Our last product of the SCOR WG157 MetaZooGene if out! We run a 10-laboratory intercomparison experiment on for zooplankton metabarcoding. Take home: major patterns hold, but sequencing platform matters, taq matters (a lot), add positive/negative controls... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Flowers swung upon her branches in clusters of yellow flame, formed each to a glowing horn that spilled a golden rain upon the ground; and from the blossom of that tree there came forth warmth and a great light [...] Laurelin the other was, and Malinalda, and Culúrien, and many names in song beside

My fav surfboard - Ohio edition!

Hikes and coffees - is there anything better than that?

With the lead of @stephaniematthews.bsky.social we analyzed the zooplankton diversity in epi and mesopelagic N Pacific. We did not find much differencesb in diversity between depths, but a wider environmental envelopes for the deep dwelling species. Check it there! doi.org/10.1111/jbi....

I have been unsubscribing from all marketing emails I receive for the last two months. Several per day. I can feel the change, lower pressure but They.Keep.Coming Even new ones.

I posted an eLetter to the recent Science paper claiming strong evidence for sponges as the sister group to all other animals. The eLetter can be found under the original article. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Well, since I will not give any of my very personal data to a social platform (even to this one), do not send me messages through here - I cannot use messaging. Is this the norm for you all in the US? The age verification?

I love snowy winters

Christmas' Champions' breakfast

New preprint out! Using ~75k environmental OTUs + 77 fossil calibrations, we reconstructed a Proterozoic timeline of eukaryote evolution. Our results show crown eukaryotes were already diversifying >1.6 Ga, long before the first undisputed fossils (~1.05 Ga). 🔗 DOI: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Microbiology Come and join great students and colleagues at Hofstra Biology. Please apply using the link below and/or spread the word! hofstra.peopleadmin.com/postings/6542

OCB turns 20 in 2026! Please share how OCB has impacted your career trajectory: tinyurl.com/20yearsofOCB

Every year, even several times per year...

Publication accepted!! so releasing the scripts deposited on @github.com, the raw data from #NCBI... Happy day, @zooplanktomics.bsky.social!!

Digital copies for sale plus a few limited hard copies at: www.copepodcabinet.com If interested in a hard copy, use the “Ask a Question” button on the bottom of the website

One more week to apply to this PhD position on working out an endosymbiosis relationship in a protist. Please share widely to prospective PhD student #protistsonsky

#Training | Plankton Taxonomy with EcoTaxa Key learnings: 🔵 organise & validate quantitative imaging data 🔵 use AI-assisted taxonomy tools 🔵 boost your ID skills across major plankton groups Meet experts from BIOcean5D & EMBRC networks ! 🌊 🔗 tinyurl.com/2m8xwvhb 🧪 #AcademicSky #PhDSky

This was the first conference I ever attended... 2002? 2003? More than 20 years ago

Excited to announce the abstract submission opening to #ISOBAY2026, in June in San Sebastian. As chair of the conference, I'm happy receiving you in my home town, to discuss about #oceanography, #biodiversity, etc. Please, repost #MarineEcology #Research more info here: www.azti.es/isobay2026/

📢 ¡Una semana para enviar tus resúmenes a #CIPA2026! 🎣 ¿Investigas sobre pesca artesanal? El I Congreso Ibérico de Pesquerías Artesanales busca fortalecer los lazos entre ciencia, gestión y sector pesquero. webcongreso.com/cipa

.... And another student in the lab (Lauren) also passed the comprehensive exams... One more to go!

It was a pleasure to be part of this work with the lead of Shuting Liu - putting together the data from all the team to show the daily cycles of bacterioplankton in the Sargasso Sea www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Hey folks, we (the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University) are looking for an Assistant Teaching Professor in microbiology and immunology. Please pass this on to anyone you think might be interested, or check it out if you are interested yourself! apply.interfolio.com/176994

Happy Thanksgiving!

Deadlline is soon!! Please repost!!

...Paper submitted...

Is it a flagellate? A tiny ball with tentacles? Contamination in my ciliate culture? NEW SUPERGROUP OF EUKARYOTES? Yes to all 4! Meet Solarion - just out in #Nature doi.org/10.1038/s415... Huge congrats to Marek Valt, Cepicka Lab & the star team! Very happy to be part of this project. #ProtistsOnSky

Today one of my students passed her comprehensive exam! Time to celebrate - Congratulations Rocio!!! And now... Let's write those chapters!!

just... wow

On behalf of the Department of Oceanography at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, we are excited to invite applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position in Ocean Biogeochemical Modeling at the rank of assistant professor. www.schooljobs.com/careers/hawa... position number 0082726

The School of Ocean Futures of ASU (where I am faculty) has two Presidential Graduate Assistantship fellowships for new PhD students to ensure ASU's inclusivity charter. Students from underrepresented groups are encouraged to contact the faculty at SOF for potential synergies! tinyurl.com/yjnvd25b

Our project on the Portuguese Man'o War made it to the local news! www.royalgazette.com/environment/...

Seeking a three year postdoc in the field of ocean biogeochemistry and productivity using mechanistic models and synthesis of observations. Note the short fuse for applications. Please help distribute. All nationalities welcome to apply! 🌊 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG117/p...

I just recorded my lectures on lophophorata... I am not sure I want to read this. Don't want to re-record!!

New preprint! 🌊 Hypoxia adaptation shapes genomic architecture and vertical niche transitions in copepods www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... ‪@biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social‬ Great work by Kévin Sugier from @cea.fr and Romuald Laso-Jadart ‪@recherche.mnhn.fr‬

Stay tuned for our research on Portuguese man'o war! More coming soon!

Submissions for the WAC Student Grant program are open now until Dec 1. We anticipate making up to three $1,000 awards to support student (graduate or undergraduate) research on copepods. See details👇 www.monoculus.org/student-gran...

This summer one of my favorite science colleague and mentor and friend, Janet Bradford-Grieve, died. It is still very painful to me to think about it but I wanted to share some of the notes that are being released about herself and her research (cont) ojs.victoria.ac.nz/nzsr/article...

Come with me, little friend; let me help you recovering from your misfortune

I wrote an opinion piece about parental/family leave at UConn. I’m only ~75% happy with it but … something needed to be said. Many things actually. Loudly. Repeatedly. And with as many voices as possible. “This is UConn: Zero paid family leave for professors” ctmirror.org/2025/10/21/t...

Congratulations Dr. Millán!!!

TOMORROW is the great day!! Join to see @coocoo4coccos.bsky.social dissertation defense in #coccolithophores at BATS!!!!

New paper out! 💌🔬Spirorhynchus verrucosus is a Muranotrichean and its sister has been livin' in the deep sea Santa Barbara Basin since the 90's! See them TUFTS!! Wonderful work of B Bourland & Cepicka Lab, R Beinart, & J Bernhard enabling deep sea sampling. Read h1.nu/spiror #ProtistsOnSky #MicroSky

metaPR2 version 3.0 has just been released. Here are the major changes: - Metabarcodes (ASVs) are now annotated with the latest version of the PR2 reference sequence database (5.1.0). - 8 new published datasets have been added from the Arctic and from the South West Pacific. app.metapr2.org

Temperatures dropped thanks to the back to back hurricanes - we can enjoy the back porch again!

🌊🔬 Looking for a postdoc to join our team! Cocco-Channel project ➡️ studying coccolithophore phycospheres and their role in ocean carbon cycling. ✔️ Plus if you bring experience in microbial ecology, molecular/microscopy tools & fieldwork 👉 More info: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/375178 #protistsonsky