🌊 #ICESASC26 Theme Session K: advancing integrative approaches for marine biodiversity—from morphology & molecular tools to acoustics, optics, AI, and long‑term monitoring.
📢 Call for Abstracts is open, 11 days to go!
🗓️ Deadline: 25 February 2026
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🌊 Job Opportunity: Zooplankton Specialist
University of Alaska Fairbanks
The Hopcroft Lab @ College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences (CFOS) is seeking a motivated individual interested in studying zooplankton in high‑latitude ecosystems.
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BIOS SUMMER COURSES ARE HERE!
CORAL REEF ECOLOGY: Functional Ecology of Coral Reefs
June 22 - July 10, 2026 Instructor: Dr. Eric Hochberg
MARINE MOLECULAR ECOLOGY
July 13 - 31, 2026
Instructors: Dr. Brett Jameson, Dr. Sheryl Murdock, Dr. Nicholas Baetge
Check below!!
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No!! En serio? Cómo los detectas?
Our eLetter github.com/caseywdunn/s... responding to a recent Science paper was just posted. The paper found more genes with consistent support for sponge-sister than ctenophore-sister. We found several technical issues that, when corrected, reverse the conclusions and recover ctenophore-sister.
🌊 Exciting Update from CIEROW! 🌊
marinesciences.uconn.edu/cierow/
Mystic Aquarium has put together an incredible video showcasing how our project contributes to advancing science-based solutions for sustainable energy while protecting marine ecosystems.
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Please spread the word among undergraduate students:
Our Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) offers a unique collaboration between the
renowned Mystic Aquarium in Mystic, CT and the University of Connecticut, Avery Point on Long Island Sound.
@uconn.bsky.social @mysticaquarium.bsky.social
#ICESASC26
Conveners: Paola Batta-Lona (USA), Silke Laakmann (Germany), Astrid Cornils (Germany), Henning Reiss (Norway)
ICES - International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
Are you going to ICES/ASC 2026 in Brest, France?
Please consider submitting your abstract to Theme Session K: Integrative approaches for marine biodiversity assessment – From complementary methods to monitoring applications
Abstracts are due February 28th, 2026
@icesmarine.bsky.social
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Our last product of the SCOR WG157 MetaZooGene if out! We run a 10-laboratory intercomparison experiment on for zooplankton metabarcoding. Take home: major patterns hold, but sequencing platform matters, taq matters (a lot), add positive/negative controls...
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Closing 2025 with a bang! Great experience working on this collaborative project.
MetaZooGene Intercalibration Experiment (MZG‐ICE): Metabarcoding Marine Zooplankton Diversity of the Global Ocean - Blanco‐Bercial - 2026 -
@blancobercial.bsky.social
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Here we go again.
The recent elimination of the Diving Safety Officer (DSO) position at UConn's Marine Sciences will halt critical research operations, jeopardizing active grants, and undermining future funding opportunities.
Please sign this petition!!!
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Digital copies for sale plus a few limited hard copies at:
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Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Microbiology
Come and join great students and colleagues at Hofstra Biology. Please apply using the link below and/or spread the word!
hofstra.peopleadmin.com/postings/6542
Publication accepted!! so releasing the scripts deposited on @github.com, the raw data from #NCBI... Happy day, @zooplanktomics.bsky.social!!
Socioeconomic roots of academic faculty
Tenure-track faculty are up to 25 times more likely to have a parent with a Ph.D. Moreover, this rate nearly doubles at prestigious universities and is stable across the past 50 years.
#AcademicSky
New London #nokings @indivisible.org
Just in from @bobbyallyn.bsky.social
YouTube is the latest social media company to pay Trump tens of millions of dollars to resolve lawsuits brought before he returned to power. The money will fund a new ballroom at the White House.
Next step in a really nice bit of translational ecology, kick-started by a (very modest) bit of seed funding through the APEAL project (lternet.edu/engaging-com...) @johnbesley.bsky.social
Successful 2 oral presentations and 3 posters of on going research at the #BattaLonaLab #icesasc2025 this wouldn’t be possible without the hard work of my coauthors and students. Was able to do some networking and learned a lot about topics outside my expertise even if I was sick for the entirety
If you are interested in learning about : A) monitoring time series of zooplankton and detection of climate migrants, B) impacts of offshore wind structures in plankton and C) prey composition of juvenile Black Sea bass stomachs. Stop by the the poster session today @17:30 #icesasc25
Last minute change, I was asked to give a presentation at the #ICESASC2025. Theme Session A - Global evidence on effects of offshore marine artificial structures to inform resource management decisions. Hope to see you tomorow (Tuesday 16th) @ 10:38am
Three days left to register for #OSM2026 in Glasgow!! If you are working on deep-sea communities, consider submitting your abstract to our session - we would love to see you there!!
Super proud of the undergraduate and graduate student outreach activities @mysticaquarium. Sharing their findings and experiences during this summer @uconnmarinesciences on topics such as DNA metabarcoding, fish ecology, changes in hormones in belugas. #nsfREU #Batta-LonaLAB
Are you going to OSM 2026 in Glasgow?? Are you working on the communities and processes of the deep layers of the ocean, from viruses to the charismatic megafauna?? The please consider submitting your abstract to our session at #osm2026 “Shining Light on the Dark Pelagic”, Due August 20th,2025!
Join our session at #osm2026 #DS005 “Shining Light on the Dark Pelagic”. Abstracts due August 20th,2025
Our team includes @blancobercial.bsky.social (BIOS) and Jenn Questel (UAF). #1stTimeChairing
