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USF College of Marine Science @cmarinescience.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In this episode, Assistant Prof.@margaretbrisbin.bsky.social Margaret Mars Brisbin explores the hidden world of marine microbes. From storm-driven flooding to the long-term effects of changing ocean conditions, learn how these communities support marine ecosystems. shows.acast.com/the-rising-t...

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In a little over a week, Yao Fu & I are taking the 1st year cohort on a research cruise as part of our core bio and phys oce graduate courses We are excited to provide a meaningful learning experience and collect new data on frontal systems! Any advice from others who have led learning cruises?🚢🌊

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Loved this NYT article abt @couchmicroscopy.bsky.social and @burnsajohn.bsky.social discovering new Paulinella species (in Journal of Phycology!). Cool science, good reporting, & reminded me of past fun hotel labs ❤️🤓🦠🌊 What was your best nontraditional lab? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/s...

Brisbin lab grad student Lilianna Giuffrida filtering seawater in our makeshift airbnb lab in Puerto Rico - hoping to discover factors driving bioluminescence in Vieques BioBays

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A lab that runs together, stays together? Running a local race as a science team is maybe my favorite thing. We roped in one the other first years in my biological oceanography class too :) 🌊❤️🤓🦠

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Truly exciting week for the newest student in our lab, Emmaline Miller! - she is off and running with starter cultures for a new experiment testing if bacterial b12 producers can “share” the resource with one phytoplankton taxa but not another? Stay tuned!!! 🌊🦠🤓😍

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Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography @aslo.org · 21/09/2026

Last call for abstracts for the 2027 Aquatic Sciences Meeting! Join the global aquatic sciences community and be part of the conversation at #ASLO27 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Abstracts accepted through 11:59 pm ET 21 September 2026. Register and submit an abstract here: www.aslo.org/san-juan-2027/

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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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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Feeling this today! There is a chill in the air and I’m so sad!

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

ASLO Meeting Abstract deadline extended until September 21! Consider joining our session on bioluminescence, dinoflagellates, ecotourism, and conservation! #oceanography 🌊

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I was happy to see this bc I was basically planning for it. Now I'll start writing my abstract :) All conferences I attended recently extended the deadline-likely bc evryone submits an hour before due, conference organizers panic over low enrollment & extend, perpetuating the problem 🌊 #oceanography

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Saw this in Athens, GA, and just so much yes! People would be so much happier if they biked instead of driving. Happier people are nicer. Imagine if people were nice and considerate to eachother? Bikes can solve everything :) #theBikeIsTheNew42

Sign that says the bike is the answer, spotted in Athens GA

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My younger dog is named Ruby, which means any R word is fair game for a nickname. Today, I didn’t even think about it and called her “my little riboswitch”. 😬🤓🐶 #dogsky #sciencesky

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Liz Hearn @liz-hearn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If you care about Earth science in the US, please sign up for the NSF GEO virtual office hour Sept 15 with GEO directorate head Joydip Kundu! NSF leadership needs to hear directly that people care and are concerned about GEO. Maxxing out their Zoom tier sends a message. www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-g...

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NSF GEO Virtual Office Hour: Updates from the NSF Directorate for Geosciences

Join directorate leadership for updates and information.

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Wow. Tough day, already a tough week. Dragged myself to hot yoga in a mega lightning storm and we all came out of class to the most perfect full sky double rainbow 🌈 must be a good sign right?

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

DAY 450 SPECIES 450 - Phaeocystis pouchetii STAGE: Protists MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR Watercolor, Sakura pen P. pouchetii is a single celled marine haptophyte that forms floating colonies in cold arctic waters #sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A whole poem on the seminar I gave on acantharians at UGA today!! 🌊 🤓

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It’s a special kind of Sunday scaries the night before the semester starts! Good bye sweet (incredibly, out of control, overwhelmingly busy) summer! Hello new semester teaching a core class that I decided to completely revamp (…again)! #subdayscaries #semesterscaries #oceanography 🌊😭😩

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The Kriller Queens (our female led Antarctic research team) reunited this week to synthesize data, present results, plan papers, and write a new proposal (and a Pisco birthday toast!) Work isn’t work with good colleagues and fascinating science questions! #oceanography #nsfunded #polarscience 🌊🇦🇶🐧🦠

Kriller queen antarctic research team at the UNe Biddeford campus

Kriller queen science team celebrating a team birthday with Pisco

Team members working on our next proposal during our synthesis meeting at UNE in Maine

Kriller queen late night work session with takeout dinner

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Do you work in bioluminescent bays in the Caribbean? Do you love bioluminescent dinoflagellates? Especially Pyrodinium bahamense? Submit abstracts to our session on all things BioBay! Also, this is your reminder to book your biobay tours for after the conference :) 🌊🦠🧪 #oceanography

SS41 Bioluminescent Wonders: Integrating Research and Management to Better Understand and Protect Bioluminescent Bays

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

MICOlab past & current students celebrated @lydiaruggles.bsky.social (my first student 😭) and her marriage this weekend! It was a beautiful ceremony and very fun party. We wish Lydia all the happiness in the universe, including lots of travel and well-calibrated pipettes!! 🎉🎊🍾🌊🦠🤓

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Best part of sailing around the San Juans today? Jamie found me a rock that looks like a dinoflagellate ;) 🤓🦠🌊

Rock that looks like a dinoflagellate found on Cypress Island, WA.

Sail boat moored off cypress island, WA.

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

My perfect, beautiful, best friend Gnasher turns 15 years old today! Born on a farm in the Sandias, I adopted him from a pickup truck in the ABQ Walmart. Since then, we have done everything together: big hikes, long runs, international moves, tide pooling, sailing. I love him x ♾️. #cattledog ❤️❤️

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I am defiant. Funding may or may not be there for my group. We will, one way or another, make scientific discoveries. We will get trainees out the door with publications and degrees, and send them on the way to the lives that they want to live. That is my promise to myself. That is my job.

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I was excited to hear MySpace is coming back and told my husband, “now that I can actually code my profile is going to be so good!”. He responded, “everyone’s just going to vibe code profiles with Claude and they will be better.” 😭😩

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Ariaa® @ariaa.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Happy 65th Birthday, August 4th, to the best President in US History. The black man "they" feared, led with humor, dignity & grace for 8 yrs scandal-free, has a beautiful & accomplished family, and is beloved by millions around the world. @barackobama.bsky.social #BarackObama #ThePeoplesPresident

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

So nice to meet @darkmicrobio.bsky.social and the rest of the peerside group! Hope everyone has an excellent cruise on the Hogarth!

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Thomas Mock @thomasmock.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

@psaalgae.bsky.social Great news to share from our managing editor Kirsten Muller: New IMPACT FACTOR of ‘Journal of Phycology’ is…….4.3

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Somehow strange to be back in Florida after a week in Alaska discussing Algae at the PSA meeting. Juneau was breathtakingly beautiful and the weather was so refreshing (granted we got lucky with some blue skies). Just a fabulous, lovely meeting with excellent scientists. Time is too fast. 🌊🦠🧪🤓

Raft in front of the Mendenhall glacier in Juneau Alaska

Baby bear foraging for dandelions in Juneau Alaska

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

MVP of this year’s Phycological Society of America meeting is Scupper the conference dog. He has been wandering sessions all week, getting treats and pets, and making sure everyone is happy :) 🌊🦠🤓 #oceanography #phycophiles #planktonpups 🐶

Scupper the conference dog joining a student speaker on stage

Scupper the conference dog asking for treats

Scupper the conference dog participating in science conversations

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Seaweed collections at the Phycological society of America’s annual meeting in Juneau Alaska this week - We went on a morning field trip to the intertidal and needed out over all the diversity we found. Student a pressed and dried samples and made cyanotypes 🤓🦠🌊 #seaweed #algae #oceanography

Algae collected from low tide in Juneau Alaska

Algae collected at low tide in Juneau Alaska

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Second time this happened while working w. an undergrad- they pulled out a hard drive/thumb drive without safely removing/ejecting and I ended up teaching them that the option existed. They had NEVER heard of it. Is it not a thing any more like dbl spaces between sentences? Am I just old? 🤷‍♀️🌊

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

When I moved to FL I thought my days of having to earthquake proof labs and offices were done (we have other problems…). But lo and behold - today we were asked to leave the building because of an earthquake! I truly thought a construction vehicle hit the building ;) 🌊🌎🫨

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The stupidity never ceases to amaze me. What a tragedy.

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

For those who reached out asking how to help: This gofundme is specifically for graduate students who lost personal items, computers, tablets, etc. in the fire. We were told that these items are not retrievable or reimbursable -an added burden for students during a devastating time. Plz share 🌊💙

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

MacKenzie Scott Was A Success While Married To Bozos. Her Debut Novel Won The American Book Award in 2006,And Her 2nd Novel Followed in 2013.She Stepped Away From Amazon, to Raise 4 Children. In 2019, Bozos Announced They Were Divorcing. She's A Great American........

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Absolutely devastating times for our college. No way to sum up the extent of this loss. The MSL was the core of our college, a historical building that was the heart of CMS. It contained core labs, equipment, invaluable samples, whole careers. I’m not sure what lies ahead.. but certainly tough times

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

One week extension for abstracts and registration (phew :)) our lab will be presenting several HAB projects - I can’t wait for Alaska!! 🌊❤️🧪🦠🐻‍❄️ #oceanography #phytoplankton #microbialsky

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

These Machines Fight Traffic. Walked by this beauty last night - pretty awesome to see these messages out in the world.

purple billboard These Machines Fight Traffic in white with two bikes.

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Scott Doney @scottdoney.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Opening for an Information Manager to lead data management for the Virginia Coast Reserve Long Term Ecological Research Project (VCR LTER), based at the University of Virginia. MS- or PhD-level position with the expectation of long-term support. @uslter.bsky.social jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...

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Research Scientist in Environmental Sciences Sciences in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Research at University of Virginia

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

After work rockets! Sending it … to the moon!!!! 🌕 go science go!

Photo of exhaust trail from Artemis II headed to the mood, taken from USF St. Pete campus.

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Want to hear *more* about our research trip to Antarctica to study the effects of melting sea ice on the microbes, zooplankton, and chemistry of the Weddell Sea (😉)? Carlyn Scott from the @cmarinescience.bsky.social communication office interviewed me and put together this Q&A. 🌊🇦🇶🦠 #oceanography

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Linking ice melt to life in the Weddell Sea | USF College of Marine Science

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

This wknd, we took the puppy to meet the Atlantic Ocean for her first time. Somehow seems fitting it was a red flag day. She loved it as much as I do. East coast ocean beaches remain my favorite places on this planet (long island’s are best). ❤️🌊🐶🐾

Australian shepherd puppy at the beach on a high wind day- all floof flattened by the wind.

The best dogs on the best coast (east coast)

Red flag day at the ocean beach - no swimming allowed.

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Left my bike at work last night and took public transit to work today, which requires walking through campus to get to my building. When this view opens up, I can’t help but feel so lucky to work here and to live here. St. Pete ❤️🌊

View of the harbor at the USF St. Pete campus. The USF sailing team is based here and their boats are in the background.

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Nothing better than doing lab work you’re really excited about in an empty building on a Saturday afternoon. IYKYK. Here, prepping and running preserved Antarctic seawater samples on our flow cytometer (named chili 🌶️ by the grad students bc she is spicy) to count bacterial cells. 🇦🇶🌊👩‍🔬 #oceanography

Prepping preserved Antarctic seawater for flow cytometry. I stain preserved samples with fluorescent dye in a 96-well plate, and then load the plate into the instrument.

Our labs flow cytometer - named chili. It can count cells and take pictures of each cell it counts. She is the workhorse of the lab and supports most of our experiments.🧪

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

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First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says

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Colleen Durkin @cadurkin.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

It is so amazing that we can study protists (single celled organisms) using an ROV. We collected one of these on the #LivingBioreactors cruise on the @schmidtocean.bsky.social R/V Falkor last month. It went to a colleague studying the chemistry of their calcium carbonate shells.

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