I'm thrilled to announce that our department is now currently accepting applications for a tenure track faculty position in Evolutionary Biology! Job link here: tinyurl.com/yc564huk. Come join us in wonderful Fayetteville and Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences!! Please RT!!

Larger-bodied organisms predominate in colder areas ("#BergmannsRule"). Wade Roberts @AdamSiepielski & @sinkingdiatom show that in #diatoms, #genome size, rather than cell size, is a strong predictor of species abundance in the polar oceans #PLOSBiology plos.io/4cm5WeK

Today, the Taliban passed a law that bans women from showing their faces and having their voices heard in public. Their burqas must now entirely cover their faces and they are not permitted to speak in public or to look at any males that are not relatives. Perhaps it’s been an

Introducing the first comprehensive Cretaceous Diatom Database! Learn more about early fossil record of diatoms and explore the ideas for future research! @sinkingdiatom DanielConley #diatoms onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… Cretaceous mess from the Devon Island

Vijf nieuwe ERC starting grants voor UGent'ers! Proficiat Inge Bellemans, Eveline Pinseel, PhD, Hristo Svilenov, Thomas Tarnaud en Ioulia Tzouvadaki. Ontdek hier hun onderzoeksplannen: ugent.be/nl/actueel/vij… Faculty of Engineering and Architecture UGent UGent Wetenschappen European Research Council (ERC) #ERCStG #ugent

Thrilled to announce I have been awarded an European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant, and am joining UGent as an Associate Professor. With my project DIADAPT, I aim to investigate the genomic basis of climate adaptation in diatoms over both micro- and macroevolutionary timescales. #ERCStG

Happy to share our latest review article, out now in Global Ecology & Biogeography. Interested in protists and/or biogeography? Check it out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ge…

Retweeting this! I've extended the deadline to October 21st! Get in touch if you are interested. Start date is very negotiable.

New pre-print alert: arxiv.org/abs/2409.11162 When selecting a causal estimand, it’s crucial to balance asking the right question with the feasibility of answering it under realistic assumptions. Ignoring this in clinical trials risks chasing shadows.

(1/n) Are you ready to plunge into depths of our oceans with us! This is the story of “hidden comet tails” & our discovery of how a crucial biological process across our planet can put brakes on carbon capture in our oceans. Latest in Science Magazine science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

PhD position in my lab! Interested in polar #diatoms, molecular biology, essential minerals and adaptation? Join us working with Glen Wheeler & C. van Oosterhout UEA School of Environmental Sciences MBA - Marine Biological Association #Arctic #Antarctic #Ocean Deadline: 8 January 2025 (midnight UK time) uea.ac.uk/course/phd-doc…

We got the cover 🎉🥳👏

🚀 Exciting News! The latest TurtleBIOME project paper has been published! 📰✨ 🔍Using 16S metabarcoding 🧬, we explored the interesting communities of #cyanobacteria🦠on #seaturtles' shells!🐢 📖Want to know more? Check out the article here➡️ [onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jp…]

Agreed! That's why I wrote ggpubfigs, a ggplot2 extension that *only colorblind-friendly color palettes. Easily make your figures colorblind-friendly with ggpubfigs! x.com/NKWhiteman/sta…

Exploring early #diatom #evolution? Our October cover features diatoms in the Cretaceous Diatom Database. Karolina Bryłka et al. compiled fossil data to create a list of 721 species and their corresponding age of occurrence. See the database here: doi.org/10.1111/jpy.13…

It’s out!! We subjected soils from 30 different locations across Europe to extreme events and found that soil fungal and bacterial communities showed consistent responses that could be predicted from their origin! nature.com/articles/s4158…

From IRTA we are hiring a project technician for morphological and metabarcoding identification of coastal diatoms. We offer: 15 month contract. Start: beginning 2025. Full details: tinyurl.com/bdfzs759. Register & send CV: irta.cat/en/work-at-irt…. Deadline: 15/01/2025

The 8th Molecular Life of Diatoms #MLD8 is coming to Ghent! 🌍✨ Share your latest research on diatom biology, ecology, & biotech—submit your abstract by 21 April! Don’t miss this chance to connect & collaborate.🔗 Submit here: vibbio.tech/42jvINT #DiatomResearch

Diatoms are tiny but ecologically important eukaryotes. After over a million years of relative stasis, the lineage of diatoms exploded into diversity, with innovations in ecology, morphology, and life history still seen today. In PNAS: ow.ly/T3ja50W5xBq

Fantastic MLD8 conference in beautiful Ghent!