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

Great to see more work from our culturing seasons in the Arctic twin to @juliemeilland.bsky.social and my @chalkyoceans.bsky.social Mediterranean culturing space, housed in the @exoceanlab.bsky.social at @climatecerege.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.

The organizers of the seminar series «The Life of Retaria » got their first paper out - nice read for the weekend?!

Julie Meilland@juliemeilland.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We got our first common paper out #theLifeOfRetaria with @sandinmm.bsky.social , @raphaelmorard.bsky.social, @nicolecoots.bsky.social, @mattgr3co.bsky.social, Nicolaas Glock and Natalia Llopis-Monferrer - first product of our seminar series! check it out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Forams respiration work with an ExoCean member!

Julie Meilland@juliemeilland.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New paper out on planktonic foraminifera respiration. Interesting findings on polar and subpolar species! Congrats to Diane Armitage! With Audrey Morley, Nicolaas Glock, part of the Arclim group, Tali Babila and co.! bg.copernicus.org/articles/23/...

🚨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!

Do you recall when @anandpallavijha.bsky.social and @chalkyoceans.bsky.social said during ICP15 that @antacl.bsky.social would join @cerege.bsky.social @climatecerege.bsky.social? Well, they didn't lie: www.cerege.fr/en/cerege/an... bsky.app/profile/anan... #IWD #InternationalWomensDay 👩‍🔬 (1/2)

Pallavi Anand (she/her)@anandpallavijha.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Day 4, #ICP15, next up @antacl.bsky.social talking about long term evolution of South Asian Summer Monsoon. Congratulations to @antacl.bsky.social for starting her new position soon 🥳 @climatecerege.bsky.social @cerege.bsky.social

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

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

#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. 🌊

#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. 🌊

#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!

#exoCeanadvent Day 20: it's wishing time... Whether you believe in Santa (the French singer 🎤), FC, or as I recently heard, Professor Xmas... We can all hope for some things in the holiday season... At @exoceanlab.bsky.social we would like (in no particular order):

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...

#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. 🦚

#exoCeanadvent Day 18: looking for a good read waiting for Santa? 🌊 Try marine carbon removal: @sulpis.bsky.social co-chaired the working group behind the @emarineboard.bsky.social MRV brief, because “trust me bro” isn’t a monitoring protocol. Emissions cuts first; then *maybe* carbon removal.

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 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!

Are you following @exoceanlab.bsky.social? If not, then you are missing their #AdventCalendar, which describes one thing about this lab—team members, research, and equipment—everyday this month until 24th! @climatecerege.bsky.social 🧪 🌊

#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.

#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.

#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.

#exoCeanadvent Day 8: Meet Katoo Declerk's Erasmus+ work. During her internship Katoo is investigating recently dead foraminifera (handily available in our lab!) Forams typically sink to the ocean floor soon after death, but partial or total dissolution can occur before getting there.