Thinking of getting a new plastid, but worried that it will be too hard to figure out how to target proteins to it? Fear not, Kareniaceae dinoflagellates show that you can just use the preexisting translocons from the donor alga, haptophytes in this case. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Mitochondrial protein analysis reveals the starting point of eukaryogenesis. LECA was a flagellated excavate! This suggests that currently unidentified cytoskeletal proteins played important roles in early diversification of eukaryotes and then found new roles in descendant taxa.

A robustly rooted tree of eukaryotes reveals their excavate ancestry. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

nature.com/articles/s4155… Woah! "At the deepest phylogenetic levels, ancestral habitat reconstruction analyses suggest that eukaryotes may have first evolved in non-marine habitats and that the two largest known eukaryotic assemblages arose in different habitats."

"🇨🇦 universities brace for financial collapse as international student numbers nosedive by 45%, threatening the future of higher education." This one is worth a look. <thread>🧵

Postdoc position available to work with me, in collaboration with Chris Lane Chris Lane, on Nephromyces, the closest non-parasitic, extracellular symbiont relatives of the blood parasites (Plasmodium et al). How did the business of blood parasitism start? jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48203/

Theo says a lot of really dumb things, but calling Mark Carney a communist is probably the funniest

New #ISEPpapers #preprint! A robustly rooted tree of #eukaryotes reveals their excavate ancestry biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #Protists #Microbes #Eukaryogenesis #Genomics #TreeOfLife #Evolution by Kelsey Williamson et al.

Pierre Polievre is what you get if you cross Stockwell Day with Stephen Harper

The great David Penny's obituary: nature.com/articles/s4155…

Canadian Conservatives freaking out and bleating furiously about Mark Carney advising Trudeau on economic policy. I don't care for Trudeau, but you can't really argue with Carney's expertise...Conservatives fear they can't compete with his economics savvy I suspect.

Eva Nowack on bacterial #endosymbionts in unicellular eukaryotes at #ISE Symposium Bochum

Hello, I'm a university professor. My job is to answer email and complete mandatory online training courses.

If Poilievre thinks rising carbon prices would make "inflation run rampant", how is it possible that inflation has been more than cut in half since August 2022 while the carbon price has increased by 60 per cent? #cdnpoli

Graham Clark: the importance of communication among scientists. Each method resulted in a different #geneticdiversity division scheme. Subtyping scheme to the rescue! #blastocystis BlastocystisCOST International Blastocystis Network (IBN) #Blastocystis24 #parasite ?

Daisy Shaw from university of Kent on #blastocystis omics #gut #parasite? BlastocystisCOST International Blastocystis Network (IBN) #Blastocystis24

Dr. Anastasios Tsaousis discusses the morphological diversity of #stramenopiles #evolution #parasite? #symbiosis BlastocystisCOST International Blastocystis Network (IBN) Microbiology Society #Blastocystis24

Niche question for protistologists: do any of you remember what year the Society of Protozoologists meeting was in Vancouver (at UBC) in the early 90s? It was either 91 or 92...but I can't remember which.