Manon Laget

The memory of the mass femicide at Polytechnique is still painful.

Today marks the 36th anniversary of the Montreal massacre, where 14 women — students at Université de Montréal’s École Polytechnique — lost their lives in a mass shooting motivated by misogyny.

#December6

What Scientists Found When a Deep Sea Mining Company Invited Them In

Benthic forams in the news www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/c...

Printed in a gradient of dark blue-green at the bottom through dark blue to light blue at the top, this is my 9.25” x 12.5” portrait of Japanese geochemist in the lab adjusting a round bottomed flask with other posts and an array of chemical glassware in the foreground. In the background are carved ocean waves so the top looks like sky over wavy ocean

Day 3 of #artAdventCalendar: another new portrait - geochemist Katsuko Saruhashi (1920-2007) who created tools that allowed her to make 1st measurements of CO2 in seawater, raised the alarm about nuclear fallout, tracing it in oceans & researched peaceful uses of nuclear power. 🐡🧪👩🏻‍🔬 #histsci A 🧵

COP30 overlooked the deep ocean, protecting it must be a priority The Maldivian government reopened gulper shark fishing, carving a species-level exemption that weakens both protections and reputations.

🌊 COP30 overlooked the deep ocean, protecting it must be a priority

oceanographicmagazine.com/features/cop...

Why Won’t Nora The Leopard Seal Abandon Her Dead Pups? | Defector In the fall of 2021, Renato Borras-Chavez, a marine mammal ecologist at the University of Rhode Island, spotted a leopard seal on an ice floe. Borras-Chavez was on a research expedition to a glacial f...

this might be the saddest story I've ever written, about a seal that I will be thinking about for a long, long time.
defector.com/why-wont-nor...

And for the carbon cycle community, here are (most of) your figures in units of carbon instead of CO₂:
robbieandrew.github.io/GCB2025/GtC/

If you work on the ocean twilight zone, this is for you ⬇️ 🌊🧪

Russia arrests Ukrainian biologist for backing curbs on Antarctic krill fishing ‘Trumped-up’ charges spark diplomatic row as scientists express fears for health of 70-year-old Leonid Pshenichnov

🌊✊ Solidarity with Leonid Pshenichnov — the Ukrainian biologist arrested for backing curbs on Antarctic krill fishing. Protecting ecosystems isn’t treason. It’s good science, and it’s our future.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The incredible tragedy for #ArcticScience of NOAA shutting down their #methane monitoring data. 5th May 2025 is the last data we'll ever get.
#NCKF25

😶‍🌫️ Depuis quelques semaines, la temperature dans le nord de l'Arctique ne baissent pas...

With some serious implications for #fisheries productivity, especially in low latitudes, which host large populations of vulnerable, fish-dependent coastal communities. 🧪🌊🌏

A bitter day for the fight against climate change. The decision by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to postpone the decision on the climate protection pathway for global shipping by one year is wrong. Countries may be able to be pressured, but the planet cannot.

Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant

The Alaska Native village of Kipnuk was due to receive a $20M grant from the EPA that they were going to use for flood protection.

It was labelled “wasteful DEI spending” and canceled.

The recent storm destroyed homes & flooded Kipnuk: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...

Victor Hensen coined the term "Plankton" in 1887. By 1910 it was an industry (still is)! Steuer's book ran 722 pages!

Photo of Jane Goodall in the center, signing a book, with three women standing slightly hunched behind her. A very young Michelle is to the right, smiling.

As a primatologist, Jane Goodall was a huge inspiration to me. I admired the way she describes chimpanzee behavior with such detail and empathy, and she’s inspired so many people and advocated for chimpanzee conservation and welfare.

However, I'm dismayed at what her narrative leaves out (1/10)

🚂 Sauvons les trains de nuit Paris-Berlin et Paris-Vienne Signez la pétition maintenant !

@egu.eu community please consider signing this petition to try and save the nightjet to Vienna🚂 A peine lancés et déjà supprimés ? Sauvons les trains de nuit Paris-Berlin et Paris-Vienne, un voyage bas-carbone largement plébiscité par ses utilisateurs agir.greenvoice.fr/petitions/sa...

Trump’s Cuts May Spell the End for America’s Only Antarctic Research Ship

“Among the many [proposed] deep cuts to scientific research…is the abrupt termination of the Nathaniel B. Palmer, the sole U.S. icebreaker dedicated to Antarctic research. The budget also pauses development of a new vessel that was supposed to succeed the Palmer in the 2030s.”

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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Not sea glass but fragments of plastic car tail lights, indicators and brake lights, probably washed into storm drains after heavy rain, eventually making their way to the sea. #oceanplastic

In addition to cancelling your Disney accounts, now is also a great time to delete academia.edu

Il était une fois Elise (dite Lise) Meitner, physicienne juive autrichienne à l'origine de la série d'expériences qui aboutira à la découverte de la fission nucléaire en 1938. Il y a beaucoup à dire mais voici les éléments principaux de sa vie 🧵👇

Historic High Seas Treaty is a "turning point for humanity" - Oceanographic An historic treaty to protect the marine life and ecosystems of the high seas, the High Seas Treaty, will come into force in 120 days.

Well, here's some good news to start the weekend. Negotiating a treaty is one thing, but the work only starts once it's ratified and it looks as though the High Seas Treaty (aka BBNJ) will soon be up and running. This provides structure & standards & is a big step in protecting our ocean. 🎉🎉🌊

Hi! I am a postdoc working on ocean biogeochemistry. Can I be added?
orcid.org/0000-0003-19...

A microscope image of an acantharian cell in the process of releasing reproductive cells (swarmers).

I collected this beautiful acantharian cell into an intermediate dish knowing it was getting ready to swarm... but by the time I returned to it to transfer it to an individual well it had already started to release swarmers. So, I just captured the end of the process. Enjoy! #protistsonsky 🦑

Did you know tiny algae can "skate" within Arctic sea ice? ⛸️ Our new study in @pnas.org reveals the secret life of ice diatoms: they are actively gliding to navigate the ice! This adds a new dimension to the sea ice ecosystem, revealing an active, dynamic ecological niche. @prakashlab.bsky.social

📑 New paper! The Regional WG for the Indian Sector of the Southern Ocean reviews observations in one of the most critical, under-sampled regions.

🌊 A multidisciplinary and fit-for-purpose #GOOS is vital with #OneArgo at its core.

👉 online.ucpress.edu/elementa/art...

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

Check out our new paper on adopting a trait-based framework for protist diversity! We make the case for a unified protist trait database, how to build it, and how it could transform research on protist ecology and evolution.
#protistsonsky

Unexpected decline in the ocean carbon sink under record-high sea surface temperatures in 2023 - Nature Climate Change The ocean carbon sink strengthened in previous warm El Niño years due to reduced CO2 outgassing in the tropics. Here the authors show that the ocean carbon sink declined in 2023 despite record-high se...

🌊 In 2023, the ocean carbon sink weakened for the first time in a record-hot year 🌡️🌎
Our new study in Nature Climate Change quantifies this unexpected decline and explains how it came about. 👇
doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Most-viewed Guardian articles last night. Editors shouldn’t think that the public doesn’t want to know more about climate change.
Or about ocean science 🌊!
Read the article about our paper: www.theguardian.com/environment/...