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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Larvacean exiting snot house @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 964 #samplinggap #MarineLife

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Patrick Duffy @pduffyplankton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

From the sounds of the people at every airport, it feels like there's a plague coming soon.

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Patrick Duffy @pduffyplankton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Every single period of time I've spent on an island, anywhere, has been a life-changing experience that will stay with me for the rest of my life. I think I've found a potential end-goal...

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Patrick Duffy @pduffyplankton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I feel like a remora as a recent PhD right now. Circling the known funding sources for PIs with anything tangential to latch onto. It's not parasitic, I can support myself off the scraps and cast off data. Just give me a habitat in this oligotrophic biological funding environment.

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Patrick Duffy @pduffyplankton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I love how learning new aspects of coding anything involves an hours long train of downloads and restarts.

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Patrick Duffy @pduffyplankton.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I wondered if pelagic tunicates sleep, because they're like urochordates and all... and now I find myself reading Endocrinology manuscripts. Apparently, melatonin has been found in a bunch of invertebrate phyla too. Kind of cool stuff I barely understand on the evolution of bioregulation pathways.

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Patrick Duffy @pduffyplankton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Wow, you rarely see the stage-structured population matrix formation these days. Brave plan from Coventry for long-term sustainability.

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Patrick Duffy @pduffyplankton.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

There's a referendum in my hometown because people want to discriminate. I wish I was joking. The petition signers have also thrown tantrums because they don't want their names to be public that they support discrimination.

citizensvoice.com

Referendum petition to repeal Luzerne County non-discrimination ordinance filed with 15,395 signatures

Vote would be held in May 2027

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Patrick Duffy @pduffyplankton.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

My parents managed to raise two PhDs with very different personalities. I realized that this photo is significant to my Duffy family history, so I feel the obligation to post it somewhere. My brother teaches statistical methods in environmental sociology. Apples, trees, and all that.

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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

What can the color of plankton tell us? At #ASLO2027 in San Juan, we’re convening SS10: The Color of Plankton 🌊 We welcome studies on color, transparency, fluorescence, & other optical traits, from ecology and evolution to biogeochemistry, imaging and remote sensing. www.aslo.org/san-juan-2027/

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Patrick Duffy @pduffyplankton.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

"Normally, I/We would be happy to consider you for a post-doc".... is the song of the 2026-summer.

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Patrick Duffy @pduffyplankton.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Saw a moth on my backdoor and managed a good photo of an invert (for once). It seems to be a slug-moth, possibly the abbreviated button slug moth. Not formed from slugs, their larvae aren't traditional caterpillars and resemble 'slugs' (or chitons, to me).

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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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Patrick Duffy @pduffyplankton.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

First publication! For this manuscript, I manually reviewed ~550k plankton pics across 11 months to ID life stages of salps and doliolids. Tl;dr 'only using bloom-observations to predict distributions of pelagic tunicates is likely missing their full ranges'. And also doliolids =/= salps

aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Full‐year in situ imaging reveals fine‐scale habitat differences among salp and doliolid life stages

Doliolids and salps are pelagic tunicates that reproduce both asexually and sexually during their life history, occasionally forming massive blooms (> 1000 ind. m−3) that can clear large volumes of w...

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Patrick Duffy @pduffyplankton.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Talking on the phone with your parents for 2 hours feels different when you don't have any all-consuming deadlines.

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Patrick Duffy @pduffyplankton.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Oh, crap, now I have to actually do something with the PhD. For the summer, I've got another crazy manually ID'd image-data I can get submitted (that was only in my dissertation as traits in a few months). I maybe manually identified larvaceans from ~550k ROI while also doing salps & doliolids.

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Patrick Duffy @pduffyplankton.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I felt a bigger sense of relief from getting the "all paperwork accepted for graduation" email than finishing the in-person defense. I know I can talk my stuff and answer questions. I do not enjoy the constant, "you are not grandfathered into the new system".

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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Chondrocladia iirc, 2 more sponges, idk what that mound is. I'd suggest foram but it's prob poop, & munnopsid isopod 5800m @nautiluslive.org dive 7.10.26 #MarineLife

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Patrick Duffy @pduffyplankton.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Re-introducing myself as Dr. Patrick Duffy, with some unique expertise quantifying in situ biological interactions across many orders of size magnitudes from sub-micron viral lysis of phytoplankton to centimeter sized macrozooplankton and larval fishes (just that, for now...).

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Patrick Duffy @pduffyplankton.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Tl;dr, very credible rape accusation from this past Spring in NZ where the Cape Verde Captain assaulted the team's translator. Let's remember to stop treating humans as heroes for solely being able to kick a ball well.

nytimes.com

How Cape Verde’s World Cup underdog story took a dark twist

Ryan Mendes, the team's captain and record goalscorer, is preparing for Friday's game with Argentina under the cloud of a rape allegation

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Patrick Duffy @pduffyplankton.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Many are saying that the FIFA peace prize winner also gets a super special get-out-of-suspension-free card to give out.

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Patrick Duffy @pduffyplankton.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Getting that "Manuscript Accepted" email 11 months and 2 revisions after submission.

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Patrick Duffy @pduffyplankton.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

It is absolutely magical to watch a GK that is in the zone. (completely not biased opinion from a life-long GK)

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Patrick Duffy @pduffyplankton.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Maybe the expanded number of World Cup teams isn't such a bad thing, after all.

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Patrick Duffy @pduffyplankton.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

So great to see people excited to learn about algae

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Patrick Duffy @pduffyplankton.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

If I read the word "dynamics" one more time my head is going to explode. Please be more specific than a catch-all term for everything.

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Patrick Duffy @pduffyplankton.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Saw some job/post-doc stuff this weekend that made me re-think what I'm capable of doing, in an expansive way. Maybe being a plankton jack of all trades across the size spectrum will pay off after all.

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Patrick Duffy @pduffyplankton.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

The USA broadcast last night said, "And that's the end of the first QUARTER" at the first water-break of the USMNT-Paraguay match. I think I had an aneurism.

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Patrick Duffy @pduffyplankton.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I recommend this documentary/podcast series on "The Codfather" of the IRS-takedown of a fishing fleet owner in the cod-industry in the USA. By a public radio station in the Boston area. It comes off quick as a crime thing, but rapidly evolves into details about history of NE USA fisheries.

youtube.com

Catching The Codfather | The Big Dig Season 3 - YouTube

A fishing tycoon is arrested in an elaborate sting operation, but claims he’s the real hero fighting back against an overbearing state. So who is Carlos “The...

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Patrick Duffy @pduffyplankton.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

The USMNT World-Cup roster (leaks) are great because my hopes are let down early. I'm not convinced that a midfield shorter than 5'9" on average is a good idea; it's not like our technical players are best in world. Not playing to strengths, trying to play to Euro-ball....USA is out in Groups.

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Patrick Duffy @pduffyplankton.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

In an extremely small subset of ROI, imaging methods can capture gelatinous zooplankton fecal pellet production in situ. Nowhere near enough observations for rigorous analysis, but potentially enough for fun "informed" envelope estimates.

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Patrick Duffy @pduffyplankton.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Sometimes you get one single ROI that drives you crazy, like this doliolid phorozooid (b/c buds + organs) that looks like it has salp (Thalia democratica-esque) "horns".

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Patrick Duffy @pduffyplankton.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

"Oh, I just read the LLM response" is not the get-out-of-jail card for confidently stating false information that some people think it is. (1) You tried to hide that you "knew" something (2) You refuse to take responsibility for falsely stating something (3) Everything you say is now in question.

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Patrick Duffy @pduffyplankton.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

AHHHHHH! New doliolid terminology! "Purple waves"!

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Adam Shprintzen @veghistory.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Play this on a loop for every enthusiast of this slop in higher ed.

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Patrick Duffy @pduffyplankton.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Had my car broken into last night and my birding backpack stolen. The Sav-PD just returned my bag with entire contents. What just happened, the police just solved a petty crime.

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Patrick Duffy @pduffyplankton.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I'm allowed to be salty about having to address "reviewer #3 comments" after I submitted a "minor revision" 3 months ago. It's not my fault someone went MIA.

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Patrick Duffy @pduffyplankton.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I love mm-sized hydrozoans because I genuinely know nothing about them, struggle to find research on them, but their tentacle morphologies clearly suggest different evolutionary-functions.

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Patrick Duffy @pduffyplankton.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

The emperor and king penguins were how myself, a 7-year old in a landlocked state, developed a special interest in our planet's oceans. That led to my passion for the complexities of biological oceanography. I have no other input besides the obligation to share that Emperor penguins jumped 2 stages.

theguardian.com

Mass drowning of chicks puts emperor penguins at risk of extinction

Record low levels of Antarctic sea ice are having grim consequences for penguins yet to grow waterproof feathers

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Patrick Duffy @pduffyplankton.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Oceanography students would benefit from improv-classes. It genuinely is always, "Yes, and..." when considering the interactions between physics, chemistry, and biology. Learning to roll the conversation topic depending on the audience is a learned skill.

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Patrick Duffy @pduffyplankton.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

My favorite new hobby is topping up my gas tank every other day because it's inevitable my country will continue to fuck over the entire world's fuel supplies. /s

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Patrick Duffy @pduffyplankton.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Biological data: very fun to talk about, very not-fun to write about.

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Patrick Duffy @pduffyplankton.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I'm impressed that a phyllosoma (spiny/slipper lobster larva, can't tell 100% which by the angle here) can capture a siphonophore. Those things chug along at a high velocity for their size! Gelatinous zooplankton are far from a trophic dead-end.

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Patrick Duffy @pduffyplankton.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Some doliolid phorozooids (the asexual life stage of an asexual life stage) are absolute beasts. Each budding gonozooid (the final sexual stage) is also actively feeding during growth as a bud. This is counted as "1 phorozooid ROI" in calculations... but in reality is more complicated.

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Patrick Duffy @pduffyplankton.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I *think* these are all the same Appendicularian/Larvacean species (images from same sampling tow). Pro's and Con's of shadow imaging, I have 3 images from many-thousands that are my best shot at ID'ing a small organism.

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Patrick Duffy @pduffyplankton.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Salp chains constantly are the bane of my existence. At least doliolid chains are smaller so it's easy to say "just the colony". Sizes matter (& number of zooids). For functional traits in a community, a big colony is not equal to a small colony, but 1 ROI = 1 ROI. Biovolumes may provide the keys.

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Patrick Duffy @pduffyplankton.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

The Canadian broadcast displaying a bunch of "Canada is not for sale" signs in their hockey pre-game is quite a bit more... moving than the USA's "once in the 1980's we beat the Soviets".

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Patrick Duffy @pduffyplankton.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I am definitely too emotionally invested in the story of Punch the baby Macaque.

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