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Mark J McCarthy @mjmcncycle.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Moonrise over Lake Balaton on World Lake Day. (TBH I think these "World <insert some random thing here> Days are kinda dumb, but whatever).

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Mark J McCarthy @mjmcncycle.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Best song most people have never heard?

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Mark J McCarthy @mjmcncycle.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Wizz Air, no-recline seats!! Hallelujah

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Mark J McCarthy @mjmcncycle.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

At least so far, biggest accomplishment of the Lake Balaton project is (possibly?) being able to pronounce the city Székesfehérvár.

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Mark J McCarthy @mjmcncycle.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Hungarian wine is totally underrated.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

This is like Jeffrey Epstein lecturing us on feminism.

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Mark J McCarthy @mjmcncycle.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

What's this? A paper on lake restoration that not only acknowledges but also addresses internal sediment N loading? 😱😱😱 What next, external N loading targets for Lake Erie? (Likely not, barring some retirement parties/progress.) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Wilhelm Lab at the University of Tennessee @tn-marine-micro.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

We’re hiring! A joint Postdoc at UT Knoxville (Wilhelm & @dtalmy.bsky.social) to study Microcystis, oxidative stress, toxin production, and nutrient selection using lab, field, molecular, and modeling approaches. PhD required. Apply: fa-ewlq-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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Post-Doctoral Research Associate: Freshwater Microbial Ecology - UTK

The Wilhelm and Talmy research groups in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Tennessee invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to join an interdisciplinary project exam...

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Mark J McCarthy @mjmcncycle.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

“The most durable solution…is still to remove the nutrient source and, ideally, remove algal biomass from the water. If you only kill algae in place, some of that biomass can break down and release nutrients back into the water, which means the bloom can return later.” phys.org/news/2026-06...

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Nanobubbles for algae cleanup: Q&A with researcher Wen Zhang

One of the most powerful environmental cleaning technologies in recent years is too small to see with the naked eye. Nanobubbles—tiny gaseous bubbles with diameters of around 100 nanometers—can clean ...

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Mark J McCarthy @mjmcncycle.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

So the ‘theory’ has some validity, but there are problems (see my comments within the thread), starting with the bloom not being caused by cyanos, and the usual and incorrect ‘dismissal’ of the importance of nitrogen.

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Mark J McCarthy @mjmcncycle.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Monochrome lab tape ball from Mars?

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Mark J McCarthy @mjmcncycle.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Estonian frozen lab ‘making it official’ in Montréal @g-oguz.bsky.social

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Mark J McCarthy @mjmcncycle.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Honored to be here to celebrate Jim Cotner’s long (and continuing) career.

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Mark J McCarthy @mjmcncycle.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Back in the old PhD stomping grounds

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Mark J McCarthy @mjmcncycle.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Saw an excellent show in Kingston pre-ASLO/SIL, Georgia Harmer & Half Moon Run

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Mark J McCarthy @mjmcncycle.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Lake Balaton vinos - a cab franc port-like dessert wine and a well aged ultra rare white made from a nearly extinct varietal (kéknyelü).

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Mark J McCarthy @mjmcncycle.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Good timing for my Lake Balaton trip this week....beyond obvious current events, Balaton is (as far as I know) the cradle of 'internal N loading' studies in lakes. Amazing that, 25 years later, 'we' still think internal loads are just for P... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Nitrogen uptake and the importance of internal nitrogen loading in Lake Balaton

1. The importance of various forms of nitrogen to the nitrogen supply of phytoplankton has been investigated in the mesotrophic eastern and eutrophic western basin of Lake Balaton. </br>2. Uptake rates o...

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Mark J McCarthy @mjmcncycle.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Sigh...so close, and yet so far (plus bad timing).

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Mark J McCarthy @mjmcncycle.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Don’t let anyone fool you about fossil fuels and nuclear. The market is deciding in real time.

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Mark J McCarthy @mjmcncycle.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I don't need to be paid or recognized to accept a review. I need journals to better match manuscripts to my expertise (most are not even close) and give me a reasonable amount of time. How about ask me (1) are you interested, and (2) if so, how much time do you need to complete a thorough review?

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Anthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Greenland, a fragile ecosystem... "A new invasive species in sight!" "Which one?" "A big orange pig!"

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Multi-layered “look what you made me do” lie. Because Norway didn’t give a him prize (it doesn’t decide winners) for ending wars (he didn’t end) the US won’t be peaceful anymore (bombing multiple countries) and will take Greenland (part of Denmark, not Norway) to stop Russia (it’d help Russia).

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Mark J McCarthy @mjmcncycle.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

If you don’t listen to Trad Attack!, you probably should…

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Mark J McCarthy @mjmcncycle.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

The lab tape ball has reached a milestone in case anyone was wondering

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Dan Baldassarre @evornithology.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Send this shit straight to the moon. H-index, impact factors, etc are useless horseshit. This just makes them nuanced useless horseshit. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Mark J McCarthy @mjmcncycle.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Cool study….and Thad is definitely an experimental musician 😄

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Mark J McCarthy @mjmcncycle.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

A nugget of wisdom from an 'old' paper: "Another implication of this work is to emphasize the difficulty in providing a theoretical framework of phytoplankton dynamics in a changing nutrient environment. A deterministic approach utilized in many types of models has..."

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Mark J McCarthy @mjmcncycle.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Lol, the Minister didn’t lie….

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Mark J McCarthy @mjmcncycle.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Meteor impact crater pond in Saaremaa - no cyanos in there 🙄

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Mark J McCarthy @mjmcncycle.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I did my PhD research in Baie Missisqoui and was harassed more than once by US border gestapos. They were always complete assholes. (I’m a US citizen, not that it matters now or then).

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Mark J McCarthy @mjmcncycle.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

An honor to be in Helsinki for @tomjilbert.bsky.social inaugural lecture as Professor of Environmental Geochemistry.

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Mark J McCarthy @mjmcncycle.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

If you’re in the USA, have or will soon have a MS, like working with high frequency water quality data or modeling, and are looking for a (fully funded) PhD program in the EU to escape the scientific/higher ed destruction — please reach out.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

In this era, I think it's more useful to sort people by whether they participate in democratic discourse or disordered discourse, rather than left vs right.

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Mark J McCarthy @mjmcncycle.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Lol. These morons have no clue what the LoC actually does.

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Michael Twiss @mtwiss.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

DM me if you are going to IAGLR and are looking to stretch your legs - and link elbows - all for a good cause!

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Mark J McCarthy @mjmcncycle.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Someday the masses will realize that all of the other nonsense was just to distract the sheep from the real goals, which are just about stealing money and making a few people richer. Remember the scene at the end of Die Hard, where Holly figures out that Hans wasn’t a terrorist, just a common thief.

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Mark J McCarthy @mjmcncycle.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Well, if this turns out to be true, I guess we’ll never have to wonder who the dingo was that ate Marco’s baby….

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