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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution @whoi.edu · 18/03/2026

📣New today: A WHOI-led study uncovers a hidden mix of molecules released by marine phytoplankton, tiny compounds that feed ocean microbes and help power the planet’s carbon cycle. 📲Learn more about this @microbialplanet.bsky.social research: go.whoi.edu/phytoplankton-metabolites

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Erin Maybach @erinmaybach.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Amazing to see how many people have been visiting NCAR/UCAR over the past week— I hadn’t visited since a field trip in primary school, but was prompted to pay a visit during my time at home. The parking lot was packed when I arrived. A lovely reminder of the power of community :)

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Marshall Shepherd @drshepherd2013.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

What's NCAR? and 8 ways it has helped you www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

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Erin Maybach @erinmaybach.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

A little thing that brings me joy is conceptualizing the magnitude of genomic datasets in physical distances— if every nucleotide in my current contigs database were a 1mm bead on a string, that string would stretch from NYC to São Paulo, Brazil! 🤓

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Erin Maybach @erinmaybach.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Wrapping up a great week of science with some light LEGO dehydration synthesis! @microbialplanet.bsky.social @fuuchan20.bsky.social @maksaito.bsky.social

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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

🌊🦠#FieldworkFriday! And that’s a wrap 🎬on C-CoMP Cruise 2 🚢! We (C-CoMP + AE) accomplished an impressive feat - 95 CTD casts, 110,778 L of sw filtered with @clio-thebgcauv.bsky.social, eddy sampling, & 9 exp types across 3 locations - to characterize marine chemical currencies & microbes!

The science personnel of C-CoMP Cruise AE2520 (and Clio) stand together on the stern of the R/V Atlantic Explorer. Parts of the Woods Hole dock and village frame the background of the photo. Photo provided by Elizabeth Kujawinski and edited by Laura Gray.

The science personnel of C-CoMP Cruise AE2520 (and Clio) stand together on the stern of the R/V Atlantic Explorer while making various fun poses. Parts of the Woods Hole dock and village frame the background of the photo. Photo provided by Elizabeth Kujawinski and edited by Laura Gray.

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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

🌊🦠#FieldworkFriday! It’s a carbon feast 🍽️ and microbes🦠are invited! During the March 2025 C-CoMP cruise, early career researchers incubated surface ocean microbial communities on novel carbon sources produced by phytoplankton to study carbon drawdown rate and post-uptake fate.

Claire Garfield and McKenzie Powers filter incubation seawater in the main lab on the R/V Atlantic Explorer during the C-CoMP March 2025 cruise. Lines of tubing pass through the peristaltic pump heads, drape off the lab bench, and terminate in large blue carboys that collect the filtered seawater. Photo by Erin Maybach.

The lab set-up for filtering samples for metatranscriptomics during the incubations on the C-CoMP March 2025 cruise. A series of peristaltic pumps are arranged on the lab bench with tubing passing through. Seawater is pumped up through the tubing from a carboy, passed through a filter holder containing a filter to remove microbial cells, and filtrate is collected in another carboy. Filtering is done in red light to minimize disturbance of photosynthetic cells in samples that were collected at night. Photo by Erin Maybach.

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David Pfau @davidpfau.com · 28/05/2025

The war on science in the US is already having an effect on private sector research like AlphaFold. Bears repeating but the private sector builds on top of things created by academic research for the public good. This hurts everyone.

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Erin Maybach @erinmaybach.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I had the opportunity to share how I apply machine learning concepts in my genomics research at the @lamont.columbia.edu 75th anniversary symposium last week! Being an ECR can be so cool!

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Aiko Voigt @aikovoigt.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Warming stripes on the road to OCP @lamont.columbia.edu, with a question that is now more relevant than ever given the state of climate science in the US today. What is next?

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NASAWATCH @nasawatch.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

NASA Is Terminating The GISS Lease In Five Weeks nasawatch.com/personnel-ne... "NASA’s lease of Columbia University’s Armstrong Hall in New York City, home to the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, will end effective May 31, 2025."

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NASA Is Terminating The GISS Lease In Five Weeks

This was just sent to all NASA Goddard and GISS employees by Makenzie Lystrup

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Erin Maybach @erinmaybach.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I imagine assembling a crummy metagenome is akin to being on Chopped… In your basket you will find: -Short reads from a soil sample sequenced at 0.5 Gb depth -An incomplete reference database -And an annotation tool that hasn’t been updated since 2010. You have 2 CPU-core hours. Good luck.🔥

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Rogier Braakman @rogierbraakman.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Wonderful thread from @erinmaybach.bsky.social on the experience of a (primarily) computational scientist going on their first oceanographic research cruise. Really transporting!

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Erin Maybach @erinmaybach.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

As a primarily computational researcher, one of the most surprising takeaways from my first oceanographic research cruise was just how different ocean regimes feel from one another. I know this might sound obvious to many oceanographers, but for me, it was a major "aha!" moment. 🧵1/8

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Scott Doney @scottdoney.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Scientists & students from C-CoMP are headed to sea today to study ocean microbial dynamics. The research expedition on the R/V Atlantic Explorer is traveling from Bermuda to Woods Hole, MA @microbialplanet.bsky.social ccomp-stc.org

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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

And that's a wrap! Over the past two weeks, C-CoMP researchers braved stormy weather & rough seas to collect precious samples that will offer insights into the chemical-microbial network of the surface ocean 🌊🦠🚢! More photos and stories to come - stay tuned!

C-CoMP researchers pose for a group picture on the bow of the R/V Atlantic Explorer as it approaches Woods Hole. Photo provided by Liz Kujawinski.

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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 07/10/2024

📣#MTTM Graduate student Erin Maybach, a member of the Dyhrman Microbial Oceanography Group at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, investigates how microbial interactions regulate the flux of carbon through the surface ocean using computational and experimental approaches.

A close-up photo of Erin Maybach standing in front of steps and a building. Photo provided by Erin Maybach.

A photo of Erin Maybach rinsing out a bottle with seawater on the deck of a boat during C-CoMP BIOS Research Week in Bermuda. Photo provided by Erin Maybach.

A photo of Erin Maybach working in the lab. Photo provided by Erin Maybach.

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Workshops @evomics.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

We finish the Workshop on Genomics with a great inspirational talk! BIG DATA, by @rayanchikhi.bsky.social! Not every day one has the priviledge to interact with someone that has assembled ALL the sequencing data ever produced!!!! 🤯 #evomics2025 #genomics #bioinformatics

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Workshops @evomics.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Morning lecture with Sonya Dyhrman on Genomics in the Ocean! 🌊🛥🧪🧬💻 Such an inspiring lecture! 🤩 #evomics2025 #bioinformatics #genomics

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