Hannah Reich

Strong start to the week! Long overdue catch up with @harveyplankton.bsky.social and then met with one of my lab’s wundergrads who told me she set up her excel sheet’s color coding to match the tape labels on her culture experiments. 🤓

I (sadly) haven’t played outside much this winter so I was glad to enjoy the heat wave & take my new sponge hunting gloves for a spin! 🧽

No gemmules found but it was cool to see green lakes not looking green.

Two more #PhycologyFridays to register for the 64th Northeast Algal Symposium (#NEAS) in Salem, MA! 🧪🌊🧙‍♀️🧹🐈‍⬛

🔗 www.e-neas.org/future_ac.php

Student sharing a PowerPoint

Student sharing a graphical abstract

Celebrated #PhycologyFriday in lab meeting with project updates & graphical abstracts. Proud #newPI here! 🌊 🧪

I will consider this if you text me back :)))))

The fam’s been sending pictures of Matunuck all day. It is wild!

Come see my talk on coral phospholipids! ME33A-09 in M1. The session is the Impacts of the 4th Global Bleaching Event (2018 to present) on Coral Reef Ecosystems.

Georgie (cat) visits lab meeting

A very happy but tired person with a very cute cat

Professor giving a seminar

What. A. Week.

We had our first feline visitor at lab meeting (Georgie 😻), @jlgoff.bsky.social gave our departmental seminar, and I gave a seminar at SU (not pictured).

Somehow next week will be more chaotic (2 guest lectures + 4 regular class periods = a 6 class week). 😵‍💫🤯 #newPI

Georgie visits lab meeting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😻

Email me and I’ll share my marine symbiosis course docs!

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Of course the day I finally make it to our 'water' seminar, I bring a notebook but no pen. Niiiice. #newPI

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Set a new PR* today… grant submitted a whopping 1 minute before the deadline!

*previous PR was 2 minutes before the deadline but that one was a self submit 🤑

We talked about Osedax in my marine symbiosis course last fall and the students really enjoyed it! Such a cool symbiosis!

A calico cat

Belle was on the edge of her seat (bed) supervising this target date’s edition of “proposal party Sunday.” She was unimpressed so now she’s sleeping elsewhere. #CatsOnSky

“NEAR THIS SPOT CAPT. JAMES COOK MET HIS DEATH FEBRUARY 14, 1779” — A brick laid in the waters of Kealakekua Bay, Kona district, Hawaiʻi

Happy Death of James Cook day to those who celebrate. On 14 February 1779 British explorer Captain James Cook was killed as he attempted to kidnap Kalaniʻōpuʻu, the ruling chief (aliʻi nui) of the island of Hawaii, and hold him hostage for the return of a cutter which Hawaiians had stolen.

Something I didn't expect as a #newPI is I never know what to do with my hands on test days. I start by color coding any chalk & whiteboard markers in the room. Then I tally the # of students who finish the exam in 5min intervals. Setting a reminder to bring a fidget toy next time. #AcademicSky

That is epic! Getting to witness students nerding out about biology keeps me going these days!

Duckweed was one of the ‘emerging model organism’ options for my cell bio class last year. Granted the embedded project was literature/poster based since it’s a lecture class. But they got pretty into the duckweed!

So excited!!! A bunch of my lab members were notified about receiving college travel awards today!

#PhycologyWithoutApology #NEAS2026

Mine too because 50% of the humans in that picture are in my lab!!!!

Students, faculty mystified as NSF turns back applications for prestigious fellowship program Applicants to a prestigious National Science Foundation fellowship program say many submissions have been mysteriously “returned without review.”

More about the NSF GRFP nonsense www.statnews.com/2026/02/11/n...

Remembered I tweeted this yesterday while driving to work. I knew in my gut I was summoning something chaotic.

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A sleeping cat

Must be nice to be a cat and be able to sleep through the flurry of panic emails related to a campus-wide power outage & cold storage. Is February over yet? #newPI

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Dandelion cell culture 🌼

Deconstructed syringe system from a flow cytometer

Got a new fidget toy after a week of our flow cytometer’s syringe clasp not budging. Beyond relieved but a little worried about whatever chaos I just summoned by expressing relief. #newPI

A word cloud from the titles of ~1100 NSF grants that were terminated. The most frequent words are STEM, ADVANCE, Student, career, and engines.

This a word cloud from the titles of ~1100 terminated NSF grants.

It is hard not to see these grant terminations as an attack on the training of the future United States scientific workforce.

Omg that paw!!!

Gonna give her so many treats tomorrow !!

Polaroids of a lab group (left) and a taxidermied leopard in a lab coat (right)

Two PhD students preparing a taxidermied leopard for a photoshoot

This week was… not my favorite.

Grateful to end the week with a fun lab meeting (bulletin board update)! Our lab group is in the double digits now! 😵‍💫 #newPI

Read the RFP and watch your happiness turn to pure rage