Emily Mitchell

We are hiring a lab manager for our lab family at Naos Island in Panama. More information and position description here: odealab.com/opportunities/.

Deadline is today, but if you need more time please just let me know

I'd be delighted to sponsor a NASA Postdoc Fellowship focused on #biosignatures, #astrobiology, or the Origin of Life here at Hopkins! 🚀

❗️Job Alert: Deep-Sea Benthic Biologist (Assistant Professor) at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA 🌊 Apply by Dec 1, 2025: apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04175

📷 Auckland Museum Collections (CC) #MarineBiology

Glad to hear the fire ban is over. Hope the firing goes well 🪵🔥

Putting the finishing touches on some carved teapots today. Now that we've had some rain and the fire ban is over I expect to light up the wood kiln within the next few weeks. Hooray hooray!

#pottery #ceramics #canadianceramics #workinprogress

This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered

Lepidaspis by Nobu Tomura

New palaeo-PhD opportunity! Will you be the one to figure out the anatomy and function of fossil jawless fish? Come join the team! Application Deadline August 22nd, funding for UK student only (sorry)
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

An example output from our framework. An image of the Antarctic seafloor, with hundreds of organisms on it. The organisms each have a bounding box around them, a class label, and a confidence score produced by our framework.

🇦🇶 Our new paper detailing the automated detection of Antarctic benthic organisms using high-res in situ imagery has been accepted to the #ICCV2025 Joint Workshop on Marine Vision!

📄 Read the preprint now: arxiv.org/abs/2507.21665

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Depth affects the population dynamics on a soft coral-dominated reef on the Great White Wall, Fiji - Coral Reefs Soft corals (order Alcyonacea) are an important component of tropical coral reefs, and often form locally abundance dense carpets. Some soft coral species are prone to bleaching and heat stress like s...

#newpaper showing how depth mediates the population dynamics of soft corals in Fiji, led by @nis38.bsky.social (with @huwiceandstuff.bsky.social‬, @rowanwhittlebas.bsky.social‬, and @egmitchell.bsky.social‬)
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Depth affects the population dynamics on a soft coral-dominated reef on the Great White Wall, Fiji - Coral Reefs Soft corals (order Alcyonacea) are an important component of tropical coral reefs, and often form locally abundance dense carpets. Some soft coral species are prone to bleaching and heat stress like s...

🚨NEW PAPER ALERT🚨: Depth affects the population dynamics on a soft coral-dominated reef on the Great White Wall, Fiji 🪸

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Repressive cytosine methylation is a marker of viral gene transfer across divergent eukaryotes Abstract. Cytosine DNA methylation patterns vary widely across eukaryotes, with its ancestral roles being understood to have included both transposable ele

Happy to see our latest work out in @molbioevol.bsky.social. We revisit the evolution of 5-methylcytosine across neglected eukaryotic supergroups, establishing an ancestral repressive role silencing genome invaders, both transposons and viral elements👾: academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-... 🧵 1/7

Wondering day chatting to @roadscholarorg.bsky.social group at the Coaker Foundation @emsamson.bsky.social about the fantastic #Ediacaran fossils @discoverygeoparknl.bsky.social

Sorry wrong handle! @discoverygeoparknl.bsky.social

Fantastic Day out @discoverygeoparknl with all their wonderful #Ediacaran fossils ❤️ with @yarongliu.bsky.social @princessairab.bsky.social @deeptimeecology.bsky.social

Brilliant photo by @yarongliu.bsky.social

Too wet and windy for fossil research today but luckily there ar puffins @discoverygeoparknl.bsky.social 👌

Fantastic to be back @discoverygeoparknl.bsky.social to research the start of animal life in the #Ediacaran

Fantastic to be back in Newfoundland for our research on the early animals of the #Ediacaran

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

If you have a BBQ visitor this wknd, don’t flap and shout.
Instead, give a wasp-offering: sausage..pie.. whatever she wants. She’s looking for protein not sugar atm as the colony is growing fast with many brood to feed.
Wasps are pest controllers, pollinators- Live with not against them. #WaspLove

A Shortnose Gar headshot is pictured against the backdrop of the Minnesota River. Obviously on the lookout for potential GARduate students.

JOIN US!!!

@garlab.bsky.social is looking for a PhD and MS student to join our team studying ecology & conservation of gars, bowfin, and other non-game native fishes beginning Spring 2026!

Posting & more info coming soon. Please DM or email srdavid@umn.edu with CV if interested!

Being Too Helpful At Work Can Hurt Your Career—Here’s How To Say No Women are more likely to take on behind-the-scenes duties at work—extra tasks like onboarding or event planning—and it's hurting their careers. Here's how to say no.

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

Very entertaining talk by @endofthepier.bsky.social at Cambridge today on being an editor for Nature. "I know more secrets than the average spy; if I told you what I know about the papers coming out, I'd have to kill you." Thanks to @egmitchell.bsky.social for arranging!

Comparative biology has well known biases for vertebrate and terrestrial ecosystems. Aside from my feelings about that as a specialist in marine invertebrates, I do sometimes wonder how much it creates bigger problems for the field that go largely unrecognized

Marine gastropod tracks - mostly a mix of Topshells, Periwinkles, and Dogwhelks.
County Clare, Ireland.

Phytoplankton, key to ocean life, falling 2% per year in North Atlantic | CBC News Dalhousie University researchers analyzed data collected over more than half a century to assess how two types of phytoplankton are responding to climate change.

🌊🧪 CBC coverage of @andrewirwin.bsky.social led study that shows a decline in larger phytoplankton biomass in the North Atlantic based on Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) data www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Happy International Horseshoe Crab day!!

Making waves in marine science and inclusion: a conversation with Jasmin Graham - Communications Biology In this interview, marine biologist Jasmin Graham shares about her experience building grassroots change in science, navigating exclusionary spaces and what it means to foster belonging in the ocean s...

In honor and celebration of #Juneteenth, we talked with Jasmin Graham of MISS about the importance of enhancing representation, fostering diverse communities, and considering varied perspectives in the ocean sciences. #OceanMonth #BlackinSTEM @misselasmo.bsky.social 🤿🦈
www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Deep Time Ecology members presenting at #progpal2025 in Edinburgh. @shujie.bsky.social ’s poster on competition in Ediacaran communities, @princessairab.bsky.social ’s talk on Charniodiscus and @yarongliu.bsky.social ’s talk on trace fossils

Lightly pyritized disparid crinoid with long, slender arms and rambles. Multiple small specimens of complete rhombiferan blastozoans are attached to the base of the crinoid stem with their steles wrapping around the column

Having a great time visiting the Musée de paléontologie et de l'évolution. The Neuville Formation (Ordovician) contains one the most spectacularly preserved echinoderm Lagerstätte I've ever seen. Very excited to be working on this! Here's a beautiful Ectenocrinus w/ rhombiferan blastozoans attached