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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial

@blancobercial.bsky.social
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Eukaryotic Plankton Ecology and Evolution | Associate Professor @biosstation.bsky.social @arizonastateuni.bsky.social | ZoopGroup laboratory | Se Habla Español bios.asu.edu/about/team-members/leo…

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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I hear you, @github.com, I hear you
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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Closing the week with the submission for publication of the first chapter of @coocoo4coccos.bsky.social dissertation!! Not a bad way to do it!! (yes yes, I still have to teach, 4 meetings, etc. BUT this is the event of the day... Or maybe of the WEEK!) Josue - two more to go!!!
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Lambros Frantzeskakis @lambrosf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If you’re a graduate student and interested in fungi please apply, this a great opportunity to experience research in an industry setting jobs.bayer.com/job/Chesterf...
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Fungal Discovery & Genomics Co-Op
Fungal Discovery & Genomics Co-Op
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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Last day to submit your #ASLO2027 abstracts!!
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Nicole Coots @nicolecoots.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The International Society of Protistology is funding community initiatives like workshops and symposia! The deadline is soon (09/30) but the funding will also be available next year :-) Send to anyone that might benefit from this/plz retweet! #ProtistsonSky protistologists.org/call-for-app...
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Call for Applications: Community Initiative Support Fund - International Society of Protistologists
The International Society of Protistologists is an association of scientists devoted to research on single-celled eukaryotes, or protists. The ISOP promotes the presentation and discussion of new or i...
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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Submit your abstract to #ASLO2027! Deadline is AGAIN in 3 DAYS! If you work on anything related to plankton optical properties (color, transparency, satellite observations, modeling!!), check our session, we would love to see you there - talks and posters welcome!! Let's go to Puerto Rico!
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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Looking for something to do these last hours of the week (other than checking for new cat videos)? Submit your abstract to #ASLO2027! Deadline in 4 DAYS! If you work on anything related to plankton optical properties, check our session, we would love to see you there - talks and posters welcome!!
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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Our Bermuda lobster fishery model made it to the local press. Glad to see it got the interest of the community around us! www.royalgazette.com/environment/...
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Study puts spotlight on island’s lobster population
A new study could help authorities better anticipate changes affecting the island’s lobster population and support the long-term management of the fishery sector. The collaborative study by the Depart...
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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
First manuscript submission of my PhD student Lauren Kittell-Porter...
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Anetra: I'm Just So Proud
ALT: Anetra: I'm Just So Proud
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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
While we all complain and fear over cuts in funding, others face more serious problems. A colleague from Ukraine incarcerated, already for a year, for supporting backing curbs on Antarctic krill fishing. secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...
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Free Leonid Pshenichnov!
This 70-year-old scientist is in jail for blowing the whistle to protect Antarctica. Sign now to demand his release.
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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
...for proposals with a research and training focus at the Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Biological Sciences to Strengthen and Safeguard Biotechnology Innovations. There goes the free thinking and broad creativity.
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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB) is now open! www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB)
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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Deadline for abstract submission for the #ASLO2027 is in two weeks!! Come to talk about The Color of Plankton!
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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
One of the last days in Spain we met this little guy on the road going home. It was friendly and allowed us to relocate it to the tall grass, away from the tarmac
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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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Bitcoin Lightning Mind Blown
ALT: Bitcoin Lightning Mind Blown
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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The end of summer finally got me
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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Went for a short MTB by myself to check the new bike (without the children). It was too fun!
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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I find it interesting the anti-AI crusade going on nowadays in science, while years ago, when a AI-powered platform came to play into plankton identification using trained (by taxonomists) sets, every non-taxonomist welcomed, cheered, and embraced it (ecotaxa). But the problem is just now?
Where was Gondor when the Westfold fell? Meme
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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
What can the color of plankton tell us? At #ASLO2027 in San Juan, we’re convening SS10: The Color of Plankton 🌊 We welcome studies on color, transparency, fluorescence, & other optical traits, from ecology and evolution to biogeochemistry, imaging and remote sensing. www.aslo.org/san-juan-2027/
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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Last day and hike in Asturias - Water Fairies's Gorge. Beautiful and a touch scary
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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Music concert by @nachovegas.bsky.social
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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The summer in north Spain
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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Go and listen to John!!!
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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I work for BIOS/ASU, but I've been part of @uconn.bsky.social DMS since 2008, first as postdoc, then res. faculty and, once at BIOS, as Adjunct Faculty while collaborating with the now dismantled Bucklin Lab. After 18 years I decided to end my affiliation, ending today. So long, UConn, and thank you
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Bon Courage Good Luck
ALT: Bon Courage Good Luck
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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
🦞 New (our) paper! 🌊🛰️ A simple trophic transfer index predicts spiny lobster fishery dynamics is now online in Comms Earth & Environment. It started with a practical management question: Why has Bermuda's spiny lobster fishery declined so dramatically over the last decade? doi.org/10.1038/s432...
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A simple trophic transfer index predicts spiny lobster fishery dynamics - Communications Earth & Environment
A simple trophodynamic index based on primary productivity and transfer efficiency outperforms models based on climatology, persistence and environmental factors when applied to Bermuda’s population o...
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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
If you know me (personally, I mean), you know I really like cycling. Now that kiddos are old enough, cycling is getting ever better. SO.MUCH.FUN I think I still have a few years being the stronger rider (I am the boost in long climbs for the youngest)... But not many.
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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Today during our bike ride the youngest one did a sudden stop since we were close to running over a... Mole cricket!!! Difficult to see in daylight, I am not sure how this guy got to surface! We relocated it into the tall grass... Good luck out there!
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Benjamin Cook @dustybowl.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
NOAA Climate & Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship applications are now open! cpaess.ucar.edu/cgc/annual-r... I was one about 350 years ago, and cannot not speakly highly enough of this program. Applications due October 16, 2026
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Climate & Global Change Postdoctoral Program Recruitment Announcement | Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System Science (CPAESS)Climate & Global Change Postdoctoral Program Recruitmen...
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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Morning walk in the Huergas Formation region, enjoying some cave exploration, fossils from past oceans, interesting plants (pinecone thistle, a new one for me) and the always impressive wolf spider Hogna radiata.
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IEO Gijón/Xixón @gi.ieo.es · 09/07/2026
Los proyectos de investigación sobre la #CarabelaPortuguesa siguen despertando mucho interés. Aquí una entrevista en la que conocer más detalles sobre los proyecto #PHAST y #PHYSALIA. www.rtpa.es/video:Asturi... @csicdivulga.bsky.social @universidadoviedo.bsky.social @gobasturias.bsky.social
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TPA a la carta: Asturias al día, del miércoles 08 de julio de 2026
=Asturias al día, capítulo del miércoles 08 de julio de 2026
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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Working from Spain, but taking time to cycle around. A heat wave here is more gentle than the regular summer in Bermuda
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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Don't let them take it away from you. Happy Fourth of July
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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Am surprised the SpudCell topic has not blasted here yet. A synthetic cell with a complete cell cycle? And with selection and competition... Pretty interesting. biotic.org/research/spu...
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Biotic | SpudCell
SpudCell and Biotic — announcement and media factsheet.
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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
DEADLINE for Arctic Natural Sciences and Arctic Social Sciences is July 15!! www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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Arctic Research Opportunities
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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 30/06/2026
NEW: The National Science Foundation has been doing everything it can to meet its legal requirements to spend funds while throttling awards going to U.S. Science. grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NSF 🧪
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A Tale of Two Funding Charts – Grant Witness
NSF is spending money faster than it makes awards, but it is not investing in the future of U.S. science.
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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I wish I knew what this little critter was! It seems very happy running up and down this Zoothamnium stalked ciliate. I wonder if it’s a ciliate as well. Does anyone know? #marineplankton 🦑
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Wes Larson @wes-larsonak.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
We're hiring a genetics lab manager position at NOAA in Juneau, Alaska! The successful candidate will oversee day-to-day laboratory operations and contribute to the development of new molecular methods. Salary is $75-145k/yr. Email wes.larson@noaa.gov with questions www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewD...
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Biologist (Omics)
This position is located in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS). Vacancies may be available in each listed location. Additional duty lo...
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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Je Suis #Doku
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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Shingles + cycling = bad combo
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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
This thing about using the human data from pokemon go to train war drones on how to navigate without gps is something...
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That's The Evilest Thing I Can Imagine
ALT: That's The Evilest Thing I Can Imagine
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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
we also have to post the good things... www.nsf.gov/news/nsf-com...
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NSF commits $8B to sustain U.S. scientific presence in Antarctica
The U.S. National Science Foundation announced today it awarded KBR Services LLC (KBR) the Antarctic Science and Engineering Support Contract to provide planning, management and execution support...
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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Shingles is no fun
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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Graduate Fellowship for Ecol & Evol! www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...
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Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution
The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...
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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Told my children in less than one month we will be in Spain. K2 answered "a month is a loooooong time" I wish, kid, I wish
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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Microscopy always gives you some perks once in a while
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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I definitively need holidays
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Julie Meilland @juliemeilland.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
We got our first common paper out #theLifeOfRetaria with @sandinmm.bsky.social , @raphaelmorard.bsky.social, @nicolecoots.bsky.social, @mattgr3co.bsky.social, Nicolaas Glock and Natalia Llopis-Monferrer - first product of our seminar series! check it out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Unifying Retaria Research: A Common Framework for Studying Foraminifera and Radiolaria
Research on Foraminifera and Radiolaria has predominantly focused on their fossil remains. This synthesis identifies the “Big Five” disciplines of a unified Retaria research: diversity and evolution,...
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Nicole Coots @nicolecoots.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
((reposting partially because those are two REALLY cool speakers, so that'll be totally awesome 🤯 but also partially sharing because that dino video is stunning!!!!!! 💕))
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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Reviewing a paper - first pass... Hallucinated reference. Stopped reading - reject.
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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
📣 We are accepting applications for our 2026-2028 Bridge-to-PhD Fellowships! If you are a recent or soon-to-be graduate of a 4 year, accredited university/college and interested in ocean science 🌊, learn more here: ccomp-stc.org/b2p/! Apply by 6/26/2026 and spread the word 🧪
The second cohort of C-CoMP Bridge-to-PhD Fellows stand in front of the R/V Atlantic Explorer on their trip to Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS) for their Research Week Experience. Photo credit: Victoria Centurino, WHOI. Members of the cruise team work together to prepare the CTD rosette for deployment. Photo by Claire Garfield, UGA.
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