Ariane Buckenmeyer
@yannbuck.bsky.social
californian lurking around @scilifelab.se stoked about evolution, canids & deep-sea 'omics
Our News & Views article “Body-plan organizer in comb jellies hints at animal ancestry” now published in @nature.com 🎉 We discuss fascinating work revealing organizer activity in comb jellies & the evolution of animal development. rdcu.be/fsLWq @ruthstyfhals.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social
What is the evolutionary origin of the organizer? New work from @kremnyovs.bsky.social, @tclebedeva.bsky.social & Hejnol Lab @uni-jena.de reports the blastopore lip of the #ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi, a member of the evolutionary sister group to all other metazoans, exhibits organizer activity.
A blastoporal organizer in a ctenophore - Nature
Experiments using the comb jelly Mnemiopsis leidyi and the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis reveal that the emergence of a core signalling pathway may have been a key innovation enabling the transit...
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The Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean observation system that was put in place a decade ago to monitor coastal environments, marine ecosystems and powerful currents that affect the global climate.
Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System
The $368 million network of instruments collecting data in both the Atlantic and Pacific has been critical to climate and ocean research.
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www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #protistsonsky
Protist-dominated hard substrate faunas thrive at the deepest ocean depths
Deep-sea hard substrates host faunal novelties and distinct evolutionary lineages. However, sessile organisms on rocks are difficult to sample and largely unknown at extreme hadal depths. Here, we rep...
science.org
Are you going to impeach the president today? No? Then you do, in fact, support making a whole civilization die.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo agoRep. Mike Lawler: "I don't support making a whole civilization die, but ... "
The ongoing deportations are no accident: SE & the EU are proposing ICE-style immigration changes. We cannot condemn those practices abroad while accepting them here. #ICE has no place in the US - or in Europe. 📖 humanmigrationspolitik.se 📃 mittskifte.org/petitions/for-en-human-migrationspolitik
This weekend (03/13-15) 30+ cities protest inhumane proposals to Sweden’s migration policy. #MinnesotaStrong means standing up for #humanmigrationspolitik & #rörintePUT for our Swedish neighbors. More info on the Stockholm action (03/15, 13:00, Norrmalmstorg) @ www.humanmigrationspolitik.se.
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Call-back to Jan., when - in solidarity with those at risk from #ICE / #CBP operations in Minneapolis - 80+ people joined the #AbolishICE vigils organised by the Prog. Caucus of @demsabroad.bsky.social SE outside the US embassy. Kris reminded us why people show up: to stand up for our neighbours.
Snapshots of the previous Friday #AbolishIce walks/vigils of 2026 from Raoul Wallenbergs torg to outside the US Embassy in Stockholm: 23/01, 30/01, 13/02, 06/03. Stay tuned here & www.democratsabroad.org/se-stockholm... for future dates for vigils (beyond the #NoDictators demonstration on 28/03).
In London 2009, Gary Numan made a surprise appearance with NIN to play Numan's "Metal" & "Cars." I filmed it in one unbroken shot from the middle of the stage with a handheld DSLR. Here's the full video, savor the Dudes Rock energy of two legends doing a big mutual respect ("Cars" starts at 6:38):
NIN + Gary Numan: "Metal" / "Cars" Live in London 2009, Single-Shot On-Stage Video by Rob Sheridan
YouTube video by Rob Sheridan
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@icmcsic.bsky.social team has deployed aquarium-grown sponge fragments into fishery no-take zones to help restore human-impacted deep-sea soft-sediment habitats. Monitored with a @niozsearesearch.bsky.social lander, we’ll track survival, growth, and biodiversity!
for the UK-based, a rad (and paid) opportunity to step into the @dsbsoc.bsky.social trustee board as a consultant. Come join!
Deep-Sea Biology Society@dsbsoc.bsky.social · 6mo agoHey members - we’re hiring! #DSBSoc is seeking a part-time consultant (4 days/month) to support admin & funding activities on the trustee board. Contract runs March 2026 until Jan 2028 (rolling). Apply by 28 Feb 2026, additional info here: dsbsoc.org/deep-sea-bio... 📸 WoRDSS, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
“…14 agencies lost roughly three times more of these experts in 2025 than in 2024, with the highest percent increase in departures at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS).” www.science.org/content/arti...
U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office
A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies
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Hey, members! Join the #DeepSea coral community for the 9th Intl. Symposium on Deep Sea Corals Nov 2–5 2026 in Barcelona! Org. by @ub.edu, @ieo.es, @csic.es, @irbio-ub.bsky.social. #ISDSC9 Early Bird registration ends May 9, abstracts close April 9. More info: www.9isdsc.csic.es. See you there!
Martinez ends her testimony with this: "If there's not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government."
anti-ICE vigil yesterday outside the US embassy here in Sthlm. No good words for the anger but chinga la migra & fuck ICE/CBP/DHS/etc/etc work as good as any. mad clear the difference of a mild -5C here & the -29C from those days in MN.
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition. We’ve also added a list of additional recommended reading:
Free Ebooks: Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice an...
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There is no viable path forward that does not include dissolving the Department of Homeland Security. Cabinet-level department for joint FEMA/Coast Guard/Climate Readiness agencies. All other agencies absorbed into their original departments. Abolish ICE.
Thank you to everyone who is risking their safety and contributing their time and money to protect our neighbors. If you are so inclined, please check out Stand With Minnesota (standwithminnesota.com) to find a way to help. And no one start any beefs with Will Stancil. (2/2)
Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory
Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.
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It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
If ICE is now training new officers that they can forcibly enter residences based on an administrative warrant, "more training" is not the solution to our ICE problems.
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 7mo agoBREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.
The National Science Foundation sign on our Eisenhower Av building is now gone. The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets. We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.
Listen up! Here’s the Banned (from the USA) Bands play list, in alphabetical order by country. m.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Banned Bands - YouTube
A playlist of music from countries facing a US travel ban in 2025. Only love can conquer hate. Music is the Weapon of the Future. Cuba – Entre Flores by Elia...
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If the hardcore band's bassist looks like this, you're gonna die in that pit
With the redirection of climate.gov to a politically directed web page we lost access to a lot of historical information, such as the CO2 concentration time series. But now, the team from www.climate.us will make that data accessible again. Follow @climate.us for the updates!!
Climate.us
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After nearly twenty years in the making, our attempt at understanding what makes the chaetognath phylum so unique has finally been published! www.nature.com/articles/s41... with #LauraPiovani @dariagavr.bsky.social @alexdemendoza.bsky.social @chemamd.bsky.social and others /1
The genomic origin of the unique chaetognath body plan - Nature
Genomic, single-cell transcriptomic and epigenetic analyses show that chaetognaths, following extensive gene loss in the gnathiferan lineage, relied on newly evolved genes and lineage-specific tandem ...
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