Sara Palestini

So many of us cited your name when we were asked what we wanted to be when we grew up.

Jane Goodall's is a legacy was cemented long ago. She was a pioneer, and a tireless advocate, researcher, and mentor.

From this young researcher: thank you for your example.

MicroMates: Oceanic Odyssey A card game where science meets adventure – dive into the invisible world of microorganims!

Check out MicroMates: Oceanic Odyssey by Minkor AB on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/170...

One of our most read articles is Martin's essay on the importance of stupidity in scientific research: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Concordia students send Starsailor rocket flying and enter the history books | CBC News At 5:34 a.m. ET, the rocket blasted off in a flash of light, captured in a livestream posted to YouTube, from a base camp about 250 kilometres north of Mistissini, on Cree territory. Though questions ...

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Concordia students send Starsa...
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Saturday morning on Mount Royal participating in Mission Monarque with www.linkedin.com/company/les-...

Here's some finds from our group!

A cellular entity retaining only its replicative core: Hidden archaeal lineage with an ultra-reduced genome Defining the minimal genetic requirements for cellular life remains a fundamental question in biology. Genomic exploration continually reveals novel microbial lineages, often exhibiting extreme genome...

A fascinating read! Heard about it first in TWiEvo episode 115. This paper describes an archaeal genome representative of a potentially parasitic, previously undiscovered taxon. My lab had a hoot discussing this one this week.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Hey, good point! I haven't accessed the discord yet. A concensus on fathomverse still hasn't been reached so I'll try there. I was thinking maybe a quick moving camera caught a blanket octopus in the shallows or something. maybe distorted perspective on a phantom jelly 😂 it's just so silky looking.

Hello all! Can anyone here recognize this creature? This is an image as of yet unclassified in the @fathomverse.bsky.social game. Also please download and play if you have an interest in marine taxonomy and/or want to contribute to science. It's super fun!

This week I participated in the 74th annual conference for the Canadian Society of Microbiologists.
It was a pleasure to share my work, and above all to engage with such a diverse collective of researchers in the field of microbiology.

Denitrification genes in SAR11 confirmed with cultures and closed genomes!

Denitrification genes in SAR11 and other ubiquitous lineages of marine bacteria isolated from the northern Benguela Upwelling System www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs 🌊

Arctic researchers need to find ways to keep working together Geopolitical events must not stall crucial research in the fastest-warming place on Earth.

Geopolitical events must not stall crucial research in the fastest-warming place on Earth, says Torben R. Christensen

https://go.nature.com/3GjDsrY

In Canadian election, top Conservative candidate vows to end ‘woke ideology’ in science funding Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative Party is trying to topple Liberal government in 28 April election

Science is not done in support of an ideology but in support of the truth, and such a policy implies an unwillingness to hear it.

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A geological timescale for bacterial evolution and oxygen adaptation Microbial life has dominated Earth’s history but left a sparse fossil record, greatly hindering our understanding of evolution in deep time. However, bacterial metabolism has left signatures in the ge...

Bacteria may have adapted to oxygen well before Earth’s atmosphere was saturated with it, according to a new study in Science. The findings underscore the dynamic relationship between biological evolution and Earth's geological history. scim.ag/3YpwMyu