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One thing we do Deep Sea COBRA is fund ECR for new trainings & opportunities. Join us next Tuesday Sept 3rd at 3pm eastern to hear from two recipients of our Accelerator awards- Dr. Steve Auscavitch (Smithsonian) & Beatriz Naranjo-Elizondo (U Costa Rica) cobra.bigelow.org/cobra-webinar-…

This is a perfect opportunity to fund top notch environmental journalism—the new iteration of Hakai Magazine. If you are in a position to make a large donation or assist with relevant connections, please see details in the quoted thread

The ending of this video is exactly why I’ll never chase a wombat

BioRender finally made some changes to their license conditions and now claim their product is compatible with Open Access. Sorry to say that these conditions are legally invalid and don't fix anything. 1/

Peak science communication right here 😂😂😂😂😂

The colossal squid has the biggest beak of any living cephalopod. This one in the collections at NIWA is one of the biggest I've ever seen, but was taken from the stomach of a toothfish! Many mysteries left to uncover in the deep sea... #TeamColossal #BestSquid #Squidtember

Postdoc position available to work with me, in collaboration with Chris Lane Chris Lane, on Nephromyces, the closest non-parasitic, extracellular symbiont relatives of the blood parasites (Plasmodium et al). How did the business of blood parasitism start? jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48203/

I'm recruiting a fully funded PhD student for a Fall 2025 start - see details below and learn more about my lab here: dornsife.usc.edu/carlslab/

This is indeed a fantastic example of open collaborative inquiry. More on the Greenland warming-triggered tsunami from lead author @K_Svennevig in the thread in reply and here: science.org/content/articl…

Congrats to @DeepMicrobe on receiving the Ocean Sciences Voyager award from AGU (American Geophysical Union) - an easy letter to write and I can't wait to celebrate in December!

New from 404 Media: Google is serving AI images of mushrooms when users search for some species. Very risky, potentially fatal error for foragers who are trying to find what mushrooms are safe to eat. Could have "devastating consequences" one expert said 404media.co/google-serves-…

The deadline to apply for travel awards for the 17th Deep-Sea Biology Symposium in Hong Kong has been moved to October 4th. Make sure to submit your applications! Check your emails for more details on this update and other important news!

Asheville is over 2,000 feet above sea level, and ~300 miles away from the nearest coastline. No place is safe from climate change. We all suffer the consequences. We must all take action. We are all in this together.

Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. This didn't happen because she herself fought for it -- although she did fight hard the whole way to even get to that point. 👩‍🔬 What happened was that the award was offered to her husband, Pierre. (1/n) 🧵

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day! Just a reminder that Native Americans are not a historical people, that we are still here, and that the biggest injustice in U.S. history—the dispossession of land from Indigenous nations largely by fraudulent treaties—remains ongoing

The links between microbes and carbonate rocks at methane seeps remain mysterious, but we recently published a paper in Geobiology to cross-reference mineralogy, geochemistry, and microbiology on the microscale. We found... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Congratulations to the 24 recipients of this year's SciComm Excellence, given by the National Academies in partnership with Schmidt Sciences! Learn about the winners and explore their outstanding #SciComm work: ow.ly/v88v50TSEhZ

Congrats to our own @DrShepherd2013 at UGA Research for winning the top prize in the Later Career Scientist category!! I’ve learned so much about weather (esp. hurricanes/storms) following along with all of Marshall’s commentary this year!! #SciComm