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Javier del Campo @fonamental.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

An atlas of eukaryotic centromere architecture reveals recurrent evolutionary dynamics #protists www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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The Marine Biological Association @thembauk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Apply Today! The Peter Baker Investigatorship supports early-career researchers carry out fundamental physiological research at the MBA. Find out more and apply - mymba.mba.ac.uk/member-homepage/dis…

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John Burns @burnsajohn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A planktic melange from the Gulf of Maine featuring juicy diatom chains from 100m depth waters.

A microscope image of a bunch of diatoms from a plankton tow in the Gulf of Maine

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Megan Dennis @mydennis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We are recruiting at the assistant professor level ~ Ideal candidates have expertise in genomics and/or biochemistry, applying emerging experimental, computational, AI-driven methods to answer mechanistic questions in human health. Please share! First review 10/30. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07832

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Assistant Professor- Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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Ctenophores Rock! @ctenophoresrock.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is Bob. They are a hermaphroditic comb jelly that recently underwent reverse development from adult lobate to larval cydippid, following a period of stress. The event reduced our colony to just Bob. Once our food source stabilized, Bob began to flourish & what was 1 Bob is now 500+ Bobettes! 🦑

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

NSF has reduced the research budget for all atmospheric, ocean, and earth sciences by ~80%. 80%! A lot of us will not be conducting new research or training new students for the foreseeable future.

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Matt @xenomatt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A colony of tunicates from Lembeh #MarineLife 🌿

A colony of blue, translucent tube-shaped animals. Each has a yellow ring at the upper end.

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Journal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Chromosomal inversions are both engines of repeatability and innovation. They drive parallel genetic divergence between snail ecotypes across Europe, while also harbouring local variants that contribute to site-specific trait variations and adaptation: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... Pajot et al 2026

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Inversions support both parallel and location-specific adaptations in snail ecotypes

Abstract. Replicated hybrid zones between ecotypes established over environmental gradients provide an opportunity to study the genomic architecture of bar

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Emily E. Gipson @oceanemily.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

wondering if/when “AI statements” will become part of the standard application materials for TT faculty jobs…? like a statement of ones philosophy on the use of AI in research/by students, etc? this seems important

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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I lied about number of posts in this thread, because I also wanted to share that Paige is an extremely talented visual communicator. The potential for adaptive diversity being linked to the Salish estuary is important, but also the generality of demographic isolation in this region from the Pacific.

Comparison of 10 other pelagic/planktonic dispersal species that exhibit strong isolation across the Strait of Juan de Fuca. The point being, PLD is not a primary cause of this pattern.

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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We find - and review papers w/ similar spatial patterns - that diversity in the Salish Sea is distinct from that in the outer coast Pacific. This is notable because the Salish has high endemic diversity, though sadly we did not have enough metadata to tackle the color polymorphism problem.

an "orange" and a "purple" Pisaster next to each other on San Juan Island, photo by JPW in 2014

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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

SUPER DUPER PLEASED to share the newest pub by Dr. Paige Duffin academic.oup.com/evolut/advan... In this effort, Paige, Lauren Schiebelhut, Mike Dawson and I leveraged whole-genome sequencing to study broad biogeographic patterns in the canonical keystone seastar Pisaster ochraceus. 1/2

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Genomic separation of Salish Sea and Pacific outer coast populations of the keystone sea star Pisaster ochraceus

Despite its long larval dispersal period, the ochre sea star (Pisaster ochraceus) is not genetically homogeneous across its range. Whole-genome data reveal

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John P. Friel, Ph.D. @friel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Fans of clingy fishes with pelvic suction cups rejoice! 🐟🧪

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This is the crux of it. You do not argue that this should be permitted unless you think there's *something* valuable in it. These people don't advocate for hiring young earth creationists into a paleo departments! They don't argue for the hiring of alchemists into chemistry labs!

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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

TRIPLE MUSHROOM coral! Anthomastus like- 3582 m Pepe seamount, Cook Island, #okeanos

3 small mushroom corals with elongate tentacles

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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

What do you suppose would be the result of someone who didn't already know the right answer engaging in this process?

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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I asked a question. It made an error. I pointed this out. It repeated the same error while acknowledging it was wrong. I pointed this out. It made a new error. I pointed this out. It made yet another new error. I pointed this out. It finally generated the right answer.

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Out of Context Tracers in the Sea @tracers-in-the-sea.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

🌊🧪 The approximate ratios of these same elements dissolved in deep sea water are 15 atoms of N and 1000 atoms of C for every atom of P. - Broecker and Peng (1982), Tracers in the Sea

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Keishu Asada @cephwarden.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

A pteropod, fairylike, ascending into the sunshine

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Keishu Asada @cephwarden.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

A large uncommon larvacean I refer to as the barrel oik. Most larvaceans live in a spherical mucous 'house' for filtering plankton. This one's house (almost totally invisible here) is barrel-shaped with a clear directionality of movement and even 'intakes' in the front like a biological jet engine.

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Theo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 28/07/2026

Fucking hell as if receiving automated rejection letters for jobs wasn't bad enough.

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Patrick Duffy @pduffyplankton.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Does anyone know an Appendicularian identification expert I can get in contact with? Translating these sketches into real 2D shadow-graphs isn't exactly straightforward.

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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Scientists--if your funding was cut over the last year (for research on climate, global health, DEI, LGBTQ or womens health, etc) but you managed to keep the research going, I want to talk to you for an upcoming article! Plz contact me: gewin at me dot com. Re-posts appreciated!

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I had a wonderful time at @northamptonshirenhs microscopy group meeting today, where I had the privilege of doing a presentation about marine plankton, and sharing a live sample with them! Here are some of the organisms we saw. #marineplankton 🦑

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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Mari-nerd friends can we blow up BlueSky with stars and anemones and other gorgeous explosions, of any taxonomy? Go 💥 💥 💥

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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Barnacles genus Rehderella with cobalt mantle tissues - from Rapa Nui 💥

Beautiful blue tissues inside small barnacles

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Martin Rak @martinrak.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

A Midsummer Night’s Dream After several attempts, I finally managed to photograph fireflies in the Czech woods.

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Emily E. Gipson @oceanemily.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

spoiler: it’s flatworms, not aliens

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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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Abandon Ambition 🔜 FBL @abandonambition.com · 02/07/2026

Nothing is darker than the bottom of the ocean. I set this up intending to do a 1-color screen print, but maybe I should revisit the concept in full color. #art #sciart #ArtRepostJuly

A digital drawing of a dead whale sinking to the bottom of the ocean, where the bones of other dead whales and hungry crabs await it. There are other ocean fish and critters waiting for the whale to fall to them. A banner draped around the whale has the words, "my life | for your | ephemeral feast."

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Marine Biological Laboratory @mblscience.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Happy #WorldHorseshoeCrabDay!  These spinning #horseshoecrab (Limulus polyphemus) embryos are developing inside their eggs, just weeks away from hatching. Despite their name, horseshoe crabs are closer relatives of spiders and scorpions than crustaceans.

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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

asking again for nominations or inquiries regarding the editor-in-chief role for The Biological Bulletin, our historic journal focused on marine and aquatic integrative biology!

Most recent cover of The Biological Bulletin

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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

This is a deep-sea isopod. Dr. Johanna Weston, a deep-ocean biologist and guest investigator at @whoi.edu, is confident this is Bathyopsurus nybelini, one of her favorite animals. Learn why via the YouTube caption: youtube.com/shorts/DenUj...

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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Virus-grazer interplay enhances virus production, particle aggregation, and trophic efficiency during infection of Prochlorococcus www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #jcampubs 🌊

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Emily E. Gipson @oceanemily.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

i’ve had the same roll for 7 years

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Emily E. Gipson @oceanemily.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

feeling reflective about my career thus far, found some pictures of what i was up to 10 years ago. Fish, they are a gateway drug…

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Veeloxxy Bites @the-episiarch.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

When rhizocephalan barnacles end up infecting a male crab, they routinely forcefem their hosts - but some crab species are more susceptible to rhizocephalan forcefem than others 🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Hermit crabs and with peltogastrid rhizocephalan parasites (indicated by white arrows)
Top left: Pagurus lanuginosus, Top right: Pagurus filholi, Bottom left: Pagurus nigrivittatus, Bottom right: Pagurus japonicus

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Emily E. Gipson @oceanemily.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

my wifi went out in the middle of a zoom interview today 🥲 thank god for iphone wifi hotspots i guess

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mara lawniczak @marakat.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

If you are interested in collecting specimens for chromosomal genomes and/or generating chromosomal reference genomes from specimens that were not cold-chain preserved, please read on and share this thread.

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Emily E. Gipson @oceanemily.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

i can’t wait to play with this

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

This is a substantial power grab by OMB. Comment period starts tomorrow. Here are two relevant excerpts. 1/3

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Chris Gug @gugunderwater.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Foraminifera are one of the ocean’s most abundant, but overlooked inhabitants. It’s also one of the tiniest creatures I’ve ever shot for the Aliens Collection. The shell size is ~1mm, and the spicules reach ~5mm . . . #foraminifera #foram #microscopy #blackwater #gug #gugunderwater #chrisgug

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科学探求おしゃべり番組「ススメ！有孔蟲」 @susume-foram.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Globigerina bulloides d’ORBIGNY Foraminifera, unicellular organisms of the sea Planktonic life species The long diameter is about 200 μm from It is also cute to see the interference color under a differential interference microscope Thin spines are also made of calcium carbonate

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