www.forbes.com/sites/johndr... The economic benefits of research and the threats to the economy from proposed cuts are an important part of the story.

after announcing that foreign students are being banned from Havard, Noem warns "this should be a warning to every other university to get your act together."

We're away from our lovely light and temperature controlled incubators @exoceanlab.bsky.social, but that doesn't mean we can't keep our plankton happy. @biosstation.bsky.social water baths to the rescue. If you've ever wondered what culturing for trace isotope systems looks like, it's this! #d11B

Found some more joy in the ocean today! Dolphins playing in the ships wake. #fieldwork #dolphins

When your plankton sample smiles back at you 😊 💙. My colleague Maria Kavanaugh @lifewesea.bsky.social captured this on the IFCB today on board the @noaa.gov F/V Shimada where we are collecting samples in the N. Cali Current. Sometimes the ocean just sends you a little love. #Phytoplankton #Diatoms

I can feel the anxiety from aaaalllll the way across the pond. The anxiety here is palpable as well.

I’m not going to retweet that NOAA propaganda post about deep sea mining. Instead, I’ll tell you that I don’t know a single NOAA scientist who would promote deep sea mining in this way, because the available science we have does not justify exploitation of deep sea habitats for minerals.

Universities have documentation on awards status. Why take screenshots? downloads? Is any of this actually necessary? Grant intake info resides at institutional research offices. (admittedly, I saw this and instantly downloaded an excel spreadsheet of my grants, but am not sure this is necessary)

Led by Caitlin Reynolds, we (@jennfehrenbacher.bsky.social+ myself+others) have a paper out showing how #Globorotalia #foraminifera captured via #plankton tow can be successfully cultured using marine snow as food! A few persisted >2 months in the lab! 🧪 🌊 pubs.geoscienceworld.org/cushmanfound...

The tulips at the Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm in Woodburn, Oregon are in full bloom. It is truly a spectacular sight.

Hello! I'm Michael Warren and I write about birds/nature in early culture. The Cuckoo's Lea is out soon and with cuckoos now arriving this seemed like the perfect time for my debut post. I'll be posting lots on birds in our place-names, starting with cuckoos tomorrow! #naturewriting #birdsandplace

When state support for science fails | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Science strengthens society and grows economies. US citizens and lawmakers should heed the warning of this article, and note China's major STEM investments. The US should be increasing federal investment in science!

We have a little zoo here with 5 pets (few foster fails during COVID). Last summer, they were chillin' in my back yard & I got these great photos.... little pet photoshoot. The only one that wouldn't cooperate was Gus the Russian Blue (not pictured). #fosterfails #snowshoe #tabby #caturday

These are some very unhappy Globigerina bulloides #Forams. I have no idea what is going on here. Are they decalcifying? What are the vacuoles around the specimen? Until this field season, I had never observed this. These were also in the high CO2 "bad water". Has anyone observed this before?

I just found what I thought were deleted photos from our 2023 field season of #forams grown in "The Bad Water" (pCO2 = 800ppm). The forams weren't happy, but the symbionts were! Here, we captured the moment the organic template formed in the final chamber of Orbulina universa for #transcriptomics

We updated our products page to include info about pricing & product availability. Previous website info stated we did not yet have aluminum slides holders, but those are IN STOCK! www.micropaleoworks.com #micropalenotology #microslides #forams (better looking website coming soon).

Need micropaleontology slides? I started a company! MicroPaleoWorks.com. If you need slides, hit me up. Prices range from 1.50 to 2.20 each depending on the variety. We can customize with numbering for a fee. We are a #smallbusiness #womenowned #madeintheUSA using #canadianaluminum & #recycledpaper

We’re ready to get picking in my lab! So happy that @jennfehrenbacher.bsky.social is making micropaleo slides, which have been hard to get in the US! www.micropaleoworks.com

YAAAAAAS Wisconsin!

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OSU is hiring! Come work at CEOAS - Open rank faculty position and director of the Oregon State Stable Isotope Laboratory. My network is small on Bluesky, please share widely! Reach out if you have questions about living in Corvallis or about CEOAS specifically. jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/165...

New paper out today by lead author @scdoherty.bsky.social demonstrating how G. hexagonus, a planktic foraminifera, record the succession of anaerobic metabolisms in particle microenvironments in samples obtained across a pelagic oxygen gradient #proxies #foraminifera #protists #research

Posting past #NSFfunded #fieldwork photos. Here is a cultured Globigerina bulloides #foraminifera from our 2023 field season. We tried to capture the moment the organic membrane it templates calcite onto formed so we can identify shell matrix proteins #basicresearch #proteomics #biomin #NERCfunded