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Jed Fuhrman @jedfuhrman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Marine and Environmental scientists, sign on to oppose seabed mining off the Virginia coast, deadline 21 August.

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Mónica Medina @momedinamunoz.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I love this bold assessment of what is happening to science in the US. If you have not been paying attention, maybe this will help you jump into action!! The Assault On Science Funding Continues | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/blog...

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The Assault On Science Funding Continues

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Jed Fuhrman @jedfuhrman.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Beautiful not-too-technical explanation of the Jones-Kellet et al. 2026 PNAS paper on how eukaryotic phytoplankton are sustained by eddies in the North Pacific, written by Dr. Helen Hill cbiomes.org/2026/06/18/s... . The study needed precise absolute abundances, obtained via internal DNA standards

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Stirring the Gyre: How ocean mixing sustains hidden diversity – CBIOMES

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Jed Fuhrman @jedfuhrman.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Amazing study in PNAS by Lexi Jones-Kellett et al. uses phylogenetically resolved absolute abundances of prokaryotic and eukaryotic phytoplankton measured over a closely spaced NE Pacific transect, plus satellite eddy tracking, showing eukaryotes are sustained by eddies www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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The dynamic mesoscale sink and source niches for eukaryotic phytoplankton in a subtropical gyre | PNAS

By tracking the water mass histories of genetic samples, we investigated the biophysical dynamics shaping eukaryotic phytoplankton populations in a...

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Jed Fuhrman @jedfuhrman.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Please re-post across different social media

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

ALRIGHT EVERYONE HERE IS THE OFFICIAL SUFS GUIDE TO LEAVING PUBLIC COMMENTS ON THE OMB-2026-0034 PROPOSED RULE: www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-advocacy/the-sufs-guide-to-writing-public-comments (share with all your friends!)

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The SUFS Guide to Writing Public Comments — Your Site Title

Written by: Cole Donovan, Director of Policy and Advocacy and Colette Delawalla, PhD, CEO

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Jed Fuhrman @jedfuhrman.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

New proposed regulations at OMB would gut U.S. science. All funding decisions would ultimately be made by political appointees who can cancel any grant for any reason, disallows co-authorship with China, forbids payment of publication/open access fees... What to do? fight2win.standupforscience.net

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Stand up for Science

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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 20/05/2026

A Path to Justice — A cartoon by Nick Anderson

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/05/2026

This video on the rise of Russ Vought is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, most of which have not been previously reported.

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Russell Vought: The Shadow President

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Ella Sieradzki @sieravirus.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Deadline is April 20th! Let’s get those viruses

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Jed Fuhrman @jedfuhrman.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Want to convert old relative abundance ocean amplicon data into absolute abundances? Williams et al. show a flow cytometry "anchor" can provide reasonable absolute abundances, validated by internal-standard corrected metagenomics with single copy genes, and amplicons academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

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Converting Relative Amplicon Abundances to Absolute Abundances via Flow Cytometry: Metagenomic Validation and Application to Long Ocean Transects

Abstract. With microbes critical for ocean ecological and biogeochemical processes, we need to understand their abundance and diversity distributions. Whil

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Miriam Cosic @miriamcosic.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

This 1990 speech by Carl Sagan is timely times two: #war #climate

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Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry (OCB) @usocb.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Are you using DNA #metabarcoding to analyze marine microbial community composition? Apply to participate in a new intercalibration activity! Read more about this effort and apply to participate by March 31: www.us-ocb.org/metabarcodin... (scroll down to "Join Us") @biogeoscapes.bsky.social 🌊

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David Kirchman @microbe700.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

"the top 25 list..is dominated by facilities in Turkmenistan...Super-polluting plumes were also seen in the US, the largest detected in 2025 occurring in Texas.. Venezuela (five) and Iran (three) also had multiple mega-leaks. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Revealed: the world’s worst mega-leaks of methane driving global heating

Exclusive: Fixing a leak can be simple and equivalent to closing a coal power station, making lack of action maddening, say analysts

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 26/12/2025

Today on Volts: you've probably heard that Australia has cheap rooftop solar power. You've probably also heard some rumors & myths about it. (Is it destabilizing the grid?) I called my favorite Australian energy expert to clear it all up. This is a fun one! www.volts.wtf/p/whats-the-...

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What's the real story with Australian rooftop solar?

Saul Griffith joins me to debunk the myths surrounding Australia's massive influx of solar energy.

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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

This is really cool and important.

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Monir Moniruzzaman @giantvirus.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Our work in collaboration with @jedfuhrman.bsky.social lab on the temporal dynamics of marine giant viruses published in ISME communications. PhD student Benjamin Minch is a co-first author. Please take a look! academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

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Validate User

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

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Jed Fuhrman @jedfuhrman.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Just out: metagenomics with internal standards yields phylogenetically resolved genome ("~cell") counts of bacteria, archaea, and photosynthetic eukaryotes per L of seawater, over the AMT29 Atlantic transect, via "single copy" genes (recA, radA, psbO). Compares with microscopy and flow cytometry.

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Jesse McNichol @jcmcnch.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

For a handy summary of what GRUMP is, feel free to view and share the following presentation from the CBIOMES 2025 annual meeting: slides.com/jcmcnch/cbio...

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GRUMP Presentation 2025

CBIOMES 2025, GRUMP

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Carlos Moffat @carlosmoffat.com · 25/07/2025

More than 100 scientists who work in Antarctica or care about having a strong U.S. research presence there have signed a letter calling for the U.S. to keep the Palmer in operation. (4/n)

We write as deeply concerned members of the Antarctic research community after learning of the plan, by the National Science Foundation, to terminate the lease of the Research Vessel/ IceBreaker Nathaniel B.
Palmer in October of this year.

The United States Antarctic Program has had at least one dedicated research vessel operating in the Southern Ocean since 1968.
For those nearly six decades, the N.B.
Palmer and its predecessors have supported world-class science that helped grow the U.S.'s standing as a leader of international scientific research. At the same time, these vessels have provided critical logistical support for the U.S. Antarctic scientific bases. Even as automation and remote observations have increased our
observational capabilities in this harsh region of the world, there's no replacement for a dedicated research vessel that can access remote sea ice-covered regions of Antarctica and that allows sampling of the

of the world, there's no replacement for a dedicated research vessel that can access remote sea ice-covered regions of Antarctica and that allows sampling of the full depth of the ocean and coastal regions on land.
The early loss of the N.B. Palmer is troubling, especially at a time when other nations, including China, Korea, Japan, Britain, and Australia, among others, are increasing their marine capability for Antarctic waters. This decision forecasts the decline of an exceptional history of U.S. scientific contributions. Maintaining a continued US ship-based presence also has strong, strategic and national security geopolitical implications. Antarctica remains a model for international cooperation and peace, with all activities, marine and terrestrial, south of 60°S governed by the 1959 Antarctic Treaty. The treaty, signed by 58 nations, committed all parties to a civilian presence guiding scientific investigation of this remote
and fragile part of the world Today many

Treaty. The treaty, signed by 58 nations, committed all parties to a civilian presence guiding scientific investigation of this remote and fragile part of the world. Today, many nations operate research stations and vessels in the Antarctic. While Antarctica remains remote and a difficult place to access, the modern world allows easier access each year and the number of groups there grows each year, for research, for tourism, for exploitation of fishery stocks, and simply for exerting national presence.

We urge reconsideration of the decision to terminate the lease of the RVIB Nathaniel B.
Palmer, and the continued forward-looking development of the next generation of Antarctic research vessels that will continue US leadership, scientifically and
geopolitically, in the high southern latitudes.

Sincerely,

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Jed Fuhrman @jedfuhrman.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Please Re-Post. Our global GRUMP microbial ocean database is out in Scientific Data! Unfractionated, single universal PCR, with Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukaryotes all on the same scale with the same denominator. Pole to pole, depths to 6000m. Lots of metadata. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Characterizing organisms from three domains of life with universal primers from throughout the global ocean - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - Characterizing organisms from three domains of life with universal primers from throughout the global ocean

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Jed Fuhrman @jedfuhrman.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Out in Science! Zakem et al. mechanistically modeled global marine prokaryotic functional diversity, grounded with field data. Shifts in community composition drive respiration and thus biological C storage. This facilitates C cycle projections in a warming ocean www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Functional biogeography of marine microbial heterotrophs

Heterotrophic bacteria and archaea (“heteroprokaryotes”) drive global carbon cycling, but how to quantitatively organize their functional complexity remains unclear. We generated a global-scale unders...

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years. 1/n

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Jed Fuhrman @jedfuhrman.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Just out - The first global ocean 3-Domain microbial survey where all organisms can be directly compared quantitatively. Unfractionated and amplified from just 2 primers (vetted with mock communities and metagenomics), so all with the same denominator. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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Mya Breitbart @viromegirl.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Colleagues at federal science agencies are receiving these “deferred resignation” emails - essentially comply or resign choices 🧪 - www.opm.gov/fork

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Curtis Suttle @virosphere.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Registration and Abstract submission is open for Aquatic Virus Workshop 12 😍 - avw12.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag.... AVW is THE meeting for those exploring viruses infecting little things in water; it will fill up fast. So, register now and come to Banyuls-sur-Mer, a jewel on the Mediterranean.

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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Check out our updated database of 189 PhD fellowships and funding opportunities. For each fellowship, we provide a description, $ amount, deadline, link to funder and eligibility criteria (such as citizenship). Good luck! Download freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

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Jack A Gilbert @gilbertjacka.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

🌍 Just published in 14+ journals! AMI & global leaders call for microbial solutions to tackle climate change. Let’s harness nature’s power to capture carbon & restore ecosystems—time to act! 🧬🌱 #ClimateAction #MicrobialSolutions #COP29Baku academic.oup.com/sumbio/artic...

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