After a couple of months sampling with and for the others - we got to go at sea “for us” and now enjoy these little beauties in the lab 🤩

Julie Meilland@juliemeilland.bsky.social · last mo.

The image speaks by itself - hands down the best job in the world! @exoceanlab.bsky.social

These guys just love the heat! So happy it was a good first outing for our new plankton net. 😀

Julie Meilland@juliemeilland.bsky.social · last mo.

The image speaks by itself - hands down the best job in the world! @exoceanlab.bsky.social

Cool off from the heat dome (if affected) with a pair of lovely Arctic papers out recently in GCA from UiT (ex-)students Adele Westgård and Freya Sykes. Take your pick, N. pachyderma or G. bulloides, but they are both successfully cultured in the Tromsø polar culture facility with Mohamed Ezat.

PhD proposal open till May 10th : if you are interested in imaging and paleo applied to fish communities, apply here to come and work @climatecerege.bsky.social with @chalkyoceans.bsky.social and univ Valparaiso and the Manta group. schadoc.univ-amu.fr/en/projects/...

🚨PhD alert 🚨 together with @tbiard.bsky.social and myself, based mostly in Wimereux with multiple stay in the beautiful @exoceanlab.bsky.social and focused on planktonic rhizarians C export and respiration. Get in touch!

For the first time, scientists have measured atmospheric gases from the late Pliocene, yielding data that could help to predict the future climate

Ice core reveals low CO2 during warm spell 3 million years ago

For the first time, scientists have measured atmospheric gases from the late Pliocene, yielding data that could help to predict the future climate

newscientist.com

Really proud of @jysuarezibarra.bsky.social for his upcoming #MSCA research position with us @climatecerege.bsky.social. Not only a really exciting project to help us find out more about the climate system, but also an excellent career step for a superb young researcher.

CEREGE @cerege.bsky.social · 5mo ago

In the latest @exoceanlab.bsky.social interview, Jaime shares how his project eCO₂-MorpH uses planktonic foraminifera to reconstruct past CO₂ and inform climate models. Full interview: exocean.academicwebsite.com/pages/4065

This story is at once unbelievable and very believable. Come to the US at your own peril under this regime.

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks

Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

theguardian.com

Four days later, I think I can finally process this: I’ve been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (#MSCA -PF 2025). 17,066 applications this year. ~9.6% funded. Still feels slightly unreal.

#CNRSNews 📰 Scientists have set up standards for marine CO2 removal, which could enable extra oceanic storage of carbon dioxide and its recovery as carbonate or biomass. Yet further research is needed prior to large-scale implementation

Scooping out oceanic CO₂ to make room for more

news.cnrs.fr

#exocean advent calendar day 24! Today we thought it was a good fit to show an image/talk about “conception”… One of the thing we (try to) do best at ExoCean is planktonic foraminifera reproduction. Here two immaculate mummies… 😏 We would like to wish you all a beautiful Christmas Eve!

#exoCeanadvent Day 23: at exoCean we also look at some old questions: in the late 1800s, during the HMS Challenger expedition, they discovered that you can have a constant rain of shells from above, and still end up with a seafloor that looks like the carbonate budget never existed. Why? Pressure. 🌊

More politicians, policymakers, and companies should be on Bluesky.

Kat Abughazaleh@katmabu.bsky.social · 8mo ago

This has always been a Bluesky-first campaign. But as of today, we will no longer be using Twitter. At all. And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.

#exoCeanadvent Day 22: Winding down for the holidays often means one thing... more mass spectrometry time is available! With our friends in @cerege.bsky.social's #ENVITOP facility, we're making use! Thanks to their equipment we're working on measuring elemental compositions down to the nano-gramme!

#exocean advent calendar Day 21! The strongest link between all of us is our love for the ocean. Leaving Marseille with a magnificent sunrise reminds us each time we go out how lucky we are to do what we love for a living! We already have our ship time for the first 6 months of 2026 - exciting!

Here's to #2026! Please don't hold us to any of these...

exoCean Laboratory@exoceanlab.bsky.social · 8mo ago

12 scientific papers 💻, 11 months of good weather 🌞, 10⁴ foram babies 🐚, 9 visiting scientists 👩🏼‍🔬👨🏾‍🔬, 8 successful boat missions 🛥️, 7 website visits 🙏🏼, 6 new hypotheses 💡...*5 gold rings*...4 defended masters 📜, 3 #ForCry mass spec methods 🔍, 2 #Deep-C reactors 🧿...

12 scientific papers 💻, 11 months of good weather 🌞, 10⁴ foram babies 🐚, 9 visiting scientists 👩🏼‍🔬👨🏾‍🔬, 8 successful boat missions 🛥️, 7 website visits 🙏🏼, 6 new hypotheses 💡...*5 gold rings*...4 defended masters 📜, 3 #ForCry mass spec methods 🔍, 2 #Deep-C reactors 🧿...

#exoCeanadvent Day 19: Friday edition: today’s post is about the peacocks at CEREGE, because it’s Friday and our brains are in weekend mode. They wander around like they own the campus, scream for no reason, and block paths with absolute confidence. Honestly, goals. 🦚

Essential reading for those interested in going carbon negative 👀. See what @sulpis.bsky.social does for a living and how it connects to @exoceanlab.bsky.social here!

exoCean Laboratory@exoceanlab.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Read the European Marine Board report here: 📘👀 www.marineboard.eu/publications...

Read the European Marine Board report here: 📘👀 www.marineboard.eu/publications...

Net accident you say? Ooops, this net came back looking like it had been mauled by a shark, and I think... Maybe it had. A good, but expensive(!) sample. Sorry @tdegaridel.bsky.social!

exoCean Laboratory@exoceanlab.bsky.social · 8mo ago

#exoCeanadvent Day 17: Net accident, happy outcome. Ex-lab member Laura caught this phronima (monster in a barrel) “by mistake”, so we adopted it - alive - in a lab aquarium. One haul turned into days of behaviour notes.

#exoCeanadvent Day 16: We're getting closer to the holidays, but we don't stop yet. @erc.europa.eu postdoc @jysuarezibarra.bsky.social was out today presenting his work @maxplanck.de in Mainz. @soniachaabane.bsky.social is also visiting to chat with colleagues.

#exoCeanadvent Day 15: Some plankton are tiny [citation needed?], and for those we need ways to measure tiny (this is a theme you'll hear us talking about a lot). Sometimes just holding samples in place can be hard.... enter the #Cryostage! ❄️

#exoCeanadvent Day 14 Footprint reduction: we do lab-based ocean science because we genuinely love it, but also because lab experiments can replace lots of field trips. More control, more insight, and in part, fewer emissions. Bonus: dissolving old sediment cores neutralizes a bit of CO2. 😇

#exoCeanadvent Day 13: Time Machine. Travel back in time with us 6 million years. Part of the reason for our work @exoceanlab.bsky.social is to better understand the past through observing the modern, but sometimes you just need some ancient mud..@chalkyoceans.bsky.social recently went to get some!

#exoCeanadvent Day 12: End-of-year celebration - raclette edition. On the agenda for this team meeting: cheese, cheese, cheese, goals for next year: even more cheese. We’ve officially reached our melting point. 🧀

#exoCeanadvent Day 11: Science makes you do strange things. Meet @astridhylen.bsky.social, a postdoc working with carbonate dissolution in coastal sediments. She recently found herself in the middle of a salt marsh, stirring one of the ponds with a (clean) toilet brush taped to a curtain rod.

There's still much more to come from our trip to Bermuda with @juliemeilland.bsky.social, @thefosterlab.bsky.social and @case4climate.bsky.social. Whilst there, we were all tortured with video interviews... Here's a taster!

exoCean Laboratory@exoceanlab.bsky.social · 8mo ago

#exoCeanadvent Day 10: As winter creeps into Provence we remember warmer days from our fieldwork in Bermuda. We stayed with the lovely folk at @biosstation.bsky.social, like @blancobercial.bsky.social who helped us to look for different foraminifera to catch, than our usual Mediterranean stuff.

100% recommend for fieldwork. See @maxime-felix.bsky.social for details on availability.

exoCean Laboratory@exoceanlab.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The results did not reveal significant trend among the treatments, suggesting that under the tested conditions, the addition of olivine did not appear to affect foraminifera biology. Good news! Also, if anyone needs water filtration in the field with no electricity, Maxime is your guy.

#exoCeanadvent Day 9: Meet Maxime (again). At @exoceanlab.bsky.social and @climatecerege.bsky.social Maxime has been conducting several experiments focusing on the culture of marine organisms. One project involved culturing foraminifera in the presence of olivine (Mg,Fe)2SiO4, an igneous mineral.