emily ☁️

The science personnel of C-CoMP Cruise AE2520 (and Clio) stand together on the stern of the R/V Atlantic Explorer. Parts of the Woods Hole dock and village frame the background of the photo. Photo provided by Elizabeth Kujawinski and edited by Laura Gray.

The science personnel of C-CoMP Cruise AE2520 (and Clio) stand together on the stern of the R/V Atlantic Explorer while making various fun poses. Parts of the Woods Hole dock and village frame the background of the photo. Photo provided by Elizabeth Kujawinski and edited by Laura Gray.

🌊🦠#FieldworkFriday!
And that’s a wrap 🎬on C-CoMP Cruise 2 🚢! We (C-CoMP + AE) accomplished an impressive feat - 95 CTD casts, 110,778 L of sw filtered with @clio-thebgcauv.bsky.social, eddy sampling, & 9 exp types across 3 locations - to characterize marine chemical currencies & microbes!

Equitable Climate Futures | Brown University Equitable Climate Futures is an initiative that will build Brown’s capacity for climate research, with a strong focus on under-resourced and historically marginalized groups.

Hi everyone! New equitable climate futures job at Brown working with ecf.brown.edu. brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-...

Fossils, ancient scrolls, and blue holes—just some of the things paleo-oceanographers use to peer into the past!

At WHOI, researchers interpret these artifacts to learn what life was like in warmer climates—and improve predictions of our future.

🔎Travel back in time: go.whoi.edu/ancientseas

Emily Hu (left) and Natalie Graham (right) prepare the drifter for deployment within a lab on the R/V Atlantic Explorer. Photo by Arianna Krinos.

Emily Hu (unpictured), Natalie Graham, and Emily Tate deploy a drifter over the side of the R/V Atlantic Explorer during the 2025 March C-CoMP cruise. Photo by Arianna Krinos.

Daniella Asturias unpacks the drifters from their shipping box before the beginning of the March 2025 cruise. Photo by Emily Hu.

A SVP drifter lays in the grass at BIOS during activation and testing before the beginning of the March 2025 cruise. Photo by Emily Hu.

🌊🦠#FieldworkFriday!
During our March cruise, C-CoMP researchers deployed SVP drifters during diel sampling. The drifters enabled tracking/sampling the same parcel of water in a Lagrangian approach, aiding efforts to capture diel microbial signals from the same water over time!

Screenshot from the ARCUS August 2025 newsletter: Dear ARCUS Community, It is with a mix of gratitude and sadness for our community that we share an important update about ARCUS’s future. After more than three decades of connecting, supporting, and facilitating collaboration within the U.S. Arctic research community, ARCUS will sunset its operations at the end of September 2025 and formally dissolve as a nonprofit organization. This decision comes after careful consideration and reflection on the changing needs of the Arctic research landscape. While ARCUS as an institution will close, the impact of the relationships, collaborations, and shared work we have fostered will continue to ripple through the community for years to come. We are profoundly grateful for the many individuals—past and present—who have served on our Board, worked on our staff, contributed as partners, and supported ARCUS’s mission with passion and dedication. We want to assure you that we remain active and committed right up to the end

More sad news for the polar community... Arctic Research Consortium of the United States (@arcus-arctic.bsky.social) is shutting down.

We all lose here. The past 8 months have been unthinkable, and their consequences for the future even more so.

C-CoMP Bridge-to-PhD Fellow Emily Hu stands in front of the Providence River while holding brown collection bottles containing river water. Photo by Arianna Krinos.

A filter that was used to filter water from the Providence River is tinged with yellow, indicating a plethora of biomass in the water. A peristaltic pump is shown on the lab bench behind a gloved hand holding the filter. Photo by Arianna Krinos.

🌊🦠#FieldworkFriday
Our fieldwork doesn't only happen at sea!
C-CoMP researchers working with @maratimes.bsky.social collected Providence River water to test extraction methods for samples collected on C-CoMP cruises. In terms of filtering speed, 5 L of Sargasso sw = 50 mL of Providence River water!

🩵 So thankful to work with you!!

Photo of Emily Hu on the R/V Atlantic Explorer during the 2025 C-CoMP March Cruise. Emily is standing outside with the bow of the ship and the ocean behind her. Photo provided by Emily Hu.

Emily collects seawater from the CTD rosette into a bottle on the deck of the R/V Atlantic Explorer during the 2025 C-CoMP March Cruise. Photo by Arianna Krinos.

Emily uses sterile forceps to load filters onto filter holders in one of the labs on the R/V Atlantic Explorer. Emily is using the filters to capture particles, including microbes, from the seawater. The DNA from the microbial cells will be extracted, sequenced, and analyzed to understand the microbial community composition of the seawater. Photo by Arianna Krinos.

📣#MTTM
🔬Emily Hu (@yunqianhu.bsky.social‬) is a C-CoMP B2P Fellow working with @maratimes.bsky.social & @akrinos.bsky.social at Brown. She uses microbial sequence data and computational tools to uncover how biotic🦠& abiotic drivers shape microbial community assembly in the North Atlantic Ocean 🌊.

Study Reveals how Deep Ocean Currents Shape Microbial Life across South Pacific A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning circulation—play a pivotal role in shaping the diversity and function of microbial life ...

🌊 ↪️↩️ Deep ocean currents play a pivotal role in shaping the diversity and function of microbial life across the South Pacific Ocean, according to a groundbreaking study led by @jcvi.org and Scripps Oceanography scientists. More on the study published by @science.org. ⬇️

Thanks to @ianjames.bsky.social for coverage of our work

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Recipients of a U.S. Climate Science Fellowship Are Put on Unpaid Leave

Big up to @rdzombak.bsky.social for bringing eyes to this story. 🧪

So many people beyond my little cohort of fellows are impacted by slowdowns at NOAA. America is rapidly losing footing as a leader in climate science and we all are paying the cost.

The Secretary of Commerce's new policy requiring his personal review of all NOAA contracts over $100,000 is directly harming American science. 🧪

How do I know? Because this morning, twelve of America's rising leaders in climate science (including myself) were furloughed.

Hey Rhode Island, we have one like this on the table, the session's not over & the budget's not signed legiscan.com/RI/text/S032...

The at home assassination of a state lawmaker should be getting a bigger reaction from the President than someone throwing a rock at a Tesla dealership.

RI House passes $14.3 billion budget with more healthcare money - TPR: The Public's Radio The Rhode Island House of Representatives used a speedy three-hour debate Tuesday to pass a $14.3 billion budget for the fiscal year starting July 1, amid uncertainty about possible fallout from GOP s...

thepublicsradio.org/politics/ri-...

I can confidently say that I would not still be doing physical oceanography without MPOWIR. The termination of MPOWIR's NSF grant is soul-crushing to me. Let's celebrate the success of this 20 year program and get to work continuing its legacy. 🌊 ⛴️ 🧪

www.advancejournal.org/post/3227-ce...

something that stands out about this is just how cheap it is for us to have world-leading scientific capacity

we spent ~6.75 trillion last year, and the combined budgets for NIH, NSF and NASA are barely more than 1% of that

what an incredible waste to lose it all for a drop in the bucket

Great talk by @syiwang.bsky.social today !

200+ scientists are in the middle of a marathon livestream to show why weather and climate science is so important and needs all our help to continue.

It is here: wclivestream.com/watch

a man wearing a hat and an orange shirt says " get her jade " Alt: A man wearing a hat and an orange shirt says " get her jade "

🧪 YAASSSSS: 16 state AGs just sued NSF for its illegal changes in "agency priorities"

The broad scope would seem to not only address grant terminations...but also the underlying basis for closing programs, returning proposals without review, etc.

The filing: www.doj.state.or.us/wp-content/u...

“this idea that you get what you voted for… the reality is that me and everybody else I worked with at NOAA really cares about every single one of the hundreds of millions of people in this country. We don’t care what your personal opinions are—we want you to be safe, we want you to be healthy… “

Open Letter in Support of Science — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

An open letter highlighting the co-optation of open science language in the latest Executive Order to justify policies that are, in fact, antithetical to open science principles.

Read and consider signing with your support.

www.standupforscience.net/open-letter-...

2025 Scialog Awards: Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems This innovative Scialog initiative catalyzes cross-disciplinary science exploring neurobiological response to rapid and extensive human-caused environmental changes.

Six cross-disciplinary teams have won funding in the 1st year of #Scialog: Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems, cosponsored with The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group @alleninstitute.org, the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, the Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation, and @kavlifoundation.bsky.social.

🧵5 Top Free Alternatives to BioRender for Scientific Illustrations!

These five websites offer free scientific illustrations for biologists. Great for presentations, research papers and other research communication needs.

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Trump officials take steps toward a radically different NSF Efforts to shrink staff, budget, and focus have alarmed members of Congress

NSF grant terminations are disproportionately affecting underrepresented scientists. 58% of canceled grants have women PIs, despite making up only 34% of awards. 17% of canceled grants have Black PIs (versus 4% of the pool). Hispanic and disabled PIs are twice as likely to have NSF grants canceled.

A chocolate cake with red and white decorations and lit candles shaped as the number 75. Bold text reads: ‘The NSF Turns 75 Today. What has it done over the past 7 decades?’ The background is a celebratory red with a spray-paint texture.

HAPPY 75th, NSF!

We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond.

Read on 🧵(1/11):

Neighborly Actions As We Persevere Taxing RI's wealthiest residents, a town hall for ICE defense in Pawtucket/CF, DIY solar and mobility aid workshops, and keeping Camp RYSE alive.

Some neighborly actions for the coming week: two sweet hands-on learning opportunities (mobility aid repair & DIY solar for disasters), plus fundraising for a nourishing summer program & a delicious opportunity to tax the rich. neighborlyactions.substack.com/p/neighborly...

The Weather & Climate Livestream Join us starting May 28th, as meteorologists and climate scientists from across the US share their research and answer your questions.

Calling all US meteorologists and climate scientists! Starting May 28th, we will be holding a marathon livestream to share our work with the public and show why the services we provide should not be cut. Learn more & sign up to speak here (and please share!)

NSF slashes number of ‘rotators’ and well-paid managers as part of restructuring Smaller future budgets will require fewer people, NSF official tells staff

NSF to ONLY fund research in five areas: artificial intelligence, quantum information science, biotechnology, nuclear energy, and translational science. Can this be happening?

www.science.org/content/arti...