And now it's out! Happy that PNAS selected for the cover this SEM image snapped by @samjlord.bsky.social, one of the most evocative visualizations of Euplotes that I have ever encountered. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Stay tuned for what is shaping up to be some fascinating follow-up in the lab...

Some time ago, I wnt on a casual trip to Frøya, Norway. It turned out to be a bit more than just a fun observation… The scientific paper is now out 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Small observations can sometimes open up new questions.

We need more long-format journals. Brevity is good. But there are topics that would benefit from more space than tight word limits allow. And there's a cost to summarising methods or shunting them to appendices. For science to be reproducible, we need to be able to clearly describe what was done.

Claude seems fantastic at writing Shiny apps. You can in principle go from knowing nothing about how to create one to having one online in minutes (obviously, best to spent more time checking it!). Fabulous for sharing ideas quickly and an excellent accompaniment to papers and lectures.

71% of our planet is ocean, but you wouldn’t know it from traditional maps. Shift your land-based perspective this Earth Week with a story about the Spilhaus Projection map and the WHOI oceanographer who created it: go.whoi.edu/spilhausmap

🚨Job Alert!🚨 Please share widely! We are hiring *two* postdocs (one ASAP, one Oct '26) using models and data to identify pathways involving the gut-brain axis that link the infant microbiome with neurodevelopment and Autism Spectrum Disorder. 1st review date: April 24! recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF03089

The Selander Lab at Lund University, Sweden, is looking for a PhD student to study the ecology of fear in marine plankton. Exciting topic with great supervision! lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Happy to see our antifragility paper published! With @jonaswickman.bsky.social and @chrisklausmeier.bsky.social.

Our review on the evolutionary arms race between copepods and diatoms is now published in @aslo.org #ASLO_LO 🌊 We discuss the most common defense mechanisms found in diatoms, and how copepods have evolved to overcome them. Check it out #openaccess aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Somehow this paper has been largely ignored, but the basic idea has been presented by others as novel, or the idea gets misattributed to someone else. If you're interested in #diatom sex and its evolutionary importance, read and cite this paper. www.jstor.org/stable/2460887

High childhood poverty in Sweden, but disproportionally among parents with a migration background. Important research and debate piece by Anna Tegunimataka, @siddarthaaradhya.bsky.social and @rafgrotti.bsky.social www.aftonbladet.se/debatt/a/K88...

The ocean does not produce half of the oxygen that we breathe.

Paul Ehrlich is remembered for a bet that he lost, and a population prediction that went wrong. Many environmental scientists seem to remember him warmly for 'raising awareness'. They should not. His legacy is both stupid and vile beyond imagination. (1)

The flyver for this year's AMARE PhD school in lovely Malta is up: www.ogs.it/en/amare-med.... I look forward to present the new developments of FEISTY, and Andre Punt will introduce size-based stock assessment methods. Note: deadline coming up soon!

Wow. Foraminifera! ROV pilots paused and carefully zoomed in to collect footage of these single-celled microorganisms, or protists, at 843 m during the #OBVI #LivingBioreactors expedition w/ @schmidtsciences.bsky.social offshore of Argentina. Read the full caption: youtube.com/shorts/Yv_ud...

How does salinity affect growth? @fryderheim.bsky.social & I developed a model to describe this, and he's parameterised it for >100 species. We can now model how salinity changes should affect population & community dynamics! Check out his poster on Monday afternoon at #OSM26

New preprint out! 🌊🧪🌎 🧮➕📏 Temperature preferences estimated from lab experiments and species distribution models agree reasonably well! This increases my confidence in our ability to forecast range shifts. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/n

Next week at #OSM26, I’ll be sharing our (w/ @mridulkthomas.bsky.social) work on a new approach for describing how phytoplankton growth responds to salinity, using a large set of experiments to estimate key traits across species. See you at poster OB14B-0481 on Monday!

First time doing field work in 8 years 😵‍💫 Local newspaper reported lots of dead fish floating around Lomma harbor. Lack of oxygen is the likely explanation, but is it the cold weather/stagnant water or perhaps something microscopic? Looking forward to analyzing samples next week in the lab.

Phytoplankton empiricists: anyone have a good protocol (or reference) for treating fungal contamination in stock cultures without re-isolating? 2026 continues bringing all the icks...

Happy to see our analysis on scaling up temperature x nutrient interactions from populations to communities published in Ecological Monographs @esajournals.bsky.social! 📈

Hey #microbialsky - anyone looking for a good PhD student this cycle? Ugrad from my lab is looking but no luck with the PIs she has contacted (no funding, no response). She worked in my lab for 1.5 years, now is a research tech at the FWC research institute. Excellent at the bench & super smart!

Has ICHA 2025 left you inspired? Journal of Plankton Research is seeking submissions for an upcoming special issue exploring harmful algae dynamics in both marine and freshwater systems. Submit your next paper with us: oxford.ly/48FyrpP

@raviranjan.bsky.social & I are teaching a free online workshop with on experimental design for environmental scientists on the 23rd. We'll focus on using simulations to evaluate how well different experimental designs help achieve your goals. Please sign up & share! forms.gle/MZTxeQs4UpMr...

📣 We are excited to share our latest paper, led by @taliashaler.bsky.social! We explore the transcriptional basis of #microalgae resistance to #viral_infection and identified a core group of resistance-related genes. >> (1/3) #New_Phytologist #Marine_Biology #Viruses

What could be more exciting than watching Euplotes scurry around under the microscope? How about adding some raptorial predation by supergiant cannibal cells? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Video by Vittorio Boscaro. 1/n

#PhD Scholarship in #marine #fish habitats in Denmark ...at DTU Aqua with a very good colleague of mine. #jobalert efzu.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Sequestration by the biological carbon pump: Do we really know what we are talking about? aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #jcampubs 🌊

We have a postdoc opening for a protistologist with biophysics inclinations to join our @hfspo.bsky.social project! (focus will be on characterising the morphology, ultrastructure and behaviour of excavates) #protistsonsky Apply by Sept 17th (RTs appreciated!) jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

🌊Curious how multi-nutrient scarcity impacts marine microbes🦠? Excited to announce our #OSM26 session, Glasgow Feb 22-27! Join us in bridging cell biology, modelling & oceanography! tinyurl.com/zzt5s9su @exetermarine.bsky.social @thembauk.bsky.social @proteocean.bsky.social @cmarkmoore.bsky.social

Still debating attendance? Check out the amazing souvenir mugs that our lab technician, Julian Jacobs, has made for the occasion! #TraitBasedApproaches #Traits2025

Trying to develop predictive theory for how biology works in the ocean? Interested in unifying traits? Keen to hang out in a beautiful place with amazing people? Consider joining us in a couple of weeks at the 7th #TraitBasedApproaches workshop in Asilomar! carnegiescience.edu/seventh-trai...

In our study on Prymnesium parvum, we found that low salinity inhibits prymnesin production, while slower growth leads to higher cellular toxin quotas. Intraspecific differences may help explain bloom success across environments. #openaccess in Harmful Algae www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our latest paper on predator-induced defense is now out in Harmful Algae. We show that Pseudo-nitzschia seriata induced to produce more domoic acid grow slower and, because of increased cellular N, produce less cells as nutrients become depleted. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

✨ The Bernhardt Lab at the University of Guelph is recruiting graduate students for 2026! Join us! We have several fully funded grad positions available ✨ Please spread the word! www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us #CSEE2025

Are you interested in how diatoms communicate with each other? Exciting post-doc position available in my lab to study the signalling mechanisms of cell-cell communication in diatoms. Deadline 14th July. @kehelliwell.bsky.social @thembauk.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNO210/p...

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

A modular, open source Scanning Particle Image Velocimetry system for spatial mapping of flow, oxygen concentration and boundary layers around aquatic organisms/samples. Great collaborative work headed by @pacherres-co.bsky.social @moorefound.bsky.social @villumscience.bsky.social @MSCActions

Take a look at our new article where we present a system to spatially map oxygen and flow fields around corals and algae 🪸 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Thanks to @microsensing.bsky.social @MSCActions @villumscience.bsky.social

Sand is not just sand when you are a #sandeel. Read about one of our studies that came out last year in JEMBE. #fish #teamfish @elsevierconnect.bsky.social www.aqua.dtu.dk/english/news...

The footage of bottom trawling alone makes the film worth watching. Let’s hope this destructive method of killing ocean creatures is outlawed soon.

Another position within the PHYVIR project 😁. Are you looking for an interesting Postdoc (45 month!) on marine viral ecology? Check out the ad below. workingat.nioz.nl/o/postdoc-po...

We wrote a 'quick guide' on the diatom–copepod arms race. Published today in @currentbiology.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

🚨 3-year Postdoc Opportunity! Join me and the Aquatic Ecosystem Analysis group @UniKoblenz. 🔬 Microbial #ecology, #protist predation, #algae #plankton & flexibility | 💻 Environmental -omics | 🌊 Rivers 📅 Apply by May 15 | 🔗 kennethdumack.de | tinyurl.com/dumack Please share! #MicroSky #ProtistsOnSky

We offer a 5-year research position in the #PlanktonEcology lab in Wilhelmshaven. Are you interested in empirically testing ecological concepts? We offer a stimulating scientific environment, experimental facilities & support to establish an independent research profile uol.de/en/job/postd...

Come and talk Baltic Sea nitrogen with us in Uppsala May 13-15, a workshop hosted by the Baltic Sea Nitrogen Cycling Network balticnitrogen.com for registration please visit: www.slu.se/en/ew-calend... listen to talks and mingle around posters, and exchange ideas on what’s needed in the future.

@icbm-uol.bsky.social offers a fully funded professorship in theoretical oceanography. Join a great team of physicists, chemists, and biologists working on the marine environment. Oldenburg is a truly livable city and connected to a range of marine institutes in NW Germany uol.de/en/job/w2-pr...

A new PhD position available on marine phytoplankton host - virus interactions as part of a larger project. Interested? We are looking forward to your application 😃 workingat.nioz.nl/o/phd-positi...

Global distribution, quantification and valuation of the biological carbon pump www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs 🌊

Delighted to see our work on #diatom motility published in @pnas.org !🎉 doi.org/10.1073/pnas... These abundant single-celled algae are responsible for a significant portion of the air we breathe yet often overlooked. Here we show how how diatom (raphe) shape impacts their gliding function... 1/3