#exocean advent calendar day 24! Today we thought it was a good fit to show an image/talk about “conception”… One of the thing we (try to) do best at ExoCean is planktonic foraminifera reproduction. Here two immaculate mummies… 😏 We would like to wish you all a beautiful Christmas Eve!

#exoCeanadvent Day 23: at exoCean we also look at some old questions: in the late 1800s, during the HMS Challenger expedition, they discovered that you can have a constant rain of shells from above, and still end up with a seafloor that looks like the carbonate budget never existed. Why? Pressure. 🌊

#exocean advent calendar Day 21! The strongest link between all of us is our love for the ocean. Leaving Marseille with a magnificent sunrise reminds us each time we go out how lucky we are to do what we love for a living! We already have our ship time for the first 6 months of 2026 - exciting!

#exoCeanadvent Day 20: it's wishing time... Whether you believe in Santa (the French singer 🎤), FC, or as I recently heard, Professor Xmas... We can all hope for some things in the holiday season... At @exoceanlab.bsky.social we would like (in no particular order):

#exoCeanadvent Day 19: Friday edition: today’s post is about the peacocks at CEREGE, because it’s Friday and our brains are in weekend mode. They wander around like they own the campus, scream for no reason, and block paths with absolute confidence. Honestly, goals. 🦚

#exoCeanadvent Day 18: looking for a good read waiting for Santa? 🌊 Try marine carbon removal: @sulpis.bsky.social co-chaired the working group behind the @emarineboard.bsky.social MRV brief, because “trust me bro” isn’t a monitoring protocol. Emissions cuts first; then *maybe* carbon removal.

#exoCeanadvent Day 17: Net accident, happy outcome. Ex-lab member Laura caught this phronima (monster in a barrel) “by mistake”, so we adopted it - alive - in a lab aquarium. One haul turned into days of behaviour notes.

#exoCeanadvent Day 15: Some plankton are tiny [citation needed?], and for those we need ways to measure tiny (this is a theme you'll hear us talking about a lot). Sometimes just holding samples in place can be hard.... enter the #Cryostage! ❄️

#exoCeanadvent Day 14 Footprint reduction: we do lab-based ocean science because we genuinely love it, but also because lab experiments can replace lots of field trips. More control, more insight, and in part, fewer emissions. Bonus: dissolving old sediment cores neutralizes a bit of CO2. 😇

#exoCeanadvent Day 13: Time Machine. Travel back in time with us 6 million years. Part of the reason for our work @exoceanlab.bsky.social is to better understand the past through observing the modern, but sometimes you just need some ancient [email protected] recently went to get some!

#exoCeanadvent Day 12: End-of-year celebration - raclette edition. On the agenda for this team meeting: cheese, cheese, cheese, goals for next year: even more cheese. We’ve officially reached our melting point. 🧀

#exoCeanadvent Day 11: Science makes you do strange things. Meet @astridhylen.bsky.social, a postdoc working with carbonate dissolution in coastal sediments. She recently found herself in the middle of a salt marsh, stirring one of the ponds with a (clean) toilet brush taped to a curtain rod.

#exoCeanadvent Day 9: Meet Maxime (again). At @exoceanlab.bsky.social and @climatecerege.bsky.social Maxime has been conducting several experiments focusing on the culture of marine organisms. One project involved culturing foraminifera in the presence of olivine (Mg,Fe)2SiO4, an igneous mineral.

#exoCeanadvent Day 8: Meet Katoo Declerk's Erasmus+ work. During her internship Katoo is investigating recently dead foraminifera (handily available in our lab!) Forams typically sink to the ocean floor soon after death, but partial or total dissolution can occur before getting there.

#exocean advent calendar Day 7! We are lucky to be based in a pine forest, in Southern France, which means loads of possible walks to discuss science in a wonderful environment. We also like to run together - as we did Friday to finish the week!

#exoCeanadvent Day 6: To study the deepest ocean trenches, we’re building reactors that make our lab behave like the deep ocean. Funded by @erc.europa.eu #Deep-C, they will hold cold seawater at ~1000 bar (10km water) so we* watch pressure shape chemistry and biology 🔬🌊 *mostly @sulpis.bsky.social

#exoCeanadvent Day 4: At exoCean we also investigate what happens to calcifiers who mysteriously die (answer: a lot happens). For that we must go at sea and collect evidence, just like CSI but with more seasickness pills, same sunglasses.

an illustration is required here, meet the real version of Jean-Milou, @exoceanlab.bsky.social only Canidae member.

#exoCeanadvent Day 3: An important part of creating a lab is to be able to plan things in miniature, for this we use #Lego versions of our team, they tend to be a bit cheaper for testing. You may spot some of @chalkyoceans.bsky.social's not so secret wishlist in the background (#nu-instruments).

Day 2 of #exoCeanadvent: Come with us to sea (you can also be a land based participant). As an 'inland' ocean lab, we don't quite have the sea on our doorstep, but that doesn't mean we can't bring it to us! We're based just 30–60 minutes from boats out of Marseille and Toulon.

Face à l’urgence climatique, les techniques d’élimination du CO₂ dissous dans l’océan suscitent espoirs autant qu’inquiétudes. Comment procéder ? Quelles règles se donner ? Qui doit décider ? Les éclairages du biogéochimiste Olivier Sulpis, chargé d’évaluer ces méthodes.

Postdoc vacancy: Microbial dormancy in the cryosphere @erc.europa.eu #ERC_SIESTA 📢 PLEASE RT 🧬 Single cell microbial activity measurements, flow cytometry, cell sorting, omics, ecological interpretation ☀️ Marseille, France ‼️ Apply ASAP & before 7 Nov Link: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

Master's internship (6 months) — Mangrove–ocean oxygen dynamics in Senegal 📍 CEREGE (Aix-en-Provence) | 🗓 Start Jan–Mar 2026 | ⏳ Apply by 31 Oct 2025 See flyer: nuage.osupytheas.fr/s/ZGcJtgN6Sm...

Reminder - the exoCean lab is hiring

The lab keeps evolving and we are THRILLED! More equipment is about to arrive, some more is planned, and we feel super excited about our different projects. Also really… what a view when the doors are open, one can even see the emblematic « sainte victoire » behind the trees!

🌟 Postdoc Opportunity in Marine Biogeochemistry at CNRS-CEREGE! 🚢 Are you a passionate researcher ready to tackle climate change? Dive into the ERC-funded Deep-C project in Aix-en-Provence, France! ⬇️

2 Postdoc vacancies: Microbial dormancy in the cryosphere @erc.europa.eu #ERC_SIESTA 📢 PLEASE RT Experimental: 🧬 Single cell microbial activity measurements, flow cytometry, omics, biogeochem Modelling: 🖥️ Bioenergetics, thermodynamics, ecological, biogeochem ☀️ Marseille, France ‼️ Apply by 30 Sept

📝 New preprint out! We investigated how the marine biological carbon pump is spatially redistributing carbon, even as its global strength stays constant. ➡️ Shifting remineralization patterns 🌊 Implications for carbon storage under climate change Read here: doi.org/10.21203/rs....

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🏅 Congratulations to Isabelle Basile-Doelsch, Research Director at INRAE/CEREGE, for winning an @erc.europa.eu Advanced Grant for her NanoCLICS project. Learn more about her project: www.cerege.fr/en/nanoclick...

This study hypothesized that rapid organic carbon deposition and active microbial respiration in the deep ocean environment may promote the occurrence of intense #SilicateWeathering, and proposed a conceptual model of carbon-silica coupling cycle in the #Deep-sea 🌊🧪🪨

This week, I gave a TEDx talk on listening to the ocean’s climate clues. A few days later, I found myself underwater doing exactly that—though not quite how I expected. We captured a fin whale call on a GoPro while diving near Nice. Estimated ~5 km away. Wild. #OceanScience #UNOC2025

ExoCean is in #Bermuda! Or at least most of it is (sorry @sulpis.bsky.social). We're here looking for foraminifera to grow in the lab, and sediments to observe how they will react to ocean change.

🌟 Exciting News for the Geochemistry Community! 🌟 We are thrilled to announce the launch of a new diamond open access journal: Advances in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry (AGC)! @weareagc.bsky.social doi.org/10.33063/agc...

Our brand new lab of experimental ocean sciences now has its own Bluesky account! Follow to know what we, our colleagues and students are up to ⬇️🌊

Dear US colleagues, In response to the Trump administration, my university @univ-amu.fr is setting up a new program dedicated to welcoming American scientists wishing to pursue their work in France. There are several M$ in the budget. www.univ-amu.fr/en/public/ac...

🚨Postdoc Offer🚨 Fully funded 2-year research position at Paris or Aix-en-Provence: your choice! The project aims to predict OAE feedbacks and environmental impacts in the ocean interior, in particular at the seabed. See job ad : nuage.osupytheas.fr/s/4zMfHFZ8S2... Please share widely! ⚛️

Save the date! The Ocean Sciences Meeting is coming to Glasgow, Scotland, 22-27 Feb 2026—the first OSM outside the US! 🌍 Join scientists, students, journalists, & more to grow our global ocean community, foster partnerships & build a sustainable future. #OSM26 @agu.org @tosoceanography.bsky.social

Come work with us at CEREGE, in Provence, for a position at the intersection of science, communication and management!

@sulpis.bsky.social, @chalkyoceans.bsky.social and I are hiring a project officer and communication manager to handle the communication of our ERC projects and help us with the French administrative procedures at @cerege.bsky.social. You can find the job offer here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

The thing about early alteration of grains in the sediment, is that there are a lot of things living there. So, while chemistry is what's working on the fundamental level, (micro)biology is a critical mediating factor. 🧪⚒️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Marine Zn limitation is a thing bg.copernicus.org/articles/21/...

🌟 Thrilled to celebrate @lucbeaufort.bsky.social, senior researcher at CNRS @cerege.bsky.social @climatecerege.bsky.social, for receiving a prestigious medal at the 2024 AGU Honors Ceremony! 🏅 📽️ Watch the ceremony in the thread below ⬇️

Eye-opening new paper by Fiorella Prada et al., describing proteins involved in "active Ca2+ trafficking": Proteomic characterization of a foraminiferal test’s organic matrix 🐚 With implications about paleoproxies and foram response to climate change... www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Our fifth online CESABINAR will take place on Thurs Dec 12th, 3pm, Paris time @soniachaabane.bsky.social and @tdegaridel.bsky.social, from @cerege.bsky.social, will present the work of the #CESAB FORCIS group : Foraminifera Response to Climatic Stress zoom : bit.ly/49CsXdW key: 941365 🧪🌐🌍🦑

On The Climate Brink: Stop emissions, stop warming: A climate reality check This is a crucial point because it determines how much warming is already "locked in" and effectively unavoidable. The answer is very little warming is locked in. Also, this is our 100th post! www.theclimatebrink....

Science takes time - a lot of time. Time that is more and more difficult to make available because of increased workloads. Time that exceeds the temporary contracts of postdocs and PhDs. I'll illustrate this using our paper published in Nature yesterday. 🧵 (1/x) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Reef fishes most threatened by extinction (worldwide) receive less scientific and public attention! see our publication in Science Advances : www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Let’s (re)balance our focus to protect all marine life !! and beyond ... 🧪🌍🦤🦑🌐

🌊 New study led by @soniachaabane.bsky.social shows how planktonic Foraminifera have entered the Anthropocene. 🐚 Also featured in The Post: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

🌊📉 New Paper Alert! "Migrating is Not Enough for Modern Planktonic Foraminifera in a Changing Ocean" published Open Access in Nature🧵👇 Me & @tdegaridel.bsky.social @juliemeilland.bsky.social @sulpis.bsky.social @chalkyoceans.bsky.social and others www.nature.com/articles/s41...