Ariane Buckenmeyer

You in contact with any folks in the otolith collections @ NOAA? Wonder if someone on that end could put in a sampling request for you.

If the hardcore band's bassist looks like this, you're gonna die in that pit

Can’t speak on the others, but remember some allegations made against Uyarakq on Twitter a while back - guessing related to that. Otherwise this is a really rad playlist.

With the redirection of climate.gov to a politically directed web page we lost access to a lot of historical information, such as the CO2 concentration time series. But now, the team from www.climate.us will make that data accessible again. Follow @climate.us for the updates!!

The genomic origin of the unique chaetognath body plan - Nature Genomic, single-cell transcriptomic and epigenetic analyses show that chaetognaths, following extensive gene loss in the gnathiferan lineage, relied on newly evolved genes and lineage-specific tandem ...

After nearly twenty years in the making, our attempt at understanding what makes the chaetognath phylum so unique has finally been published! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
with #LauraPiovani @dariagavr.bsky.social @alexdemendoza.bsky.social @chemamd.bsky.social and others /1

You look into CASP3 (and/or CASP8 for external signaling/TNFs) or are they too temp. sensitive for what you need? Otherwise off top of head LDH or SOD1/SODC could be candidates (although last for oxidative stress, not apoptosis)

Scientists Ask NSF to Keep Only Antarctic Icebreaker Afloat - Eos On 28 July, more than 170 researchers sent a letter to National Science Foundation leaders and Congress, urging them to reconsider the decision to terminate the lease of the Nathaniel B. Palmer, the U...

Scientists have asked the NSF to reconsider plans to terminate the lease for its only Antarctic research icebreaker, the RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer. eos.org/research-and...

Oh man, that one was sick. We had another rad shirt that year in his course: bright teal “Send Nudes” text surrounded by nudibranchs. Still mourning the loss of that one.

Happy to share my latest work with Ulf Jondelius. It was a blast to be involved in this project, the last one I was leading during my time at Naturhistoriska.

Awesome to see, congrats!!

Acoels (Order Acoela) Acoels from Golden Beach QLD 4551, Australia on October 23, 2024 at 06:18 PM by PeterKamen

COLORS! Australian acoel! #wormwednesday www.inaturalist.org/observations...

HMMER is literally *the* go-to tool for profile HMMs in bioinformatics. I've used it countless times on a wide range of projects spanning viruses, retrotransposons, etc. Absolute insanity! hmmer.org

What if the #InternationalSeabedAuthority stopped paving the way for #DeepSeaMining and started championing science, equity, and ocean protection instead?

A new report lays out exactly that vision.

The deep sea isn’t a mine. It’s a shared legacy.

#DefendTheDeep #StopDeepSeaMining

Donate to Help Me Get to IPFC – A Dream Since My Undergrad Days! , organized by Adela Roa-Varon Dear Friends and Colleagues, I'm reaching out to share an… Adela Roa-Varon needs your support for Help Me Get to IPFC – A Dream Since My Undergrad Days!

Please support my journey by donating or sharing my GoFundMe page: gofund.me/d75a19f2. Every bit will help me attend the Indo-Pacific Fish Conference in Taipei for the first time in June 2025! 🎏💜
#Taipei2025 #IPFC25 #SupportMyJourney #GoFundMe #ResearchOpportunity #FishConservation #TeamFish

Fundamental questions in meiofauna research highlight how small but ubiquitous animals can improve our understanding of Nature - Communications Biology This paper identifies the top-50 priority questions for meiofaunal research, highlighting their critical roles in biogeochemical cycles and biodiversity. It calls for a balanced research agenda, inter...

Taking the pulse of meiofauna research in 2025. My biggest take-home message as the head of one panel: evolutionary genomics is not (yet) anywhere near reaching its potential in this field, partly because of a lack of visibility/interdisciplinary education. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Home - NOAA Ocean Acidification Program NOAA's Ocean Acidification Program prepares us for the impacts of ocean acidification through research and interdisciplinary partnerships.

One of the people fired from NOAA today is the director of the Ocean Acidification Program. That program also leads the U.S. government's effort on marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR). The destruction of American science is incomprehensible.

I worry that the focus on NOAA's weather predicting value is ignoring the millions of other ways NOAA researchers enrich communities and local economies.

There are no oysters without NOAA. There are no blue crabs without NOAA. NOAA trains teachers. NOAA is the lifeblood of coastal communities.

The xenacoelomorph gonopore is homologous to the bilaterian anus The bilaterian through gut with an anal opening is a key invention in animals, since it facilitates effective food processing, which allows animals to grow to a larger body size. However, because non-...

This paper provides now solid evidence that the xenacoelomorph male gonopore is homologous to the bilaterian hindgut.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Safe sailing (and good sampling)!

A really cool worm! Depth around 171m. From @marumunibremen.bsky.social dive.

"Luke McCartin is a postdoctoral research associate in Dr. Santiago Herrera’s lab at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, United States. He uses molecular tools to study the distribution of life on the deep seafloor and its evolution. At the Deep-Sea Biology Symposium, Luke will be presenting research that uses environmental DNA (eDNA) sequencing to determine the diversity and distributions of deep corals. Using submersibles like remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), Luke’s work involves collecting samples of corals and the seawater around them from the deep-sea floor for analysis. He compares sequences of DNA from the coral specimens and the eDNA that they release into seawater in order to determine the biodiversity of deep corals in the area." (Image: Luke McCartin grinning behind a laptop amongst collaborators: a number of screens with deep-sea footage are in the background. Image Credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute; Photographer: Alex Ingle)

Image: A close-up of Luke McCartin smiling inside a dimly lit ROV.

"Luke’s research has been primarily focused on mesophotic and deep-sea coral communities in the northern Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea south of Puerto Rico. Mesophotic corals, like this large colony of the black coral Plumapathes pennacea occur at depths from approximately 50 to 200 meters where light attenuates". (Image)

"Deep-sea corals, like this colony of the octocoral Paramuricea from 530 meters depth, live in perpetual darkness" (Image).

Happy day 4 of #17DSBS!

Meet Luke McCartin, who studies #DeepSeaCoral diversity using #eDNA sequencing in the Gulf of Mexico & Caribbean. Luke’s work involves using #ROVs to collect coral & seawater samples, analyzing DNA barcodes to reveal their #biodiversity and to understand coral distributions.

Erika Gress grinning outside of a boat - the ocean is reflected in the windows behind her.

Image 1: Erika Gress smiling and emerging from a submersible. Image 2: Erika Gress in a hard-hat holding up a paper sign that says "Jiaolong 300 dive 18/08/2024" with the submersible in the background.

Image 1: The submersible Jiaolong is lowered into the ocean while an inflatable boat approaches. Image 2: Erika and two collaborators inside the submersible in front of the controls.

Image 1: Erika Gress sorting samples with collaborators (and holding a coral). Image 2: View of an coral photographed inside the submersible Jiaolong.

Happy Day 3 of #17DSBS!

Meet Erika Gress, who specializes in #BlackCorals (Antipatharia) taxonomy, phylogenomics & ecology. During the 2024 Western Pacific Cruise for “Digital #DeepSea Typical Habitats” expedition, her and her team collected coral material from 11 families, 5 orders, & 2 classes.

A Phylogenomic Backbone for Acoelomorpha Inferred From Transcriptomic Data Abstract. —Xenacoelomorpha are mostly microscopic, morphologically simple worms, lacking many structures typical of other bilaterians. Xenacoelomorphs—whic

Finally, the typeset version of our latest paper is out. I hope you like it!

A Phylogenomic Backbone for Acoelomorpha Inferred From Transcriptomic Data: doi.org/10.1093/sysb...

New Silurian aculiferan fossils reveal complex early history of Mollusca - Nature Fossils of two new worm-like aculiferan species add to the diversity of this group, showing that evolution in early aculiferans generated unusual forms comparable to other crown-group molluscs.

Love this new species of Silurian mollusk is called Punk ferox. "Etymology. Punk: fancied resemblance of the spicule array to the spiked hairstyles associated with the punk rock movement; ferox (Latin): wild, bold, defiant. Grammatical gender: nonbinary." Read more at link its significance.

A long road to publication, but our paper "Maximizing the potential of sustainable aquatic food systems for global food security: key opportunities and challenges" is finally out in Frontiers in Ocean Sustainability

www.frontiersin.org/journals/oce...

Frontiers | Incentive diversity is key to the more effective and equitable governance of marine protected areas A target to conserve 30% of oceans by designating marine protected areas (MPAs) has been agreed, yet the effectiveness of existing MPAs is often low, with fe...

New #MPAGovernance paper published based on a detailed comparative governance analysis of 50 #MPA case studies across 24 countries over the last 15 years:

Incentive diversity is key to the more effective and equitable governance of marine protected areas
www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...

#MPAs

Super happy to have been involved with the great Jordi Paps & @martaalvarez.bsky.social in this project. Using genome-wide data, we show #Xenacoelomorpha to be the sister-group to the rest of Bilateria.

miRNA-target complementarity in cnidarians resembles its counterpart in plants | EMBO reports imageimagemiRNAs in plants and cnidarian animals operate similarly by binding their targets with nearly-full complementarity, in contrast to miRNAs in bilaterian animals that bind via a short seed-mat...

1/3 Our paper about miRNA target complementarity in Cnidaria is finally published in @emboreports.bsky.social This work was led by the talented Yael Admoni with help from Arie and Rubi in collaboration with the labs of @thecocodium.bsky.social and Michal Rabani
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Someone Made a Dataset of One Million Bluesky Posts for 'Machine Learning Research' A Hugging Face employee made a huge dataset of Bluesky posts, and it’s already very popular.

When I asked Bluesky users why they left X, many said they didn’t want their posts training AI.

But with Bluesky’s open API, anyone can scrape posts for that purpose. A HuggingFace employee just shared a dataset of 1M posts.

The reality: if you post online, assume it’ll be used to train AI.

pink bushy tree type coral with serpent star showing off long snake-like arms

Large serpent star with elongate arms wrapped around pinkish tree like corals

Deep Sea Octocorals are also ecosystem engineers-their presence provides home/habitat for many other animals! This one is a serpent star, possibly Asteroschema or Ophiocreas! They live closely, staying wrapped even after death! #Okeanos Salmon Bank, 2015 dive #octocoralFriday #echinoday