Day 3 Diadema NSF kickoff. Today we tested out transect approaches and new high resolution visual transects on our second site on the western end of Brewers Bay. This afforded us the opportunity to sample additional Diadema at a second site. So many of them! Very encouraging to see!

@aquaticmicrolab.bsky.social @drchriskellogg.bsky.social @viromegirl.bsky.social and Prof Marilyn Brandt

Day 2 of Diadema kickoff. Today was all about Diadema itself (cf environmental parameters). We were excited to see so many apparently healthy animals in shallow water! We also set up an experiment to examine microbial participation in echinoderm tissue decay. Such a great start to this time series!

Another great day working from University of the Virgin Islands - saw an octopus & a spotted eagle ray!

Day 1 of NSF sponsored Diadema antillarum scuticociliatosis time series in Brewers Bay, St Thomas, USVI with @drchriskellogg.bsky.social @viromegirl.bsky.social @aquaticmicrolab.bsky.social and Prof Marilyn Brandt at UVI. After months of planning it was time to figure out what makes sense from

Delighted to be back in my home town of St. Thomas, USVI, working with a super talented team of folks from Cornell, USF, Northern Illinois University, and UVI on the sea urchin mass mortality agent!

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Happy International Microorganism Day, to my whole beautiful community! 🧫🔬🧪

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Say this to yourself: Nobody else in the world is making work like mine. I’ve worked hard to create something unique, beautiful, and original, and I should be rewarded for that

Very nice writeup on someone I've admired and learned from for many years. I didn't know he had passed until catching up on This Week in Microbiology driving to campus this morning. His 1958 paper on Salmonella growth rates basically founded the formal study of microbial physiology, which...

Reminder about today’s deep-sea coral livestream, 2pm central/3pm eastern #MDBC www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS3X...

Impacts include marine stations, disrupting the work of 600 scientists, lost access to €30-50,000 research funding, and "Several online tools dedicated to research, expertise, libraries and collection consultation" 📜

Tributes come in many forms 🖤

At the ASM Applied & Environmental Microbiology Meeting at #ASMicrobe 2026, discover how microbes power sustainability and resilience across our planet. This meeting is your hub for microbial solutions that shape a sustainable future. Discover more: asm.social/2A8

Livestreams scheduled for this deep-sea expedition: Remotely Operated Vehicles Tuesday Sept 9 1pm central/2pm eastern www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkhB... Deep Sea Corals Thurs Sept 11 2pm central/3pm eastern www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS3X... These are public broadcasts, feel free to share with anyone

Looking forward to working with the UNCW Undersea Vehicles Program’s Mohawk ROV for sampling

Labor Day may be the end of summer for some, but my summer field season isn’t over yet! Heading out into the Gulf to study deep-sea corals!

Register now and let’s talk about coral research in the desert, art & science, and science communication!

This sort of thing is a big deal. Professional societies & orgs have every incentive to be bipartisan, outside typical political fray, but advocating for their members and success of their field in a local, specific way. Calling for a resignation of a cabinet member is a brave and risky stance.

How microbial therapies are reshaping coral reef restoration? 'Fungi and Fungi-Like Entities' chapter of 'Coral Reef Microbiome' explores the science behind microbial-based interventions to combat coral bleaching and ecosystem degradation. bit.ly/472kO39 @cpogoreutz.bsky.social

JOB OPPORTUNITIES! Curator and Researcher in Marine Ichthyology and Marine Invertebrates (Ocean Museum Germany) www.deutsches-meeresmuseum.de/en/foundatio... #jobs #marineinvertebrates #ichthyology #coral #careers #marinescience #marinejobs #museum #germany #reeffish #marinebiology

I much prefer doing my research amidst the flickering lanterns of an old-fashioned library in Prague during a raging thunderstorm with the help of a library ghost, so no, I'm afraid I have no interest in "asking ChatGPT."

Delighted to be spending the week in Ft Pierce at Smithsonian Marine Station running a coral disease experiment

My alma mater is hiring a microbiologist! Assistant/Associate Prof. 👇👇

Oh no! 😢

🚨🚨We’re hiring a postdoc!🚨🚨 Min two year contract; start in 2026 (flexible) & contribute to this project focused on understanding the link between bleaching recovery and disease in cnidarians!! Opportunities to work on side projects too! Deadline Nov 1! Info here: tinyurl.com/y2abjsem

Teen figures out that that smoke detector at school is actually surveillance device www.wired.com/story/school...

Requiring grant review by political appointees will continue to delay and disrupt critical research and interferes with scientists’ ability to help protect the nation’s health and security. Read our statement: asm.org/press-releas...

New #bioinformatics Scientist opening at @officialatcc.bsky.social ! Love #genomics? Want to help build a digital biology future? We're sequencing our entire collection 😱 Our focus? Authenticated Reference Data. Digital Standards. Reproducibility. Join us! careers-atcc.icims.com/jobs/4000/sc...

#MicrobialEnthusiasts: when I teach micro, I hand out 3D printed glow in the dark tags. Each student has a #MicrobialPal to write about. This fall (my LAST time teaching here), I have 20 not 16 students. So PLEASE suggest additional candidates so I can really impress my new #Micronauts?? Please RT?

From bench to big boss: mitigating the widening gap between PI and lab Laboratory dynamics can change as the age and experience of the principal investigator increase. But there are ways to combat this. Read our piece in Nature, with @sprekeler.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Do you love phage? I have an opening for a postdoc in my lab at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science (@cmarinescience.bsky.social) looking at interactions between marine phage and iron, which is an important limiting trace metal in the oceans (1/5) 🧵#phagesky 🦠🌊

A bunch of corals & other stuff. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 817 #MarDelPlataCanyon #MarineLife

I'm seeing lots of these stories and they ALL need to be sent to members of the appropriations committee. Many of these members have been asking good questions in hearings, and some GOP members have signaled clear support for NIH www.appropriations.senate.gov/about/members

4% payline demoralizing for reviewers - review 9 grants each taking 3-4hrs (total reviewed by all is 90) flying to DC, a hotel conference room to discuss the top half of grants (45) 15 min each, 3x a year for 4 yrs. Paid $300. 4% = maybe 3/90, 0-1 that you reviewed funded. I couldn’t.

Ok sorry sorry I'll start talking about pride and prejudice again. We are all Elizabeth Bennet and Open AI and Meta and Google are competing to see who can create the most powerful ChatGeorgeWickham, who can run up debts and ruin the place while talking so good

Imagine if LLMs came out with a "not sure, but here's my best guess? You should verify this information" we would have stopped hearing about them instantly. You know like how we ignore scientists

Half Moon Bay, California USA #photography #streetart #octopus #mural #oceanlife #oceanart

In the documentary, I mention that the first experimental deep-sea mining site just barely missed dredging up the world's largest cold water coral reef. Here's my write up of that discovery: www.southernfriedscience.com/the-worlds-l...

When The Muppets pay tribute to Ozzy’s passing you know he transcended all pop culture.

I AM SHRIEKING 💀🤣 Forget the statue at City Hall, this guy is the *real* Spirit of Detroit. 🫡

New at PLOS SciComm by Abigail Eisenstadt and Matt Shipman (@shiplives.bsky.social) Research Is Being Undermined — What Does That Mean for Science Writers at Research Institutions? scicomm.plos.org/2025/07/21/r...

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A comment I wrote for you is now online at @natcomms.nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Oh, oh, it says "time travel will likely remain forever off the table in our universe" with a citation, so read it maybe? (am I doing the click-bait thing right? 🥲).

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