Dinoflagellate reference in my Spotify feed today 🤓🌊🦠

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Our Antarctic cruise on the Sikuliaq (based in AK) hosted the Antarctic triple ARRR 100k challenge: run 🏃‍♀️, row, & ride 🚴‍♀️a total of 100k with at least 10k of each. Collectively, we completed 14,682 km, which is more than the distance Sikuliaq traveled from Alaska to Antarctica! #oceanography 🌊🇦🇶🐧

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After dropping equipment and materials at Palmer station and picking up a few people getting a ride back with us, we have officially left Antarctica. We celebrated with some seltzer we were able to acquire from Palmer with the helping a friend. Headed back into the Drake passage! 🇦🇶🌊🐧#oceanography

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After yrs of planning & preparing, things didn't work @ the last minute. I deeply feel for these scientists. Our Antarctic project is smaller scale—but we faced continuous setbacks, from govt, Mother Nature, tech. We get so little time to do our work here; setbacks are heartbreaking #oceanography 🇦🇶🌊

Check out this gnarly tunicate that got caught in our multicore! Captain was on deck when it came up and exclaimed it was a “creature never meant to be seen by man”. Collected from about 300m depth and appears to have been rooted in the surface sediment. #seamonster #oceanography 🌊🇦🇶

To make the most of ship time, we were working late at night for the last week while the geology team worked on island during the day. Con: we end up missing meals (7am, 11:30am, 5pm). Pros: we see these amazing, really drawn out sunsets over the partially frozen ocean. #oceanography 🐧❄️🌊🇦🇶

#ProtistsOnSky no 'swimming' by 𝘝𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘺𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢, definitively no 'staying still'. just a relaxed walk towards the lunch...

The geology team has been working on Seymour island looking for micro and macro fossils from the K-Pg boundary 🦖🦕. Now that they have their work areas set, we oceanographers got to visit their field site and look at some fossils!! Felt like Mary Anning 🤓🐚🌊🇦🇶

This beautiful little ice fish (Channichthydae) is taking advantage of being in a bucket full of copepods to help himself to many snacks. This is called “net feeding” & can scew gut content analyses in net caught organisms. Ice fish are the only fish without hemoglobin #oceanography #zooplankton 🌊🐧🇦🇶

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To study the distribution of phytoplankton🦠 and marine snow❄️, we are sending a holographic camera down on the CTD rosette to a take a 3D image every second. Then we can reconstruct bio volume and export! The most common phytoplankton on this cruise has been Chaetoceros socialis (⬇️) #oceanography 🇦🇶🐧🌊

Ever curious about seafloor mud near Antarctica? We deployed a multicorer last night to characterize sediments and organic matter at the bottom of the sea. The mud was anoxic with lots of sulfur, and a nice green layer at the top (exported phytoplankton!). Brittle star thrown back. #oceanography 🌊🇦🇶🦠

We escaped the ice and have been science hard for 2 days - four full stations and a big factorial experiment setup! Very tired but very happy to be working. We caught Antarctic krill at one station, and lots of salps at all stations. Love the Green krill guts full of phytoplankton! #oceanography 🌊🇦🇶🦐

No new science news from us bc we’ve been “Shackletoned”-stuck and drifting with the ice for a few days now. Hoping a big storm will blow us out tomorrow so we can finally get back to work! Drone photo is by Dr Ellen Buckley, diatoms & filmentous ice algae are from the ice station #oceanography 🐧🇦🇶🌊

Big science day today for us-our first ice station! We drilled ice cores to characterize the ice and sampled from an Ice pond to see what biology is there and what it’s doing. We are pretty stuck in the ice trying to drop the geology team off at Seymour Island before we can do more #oceanography 🌊🐧🇦🇶

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We have made it across the Drake and arrived at Palmer station today. All things considered, the drake was very kind to us. We picked up some supplies at Palmer and are headed to the Waddell to start science ops! Imaging plankton along the way :) #oceanography 🌊🐧❤️ whales and penguins abound!

This all women, all early career team is officially on its way to the Wedell Sea, Antarctica to study sea ice and plankton!! Wish us luck in the dreadful Drake Passage 🤞🌊🐧🇦🇶 #oceanography #iceXplankton Krill pun shirts were gifts from co-I Tricia Thibodeau 💗

How am I supposed to leave for a monthlong research trip when he looks at me like this? Gnasher is 14years young and the very best dog. ❤️❤️🐶🐶🐶 Research cruises would be so much better if we could bring our pets. I swear Gnasher would not hurt any Antarctic wildlife 🐧🌊 #oceanography #microbialsky

Happy New Years All! I am so excited to share the very first preprint from my lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... - from @lydiaruggles.bsky.social's thesis-also my first student 😊. tldr: Only bacteria collected during a Pyrodinium bloom rescued Pyro from B12 limitation #microbialsky #microsky 🦠🧪🧬🌊

Between research cruises, Jamie and I spent time with my brother and his kids and dragged them to a local nature preserve to spot baby alligators. Spotted! Two of the pros of living in FL - winter visits from family in the frigid north, and 🐊 :)

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And some parting #protist shots - two giant acantharians hand-collected with prey inside (a copepod and maybe a foram) - crazy to see a copepod being digested by an acanth, so curious how the acanth managed to catch it! #microbialsky #microsky #christmasatsea ❤️🌊

Getting ready to depart Mexico - next science adventure is Antarctica in a few weeks. For now, here are a few extra special guys from the deep sea net tows in Gulf of California. #zooplankton #oceanography #christmasatsea 🌊❤️

A slow motion Christmas sea angel 👼🪽taken by Jamie with some of our dive-collected specimens from the Gulf of California #zooplankton #oceanography 🌊

Happy holidays Bsky! - from the MICOlab and our Pyrodinium ❤️🌊 #microbialsky #microsky #phytosky animation by recent MICOlab graduate @lydiaruggles.bsky.social

Phronima is a type of amphipod crustacean that eats the inside of salps and uses their outer structure for protection. Females, like this one from the Gulf of California, keep their young inside the barrel. These were the motivation for the movie #alien. We returned them to the ocean. #zooplankton 🌊

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This is what I’m really here for :) These are the radiolarians we have been finding. Chock full of photosynthetic symbionts in a very interesting pattern- but no idea on the species. Doing some oxygen experiments and will sequence! #oceanography #zooplankton #christmasatsea ❤️🌊 #microsky

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Trump comes for the oysters. NOAA slashes existing grant in half for @umces.bsky.social Horn Point hatchery responsible for astounding success of world largest oyster restoration here in Chesapeake Bay. Another assault on science, reason & environment. www.thebanner.com/community/cl...

Never thought I’d have a favorite copepod… but behold Sapphirina! These little copepods are so iridescent they appear bioluminescent! When diving for plankton in the Gulf of California on this expedition, we see them as tiny specks of bright blue light. #zooplankton #oceanography #christmasatsea 🌊

And we caught many of these adorable nudibranchs that swim sideways like a fish! Phylliroe ❤️🌊 #zooplankton #oceanography #christmasatsea

First scientific blue water dive for plankton was so good. Caught a phronema - a parasitic isopod and the inspiration for the alien movies. So cool to see one alive! In the background is a Venus girdle giant ctenophore!

My vehicle = 🚲 Husbands vehicle = 2001 Toyota Highlander handed down from grandparents. No car payment, and only one insurance bill :) also lots of sunshine and exercise

Getting ready to head out on the RV Sally Ride in the Gulf of California. Am mostly serving as a scientific diver on this cruise (!!!!), but will also be looking for cool plankton (rads, Dinos, obvi) and sharing lots of plankton pics :) #microbialsky #microsky 🌊

Glad the good folks at @merriam-webster.com are helping lead the AI resistance

Oh time flies - my very first student @lydiaruggles.bsky.social graduated yesterday! I am so proud of her & her work (stay tuned for a preprint very soon!!). Also proud to wear @oistedu.bsky.social regalia for the first time (graduated spring 2020…), esp. the custom Yuntanza Minsa hood ❤️ 🌊 #microsky

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I love my city! The day I rode over the blacked out pride crosswalks was a deeply sad day. This is a clever if small act of rebellion and solidarity. I look forward to locking my bike up here ❤️❤️❤️❤️ www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/st-...

I would give just about anything for this treatment to make it through trials.

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Humble brag - current undergraduate research assistant in the lab prepped libraries on his own and successfully started a nanopore run today !! It is so weird and amazing for data to be generated without me in the lab. #microsky 🌊

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Merry December folks! Wanna know your most used and co-dependent geoms this past year?! I've built "Spotify Wrapped" for {ggplot2} that produces you an interactive story and analytical tools for your geom usage! #rstats Build your own report by following the docs: gpcds.com/ggplot2wrapp...