Happy Star Trek Day from my (mostly) friendly bacteria.

Wealthy Australian private schools that charge $40k+ per year and can afford to drop $125m on an aquatic centre should not receive a cent of government funding.

Fantastic showcase of science excellence at the AIMS@JCU seminar day last Friday! From microplastics & machine learning to coral seeding, shark surveys and sharing knowledge on Sea Country- congrats to all participants. Australia's tropical marine science is in good hands.

Chromosome-scale genome assembly of the tropical #abalone (Haliotis asinina) Great work by ⁦⁦Roy Barkan⁩ 🧬 🧬 🧬 ⁦Ira Cooke⁩ ⁦Sally Lau⁩ ⁦Sue-Ann Watson⁩ ⁦MarineOmics⁩ nature.com/articles/s4159…

Come work with us at Australian Institute of Marine Science! We are recruiting an Experimental Scientist in Predictive Phenotyping. First up will be finding traits underpinning thermal resilience of Great Barrier Reef corals. Permanent position. Please share! tinyurl.com/5n6hu93m

Another story in four parts. You can surface sterilize used soda bottles and they make GREAT baffle flasks for microbial protein production. Two orders of magnitude in savings and minimal effort to sterilize with dilute bleach + distilled water rinse. RFP in various volumes @ 37C

For only $143, Elsevier/Springer will send me a PDF of my accepted paper that I can share with 25 people :). Publishers again adding tremendous value. I wouldn't know what to do without this attractive option.

Fave bit from this banging op-ed by Ebony Bennett

Trust me, I am a Bayesian.

I certainly don’t expect gifts from my advisees. But it’ll be hard to beat this one.

Applying for funding

In the years I’ve been making Stuff The British Stole, the biggest lesson for me has been how much history hides behind politeness—polite plaques, polite speeches, polite monarchs. I don’t have Lidia Thorpe's life experience, and it’s not appropriate for me to offer commentary

I cast my ballot for an optimistic future and to be on the correct side of our nation's history. I voted for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. Be sure to vote!

🪼In the first episode of our new 'Meet a JCU Expert' series, we sit down with JCU PhD Candidate Scott Morrissey to learn more about his work tracking the presence of jellyfish in our oceans by using environmental DNA (eDNA). Watch here 🎥👉tinyurl.com/4crckmj7

It doesn't get better even after 3–4 papers 😅

Orcas STUN in salmon hat trend

Shout out to @anuenueurchinhatchery for these Hawa‘e maoli (Collector Urchins) that are taking up residence in CRL coral tanks. These urchins will graze on the turf algae that grows on plugs, racks, and tank walls, which can outcompete with the small corals growing.

Looking for a new #postdoc in #Phycology & #Seaweed research on the methane mitigating #Asparagopsis Scripps Institution of Oceanography #climatesolutions #oceanbasedsolutions #algae Please share widely! Excited for next steps!