New pub alert!
Clayton, S., Neeley, A., Poulton, N., et al., (2026) Operational Phytoplankton Observations Best Practices: a guide for using imaging technologies for routine monitoring of phytoplankton communities. doi.org/10.25607/OBP...
More on OCB's working group: www.us-ocb.org/opo-working-...
so beautiful. good morning world, keep the beauty going.
music center LA on instagram: use code CHALAMET to save 20% on ballet tickets. image of some ballet dancers.
so that’s kind of funny lmao
This could be your dream job!
PhD in ecology, and English and Japanese language skills required... working for POKEMON!!!
www.ign.com/articles/the...
The gutting of NASA Goddard has had a devastating effect on high energy astrophysics. The AXIS probe mission proposal was rejected without review. (The Goddard X-ray mirror lab was significantly impacted by shutdowns and pressured retirements, against the congress approved budget for NASA.)
A mission competition going from two to one candidates directly because of NASA complying with the White House's Presidential Budget Request—which was ultimately ignored by Congress.
This is so cool!
My son was only 4 months old when i was a chief scientist aboard R/V Endeavour. This is a photo of two of us when i returned from the cruise with the lady in the background... That was the first ship he visited in his life 💕
Wonderful memories sailing with Endeavour 💕🌊 thank you
(also, best food of all UNOLS vessels)
how old were you then? 5?
Tonight in DC! Details and tickets at events.ticketleap.com/tickets/prof... .
Chaetoceros
Grant Witness is hiring! We're seeking a full-time data scientist to join our team building data resources to support journalism, litigation, and activism protecting science, public health, and the rule of law. grant-witness.us/apply.html #rstats
To all you amazing women that i look up to every day, happy #internationalwomenday
@thalassalib.bsky.social saw this thought of you www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/wool...
🌊 cool projects for oceanography classes.
Exactly. Morons
GEO AquaWatch logo on a blue background with photos of 2 moderators and 3 speakers. The following words appear: Join us! March 19th 2026 12:00 UTC Early Career Society's 3rd Annual Water Talks. Moderators Christopher Wanjohi Catholic University of America; Duy Nguyen CSIRO; Ghada El Serafy GEO AquaWatch Director & Deltares; Mar Roca Mora Spanish National Research Council; Beatriz Silva Fernandes, Federal University of Sao Paulo
🧪🛰️💧📅19 Mar ⏰ 12:00-14:00 UTC
📣💦🌊💧Join us for the 3rd Annual Water Talks Webinar!
#earlycareer #globalsouth #waterquality #earthobservation
Please share with your network!
Read Abstracts and find meeting link here: www.geoaquawatch.org/future-geo-a...
After several years of work, my lab is starting to put out our first papers on learning in a unicellular organism (Stentor coeruleus).
Here we show evidence for a form of associative learning in Stentor:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
teaching diatoms to roll over?
yes!!!!!
My latest:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Next column will address needed guardrails for private funding of science, esp. in light of #Epstein/ #Summers etc.
it says it is private only
🌱 Plant #881 🍃
I figured it out in 4 guesses!
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🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 4
flora.metazooa.com
#metaflora
this is really cool. ty for sharing.
once your email storage is full you should be allowed to graduate from it. no more emails for you. you’ve seen enough emails. you’re free now
Shoutout to @schmidtocean.bsky.social for making #osm2026 more accessible to parent ocean scientists! 🌊
L'export d'aérosols désertiques de ce matin du 24 février, depuis le Sahara sur l'Atlantique, est bien visible sur les images TrueColour @eumetsat.int de #FCI
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snow covering cars road and trees in Olney republic!
Olney - beautiful, glowy, and silent
Page from BRAINS First Panel: "An AI has no sense of anything. No context. No experience." Illustration of a little pink frog (he's playing a blood cell in this comic, though, which is why he's pink) Second panel: "It cannot touch" the pink frog bends down to pick a flower Third panel: "It cannot smell" 'sniff sniff' the frog smells the flower Fourth panel: "It cannot breathe" (the frog is now dark blue with bright pink lungs visible, as though the frog has been imaged in some way) Fifth panel: "It cannot think" (the frogs brain is now visible, similarly to the lungs in the previous panel) Sixth panel: "It cannot be" the frog is floating and his cute lil butt is visible Seventh panel: "*Stares directly at camera*" the pink frog stares directly at camera Eight panel: "It cannot be... YOU" Page from BRAINS First Panel: "An AI has no sense of anything. No context. No experience." Illustration of a little pink frog (he's playing a blood cell in this comic, though, which is why he's pink) Second panel: "It cannot touch" the pink frog bends down to pick a flower Third panel: "It cannot smell" 'sniff sniff' the frog smells the flower Fourth panel: "It cannot breathe" (the frog is now dark blue with bright pink lungs visible, as though the frog has been imaged in some way) Fifth panel: "It cannot think" (the frogs brain is now visible, similarly to the lungs in the previous panel) Sixth panel: "It cannot be" the frog is floating and his cute lil butt is visible Seventh panel: "*Stares directly at camera*" the pink frog stares directly at camera Eight panel: "It cannot be... YOU"
If you're going to be snowed in & need something to do, I made my comic pay what you want, snag it for free (or throw me a couple bucks, you gem, always appreciated), a love letter to the brain and thinking and perceiving (and a big 'fuck you' to so-called AI) alexandragallant.itch.io/brains
