Check out our new paper on how temperature modulates the iron requirement of nitrifying bacteria - these guys are critical in the ocean nitrogen cycle as they recycle oxidised forms of N. But to do this they need a lot of iron. 🌊
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Ahhh yes, the geopolitical version of champagne: if it’s not officially declared, it’s just a sparkling military operation.
04.03.2026 22:26 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Thrilled to share that our preprint has been accepted in Science Advances! Grateful to an incredible team & collaborators.
Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
👏 @annaferraioli.bsky.social @maikekittelmann.bsky.social
@msarscentre.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @hfspo.bsky.social #ctenophores
That's correct...not a mass extinction. The paper you shared describes a potential decrease in primary productivity, meaning reduced growth of photosynthetic microbes in the surface ocean.
04.03.2026 13:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If you ever want to read a paper for free and can't find it otherwise, email the lead author and politely ask for a copy. You will not be bothering the person. You will in fact make their whole entire day. I have had scientists get so excited I asked they sent me everything they ever published.
04.03.2026 02:17 — 👍 2619 🔁 922 💬 17 📌 40Alex, the answer is: what is creating new terrorist groups?
04.03.2026 11:27 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Much of the anaerobic microbial life was not wiped out by the GOE…particularly on the time scale of the oxygenation which occurred over hundreds of millions of years. Those anaerobic microbes just moved to deeper parts of the ocean which remained anoxic for while after the GOE.
04.03.2026 11:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Yikes.
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In collaboration with @aslo.org , @tosoceanography.bsky.social, we thank you for a successful #OSM26!
See you at #OSM28 27 February–3 March, Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦!
📷 Cred: Bianca Otero
The trove of files released by the Department of Justice, illuminates Epstein’s deep interest and entrenchment in the scientific community.
But the files also underscore how he used his power and money in ways that kept women out of places where they might succeed. https://bit.ly/4qWgPLz
The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?
23.02.2026 23:35 — 👍 4283 🔁 1765 💬 42 📌 52Scientists have seen Asgard archaea crawling for the first time. When it comes to the origin of eukaryotes, this is like seeing a feathered dinosaur in the wild. (Video courtesy of Philipp Ralder)
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A pilot in a submersible vehicle collecting sediments samples in 30 meters of water looking for Asgards (microbial relatives of eukaryotes)
One of the biggest questions in biology is how complex cells evolved about 2 billion years ago. Here's my new story on how scientists are solving the mystery of eukaryotes like us. Gift link: nyti.ms/4qMbo22
18.02.2026 19:17 — 👍 340 🔁 103 💬 9 📌 8
Come work with us on #darkoxygen as part of the NASA Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. It is an amazing opportunity to get up to 3 years of funding. Deadlines are March 1. and November 1. Happy to discuss your ideas! Details here: zintellect.com/Opportunity/...
@mblscience.bsky.social #astrobiology
Insights into how #Staph aureus adapts to the bovine host by unlocking nutrients from the dairy niche. Great work by Amy Pickering, Jamie Gorzynski and others in the group. Bacterial metabolic remodeling by convergent evolution after a host switch.|Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
18.02.2026 09:40 — 👍 29 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 0
We are thrilled to announce that, thanks to the support of our institutional subscribers, all Royal Society subscription journals will be open access in 2026 through #S2O. Researchers can read all articles and publish #OpenAccess in our eight subscription journals for free buff.ly/4Lu9VpW
16.02.2026 10:27 — 👍 67 🔁 34 💬 1 📌 1
you don't have to be in the water to be exposed to toxins in cyanobacterial blooms: new work from Greg Boyer's group at the Great Lakes Center for Freshwaters and Human Health www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
16.02.2026 12:09 — 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
We celebrate International Day of Women and Girls in Science as the North Cascade Climate Project expeditions have been mainly powered by women in the last decade. We are artists and scientists, mostly doing both aspects during the field season. Toughness , collaboration and joy is the net result.
11.02.2026 23:07 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Sorry for the preview pic in your feed, but we've posted a thoughtful story by @dangaristo.bsky.social that delves into the tangled web of relationships between Jeffrey Epstein and various scientists: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
06.02.2026 20:21 — 👍 300 🔁 126 💬 24 📌 13Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
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🤔What does it take to develop safe and effective marine carbon dioxide removal strategies? Find out from @nytimes.com, whose reporters joined our EPA-approved ocean alkalinity enhancement test in the Gulf of Maine last summer.
📲Read the gift article: go.whoi.edu/oae-nyt
📸 by Sebastian Zeck
Well, I am in the Epstein Files ...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
Who is the sender?! I don’t understand the redactions….I thought they are only suppose to protect the identity of victims.
31.01.2026 20:48 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0I did not expect to see a scientist proposing research in the #Epstein files that sought funding to “link sexual behavior to microbial diversity”.
31.01.2026 01:47 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@agu.org has a tool to help you submit a comment to NSF on the importance of NCAR: agu.quorum.us/campaign/154...
#SaveNCAR
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We are saddened to learn of the passing of the Hon. Kirsty Duncan. A respected scientist and tireless champion of research in Canada, she leaves a lasting legacy through her leadership and advocacy, including her service as Minister of Science.
Our condolences to her friends and family.
ICE executed Alex Pretti. Anything else you’re told is a lie.
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So proud and happy to see my friend and fellow Earth Scientist, Marena Lin, running for congress in California. Please donate if you can!
www.marenalinforcongress.com
@marenalinforcongress.com
A photo of a large TV on the wall of a pizza shop. It's displaying Canadian prime minister Mark Carney speaking at the world economic forum.
If you are curious how engaged Canada is, they are broadcasting Carney's speech in full in my local pizza shop and playing highlights in my local bank.
I'm going to the grocery store next and we'll see if it's running there too lol
