Kostas Kormas

Awed by tiny creatures,
With a slight preference towards those without a #nucleus,
Living below any #water surface on Planet #Earth (but open to extraterrestrial collaborations, as well).

#Aquatic #microbial #ecology. Host-microbe interactions. #University of #Thessaly, Greece

#gutmicrobes #hostmicrobiota #hostmicrobe #microbialecology #microbeinteractions #symbiosis
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Agroecology MapAgroecologyMap@mas.to
2024-01-30

Join the Agroecological TRANSITIONS Program next Thursday, ⏰ Feb 8, for a discussion with our implementing partners. TRANSITIONS aims to scale up agroecology through better metrics, digital tools, and public-private incentives & investment.

✍️ Register today: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist

TRANSITIONS Program
Kostas Kormas boosted:
2023-12-16

What Happens in 60 Seconds on the Internet? uk.pcmag.com/the-why-axis-seri
In a single minute, 6.3 million Google searches are entered, and 241 million email messages are sent—and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Kostas Kormas boosted:
2023-12-16

The strain on scientific publishing 📄:

The publishing sector has a problem. Scientists are overwhelmed, editors are overworked, special issue invitations are constant, research paper mills, article retractions, journal delistings… JUST WHAT IS GOING ON!?

Myself, pablo, @paolocrosetto and Dan have spent the last few months investigating just that.
arxiv.org/abs/2309.15884

A thread🧵1/n

#AcademicChatter #PublishOrPerish #Elsevier #Springer #MDPI #Wiley #Frontiers #PhDAdvice #PhDChat #SciComm

Kostas Kormas boosted:
2023-12-15

You know how we'll know if this #COP28 or any "plan" will be a success or failure?

When the #climate stabilizes.

Until then it's all blah, blah, blah.

Kostas Kormas boosted:
Helmholtz Open Science OfficeHelmholtzOpenScienceOffice@helmholtz.social
2023-12-14

🇬🇧 As part of a scientific community committed to #openness, we have decided to discontinue our engagement on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) by the end of this year. The account will remain, but we will no longer post or interact there. We are happy to exchange ideas with you here on Mastodon and on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/helmholtz

#leavingtwitter #openscience (as)

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Kostas Kormas boosted:
2023-12-14

We have now opened the call for nominees for the 2024 GBIF Graduate Researchers Awards!

This programme will recognize the work of two early-career researchers, awarding each €5,000 for their innovative research and discovery in biodiversity informatics.

The global deadline is 24 June 2024

Full call with details of national deadlines (as they become available):
gbif.org/news/0YedTUAf3Nk14JKZ

#GradResearchers

Illustration of a freshwater elephantfish (Campylomormyrus mirus) with text overlay: 2024 Graduate Researchers Award
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Thomas Festertfester@vmst.io
2023-12-12

Nitrogen fixation in mangroves

Mangroves have to cope with a large variety of challenges. Low nutrient levels in the soil is one of them. A recent publication now documents one mechanism used by the plants thrive inspite of low nitrogen levels in the substrate: nitrogen fixing bacteria. (Citation: Inoue et al., (2023) Diazotrophic nitrogen fixation through aerial roots occurs in Avicennia marina: implications for adaptation of mangrove ..., New Phytologist, doi: 10.1111/nph.19442).
youtube.com/watch?v=aXkAdgL1OA

Kostas Kormas boosted:
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺animalculum@scholar.social
2023-12-11

These #microbes have been thriving without #mitochondria since the age of #dinosaurs!

7 years ago, we identified the first known #eukaryote that has completely lost its mitochondria in a humble inhabitant of #chinchilla's gut - #Monocercomonoides exilis.

Today, we can say with confidence, that this intriguing simplification of the cell is not unique to M. exilis, but shared with many of its relatives. This means that it happened at least 100 million years ago!

journals.plos.org/plosgenetics

figure from the paper showing a simplified tree of eukaryotes and results of searches for miotochondrial proteins in a number of microbial species
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Eugen RochkoGargron
2023-12-10

It’s hard not to say “AI” when everybody else does too, but technically calling it AI is buying into the marketing. There is no intelligence there, and it’s not going to become sentient. It’s just statistics, and the danger they pose is primarily through the false sense of skill or fitness for purpose that people ascribe to them.

2023-12-09

@ethanwhite good to know, as this (and other) type of exclusions are spreading throughout in Europe too

Kostas Kormas boosted:
2023-12-09

We were just informed that due to a new Florida law we should no longer recruit grad students or postdocs from a number of "countries of concern" including China. We also "might have to withdraw existing offers".

I've benefited from many interactions with amazing Chinese students & postdocs in my career. This is a huge loss for everyone.

While there is an exception for students & postdocs already living outside of their home country, that will be a small & shrinking fraction of folks.

2023-12-09

This.

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Warren Currie 🦠🦐DrPlanktonguy@ecoevo.social
2023-12-09

A bunch of collaborators interviewed for this #NYT story about one of my co-workers at the Great Lakes Laboratory for Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. During electrofishing surveys of #Hamilton Harbour, Christine Boston regularly catches *huge #goldfish which had been released when they outgrew people's home aquariums. They disturb plants and littoral areas and have no predators because nothing can eat them.
#FisheriesAndOceans #InvasiveSpecies #GreatLakes #Canada
nytimes.com/2023/12/08/science

image/jpeg a football sized bright orange goldfish with a distended belly is held out with two arms by a field biologist. Photo from Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Kostas Kormas boosted:
2023-12-08

Single-celled #protists in the guts of #animals thrive without the powerhouse of the cell: #Genomic analysis suggests the oxymonad lineage lost their #mitochondria about 100 million years ago isep-protists.com/post/genomic

New #ISEPpapers! #Genomics of #Preaxostyla #Flagellates Illuminates the Path Towards the Loss of Mitochondria journals.plos.org/plosgenetics

#microbes #evolution #organelles #eukaryotes #bioinformatics #science #biology #discovery

Schematic evolutionary tree of the 5 microbial species included in the study. From left to right: Trimastix marina, Paratrimastix pyriformis, Blattamonas nauphoetae, Streblomastix strix, and Monocercomonoides exilis. By Lukas Novak.

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