Could studying Earth’s oceans help us search for life beyond our planet? On #WorldOceansDay, Ambassador for the ERC 🇹🇷 Mustafa Yücel shares his ERC-funded project that explores deep-sea ecosystems, ocean health & planetary habitability. 🔗 buff.ly/b44YphE #Amb4ERC @mustyucel.bsky.social

Thank you all for the fantastic collaboration. All ERC grantees should be member of the association of ERC grantees ercgrantees.bsky.social. AERG does not only have great activities and initiatives, It is essential to form a network that is the voice of unbound excellence-based research in Europe.

Association of ERC Grantees@ercgrantees.bsky.social · 8mo ago

We are proud to announce that AERG Border Member and former vice-president Professor Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social has been appointed to the Scientific Council of the European Research Council @erc.europa.eu Find more 👇 aerg.eu/news/New-erc...

Proud to be taking part in this initiative as an @erc.europa.eu Ambassador for Turkey!

Association of ERC Grantees@ercgrantees.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Today, AERG and @erc.europa.eu bring together ERC Ambassadors in Brussels for their annual meeting—tackling the past, present, and future of frontier research across Europe. 🚀🔬 #ERC #Research #Innovation

Today, AERG and @erc.europa.eu bring together ERC Ambassadors in Brussels for their annual meeting—tackling the past, present, and future of frontier research across Europe. 🚀🔬 #ERC #Research #Innovation

Eruptive activity wiped out all the habitats at Tica - a famous site among hydrothermal vent scientists. An ERC-funded fluid chemistry team led by Mustafa Yucel are busy understanding the effects on deep-ocean chemistry. #FrontierResearch @Middle East Technical University @mustyucel.bsky.social‬

Volcanic Eruption in Deep Ocean Ridge Is Witnessed by Scientists for First Time

Researchers diving in a submersible in the eastern Pacific realized that the landscape they had studied the day before had been glassed over by fresh lava.

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Choose Europe for Science erc.europa.eu/news-events/... The details of the new “super grants” funding instrument are being developed by the Scientific Council and will be announced soon.

Choose Europe for Science: ERC welcomes new budget for 'super grants'

The Scientific Council of the European Research Council welcomes the offer of substantial additional budget from the European Commission for the development of a new ERC funding instrument offering la...

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🚨New preprint alert!🚨 We mapped Mo-dependent pathways across microbes and show this reliance emerged before oxygen showed up. Our results challenge assumptions about Mo scarcity on early Earth. Study led by Aya Klos! Biology’s been metal since the very beginning🤘 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Finally on board R/V Atlantis and on our way to East Pacific Rise 9 north. The team met with the submarine Alvin for the first time. We’re busy preparing labs, with safety briefings and science meetings. @whoi.edu @erc.europa.eu

Final online meeting as we finalize our preparations for our upcoming expedition to the hydrothermal vents of the East Pacific Rise. In 2 weeks we’ll board R/V Atlantis in Costa Rica! @erc.europa.eu @udelaware.bsky.social @whoi.edu @metu

Final online meeting as we finalize our preparations for our upcoming expedition to the hydrothermal vents of the East Pacific Rise. In 2 weeks we’ll board R/V Atlantis in Costa Rica! @erc.europa.eu @udelaware.bsky.social @whoi.edu @metu

Hello, Bluesky! ☀️ We fund frontier research in Europe—bold ideas, unexpected discoveries and science that shapes the future. So it’s only fitting we’ve landed here. Sorry for being late. Follow us for updates on ERC funding, research policy, and our grantees' discoveries.

Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to shine the spotlight on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research.

We talk a lot about ocean warming and ocean acidification... but we should also be talking more about ocean deoxygenation, as it is an ongoing problem. To understand just how bad it can get (extinction event bad), we must turn, as usual, to the geological record. 🧪⚒️🌊 doi.org/10.1016/j.ea...

Countdown for April 2025 Alvin Pacific expedition is on! We will participate in this @UDelaware -led expedition in the frame of our @ERC_Research DeepTrace project. So excited to be back to this special area of the world ocean once again. Stay tuned for updates! (Alvin photo by Luis Lamar @WHOI )

Countdown for April 2025 Alvin Pacific expedition is on! We will participate in this @UDelaware -led expedition in the frame of our @ERC_Research DeepTrace project. So excited to be back to this special area of the world ocean once again. Stay tuned for updates! (Alvin photo by Luis Lamar @WHOI )

The ocean takes up anthropogenic CO₂ emissions, 26% on average over the past decade. The #GlobalCarbonBudget 2024 confirms that the ocean sink increased in 2023 after 3 years of stagnation due to rare triple La Niña event. 2023 was an El Niño year, with an expected increase in the sink. 🔽 🌊 1/10

There's not much good news about the new Global Carbon Budget, but here's one. Two methods are used to estimate the ocean carbon sink; the final number (10.6 ± 1.5 GtCO₂/yr in 2023) is an average. A few years ago, there was a huge discrepancy between the two methods but they're converging. 🌊

Pierre Friedlingstein@pfriedling.bsky.social · 2y ago

The ocean carbon sink, estimated by Global Ocean Biogeochemical Models and observation-based data products, amounts to 10.5 ± 1.5 GtCO2/yr for 2014–2023 and 10.6 ± 1.5 GtCO2/yr in 2023. The ocean sink increased in 2023, in line with the expected sink response to the 2023 El Niño conditions.

So, is anyone interested in and wants to follow people doing marine biogeochemistry? I might have a starter pack for you! (also, I blame @malinodalen.bsky.social for this) bsky.app/starter-pack... Spot anyone not there (maybe you?), say something.

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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Preparations for our busy @ERC_Research DeepTrace 2025 field season have started. On board RV Lamas of @METU_IMS, we have successfully conducted the first underwater tests of the new deep-sea electrochemical analyzer, to be deployed over Pacific hydrothermal vents and Black Sea redox zone next year.

Oceans folks please subscribe to this feed 🌊

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 2y ago

I've created an oceanography feed for ocean science related content. If you're an ocean scientist and would like to be added as a contributor, please reply to this message and tell me what you do. Please subscribe to the feed if you're interested in the ocean sciences. 🌊 bsky.app/profile/did:...