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You can do it to her some day 🤣 (sorry). Moms and other moms are the best

Looks like some great paid undergraduate intern opportunities!
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If, like me, today’s horrors left you feeling more untethered than usual, read this. It will ground you.

How Trump’s attacks on ‘climate alarmism’ have already transformed U.S. science Experts say the cuts to the federal workforce and climate science funding could cause decades of loss in human knowledge and discovery.

Trump cuts and uncertainties regarding the operation of the UNOLS oceanographic fleet headlines story of unraveling of decades of investment in Earth observations and research and loss of US scientific leadership.
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An Energy-Based Perspective on Microbial Food Web Structure | Marine Biological Laboratory The oceans are teeming with microbes like bacteria and phytoplankton that play an outsized role in climate regulation. These microorganisms absorb carbon, cycle nutrients, and form the base of the oce...

A new paper out with @oahern.bsky.social (@mblscience.bsky.social) and @julesdeep.bsky.social (@whoi.edu) examines how energy dissipation can be used to predict food web structure of microbial communities. A short description and a link to the paper can be found here: www.mbl.edu/news/energy-...

I'm so bummed I'm not there. Take some pics if you can!

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I’ll likely have to take cough breaks to sip my tea & blow my nose, as the plague & I are @agu.org but I hope you’ll join me at 1030 Wednesday for my lecture. I’ll talk about Carson’s impact on science & my career, subseafloor life, microbial ecosystem services, & science storytelling! #AGU25

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The best way to spread deep-sea cheer is by sending tubeworm videos to those you hold dear. 🎁

Tubeworms like these Oasisia alvinae are abundant at hydrothermal vents at depths of 3,700 meters (12,140 feet) in the Pescadero Basin, located off the east coast of Mexico’s Baja California.

Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island. The Department of Biological Sciences in the College of the Environment and Life Sciences (CELS) at the University of Rhode Island (URI) invites applications for an academic year (9 month), tenure-track Assistant Professor position specializing in Marine Ecology. URI, the top public university in New England, is a land and sea grant research university located in Kingston, Rhode Island, a beautiful seaside community that is well connected by car, bus, and rail about 40 min from Providence, an hour from Boston and 3 hours from New York City.

Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island.

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Winogradsky Columns after 8 weeks of growth showing nice development of purple and green (yellowish here) sulfur bacteria that are anaerobic phototrophs. The columns are used in the microbial methods course taught in the Semester in Environmental Science Program @mblscience.bsky.social

And the 2015 "cruise" ... life as a scientist 😁

Congratulations to WHOI's @julesdeep.bsky.social, who was recently selected to deliver the prestigious @agu.org Rachel Carson Lecture.

The award recognizes women whose work in ocean science is both cutting-edge and deeply relevant to today’s societal & environmental challenges: go.whoi.edu/Huber

Woot, this news continues to put a big smile on my face! Congrats (again) Julie!! 🎉🙌

Those are insane. When my son and I harvested reapers we wore gloves and eye protection 😭 🔥🔥🔥 He also had some stomach issues after eating just a small bite.

Congratulations Julie!! 🎉

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Julie Huber Awarded Prestigious Rachel Carson Lecture by the American Geophysical Union WHOI’s Julie Huber Awarded Prestigious Rachel Carson Lecture by the AGU

Fantastic news! Julie Huber @julesdeep.bsky.social was just awarded the prestigious Rachel Carson Lecture by @agu.org! Not only well deserved, but also a fitting tribute. Rachel Carson was one of Julie’s childhood heroes that guided her path. Congratulations Julie!! 🎉🙌 www.whoi.edu/press-room/n...

Congrats!

SES students got to measure bacterial production in their Winogradsky Columns using radioactive 14C-Leucine yesterday! My favorite lab! ☢️🦠❤️

Ugh, disappointing to see the bias continue into cyberspace.

However, as Philip Morrison states in his 1964 paper, A thermodynamic characterization of self-reproduction: "Nearly all the manifest visual and mechanical intricacy of organisms, like their apt behavior, turns out to be without quantitative thermodynamic importance." Beauty is not low entropy 😁

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
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A beautiful day for a field trip to Little Sippewissett Marsh for the annual construction of Winogradsky columns for the Microbial Methods course in the Semester in Environmental Science program @mblscience.bsky.social

Purple sulfur bacteria at low tide 🦠💜

NSF could be moving down the street Government sets requirements for new space that sound like nearby patent office campus

After learning it would be evicted from its current headquarters and left in limbo about its future home, the National Science Foundation appears headed to new digs just down the street—and soon. https://scim.ag/4p1zzto

Interesting. If you're a scientist who publishes, your papers are likely in the database.

Beyond the Second Law: Darwinian Evolution as a Tendency for Entropy Production to Increase

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or, to a faster heat death of the universe, use life!

Our opinion piece is hot off the presses! Cutting science funding has profound implications for STEM education & training & will negatively impact the San Diego region. TAKE ACTION by calling your congressional reps & demand no cuts to science funding! #StandUpForScience 🧪
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UCLA research grants suspended after Trump administration faulted campus for antisemitism The Justice Department issued UCLA a notice of violation for not responding “adequately” to complaints about antisemitism.

I chased this all day:

UCLA research grants suspended after Trump administration faulted campus for antisemitism

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Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches - Nature The discovery of chemosynthesis-based benthic communities at depths of 5,800 m to 9,533 m in the Kuril–Kamchatka and western Aleutian trenches challenges traditional perspectives on the energy sources...

Check out "the deepest and the most extensive chemosynthesis-based communities known to exist on Earth" - methane seeps along Russia's NE coast, down to a depth of 9500 meters! 😮

It's amazing that such incredible ecosystems remain to be found in the deep sea...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Superb!