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Pier Antonio Micheli on some parasitic plants (1710), outlining that the practices of rustics (agricoltori) are sometimes ineffective, especially when not paired with theoretical knowledge of plants!

#envhist #histsci #agriculture #plants #histplants #botany

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Prokaryotic nomenclature in 2050

Bringing the band back together: eukaryotic microbes in microbial genomics Microbiology Society journals contain high-quality research papers and topical review articles. We are a not-for-profit publisher and we support and invest in the microbiology community, to the benefi...

Hot off the press; an update from last year's conference on Microbial Genomics of Eukaryotes, highlights from our collection in MGen & tiny 2027 teaser 😊@fionahenriquez.bsky.social @microbiologysociety.org
#MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky #IDSky #Protistonsky 💻🧬
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Prokaryotic nomenclature in 2050

Winter sculpture ❄️
Rügen, Germany

Original post: Unwetterfreaks
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It's that time of year again: we're looking for our next Antarctic team!

If you can imagine a job that’s needed to keep a small, remote community safe and running, we have it.

Escape the ordinary and apply for the job of a lifetime in Antarctica ⬇️

"if life gives you lemons..."
#attitude

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On January 14–15, the Musée d’Histoire des sciences in Geneva will host the international conference “Beyond Books: Instruments and Knowledge in Libraries”, which we are co-organizing with Rossella Baldi, Samuel Gessner, and Laurence-Isaline Stahl Gretsch. Join us if you're around! Full program 👇

thank you for pointing it out Christoph -y feliz y saludable 2026!

A free, open-access library of high-quality organism illustrations for science communication We create vector graphics of model organisms and emerging biological research organisms to enhance our publications. We’re sharing these editable graphics under a CC0 license for other scientists to...

A free, open-access library of high-quality organism illustrations for science communication

#Winter in the city ❄️
Braunschweig, Germany
#Solstice #invierno

Confocal microscopy image of a juvenile sea star (Patiria miniata) viewed from the oral side. The animal has a five-armed, star-shaped body with a central nerve ring. The nervous system is labeled in green, forming radial nerve cords extending into each arm, and cell nuclei are labeled in red throughout the animal. The image appears against a black background and has a holiday-ornament-like appearance.

Felt a little festive at the microscope this morning for #FluorescenceFriday 🎄

Here’s the nervous system of a juvenile sea star ⭐️

Green = acetylated tubulin, red = nuclei

Happy holidays!

BacDive is celebrating surpassing the 100,000 strain mark!

The 2025 #BacDive 🦠 release is now online.

🎉🥳 The database now contains information on more than 100,000 strains 🧫.

For this update, new data provided by @leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social and information on type strains of newly described species from the #LPSN database were added.

Inauguramos la presencia de la Representación de la Sociedad Max Planck para América Latina en Bluesky.
Comenzamos compartiendo la reciente visita del Presidente Patrick Cramer a Argentina y Brasil, clave para la cooperación científica con la región.
#MaxPlanck #LatinAmerica

Calling all archaeal enthusiasts! 🔬🔥 From molecular machines to microbial communities, Archaea never fail to surprise us!
We are excited to announce the 2026 EMBO Workshop on the Molecular Biology of Archaea, 6–10 July in Cambridge, UK!
Sign up here: meetings.embo.org/event/26-arc...
#ArchaeaSky

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Photo of an intact Roman two-handled translucent cobalt blue glass cup dated AD 30-70. The cup has a cylindrical body with vertical sides and two narrow strap handles attached to each side as ear-shaped loops. The cup is mould-blown with relief decoration on the body which incorporates two inscriptions in Greek, one on each side of the cup. One side reads ‘ENNIWN/ENOIH/CEN’ (‘Ennion made [it]'). The other side reads ‘MNHOH/O AOPA/ZNW translated as ‘May the buyer be remembered’. Dimensions: Height 2½ in. (6.4 cm), diameter (rim): 3% in. (9.5 cm) Collection Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Adria, Italy. Incredibly this is one of two matching cups blown from the same mould, found together in a Roman tomb at Cuora, near Adria, Italy, in the early 1900s. The matching cup is now part of the collections at the Corning Museum of Glass

Exquisite Roman glass cup signed by master glassmaker ‘Ennion’. AD 30-70.

Ennion was the first glassmaker to ‘brand’ his work by incorporating his name into the mould’s design, some 2000 years ago!

Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Adria 📷 Leonardo.disimone

#Archaeology

These #snowflakes are going viral..❄️ ☃️

Informative, creative and educational #scicomm piece by @cvrinfo.bsky.social
-available under a generous CC BY 4.0 licence

#microsky #virusSnowflakes

The Microflora Danica atlas of Danish environmental microbiomes - Nature Microflora Danica—an atlas of Danish environmental microbiomes—reveals that although human-disturbed habitats have high alpha diversity, species reoccur, revealing hidden homogeneity.

Microflora Danica: What can you learn from collecting and sequencing 10,000+ samples from a single country? Check out our new paper in @nature.com to find out. Incredible work led by Caitlin Singleton, Thomas B. N. Jensen, and Mads Albertsen from @aau.dk. 🦠🧫🧬
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

SILVA in 2026: a global core biodata resource for rRNA within the DSMZ digital diversity Abstract. Since 2007, the SILVA database (https://www.arb-silva.de/) has served as a comprehensive resource providing quality-checked, aligned, and classif

🧬🖥️SILVA in 2026: a global core biodata resource for rRNA within the DSMZ digital diversity

📑The new publication about the #SILVA database for the #NAR database issue is now online.

👉 academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

Gorgeous red and green aurorae over a lighted city below.

Gorgeous picture of red and green aurorae over a lighted city below.

I am on my way home to Toronto and the aurorae are absolutely phenomenal.

If you are anywhere in the northern half of the continent, get outside and look up! Or better still, put your camera on a 10 second exposure and point it up.

A scholar examines a postcard in the Harry Ransom Center's reading room. Her photo is framed by a blue square with "FELLOWSHIP APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN" written on each side. That image is positioned in front of a section of the etched windows on the Ransom Center's first floor, which showcase highlights from our collections. More info about the Ransom Center's fellowships: https://www.hrc.utexas.edu/fellowships/

Do you:
-Love #literature? 📚
-Adore #art? 🎨
-Fancy #film or #photography? 📽️📸
-Thrill to the #theater? 🎭
-Relish #RareBooks? 📖

Apply for @ransomcenter.bsky.social's 2026-27 #fellowships!

Learn more & submit a proposal by Nov. 3: www.hrc.utexas.edu/fellowships/

#Humanities #Research #CFP #CFA 🗃️📜

How AI Agents Will Change the Web as We Know It What happens when AI agents become the primary users of the Internet? Discover the potential benefits and the security risks of this coming digital shift.

How AI Agents Will Change the Web as We Know It spectrum.ieee.org/agentic-web?...

Throwback to my lab stories for a #Halloween-inspired #microbiology snapshot:
Reading hemolysis halos on a blood agar plate produced by a bacterium isolated from a medieval manuscript. 🩸 🧫 📜

Blood agar is used to grow fastidious organisms & to differentiate bacteria based on hemolytic properties.

Birdeye picture of 9 de Julio Avenue in Buenos Aires, Argentina, lined with pink- purple rows of blooming jacarandá trees. Source (en español) https://www.mdzol.com/sociedad/2021/11/3/jacarandas-como-llegaron-buenos-aires-donde-encontrarlos-198414.html

This time of the year, pink and purple hues cut through #BuenosAires city's constructed #landscape -the #jacarandá trees were brought from the north of 🇦🇷 by french architect & paisajist #CarlosThays ca. 1890, & their splendor enjoyed since then. #urban #primavera #spring

This is extended data figure 1, which shows photographs of different families of scleractinians.

Some ancient stony corals were able to survive extreme environmental changes, which suggests that some modern species could possess some resilience to the effects of climate change, according to research in Nature. go.nature.com/4hrpLpi 🌊 🧪

#Microsky -have your say! ✍️

Our paper on the first UV-sensitive rhodopsin channel, the Apusomonad rhodopsin, has been published in PNAS! 🎉
This is a new family distinct from canonical ChRs with a novel transport mechanism🦠—paving the way for future multi-wavelength optogenetics! 🔬
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
#OpenAccess

Canada Post features nature´s recyclers 🇨🇦📯

"Stamps highlight beauty and importance of hashtag #fungi in Canadian #ecosystems"

🔗 www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/cpc/en/our-c...
#microsky #biodiversity