Riss Kell, PhD

My final PhD thesis chapter was published last week! Very happy to share this-- we used metaproteomics, metatranscriptomics, and many measurements of dissolved metal chemistry to document Zn limitation of phyotplankton in Terra Nova Bay, Antarctica.

Zinc stimulation of phytoplankton in a low-carbon-dioxide, coastal Antarctic environment: evidence for the Zn hypothesis Abstract. The ocean acts as a carbon sink, absorbing carbon from the atmosphere and resulting in substantial uptake of anthropogenic CO2 emissions. As biological processes in the oceans such as net…

New article in Biogeosciences #EGU by Riss M. Kell et al ⬇️

Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The turnout in small towns across the country has been incredible drawing crowds of thousands. We’re already seeing over one million in attendance nationwide, and events are still underway. Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Ohio all had especially surprising showings.

100,000+ people marched at the #HandsOff rally in New York!

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff

Massive crowd at Boston’s city hall plaza for the #HandsOff protest against Trump and Musk

There are trans Americans right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist.

Well, I am. We are. We will.

Transgender Day of Visibility isn’t just about being seen or heard. It’s about being recognized and respected. For trans people, visibility can be empowering and at the same time dangerous, almost an impossible choice between pride and safety. Uplift our voices and make the world safe for us too.

#TeslaTakedown #Boston

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IYKYK

Very much this.

Good turnout for the Stand Up for Science March in Woods Hole, MA. While a small town on Cape Code, Woods Hole hosts 6 premier science institutions that include @mblscience.bsky.social, @whoi.edu, @noaa.gov fisheries, @woodwellclimate.bsky.social, USGS, and @sea1971.bsky.social

#standupforscience

My slapdash sign and I will be at Stand Up for Science standupforscience2025.org tomorrow, hope to see you there

What it feels like revising a paper

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.

This Friday, where will you be?

standupforscience2025.org

A digitally drawn portrait of Nadja of Antipaxos. She is lit with blue light and is looking directly at the viewer with her mouth open slightly to show off her fangs. She has a few streaks of differently colored hair, but it is otherwise very dark blue-black and loose around her face.

Nadja of Antipaxos once more!

Chat I cooked with this one.

#art #portrait #nadja #nadjaofantipaxos #wwdits #fanart

I love it so much it made me cry! My talented love 🥰

I have not seen a crisis of this magnitude since yesterday

Between 2019 and 2023, researchers paid $8.968 billion to make papers open access. Imagine what else could be done with this money if it wasnt paid to for profit publishing companies...
👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551

you don't need a phd in right wing extremism to recognize a nazi salute. what the fuck are we doing here.

Weird that we have to say this, but the government doesn’t get to decide what gender a person is.

My talented wife is mega talented!! 🥰

He would be the genre of books that specifically caters to stereotypical gross elementary school aged boys that have cartoon green clouds of farts on the cover, and she would be the opposite, the books that are aimed at the same age girls that are like “boys have cooties and other true facts”

Micro/nanonutrient limitation, it's not just iron 🧪🌊

High metabolic zinc demand within native Amundsen and Ross sea phytoplankton communities determined by stable isotope uptake rate measurements Abstract. Zinc (Zn) is an essential micronutrient for most eukaryotic phytoplankton. Zn uptake by phytoplankton within the euphotic zone results in nutrient-like dissolved Zn (dZn) profiles with a lar...

Hello bluesky! I am so happy to share that some of my Antarctic work was published today in BG: bg.copernicus.org/articles/21/.... This paper is seven (!) years in the making! Zinc is an essential micronutrient for phytoplankton, and is uptaken rapidly (biogeochem modelers please take note!)

That's me!! I'm the Wife 🥰

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