Chris Lane
Studying biodiversity and comparative genomics with a focus on the evolution of parasitism in algae and protists. Temporary Dean. Co-Editor, J Phycol.🦑🧪
- Reposted by Chris LaneMarco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
- Reposted by Chris LaneFinally, we’ve solved a long-standing mystery: what tintinnid shells are actually made of: A new class of biomaterial formed by remarkable structural proteins unique to tintinnids. A major milestone after 3 years of work! Read about it in our preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202... #ProtistsOnSky
- Reposted by Chris LaneMicrobial eukaryotes keep challenging assumptions about eukaryotic cell and genome biology. Our upcoming workshop explores the frontier of protist genomics and how it shapes cell biology, ecology and evolution. Please save the date! Talks, posters and ECR events Websites and details coming soon
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- *Listens to white noise playlist while traveling* Spotify: “And here’s a special message from your favorite artist of 2025!”
- Reposted by Chris LaneNeed to defeat a slime that resists all physical damage but your party is all fighters? Problematic mage gap.
- Love vibrant colors on your walls, but your spouse insists on tan walls? Problematic beige gap.
- Marine Ecologist tenure track job, here at URI. Come join a thriving research environment with a major focus on all things marine! jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960
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- Reposted by Chris LaneThis paper has been a must! Great collaboration with @mkrupovic.bsky.social and @yifanzhou.bsky.social, a N&V by a legend of halophilic archaea tinyurl.com/yc3dcv72, and one picture of one of our expeditions to Dallol making the cover of the November issue of @natmicrobiol.nature.com rdcu.be/eLtCH
- Reposted by Chris Lane🚨Our collaboration with @centriolelab.bsky.social & @gautamdey.bsky.social is out today in @cp-cell.bsky.social We show that #Expansion #Microscopy is a broad-spectrum modality for Euks, enabling 3D phenotypic maps rooted to phylogeny. #ProtistsOnSky #SciComm #SciSky www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
- Reposted by Chris Lane32,000 in Providence on a gorgeous day!
- Reposted by Chris LaneI think we need to keep repeating this point —that decisions by this admin, by the EPA Secretary confirmed by our Senators, by DOGE as Nick Begich III & Dan Sullivan enthusiastically cheered it on —directly impacted Kipnuk’s destruction. Alaskans need to see that politics affect homes, bodies, lives
- Reposted by Chris LaneUPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
- Reposted by Chris LaneOIST is seeking up to four tenure-track or tenured faculty in Ecology, Environmental Science, Earth Science, and Oceanography. Application deadline: Oct 15. Please share. Thx! www.oist.jp/careers/facu...
- Reposted by Chris LaneNEW WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened. This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it www.wired.com/story/oral-h...
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- We just created a huge number of political prisoners for no reason.
- In our current environment, when very weird things happen, ask “how will this be weaponized”?
- Reposted by Chris LaneInterested in eukaryotic algal evolution, metagenomics, new plastid diversity, and more? Check out my poster (P175) today at #eseb2025 ! #protistsonsky
- What I see when people post pics of their food in the UK.
- At no point in this title will you be able to guess the next word.
- Reposted by Chris LaneThis is the same amount as the entire National Science Foundation's R&D spending for the entire field of *engineering* for the whole country. All of it.
- Reposted by Chris LaneNew protist supergroup: Promethea! From @zlatogursky.bsky.social et al #ProtistsOnSky
- Une baguette.
- Reposted by Chris LaneThis is happening *now* in the 2025 fiscal year. We have no guarantee that if Congress does not pass the severe budget cuts the administration wants that the administration simply won't fund things.
- Saw a good size coyote while walking the dog. It didn’t stick around for a decent pic.
- Reposted by Chris LaneDO NOT GIVE UP! Our advocacy is working. A key Senate committee has indicated that it will reject Trump’s proposed cuts to science agencies including NASA and the NSF. Keep speaking up and calling your electeds 🗣️🗣️🗣️
- Reposted by Chris LaneI don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
- Reposted by Chris LaneAs someone who has greatly benefited from the NSF MRI program, I'm sad to see that the 2025 submission window was canceled. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
- Paris metro boldly asking the question, “what if our train cars were also EZ bake ovens?”
- Reposted by Chris LaneBeyond today's annexation of the NSF building, this new budget detail in WaPo is also 🤯 and needs investigation: "So far this year, [NSF] has received only $6.5 billion of the congressionally appropriated $9 billion that it is supposed to spend on research" www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
- Reposted by Chris LaneAnother day testing the limits of resilience. The Alexandria NSF building was designed for the NSF merit review process (gold standard), complete with a floor devoted to panels. Now we aren’t allowed to have in person panels. The loss of US science leadership will haunt this country for decades.
- Reposted by Chris LaneTruly horrified by this order in way that is deeper and darker than I have felt over many truly awful merits decisions.
- Reposted by Chris Lane🎉 Now out “Phylogenomic analyses indicate the archaeal superphylum DPANN originated from free‑living euryarchaeal‑like ancestors” www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Stocking Tabasco, Franks and Texas Pete as your hot sauces is like having Bud Light, Miller Light and Coors Light as your beer options.
- Reposted by Chris LaneExtensive Propublica story about grant terminations Sharing specifics and putting faces on the research… Definitely worth a read projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-res...
- Timeline cleanse.
- WHAT GREAT TIMING!
- To live in a country where two rich assholes can have a public slap fight that will have major implications for federal policies.
- Reposted by Chris LaneBuddy, if you think I can’t both laugh at something and be full of incandescent range at a different thing at the same time then have you even been an American?
- Reposted by Chris Lanemust be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
- Reposted by Chris LaneThis feels like Alien vs Sexual Predator
- Reposted by Chris LaneMy Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
- Reposted by Chris LaneMy latest — I wrote about Trump pardoning reality stars Todd and Julie Chrisley’s tax and bank fraud convictions after their daughter praised him at the RNC vs. 18-year-old Marcelo Gomes da Silva’s wrongful ICE detainment, and how justice has merely become a presidential transaction. Read here:
- Reposted by Chris LaneIf you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow. The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
- Reposted by Chris LaneDOGE is now reviewing every NIH grant that goes out, I reported last week. That review is AI-driven and is screening for DEI, trans health, China, vaccine hesitancy, and the institutions to whom Trump has blocked funding, @hannahnatanson.bsky.social reports. Gift link: wapo.st/3HhnPSt
- This is how you smash the training pipeline. Remove 3/4 of all training grants.
- Reposted by Chris LaneI really, really need people to understand that as a function of supremacy, normal everyday people lie constantly about their intentions—to everyone, but perhaps to themselves most of all—and most often in service of protecting their ignorance and complacency, rather than any coherent ideology.
- Reposted by Chris LaneThe NIH has said it will implement a "new award stucture" by October. But researchers say it is absolutely senseless and reckless to cut off funding without an alternative in place. I spoke to nine affected researchers. This is their story.
- Reposted by Chris Lanesomething that stands out about this is just how cheap it is for us to have world-leading scientific capacity we spent ~6.75 trillion last year, and the combined budgets for NIH, NSF and NASA are barely more than 1% of that what an incredible waste to lose it all for a drop in the bucket
- Reposted by Chris LanePhylogenomics reveals the slow-burning fuse of diatom evolution www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... #jcampubs
- Jerry goes on a date but she is the Provost’s EA and doesn’t acknowledge him in a meeting. Elaine joins a gym but the Pilates instructor is in her class. George sets off a fire alarm burning a bagel, but won’t admit it. Kramer plots a rod trip to the students he thinks gave him bad teaching evals.
- I might believe them if they said they tried to move a figure 0.02 inches to the left.
- I hate when I try to repaginate a story in Word and it ends up adding citations to studies that don't exist www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
- Reposted by Chris LaneTime to post it again.
- Reposted by Chris LaneThis is a TERRIFIC filing because it zeroes in on Congress's CONSISTENT and UNATTENUATED mandates that the NSF prioritize diversity, equity ,and inclusion, so as to maximize human potential in the scientific workforce. Start with ALLEGATIONS (paragraph 31 ff.) www.doj.state.or.us/wp-content/u...
- Reposted by Chris LaneHMMER is literally *the* go-to tool for profile HMMs in bioinformatics. I've used it countless times on a wide range of projects spanning viruses, retrotransposons, etc. Absolute insanity! hmmer.org
