Mar Benavides
@marbenavides.bsky.social
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Microbial Oceanographer
@noc.ac.uk
@ird-fr.bsky.social
www.ocean-bridges.net
Let’s get microbes into the conversation!
@noc.ac.uk
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David Ho
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For those attending
#OSM26
in Glasgow, the five days unlimited rail travel on all ScotRail services within the Conference Zone for just £5 looks like a super deal. 🌊
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Glasgow Conference Rover
Attending a conference in Glasgow's Conference Zone? Travel by rail for five days for just £5 with a Conference Rover.
https://www.scotrail.co.uk/tickets/conference-rover
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Today is
#WomenInSTEMDay
and I can't be prouder to lead the
@erc-expand.bsky.social
project counting on so many professional female scientists and engineers - meet some of them!
@noc.ac.uk
@mioceanologie.bsky.social
@ird-fr.bsky.social
@erc.europa.eu
@lomicumr7621.bsky.social
@cnrs.fr
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The Conversation AUNZ
about 1 month ago
The deep ocean is not a silent, static place – it’s active, connected to the oceans above and always changing.
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Submarine mountains and long-distance waves stir the deepest parts of the ocean
https://theconversation.com/submarine-mountains-and-long-distance-waves-stir-the-deepest-parts-of-the-ocean-274124?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1769662837-1
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Ian Hall
about 1 month ago
Come to Cardiff... The Global Talent Fund has been launched to attract and support the relocation of outstanding international researchers and research teams to the UK. Funding covers research, relocation, and visa costs. Grants begin in 2025/26 and last 5 years
www.cardiff.ac.uk/research/our...
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Global Talent Fund
Find out how we’re using UKRI’s Global Talent Fund to recruit researchers from around the world.
https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/research/our-research-environment/global-talent-fund
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biometlab
about 1 month ago
eos.org/opinions/wha...
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What Americans Lose If Their National Center for Atmospheric Research Is Dismantled - Eos
Five ways dismantling NCAR will cost the American people, and two ways to save it.
https://eos.org/opinions/what-americans-lose-if-their-national-center-for-atmospheric-research-is-dismantled
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Emil Ruff
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Meet "OxyMoRon" our 5-year NASA ICAR program to study dark oxygen production in Earth's hidden ecosystems. We have multiple positions and are happy about collabs. Co-PIs:@valdeanda.bsky.social
@microbiaki.bsky.social
@valiergaly.bsky.social
Ranjani Murali, Scott Wankel
www.mbl.edu/news/emil-ru...
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Emil Ruff Leads Team to Explore Dark Oxygen Through NASA Collaborative Award | Marine Biological Laboratory
For more than a century, textbooks asserted that molecular oxygen (O2) on Earth is produced almost entirely by photosynthesis, through plants and microbes. But discoveries over the past decade have ov...
https://www.mbl.edu/news/emil-ruff-leads-team-explore-dark-oxygen-through-nasa-collaborative-award
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Immensely proud of
@arthurcoet.bsky.social
for his PhD thesis! 🥹🥹🥹 From the lab to the ocean and back, he has been incredibly creative at shedding light into marine particles!
@oceanbridges.bsky.social
@mioceanologie.bsky.social
@univ-amu.fr
@noc.ac.uk
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2519431122
2 months ago
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ANR - Agence nationale de la recherche
3 months ago
🤝 Philippe Baptiste, ministre de l’Enseignement supérieur, de la Recherche et de l’Espace, et Claire Giry, PDG de l’ANR, ont signé le COP 2026-2030 État/ANR. Il fixe le cadre des actions et les orientations stratégiques de l’ANR pour les 5 prochaines années ➡
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"By 2030, our goal is for microbial metrics to stand alongside those of charismatic megafauna in every major habitat monitoring and restoration plan, signalling a profound shift in how biodiversity is measured, valued and protected"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@noc.ac.uk
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Launching the IUCN Microbial Conservation Specialist Group as a global safeguard for microbial biodiversity - Nature Microbiology
Nature Microbiology - Launching the IUCN Microbial Conservation Specialist Group as a global safeguard for microbial biodiversity
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-025-02113-5
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Argo-France
3 months ago
@argofrance.bsky.social
has proudly supported the
#argopy
software library development for the last couple of years, in particular for adding biogeochemical
#argofloats
data support. Stay tuned for the next release that will ship an awesome new feature for BGC folks...
@bgc-argo.bsky.social
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Mike Inouye
3 months ago
Ummm guys, we've just found ribose (sugar in RNA) and glucose on an asteroid
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Bio-essential sugars in samples from asteroid Bennu - Nature Geoscience
Samples returned from asteroid Bennu contain bio-essential sugars such as ribose and glucose that may have formed in the parent asteroid from brines containing formaldehyde, according to a geochemical...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-025-01838-6
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Dra. Eli Leon-Palmero
3 months ago
🌞 Day vs Night matters for
#GHG
#emissions☀️
Our study shows daytime (diff) GHG emissions from
#reservoirs
far exceed nighttime levels 🔬Solar cycle (PhotoChem) + wind explain
#N₂O
&
#CO₂
diel cycles; water management also matters for diff & ebull
#CH₄
🌊 📄
rdcu.be/eUd0W
@isabel-reche.bsky.social
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Higher emissions of carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and methane during the daytime in two reservoirs
https://rdcu.be/eUd0W
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Carlos Moffat
8 months ago
🌊❄️🧪 🇦🇶 Please share: We have learned that the National Science Foundation is moving ahead with plans to decommission the U.S. Research Vessel/Ice Breaker Nathaniel B. Palmer this October. If you care about Antarctic research, please read on (1/n)
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Prof Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️
3 months ago
Delighted that one of my Antarctic winter photos has won the 2025 Royal Society Photography Competition, Earth Science & Climatology category. Captured during polar-night surveys of ocean conditions near Antarctic Peninsula glaciers.
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Climate change: Nitrogen fixing trees contribute to permafrost thaw
Siberian alder (Alnus hirsuta) is expanding into Arctic tundra, and a new study shows it can heat permafrost through symbiotic nitrogen-fixing root nodules. This discovery introduces a biologically me...
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(25)01404-6
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GEOTRACES
3 months ago
New GEOTRACES Science Highlight! 🌊 Long-range transport of iron via the
#Agulhas
Current and counter-current: a boon for the phytoplankton
www.geotraces.org/long-range-t...
Paper first authors: Eva Bucciarelli & Pierrick Penven, LEMAR
#oceanscience
#traceelements
@scor-int.bsky.social
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Signe Aaboe
3 months ago
Arctic sea-ice extent just passed the border into the "record-low" domain. Same for Barents, Baffin, Hudson, and Svalbard regions. Second-lowest globally. 🌊❄️🥼🧪📉
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Ian Hall
3 months ago
Overestimated natural biological nitrogen fixation translates to an exaggerated CO2 fertilisation effect in Earth system models ...meaning models may overestimate future plant carbon uptake as CO2 rises Better nitrogen modelling = better climate predictions
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Overestimated natural biological nitrogen fixation translates to an exaggerated CO2 fertilization effect in Earth system models | PNAS
CO2 fertilization of the terrestrial biosphere is limited by nitrogen. Biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) is the dominant natural nitrogen source t...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2514628122
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Ian Hall
3 months ago
Sea level doesn’t rise at the same rate everywhere – we mapped where Antarctica’s ice melt would have the biggest impact Well worth a read...
theconversation.com/sea-level-do...
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Sea level doesn’t rise at the same rate everywhere – we mapped where Antarctica’s ice melt would have the biggest impact
Understanding what happens to Antarctica’s ice matters, because as it melts, sea levels rise, affecting lives and economies around the world.
https://theconversation.com/sea-level-doesnt-rise-at-the-same-rate-everywhere-we-mapped-where-antarcticas-ice-melt-would-have-the-biggest-impact-269788
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4 months ago
The eruption after thousand of years of
#HayliGubbi
#volcano
in
#Ethiopia
. According to analyses, part of the eruptive column from the eruption may have reached an altitude between 18 and 20 km. The
#Copernicus
#Sentinel5p
image on Nov. 23 shows the big plume moving eastward.
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Ian Hall
4 months ago
Zombie fires: how Arctic wildfires that come back to life are ravaging forests
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Zombie fires: how Arctic wildfires that come back to life are ravaging forests
Blazes that smoulder in the permafrost, only to reignite, are extending fire season though winter, leaving vegetation struggling to recover
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/24/zombie-fires-arctic-wildfires-reignite-ravaging-forests-aoe
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Equatorial upwelling of phosphorus drives Atlantic N2 fixation and Sargassum blooms - Nature Geoscience
High near-surface nitrogen-fixation rates that promoted the recent growth of the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt were tied to greater upwelling of phosphorus from the equatorial Atlantic, according to c...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-025-01812-2
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Ian Hall
4 months ago
🌊 Climate change is now warming the deepest parts of the Arctic Ocean
phys.org/news/2025-11...
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Climate change is now warming the deepest parts of the Arctic Ocean
While it is well known that climate change is heating the world's oceans, it was thought that the deep sea was safe from its effects—until now. Researchers have discovered that a rapidly warming part ...
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-climate-deepest-arctic-ocean.html
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David Ho
4 months ago
That's a lot of fly tipping!
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Mountain of illegally dumped trash near Oxford river causes outcry in England
A massive illegal trash dump near Oxford has sparked outrage in England. The pile that came to the public's attention last week stretches up to the tree canopy and sits dangerously close to the River ...
https://apnews.com/article/illegal-dump-uk-oxford-kidlington-england-gang-ad9a486bb2cde87264db741f4993a941?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=691e3def0aed890001bfcc12&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Bluesky
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La Chronique Spatiale
4 months ago
Il se prépare au décollage.
#Sentinel6B
va bientôt sonder les océans terrestres. Histoire complète à lire dans
#Lachroniquespatiale
@esa.int
@copernicusecmwf.bsky.social
@airbus.com
@thalesaleniaspace.bsky.social
@gifas.fr
@eumetsat.int
@cnes.fr
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Sentinel 6B va bientôt sonder les océans terrestres
Deux semaines après Sentinel 1D lancé par Ariane 6 VA 265, c’est un autre satellite du programme Copernicus qui se…
https://lachroniquespatiale.com/2025/11/14/sentinel-6b-va-bientot-sonder-les-oceans-terrestres/
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University of Southampton
4 months ago
Our Earth scientists have discovered how continents are slowly peeled from beneath, fuelling volcanic activity in an unexpected place - the oceans 🌊 Discover more 👉
southampton.pulse.ly/xfz0mvyw2c
@sotonoceanearth.bsky.social
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European Commission
4 months ago
#OnThisDay
, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize was born: Marie Skłodowska-Curie. Today, the MSCActions 🇪🇺 fellowship carries her name, supporting young scientists in their research. Together, we’re building a brighter future for generations to come.
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Julia Van Etten
4 months ago
I just wrote the following sentence in a manuscript: “Using pulled Pasteur pipettes, micropipettes, and tools made from toothbrush bristles superglued onto colored pencils, individual cells were isolated and washed in 0.22um-filtered ambient water…”
@burnsajohn.bsky.social
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Ian Hall
4 months ago
🌊 By 2100, Arctic phytoplankton blooms will start ~34 days earlier, last ~15 days longer, and become less dominant overall, as warming reduces the seasonality of ocean productivity Climate change is rapidly reshaping the timing and importance of Arctic productivity
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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End-of-century Arctic Ocean phytoplankton blooms start a month earlier due to anthropogenic climate change - Communications Earth & Environment
Anthropogenic climate change impacts Arctic Ocean phytoplankton phenology, resulting in phytoplankton blooms which start 34 days earlier and last 15 days longer in 2100 compared with 1970, according t...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02807-y
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AC Vasquez - 安娜
4 months ago
🧪🪨🌊
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Equatorial upwelling of phosphorus drives Atlantic N2 fixation and Sargassum blooms - Nature Geoscience
High near-surface nitrogen-fixation rates that promoted the recent growth of the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt were tied to greater upwelling of phosphorus from the equatorial Atlantic, according to c...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-025-01812-2
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Cameron Thrash
4 months ago
Single-particle genomics uncovers abundant non-canonical marine viruses from nanolitre volumes
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#jcampubs
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Single-particle genomics uncovers abundant non-canonical marine viruses from nanolitre volumes - Nature Microbiology
Environmental micro-compartment genomics provides efficient and high-throughput single-particle DNA sequencing that captures overlooked members of microbial communities.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-025-02167-5
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James Bradley
4 months ago
Could rising antimicrobial activity in warmer soils make microbes less efficient at using carbon & push more CO₂ into the atmosphere? 🦠📈💊 Our new work in
@isme-microbes.bsky.social
explores how the combined effects of warming & AMR may alter microbial C processing 🧵👇
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Microbial interactions between climate warming and antimicrobial resistance threaten soil carbon storage and global health
Abstract. Anthropogenic activities are impacting the environment in ways that may intersect and have compounding effects. In soil, the spread of antibiotic
https://academic.oup.com/ismej/article/19/1/wraf220/8273752
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China-critical UK academics describe ‘extremely heavy’ pressure from Beijing
Reliance on overseas students’ tuition fees under scrutiny as scholars describe chilling effect of being targeted
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/nov/06/china-critical-uk-academics-speak-out-extremely-heavy-pressure-beijing
4 months ago
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Ruth Mottram
4 months ago
The return of the night train? Copenhagen Prague via Berlin and Copenhagen -Basel both starting next year! 🎉🚄🚅🛤️🎉 And the EU is pushing for fast trains between all European capitals. (Though that's definitely going to take longer). 🇪🇺🛤️🎉🇪🇺
www.zetland.dk/historie/s08...
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Ny karakterskala og fire timer med toget til Berlin
Dagens morgenoverblik siger farvel til karakteren minus 3, og opdaterer dig på planerne for lynhurtige tog i Europa.
https://www.zetland.dk/historie/s08iwB5C-moGnNy6v-ff4d0
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Jaime Palter
4 months ago
🌊 Oceanographers and people who care about our animal and microbial friends trying to take a deep breath in the ocean: Read
@koelling.bsky.social
's great thread/paper about how oxygen enters the surface of the subpolar North Atlantic. And, stay tuned... (1/3)
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The Royal Society
4 months ago
Tonight, the Royal Society lit up in purple to mark
#PurpleTuesday
- a global movement and call to action to not only recognise the barriers people with disabilities face but also to share the incredible solutions that are out there.
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UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China
Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/nov/03/uk-university-halted-human-rights-research-after-pressure-from-china
4 months ago
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Zack Labe
4 months ago
Now here is something scary... 👻 And some more spooky climate trends for today:
www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt...
#HappyHalloween
! 🎃
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High Seas Alliance
4 months ago
Why does the
#HighSeasTreaty
matter to Indigenous Peoples? 🎙️ In our latest video, Native Hawaiian activist Uncle Sol shares how Indigenous wisdom connects deeply with the ocean and why their knowledge and traditions must be part of the decision-making.
#60toGlobal
#BBNJ
t.co/jaWJSBSV08
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Dr. Wendy Bohon
4 months ago
Looks like the science community has found a home.
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Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For
https://academic.oup.com/icb/article-abstract/65/3/538/8196180?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false
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Jaime Palter
4 months ago
I usually can't listen to my voice in a recording, but it was worth it to hear this segment that
@askpossibly.bsky.social
put together on what the R/V Endeavor has meant to
@urigso.bsky.social
and oceanography. 🌊
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The oldest research vessel in the country was just retired. What does it mean for Rhode Island scientists? - TPR: The Public's Radio
The R/V Endeavor, which spent the last 49 years operating out of URI’s Narragansett Bay Campus, was retired last month. Possibly took a tour of the vessel before it’s decommissioned.
https://thepublicsradio.org/possibly-podcast/the-oldest-research-vessel-in-the-country-was-just-retired-what-does-it-mean-for-rhode-island-scientists/
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Humanists UK
4 months ago
Important update: starting today, women in England can access the morning-after pill free of charge on the NHS in high-street pharmacies.
www.england.nhs.uk/2025/10/free...
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Roscoff Culture Collection
4 months ago
We have added more than 900 new GenBank sequences to the RCC database that are linked to the web page of the corresponding strains.
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The Royal Society
4 months ago
Are you an oceanographer or marine biologist with an interest in marine biodiversity and climate change? Our upcoming scientific meeting will look at
#ClimateChange
and
#BiodiversityLoss
linkages in ocean ecosystems:
royalsociety.org/science-even...
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