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 🌊

ICYMI - applications now open for our FREE #SciComm and #DataViz virtual workshop. Targeted towards grad students & postdocs!

You want to know about this site that lets you explore data collected by the HMS Challenger from 1872–1876, an expedition that laid the foundation of oceanography. 🌊 challenger-expedition.sams.ac.uk/explore

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

It's time to apply for PAID summer internships @umflbs.bsky.social ! Note that our internships are open to all and incl field & lab science as well as data science, marketing, environmental law, journalism, & education. Spread the word! attn @umontana.bsky.social flbs.umt.edu/newflbs/educ...

2026 summer #fellowships & #internships for #PhD students and also those graduating. Locations include US, UK, Thailand, Brazil, Remote, etc. Most deadlines in Dec and Jan. Most available for international students. Please share for visibility. Also comment if you know of any internships. 🧵

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

Download our large database of postdoc fellowships in all fields of research. Database freely available to all; 281 fellowships. Download here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

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.

Our college is hiring a new TT faculty in Aquatic Ecotoxicology. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions about working in the college or living in St. Pete, FL (spoiler, I love it here :)) jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/676280/t...

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 🌊

I totally agree 👍 ---> Society journals matter—supporting science through renewed commitment academic.oup.com/microlife/ar...

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...

Hey, I just met you... And this is crazy... Do me a favor??? Review this paper?

I had such a good writing Sunday at the office, desperately trying to finish our first lab paper before the end of the year. Had some good assistants (🐶) and saw dolphins on our running break. Bonus pic of the plankton mural on the st Pete pier.

Feeling super proud of myself for finding a barely used 5mm Henderson wetsuit for an upcoming scientific diving expedition in the Gulf of California ($50 fb marketplace). Recommitting to buying second hand whenever possible! Also the 2-pg #Patagonia ad in this weeks New Yorker is 🔥🔥🔥

Science dog date at Myakka state park. Big open space to explore, Ruby and her best dog friend, science/science gossip == ❤️

Black Friday so far: ✅coffee and grad school strategizing with my previous wundergrad ✅supported our local bookstore (more Claire Keegan to read!) ✅took some phytoplankton chla measurements for my grad student visiting family ✅helped current wundergrad get a pcr started ✅feeling grateful ❤️🦃

Happy turkey trot day! (My mom and I walked this year)

Your periodic reminder: I keep a list of useful resources for scientific writers - book, blogs, software, etc - here:

Hey #microbialsky - anyone looking for a good PhD student this cycle? Ugrad from my lab is looking but no luck with the PIs she has contacted (no funding, no response). She worked in my lab for 1.5 years, now is a research tech at the FWC research institute. Excellent at the bench & super smart!

Ask not what your journal can do for you—ask what you can do for your journal 🌊 JGR:Oceans is now looking for new Editors and Associate Editors, if you're interested get in touch. We don't bite! 😀

I recently rewatched Jurassic Park and was so excited to share this clip with my Genomics and Bioinformatics class to teach how critical it is to understand Unix/Linux after Lex saves everyone from the velociraptor by rebooting the security system! 😂🦖🦕👩🏼‍💻

Is it bad luck to do pcr on Halloween? #microbialsky 🎃👻💀

Extremely proud to share that @lydiaruggles.bsky.social, my very first graduate student, successfully defended her thesis on Pyrodinium vitamin requirements and bacterial interactions yesterday afternoon! #microbialsky

Excited to share new published work on Phaeocystis antarctica microbiomes! Given the world, I was hesitant to self-promote, but a key finding is P. antarctica phycosphere interactions should be studied in situ. Antarctic fieldwork is necessary! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #microbialsky

*Every single headline* about a scientific/medical advance right now should include the funding source I'm reading & discussing a bunch of papers w/ my class. I don't usually point out funders (almost always NIH/NSF/USDA for this class). You can bet your patooties I'm gonna do that from now on

MICO/Brisbin lab is hosting Making Waves REUs this summer! Please share with your favorite undergrads! Are you an undergrad excited about oceanography? Apply or reach out with questions! #reu #microbialsky

Let's kick of the New Year like an acantharian with a little #protistsonsky fireworks magic. Happy New Year 2025! 🦑

That’s a wrap! Last little cruise of 2024 in the books. 15 CTD, 6 bucket, and 5 underway stations, uncountable plankton images, 41 filters for DNA extractions, 35 samples for flow, many aux samples- will be interesting to see how coastal communities bounce back post disturbance #microbialsky

Out on a mini-cruise to follow up on our post-hurricane cruise to study the responses of coastal microbes to major disturbance events. Dolphins escorted us out of Tampa Bay ❤️🌊 best Christmas present ever - cool science, good weather, lots of charismatic microflora 🦠🧪 #microbialsky

I am so proud of my Xmas and oyster-loving PhD student Olivia for putting on a super fun and successful outreach event “VOGS and EggNog” yesterday - VOG are vertical oyster gardens and participants built over 600 VOGs for her dissertation project!

Our happy little coffee shop on campus reopened this week after being severely damaged (underwater) in hurricane Helene. Our weekly writing group met there, and meeting there again today felt like a big step in “getting back to normal.” I remain fascinated by extreme storms, but that was a semester.

Happy thanksgiving science sky! This is my favorite holiday because it’s the only one that it is super acceptable to pressure your fam to run with you :)

The @jcamthrash.bsky.social lab is hiring a technician to help with high-throughput culturing and other aspects of their research. Join a lab pushing the boundaries and working with amazing organism. Also a great crew of ppl. 🌊🦠🧫 #Microsky #biotechniology usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

Today was my first day teaching as an assistant professor and it is the first time I really felt like a (new) professor. I built the lab and mentored grad students last year but still kind of felt like a postdoc. Today was one of those very special memorable days 😍☺️🌊🪸🦠

People say scientists are serious but marine biologists will spend hours quietly sitting around tables drawing on styrofoam cups and then tying said cups to deep sea submarines Because ocean pressure will squeeze the air from the cups And we are but human & we want tiny cup

Come visit Jean Lim and Aly Rogers at their poster on RNA viruses associated with Karenia brevis harmful algal blooms in Florida. #7239 EEB-P-001 – EEB01 today! #ASMicrobe 🦠 #USFCMS