Mike Lurling🟥
@blauwalg.bsky.social
Based at Wageningen University, The Netherlands, working on eutrophication issues. SIL WG on Lake Restoration. World Water Quality Alliance.
The NIH has lost its scientific integrity. So we left www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/n... via @statnews.com
The NIH has lost its scientific integrity. So we left
“We can no longer lend our credibility to an organization that has lost its integrity,” write four scientists and administrators who recently resigned from the NIH.
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Today, the new academic year has started with our course on Water Quality and Water Quantity. Students will learn the importance of a system analysis and how to determine surface water quality.
Op tientallen zwemlocaties waarschuwing voor blauwalg - nos.nl/l/2572953
Op tientallen zwemlocaties waarschuwing voor blauwalg
Op twee locaties is zwemmen zelfs verboden omdat het water niet veilig genoeg is.
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Today, we started with our practical course Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality @WUR. 35 enthusiastic students determining parameter values for their model to describe the oxygen dynamics in one of the university ponds. A pike checked out their activities.
A magnificent book arrived.👌 Winfried Lampert's opus magnum on the waterflea Daphnia magna, four years after he passed away.🙏 A great pleasure to remember the fantastic time I had at his Max Planck Institute for Limnology, a privilege he mentored me during part of my PhD research👍
See this great video by UKCEH about the citizen science app Bloomin' Algae youtu.be/-kfKxBSL2Ks?... Download the app and help mapping cyanobacteria blooms👇 Adroid: play.google.com/store/apps/d... Apple: apps.apple.com/nl/app/bloom...
Bloomin' Algae: a citizen science app to share information on algal blooms
YouTube video by UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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A really nice video from my colleagues in the Aquatic Ecosystems Group at UKCEH. Take a look to learn about a citizen science App to enable reporting and analysis of algal blooms in the UK and beyond: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kfK... #UKCEH_AquaEco @ukceh.bsky.social #algae #WaterQuality 🧪🌊
Bloomin' Algae: a citizen science app to share information on algal blooms
YouTube video by UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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Schandalig, 130 - 180 banen weg bij één van de beste universiteiten ter wereld. Populisten in Den Haag snappen kennelijk niet dat je dient te investeren in onderzoek en onderwijs i.p.v. er op te bezuinigen. 🤨 Wageningen Universiteit schrapt banen vanwege bezuinigingen nos.nl/l/2567448 via @NOS
Wageningen Universiteit schrapt banen vanwege bezuinigingen
De komende jaren verdwijnen er waarschijnlijk 130 tot 180 banen.
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Very nice to see the Phoslock application at Lake De Ster, Belgium (7 ha, max. depth 10 m).
Leuke verrassing gisteren. Ik mocht met m'n dochter mee naar het optreden van Inhaler in de Ziggo Dome. Deed wat denken aan jaren 80 Indierock🎶🎵🎸💪
Got some nice pictures from the team today of the application of the P-binder Phoslock to lake De Ster (Belgium). Sediment cores have been taken and half of them will be treated with Phoslock to mimic the application in the lab.
April 15/16, under guidance of Limnological Solutions Int., the novel P-binder LimnoPLUS (aka Zeofixer, 10% La) was applied for the 1st time to an isolated lake in Europe. The lake had an internal load issue, let's see how it develops. Experiment with sediment cores runs in parallel in our lab.
We took some sediment cores out of the Groenlo canal and inspected a few low bridges too😂
Als je het belang van wetenschap ziet, dan lijkt t me logisch dat het kabinet ook de geplande bezuinigingen schrapt.😉 Ook kabinet wil wetenschappers lokken, uit de VS en andere landen - nos.nl/l/2560450
Ook kabinet wil wetenschappers lokken, uit de VS en andere landen
Minister Bruins ondersteunt de oproep van de Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek. "Excellente" wetenschappers die het in de VS niet meer zien zitten zijn welkom.
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Zucht👇 Kamer op de bres voor behoud van vochtige doekjes met plastic - nos.nl/l/2560222
Kamer op de bres voor behoud van vochtige doekjes met plastic
Het kabinet zet in op een verbod omdat de doekjes het riool verstoppen, maar een meerderheid in de Tweede Kamer vindt dat te ver gaan.
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Vacancy for an applied ecologist in bioassessment @IHE-Delft, The Netherlands👇 join.un-ihe.org/vacancy-publ...
Lecturer/Researcher in applied aquatic ecology with specialisation in biodiversity assessment to support sustainable development
The employment contract is for 1 fte – 38 hours per week.
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A beautiful day with a thin ice layer covering the pond and inside our enclosures. Great having the permission to experiment in this eutrophic pond a few steps from our lab. Some enclosures have been treated with novel P binders. We'll see how they develop over spring and summer.
