Tenure-track open position in Biological Oceanography at Texas A&M College Station apply.interfolio.com/189672

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...

It's out! Microbes are declining in size with warming…right? Marshall et al. digs into data, scaling, and theory to find the answer is messier, and more consequential, than we assumed. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Drivers and Consequences of Size Declines in Unicells

Previous syntheses concluded that metabolic allometric scaling is unusually steep (> 1) in unicells but here we show that this steepness is an artefact of laboratory studies that confound cell size w...

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World Ocean Database 2023: A Foundational Data Resource for and by the Global Ocean and Coastal Communities www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs 🌊

World Ocean Database 2023: A Foundational Data Resource for and by the Global Ocean and Coastal Communities - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - World Ocean Database 2023: A Foundational Data Resource for and by the Global Ocean and Coastal Communities

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“Bigelow Laboratory's Center for Aquatic Cytometry is the best place to learn about flow cytometry, and the knowledge and equipment there cannot be matched," wrote one Introduction to Flow Cytometry participant from 2024. "If you use flow cytometry, this is the best way to learn from the experts!"

I am shocked to see this language from the NSF. “The U.S. National Science Foundation's Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request reflects a strategic alignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment while eliminating woke and weaponized grant programs that previously funded radical DEI projects.”

Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request to Congress

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So happy to see this out! Such a collaborative effort, and one of the most challenging and rewarding projects due to life events: "The authors wish to acknowledge baby Bowie (MEL), and baby Maya (SGL) for the inspiration and perspective their arrivals brought to the writing process." 💙

Daniel Vaulot@daniel-vaulot.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New article on #protist global distributions combining the #Mixoplankton and #metaPR2 databases with revised functional annotations led by @lusantof.bsky.social, Michaela E. Larsson, and Suzana Leles with Aditee Mitra and Emile Faure. Now available on Ocean Microbiology rdcu.be/fanlx

It sucks when your father is denied a visa to the country you live because he doesn’t have much money and because of the color of his skin.

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Since people are liking the Bocchi colors, I have a whole collection of color palettes on my GitHub: github.com/cxli233/Colo... You will find the hex code, the preview, and the inspiration for each color palette. I hope some of them will be used. #DataVis

Chenxin Li, PhD@chenxinli2.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Re-upping this post: I took this color palette from an anime "Bocchi the Rock". The colors look nice, and the set is red/green colorblind friendly. Hex = c("#F2C9D5", "#B43E44", "#FADF92" , "#496496", "#282828", "#904869")

Protist lovers: Please apply for a week of rhapsody! Learn by doing: MicroSEA (Microbial Sea Eukaryotes) course is a one-week, field-based summer school to train early-career researchers in the diversity, ecology, and single-cell biology of marine protists. opbc.sciencesconf.org #protistsonsky

This paper originated from a simple idea: Since we want to study SAR11 growth physiology, let’s look at how one SAR11 bacterium becomes two SAR11 bacteria, inspired by the quote from François Jacob, “The dream of a bacterium: to produce two bacteria”.

Cameron Thrash@jcamthrash.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Our latest. Led by the very talented @ahoiching.bsky.social Cell cycle dysregulation of globally important SAR11 bacteria resulting from environmental perturbation www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs 🌊

New paper out in PNAS!!! 🎉 Do more plasmid copies mean faster evolution? 🧵 Dive into the story www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Plasmid mutation rates scale with copy number | PNAS

Plasmids are extrachromosomal DNA molecules that spread by horizontal transfer and shape bacterial evolution. Plasmids are typically present at mul...

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Incredibly proud to share this work, almost 6 years in the making, out this month in Science!!! 🎇 We've known for over a century that eukaryotes of all kinds anticipate the seasons (think: hibernation, flowering, reproduction!), but what about bacteria?🦠 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Bacteria can anticipate the seasons: Photoperiodism in cyanobacteria

Photoperiodic time measurement is the ability of plants and animals to measure differences in day versus night length (photoperiod) and use that information to anticipate critical seasonal transformat...

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The 2020 lockdown has steered me towards thinking a lot about the flow cytometry, as this was the only lab equipment that I mastered by then. It is a special experience that on the day my paper launches, I am at UTMSI helping @suleles.bsky.social set up the new flow cytometry (and meet cute Maya!).

Five Essential Books on Plastic, Power, and Pollution www.scientificamerican.com/article/five... 🧪🌎

Five Essential Books on Plastic, Power, and Pollution

If you enjoyed Beth Gardiner’s feature about big oil’s bet on plastics, here are more books curated by Scientific American

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Join us for an @smtpb.bsky.social workshop on Modern Coexistence Theory. We'll cover mathematical foundations, the theory of partitioning, and data-based applications. Featuring @swatipatel.bsky.social, Nick Kortessis, & Lauren Shoemaker. Zoom link here: smtpb.org/event-6426026

Are you a journalist covering climate solutions? @jaimepalter.bsky.social and I have some advice for sharing these stories without hype, by balancing potential and challenges. Online on 7 October 2025 at 13:00 (UTC-4) Register here: uri-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

I am excited to share the MMAR Lab is on! 🥳 Our work focuses on plankton and climate change, using numerical modeling and lab experiments. We are recruiting graduate students, 1 research technician, and 2 postdocs! Please help spread the word 📢 More details here: themmarlab.com/joinus