Quanta Magazine

quantamagazine.org

16 October 2026 00:20

In the early 1900s, Emmy Noether explored the mathematical consequences of symmetries. In doing so, she shook the very foundations of fundamental physics. https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-noethers-theorem-revolutionized-physics-20250207/

Dacks Lab (Evolutionary Cell Biology)

dackslabecb.bsky.social

14 October 2026 07:48

We've been funded to start using Dictyostelium as a model system for early endomembrane evolution!! Now I'm hiring a Postdoc to join the lab in Edmonton and start playing with Dicty in the lab:) iaejup.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

STCmicrobeblog

stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social

12 October 2026 22:21

Watching Flagella (or Cilia) in Motion by Christoph — Still images do not tell whether cells rotate their flagella like a propeller or flap them like a whip. To find out, one has to film living cells...

Freya Harrison

friendlymicrobe.bsky.social

12 October 2026 19:12

Antibiotic resistance mutations with fitness costs in rich medium can have no cost, or even a fitness benefit, in synthetic urine. Lovely preprint from @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social's lab, with data linking the growth advantage to the presence of oxaloacetate www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #MIcroSky

Ákos T Kovács

evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social

30 September 2026 14:01

The phenotypic landscape of the model firmicute Bacillus subtilis PNAS from Carol A. Gross www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...