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Highlights and sharing of the science and research from the Tara Oceans expeditions. Publication list: t.co/TCbLXqT0oE

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Tara Oceans Science @taraoceans-science.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Cell biology for a sustainable future – a call to action from early-career scientists url: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
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Cell biology for a sustainable future – a call to action from early-career scientists
ABSTRACT. As a community of early-career researchers in cell biology, biochemistry and public health, we stand at a pivotal moment regarding both our careers and the fate of our planet. The climate cr...
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em-hoc.bsky.social @em-hoc.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Don’t forget to apply to this beautiful Electron Microscopy course at @szndohrn.bsky.social in Napoli, Italy by February 12th! 🌊 ☀️ Stay tuned for the preliminary program, in the meantime take a look here: www.szn.it/index.php/it...
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Florian Trigodet @floriantrigodet.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Now published in Nature Biotechnology: go.nature.com/44P7nSm If you missed it, the TL;DR is in my April thread below
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Troubleshooting common errors in assemblies of long-read metagenomes - Nature Biotechnology
Long-read sequence assemblies from metagenomes contain frequent errors.
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BlueRemediomics @blueremediomics.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Happy New Year from the BlueRemediomics team! Oil spills released 10,000 tonnes in 2024, and 10M tonnes of toxic chemicals enter the environment each year, but solutions exist! Discover how marine microbes can help in our new factsheet. 👉 blueremediomics.eu/wp-content/u...
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BlueRemediomics @blueremediomics.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Did you know a single mL of seawater can host up to 1M microbes, making up 90% of ocean biomass? We’re excited to launch BlueRemediomics’ factsheet series with our consortium partners. First up: marine biodiscovery & blue growth! 👉 blueremediomics.eu/wp-content/u...
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BlueRemediomics @blueremediomics.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
🌊 New policy brief on the BBNJ Agreement! Released by @deepstewardship.bsky.social with input from BlueRemediomics’ partner Abbe Brown. It offers recommendations on governance, benefit-sharing, participation & accountability. Read here: blueremediomics.eu/new-policy-b...
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New Policy brief launched: recommendations to implement the BBNJ Agreement - Blueremediomics
The Deep-Ocean Stewardship Initiative (DOSI) has released a new policy brief, with contributions from BlueRemediomics’ partner Abbe Brown of the University of Aberdeen, titled “Towards coherence and a...
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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
The Basque Coast Estuarine Sediment Gene Catalogue www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs 🌊
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The Basque Coast Estuarine Sediment Gene Catalogue - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - The Basque Coast Estuarine Sediment Gene Catalogue
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EMBL-EBI @ebi.embl.org · 24/11/2025
Applications closing soon for our internship programme aimed at Master's students at French universities 🇫🇷 Are you studying bioinformatics, computer science or statistics? Check it out! Deadline: 7 December 2025 www.ebi.ac.uk/about/jobs/i... A collaboration with the French Embassy in London.
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GEOTRACES @geotraces.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
The GEOTRACES IDP2025 had a fantastic launch during the Summer School in Cape Town! 🌊 If you missed it, don’t worry—join us tomorrow, 25 November, from 05:00 to 06:30 UTC. 👇👇 www.geotraces.org/launch-of-ge... @scor-int.bsky.social @unoceandecade.bsky.social #OceanData #OceanScience #IDP2025
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Gautam Dey @gautamdey.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
We will be at @ccapoban.bsky.social in stunning Oban for the next two weeks fixing samples from their remarkable collection for #ExAME - thank you Ceci Mikey Jo Naomi and everyone at SAMS for the warm Scottish welcome ❤️ #ProtistsonSky #ExpandThemAll @fmikus.bsky.social
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Lukas VF Novak @animalculum.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Understanding the relationship between #foraminifera & their #symbionts can help corals phys.org/news/2025-09... Specific host - #algae relationship, yet flexible bacterial #microbiome, in diatom-bearing foraminifera: Elsa Girard et al. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #Protists #Microbes #Diatoms
microscopic pictures of a microbe with a spiralling shell full of tiny brown cells of symbiotic algae
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Microbiologist Dr. Rita Colwell was born #OTD in 1934. She is recognized for her study of global infectious disease spread through water sources. Her research on cholera helped save 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 lives. She was the first female director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), 1998-2004. #WomenInSTEM
Portrait of Dr. Rita Colwell with short silver-gray hair, smiling warmly at the camera. She is wearing round glasses, pearl earrings, a pearl necklace, a white blouse, and a dark blazer. Her arms are confidently crossed, and she stands against a plain medium-gray studio background.
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution @whoi.edu · 21/11/2025
Ready to shift your world view? 🌎🌍🌏 👉🏽Explore our planet as you never have before: go.whoi.edu/ocean-world
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Keila Stark (she/her) @keila-stark.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Excited to share our fresh-off-the-press Annual Review on the role of temperature in metabolic scaling! We review the state of the field on this topic and unpack confusion about the various ways the term "scaling" is used in metabolic theories. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Scaling Temperature Effects on Metabolism from Individuals to Ecosystems
The effects of temperature on metabolic rates are a core component of ecological change, with surprisingly regular effects across diverse ecological systems. Metabolic scaling theories can provide qua...
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A. Murat Eren (Meren) @merenbey.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
We have a date for the free-to-attend #anvio workshop and ECR Symposium for 2026, and we look forward to meeting you at the @hifmb.de in Oldenburg, Germany! Please find more information on the venue, program, and the application form here, and spread the word 😇 anvio.org/workshops/20...
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Sebastian Schmidt @tsbschm.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Great to see this finally published! Metalog: curated and harmonised contextual data for global metagenomics samples now out in @narjournal.bsky.social academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
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Metalog: curated and harmonised contextual data for global metagenomics samples
Abstract. Metagenomic sequencing enables the in-depth study of microbes and their functions in humans, animals, and the environment. While sequencing data
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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Ocean-M: an integrated global-scale multi-omics database for marine microbial diversity, function and ecological interactions academic.oup.com/nar/advance-... #jcampubs 🌊
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Ocean-M: an integrated global-scale multi-omics database for marine microbial diversity, function and ecological interactions
Abstract. Multi-omics analyses have significantly advanced the understanding of complex marine microbial communities and their interactions. Despite notabl
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STCmicrobeblog @stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
#ProtistsOnSky
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John Burns @burnsajohn.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
#protistsonsky
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Flora Vincent @floravincent.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Exciting day for the lab: our 1rst paper is officially out in @currentbiology.bsky.social 🥳 Wonderful collaboration wt @gautamdey.bsky.social showing how Cryo-ExM achieves consistent immunostaining in diverse diatoms, from the lab and the natural environment 1/n #ProtistsOnSky tinyurl.com/2zxaund7
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Omaya Dudin 𓂆 ¦🍉¦🦠¦🔬¦ @dudinlab.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
🚨Our collaboration with @centriolelab.bsky.social & @gautamdey.bsky.social is out today in @cp-cell.bsky.social We show that #Expansion #Microscopy is a broad-spectrum modality for Euks, enabling 3D phenotypic maps rooted to phylogeny. #ProtistsOnSky #SciComm #SciSky www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Max Telford @maxjtelford.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
I've written a piece about great new article by @thibautbrunet.bsky.social, Chantal Combredet & Mylan Ansel. (www.cell.com/cell-reports... ) theconversation.com/how-the-firs...
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How the first animals evolved – a new clue from a tiny relative
Meet the choanoflagellates - the microscopic cousins of animals.
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Joint Genome Institute @jgi.doe.gov · 27/10/2025
🚨NOTICE TO OUR USERS🚨 The Data Portal will soon replace the Genome Portal. Portal users can book a session with our team for technical help, feedback or a guided walk-through of the new Data Portal. 🖥️🧬 🌱🦠🍄🧪 More information: jgi.doe.gov/analyze-data...
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JGI Portals | Joint Genome Institute
Our data platforms are a key resource for the broader scientific community and require constant developments to meet the ever-changing demands of our users.
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Nature @nature.com · 14/10/2025
The idea that emissions can be offset through projects that claim to avoid releases or to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is fatally flawed go.nature.com/4925W5G
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Carbon credits are failing to help with climate change — here’s why
The idea that emissions can be offset through projects that claim to avoid releases or to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is fatally flawed.
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Thibaut Brunet @thibautbrunet.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Latest from ours: www.cell.com/cell-reports... This is two stories in one: a case study/cautionary tale on developing genetic tools in new organisms, and the first hint at a gene regulatory network for choanoflagellate multicellular development (which turn out to involve a Hippo/YAP/ECM loop!) A 🧵
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JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Happy Ctenophore Day! 🐙🦑🧪
A graphic that reads Happy Ctenophore Day in glowing pink text twice between three rows of different ctenophore species. The top row is lobate ctenophores including Bolinopsis microptera, Leucothea pulchra, Mnemiopsis leidy, and the bloody belly comb jelly Lampocteis. The second row has three different Beroe species. The lowest row has Pleurobrachia bachei, Dryodora glandiformis, red-x, and Euplokamis dunlapae.
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Roland Faure @rfaure.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Our preprint on our new metagenomic HiFi assembler Alice is out 🥳 Based on a *new sketching method* (🧵1/6) 👉 Preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 👉 Github github.com/rolandfaure/...
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Alice: fast and haplotype-aware assembly of high-fidelity reads based on MSR sketching
We introduce Mapping-friendly Sequence Reduction (MSR) sketches, a sketching method for high-fidelity (HiFi) long reads, and Alice, an assembler that operates directly on these sketches. MSR produces ...
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James McInerney @jomcinerney.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
The job is still open. Get your application in ASAP. Or just pass it on to somebody that might be interested.
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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
EcoFoldDB: Protein Structure‐Guided Functional Profiling of Ecologically Relevant Microbial Traits at the Metagenome Scale enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #jcampubs
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EcoFoldDB: Protein Structure‐Guided Functional Profiling of Ecologically Relevant Microbial Traits at the Metagenome Scale
EcoFoldDB provides a curated database of protein structures for ecologically important microbial traits. Its companion annotation pipeline (EcoFoldDB-annotate) employs rapid structural homology searc...
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BejaLabTechnion @bejalab.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
A genomic view of Earth’s biomes www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A genomic view of Earth’s biomes - Nature Reviews Genetics
Genome-wide approaches have uncovered the vast microbial and viral diversity across ecosystems. This Review explores advances in metagenomics, single-cell sequencing and functional profiling to elucid...
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Tara Oceans Science @taraoceans-science.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Here's a new paper that stresses the importance of microbes not only for human health but for planetary health in general, performing all sorts of essential activities at global scale : Incorporating microbiomes into the One Health Joint Plan of Action | mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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Incorporating microbiomes into the One Health Joint Plan of Action | mBio
One Health is a well-established concept that is now more crucial than ever in tackling modern challenges of zoonotic diseases, antimicrobial resistance, and climate- and environment-related health th...
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Nancy Knowlton @nancyknowlton.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
It being Sunday, and having been to the #Vatican in support of Pope Francis's environmental work, here's my news to me good news for Sept 7 #EarthOptimism #BeyondTheObituaries www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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Pope Leo, in climate push, to open Vatican-run ecological training centre
Pope Leo will open a new Vatican-run ecological training centre in the Italian countryside on Friday, in an initiative Catholic officials say is meant to encourage world leaders to address global climate change.
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Catastrophic tipping point in Antarctica already happening A "rapid and substantial slowdown" of ocean currents has already begun Warming waters will further reduce Krill and phytoplankton populations and starve emperor penguins Sea levels will rise www.dw.com/en/antarctic...
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Antarctic ice loss could have 'catastrophic' impact – DW – 08/21/2025
A study warned that Antarctic ice loss could cause more warming in the region and beyond, and could push some marine species toward extinction.
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Nature @nature.com · 31/07/2025
This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered
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Jed Fuhrman @jedfuhrman.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Just out: metagenomics with internal standards yields phylogenetically resolved genome ("~cell") counts of bacteria, archaea, and photosynthetic eukaryotes per L of seawater, over the AMT29 Atlantic transect, via "single copy" genes (recA, radA, psbO). Compares with microscopy and flow cytometry.
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BejaLabTechnion @bejalab.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
A dinoflagellate-infecting giant virus with a micron-length tail www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Javier del Campo @fonamental.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Characterizing organisms from three domains of life with universal primers from throughout the global ocean www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Veronika Meduna @veronikameduna.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
For my science column in this week's Listener, I talked to polar governance expert Alan Hemmings about the #Antarctic Treaty, geopolitics and emperors 🐧 current issue in shops now, online soon 🌎🇦🇶
Screenshot of a magazine page with a story about the Antarctic Treaty
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 21/07/2025
Recently I learnt that EMBL-EBI has a free online course about AlphaFold — how it works, strengths and limitations, how to use it — and it's very good! There are also little quizzes and interactives. www.ebi.ac.uk/training/onl...
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AlphaFold - A practical guide
AlphaFold - A practical guide
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Holly Bik @hollybik.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Even if you can’t attend this course in person, the online course materials are free and SO useful (I used this GitHub to plan out content for my new -Omics grad course)
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Fondation Tara Océan @fondationtaraocean.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
🎙️ #Podcast Épisode 3 : Partager la science : le rôle de la médiation scientifique 🔬Léa Bello et Myriam Thomas vous embarquent pour un échange passionnant sur la #médiationscientifique. 🎧 Disponible sur toutes les plateformes : shows.acast.com/un-hublot-su... Crédits : Agathe Roullin, Léa Bello
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Partager la science : le rôle de la médiation scientifique | Un hublot sur l'Océan - Fondation Tara Océan
Léa Bello & Myriam Thomas
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Glen Wheeler @glwheeler2.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Are you interested in how diatoms communicate with each other? Exciting post-doc position available in my lab to study the signalling mechanisms of cell-cell communication in diatoms. Deadline 14th July. @kehelliwell.bsky.social @thembauk.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNO210/p...
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Katherine Helliwell @kehelliwell.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
We had a wonderful time at the Molecular Life of Diatoms meeting in Ghent last week!! Many stimulating conversations and fantastic talks. Huge thanks to the organizers for this splendid event #mld8 #protistsOnSky 🤎💛💚🌊
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Simons Foundation @simonsfoundation.org · 02/07/2025
There is one month left to apply for our Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution! These awards provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in #ecology and #evolution. www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons... #science
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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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GEOTRACES @geotraces.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Early Career Scientist at #Goldschmidt2025?🌊 Join the GEOTRACES ECS Mixer! 🍕 Free pizza & drinks 🗓 Tue 8 July | 🕖 19:45 📍 U Olmeru (5 min walk) maps.app.goo.gl/5w6ibKqC8q64... Sign up 👇https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeWXAsmdWIWU99S1WH-Anl4RNSnfxhrgoiOmEcmTSiWT77awA/viewform
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Goldschmidt GEOTRACES ECR mixer
Secure your place! When: Tuesday 8th July, 19:45 - 22:00 Where: U Olmeru, a 5-minute walk from the Goldschmidt venue Details: Join us to network with fellow GEOTRACES Early Career Researchers*. Free p...
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Jesse McNichol @jcmcnch.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
So excited to announce the GRUMP paper is published! This global dataset provides relative abundances for plankton spanning Archaea to Zooplankton from unfractionated (>0.2µm) water samples using 3-domain universal primers that amplify 16S and 18S in one PCR reaction. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Characterizing organisms from three domains of life with universal primers from throughout the global ocean - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Characterizing organisms from three domains of life with universal primers from throughout the global ocean
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The Keeling Curve @keelingcurve.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
429.17 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 01-Jul-2025 keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
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The Keeling Curve
The Keeling Curve is a daily record of global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration maintained by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.
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EMBL @embl.org · 02/07/2025
The Marine Research Centre (CIM) at the University of Vigo, Spain, and EMBL join forces to study how to curb red tides and anticipate the effects of marine heatwaves. The CELLBLOOM project will advance scientific understanding of current global changes in the ocean. www.embl.org/news/lab-mat...
Collage showing EMBL and CIM’s collaborative marine research in action. Top left: two researchers on a boat deploying a water sampling net into the sea. Center left: close-up of the net capturing water. Center right: the EMBL mobile laboratory truck parked outside the CIM building. Bottom row: interior of a mobile lab with scientists analyzing samples and conducting experiments in a well-equipped workspace.
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BejaLabTechnion @bejalab.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Congratulations to Asaf Vardi @vardilab.bsky.social for being elected to EMBO. microbial ecology rock!!! www.embo.org/press-releas...
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Outstanding life scientists elected to the EMBO Membership – Press releases – EMBO
Sixty-nine new members join the community of leading life scientists in Europe and beyond
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Iuliia Burdun @burdun.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
New paper out! Using over 20 years of #satellite data, we show that restored #peatlands start to resemble intact peatlands. Their #albedo and land surface #temperature (LST) gradually align with those of natural peatlands. 👉 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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Satellite data archives reveal positive effects of peatland restoration: albedo and temperature begin to resemble those of intact peatlands - IOPscience
Satellite data archives reveal positive effects of peatland restoration: albedo and temperature begin to resemble those of intact peatlands, Burdun, Iuliia, Myllymäki, Mari, Artz, Rebekka R.E., Guêné-Nanchen, Mélina, Jarašius, Leonas, Kull, Ain, Lilleskov, Erik A., McCullough, Kevin, Pakalne, Mara, Pu, Jiabin, Sendzikaite, Jurate, Strazdina, Liga, Rautiainen, Miina
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