Congratulations to @myadarsan.bsky.social (and the other winners!) for winning the best grad student talk award at CERF! So well deserved! Thanks for another amazing meeting @cerfscience.bsky.social can’t wait until 2027!

A university that signs the “compact” is one that acknowledges its own inability to compete and succeed based talent and merit. It would signal insecurity and mediocrity to current and future students and faculty. Say no. Recruit the best people, protect their freedom and support their hard work.

Thanks to @uslter.bsky.social #APEAL project for kick-starting this work by enabling engagement and collaboration with the local shellfishing community, whose concerns guided these new projects. 5/5 #NSF #REU #PES @mblscience.bsky.social @northeasternu.bsky.social

Whether predation or poor larval settlement has caused the decline in iconic softshell clams is being studied using recruitment boxes that protect larval and baby clams from predators. Local aquaculture is increasing oyster harvests. Efforts like these can help restore and support the fishery. 4/5

But if contaminants are in the water, shellfish may ingest those as well, with negative effects on the shellfish and harvestability. @bowenlab.bsky.social and @myadarsan.bsky.social are using new approaches to better identify sources and types of contaminants which may help mediate inputs. 3/5

Filter-feeding shellfish like oysters and clams remove algae from estuarine water (thereby also remove nitrogen), promoting water clarity and quality, easily visible and measurable in demo tanks of shellfish with algae compared to tanks with no algae, even approaching the clarity of tap water. 2/5

Fun Trails and Sails event this week showcasing new work centered on how estuary and shellfish health are intertwined and the need for people to foster both. We always get engaged attendees from the local community and make great new connections! 1/5 trailsandsails.org

I have always maintained that a big part of the justification for the protocol focus was shedding themselves of the responsibility of moderation and heaping it onto others instead

This also drifted into my feed and Gracie, too, sends her best black (ish) dog vibes for healing to all.

Check out this story on work led by recent PhD student Hillary, looking at the role marsh run els can play in maintaining salt marsh ecosystem services.

lternet.edu/stories/coll... Cool work @pie-lter.bsky.social is doing with soft-shell clam fishers. Love fried clams when visiting coastal New England? Populations are declining and LTER scientists are teaming up with fishers to figure out why. Great job @janetucker.bsky.social @uslter.bsky.social

See @bowenlab.bsky.social Bowen lab undergrad intern Luke Bagdonas demonstrating our #saltmarsh organ set-up in North Inlet-Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in April 2023. (Part 1 of 2)

Two years ago, we planted our greenhouse-reared Spartina alterniflora plants into these marsh organs. A marsh organ is a set of PVC pipes at different elevations (they look a little like a pipe organ!). Here are Luke and Stephanie out there planting, at North Inlet and @pie-lter.bsky.social.

If your God identifies as god, human, holy spirit and mysteriously also bread, do you really get to complain about other people’s gender identity 🤔

Brilliant!

8/8. So, if you’re feeling down about these attacks, I understand—I feel that way too. But just remember that they’re not attacking because your work doesn’t matter; they’re attacking *precisely* because it does. So, get some rest, connect with your people, and keep doing it.

@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social nails it - this is so spot on: "Who while being beneficiaries of unearned privilege imagine themselves as naturally superior even while demonstrating their clownish mediocrity again and again." meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/welcome-to-m....

taking small victories where I find them. www.iflscience.com/rabbit-feare...

Imagine being so small you shut down the nation’s research enterprise (among other things) because it is benefiting from diverse perspectives that don’t singularly focus on making you and your billionaire class even richer. It hurts my brain.

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

Happy 5th "Large boulder the size of a small boulder" anniversary! #Geology ⚒️

I love this.

For no reason in particular, I am reading this interesting little book called “On Tyranny” (thanks to @randallhughes.bsky.social) First lesson: Do Not Obey In Advance.

Amazing job!! Students like Johanna give the hope for the future!

Don’t forget to get your vaccines up to date!

By the great Mike Luckovich

I am hiring! Want to join a collaborative project with hydrologists, ecologists, biogeochemists, and microbiologists? Come join us here in Boston. Looking for a tech and postdoc - links here for tech position: tinyurl.com/mpm82399 and here for postdoc: tinyurl.com/4vrra3mf please share widely! 🧪🦠

If you want to see the actual future of microbiology, make sure to attend Black In Micro week this year! Blackinmicrobiology.org

Out online now: @bowenlab.bsky.social and colleagues (great cast of women and role models in the world of microbial biogeochemistry! ) review nitrogen cycling processes in salt #marshes and responses to #environmental change. #jcampubs 🧪 www.cell.com/trends/micro...

JOB!!! UMass Boston School for the Environment Now hiring Environmental Justice asst prof. Tenure track. Good department at Bostons only public research University. employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us...

Hoping y'all can help me learn the Blue Sky ropes and also to amplify this postdoc opportunity! Come work with a great team on the meta'omics of methane production in tidal freshwater marshes at the PIE LTER! Based at MBL, but lots of fun with our group too.  tinyurl.com/ycvrkpky #HiSciSky