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Allan Dyen-Shapiro<p>IT'S OUT!!! Digitally, on Amazon, at least. More platforms and the paperback coming this month. </p><p>Blamed for a toxin poisoning the air, Joe is leaving the Bay Area with his 18-month-old daughter. He's trapped in Oakland. Most of the city wants him dead.</p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D95QGYS5?fbclid=IwY2xjawKq4-ZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFVRUM4Z0tmWFBjaHlXOUdDAR7ycjBGpD_0sg016EyCTXA3Pm7x21pdtlk4Zxy7NG8aexudRcHlCWJwrX2vxA_aem__ya3qhR6NlYIl-h3t3Gm3w" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">amazon.com/dp/B0D95QGYS5?fbcli</span><span class="invisible">d=IwY2xjawKq4-ZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFVRUM4Z0tmWFBjaHlXOUdDAR7ycjBGpD_0sg016EyCTXA3Pm7x21pdtlk4Zxy7NG8aexudRcHlCWJwrX2vxA_aem__ya3qhR6NlYIl-h3t3Gm3w</span></a></p><p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a> <br><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/SocialResponsibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialResponsibility</span></a> <br><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Cyanobacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cyanobacteria</span></a> <br><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/GeneticEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeneticEngineering</span></a> <br><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/AmWritingSciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmWritingSciFi</span></a> <br><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a> <br><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/AmWritingScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmWritingScienceFiction</span></a> <br><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <br><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/AuthorsOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AuthorsOfMastodon</span></a> <br><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/WritersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersOfMastodon</span></a> <br><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a></p>
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>Novel Fungus-Cyanobacterium Symbiosis <a href="https://schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2025/04/novel-fungus-cyanobacterium-symbiosis.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">schaechter.asmblog.org/schaech</span><span class="invisible">ter/2025/04/novel-fungus-cyanobacterium-symbiosis.html</span></a></p><p>A thallus-forming N-fixing fungus-cyanobacterium <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/symbiosis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>symbiosis</span></a> from subtropical forests <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adt4093" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv</span><span class="invisible">.adt4093</span></a></p><p>"Despite resembling a lichen's vegetative tissue, their sample had an unexpected feature: it was made of interwoven cyanobacterial filaments that enclosed fungal hyphae. Both partners turned out to be previously undescribed species, different from those found in <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/lichens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lichens</span></a>"</p><p><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Fungi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fungi</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Bacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bacteria</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Microbes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Microbes</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Cyanobacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cyanobacteria</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/NewSpecies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewSpecies</span></a></p>
Warren Currie 🦠🦐<p>Weekend <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Plankton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plankton</span></a> Factoid 🦠🦐<br>There is a giant, vibrantly blue, 9 meter tall, 20 tonne interactive <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/sculpture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sculpture</span></a> celebrating stromatolites (fossil cyanobacteria) in Cornwall, England. The Eden Project houses this fantastic piece of art by Azusa Murakami and Alexander Groves called "infinity blue" made of local clay to celebrate how <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/cyanobacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cyanobacteria</span></a> transformed the Earth's early atmosphere by forming oxygen through photosynthesis (represented as huge vapour rings). <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a><br><a href="https://www.designboom.com/art/studio-swine-infinity-blue-eden-project-breathing-sculpture-02-19-2019/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">designboom.com/art/studio-swin</span><span class="invisible">e-infinity-blue-eden-project-breathing-sculpture-02-19-2019/</span></a></p>
Spaceflight 🚀<p><a href="https://spacey.space/tags/Lichens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lichens</span></a> are symbionts. There is a <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/fungal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fungal</span></a> component (most are about 90 percent fungus) and a photosynthetic component (<a href="https://spacey.space/tags/algae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>algae</span></a> or <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/cyanobacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cyanobacteria</span></a>). Whether lichens can survive on <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/Mars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mars</span></a> 🔴 depends on the species. <a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/04/lichens-can-survive-almost-anything-and-some-might-survive-mars" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/science/2025/0</span><span class="invisible">4/lichens-can-survive-almost-anything-and-some-might-survive-mars</span></a></p>
UK<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/uk/31270/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/uk/31270/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> “Oceans Were Never Blue”: Shocking New Study Reveals Earth’s Waters Were Green 3.8 Billion Years Ago, Rewriting Planetary History <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Cyanobacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cyanobacteria</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/GeologicalDiscovery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeologicalDiscovery</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/MarineEcosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarineEcosystems</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedKingdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedKingdom</span></a></p>
Guillaume Gaullier<p>Looking for a <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/postdoc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>postdoc</span></a> position?</p><p>Come work with us on CO2 fixation in <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/cyanobacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cyanobacteria</span></a> using <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/biochemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biochemistry</span></a> and <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/CryoEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CryoEM</span></a>! 🦠 🧪 🧫 ❄️🔬</p><p>We are a friendly group. 🙂 </p><p><a href="https://www.blikstadlab.org/open-positions.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">blikstadlab.org/open-positions</span><span class="invisible">.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/job" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>job</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/postdoc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>postdoc</span></a></p>
Susi Arnott<p>Always love this blog - now here's an engaging tribute to a fine phycologist, packed with scientific info as well as personal context <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/cyanobacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cyanobacteria</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/LifeOnEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LifeOnEarth</span></a> <br><a href="https://microscopesandmonsters.wordpress.com/2025/04/11/brian-alan-whitton-1935-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">microscopesandmonsters.wordpre</span><span class="invisible">ss.com/2025/04/11/brian-alan-whitton-1935-2025/</span></a></p>
Bob LeFridge :tinoflag:<p>Lake Hood outside Ashburton has been closed due to cyanobacteria. It's a man-made lake in a development offering luxury lakefront properties. While it's surrounded by one of the most intensively farmed areas of New Zealand, the story doesn't mention farmers.</p><p>So far two people have been poisoned by toxic algae so the district council has made the decision to close the lake entirely.</p><p><a href="https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360647577/ghost-town-toxic-algae-forces-closure-popular-lake" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360647577/</span><span class="invisible">ghost-town-toxic-algae-forces-closure-popular-lake</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/NZ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NZ</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/LakeHood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LakeHood</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/Cyanobacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cyanobacteria</span></a></p>
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/MolecularClock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MolecularClock</span></a> analysis shows <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/bacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bacteria</span></a> used oxygen long before widespread photosynthesis<br><a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-04-molecular-clock-analysis-bacteria-oxygen.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2025-04-molecula</span><span class="invisible">r-clock-analysis-bacteria-oxygen.html</span></a></p><p>A geological timescale for bacterial <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evolution</span></a> and oxygen adaptation <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ADP1853" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc</span><span class="invisible">e.ADP1853</span></a></p><p>"the earliest aerobic transition occurred in an ancestor of photosynthetic <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/cyanobacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cyanobacteria</span></a>, indicating that the ability to utilize trace amounts of oxygen may have allowed the development of genes central to oxygenic <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/photosynthesis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photosynthesis</span></a>."</p>
Warren Currie 🦠🦐<p>Weekend <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Plankton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plankton</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Factoid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Factoid</span></a> 🦠🦐<br>Autotrophs are organisms which use pigments for photosynthesis by absorbing light at specific wavelengths. The dominant chlorophyll-a absorbs <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/light" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>light</span></a> in the violet-blue (430nm) and red (660nm) wavelengths, but not green, which is why <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/algae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>algae</span></a> is green. Phycocyanin, an accessory <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/pigment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pigment</span></a> in <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/cyanobacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cyanobacteria</span></a>, absorbs in those green wavelengths, so is blue in colour. This is why we can determine algae types from space.<br><a href="https://scitechdaily.com/new-research-suggests-earths-first-oceans-werent-blue-they-were-green/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">scitechdaily.com/new-research-</span><span class="invisible">suggests-earths-first-oceans-werent-blue-they-were-green/</span></a><br><a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/satellites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>satellites</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/oceans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oceans</span></a></p>
CellBioNews<p>When a 1-in-100-year <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/flood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>flood</span></a> washed through the Coorong, it made the vital <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/microbiome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>microbiome</span></a> of this <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/lagoon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lagoon</span></a> healthier.</p><p><a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/Desulfobacteraceae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Desulfobacteraceae</span></a> <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/Cyanobacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cyanobacteria</span></a> <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/Halanaerobiaceae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Halanaerobiaceae</span></a> <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/Beggiatoaceae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Beggiatoaceae</span></a></p><p> <a href="https://theconversation.com/when-a-1-in-100-year-flood-washed-through-the-coorong-it-made-the-vital-microbiome-of-this-lagoon-healthier-252633" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/when-a-1-i</span><span class="invisible">n-100-year-flood-washed-through-the-coorong-it-made-the-vital-microbiome-of-this-lagoon-healthier-252633</span></a></p>
SaaraCyanobacteria makes the water look kinda cool<br> <br> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/sinilevä?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sinilevä</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/cyanobacteria?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cyanobacteria</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/blue?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#blue</a>-greenalgae <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/lake?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lake</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/järvi?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#järvi</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/järvimaisema?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#järvimaisema</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/phonephotography?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#phonephotography</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/natureart?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#natureart</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/nature?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nature</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/beautyofnature?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#beautyofnature</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/suomi?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#suomi</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/finland?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#finland</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/laketuusula?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#laketuusula</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/jäke?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#jäke</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/finnishnature?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#finnishnature</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/suomiluonto?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#suomiluonto</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/paradise?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#paradise</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/naturelovers?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#naturelovers</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/naturephotography?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#naturephotography</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/luontokuvaus?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#luontokuvaus</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/luontokuvaajat?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#luontokuvaajat</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/flowercloseup?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#flowercloseup</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/calmingnature?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#calmingnature</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/naturetherapy?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#naturetherapy</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/naturecloseup?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#naturecloseup</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/summer?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#summer</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/kesä?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#kesä</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/suomenkesä?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#suomenkesä</a>
CellBioNews<p><a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/Chlorine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chlorine</span></a> plus <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/UV_light" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UV_light</span></a> can <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/detoxify" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>detoxify</span></a> water affected by harmful <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/algae_blooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>algae_blooms</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/cyanobacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cyanobacteria</span></a> <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/HAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HAB</span></a> <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/cyanotoxins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cyanotoxins</span></a> <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/drinking_water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>drinking_water</span></a></p><p> <a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-02-chlorine-uv-detoxify-affected-algae.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2025-02-chlorine</span><span class="invisible">-uv-detoxify-affected-algae.html</span></a></p>
CellBioNews<p><a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/Chlorine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chlorine</span></a> plus <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/UV_light" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UV_light</span></a> can <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/detoxify" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>detoxify</span></a> water affected by harmful <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/algae_blooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>algae_blooms</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/cyanobacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cyanobacteria</span></a> <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/HAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HAB</span></a> <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/cyanotoxins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cyanotoxins</span></a> <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/drinking_water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>drinking_water</span></a></p><p><a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-02-chlorine-uv-detoxify-affected-algae.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2025-02-chlorine</span><span class="invisible">-uv-detoxify-affected-algae.html</span></a></p>
Christopher Kyba 🇨🇦🇪🇺<p>A new paper from the "Illuminating Lake Ecosystems" <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ILES" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ILES</span></a> project (that I was involved in) shows that skyglow-like levels of <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/LightPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LightPollution</span></a> are sufficient to change the structure of microbial communities in lakes: <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0043135425002295" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sciencedirect.com/science/arti</span><span class="invisible">cle/pii/S0043135425002295</span></a></p><p>The "low" treatment was 0.06 lux, which is less than lakes typically get from moonlight. The "high" treatment was 6 lux, which would only be found inside of cities or near harbors with illumination.</p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ecology</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Bacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bacteria</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Cyanobacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cyanobacteria</span></a></p>
earthling<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Capybaras" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Capybaras</span></a> are covered in bright green slime due to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cyanobacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cyanobacteria</span></a> in the waters of the Salto Grande lake, an artificial body of water made by the hydroelectric dam on the Uruguay River, near Concordia, Entre Rios, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Argentina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Argentina</span></a></p><p>Photograph: Juan Mabromata/AFP/Getty</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/photography" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>photography</span></a></span></p>
Scientific Frontline<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cyanobacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cyanobacteria</span></a> began contributing <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oxygen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oxygen</span></a> to Earth’s mostly noxious <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/atmosphere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atmosphere</span></a> more than 2 billion years ago. The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/photosystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photosystem</span></a> II protein complex now shared by various lineages of cyanobacteria, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/algae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>algae</span></a> and land <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/plants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plants</span></a> has served as a major site of oxygen production<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Biochemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biochemistry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sflorg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sflorg</span></a><br><a href="https://www.sflorg.com/2025/02/bchm02102501.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sflorg.com/2025/02/bchm0210250</span><span class="invisible">1.html</span></a></p>
CellBioNews<p><a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/Cyanobacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cyanobacteria</span></a> <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/diversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>diversity</span></a> challenges 'one-size-fits-all' <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/algal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>algal</span></a> bloom solutions.</p><p><a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pollution</span></a> <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/HAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HAB</span></a> <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/Microcystis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Microcystis</span></a> <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/climate_warming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climate_warming</span></a> </p><p> <a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-02-cyanobacteria-diversity-size-algal-bloom.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2025-02-cyanobac</span><span class="invisible">teria-diversity-size-algal-bloom.html</span></a></p>
CellBioNews<p>Engineers develop <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/algae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>algae</span></a>-based <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/adsorbents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>adsorbents</span></a> as new weapon against harmful blooms</p><p><a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/HAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HAB</span></a> <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/phosphate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>phosphate</span></a> <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pollution</span></a> <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/rhabdophane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rhabdophane</span></a> <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/cyanobacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cyanobacteria</span></a></p><p><a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-01-algae-based-adsorbents-weapon-blooms.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2025-01-algae-ba</span><span class="invisible">sed-adsorbents-weapon-blooms.html</span></a></p>
RIO Journal<p>💡 Innovative method uses <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/cyanobacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cyanobacteria</span></a> to naturally produce 100% <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/biodegradable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biodegradable</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/plastics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plastics</span></a> overcoming issues with scalability &amp; <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/microplastic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>microplastic</span></a> residues.</p><p>📃 Policy Brief: <a href="https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e147255" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints</span><span class="invisible">.e147255</span></a>, published in the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/openscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openscience</span></a> project collection by the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PROMICON" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PROMICON</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Horizon2020" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Horizon2020</span></a> consortium.</p><p>👉 Explore the collection at: <a href="https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.coll.239" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">doi.org/10.3897/rio.coll.239</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>. </p><p>👌 So far, it presents a total of 17 project outputs, i.e. 12 research papers published in different journals, project reports, policy briefs &amp; preprints.</p>