My ciliates keep getting crushed by the pressure 🦠🧬
#emergent #evolution #proceduralgeneration #speculativeevolution #pixelart
#emergent #evolution #proceduralgeneration #speculativeevolution #pixelart
November 6, 2026 at 12:05 AM
My ciliates keep getting crushed by the pressure 🦠🧬
#emergent #evolution #proceduralgeneration #speculativeevolution #pixelart
#emergent #evolution #proceduralgeneration #speculativeevolution #pixelart
My lysocytes threw everything they had at the ciliates
#speculativeevolution #timelapse #indiegame #evolution #simulationgame
#speculativeevolution #timelapse #indiegame #evolution #simulationgame
November 4, 2026 at 5:04 AM
My lysocytes threw everything they had at the ciliates
#speculativeevolution #timelapse #indiegame #evolution #simulationgame
#speculativeevolution #timelapse #indiegame #evolution #simulationgame
My ciliates and Acidos Labs keep trading the lead 🦠🧬
#simulation #timelapse #evolution #biology #artificiallife
#simulation #timelapse #evolution #biology #artificiallife
November 6, 2026 at 3:09 AM
My ciliates and Acidos Labs keep trading the lead 🦠🧬
#simulation #timelapse #evolution #biology #artificiallife
#simulation #timelapse #evolution #biology #artificiallife
🇫🇷 Nous recrutons un·e ingénieur·e d’études au CNRS, à Toulouse, pour étudier les capacités d’apprentissage chez les ciliés !
🇬🇧 We’re hiring a Research Engineer at CNRS in Toulouse to investigate learning abilities in ciliates!
=> emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
🇬🇧 We’re hiring a Research Engineer at CNRS in Toulouse to investigate learning abilities in ciliates!
=> emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Ingénieur d'étude en Biologie (H/F)
emploi.cnrs.fr
November 5, 2026 at 10:09 AM
🇫🇷 Nous recrutons un·e ingénieur·e d’études au CNRS, à Toulouse, pour étudier les capacités d’apprentissage chez les ciliés !
🇬🇧 We’re hiring a Research Engineer at CNRS in Toulouse to investigate learning abilities in ciliates!
=> emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
🇬🇧 We’re hiring a Research Engineer at CNRS in Toulouse to investigate learning abilities in ciliates!
=> emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
One of my plankton samples had some Spirostomum colonies and I decided to look at one under my microscope.
Found this lonely Stentor coeruleus amongst them.
I almost feel second-hand enochlophobia, watching this video.
#microscopy #pondlife #ciliates
Found this lonely Stentor coeruleus amongst them.
I almost feel second-hand enochlophobia, watching this video.
#microscopy #pondlife #ciliates
November 6, 2026 at 8:34 AM
One of my plankton samples had some Spirostomum colonies and I decided to look at one under my microscope.
Found this lonely Stentor coeruleus amongst them.
I almost feel second-hand enochlophobia, watching this video.
#microscopy #pondlife #ciliates
Found this lonely Stentor coeruleus amongst them.
I almost feel second-hand enochlophobia, watching this video.
#microscopy #pondlife #ciliates
An unprecedented codon reassignment and two new genetic code variants in ciliates https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.11.04.764322v1
November 6, 2026 at 11:33 AM
An unprecedented codon reassignment and two new genetic code variants in ciliates https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.11.04.764322v1
An unprecedented codon reassignment and two new genetic code variants in ciliates https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.11.04.764322v1
November 6, 2026 at 11:33 AM
An unprecedented codon reassignment and two new genetic code variants in ciliates https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.11.04.764322v1
CRV Science Wiki
🧬 Ciliophora — Ciliophora (commonly known as ciliates, from the Latin cilium, 'eyelash,' and Greek phoros, 'bearing') is a major phylum of single-celled heterotrophic and mixotrophic eukaryotes (protists) comprising more than 4,500 describe…
https://crvscience.com/wiki/ciliophora
🧬 Ciliophora — Ciliophora (commonly known as ciliates, from the Latin cilium, 'eyelash,' and Greek phoros, 'bearing') is a major phylum of single-celled heterotrophic and mixotrophic eukaryotes (protists) comprising more than 4,500 describe…
https://crvscience.com/wiki/ciliophora
CRV Science Wiki
🧬 Ciliophora — Ciliophora (commonly known as ciliates, from the Latin cilium, 'eyelash,' and Greek phoros, 'bearing') is a major phylum of single-celled heterotrophic and mixotrophic eukaryotes (protists) comprising more than 4,500 described free-living and symbiotic species (wit…
crvscience.com
November 6, 2026 at 4:27 AM
CRV Science Wiki
🧬 Ciliophora — Ciliophora (commonly known as ciliates, from the Latin cilium, 'eyelash,' and Greek phoros, 'bearing') is a major phylum of single-celled heterotrophic and mixotrophic eukaryotes (protists) comprising more than 4,500 describe…
https://crvscience.com/wiki/ciliophora
🧬 Ciliophora — Ciliophora (commonly known as ciliates, from the Latin cilium, 'eyelash,' and Greek phoros, 'bearing') is a major phylum of single-celled heterotrophic and mixotrophic eukaryotes (protists) comprising more than 4,500 describe…
https://crvscience.com/wiki/ciliophora
Not all nuclei are the same. We went to some of biology’s most exceptional nuclei
👉 dinoflagellates with genomes 80× ours
👉 Giardia’s twin nuclei
👉 ciliates carrying two nuclei in one cytoplasm
& asked a simple question: what sets nuclear density?
🧵 Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
👉 dinoflagellates with genomes 80× ours
👉 Giardia’s twin nuclei
👉 ciliates carrying two nuclei in one cytoplasm
& asked a simple question: what sets nuclear density?
🧵 Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
October 26, 2026 at 10:47 AM
Not all nuclei are the same. We went to some of biology’s most exceptional nuclei
👉 dinoflagellates with genomes 80× ours
👉 Giardia’s twin nuclei
👉 ciliates carrying two nuclei in one cytoplasm
& asked a simple question: what sets nuclear density?
🧵 Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
👉 dinoflagellates with genomes 80× ours
👉 Giardia’s twin nuclei
👉 ciliates carrying two nuclei in one cytoplasm
& asked a simple question: what sets nuclear density?
🧵 Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
A meta-analysis of environmental sequencing data reveals the global distribution and hidden diversity of marine anaerobic ciliates
#ciliates #protists #eukaryotes #MicroSky #ProtistsOnSky
@isme-microbes.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/isme...
#ciliates #protists #eukaryotes #MicroSky #ProtistsOnSky
@isme-microbes.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/isme...
A meta-analysis of environmental sequencing data reveals the global distribution and hidden diversity of marine anaerobic ciliates
Abstract. Anaerobic protists are diverse, ecologically important members of oxygen-depleted microbial communities, acting as grazers, nutrient cyclers, and
doi.org
October 26, 2026 at 7:31 AM
A meta-analysis of environmental sequencing data reveals the global distribution and hidden diversity of marine anaerobic ciliates
#ciliates #protists #eukaryotes #MicroSky #ProtistsOnSky
@isme-microbes.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/isme...
#ciliates #protists #eukaryotes #MicroSky #ProtistsOnSky
@isme-microbes.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/isme...
A meta-analysis of environmental sequencing data reveals the global distribution and hidden diversity of marine anaerobic ciliates academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a... #jcampubs 🌊
October 26, 2026 at 4:30 PM
A meta-analysis of environmental sequencing data reveals the global distribution and hidden diversity of marine anaerobic ciliates academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a... #jcampubs 🌊
Zhou et al. investigate intron evolution in ciliates, a morphologically and genetically diverse unicellular lineage, using a newly sequenced high-quality genome and comparative genomic data from derived and deep-branching lineages.
🔗️ academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
#societyjournal #evobio #molbio
🔗️ academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
#societyjournal #evobio #molbio
October 27, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Zhou et al. investigate intron evolution in ciliates, a morphologically and genetically diverse unicellular lineage, using a newly sequenced high-quality genome and comparative genomic data from derived and deep-branching lineages.
🔗️ academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
#societyjournal #evobio #molbio
🔗️ academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
#societyjournal #evobio #molbio
Happy to see @annaschreck.bsky.social's paper with Erin Frates, Alia Al-Haj, and @wallyfulweiler.bsky.social out in @isme-microbes.bsky.social Communications! Check it out if you like anaerobic ciliates or meta-analysis of 18S rRNA datasets for diversity discovery!
academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...
academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...
A meta-analysis of environmental sequencing data reveals the global distribution and hidden diversity of marine anaerobic ciliates
Abstract. Anaerobic protists are diverse, ecologically important members of oxygen-depleted microbial communities, acting as grazers, nutrient cyclers, and
academic.oup.com
October 22, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Happy to see @annaschreck.bsky.social's paper with Erin Frates, Alia Al-Haj, and @wallyfulweiler.bsky.social out in @isme-microbes.bsky.social Communications! Check it out if you like anaerobic ciliates or meta-analysis of 18S rRNA datasets for diversity discovery!
academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...
academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...
Contrasting modes of intron evolution in an evolutionarily distinct eukaryotic lineage revealed by comparative genomics of ciliated protists
#evolution #eukaryotes #protists #ciliates #MicroSky #ProtistsOnSky
doi.org/10.1093/molb...
#evolution #eukaryotes #protists #ciliates #MicroSky #ProtistsOnSky
doi.org/10.1093/molb...
Contrasting modes of intron evolution in an evolutionarily distinct eukaryotic lineage revealed by comparative genomics of ciliated protists
Abstract. Introns are widespread in eukaryotic genomes and play important roles in gene regulation, making intron evolution a long-standing focus of genome
doi.org
October 23, 2026 at 10:56 AM
Contrasting modes of intron evolution in an evolutionarily distinct eukaryotic lineage revealed by comparative genomics of ciliated protists
#evolution #eukaryotes #protists #ciliates #MicroSky #ProtistsOnSky
doi.org/10.1093/molb...
#evolution #eukaryotes #protists #ciliates #MicroSky #ProtistsOnSky
doi.org/10.1093/molb...
reminds me of rich people making pills and powder 'health supplements' out of limnospira cyanobacteria, which on one hand, water bears/ciliates/ect do make cyanobacteria chlorophyll look kinda tasty, but on the other hand I dont trust anything marketing itself as a health tonic
October 22, 2026 at 11:40 PM
reminds me of rich people making pills and powder 'health supplements' out of limnospira cyanobacteria, which on one hand, water bears/ciliates/ect do make cyanobacteria chlorophyll look kinda tasty, but on the other hand I dont trust anything marketing itself as a health tonic
Yeah, ciliates count. But I’m thinking about translational movement here so sinking and rising is not really mobility then, but more movement in place.
October 19, 2026 at 10:34 PM
Yeah, ciliates count. But I’m thinking about translational movement here so sinking and rising is not really mobility then, but more movement in place.
I know of very few examples! If you count sinking / rising as mobility (lol), then I guess jelly tubes are the 2nd "macro mobile non-animal"
and there's a bunch of millimeter-scale ciliates that can barely be seen by the naked eye... do they count?
and there's a bunch of millimeter-scale ciliates that can barely be seen by the naked eye... do they count?
October 19, 2026 at 8:20 PM
I know of very few examples! If you count sinking / rising as mobility (lol), then I guess jelly tubes are the 2nd "macro mobile non-animal"
and there's a bunch of millimeter-scale ciliates that can barely be seen by the naked eye... do they count?
and there's a bunch of millimeter-scale ciliates that can barely be seen by the naked eye... do they count?
Also taking refuge in outflow culvert in Upper Nar valley were many Water Boatman Sigara lateralis, the walls coated in typical Freshwater Sponges (Spongillidae) and abundant colonies of Sessilida ciliates, single-celled eukaryotic microorganisms created by binary fission of daughter cells. #inverts
October 18, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Also taking refuge in outflow culvert in Upper Nar valley were many Water Boatman Sigara lateralis, the walls coated in typical Freshwater Sponges (Spongillidae) and abundant colonies of Sessilida ciliates, single-celled eukaryotic microorganisms created by binary fission of daughter cells. #inverts
its so awesome how you can just leave a tub of water on your windowsill and in a year it's a whole ecosystem full of nematodes and mosquito larva happily feeding and ciliates swimming around and algae and macro plants growing
October 18, 2026 at 2:28 AM
its so awesome how you can just leave a tub of water on your windowsill and in a year it's a whole ecosystem full of nematodes and mosquito larva happily feeding and ciliates swimming around and algae and macro plants growing
Assume this is Fish Leech (Piscicola geometra) on Grayling in the River Nar. Plenty of Brown Sedge (Anabolia nervosa) caddisfly larvae, their cases well protected with built-in sticks to avoid fish predation. On the submerged large woody debris, Sessilida ciliates. Plus mystery granules?? #invert
October 18, 2026 at 11:06 AM
Assume this is Fish Leech (Piscicola geometra) on Grayling in the River Nar. Plenty of Brown Sedge (Anabolia nervosa) caddisfly larvae, their cases well protected with built-in sticks to avoid fish predation. On the submerged large woody debris, Sessilida ciliates. Plus mystery granules?? #invert
#Ciliates are really three dimensional! So many details visible with the opal blue staining of Bresslau – and a permanent slide in just a few minutes#Ciliophorar#protiststs
October 13, 2026 at 10:38 AM
#Ciliates are really three dimensional! So many details visible with the opal blue staining of Bresslau – and a permanent slide in just a few minutes#Ciliophorar#protiststs
#Desmodorids are usually parasited by #epibionts (suctorian ciliates). This is so common, that you can find them drawn on the original description of desmodorid species.
Picture: Ciliophora, Suctorea of a desmodorid #nematode from Selvagens.
Picture: Ciliophora, Suctorea of a desmodorid #nematode from Selvagens.
October 8, 2026 at 2:31 PM
#Desmodorids are usually parasited by #epibionts (suctorian ciliates). This is so common, that you can find them drawn on the original description of desmodorid species.
Picture: Ciliophora, Suctorea of a desmodorid #nematode from Selvagens.
Picture: Ciliophora, Suctorea of a desmodorid #nematode from Selvagens.
Maybe same that some ciliates fix themselves to large diatoms; it increases the flow around the epibiont compared to just floating around?
October 8, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Maybe same that some ciliates fix themselves to large diatoms; it increases the flow around the epibiont compared to just floating around?
Here a checklist of suctorian epibiont ciliates (Ciliophora) found on meiobenthic marine nematodes
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com
October 8, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Here a checklist of suctorian epibiont ciliates (Ciliophora) found on meiobenthic marine nematodes
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In this issue: Metabolically favorable weight loss in mice, dual-phase gel organization of chromosomes, and the source of Shang Dynasty tin. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/I5Vv50ZVXtF
October 8, 2026 at 9:00 PM
In this issue: Metabolically favorable weight loss in mice, dual-phase gel organization of chromosomes, and the source of Shang Dynasty tin. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/I5Vv50ZVXtF