This paper started as an @mblscience.bsky.social SES undergraduate project with Wenzhuo Yang lead by @ashleybulseco.bsky.social in @julesdeep.bsky.social lab at @whoi.edu...some time ago ;) Nice to see it in "print"! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Growth characteristics of natural microbial populations are skewed toward bacteria with low specific growth rates | Microbiology Spectrum

All living organisms are constrained by environmental boundaries that govern where growth is possible, such as minimum and maximum temperatures or pH. An organism’s maximum specific growth rate places...

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Following tradition (😁), your vent microbial friends are particularly excited, as am I, in wishing you a Happy Birthday Julie (@julesdeep.bsky.social) !! 🎂🎉🥳 🦠🌊🌋 You may want to pass on the vent cake though 😂

Opportunity: Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution Due date 30-Jun-2026 Three years of support that can be spread over 5 years. www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution

The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...

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New publication out @natcomms.nature.com! We identify novel viruses that actively infect highly productive chemoautotrophs, and reveal key trophic interactions and virus-host dynamics that impact microbial carbon cycling in aphotic environments. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The “America First,” president wants to cut billions of dollars from American innovation and scientific research.   From NASA to NIH, no one would be spared.   We cannot let this budget pass. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Looks like some great paid undergraduate intern opportunities! 65gr6dbbb.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001...

If, like me, today’s horrors left you feeling more untethered than usual, read this. It will ground you.

Puff the Magic Hater@mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Tonight, I was one of more than 200 people who gathered on Chicago’s North Side to mourn Renee Nicole Good. Several people asked me to publish my remarks from the vigil, so I’m sharing them here.

Trump cuts and uncertainties regarding the operation of the UNOLS oceanographic fleet headlines story of unraveling of decades of investment in Earth observations and research and loss of US scientific leadership. Gift link: wapo.st/4jcO6Qp

How Trump’s attacks on ‘climate alarmism’ have already transformed U.S. science

Experts say the cuts to the federal workforce and climate science funding could cause decades of loss in human knowledge and discovery.

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A new paper out with @oahern.bsky.social (@mblscience.bsky.social) and @julesdeep.bsky.social (@whoi.edu) examines how energy dissipation can be used to predict food web structure of microbial communities. A short description and a link to the paper can be found here: www.mbl.edu/news/energy-...

An Energy-Based Perspective on Microbial Food Web Structure | Marine Biological Laboratory

The oceans are teeming with microbes like bacteria and phytoplankton that play an outsized role in climate regulation. These microorganisms absorb carbon, cycle nutrients, and form the base of the oce...

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I’ll likely have to take cough breaks to sip my tea & blow my nose, as the plague & I are @agu.org but I hope you’ll join me at 1030 Wednesday for my lecture. I’ll talk about Carson’s impact on science & my career, subseafloor life, microbial ecosystem services, & science storytelling! #AGU25

The best way to spread deep-sea cheer is by sending tubeworm videos to those you hold dear. 🎁 Tubeworms like these Oasisia alvinae are abundant at hydrothermal vents at depths of 3,700 meters (12,140 feet) in the Pescadero Basin, located off the east coast of Mexico’s Baja California.

Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island. jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960

Winogradsky Columns after 8 weeks of growth showing nice development of purple and green (yellowish here) sulfur bacteria that are anaerobic phototrophs. The columns are used in the microbial methods course taught in the Semester in Environmental Science Program @mblscience.bsky.social

Congratulations to WHOI's @julesdeep.bsky.social, who was recently selected to deliver the prestigious @agu.org Rachel Carson Lecture. The award recognizes women whose work in ocean science is both cutting-edge and deeply relevant to today’s societal & environmental challenges: go.whoi.edu/Huber

Fantastic news! Julie Huber @julesdeep.bsky.social was just awarded the prestigious Rachel Carson Lecture by @agu.org! Not only well deserved, but also a fitting tribute. Rachel Carson was one of Julie’s childhood heroes that guided her path. Congratulations Julie!! 🎉🙌 www.whoi.edu/press-room/n...

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Julie Huber Awarded Prestigious Rachel Carson Lecture by the American Geophysical Union

WHOI’s Julie Huber Awarded Prestigious Rachel Carson Lecture by the AGU

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SES students got to measure bacterial production in their Winogradsky Columns using radioactive 14C-Leucine yesterday! My favorite lab! ☢️🦠❤️

joe vallino ∫🦠dxdt ≻∫🔥dxdt@mepjoe.bsky.social · 11mo ago

A beautiful day for a field trip to Little Sippewissett Marsh for the annual construction of Winogradsky columns for the Microbial Methods course in the Semester in Environmental Science program @mblscience.bsky.social Purple sulfur bacteria at low tide 🦠💜

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

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A beautiful day for a field trip to Little Sippewissett Marsh for the annual construction of Winogradsky columns for the Microbial Methods course in the Semester in Environmental Science program @mblscience.bsky.social Purple sulfur bacteria at low tide 🦠💜

After learning it would be evicted from its current headquarters and left in limbo about its future home, the National Science Foundation appears headed to new digs just down the street—and soon. https://scim.ag/4p1zzto

NSF could be moving down the street

Government sets requirements for new space that sound like nearby patent office campus

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Interesting. If you're a scientist who publishes, your papers are likely in the database.

Alex de Campi@alexdecampi.bsky.social · 11mo ago

There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used. As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how Part 1: is your work in Libgen? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Beyond the Second Law: Darwinian Evolution as a Tendency for Entropy Production to Increase www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/27... or, to a faster heat death of the universe, use life!

Our opinion piece is hot off the presses! Cutting science funding has profound implications for STEM education & training & will negatively impact the San Diego region. TAKE ACTION by calling your congressional reps & demand no cuts to science funding! #StandUpForScience 🧪 tinyurl.com/ywxkvv25

Opinion: Cuts in federal funding hammer STEM students and San Diego region

This year’s federal funding cuts are severely impacting STEM research and education, threatening the future of innovation and our nation’s health and technological advancement. These cuts hav…

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Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · last yr.

📞 It’s Day 4 of #31Days Of Action! Welcome Congress home by calling your reps & demanding they #StandUpForScience. It takes just 4 mins with our Click-2-Call tool 👉 zurl.co/mqvDk. Plus, get ready to join our Tues Action Hour tomorrow at 8pm ET/5pm PT by signing up here👉 zurl.co/zP87g

I chased this all day: UCLA research grants suspended after Trump administration faulted campus for antisemitism calmatters.org/education/hi...

UCLA research grants suspended after Trump administration faulted campus for antisemitism

The Justice Department issued UCLA a notice of violation for not responding “adequately” to complaints about antisemitism.

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Check out "the deepest and the most extensive chemosynthesis-based communities known to exist on Earth" - methane seeps along Russia's NE coast, down to a depth of 9500 meters! 😮 It's amazing that such incredible ecosystems remain to be found in the deep sea... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches - Nature

The discovery of chemosynthesis-based benthic communities at depths of 5,800 m to 9,533 m in the Kuril–Kamchatka and western Aleutian trenches challenges traditional perspectives on the energy sources...

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Superb!

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · last yr.

Motherfucking wind farms…

A quick update re NIH and NSF terminated grant tracking: Grant Watch has a new name! We're now called **Grant Witness** You can find us at grant-witness.us Please update your bookmarks and spread the word! 🙏 (And no, this wasn't our preference, but trademarks are a thing. 🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️)

Anyone know someone, or a company, that can analyze brackish pond water (0.3%) samples for simple substrates (specifically, glucose, xylose, acetate, ethanol, and methanol) in the 0 to 200 micromolar range? The number samples is between 15 to 100 depending on cost per sample.

Excellent piece on keeping US as maritime leader and ocean science is vital to national security. 🧪🌊https://wapo.st/4kMAcUs

Opinion | To lead at sea, we must understand the sea

The U.S. still has an advantage on the waves, but ocean science needs more — not less — investment.

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There is a new, rather detailed and annotated "Statement of Solidarity and Support" out called "The NASA Voyager Declaration" regarding the current state of affairs at #NASA. It is modeled after similar efforts by employees at #EPA and #NIH nasawatch.com/activism/the...

The NASA Voyager Declaration

Statement of Solidarity and Support

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Preaching to the choir here, but if you've been living under a rock, this👇 "In the past six months, the Trump administration has systematically and recklessly undermined federal science. Read the new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists here:" act.ucsusa.org/Trump6Months

Science and Democracy Under Siege

This administration's first 6 months have been characterized by destruction, division, and chaos.

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