Fascinating seaweeds of the UK www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

How scientists finally confirmed rare pink seaweed as new species

An ancient algae first spotted four decades ago will now join the collection of the Natural History Museum.

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#Norwich, the city of literature and more.

The mesopelagic as a niche for diatoms adapted to low blue light and high pressure? Check out our new preprint led by Zenghu Zhang at #CAS in Qingdao. #diatoms #Chaetoceros www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Diatoms maintain metabolic activity in deep ocean twilight zones

Phytoplankton are primarily confined to the sunlit epipelagic zone, yet intact algal cells persist in the ocean's mesopelagic twilight zone where light is minimal. However, their survival strategies i...

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Moonrise in #Norwich

Our very own Marc and Josh presenting their work at the #ICPR26 in Liverpool #photosynthesis #bioluminescence #algae #Arctic #Ocean @ueaenv.bsky.social

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...

W3 Professorship (tenured) @geomarkiel.bsky.social (GEOMAR, Germany) in Marine Experimental Benthic Ecology www.berufungen.uni-kiel.de/de/dateien/o...

Congrats 🎉 Dr Yixuan Li on passing the VIVA! Well done. Thanks to Mariella Ferrante and Carol Robinson for being the external and internal examiners, respectively! @ueaenv.bsky.social #PhD #ECR

Evening kayaking on the Broads #Norfolk

A brief summary of our recent paper in @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social @uk.theconversation.com In our deep oceans, evolution is supercharged – this diversity of life could help unlock humanity’s greatest challenges theconversation.com/in-our-deep-...

In our deep oceans, evolution is supercharged – this diversity of life could help unlock humanity’s greatest challenges

Deep oceans contain microbes with yet-to-be-discovered properties that could drive future innovations in biotechnology.

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#Norwich by the river

@psaalgae.bsky.social Great news to share from our managing editor Kirsten Muller: New IMPACT FACTOR of ‘Journal of Phycology’ is…….4.3

Roksana Majewska on epizoic #diatoms at #PSA2026

The #microbiome of kelp by @brookeweigel.bsky.social at #PSA2026

And our very own @antoniaotte1.bsky.social at #PSA2026 @ueaenv.bsky.social Diatom evolution based on DNA repair and mitotic recombination.

Viruses at #PSA2026! Great talk

And here we go. Chris kicking off #PSA2026 in Juneau.

Great start of #PSA2026

Early start over the north #Norfolk coast on my way to the PSA meeting in Juneau. @psaalgae.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social

Our new paper co-led with BGI and IOCAS (Qingdao) just out @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social The genetic repertoire of deep-sea #microbiome: from sequence to structure and function. @norwichmicro.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Excited to share our new preprint co-led with Hwan Su Yoon and Hocheol Kim. The genomic basis of evolutionary stasis in the 500-million-year-old red #seaweed genus Ahnfeltia. A living fossil in coastal oceans. @ueaenv.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Visited a kelp (Saccharina japonica) farm north of Qingdao.

Worth reading: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Early fossil eukaryotes were benthic aerobes - Nature

Integrated palaeontological, sedimentological and geochemical analyses of ancient rocks from Australia show that early eukaryotes were largely restricted to oxygenated benthic habitats, probably posse...

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Great time visiting Wuhan and my diatom friends there to prepare for the next Molecular Life of Diatoms (MLD) conference led by Hanhua Hu at IHB CAS. @ueaenv.bsky.social #MLD9

Our new paper just out @frontiersin.bsky.social Microbiology led by Emelia J. Chamberlain. #MOSAiC #Arctic #Ocean #Microbiology 🦠@norwichmicro.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social doi.org/10.3389/fmic...

Frontiers | From microbial diversity to functional potential using dimensionality reduction

The high dimensionality of microbial diversity data from ‘omics observations can be reduced using Machine Learning, with many recent studies showcasing ML ut...

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The preliminary programme of International Conference of our German Society for #PlantSci, the Botanik-Tagung, is online botanik-tagung.de/programme.html 📆 6-10 September 2026 📍Bochum, Germany Makes it easier to plan your participation. Register today! botanik-tagung.de/registration...

Peak 🍒 season this week (fruit harvest) in Qingdao. They are small but tasty. Early compared to Europe.

Our clownfish were busy last night. 👏Hope some of the offspring will make it. 😊

Our new collection at ‘Scientific Data’. Everything metagenomics is welcome. E.g. marine, soil, air, human, animal, plant, microbe, polar and much more. 😊 www.nature.com/collections/...

Environmental metagenomics

This Scientific Data Collection of articles focuses on any metagenomics dataset relevant to these aims, including both primary community characterisations and ...

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Registration and Abstract Submission for the 80th annual PSA meeting, held in Juneau, Alaska, are now open! Submissions will close on April 24th, 2026, so be sure to get your registration and abstracts in by then! For more information see: www.psaalgae.org/.../psa-14-1... #algae #psa #alaska