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thx for the scale👍

a scale bar would help to avoid the space feeling when seeing this wonderful creature

3-Nitropropionic Acid by Roberto —The Simplest yet Lethal Mycotoxin

3-Nitropropionic Acid

by Roberto —The Simplest yet Lethal Mycotoxin

in 𝘌. 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘪, SeqA didn't hold up to the promise – but is intriguing in it's own right though restricted to the 𝘥𝘢𝘮 clade. the SeqB and SeqC(?) candidates from larry rothfield's lab neither.

for 𝘉𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘴, the experts should chime in...

christoph: it is not difficult to disparage and condemn this gang—and without a doubt, this is justified—but it is much more difficult to accept them as familiar phenotypes of the unbearably broad spectrum of human behavior.

christoph: ich gebe dies kompliment gern zurück, brigitte. sehr gerne 🙏

putin's russia framed their war on ukraine as 'special operation'. just saying...

𝘳𝘢𝘱-𝘱𝘩𝘳

nice post, brigitte!

'wellness peptides' are not only a thing among humans – 𝘉𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘣𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘴 (and 𝘉. 𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘶𝘴) are known to produce for self-use a whole lot of them to orchestrate their wellbeing, the 𝘱𝘩𝘳 peptides (the tiny arrowheads of the 𝘳𝘢𝘱-𝘱𝘩𝘳 gene pairs). it's complicated...
#MicroSky

#PhageSky

(bacterial) chromosome segregationists take note 👇

membrane-anchoring of the 𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘊 region to ensure proper daughter chromosome segregation after replication initiation – proposed decades ago but never substantiated... 👉now shown for 𝘚. 𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘶𝘴 by mariana pinho's lab

...you should get invited to the yearly 'infiorata' festival in spello, umbria (IT) 👏👏👏

admittedly, 𝘈𝘬𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘢 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘢 and 𝘉𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘯 are real tongue twisters as names, even for microbiologists. thus they preferably talk of "AKK" and "B. theta". the legit names tend to cause autocorrect bloopers 😅 fun fact: "𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘢-𝘪𝘰𝘵𝘢-𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘯" sounds more like a US sorority 😉

source: DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002638

and Schaible 𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭. (2024) could nicely show that MMBs are not clonal! but certainly multicellular (ref. in ALT)

Could We Have Started Out as Mag­ne­to­tac­tic Bac­te­ria? by Elio — There are bacteria that have small magnets within them. Magnetotactic bacteria. The magnets consist of iron-containing crystals lined up in a row along the long axis of the cells, which …

also note: MMBs are the prokaryotes that practice aggregative multicellularity. see Elio's post from 2007...

#MicroSky #ProtistsOnSky

all fans of multicellularity, take note 👇#ProtistsOnSky

1. read the 🧵byThibaut
2. also, read the RRRR 𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭. paper ⚡

𝘊𝘩𝘰𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘦𝘤𝘢 𝘧𝘭𝘦𝘹𝘢 don't bother with deciding between clonal and aggregative multicellularity, they practice both. cool?

les boules ici 👇 pratiquent la multicellularité agrégative 😜

leuk, lekker en gezond 😋
김치, in korea 😋
#MicroSky

A thread to remind yourself why you first fell in love with Science.

christoph: the good thing is that choanos are not known for driving people crazy, quite the contrary! 👋

Bacteria & Constipation Noteworthy — The collaborative work of two bacterial species results in constipation.

Bacteria & Constipation

Noteworthy — The collaborative work of two bacterial species results in constipation.

sadly, we're unable to find it under the link you give :–(

What a great study 👇, victor & company 👏 qué bien que hayáis sido tan pacientes! (and of course you're rightly glad that it's now "off the table.")
#MicroSky

christoph: for anyone who is pissed-off by the AI summaries of google search results and the algorithmic SEO rankings 𝗯𝘂𝘁 still wants to use google (what else?), the linked 👇👇article has a heap of useful tips.

you better stop posting such videos of trump lashing out at (*insert whatever*) with always the same wording, phrases etc.
don't add to steve "flood the zone with shit" bannon's crusade, please 🙏

thx klara, just got it 🤗

@caulocon.bsky.social sorry to bother you. so far, I did not receive the zoom link via mail (OK, I registered just yesterday 🤦‍♂️)
me: <christoph.weigel.berlin@gmail.com>
(I would not like to miss yves's talk 😳)

I much appreciate your efforts 👏 will check my inbox in the morning...

@caulocon.bsky.social can you please tell me when the zoom links will be sent out to registered participants?

👇a highlight for all alphaproteobacteriologists, don't miss it! #MicroSky

#PhageSky is curious to learn more about this fancy phage 👋

pattern from the floor of the baptistery in pisa (own work, last millenium)

christoph: bravo, I like it! it's the small inaccuracies in cutting and sewing that make the whole thing look alive - and prevent photoshop boredom - and of course the deviation from perfect symmetry of the pattern when assembling the cut piecees. I tried this with color pencils in the past...