Nah. Even amoebae know when it’s time to split.
September 30, 2026 at 3:17 AM
Nah. Even amoebae know when it’s time to split.
The first amoebae weren’t capable of handling numbers—and neither were its descendants, for billions of years. Yet they made good life-and-death decisions.
*We can* count and calculate, but our decisions too still rely on those ancient mechanisms:
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*We can* count and calculate, but our decisions too still rely on those ancient mechanisms:
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September 29, 2026 at 3:09 PM
The first amoebae weren’t capable of handling numbers—and neither were its descendants, for billions of years. Yet they made good life-and-death decisions.
*We can* count and calculate, but our decisions too still rely on those ancient mechanisms:
buff.ly/8tG3n0o
*We can* count and calculate, but our decisions too still rely on those ancient mechanisms:
buff.ly/8tG3n0o
Read highlights in this week’s issue of PNAS: We explore ocean circulation, precipitation, and temperature; examine the derivation of LSD analogs; and analyze the migration of “brain-eating” amoebae. https://ow.ly/g4HP50ZSl9x
September 28, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Read highlights in this week’s issue of PNAS: We explore ocean circulation, precipitation, and temperature; examine the derivation of LSD analogs; and analyze the migration of “brain-eating” amoebae. https://ow.ly/g4HP50ZSl9x
NY Times Science: A scientist turned an $80 motel room into a makeshift lab; then she discovered two new species of microscopic amoebae - (The Times of India with the open & free article under no paywall)
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A scientist turned an $80 motel room into a makeshift lab; then she discovered two new species of microscopic amoebae
A scientist turned an $80 motel room into a makeshift laboratory during follow-up fieldwork in North Carolina after first spotting two unusual microscopic cells on a family vacation. Julia Van Etten, ...
timesofindia.indiatimes.com
September 28, 2026 at 11:35 AM
NY Times Science: A scientist turned an $80 motel room into a makeshift lab; then she discovered two new species of microscopic amoebae - (The Times of India with the open & free article under no paywall)
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/natu...
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Are you seeking motivation to start the week? Incredible videos (and stories!) of brain-eating amoebae, Trichoplax or blebs will surely motivate you!! 😍🔬🧫 Check out the recordings of our last seminar below ⬇️
ICYMI: the recording of our second webinar on emergent models and quantitative analysis of cell migration is now available.
🔬🎥Check it out to see talks from @ankita13jha.bsky.social, @raphclement.bsky.social and @katrinavelle.bsky.social
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🔬🎥Check it out to see talks from @ankita13jha.bsky.social, @raphclement.bsky.social and @katrinavelle.bsky.social
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FocalPlane features... cell migration recordings with Ankita Jha, Raphaël Clément and Katrina Velle - FocalPlane
FocalPlane features... cell migration recordings with Ankita Jha, Raphaël Clément and Katrina Velle - News
focalplane.biologists.com
September 28, 2026 at 7:45 AM
Are you seeking motivation to start the week? Incredible videos (and stories!) of brain-eating amoebae, Trichoplax or blebs will surely motivate you!! 😍🔬🧫 Check out the recordings of our last seminar below ⬇️
Studying Paulinella amoebae in a cheap motel room isn't about the origin of life — it's about endosymbiosis and how plants evolved. Commenters were quick to call out the headline for conflating complex cellular evolution with abiogenesis. 1/4
September 28, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Studying Paulinella amoebae in a cheap motel room isn't about the origin of life — it's about endosymbiosis and how plants evolved. Commenters were quick to call out the headline for conflating complex cellular evolution with abiogenesis. 1/4
They look like National Action to me. These things proliferate by crawling off into dark corners to split in two, like amoebae 🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠
September 27, 2026 at 10:21 PM
They look like National Action to me. These things proliferate by crawling off into dark corners to split in two, like amoebae 🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠
it always makes things worse when the doctor seems actively troubled 🙃
like he didn’t laugh at my brain eating amoebae joke
like he didn’t laugh at my brain eating amoebae joke
September 27, 2026 at 8:04 AM
it always makes things worse when the doctor seems actively troubled 🙃
like he didn’t laugh at my brain eating amoebae joke
like he didn’t laugh at my brain eating amoebae joke
testate amoebae
September 26, 2026 at 11:19 AM
testate amoebae
brain eating amoeba not happy about a documentary on brain eating amoebae. 🤷
While Musk has attacked the film as both a “hit piece” and a “psy op,” it’s been critically well-received thus far.
We have a trailer for Musk documentary Elon called a "hit piece"
Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney focuses on the world's wealthiest man.
arstechnica.com
September 26, 2026 at 12:34 AM
brain eating amoeba not happy about a documentary on brain eating amoebae. 🤷
These are the vacuous amoebae who warn us about Sharia Law but... they actually espouse it when they talk about women.
September 25, 2026 at 11:51 AM
These are the vacuous amoebae who warn us about Sharia Law but... they actually espouse it when they talk about women.
Interaction Patterns of Mucormycotina Fungi with Professional Phagocytes and Amoebae: A Comparative Phylogenetic and Geographic Survey on Clinical and Environmental Species https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.18.752354v1
September 20, 2026 at 3:16 AM
Interaction Patterns of Mucormycotina Fungi with Professional Phagocytes and Amoebae: A Comparative Phylogenetic and Geographic Survey on Clinical and Environmental Species https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.18.752354v1
Interaction Patterns of Mucormycotina Fungi with Professional Phagocytes and Amoebae: A Comparative Phylogenetic and Geographic Survey on Clinical and Environmental Species https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.18.752354v1
September 20, 2026 at 3:16 AM
Interaction Patterns of Mucormycotina Fungi with Professional Phagocytes and Amoebae: A Comparative Phylogenetic and Geographic Survey on Clinical and Environmental Species https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.18.752354v1
Nothing special so far, but thick stands of Calliergonella with some nice amoebae etc. looked promising. Yes, the fen and the meadow both need more management; I don't think the wet parts have been mown or grazed for a few years. I hope a local grazier might put a few cattle on once it's re-fenced.
September 19, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Nothing special so far, but thick stands of Calliergonella with some nice amoebae etc. looked promising. Yes, the fen and the meadow both need more management; I don't think the wet parts have been mown or grazed for a few years. I hope a local grazier might put a few cattle on once it's re-fenced.
The research article is open-access:
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
Naegleria amoebae seek confinement and crawl persistently through narrow spaces | PNAS
The “brain-eating amoeba” Naegleria fowleri dwells in ponds where it normally feeds
on bacteria, but if it enters the brain it can cause a deadly i...
www.pnas.org
September 18, 2026 at 7:21 AM
The research article is open-access:
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
If you’d like a dash of real-life horror with your Friday evening, you could try this research ⬇️ exploring how the pond-dwelling amoebae, Naegleria fowleri, is inadvertently adapted to getting into our brains, owing to its fondness for squeezing into tiny crevices.
(Actually interesting stuff 😀)
(Actually interesting stuff 😀)
September 18, 2026 at 7:21 AM
If you’d like a dash of real-life horror with your Friday evening, you could try this research ⬇️ exploring how the pond-dwelling amoebae, Naegleria fowleri, is inadvertently adapted to getting into our brains, owing to its fondness for squeezing into tiny crevices.
(Actually interesting stuff 😀)
(Actually interesting stuff 😀)
The “brain-eating amoebae” Naegleria fowleri normally hunts for bacterial prey in pond sediments. Its drive to squeeze into tiny crevices may help explain how it moves from the human nose through the sinus, along olfactory axons, and into the brain. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/3JCY50ZOPvg
September 18, 2026 at 1:00 AM
The “brain-eating amoebae” Naegleria fowleri normally hunts for bacterial prey in pond sediments. Its drive to squeeze into tiny crevices may help explain how it moves from the human nose through the sinus, along olfactory axons, and into the brain. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/3JCY50ZOPvg
ha! I'm watching old #MicrobialMatters podcasts and @markowenmartin.bsky.social says "Hudson Freeze, that's a super villan name!" youtu.be/UxxiDXxyulg?...
Matters Microbial #79: How Amoebae Beat the Heat
YouTube video by MicrobeTV
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September 17, 2026 at 6:26 PM
ha! I'm watching old #MicrobialMatters podcasts and @markowenmartin.bsky.social says "Hudson Freeze, that's a super villan name!" youtu.be/UxxiDXxyulg?...
Back to Syracuse from Aotearoa-New Zealand! Thanks #ISME20 for the great extremophiles turnout and Stott Lab for bringing me along sampling - excited to learn more about the geothermal amoebae from this beautiful country!
September 17, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Back to Syracuse from Aotearoa-New Zealand! Thanks #ISME20 for the great extremophiles turnout and Stott Lab for bringing me along sampling - excited to learn more about the geothermal amoebae from this beautiful country!
That's derogatory to amoebae
September 17, 2026 at 10:21 AM
That's derogatory to amoebae
It was like that in the lab too. People heating coffee and tea in the same microwave they would melt solutions for Western blot gels. Eat and drink in the same lab space tissue was being harvested or infectious amoebae were collected and harvested next to the radiation area
September 15, 2026 at 7:33 PM
It was like that in the lab too. People heating coffee and tea in the same microwave they would melt solutions for Western blot gels. Eat and drink in the same lab space tissue was being harvested or infectious amoebae were collected and harvested next to the radiation area
Yes .
And why no calls to shoot Mehmet Cengiz Oz?
Their double-double-triple standard.
MAGA is just a bucket of amoebae, no two brain cells together.
And why no calls to shoot Mehmet Cengiz Oz?
Their double-double-triple standard.
MAGA is just a bucket of amoebae, no two brain cells together.
September 12, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Yes .
And why no calls to shoot Mehmet Cengiz Oz?
Their double-double-triple standard.
MAGA is just a bucket of amoebae, no two brain cells together.
And why no calls to shoot Mehmet Cengiz Oz?
Their double-double-triple standard.
MAGA is just a bucket of amoebae, no two brain cells together.
I wouldn't say we're doomed but I would be cautious about swimming in warm waters harboring thermophilic pathogens, especially with our climate getting warmer. What concerns me more are the thermophilic amoebae in warm fresh waters, these can kill within 72 hrs. once contracted.
September 11, 2026 at 4:18 AM
I wouldn't say we're doomed but I would be cautious about swimming in warm waters harboring thermophilic pathogens, especially with our climate getting warmer. What concerns me more are the thermophilic amoebae in warm fresh waters, these can kill within 72 hrs. once contracted.
