A new catalog of deep-sea microbial genes, built from 2,138 samples, added 502 million genes and expanded known ocean gene diversity by 51%. The authors call the deep sea "a unique evolutionary engine driving the emergence of functionally distinctive enzymatic traits." #marinelife

Wow- what an amazing resource for marine science 🌊🧪 #marinelife

The Crustacean Society@crustaceansociety.bsky.social · last mo.

🦐 New open-access guide available! Marine Crustacea Isopoda: Guide to Families and Genera of the World provides keys and diagnoses for 86 families, 24 subfamilies & 1,134 genera, supporting marine isopod identification. 📖 doi.org/10.24199/j.m... 📸 Hans Hillewaert (CC) #crustacea

Hundreds of people competing for the perfect dunk on the editor of a science journal who is writing about the harms of slop for science. Not for using ChatGPT for research, just checking his references (which it is quite able to do). I can see suggesting a different way, but canceling him seems iffy

Today, the legendary JR begins her last journey to the shipwrecking yard. Home to many of us, she helped to understand plate tectonics, climate, deep biosphere, earthquakes/volcanoes, and was an integral part in international science and collaboration 🫡 www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/...

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Hot take 🔥: two years after Tony Blair was elected as PM in 1997 🇬🇧, Labour saw a continuous [>50%] decline in council seats throughout their time in govt. What’s different now is that it’s not the Conservatives picking them up.

I know everyone wants there to be a Giant Cretaceous Octopus but after looking at methods and tables, I really don't think this is a reality.

Ecologists love response ratios for meta-analysis❤️ But… they can’t be converted into other effect sizes—making it impossible to have a unified dataset of all published effect sizes in ecology I fix this with a conversion to Hedges’ d to help unify our data! (Link to Ecology Letters paper below):

I have a joke about philanthropy but it won’t have any impact.

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I have a joke about carbon offsets but it doesn't work.

This response far better reflects my experience of how collections managers are really striving to do the best by the people they care for By @sarahtarlow1.bsky.social & @livnstutz.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

A duty of care to human remains | Letters

Letter: Prof Liv Nilsson Stutz and Prof Sarah Tarlow respond to an article on ethical questions about remains from overseas in UK museums

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AI generated presentations are the Comic Sans of our time. May future generations look back on us with grace.

Flashbacks to first day as a grad student: “Imagine not an escape room, but an escape building. With enough challenges that it will take you a day to solve them so, not an hour.”

Zen Faulkes@doctorzen.net · 6mo ago

If escape rooms are your thing: Imagine not an escape room, but an escape building. With enough challenges that it will take you a day to solve them so, not an hour. A building with full immersive sets and actors. Then you might dig Agents of Mystery on Netflix. Best escape room ever.

The danger of superhuman AI is not what you think. This essay in @noemamag.com by @shannonvallor.bsky.social is brilliant. Well worth a read. www.noemamag.com/the-danger-o...

The Danger Of Superhuman AI Is Not What You Think | NOEMA

The rhetoric over “superhuman” AI implicitly erases what’s most important about being human.

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We just don't end papers like this any more. Maybe the world would be better if we did? ⚒️🧪

We're glad to amplify the good work of @bioone.bsky.social! We celebrate this milestone of Subscribe to Open (S2O), a model that is emerging as a promising means of funding sustainable #OpenAccess for publishers & library systems of all sizes.

BioOne Achieves Inaugural Subscribe to Open Target, Opening 71 Titles for 2026 - BioOne Publishing

BioOne is proud to report the achievement of a significant milestone in its mission to increase access to scientific research. BioOne’s Subscribe to Open (S2O) pilot has reached its sustainability thr...

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🚨 PhD position in annelid genomics (EuroWorm) 🚨 If you love biodiversity, evolution & bioinformatics — apply or share! 🪱🧬 Details here: www.senckenberg.de/de/stellenan... #PhD #Genomics #Annelida #MarineBiology #EuroWorm

When the original authors and those who find errors in their work, pull together for the sake of correcting the record and moving science forward, it's a beautiful thing Retracted paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Linking the narrative with data, code, methods, and context is something everyone wants to see, but at some point most people most of the time want to draw a line under a project, mark it complete and move on. Will that change? 2/2

During a dive last year in the Atlantic Ocean off Argentina, researchers documented a giant phantom jelly, a deep-sea species rarely seen since it was discovered a little over a century ago. “There was a mixture of excitement and disbelief,” said one marine biologist. trib.al/HfkWfp4

“…as we use AI models, let’s keep asking ourselves if we are knowledge generating or merely output generating. Are we adding information to the world, or just words?”

Tom Stafford@tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 7mo ago

New post! Where does new knowledge come from when everyone relies on AI models and those models collapse because they only have their own output to train on? https://tomstafford.substack.com/p/model-collapse

Please share: Pew Research Center will provide $3,000 each for 19 new papers using our recent global datasets. We encourage reuse of our Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures data! https://www.pewresearch.org/2026/01/16/seeking-research-using-recent-pew-templeton-global-religious-futures-datasets/

Hallucigenia ate comb jellies www.newscientist.com/article/2511...

Fossil may solve mystery of what one of the weirdest-ever animals ate

Hallucigenia was such an odd animal that palaeontologists reconstructed it upside-down when they first analysed its fossils - and now we may know what it ate

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Meet Duobrachium sparksae: a newly described comb jelly that looks like a glowing hot-air balloon drifting just above the deep seafloor. Transparent, delicate, and unmistakably transfixing, it reminds us how much biodiversity is in the deep oceans. www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-stor...

Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average. climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...

So sad, but she achieved so much. An inspirational science leader.

Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com · 8mo ago

University of Melbourne’s pioneering vice-chancellor Emma Johnston dies aged 52

In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.

A paper in Nature presents a detailed map of human chromosomes within the nucleus. This resource provides a foundation for an improved understanding of how the physical layout of human DNA is associated with biological expression. go.nature.com/4pI8knB 🧬 🧪

I’m guessing most Americans don’t know this, but because I lived in the UK for 8 years and still watch the BBC via VPN, I can tell you that the BBC iPlayer’s volume dial goes to eleven.

Something like 99% of all international data travels through subsea cables protected by UNCLOS. Freedom of Navigation and overflight are enshrined in UNCLOS. EEZs and sovereign rights over seabed resources are created and enforced through UNCLOS.

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Templeton World Charity Foundation@templetonworld.bsky.social · 9mo ago

📣 Now open: the Templeton World Charity Foundation Request for Ideas   We're inviting researchers and partners around the world to share ideas that could shape TWCF's next global strategy and guide future program investments.   Learn more: bit.ly/4a8Lbpq #TWCFRequestForIdeas