Mak Saito
@maksaito.bsky.social
Biogeochemist, oceanographer, proteomics scientist, guitarist for Deep Six, half-Scottish half-Japanese American
1/3 🌊 It’s official! BioGeoSCAPES has launched as a SCOR-endorsed program, and our Science Plan is now public! Explore our shared vision for understanding ocean metabolism through States, Rates, and Fates: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... #BioGeoSCAPES #OceanScience
(JASMS) Where Do Proteomics People Come from?: AbstractThe field of proteomics is one of the fastest-growing scientific disciplines in the world today. Beginning in 2020, ambitious market predictions anticipated proteomics to more than double in market size in 4–6 years and to… (RSS) #MassSpecRSS
Where Do Proteomics People Come from?
AbstractThe field of proteomics is one of the fastest-growing scientific disciplines in the world today. Beginning in 2020, ambitious market predictions anticipated proteomics to more than double in market size in 4–6 years and to even surpass the well-established genomic sciences industry in 8–12 years. While the market is still growing, it has not come close to matching the initial projections. To better understand the root cause of this, the author has collected field surveys and direct interviews of over 200 scientists actively involved in proteomics research today. While ultimately incomplete, it is worth noting that over 68% of respondents received their technical training in proteomics during either their doctoral or postdoctoral training. In stark contrast, only 4.3% of students obtained training during their undergraduate education. Given the 5.7-to-9.4-year average cycle for traditional doctoral and postdoctoral training in the life sciences, it appears the limiting factor in growing the proteomics field may be linked directly to current practices in training a qualified workforce.
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We're out at sea with C-COMP @microbialplanet.bsky.social and the AUV Clio. Clio's social media account has migrated from the other place to the blue place @clio-thebgcauv.bsky.social , follow for mild sarcastic pseudo-first robot humor updates...
@clio-thebgcauv.bsky.social · last yr.Since I've new to 'blueocean', here's some background about me. I'm Clio the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) that, unusual for a AUV, operates only in vertical mode, collecting samples in profiles down to 6000m. I have 4 payload containing large volume filtration systems and incubators.🌊🔬
🌊❄️🧪 🇦🇶 Please share: We have learned that the National Science Foundation is moving ahead with plans to decommission the U.S. Research Vessel/Ice Breaker Nathaniel B. Palmer this October. If you care about Antarctic research, please read on (1/n)
🌊 ↪️↩️ Deep ocean currents play a pivotal role in shaping the diversity and function of microbial life across the South Pacific Ocean, according to a groundbreaking study led by @jcvi.org and Scripps Oceanography scientists. More on the study published by @science.org. ⬇️
Study Reveals how Deep Ocean Currents Shape Microbial Life across South Pacific
A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning circulation—play a pivotal role in shaping the diversity and function of microbial life ...
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New powerful article up in the New York Times on cancelled and delayed grants www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Here Are the Nearly 2,500 Medical Research Grants Canceled or Delayed by Trump (Gift Article)
Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.
nytimes.com
Excited to give a virtual seminar in the NASA LIFE RCN series next Tuesday June 10th, at 8am PST/11am EST. I'll be talking about the Chitin Raft Hypothesis and the rise of planktonic marine cyanobacteria. 🧪🦠⚒️🌐 #Paleobio #MEvoSky #MicroSky www.lifercn.org/events/2025-...
2025 LIFE RCN Seminar Series Episode 1: Dr. Rogier Braakman — LIFE Research Coordination Network
On June 10th, 2025, at 8AM PDT/11AM EDT, the LIFE RCN will be excited to introduce Dr. Rogier Braakman, a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an adjunct scientist at Th...
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One visible impact of the illegal firing of NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab (GLERL) employees - no 2025 data updates for water quality in W Lake Erie, meaning no public info on the harmful algal blooms. We detected toxins in April, but we lost the folks who organize & report this data
NOAA-GLERL WLE Weekly Data
Visual archive of weekly sampling data from Western Lake Erie during the 2012 through roughly present year harmful algal bloom seasons
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🌊 Pre-registration is open for GEOTRACES Summer School 2025! 📅 17–21 Nov | 📍 Cape Town 🎓 Training in marine biogeochemistry of trace elements & isotopes for 36 students. Apply by 30 June 2025 👉 geotraces-2025.sciencesconf.org #MarineScience #Biogeochemistry #SummerSchool @scor-int.bsky.social
Is the Zinc Hypothesis true? (Zn control of marine primary production). Apparently yes: by multiple independent lines of evidence, including zinc stress protein biomarkers, in the low pCO2 waters of a coastal Antarctica bloom. Thesis work by Riss Kell and many wonderful collabs. In Open review BG. 🌊
Zinc stimulation of phytoplankton in a low carbon dioxide, coastal Antarctic environment: evidence for the Zn hypothesis
Abstract. The ocean acts as a carbon sink, absorbing carbon from the atmosphere and resulting in substantial uptake of anthropogenic CO2 emissions. As biological processes in the oceans such as net pr...
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Super glad to share two new papers about how nutrient gradients impact alkaline phosphatase in the ocean. This was "that project" which followed from PhD to Postdoc to Assist. Prof, motivated by awesome collaborators! egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20... egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
Part 1: Zonal gradients in phosphorus and nitrogen acquisition and stress revealed by metaproteomes of Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus
Abstract. Ocean warming alongside changes to the natural and anthropogenic supply of key nutrient resources such as nitrogen, phosphorus and trace metals is predicted to alter the magnitude and stoich...
egusphere.copernicus.org
I talked to NIH officials, current and former, about what's been happening inside the agency since the Trump administration shut down their grantmaking pipeline in January. Their stories showed just how willing our new leaders are to break the law: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
Inside the Collapse at NIH
Administration officials pressured NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.
theatlantic.com
"John Raven, FRS, FRSE: a truly great innovator in plant physiology, photosynthesis and much more" link.springer.com/article/10.1...
John Raven, FRS, FRSE: a truly great innovator in plant physiology, photosynthesis and much more - Photosynthesis Research
This is a tribute to a truly inspirational plant biologist, Prof. John A. Raven, FRS, FRSE (25th June 1941– 23rd May 2024), who died at the age of 82. He was a leader in the field of evolution and phy...
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Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.
Alondra Nelson@alondra.bsky.social · 2y agoExcellent 🧵 on this evening's NIH announcement of a dramatic reduction in indirect rates for research institutions, which amounts to a generational restructuring of the US research and development ecosystem. These cuts are effective immediately, not just for new grants but for existing ones.
Rapid Zinc uptake rates in Antarctica with a new stable isotope method, by former student Riss. If you know how easy it is to contaminate for zinc you’ll appreciate this study.
Riss Kell, PhD@drkell.bsky.social · 2y agoHello bluesky! I am so happy to share that some of my Antarctic work was published today in BG: bg.copernicus.org/articles/21/.... This paper is seven (!) years in the making! Zinc is an essential micronutrient for phytoplankton, and is uptaken rapidly (biogeochem modelers please take note!)
We are very happy to announce a free-to-attend #anvio workshop and ECR symposium in Oldenburg to discuss integrated microbial 'omics and learn applications of anvi'o. More information and application link (application deadline is Jan 10): anvio.org/workshops/20... Please apply and/or circulate 😇
Ocean Metaproteomics intercomparison study out. Really fun project working together with colleagues to examine this method. And Intercomparisons are really valuable to connect between dstasets across time and space in the environment bg.copernicus.org/articles/21/...
Results from a multi-laboratory ocean metaproteomic intercomparison: effects of LC-MS acquisition and data analysis procedures
Abstract. Metaproteomics is an increasingly popular methodology that provides information regarding the metabolic functions of specific microbial taxa and has potential for contributing to ocean ecolo...
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Our rock group, Deep Six, just released a second album this week, The Abyss. Mostly instrumental tunes, melancholy, but hopeful, good writing or walking tunes. With fellow marine chemists Adam Subhas and Tristan Horner. Enjoy! deepsixwoho.hearnow.com
The Abyss
Have you heard The Abyss by Deep Six on #hearnow?
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Our new multi-omic and micronutrient study, A 1km section in the western North Atlantic measured by the AUV Clio. We also sent Clio on a 4000m dive and detected fungi in the large nephaloid layers there. Congrats @oceanatalie.bsky.social !
Natalie Cohen@oceanatalie.bsky.social · 3y agoWoo we finally have our preprint out! Using transcripts and proteins collected with a AUV Clio, we found shifts in marine microeukaryotes vertically in the water column and signatures of changing nutrient stress across a coastal gradient: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Hello BlueSky! Excited to be here (thanks @ben for the umpteen codes...).
