsky.social Fisheries, conservation & scallop charming. Searching for sustainable ocean solutions @thembauk.bsky.social & @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social https://www.mba.ac.uk/staff/dr-bryce-stewart-bsc-hons-phd/
Creator of #bemorescallop
Carol Robinson @carolrobinson8.bsky.social Professor of Marine Sciences at the University of East Anglia. Own views. https://research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/carol-robinson
Poppy Diver @poppydiver.bsky.social Ocean & Earth Science PhD @thembauk.bsky.social & @sotonoceanearth.bsky.social | Marine fungal ecology 🍄🌊 | Previously @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social | Into all things microbial/biogeochemical 🦠🌍 | Also 🏊♀️🚲🏃♀️⛰️🧘
Julie Robidart @robidart.bsky.social Technological design to interpret signatures of ocean biology and biogeochemistry, at scale. Specialisation in omics, eDNA and microbiology
Plymouth Marine Laboratory @pml.ac.uk A world leader in the field of marine research, Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) delivers impactful science in support of a sustainable ocean future.
Clare Ostle @clareostle.bsky.social CPR Research Fellow at the Marine Biological Association
Co-ordinator of the Pacific CPR survey
Chair of the Global Alliance of Continuous Plankton Recorder surveys (GACS)
Ian Lidbury @iandealidbury.bsky.social Royal Society University Research Fellow & PI @ The University of Sheffield | Plant microbiome | organic phosphorus | polysaccharide utilisation | Bacteroidota
Mak Saito @maksaito.bsky.social Biogeochemist, oceanographer, proteomics scientist, guitarist for Deep Six, half-Scottish half-Japanese American
Noelle Held @proteocean.bsky.social proteomics, cellular decision-making, and biogeochemical cycles. assistant professor of marine & environmental biology @ USC. Also a yoga teacher. Your best is enough.
Curtis Suttle @virosphere.bsky.social Purveyor of the Virosphere.
Professor Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences, Microbiology & Immunology, Botany, and the Inst for the Oceans & Fisheries - UBC
https://www.eoas.ubc.ca/people/curtissuttle
Daniel Vaulot @daniel-vaulot.bsky.social Biological oceanographer focusing on marine protists. Developing the PR2 databases for metabarcoding: https://pr2-database.org
Emeritus at CNRS (SBR, Roscoff) and Guest Investigator at the University of Oslo (AQUA section, IBV).
https://daniel-vaulot.fr
Fabrice Not @fabnot.bsky.social Senior Scientist @ Station biologique de Roscoff, France #cnrs #sorbonneuniversity
#eDNA #radiolaria #microbiomes #symbiosis #protists
Johan Decelle @johandecelle.bsky.social Marine biologist,
Harriet Alexander @nekton4plankton.bsky.social biological oceanographer | bioinformatics enthusiast | data and twin wrangler | https://alexanderlabwhoi.github.io/
assistant scientist @ WHOI | she / her
👩🏽🔬🧬🦠🌊🏳️🌈
twitter archive: https://halexand.github.io/old_tweets/
Sarah Smith @smith8272.bsky.social Biological Oceanographer, Asst. Prof at MLML. SIO graduate 2014. Splitting time between Moss Landing and San Diego. Phytoplankton ecologist and mCDR investigator.
Serena Flori @serenaflori.bsky.social Postdoc fellow at EMBL (DE)
"views are my own"☘️🌊🦠🧪🌈- P Phytoplankton Ecology and Biogeochemistry Lab (PEBL@Rice) @pebl-rice.bsky.social We study tiny 'things' of global importance around the world.
PI: Sven Kranz; PhD student: Maggie Baker; Undergraduate students coming in Spring 2024
Eva Nowack @evanowack.bsky.social Evolutionary cell biologist
fischerlab.bsky.social @fischerlab.bsky.social Explorer of the viral universe. Advocate of exotic microbes.
Roscoff Culture Collection @roscoff-collection.bsky.social This is the official BlueSky account of the Roscoff Culture Collection, one of the largest culture collections for marine microorganisms (algae, macroalgae, bacteria, protists).
https://www.roscoff-culture-collection.org/
Andrew Millar @andrewmillar.bsky.social #OpenData and science policy, interdisciplinarity, biological clocks and plants. He/his.
University of Edinburgh, the Biological Research Data Management team, BioRDM.
New student of #trees.
Avatar credit: Ed Himmelblau.- J Julian Hibberd @jmhibberd.bsky.social Plant scientist, interests include dogs, mountains, opera
Johnathan Napier @johnathan-n.bsky.social Metabolic engineer & plant biotechnologist. Interested in omega-3s and early 90s EDM.
Neil Hall @neilhall.bsky.social Science, Genomics, FAIR data, a bit of politics, Liverpool FC #YNWA
Director of the Earlham Institute
Angela Falciatore @afalciat.bsky.social Research Director CNRS @IBPC in Paris
Photobiology, Signalling, Microalgae, Diatoms, Marine Biology.... at http://ibpc.fr/UMR7141/en/hom…
Alex Webb Lab @alexwebblab.bsky.social Plant circadian biology at Department of Plant Sciences University of Cambridge.
Katrin Geisler @kgeisler.bsky.social Algae, diatom and plant bioengineer 🌱 Synthetic genomes 🧬 and more
Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social Writing & Editing @ www.thesustainableprofessor.com 🌱Co-host, The Taproot Podcast 🌱Former midwestern biology professor finding her way as a writer and bon vivant in the PNW 🌱Check out what I'm up to or contact me: https://elizabethhaswell.carrd.co
Nick Talbot @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social Interested in plant pathology, fungal development, cell biology. I study a disease called rice blast and work at The Sainsbury Laboratory. Views my own.
Andrew Roger @andrewjroger.bsky.social deep-time evolution, phylogenetics, anaerobic protists, the tree of Life. Science depends on vigorous respectful debate and evidence-based reasoning. I like cats. This is my personal page and what I post here has nothing to do with my employer.
Ben Jenkins @benkinsjenkins.bsky.social Molecular mechanisms of endosymbiosis | Herchel Smith fellow @camwallerlab @oxfordbiology | 🦠 Paramecium bursaria | 🪸 Aiptasia
Nicole Poulton @npoulton.bsky.social Sr Research Scientist, Director - Center for Aquatic Cytometry @ Bigelow Laboratory, plankton ecologist & educator. Msgs are my own.
Debashish Bhattacharya @bhattacharyalab.bsky.social Professor who studies evolution with a focus on marine ecosystems. We aim to turn science into products of use to society.
Luis Bolaños @lbolanos68.bsky.social Postdoc
@UniofExeter
| Environmental microbiology | Views own | lbolanos68.github.io
Eva Sonnenschein @marinobacter.bsky.social 🌊🦠🧬🤖 marine chemical ecology & application of bacteria & microalgae #phycosphere #plastisphere @SwanseaUni - @welshcrucible.bsky.social 2023 - parent of 2 - she/her
https://www.sonnenscheinlab.com/
#microsky #womeninSTEM
Joseph Christie-Oleza @jcolab.bsky.social Marine microbial ecologist. Planktonic interactions, plastic biodegradation... mechanistic understanding always!
Cyanotrans @cyanotrans.bsky.social We work on little bugs responsible for a big part of the oxygen you breathe: cyanobacteria, with special focus on Prochlorococcus and marine Synechococcus. Further information on our work: http://www.uco.es/cyanotrans/Home.html
Corina Brussaard @brussaard7.bsky.social Prof Marine Virus Ecology
NIOZ - Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
& Univ Amsterdam
Peter Miller @peterimiller.bsky.social Satellite oceanographer: ocean fronts, marine ecology and harmful algal blooms @PlymouthMarine.bsky.social #OceanicFronts #Harmful #Algae. Views my own.
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation @moorefound.bsky.social We foster path-breaking scientific discovery, environmental conservation, and preservation of the special character of the Bay Area.
Mark van der Giezen @mitorem.bsky.social Interested in and working on parasites of humans, livestock and fisheries. Research related to health, food security, biochemical adaptations to low oxygen and mitochondrial evolution. Work also on microbiomes and guts. Faculty member, but personal account
Matteo Pivato @matteopivato.bsky.social Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellow | @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social 🦠🔬
Assistant Features Editor | The Plant Cell @theplantcell.bsky.social 🌱📝
#Chlamydomonas #microalgae #signalling #photosynthesis #calcium #microscopy
Heather Koldewey @heatherkoldewey.bsky.social Marine conservationist at Zoological Society of London. Lead Bertarelli Foundation Indian Ocean marine science programme. Hon Prof Exeter Marine. Trustee Coast4C, SAS, MBA. Co-founder Project Seahorse. Nat Geo Explorer. Cornwall UK
Mat Upton @matupton.bsky.social Microbiology, antibiotic discovery, academic & chief scientific officer.