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Such a mixed bag for a Friday,
1) Really cool to see an impromptu effort for isotope sampling of frozen precipitation across the coming winter storm
2) Shutting down 8 irMS in preparation and doing routine maintenance with the forced downtime...
We have prepared as best we can here in Athens!

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

📢 Upcoming Webinar: Atomic Ecology Meets Dr Sora Kim!

Later this week, I’ll be launching the first in a new series of webinars titled 'Atomic Ecology Meets'. These are designed to sit somewhere between a podcast and a seminar, providing a small (but powerful) dose of high quality science along

Well, there is the gall to explicitly tell researchers not to use AI for peer review while the publishers upload every draft that we submit to their in house AI for "extraction purposes"... Effectively building training databases off of unpublished works with no possibility for opt out.

Recovery of Paleodictyon patterns after simulated mining activity on Pacific nodule fields - Marine Biodiversity Since the late 1980s, various experiments have been conducted in polymetallic nodule fields of the Pacific Ocean to assess the potential environmental impacts of future mining, specifically in two are...

This is one of the wildest deep-sea mining stories to me.

Paleodictyon is a 500-million-year-old trace fossil from an unknown organism. In the last 50 years, we've found their honeycomb traces on the seafloor. There is a living organism that has been doing its thing for half a billion years.

Cake Fashion Nugget

Trump administration plans to break up largest federal climate research center Russ Vought, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, said the National Science Foundation "will be breaking up" the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado.

“NCAR has played a greater role in advancing weather prediction & atmospheric modeling than perhaps any other single entity in the world,” says @weatherwest.bsky.social

Dismantling NCAR would be “like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.” KH

Laboratory Engineer in a stable isotope laboratory [The department of biology and environmental science](https://www.jyu.fi/en/science/bioenv) is seeking to recruit a Laboratory Engineer in a stable isotope laboratory starting April 1, 2026, or as soo...

The University of Jyväskylä, Finland, is seeking a qualified and motivated Laboratory Engineer with a strong background in analytical chemistry to support operations in their isotope laboratory. HT @jasonisotopes.bsky.social

ats.talentadore.com/apply/labora...

🌊 New paper out in MEPS @meps-ir.bsky.social
Warmer, less-connected marine lakes w/ more land input = simpler, less stable food webs + shift from marine → terrestrial carbon.
🦪 Mussels tell the story.
Open access 👉 doi.org/10.3354/meps...

A group of fish is foraging among the mangrove roots in a turbid marine lake.

🧪🦤🌐
Investigating Raja Ampat marine lakes, we observed how higher temperatures and increased terrestrial runoff in coastal ecosystems can cause biodiversity loss and simpler food webs.
bit.ly/meps_771_15

Experimental design for the well replicated parasite-host feeding study. 4 time periods, 3 tissues, host and parasite makes bulk sampling difficult and amino acid sampling excessively expensive and labor intensive! Great work by first author!

🧬 New study teases apart how parasites “tap into” host metabolism using nitrogen isotope profiling. A cestode parasite shows just ~0.5 ‰ trophic shift from its host’s liver—revealing surprisingly direct nutrient assimilation.
#Ecology #Parasites #Isotopes
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A Ruby-throated Hummingbird perches on a slender branch, turning its head to preen its back feathers. Its iridescent green plumage glows in the light, with soft tan and white underparts and intricate feather detail on display.

A Hummingbird cleaning her feathers

#birds #photography #nature
#photography
#photographybirds
#nature #wildlife

First pic of me... hello! I'm Victoria - I create aerial embroidery landscapes, mainly of the countryside and wild areas. The art I'm working on here is a particularly large landscape commission inspired by Ireland I've been busy with! I hope to meet other artists on here, embroidery or otherwise 💚

Buried in the tax bill: "no State or political subdivision thereof may enforce any law or regulation regulating artificial intelligence models, artificial intelligence systems, or automated decision systems during the 10-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act."

democracy dies in gerontocracy

Trump’s NIH And NSF Cuts Estimated To Cost The U.S. Economy $10 Billion Annually Economists find public R&D drives U.S. productivity growth — and pays for itself

Every R and D dollar spent returns 1.40 to 2.10 since 1946. Slashing research funding is short sighted and needs to account for the long term losses in economic output that these actions have.
www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

Aquatic Parasitology: Ecological and Environmental Concepts and Implications of Marine and Freshwater Parasites A unique open access collection on ecological and environmental parasitology in marine and freshwater. Covers climate change and parasite conservation.

Newly published open access marine and aquatic parasitology book out there today! Nice to see this effort come together for a fairly comprehensive insight into the field.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Two jobs at a wonderful Zoo Dept at the University of Otago - a very high quality of life

otago.taleo.net/careersectio...

otago.taleo.net/careersectio...

please repost and apply!

Host–Parasite Trophic Interactions as Revealed by Stable Isotope Analyses: Determinants for Trophic and Isotopic Niches of Hosts and Their Associated Parasites The analysis of stable isotopes (SIA) in organisms, especially those of carbon (13C/12C) and nitrogen (15N/14N), is a well-established and powerful tool for analysing trophic interactions between free...

Chapter 16 is where the stable isotopes are in case you were wondering! It's a good resource for parasitologists who may be interested in applying SI techniques to parasite-host relationships.

link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Aquatic Parasitology: Ecological and Environmental Concepts and Implications of Marine and Freshwater Parasites A unique open access collection on ecological and environmental parasitology in marine and freshwater. Covers climate change and parasite conservation.

Newly published open access marine and aquatic parasitology book out there today! Nice to see this effort come together for a fairly comprehensive insight into the field.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Sustainability insights from Late Pleistocene climate change and horse migration patterns Climate affects habitat, food availability, and the movement and sustainability of all life. In this work, we apply Indigenous and Western scientific methods, including genomics and isotope profiling,...

Sustainability insights from Late Pleistocene climate change and horse migration patterns | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Unprecedented cuts to the National Science Foundation endanger research that improves economic growth, national security and your life The Trump administration has terminated hundreds of federal grants that support engineering, biology, geology, computer science, STEM education and much more.

Thought piece on what the impacts at NSF actually mean that aims to communicate to a broad audience. Preaching to the crowd around here, but a nicely laid out piece of writing that I felt good about sharing with family.

Still got We the living to look forward to!
So grim.

Don't remember the tech companies pouring quite so much capex into 3D printing, TBH. Or a major 3D printmaker comprising a large portion of the S&P 500. Or access to printers being regulated by US policy as a bargaining chip.

The materials being poured into this will have a global effect...

Vendors starting with "What's your budget?" to a price request for a part with no listed price on their page really start off on the wrong foot for me....

I want a price, and I know what the price of them rebuilt on ebay is if that's where you want to start.

A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,

"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"

Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

To better understand parasite feeding, where they get their nutrients, and their ecosystem impacts we made a dataset:

✅ Standardised protocol for global comparisons
✅ 586 new host-parasite pairs
✅ Carbon, nitrogen and sulphur stable isotope values
✅ Doubling existing data, tripling δ³⁴S records

📣 New paper alert!
Parasites are everywhere, but we still do not fully understand where they fit in food webs. So, to speed up our understanding we built the largest global database of stable isotope values for host-parasite pairs ever compiled! 🪱🦈🦆
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Interested in #parasites and #isotopes? New database and paper lead by Amandine Sabadel just out! All data based on the same standardised protocol and collected in a large global collaborative effort:

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