I study microbes (#Bacteria, #Phages) but love the whole #TreeOfLife @UofNH
@UNHManchester associate professor #MicrobialGenomics #ScienceEd (he/him/his)
Kyle MacLea 🦠
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So happy to announce our new preprint, “A geothermal amoeba sets a new upper temperature limit for eukaryotes.” We cultured a novel amoeba from Lassen Volcanic NP (CA, USA) that divides at 63°C (145°F) 🔥 - a new record for euk growth!
#protistsonsky 🧵
Had not heard that Duesberg had passed. One of the century's mass murderers.
A family of archaeal hibernation factors that bind in tandem and protect ribosomes in dormant cells | bioRxiv https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.19.700200v1?rss=1
On NSF’s postdoc page, the biology and earth science fields have been completely eliminated; the only remaining fellowships are in math, astronomy, engineering, and “entrepreneurship.” Weird choice not to support research on the life support system for 8 billion people.
www.nsf.gov/funding/post...
