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New #bioinformatics Scientist opening at @officialatcc.bsky.social ! Love #genomics? Want to help build a digital biology future? We're sequencing our entire collection 😱 Our focus? Authenticated Reference Data. Digital Standards. Reproducibility. Join us! careers-atcc.icims.com/jobs/4000/sc...

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#MicrobialEnthusiasts: when I teach micro, I hand out 3D printed glow in the dark tags. Each student has a #MicrobialPal to write about. This fall (my LAST time teaching here), I have 20 not 16 students. So PLEASE suggest additional candidates so I can really impress my new #Micronauts?? Please RT?

A to do list from the article in Nature

From bench to big boss: mitigating the widening gap between PI and lab

Laboratory dynamics can change as the age and experience of the principal investigator increase. But there are ways to combat this.

Read our piece in Nature, with @sprekeler.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Set of 2 Itty-bitty virus paintings - Michele Banks's Ko-fi Shop 2 tiny original watercolor paintings in 5x5 inch mats This set features a picornavirus and coronavirus on a background of light blue and green Signe...

and look! Here's one for 10 bucks ko-fi.com/s/8b302cca45

Electron micrograph of two phage infecting a host cell side-by-side, with hearts between them

Do you love phage? I have an opening for a postdoc in my lab at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science (@cmarinescience.bsky.social) looking at interactions between marine phage and iron, which is an important limiting trace metal in the oceans (1/5) 🧵#phagesky 🦠🌊

A bunch of corals & other stuff. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 817 #MarDelPlataCanyon #MarineLife

I'm seeing lots of these stories and they ALL need to be sent to members of the appropriations committee. Many of these members have been asking good questions in hearings, and some GOP members have signaled clear support for NIH

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4% payline demoralizing for reviewers - review 9 grants each taking 3-4hrs (total reviewed by all is 90) flying to DC, a hotel conference room to discuss the top half of grants (45) 15 min each, 3x a year for 4 yrs. Paid $300. 4% = maybe 3/90, 0-1 that you reviewed funded. I couldn’t.

Ok sorry sorry I'll start talking about pride and prejudice again. We are all Elizabeth Bennet and Open AI and Meta and Google are competing to see who can create the most powerful ChatGeorgeWickham, who can run up debts and ruin the place while talking so good

Imagine if LLMs came out with a "not sure, but here's my best guess? You should verify this information" we would have stopped hearing about them instantly. You know like how we ignore scientists

Mural of an octopus in a kelp forest.

Half Moon Bay, California USA

#photography
#streetart
#octopus
#mural
#oceanlife
#oceanart

The world’s largest cold water coral reef lies beside the first experimental deep-sea mining test site In a region once thought to be so ecologically uninteresting that it was viewed as a useful testbed for deep-sea mining equipment, NOAA researchers have detected what could be the world’s lar…

In the documentary, I mention that the first experimental deep-sea mining site just barely missed dredging up the world's largest cold water coral reef.

Here's my write up of that discovery: www.southernfriedscience.com/the-worlds-l...

When The Muppets pay tribute to Ozzy’s passing you know he transcended all pop culture.

A review for a Little Caesar’s somewhere by Kevin S: Stopped into this Little Caesars just trying to get a $6 pizza and ended up in a full on action movie. Just as I grabbed my order, this furious dude barges in yelling about how I cut him off in traffic earlier. Before I can even respond, he throws a punch but then out of nowhere the guy behind the counter jumps over it like he's been waiting for this moment his whole life and just beats the living hell out of the guy. The guy ran off and the cashier just dusted himself off. I said "are you ok man" and he looked me dead in the eye and said "B*tch, this is Little Caesars. We always hot and ready." Five stars. Will absolutely return.

I AM SHRIEKING 💀🤣

Forget the statue at City Hall, this guy is the *real* Spirit of Detroit. 🫡

Research Is Being Undermined — What Does That Mean for Science Writers at Research Institutions? - PLOS SciComm By Abigail Eisenstadt and Matt Shipman The Trump administration has made policy changes and funding decisions that have wide-reaching ramifications for scientific…

New at PLOS SciComm by Abigail Eisenstadt and Matt Shipman (@shiplives.bsky.social)

Research Is Being Undermined — What Does That Mean for Science Writers at Research Institutions?

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Funded Graduate Student Opportunity in Marine Microbial Ecology **Applicants will be contacted if selected for next round. Applicants not selected will not receive any notice. If not selected, this is not indicative of your merit. ** Northern Illinois University |...

Notice of Award is in!
Join our team at NIU to study marine microbial ecology & disease dynamics in sea urchins 🧫🌊🦠
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A comment I wrote for you is now online at @natcomms.nature.com:

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

Oh, oh, it says "time travel will likely remain forever off the table in our universe" with a citation, so read it maybe? (am I doing the click-bait thing right? 🥲).

This listing is for all 4 of PDF pattern sets which will give you instructions, templates and patterns to make all of the creatures pictured: Octopus, Narwhal, Jellyfish, Dolphin, Sea Horse, Sea Turtle, Great White Shark, Manta Ray, Blue Whale, Giant Squid, Hammerhead Shark, Orca Whale plus a tiny starfish, seashell, sand dollar and sea urchin

Finally the ultimate collection of sea creatures!
Octopus, Narwhal, Jellyfish, Dolphin, Sea Horse, Sea Turtle, Great White Shark, Manta Ray, Blue Whale, Giant Squid, Hammerhead Shark, Orca Whale, tiny starfish, seashell, sand dollar & urchin.

Yes, you need them all.

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This 7 page PDF pattern download will give you instructions, templates and embroidery patterns to make the creatures pictured, Otter, Seal mama and baby, Seagull and Puffin.

Coastal creatures - sea otter, gull, seals, and puffin (fave of @sepoulton.bsky.social)

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With this felt plush sewing pattern PDF you can sew a Cuttlefish, Horseshoe Crab, Blue Lobster, Nautilus and Oyster with a pearl inside!

Mollusks and Crustaceans - nautilus, cuttlefish, lobster, oyster, and horseshoe crab (not a mollusk or crustacean, but adorable nonetheless)

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With this felt plush sewing pattern PDF you can make colorful Anglerfish, Dumbo Octopus, Giant Isopod, Ravioli Sea Star and Sea Anemone with tiny Clownfish for your felt aquarium!

Need something cute and crafty in your life? Check out these felt sewing patterns by Little Dear - ocean creatures are 50% off this month!

My fave (of course) is the Deep Sea collection, partly bc I helped Little Dear choose the animals 😊

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#craftsky

And “hard science” careers are also WRITING INTENSIVE jobs! Want to be an astronomer, biologist, or chemist? You’ll spend years writing reports, grants, papers, reviews, reference letters, etc. Writing is never easy, but it’s much *easier* if you’re trained how to outline and structure text.

A painting featuring modern impressionist renditions of deep sea corals, sponges, anemones, and starfish, depicted with oranges, greens pinks and red acrylic on canvas. #deepsea #deepseacorals #deepocean 🐡🦑#painting #acrylic

I’ve started a new project; I’m doing a series based on cold water corals from a coral and sponge garden found off the coast of Alaska in 2023. First up is a community of organisms- sponges, corals, fish, shrimp, a look-and-find just packed with texture and color! 🐡🦑 #deepsea #deepseacreatures

Read news, op-eds, and analysis, not AI summaries. Create your own art (even if it's messy) or hire an artist to do it. Do your own homework. Talk to people, not chatbots. Keep your thinking and skills sharp and cherish our messy humanity. That's the new punk rock.

What fantastic news!!! Congratulations! 🍾🥂

Russian orthodox cathedral in Dutch Harbor, Unalaska. It is a clear day, with bright blue sky, white fluffy clouds, and in the foreground a hill of yellow wildflowers similar to buttercups

The marine microbiome offers a largely untapped resource for biodiscovery and the bioeconomy. Learn more at marinemicrobiome.org #marinemicrobiology #marinemicrobiome #microbiome #ocean #microbes #eDNA

We don’t need deep-sea mining, or its environmental harms. Here’s why Commercial mining of the deep sea could begin soon. But these metals and minerals are not scarce. Mining will be harmful and the economic benefits are overstated.

We don’t need deep-sea mining, or its environmental harms. Here’s why