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Anta-Clarisse Sarr @antacl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

1 year job at @climatecerege.bsky.social for someone with a master degree (no PhD) and skills in micropaleontoly ⬇️

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Julie Meilland @juliemeilland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I absolutely adore Forams but let’s be honest - they don’t do that! (Video - don’t blink)

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

On the artist of the iconic sketch of Globigerina: J.J.W. Article in free access for 50 days at authors.elsevier.com/a/1nPdH56A9x... #protistsonsky

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Julie Meilland @juliemeilland.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Another Retaria day, remember to sign up for the seminar series “The Life of Retaria”! thelifeofretaria.github.io/index.html

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Julie Meilland @juliemeilland.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The image speaks by itself - hands down the best job in the world! @exoceanlab.bsky.social

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Tom Chalk @chalkyoceans.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Great to see more work from our culturing seasons in the Arctic twin to @juliemeilland.bsky.social and my @chalkyoceans.bsky.social Mediterranean culturing space, housed in the @exoceanlab.bsky.social at @climatecerege.bsky.social.

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Julie Meilland @juliemeilland.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

🚨PhD alert 🚨 together with @tbiard.bsky.social and myself, based mostly in Wimereux with multiple stay in the beautiful @exoceanlab.bsky.social and focused on planktonic rhizarians C export and respiration. Get in touch!

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Julie Meilland @juliemeilland.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Burning to learn more about marine protists as an early career?! This is for you! Apply and join one week of fantastic field-based summer school

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Julie Meilland @juliemeilland.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

In the changes to the 2026 and 27 @erc.europa.eu Work Programmes one can find : applicants who have been victims of gender-based violence or any other kind of violence will be able to obtain an extension of the period following their PhD to apply for Stg and Cons. Grants. Thousand claps! 👏👏👏👏

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exoCean Laboratory @exoceanlab.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

#exocean advent calendar day 24! Today we thought it was a good fit to show an image/talk about “conception”… One of the thing we (try to) do best at ExoCean is planktonic foraminifera reproduction. Here two immaculate mummies… 😏 We would like to wish you all a beautiful Christmas Eve!

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exoCean Laboratory @exoceanlab.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

#exoCeanadvent Day 23: at exoCean we also look at some old questions: in the late 1800s, during the HMS Challenger expedition, they discovered that you can have a constant rain of shells from above, and still end up with a seafloor that looks like the carbonate budget never existed. Why? Pressure. 🌊

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exoCean Laboratory @exoceanlab.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

#exoCeanadvent Day 22: Winding down for the holidays often means one thing... more mass spectrometry time is available! With our friends in @cerege.bsky.social's #ENVITOP facility, we're making use! Thanks to their equipment we're working on measuring elemental compositions down to the nano-gramme!

Postdoc Matthieu Buisson loads samples into the rack ready for elemental analysis.

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exoCean Laboratory @exoceanlab.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

#exocean advent calendar Day 21! The strongest link between all of us is our love for the ocean. Leaving Marseille with a magnificent sunrise reminds us each time we go out how lucky we are to do what we love for a living! We already have our ship time for the first 6 months of 2026 - exciting!

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exoCean Laboratory @exoceanlab.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

And...you. 🫵🏼! If you want to come work with us then get in touch. Message us here, or head to the website in our profile details. 'Tis the season*. *Of @cnrs.fr applications, good luck to everyone who is applying!

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mariah carey is wearing a santa suit and smiling .

Alt: mariah carey is wearing a santa suit and smiling. All we want for Xmas (and other denominated vacations) is you to come and do some cool science with us.

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exoCean Laboratory @exoceanlab.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

#exoCeanadvent Day 19: Friday edition: today’s post is about the peacocks at CEREGE, because it’s Friday and our brains are in weekend mode. They wander around like they own the campus, scream for no reason, and block paths with absolute confidence. Honestly, goals. 🦚

we love peacocks so much they follow us in our offices

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exoCean Laboratory @exoceanlab.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

#exoCeanadvent Day 18: looking for a good read waiting for Santa? 🌊 Try marine carbon removal: @sulpis.bsky.social co-chaired the working group behind the @emarineboard.bsky.social MRV brief, because “trust me bro” isn’t a monitoring protocol. Emissions cuts first; then *maybe* carbon removal.

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exoCean Laboratory @exoceanlab.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

#exoCeanadvent Day 14 Footprint reduction: we do lab-based ocean science because we genuinely love it, but also because lab experiments can replace lots of field trips. More control, more insight, and in part, fewer emissions. Bonus: dissolving old sediment cores neutralizes a bit of CO2. 😇

Sometimes you can replace a boat trip with a car trip, ever wondered how much ocean you can get into a Golf?

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exoCean Laboratory @exoceanlab.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

#exoCeanadvent Day 10: As winter creeps into Provence we remember warmer days from our fieldwork in Bermuda. We stayed with the lovely folk at @biosstation.bsky.social, like @blancobercial.bsky.social who helped us to look for different foraminifera to catch, than our usual Mediterranean stuff.

Tom and Julie went out a few days ahead of the rest of the team to do a last minute check that all the islands and beaches and bars existed.

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exoCean Laboratory @exoceanlab.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

#exoCeanadvent Day 9: Meet Maxime (again). At @exoceanlab.bsky.social and @climatecerege.bsky.social Maxime has been conducting several experiments focusing on the culture of marine organisms. One project involved culturing foraminifera in the presence of olivine (Mg,Fe)2SiO4, an igneous mineral.

Don't eat that! A large foraminifera trying to eat grains of olivine. It soon realised that they weren't food, but had no problems afterwards, so... not poison!

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exoCean Laboratory @exoceanlab.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

#exoCeanadvent Day 8: Meet Katoo Declerk's Erasmus+ work. During her internship Katoo is investigating recently dead foraminifera (handily available in our lab!) Forams typically sink to the ocean floor soon after death, but partial or total dissolution can occur before getting there.

A foram carefully lined up beneath the microscope, ready for investigation. 📷 K. Declerk

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exoCean Laboratory @exoceanlab.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

#exocean advent calendar Day 7! We are lucky to be based in a pine forest, in Southern France, which means loads of possible walks to discuss science in a wonderful environment. We also like to run together - as we did Friday to finish the week!

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exoCean Laboratory @exoceanlab.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

#exoCeanadvent Day 6: To study the deepest ocean trenches, we’re building reactors that make our lab behave like the deep ocean. Funded by @erc.europa.eu #Deep-C, they will hold cold seawater at ~1000 bar (10km water) so we* watch pressure shape chemistry and biology 🔬🌊 *mostly @sulpis.bsky.social

Schematic of the Deep-C high-pressure reactor and in situ sensors.

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exoCean Laboratory @exoceanlab.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

#exoCeanadvent Day 4: Why did we set up this lab? Part I. What is going to happen to climate as CO2 levels go up? @chalkyoceans.bsky.social and @erc.europa.eu project #ForCry look at CO2 in the past to better understand climate sensitivity. Part of this is making better past CO2 reconstructions.

A schematic graph showing global temperature, plotted against CO2. We know CO2 increases temperature, but the how far and how fast are still not totally constrained. Tipping points, or sensitivity changes could impact this relationship in the future, and may have done in the past.

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exoCean Laboratory @exoceanlab.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Day 2 of #exoCeanadvent: Come with us to sea (you can also be a land based participant). As an 'inland' ocean lab, we don't quite have the sea on our doorstep, but that doesn't mean we can't bring it to us! We're based just 30–60 minutes from boats out of Marseille and Toulon.

A plankton net (think large wind sock) hangs from the back of a boat. We use these to conduct surveys of the ecosystem and bring back live plankton to the lab.

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Julie Meilland @juliemeilland.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

I was awarded the Alan Higgins Award by @micropalaeosoc.bsky.social for my work on planktonic foraminifera reproduction and culture. I feel very honored and can only thank all the great colleagues who supported me along the way in Norway, Ireland, the UK, Germany and France!

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Julie Meilland @juliemeilland.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Slowly but surely the lab we had in our heads with @sulpis.bsky.social and @chalkyoceans.bsky.social is coming to life. High pressure incubators are about to come, more microscopy equipments… Such a nice adventure has started!

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Tom Chalk @chalkyoceans.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Come work in our lab! All the usual awesome things apply about doing exciting science, plus this one might save the world! @sulpis.bsky.social hiring a 2 year position to observe and model deep ocean processes using high-pressure reactors. *Goes to gather a bunch of forams to be dissolved* 😅

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Julie Meilland @juliemeilland.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

End of June was particularly warm in southern France and the Mediterranean Sea experienced very high temperatures (28 degree Celsius?!). We were lucky enough to have ship time and sample days later. Today we’re going through the samples - full of truncs! @exoceanlab.bsky.social

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Julie Meilland @juliemeilland.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

If you have interesting science to share on ocean ecosystems sensibility &/or OA etc, consider submitting it to the upcoming collection « Ocean Ecosystem Services and Sustainable Development Goals » of the new Springer Nature journal Ocean Ecosystem! bit.ly/3FzQH7E @bmc.springernature.com

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Julie Meilland @juliemeilland.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Great week of scientific talks at the ICOP/ISOP 2025 in Korea and some nice work done with @raphaelmorard.bsky.social, Mattia Greco, @sandinmm.bsky.social, Nicolaas Glock and co.!

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Julie Meilland @juliemeilland.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

«You can’t have it all» they said. After weeks of field work in Bermuda, partly with my little one and significant other, thanks to the support of the amazing @chalkyoceans.bsky.social… I feel very optimistic that it is possible. Keep going! There’s room for science and tiny humans in our lives 💪🏼

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Look at this beauty! freshly fished out of the Sargasso Sea and imaged at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences with @chalkyoceans.bsky.social @juliemeilland.bsky.social and others 🧪🌊⚒️

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Julie Meilland @juliemeilland.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

With the « Life of Retaria » we do podcasts! Listen to the first one during which we interviewed @fabnot.bsky.social #protistsonsky

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Julie Meilland @juliemeilland.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Excited to have hundreds of baby Forams in the lab after the first towing - different species - different behaviors! @exoceanlab.bsky.social @chalkyoceans.bsky.social

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exoCean Laboratory @exoceanlab.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

🚨Hello world!🚨We'd like to introduce you to our new laboratory for "experimental ocean science", ExoCean (C is for carbon). We are three researchers teaming up to work on culturing, dissolving, & measuring marine samples. @juliemeilland.bsky.social, @sulpis.bsky.social & @chalkyoceans.bsky.social.

Three scientists standing in front of their new lab. From left to right: Tom Chalk, Olivier Sulpis and Julie Meilland.

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Julie Meilland @juliemeilland.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Interested in doing a PhD with living planktonic foraminifera? Come work with us! Check our PhD subject and get in touch! @tdegaridel.bsky.social

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Julie Meilland @juliemeilland.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Thrilled to announce that I officially started my new job as a @cnrs.bsky.social researcher in the @climatecerege.bsky.social, France. I am very thankful for the support I received for my project. Amazing views of Provence and a running lab, already with living forams to play with - what else?!

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MARUM @marumunibremen.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Not all adaptation strategies to #climatechange will be sufficient for planktonic #foraminifera to survive, an international team of researchers with #MARUM participation comes to this conclusion in the scientific journal @nature.com ➡️ www.marum.de/en/Climate-c... @juliemeilland.bsky.social

Planktonic foraminifera are tiny marine organisms that are important for the marine ecosystem. In response to the increasing warming and acidification of the oceans, they are migrating deeper into the sea to preserve their populations. Photo: Sonia Chaabane & Julien Sulpis

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