INTERESTED IN THE NEW GRFP? On Thursday, October 16th, 2025, 1 – 2pm ET, special #NSF BIO Directorate Virtual Office Hour (VOH) on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program #GRFP. Attendees should submit questions ahead of the VOH. Register and submit questions at nsf.zoomgov.com/webinar/regi...

Science news article about 2nd year grad students being unceremoniously dropped from the GRFP eligibility with no explanation or warning: www.science.org/content/arti...

#NewResearch Baizosediminiarchaeum, a key player in the deep biosphere, builds butanetriol dialkyl glycerol tetraether membrane lipids and feeds on both CO2 and lignin, revealing a survival strategy in low-energy environments. #MicroSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

After a long day of discussing future field work to study #DeepSeaMining, this short documentary was a welcome reminder of the why - there is still so much we don’t know about the deep sea! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jcm...

Come join the BioGOSHIP team. In search of a postdoc at NOAA/Miami.

🌊 Future ocean warming may cause large reductions in Prochlorococcus biomass and productivity Prochlorococcus = Earth’s most abundant photosynthetic organism and crucial to oceanic ecosystems www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great work on lateral gene transfer rates by prokaryoplankton - from the Single Cell Genomics Center at Bigelow Laboratory!

2026 OCB Activity Proposal Solicitation now open until Oct 24 - spread the word! www.us-ocb.org/science-supp... @nacp-carbon.bsky.social @usclivar.bsky.social @ccspo.bsky.social @solas-ipo.bsky.social 🌊

Looking forward to seeing you in Glasgow for the next Ocean Sciences Meeting. Please join us!

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Join us at the Ocean Sciences Mtg, Feb 22-27, 2026 in Glasgow, UK at our session OB012 on Advances in Aquatic Microbial biodiversity using Flow and Imaging Cytometry. Abstracts are due Aug 20, 2025.

My latest: Polar scientists warn that the White House and NSF are planning to terminate the Nathaniel Palmer, the only US research icebreaker capable of handling Antarctic extremes, this October. So far the plan has seen minimal pushback from Congress.

Characterizing organisms from three domains of life with universal primers from throughout the global ocean www.nature.com/articles/s41...

U.S. GO-SHIP seeks physical/biogeochemical oceanographer with hydrographic & cruise-planning experience to be Chief Scientist on Feb-May 2026 P04E (tentatively Costa Rica, to the Marshall Islands) Deadline August. 15 tinyurl.com/334y4daw 🌊

Comprehensive taxonomic identification of microbial species in metagenomic data using SingleM and Sandpiper - @benjwoodcroft.bsky.social go.nature.com/3IwOxHh

#ECR input needed! Help SCOR serve early-career scientists better by contributing to the survey: www.surveymonkey.com/r/SCOR-ECOP

🌊 Deep ocean currents shape microbial communities across South Pacific, scientists discover phys.org/news/2025-07...

POSTING: @ubcoceans.bsky.social and @eoas.ubc.ca are recruiting for a Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Ocean Ecological Modelling. Associate #Professor or Professor, with tenure. Deadline: September 12, 2025 research.ubc.ca/media/file/c...

Very excited to share the first paper out of my Postdoc @CMR: GenomeFISH: genome-based fluorescence in situ hybridisation for strain-level visualisation of microbial communities. @sjmcilroy.bsky.social @jamesvolmer.bsky.social @benjwoodcroft.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/isme... 🧵1/7

🌊 OneArgo: A Game Changer for Monitoring Ocean Ecosystems! By collecting an unprecedented volume of BGC data, it reveals how marine ecosystems respond to climate change and human impact. It’s essential to support critical actions: 🎣 Fisheries management 🌱 Carbon sequestration 📈 Forecasting systems

An international publication led by PML's Professor Kevin Flynn highlights how upgrading current #PlanktonModels is critical to understanding the scale of global #climate issues 👇 pml.ac.uk/news/harness...

I'm looking for a partner to co-lead Atmospheric Chemistry at ETH! New role for a mid-career person looking to make a change. Please contact me if interested. Job opening closes in a month! (and applying early is better than last minute!)

Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions. GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc. This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth. www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...

Devastating-including all science budget cuts to NSF, NOAA, NASA…. apple.news/AMSdeA_beQYC...

🌊 The #Argo #webODV is now updated daily! Access refreshed hydrography & biogeochemical #Argo profiles through this powerful online tool developed by Dr. Sebastian Mieruch & Prof. Reiner Schlitzer at @awi.de. 📅 Webinar + live demo: 03 Jul 2025, 15:00–16:30 (CET) 👉 Register: lnkd.in/euVzqrp8

Phytoplankton, key to ocean life, falling 2% per year in North Atlantic Phytoplankton are the base of the ocean food web www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Educational #equity faces renewed threats across higher #education in the USA. @cissyballen.bsky.social @kzutaustin.bsky.social @hormiga.bsky.social ‬address what can be done by life science instructors and researchers to prioritize equitable, evidence-based teaching for all. 🧪 plos.io/4lm8sa4

Excited to share the lab's 1rst preprint! Rapid high-res immunofluorescence is now possible in cultured & environmental diatoms thanks to 4-fold expansion microscopy. A step-change for comparative cell biology in one of the most important phytoplankton groups on the planet 🥳 tinyurl.com/m9s5su7s 1/2

One visible impact of the illegal firing of NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab (GLERL) employees - no 2025 data updates for water quality in W Lake Erie, meaning no public info on the harmful algal blooms. We detected toxins in April, but we lost the folks who organize & report this data

Great collaboration with LIVE education as a part of #ISAC.

🌊New funding from #NipponFoundation by covering participation in biodiversity cruises oceancensus.org/publications...

Out in Science! Zakem et al. mechanistically modeled global marine prokaryotic functional diversity, grounded with field data. Shifts in community composition drive respiration and thus biological C storage. This facilitates C cycle projections in a warming ocean www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

One of my favorite education activities each year! It’s been a joy working in our new Ocean Education wing. #BLOOM #oceanscience

Looking forward to continuing and expanding our Bio-GOSHIP team work. TY!

📣 JUST RELEASED: ODL has a new study in Science Advances, revealing that less than 0.001% of the deep seafloor has been visually explored. That leaves 66% of Earth unseen by human eyes. This tiny area is about a 10th of the size of Belgium. Yes, THAT small 🔍. Shocked? www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New paper using 4 coccolithophorid strains from the RCC. aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

🌊 Calling all early-career scientists ICES #SIIECS & Mission Atlantic return with #InterDis, a summer school for interdisciplinary ocean management using #IEA 📍 Copenhagen, Denmark 10–15 August 2025 🏫32 spots available - applications close 15 May 2025. www.ices.dk/news-and-eve...

Just out - The first global ocean 3-Domain microbial survey where all organisms can be directly compared quantitatively. Unfractionated and amplified from just 2 primers (vetted with mock communities and metagenomics), so all with the same denominator. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

International Women’s Day is March 8. Join us in celebrating women’s achievements and taking action to forge gender parity. #IWD2025 #AccelerateAction #WomenInSTEM

Chromatic acclimation shapes phytoplankton biogeography www.science.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs 🌊

A #NewStudy reveals the optical properties, or ‘spectral fingerprints’, of #phytoplankton in the ocean, providing a unique and valuable dataset for #RemoteSensing #scientists, #MarineEcologists, #biogeochemical #modelers, and #ClimateScientists alike: pml.ac.uk/news/unveili...

Our marine science community has many fantastic and inspirational scientists. 🌟 Who inspires you? 🏆Make your nominations for ICES Outstanding Achievement Award 2025 until 1 April www.ices.dk/news-and-eve...

The news cycle right now - even just for science & higher ed - is overwhelming. We have to do it, but fortunately, we don’t have to do it alone. My team is focused on tracking what’s happening to research funding, jobs & salaries, shared datasets, university responses & safety of our communities

If you want to hear directly from ocean scientists, a feed exists for that. Please like it even if you hate the ocean so others can find it.

🌊Share your science, expand your network & contribute to the future of marine research at #ICESASC25 Join us from 15–18 September 2025 in Klaipeda, Lithuania🌎 📢The Call for Abstracts is now OPEN with 18 theme sessions to choose from. 🗓️Deadline 17 March 2025 Find all the ℹ www.ices.dk/news-and-eve...