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This UVM’s “Beyond Brave Spaces” conversation: QuEST director Melissa Pespeni , UVM President Suresh Garimella , Dr. Linda Schadler & Marie Worsham Banks discuss and address inclusive solutions to the barriers BIPOC & womxn face in STEM youtube.com/watch?v=2m6KYm…

And said so well! Thank you, C. Brandon Ogbunu !

#Copepods have slower pop. growth and slower sinking poop when they eat #microplastics. This may be bad news for the oceanic food chain and carbon settling. Emily Shore’s MS thesis UVM Biology just out in #Environmental #Pollution! Free PDF til Jul 23! authors.elsevier.com/c/1dB29zLNSYKVB

Awesome new synthesis of global patterns in copepod thermal tolerance by @Matt_Sasaki just out! What a useful product of the pandemic! Thanks, Matt!

We measured fitness across 25 generations of experimental evolution to find “Rapid, but limited, zooplankton adaptation to simultaneous warming and acidification” Out this week NatureClimate with Dam's Planktonomics Lab and Reid Brennan! #UVMResearch #copepods nature.com/articles/s4155…

25 generations of experimental evolution in copepods + genomics + beautiful analyses and visualizations show that adaptation to ocean warming and acidification is synergistic rather than additive. Check out our new preprint just up! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Congrats, Dr. Ashlock! In one week, Lauren Ashlock defended their dissertation and lined up a postdoc! Lauren’s work explored the effects of pop, life history, and enviro history on copepod temp and salinity tolerance. The oceans thank you, Dr. Ashlock! @QuestUvm UVM Biology

#SeaUrchin larvae don’t grow or survive well when exposed to compounds that leach from #plastics into the ocean. Surprise - the most detrimental effects were at intermediate doses! Project started by a curious undergrad and finished by Master Emily Shore! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Today is a big news day for ocean science and economics University of British Columbia. See below. UBC SPPGA SSHRC KillamLaureates Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement @envpriz Pew Environment Oceana The OceanCanada Partnership Solving-FCB | @solvingfcb.org on BlueSky Sea Around Us | Bluesky: @seaaroundus.org

New paper Frontiers - Marine Science – The microbiomes of Naïve, Exposed, and Wasting sunflower stars sampled in the wild in Alaska as the disease spread north implicate Vibrio and low oxygen conditions. Amazing collaboration among @QuestUvm trainees and AKDF&G! frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Beautiful and inspiring talk and visit with Brian Cheng (he/his). From atmospheric rivers, to oyster drills, to MPAs! Thanks for visiting UVM Biology!

Postdoc in Molecular Genetics of Adaptation – Pespeni Lab, University of Vermont. Flexible project, expertise in linking genotype to phenotype. 2+ years of funding; NIH pay scale; Ideal start Sept 1. Email mpespeni at uvm dot edu if interested! Pls RT! blog.uvm.edu/mpespeni/