PhD position in understanding benthic marine cyanobacterial blooms and toxin production at the Cawthorn Institute (NZ). Deadline August 16 careers.cawthron.org.nz/job/b58073c7...

PhD position in Marine Microbiology / HABs / B-vitamins at NC State University (USA). #harmfulalgae paerllab.wordpress.ncsu.edu/2026/07/28/p...

Our new MSCA-Doctoral Network project ML4Plankton will kick off soon. 14 PhD students will start in March 2027 to work on plankton big data, i.e., machine learning. Get in touch if you are interested. Coordinator: Sakina-Dorothée Ayata @norwichmicro.bsky.social www.normalesup.org/~ayata/DN_ML...

Will be interesting to try this out!

Mridul K. Thomas@mridulkthomas.bsky.social · last mo.

We can help make your experiments better! 🌊🧪🌎 🧮➕📏 @raviranjan.bsky.social and I have been thinking about how to improve experimental design. We have a preprint with maths, simple rules-of-thumb, and R code and Shiny apps ready to help you. 

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Thought-provoking words by Albert Calbet in the latest issue of Journal of Plankton Research. academic.oup.com/plankt/artic...

If AI writes the paper, who validates the plankton?: a call to reinvest in empirical expertise before the validation gap becomes irreversible

Abstract. Artificial intelligence is already reshaping the production of scientific text, literature synthesis, coding and image-based biological analysis.

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The coccosphere of the heavy calcifying coccolithophore Coccolithus braarudii provides defense against bacteria www.nature.com/articles/s42... #jcampubs

ISSHA early career member Manuela Seehauser, PhD student at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, researches toxic cyanobacterial blooms in the Baltic Sea. Read more about her research on our website 🌊👩‍🔬 #harmfulalgae #cyanobacteria issha.org/early-career...

Nominate a fellow ISSHA member for the "HAB Trailblazer" award! The award recognizes an individual who has made inspiring contributions to HAB research. issha.org/call-for-nom...

We're running a series where we highlight the research of our early career members. First up was Arnaud Louchart from @niooknaw.bsky.social discussing his recent work on #Microcystis cyanobacteria issha.org/early-career...

ISSHA finally made it to BlueSky. If you work on harmful algae, this one's for you 🌊

International Society for the Study of Harmful Algae (ISSHA)@iss-ha.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hello Bluesky! 👋 We’re the International Society for the Study of Harmful Algae (ISSHA). We connect researchers and practitioners working on harmful algal blooms worldwide. Follow us for science updates, events, and insights. 🌍🌱 #HarmfulAlgae #HABs #AquaticScience #ISSHA

Happy to see our new paper led by @marangureng.bsky.social on metabolic signatures of high temperature adaptation in diatoms published! 🎉 In collaboration with @suleles.bsky.social, Angel Diz, María Huete-Ortega, Andy Allen and Naomi Levine.

M. Aranguren-Gassis@marangureng.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New paper out! Very exciting results! How do marine diatoms evolve heat tolerance? @gob-uvigo.bsky.social @cimuvigo.bsky.social @kelloggbiostn.bsky.social dx.doi.org/10.1111/1462...

Coral reefs are increasingly threaten by marine heatwaves, but what pushes corals past their breaking point? New in @ScienceAdvances @science.org: we found that corals can lose the microscopic system that helps move oxygen around their tissues during heat stress 🪸 doi.org/10.1126/scia...

Acute temperature effects on cilia beating increase coral deoxygenation

Ciliary flows buffer coral O2 supply under heat stress until a tipping point, above which hypoxia and tissue failure are induced.

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I'm looking for a postdoc to work on diatom phylogenomics. Reach out by email with questions. Please share and repost! uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/UASYS/job/Fa...

Postdoctoral Fellow in Biological Sciences

Current University of Arkansas System employees, including student employees and graduate assistants, need to log in to Workday via MyApps.Microsoft.com, then access Find Jobs from the Workday search ...

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And now it's out! Happy that PNAS selected for the cover this SEM image snapped by @samjlord.bsky.social, one of the most evocative visualizations of Euplotes that I have ever encountered. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Stay tuned for what is shaping up to be some fascinating follow-up in the lab...

Ben Larson@blarson.bsky.social · 11mo ago

What could be more exciting than watching Euplotes scurry around under the microscope? How about adding some raptorial predation by supergiant cannibal cells? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Video by Vittorio Boscaro. 1/n

Some time ago, I wnt on a casual trip to Frøya, Norway. It turned out to be a bit more than just a fun observation… The scientific paper is now out 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Small observations can sometimes open up new questions.

We need more long-format journals. Brevity is good. But there are topics that would benefit from more space than tight word limits allow. And there's a cost to summarising methods or shunting them to appendices. For science to be reproducible, we need to be able to clearly describe what was done.

Claude seems fantastic at writing Shiny apps. You can in principle go from knowing nothing about how to create one to having one online in minutes (obviously, best to spent more time checking it!). Fabulous for sharing ideas quickly and an excellent accompaniment to papers and lectures.

71% of our planet is ocean, but you wouldn’t know it from traditional maps. Shift your land-based perspective this Earth Week with a story about the Spilhaus Projection map and the WHOI oceanographer who created it: go.whoi.edu/spilhausmap

🚨Job Alert!🚨 Please share widely! We are hiring *two* postdocs (one ASAP, one Oct '26) using models and data to identify pathways involving the gut-brain axis that link the infant microbiome with neurodevelopment and Autism Spectrum Disorder. 1st review date: April 24! recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF03089

Postdoctoral Researcher-- Foundations of a Resilient Microbiome (2 Positions)

University of California Santa Barbara is hiring. Apply now!

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The Selander Lab at Lund University, Sweden, is looking for a PhD student to study the ecology of fear in marine plankton. Exciting topic with great supervision! lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Doctoral student in biology

Subject description Biology is the broad subject of all living things. It encompasses everything from processes at the molecular and cellular levels to global processes at the ecosystem level. The sub

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Happy to see our antifragility paper published! With @jonaswickman.bsky.social and @chrisklausmeier.bsky.social.

American Naturalist / ASN 🐌@asn-amnat.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Antifragility: A Cross-Cutting Concept for Understanding Ecological Responses to Variability by Wickman et al. Available now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Our review on the evolutionary arms race between copepods and diatoms is now published in @aslo.org #ASLO_LO 🌊 We discuss the most common defense mechanisms found in diatoms, and how copepods have evolved to overcome them. Check it out #openaccess aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Diatoms–copepods: An evolutionary arms race

Diatoms and copepods are dominating and diverse groups of phytoplankton and zooplankton, respectively. Diatoms account for 25–40% of ocean primary production, and their main predators, copepods, are ...

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Somehow this paper has been largely ignored, but the basic idea has been presented by others as novel, or the idea gets misattributed to someone else. If you're interested in #diatom sex and its evolutionary importance, read and cite this paper. www.jstor.org/stable/2460887

High childhood poverty in Sweden, but disproportionally among parents with a migration background. Important research and debate piece by Anna Tegunimataka, @siddarthaaradhya.bsky.social and @rafgrotti.bsky.social www.aftonbladet.se/debatt/a/K88...

Stora ojämlikheter i hur svenska barn växer upp

DEBATT. I tider av hög arbetslöshet och ökade matpriser riskerar många familjer att drabbas av ekonomisk utsatthet. Men barnfattigdomen i Sverige är kraftigt oj

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The ocean does not produce half of the oxygen that we breathe.

M. Nolan Gray 🥑@mnolangray.bsky.social · 4mo ago

What's something that experts/practitioners in your field universally agree upon, but that remains a "hot take" among the general public?

Paul Ehrlich is remembered for a bet that he lost, and a population prediction that went wrong. Many environmental scientists seem to remember him warmly for 'raising awareness'. They should not. His legacy is both stupid and vile beyond imagination. (1)

The flyver for this year's AMARE PhD school in lovely Malta is up: www.ogs.it/en/amare-med.... I look forward to present the new developments of FEISTY, and Andre Punt will introduce size-based stock assessment methods. Note: deadline coming up soon!

Wow. Foraminifera! ROV pilots paused and carefully zoomed in to collect footage of these single-celled microorganisms, or protists, at 843 m during the #OBVI #LivingBioreactors expedition w/ @schmidtsciences.bsky.social offshore of Argentina. Read the full caption: youtube.com/shorts/Yv_ud...

How does salinity affect growth? @fryderheim.bsky.social & I developed a model to describe this, and he's parameterised it for >100 species. We can now model how salinity changes should affect population & community dynamics! Check out his poster on Monday afternoon at #OSM26

Fredrik Ryderheim@fryderheim.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Next week at #OSM26, I’ll be sharing our (w/ @mridulkthomas.bsky.social) work on a new approach for describing how phytoplankton growth responds to salinity, using a large set of experiments to estimate key traits across species. See you at poster OB14B-0481 on Monday!

New preprint out! 🌊🧪🌎 🧮➕📏 Temperature preferences estimated from lab experiments and species distribution models agree reasonably well! This increases my confidence in our ability to forecast range shifts. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/n