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joe vallino ∫🦠dxdt ≻∫🔥dxdt

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Microbial biogeochemistry, non-equilibrium thermodynamics, Maximum Entropy Production (MEP). Defining how life differs from fire, maybe. he/him

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Mara Freilich @maratimes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We're hiring a tenure-track faculty member in geochemistry & climate at Brown! apply.interfolio.com/193121
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Anita Devineni @anitadevineni.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Emory Biology department is hiring a tenure-track ecologist at any rank. Deadline is Nov 1, link below! As I've said many times before, I couldn't ask for a more supportive department. Our faculty colleagues, dept chair, and admin staff are truly awesome ❤️ apply.interfolio.com/191783
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Scott Doney @scottdoney.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🌊 @envdefensefund.bsky.social Phytoplankton Carbon Solutions program webinars to overview research program & available funding opportunities Sep 23, 2026 08:00 PM Eastern Time edf.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Sep 24, 2026 12:00 PM Eastern Time edf.zoom.us/webinar/regi... www.edf.org/phytoplankto...
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Phytoplankton Carbon Solutions (PCS) funding opportunities
EDF is advancing research on PCS by funding and coordinating efforts to evaluate its effectiveness and better understand how it interacts with the ocean’s natural biological carbon pump as a potential...
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joe vallino ∫🦠dxdt ≻∫🔥dxdt @mepjoe.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This paper started as an @mblscience.bsky.social SES undergraduate project with Wenzhuo Yang lead by @ashleybulseco.bsky.social in @julesdeep.bsky.social lab at @whoi.edu...some time ago ;) Nice to see it in "print"! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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Growth characteristics of natural microbial populations are skewed toward bacteria with low specific growth rates | Microbiology Spectrum
All living organisms are constrained by environmental boundaries that govern where growth is possible, such as minimum and maximum temperatures or pH. An organism’s maximum specific growth rate places...
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joe vallino ∫🦠dxdt ≻∫🔥dxdt @mepjoe.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Following tradition (😁), your vent microbial friends are particularly excited, as am I, in wishing you a Happy Birthday Julie (@julesdeep.bsky.social) !! 🎂🎉🥳 🦠🌊🌋 You may want to pass on the vent cake though 😂
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joe vallino ∫🦠dxdt ≻∫🔥dxdt @mepjoe.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Opportunity: Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution Due date 30-Jun-2026 Three years of support that can be spread over 5 years. 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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Elaine Luo @oceanmicrobes.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
New publication out @natcomms.nature.com! We identify novel viruses that actively infect highly productive chemoautotrophs, and reveal key trophic interactions and virus-host dynamics that impact microbial carbon cycling in aphotic environments. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Quantitative stable isotope probing (qSIP)-informed metagenomics identifies viruses infecting chemoautotrophs - Nature Communications
In this study, Luo and colleagues identify previously unknown viruses that actively infect highly productive chemoautotrophs. These findings provide new insights into key trophic interactions and&nbsp...
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joe vallino ∫🦠dxdt ≻∫🔥dxdt @mepjoe.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Congrats Elaine! 🎉
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 12/04/2026
The “America First,” president wants to cut billions of dollars from American innovation and scientific research.   From NASA to NIH, no one would be spared.   We cannot let this budget pass. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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joe vallino ∫🦠dxdt ≻∫🔥dxdt @mepjoe.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
You can do it to her some day 🤣 (sorry). Moms and other moms are the best
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joe vallino ∫🦠dxdt ≻∫🔥dxdt @mepjoe.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Looks like some great paid undergraduate intern opportunities! 65gr6dbbb.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001...
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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
If, like me, today’s horrors left you feeling more untethered than usual, read this. It will ground you.
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Don Boesch 🇺🇦🇬🇱 @donboesch.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Trump cuts and uncertainties regarding the operation of the UNOLS oceanographic fleet headlines story of unraveling of decades of investment in Earth observations and research and loss of US scientific leadership. Gift link: wapo.st/4jcO6Qp
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How Trump’s attacks on ‘climate alarmism’ have already transformed U.S. science
Experts say the cuts to the federal workforce and climate science funding could cause decades of loss in human knowledge and discovery.
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joe vallino ∫🦠dxdt ≻∫🔥dxdt @mepjoe.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
A new paper out with @oahern.bsky.social (@mblscience.bsky.social) and @julesdeep.bsky.social (@whoi.edu) examines how energy dissipation can be used to predict food web structure of microbial communities. A short description and a link to the paper can be found here: www.mbl.edu/news/energy-...
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An Energy-Based Perspective on Microbial Food Web Structure | Marine Biological Laboratory
The oceans are teeming with microbes like bacteria and phytoplankton that play an outsized role in climate regulation. These microorganisms absorb carbon, cycle nutrients, and form the base of the oce...
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joe vallino ∫🦠dxdt ≻∫🔥dxdt @mepjoe.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
I'm so bummed I'm not there. Take some pics if you can!
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Julie Huber, PhD @julesdeep.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
I’ll likely have to take cough breaks to sip my tea & blow my nose, as the plague & I are @agu.org but I hope you’ll join me at 1030 Wednesday for my lecture. I’ll talk about Carson’s impact on science & my career, subseafloor life, microbial ecosystem services, & science storytelling! #AGU25
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joe vallino ∫🦠dxdt ≻∫🔥dxdt @mepjoe.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
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MBARI @mbarinews.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
The best way to spread deep-sea cheer is by sending tubeworm videos to those you hold dear. 🎁 Tubeworms like these Oasisia alvinae are abundant at hydrothermal vents at depths of 3,700 meters (12,140 feet) in the Pescadero Basin, located off the east coast of Mexico’s Baja California.
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Jon Puritz @jonpuritz.marineevoeco.com · 10/11/2025
Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island. jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960
Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island.

The Department of Biological Sciences in the College of the Environment and Life Sciences (CELS) at the University of Rhode Island (URI) invites applications for an academic year (9 month), tenure-track Assistant Professor position specializing in Marine Ecology. URI, the top public university in New England, is a land and sea grant research university located in Kingston, Rhode Island, a beautiful seaside community that is well connected by car, bus, and rail about 40 min from Providence, an hour from Boston and 3 hours from New York City.
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joe vallino ∫🦠dxdt ≻∫🔥dxdt @mepjoe.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Winogradsky Columns after 8 weeks of growth showing nice development of purple and green (yellowish here) sulfur bacteria that are anaerobic phototrophs. The columns are used in the microbial methods course taught in the Semester in Environmental Science Program @mblscience.bsky.social
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joe vallino ∫🦠dxdt ≻∫🔥dxdt @mepjoe.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
And the 2015 "cruise" ... life as a scientist 😁
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution @whoi.edu · 14/10/2025
Congratulations to WHOI's @julesdeep.bsky.social, who was recently selected to deliver the prestigious @agu.org Rachel Carson Lecture. The award recognizes women whose work in ocean science is both cutting-edge and deeply relevant to today’s societal & environmental challenges: go.whoi.edu/Huber
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joe vallino ∫🦠dxdt ≻∫🔥dxdt @mepjoe.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Woot, this news continues to put a big smile on my face! Congrats (again) Julie!! 🎉🙌
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joe vallino ∫🦠dxdt ≻∫🔥dxdt @mepjoe.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Those are insane. When my son and I harvested reapers we wore gloves and eye protection 😭 🔥🔥🔥 He also had some stomach issues after eating just a small bite.
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joe vallino ∫🦠dxdt ≻∫🔥dxdt @mepjoe.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Congratulations Julie!! 🎉
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joe vallino ∫🦠dxdt ≻∫🔥dxdt @mepjoe.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Fantastic news! Julie Huber @julesdeep.bsky.social was just awarded the prestigious Rachel Carson Lecture by @agu.org! Not only well deserved, but also a fitting tribute. Rachel Carson was one of Julie’s childhood heroes that guided her path. Congratulations Julie!! 🎉🙌 www.whoi.edu/press-room/n...
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Julie Huber Awarded Prestigious Rachel Carson Lecture by the American Geophysical Union
WHOI’s Julie Huber Awarded Prestigious Rachel Carson Lecture by the AGU
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joe vallino ∫🦠dxdt ≻∫🔥dxdt @mepjoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Congrats!
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joe vallino ∫🦠dxdt ≻∫🔥dxdt @mepjoe.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
SES students got to measure bacterial production in their Winogradsky Columns using radioactive 14C-Leucine yesterday! My favorite lab! ☢️🦠❤️
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joe vallino ∫🦠dxdt ≻∫🔥dxdt @mepjoe.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Ugh, disappointing to see the bias continue into cyberspace.
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joe vallino ∫🦠dxdt ≻∫🔥dxdt @mepjoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
However, as Philip Morrison states in his 1964 paper, A thermodynamic characterization of self-reproduction: "Nearly all the manifest visual and mechanical intricacy of organisms, like their apt behavior, turns out to be without quantitative thermodynamic importance." Beauty is not low entropy 😁
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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
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joe vallino ∫🦠dxdt ≻∫🔥dxdt @mepjoe.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
A beautiful day for a field trip to Little Sippewissett Marsh for the annual construction of Winogradsky columns for the Microbial Methods course in the Semester in Environmental Science program @mblscience.bsky.social Purple sulfur bacteria at low tide 🦠💜
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Science Magazine @science.org · 02/09/2025
After learning it would be evicted from its current headquarters and left in limbo about its future home, the National Science Foundation appears headed to new digs just down the street—and soon. scim.ag/4p1zzto
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NSF could be moving down the street
Government sets requirements for new space that sound like nearby patent office campus
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joe vallino ∫🦠dxdt ≻∫🔥dxdt @mepjoe.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Interesting. If you're a scientist who publishes, your papers are likely in the database.
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joe vallino ∫🦠dxdt ≻∫🔥dxdt @mepjoe.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Beyond the Second Law: Darwinian Evolution as a Tendency for Entropy Production to Increase www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/27... or, to a faster heat death of the universe, use life!
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Morgan Mouchka @morgan-mouchka.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Our opinion piece is hot off the presses! Cutting science funding has profound implications for STEM education & training & will negatively impact the San Diego region. TAKE ACTION by calling your congressional reps & demand no cuts to science funding! #StandUpForScience 🧪 tinyurl.com/ywxkvv25
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Opinion: Cuts in federal funding hammer STEM students and San Diego region
This year’s federal funding cuts are severely impacting STEM research and education, threatening the future of innovation and our nation’s health and technological advancement. These cuts hav…
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Mikhail Zinshteyn @mzinshteyn.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
I chased this all day: UCLA research grants suspended after Trump administration faulted campus for antisemitism calmatters.org/education/hi...
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UCLA research grants suspended after Trump administration faulted campus for antisemitism
The Justice Department issued UCLA a notice of violation for not responding “adequately” to complaints about antisemitism.
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Jeffrey Marlow @jjmarlow.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Check out "the deepest and the most extensive chemosynthesis-based communities known to exist on Earth" - methane seeps along Russia's NE coast, down to a depth of 9500 meters! 😮 It's amazing that such incredible ecosystems remain to be found in the deep sea... www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches - Nature
The discovery of chemosynthesis-based benthic communities at depths of 5,800 m to 9,533 m in the Kuril–Kamchatka and western Aleutian trenches challenges traditional perspectives on the energy sources...
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joe vallino ∫🦠dxdt ≻∫🔥dxdt @mepjoe.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Superb!
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
A quick update re NIH and NSF terminated grant tracking: Grant Watch has a new name! We're now called **Grant Witness** You can find us at grant-witness.us Please update your bookmarks and spread the word! 🙏 (And no, this wasn't our preference, but trademarks are a thing. 🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️)
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joe vallino ∫🦠dxdt ≻∫🔥dxdt @mepjoe.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Anyone know someone, or a company, that can analyze brackish pond water (0.3%) samples for simple substrates (specifically, glucose, xylose, acetate, ethanol, and methanol) in the 0 to 200 micromolar range? The number samples is between 15 to 100 depending on cost per sample.
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Ellen Prager, PhD @elprager.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Excellent piece on keeping US as maritime leader and ocean science is vital to national security. 🧪🌊https://wapo.st/4kMAcUs
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Opinion | To lead at sea, we must understand the sea
The U.S. still has an advantage on the waves, but ocean science needs more — not less — investment.
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NASAWATCH @nasawatch.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
There is a new, rather detailed and annotated "Statement of Solidarity and Support" out called "The NASA Voyager Declaration" regarding the current state of affairs at #NASA. It is modeled after similar efforts by employees at #EPA and #NIH nasawatch.com/activism/the...
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The NASA Voyager Declaration
Statement of Solidarity and Support
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joe vallino ∫🦠dxdt ≻∫🔥dxdt @mepjoe.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Preaching to the choir here, but if you've been living under a rock, this👇 "In the past six months, the Trump administration has systematically and recklessly undermined federal science. Read the new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists here:" act.ucsusa.org/Trump6Months
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Science and Democracy Under Siege
This administration's first 6 months have been characterized by destruction, division, and chaos.
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Arianna Krinos @akrinos.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
reminder of amazing fellowship opportunity!
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joe vallino ∫🦠dxdt ≻∫🔥dxdt @mepjoe.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
17. Vote for politicians who will stop burning fossil fuels
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Julie Huber, PhD @julesdeep.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
This was a very scary but incredibly positive experience for me-connecting to the deeply personal, funny, & scary parts of our scientific journeys. I encourage you to listen as intended- full long form radio, with host @jayall.bsky.social & live music. Links at end of article. #stemstories @prx.org
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joe vallino ∫🦠dxdt ≻∫🔥dxdt @mepjoe.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Loved it!!
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Neil Shubin @neilshubin.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Some personal news…
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joe vallino ∫🦠dxdt ≻∫🔥dxdt @mepjoe.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Congratulations Neil!
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