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RT @OttiCroze
How do swimming microalgae move in snow? And how does this couple to climate change? We have a fully-funded @ONEPlanetDTP PhD opportunity to study in my group in collaboration with @mjsandells, @scienceisnotfun and @xanthellaltd. Please RT. More info here tinyurl.com/snowalgaeswim

YES! as much as we love sampling - we must also keep supporting culture collections! they do such an important job and are indispensable for fundamental research
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RT @Cathy__Ribeiro
The importance of culture collections for taxonomy, ecology, and biotech.
Thank you very much @RCC_algae @CCAP_Oban @Nico_Trefa @A_LopesSantos @daniel_vaulot, Ian Probert, and Cecilia Rad Menéndez for your collaboration, and @bps_algae for the fundi…
twitter.com/Cathy__Ribeiro/sta

another day, another win for the mighty single-celled organism


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RT @jam_and_germs
Single-celled organism, Loxophyllum, eats a multicellular rotifer! This is almost a 5 years old clip but I thought I could share it today!
twitter.com/jam_and_germs/stat

Not nearly enough and in this universe yet... let's rectify this with an inaugural edition of 😍
Look at all its beautiful 'feet'... !

RT @LeoAndrade1974
The motility of the outer hair cells provides an active mechanism for cochlear amplification helping the inners in their fine frequency selectivity. Their stereocilia are filled with parallel actin filaments and dense molecular complexes at the lower and upper tip-link ends.

RT @DeepaHRajan
How can a single cell learn without a brain? We explore this in my first paper from my PhD with @WallaceUcsf, co-first-authored with @TMakushok! We discovered that gradual habituation in a cell population is due to step-like switches in single cells bit.ly/3GNg702
🧵1/n

Kirsty Wan boosted

My first #toot on the woolly mammoth thing. I was rubbish at twitter, I'll probably be worse on Mastodon...but here are some neurons as a way of a premature apology :)

RT @DJCohenEtAl
We’re ‘pumped’ to share new work using bioelectricity to inflate living organoids via what we call 'electro-inflation’: e-fields can program ion+water pumping!. W/power-trio @GawoonS, Isaac Breinyn, @almcalvo. See: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20. Vid=kidneyoid+1V/cm E-field. more soon!

ahh @JekelyLab is tooting at us from the other side!!
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RT @JekelyLab
Great paper: a microfluidics assay to encapsulate single cells to study long-term behaviour. @FGieLab @micromotility
Thread here:
bit.ly/3gGk5wy
Join us on the other side. Open, distributed, community driven, no ads, no AI feeding you, no random retweets, full control.
twitter.com/JekelyLab/status/1

Kirsty Wan boosted

Great paper: a droplet assay to encapsulate single micron-sized algae to study long-term .
elifesciences.org/articles/765
by Bentley et al. gielenlab.com and @micromotility
A thread.

Apparently the alga Mesostigma swims like 'falling leaves'...

Immediately checks YouTube...
youtube.com/watch?v=kjd8MQHPfw
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RT @a1AgqW93RTKPUD9
かなりマイナーな霞ヶ浦のプランクトン。メソスティグマ(Mesostigma sp.)。陸上植物に近い系統の藻類で、ミカヅキモなどと同じストレプト植物門に属している(メソスティグマ藻綱)。オレンジ色の眼点と、細胞を取り囲む微細な鱗片が特徴。ひらひらと落葉が舞うように泳ぐよ。
twitter.com/a1AgqW93RTKPUD9/st

RT @CammannJ
I had the pleasure of providing some simulations to this wonderful paper. If you are interested in microbial motility go check it out. twitter.com/micromotility/stat

RT @TheSquishyLab
This is a beautiful approach for studying microswimmer motility in unprecedented detail! 🦠 twitter.com/micromotility/stat

RT @priti_atmakuru
Poke around On-demand, why not!!
We all move the same way, not a chance. There's a signature move for everyone ;) twitter.com/micromotility/stat

RT @uniofexeHLS
1/3 The movement patterns of microscopic can be mapped in greater detail than ever before, giving new insights into ocean health, thanks to new technology developed at the @UniofExeter. Read: bit.ly/3VkWOPv @LSI_Exeter

RT @JustinePinskey
Now out in eLife! Three-dimensional flagella structures from animals’ closest unicellular relatives, the Choanoflagellates doi.org/10.7554/eLife.78133.

Thanks to @AmirrasoulTava1 and @loonggui for helping this across the finish line, and to our reviewers for their great comments! twitter.com/JustinePinskey/sta

RT @CellRaiser_
Our first preprint is out! Led by Rohith Rajasekaran (@born2raisecell): “A programmable reaction-diffusion system for spatiotemporal cell signaling circuit design”

A visually stunning toolkit to build cellular radios that probe or control cell biology.

biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

RT @Pawel_Burkhardt
Ctenophores on the cover of @TrendsNeuro. So excited about this! Our article "Ctenophores and the evolutionary origin(s) of neurons" in press: doi.org/10.1016/j.tins.2022.09. Beautiful photograph of ctenophores by @Alexandre4_Jan. Work supported by @Sars_Centre @UiB

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