New short paper from our lab @currentbiology.bsky.social, in which we discover of a new mode of cell motility for choanoflagellates: flagellar gliding. www.cell.com/current-biol... - A 🧵
#multicellularity lovers: the website for the EMBO workshop in multicellularity is live. Barcelona is waiting for you! #protistsonsky
Interesting cancer grand challenges just announced. Funders looking for interdisciplinary & international teams. I'm an outsider, but fascinated that some of them have clear eco-evo cell-population dynamical component.
finance.yahoo.com/news/cancer-...
@cancergrand.bsky.social @cancerresearchuk.org
Super cool thread about a fascinating new study from @wcratcliff.bsky.social and his team!
1/46 Hey folks, we have a new paper out on the MuLTEE. Strap in and I’ll tell you the story of how this “little paper on polyploidy” turned into the most data rich paper our lab has produced, largely thanks to the leadership and work ethic of @kaitong25.bsky.social.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I just posted "Some Experiments Work, and Some Don't."
It features this new paper from Paul Rainey's group, along with a *failed* experiment that Paul Sniegowski and I ran in the 1990s trying to test the same idea.
telliamedrevisited.wordpress.com/2025/02/21/s...
Super interesting!
Legitmately thrilled to share our latest work, in which @fernpizza.bsky.social solved an experimental challenge in plasmid biology as old as the field: measuring how plasmids compete and evolve within individual cells!
I am happy that my first post on bluesky is to congratulate my former PhD student Hanna Isaksson for publishing work from her thesis on multicellularity in PNAS (www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...).
So, we are also opening an account here. Same idea as in twitter: we will explain our work as well as the work of others in the field of multicellularity, animal origins, and #protists. #ProtistsOnSky We focus a lot on unicellular relatives of animals, mostly #Ichthyosporea & #Filasterea.
New preprint! A bit of new direction for my research program: How can bacteria get nutrients when autonomous growth is not possible or passive leakage is not enough to support high growth? Shoot spearguns with toxins into other cells and leak out nutrients!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
