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Growth of microorganisms in a Martian regolith simulant at reduced water activity - Scientific Reports Water activity (aw) quantifies the free water available for microbial growth. At the cellular level, liquid water is paramount for replication and proliferation. Research on Earth-like life suggests t...

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Thailand: Free Speech Activists Get 32-Month Sentences A Thai court on February 20, 2026, sentenced a prominent free speech activist and three others to 32 months in prison for criticizing King Maha Vajiralongkorn under Thailand’s royal insult law.

Thailand: Free Speech Activists Get 32-Month Sentences
www.hrw.org/news/2026/02...

Hey #OSM26! Don’t forget to stop by the joint society booth and learn more about #ASLO and the partner societies.

#OSM26 is officially wrapped 🌊🏴


Our custom OSM26 tartan — woven in Selkirk, Scotland — sold out!

Thank you to everyone who brought home a piece of it.

It was an amazing to have the chance to participate in this Art & Science project. Thank you for the initiative! 🌊

We have an amazing activity today for participants of #OSM26
Come to mingle, network and learn more about our organizations #ASLO #NMEA #SWMS

Come to our Amplifying Voices session happening now at Dorchart room.
#OSM26 @aslo.org

Seas the Opportunity: Events for Early Career Researchers at the Ocean Sciences Meeting 2026 in Glasgow | Request PDF Request PDF | On Sep 26, 2025, Ana C. Vásquez and others published Seas the Opportunity: Events for Early Career Researchers at the Ocean Sciences Meeting 2026 in Glasgow | Find, read and cite all the...

#OSM2026 has started. Here we highlight some of the many events designed for early careers and students.
Check the AGU Events app for all related events and information up to date!

#OSM26 has two special rooms designed for participants: the Be Well room, and the Meditation and Prayer room.
The Be Well room is specially designed for the neurodivergent community, and any participant, that might experience sensory overload, social anxiety, or in need of a quiet place to recharge

I followed my heart and it took me to the land of unicorns to talk about ocean science 🌊
#OSM2026

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Ensuring consistency between biogeochemical planetary boundaries - Nature Sustainability The planetary boundaries framework has emerged as a powerful tool for assessing the sustainable habitability of our planet. Reassessing these boundaries from a flow-based perspective demonstrates the ...

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Yes, even from established professors. As they publish in small journals, they think journals won’t check resemblances with other articles. Specially if two different languages

The misuse of colour in science communication - Nature Communications The accurate representation of data is essential in science communication, however, colour maps that visually distort data through uneven colour gradients or are unreadable to those with colour vision...

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Okabe-Ito Palette Hex Codes & Colorblind-Safe Color Palettes for Scientific Figures | ConceptViz | AI-Powered Science Diagrams for Teachers & Scientists Complete Okabe-Ito palette hex codes ready to copy. Plus Viridis, Paul Tol, and other colorblind-safe scientific color palettes recommended by Nature journals.

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Diving into Diversity: Harnessing Neurodivergent Strengths to Transform Aquatic Sciences Click on the article title to read more.

Happy to share #ASLO_ECC article on #Neurodivergence 🌊🪨🧪
This article reflects on the strengths and needs of the neurodivergent community within aquatic sciences. Thank you to the #ASLO_Bulletin for their support along this process

#ActuallyAutistic @aslo.org @geolatinas.bsky.social #Autism #ADHD

Human-induced biospheric carbon sink: Impact from the Taklamakan Afforestation Project | PNAS The Taklamakan Desert, one of the world’s largest and driest deserts, has traditionally been considered a biological void. Here, we demonstrate tha...

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Substantial carbon removal capacity of Taiga reforestation and afforestation at Canada’s boreal edge - Communications Earth & Environment Afforestation at Canada’s northern boreal forest edge has the potential to remove substantial amounts of atmospheric carbon dioxide and store it for the next 75 years, suggest Monte Carlo simulations ...

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China to punish universities that fail to sanction research misconduct Policy follows establishment of a national database of papers retracted for serious misconduct.

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Breaking language barriers ain’t to publish same article in two languages and two journals. Sadly, common practice for certain Global South authors. That’s plagiarism.
Open science means adding abstract in other language or a full translation of your paper (Supplementary Information section)

Frontiers | Science Communication in Multiple Languages Is Critical to Its Effectiveness Public understanding of science is a luxury. Research has shown that democratic societies that are scientifically literate make equitable choices in regards ...

This is the core reason why our #Geotraductores initiative exists. Making science accessible requires to address language barriers 🧪🌊🪨
Here, I’ll shoutout Wiley editorial. You can add your translated abstract when subscription, or fully translate an OA article (SI section)

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Seas the Opportunity: Events for Early Career Researchers at the Ocean Sciences Meeting 2026 in Glasgow | Request PDF Request PDF | On Sep 26, 2025, Ana C. Vásquez and others published Seas the Opportunity: Events for Early Career Researchers at the Ocean Sciences Meeting 2026 in Glasgow | Find, read and cite all the...

#OSM2026 is coming two weeks! We are organizing a suite of events for all participants, from students to mid-level career researchers. Including a mixer between the ASLO-ECC,SWMS & MNEA 🌊🧪
Stay tuned for our events, and many more by the societies @aslo.org @agu.org @tosoceanography.bsky.social

Greenland shatters temperature record, redrawing economy from fishing to minerals Greenland, the Arctic island coveted by U.S. President Donald Trump, experienced its warmest January on record this year, as a rate of warming four times faster than the global average redraws the out...

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Glacially derived iron is more bioavailable to Antarctic phytoplankton than other sources - Communications Earth & Environment Compared to iron from groundwater, iron fertilization from glacial meltwater doubles primary production in low chlorophyll waters around South Georgia, according to analysis of in-situ experiments fro...

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Zonally asymmetric changes in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current strength over the past million years - Nature Geoscience Anti-phased changes in Antarctic Circumpolar Current strength between the Indian and Pacific sectors of the Southern Ocean occurred on orbital timescales over the past one million years, linked to gla...

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Critical social-media posts linked to retractions of scientific papers Online discussions can catch errors or fraud in articles that can be missed in peer review.

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Journal retracts nearly 150 articles for compromised peer review A journal published by an organization that develops technical standards is retracting 147 papers for problematic peer review — and the publisher expects more to follow. The American Society F…

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A cross-population compendium of gene–environment interactions - Nature A large cross-population atlas of gene–environment interactions reveals how age, sex and lifestyle shape genetic effects, heritability, prediction accuracy and disease biology, with implications for p...

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Embracing the dynamic nature of soil structure: A paradigm illuminating the role of life in critical zones of the Anthropocene Soils form the skin of the Earth’s surface, regulating water and biogeochemical cycles and generating production of food, timber, and textiles around …

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The potential for bridgmanite megacrysts to drive magma ocean segregation - Nature Large-scale molecular dynamics simulations show that the crystal–melt interfacial energies of MgSiO3 bridgmanite increase substantially with pressure, potentially forming unusually large bridgmanite c...

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