🦪 UK ECRs in aquaculture, marine sci, env policy or sci comm — join the Shellfish Industry 2025 Workshop 🌊 📅 30 Sept–1 Oct | Oban 🎯 Skills for research comms & engagement + industry networking Free | Apply by 22 Aug: forms.gle/2jzSzgeQxe6R... Funded by ASSG & @roslininstitute.bsky.social

Readvertising a PhD opportunity in my group investigating molecular mechanisms of biological patterning by studying mollusc shells. Based at St Andrews, Scotland, and co-supervised by @vs-marine.bsky.social! Deadline 17/01/25. More details: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Nice write up on the importance of supporting #sustainable #shellfish #aquaculture for delicious meals that help the planet www.theguardian.com/environment/...

For the first time, a humpback whale was spotted near the mouth of a river in Ireland. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-... via @miamiherald.bsky.social

If you happen to have this combination of TC needs and a Stuart mini orbital shaker, you can download and print one too: www.printables.com/model/108765...

Specific question: Does anyone out there have any data on sex ratios for soft-shell clams (Mya arenaria) they're willing to share? Trying to compile a database for #metaanalysis. I've found all I could find in the literature but want to maximize data! If so, please reach out! 🧪🦑 #MarineEcology

OK, this is just a damn cool article 🤯 🦠 🔬 Infecting the cell nucleus, gaining nutrients, but preventing cell death! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌊 Interested in shellfish health & food safety? 🦪 Join our EastBIO PhD project at the Roslin Institute! Explore mussel immunity & Vibrio interactions using genomics, transcriptomics & more 🦪🦠🧫🧬🌊 💡 Includes fieldwork & CASE placement at Cefas 📍 Edinburgh, UK Apply👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

🦪 Out yesterday some genome-wide work on the native European flat oyster , <i>Ostrea edulis</i>. Once widespread along European coasts but is now functionally extinct due to overfishing and disease. Threads 1/n 🦪 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Compiling some videos for our upcoming #bioc102 class with MSc Biological Oceanography students at Kiel University and #Geomar. Critter of the week: blue mussels with forests of small creatures living on their shells. We‘ll zoom into these forests in the next weeks… 🦑

Please share! Fantastic PhD opportunity to advance #seaweed #aquaculture in the face of climate breakdown 🌊🌡️🔬🧬🌊 Based at SAMS on the Scottish west coast with stunning kelp farm fieldwork locations & placement in our lab at the Roslin Institute. e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/e5-dtp/super...

And this afternoon Rob Stewart presented results from his PhD on TRIM25 in salmon in response to virus infections. He confirmed through multiple analysis that they are 2 copies of ssTRIM25 in A. salmon and only one on chr2 is up regulated upon infection with a putative role in suppressing ISAVirus

Kallen Sullivan, a PhD student from the Bean's lab at Roslin presented her awesome work on developing cell culture in oysters 🦪🧫🔬 to study oyster immune response to bonamia infection. I'm always amazed by the different organs you can find in a rock, an oyster sorry 😅 👩🏻‍🔬🧪

Ambre is also doing some long read nanopore sequencing after managing to extract really long (too long even!) DNA from her mussels 🧬🧬💻, looking forward to hearing those results that she currently analysing in @timreganlab.bsky.social lab at Roslin 🧪👩🏻‍🔬

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Heart clams have evolved optic fibres and windows to bathe their symbionts in sunlight 👽❤️🌞. Worth reading the whole story (which is beautifully written) by Dakota McCoy and colleagues www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.bsky.social

🌊New paper! A Scottish oyster farmer faced summer mortalities linked to Vibrio spp. We provide sequences for V. splendidus + highly virulent V. aestuarianus isolates🦠🖥️🧬 Bonus content: Morts declined each year, with no unusual deaths this year!💪🦪 #Oysters #Vibrio www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Best practices to extract ancient DNA from mollusc shells #MusselsAreCool dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

PhD position available in our lab in 🇨🇭! Interested in microbial ecology and evolution in the context of #Symbiosis, #Microbiota, #Bees? Like to analyze shotgun metagenomics data with the possibility for fieldwork and experiments? This is for you. Apply here: shorturl.at/swHf1 #SymbioSky

Fully funded #PhD Studentship with myself and JJ Phillips at the Living Systems Institute, @uniofexeter.bsky.social "Control of chromatin remodeller activity to direct cell fate decisions" #Chromatin #Transcription #StemCells #StructuralBiology Please re-skeet! www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins...

For #IWD, the UN's theme for the day is "Invest in women: accelerate progress", an empowering theme for us all 👩‍🔬 I'm very happy and deeply touched to have been awarded "Academic Champion of the year" from #WiSA 💜 I am very proud to be part of an 🐟 Aquaculture community that is very supportive 🧬💻

Don't miss this opportunity! Few days left to apply to the Tenure-track assistant professor position in our Department at the University of Lausanne and with the NCCR Microbiomes. Topics: microbial interactions, microbiome research, microbial symbiosis (...) Deadline: Jan 31! tinyurl.com/4k2mevax

"BATH matches the accuracy of HMMER3 for annotation of sequences containing no errors, and produces superior accuracy to all tested tools for annotation of sequences containing nucleotide indels."

#HiSciSky Happy to migrate over here. I'm a postdoc in Edinburgh, interested in #trypanosomes, #coinfection, and #drugresistance. I post mostly about science, but occasionally comment on politics that impact researchers (esp. from the Global South). T. brucei image: Sue Vaughan/ Welcome Collection

Have a good one everyone! Good thing some bivalves have feet, otherwise how could they ice skate?!

WATCH: Rare video captured off the coast of San Diego showed an #orca teaching a baby #whale how to hunt a #dolphin after subduing it youtu.be/oChZ9fYf_GM?... via @YouTube @nbcnewspolitics.bsky.social

More diverse microbiome communities provide protection against infection, but how? New paper in Science shows this is achieved by nutrient blocking -- diverse communities will consume all the nutrients an incoming pathogen needs to colonize www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

World's 1st 'conversation' between humans and #whales could help us talk to aliens someday, scientists claim www.livescience.com/space/extrat...

How seaweed can help heal wounds> bit.ly/3CzL6tn

JOIN US! We are searching for an Assistant Professor, Fisheries and Indigenous Food Sovereignty! Learn more: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ubcfac...

trout/charr/whitefish people. What's the highest altitude population of salmonid you know? Which species, where and is it self sustaining? Please repost for maximum exposure! Cheers

I am very excited to be a part of the Triploid Mussel Program announced through Genome Canada funding today! This project is being led by my co-supervisors Dr. Tiago Hori of Atlantic Aqua Farms and Dr. Ramón Filgueira of Dalhousie University. genomeatlantic.ca/atlantic-aqu...

Our Department at University of Lausanne is recruiting a tenure-track Assist. Prof. on microbial interactions linked to the nccr-microbiomes.ch Don't miss this opportunity to join a friendly, dynamic department in a city with hard-to-beat quality of life. Apply tinyurl.com/4k2mevax by Jan 31! 🧪

My RA Ray made me this amaaaazing crocheted bull kelp. I had a hunch some of you on hear would like to see it.

This is me trying out Blusky! I am interested in #viruses #genomes #Drosophila #evolution and #popgen. Here is a pretty picture of some flies from the UK, as an attention-grabber (visit obbard.bio.ed.ac.uk/photos.html for more!)

Great work here by Porter et al. Glad to see bivalves are showing relatively low levels of microplastic accumulation (we all have our favourites) 🧪 🐟 🦪

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Worried about biodiversity loss? Focus on food (production and consumption). Worried about freshwater supply & quality? Focus on food. Worried about deforestation? Focus on food. Worried about overfishing? Focus on food. Worried about climate change? Focus on energy, and food.

Fantastic opportunity, awesome team and super cool applied research right here 🐟 🧪

New pre-print: study from our group addressing one of the hurdles of phage therapy - rapidly selecting the right phage cocktail to treat an infection - using bacterial genome sequence to predict effective phage cocktail design biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Explain this to the taxpayers and convince politicians about the obscenity that is the open access publishing business model: "The scientific community of the US, China, UK, France, Netherlands, and Norway pays over $2 billion each year to a dozen publishers to publish their work with open access"

Very strong aurora over Musselburgh this evening

Please share! Two lectureships in Ecology are available in my department at the University of East Anglia in beautiful Norfolk. vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/52...

PLEASE SHARE: An exciting Roslin Foundation PhD opportunity in my lab, studying the chicken gut microbiota (www.findaphd.com/phds/project...). Unlike many other schemes, equally open to international and national candidates.

New pre-print: "Short communication: Accounting for nuclear and mito genome in dairy cattle breeding - a simulation study" led by Gabriela Mafra Fortuna. This was her MSc project, now turned into a short communication! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Research Scientist Position Opening “Genomic Basis of Marine Sponge Symbioses” For details, see www.geomar.de/en/karriere/... Come join us at GEOMAR in Kiel!

Why do Atlantic salmon suffer from sea lice so badly while Coho salmon don't? 🐟 At Edinburgh university Blue Health Symposium, @salisburyfish.bsky.social explained how scRNAseq🧬🖥️ revealed that while both species have the same types of cells, these cells respond differently to lice!

Why care about mussels? Though they might not seem that interesting on the surface, @timreganlab.bsky.social shows us at the Blue Health symposium at the University of Edinburgh why it's worth cracking open their shells, revealing some really cool mussel immunology and phylogenetics! 🦪😎🧬🧪