U.S. President Donald Trump has fired all 24 members of the National Science Board, the body that oversees the National Science Foundation. https://scim.ag/4cxQWhl
Gullfallegur dagur til að hefja leiðangur. Sem partur af "Ástand Sjávar" vorleiðangri sem stendur yfir næstu tvær vikur, munum við taka sýni til að meta sviðþörungsblóma, þróa umhverfis DNA vöktunaraðferðir í kringum sjókvíar, og auðvitað safna aragrúa af haffræðilegum mælingum
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Dismissal of the National Science Board is widely seen as latest move to erase NSF’s independence
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📦 My new R package {spatialData} is on CRAN! 🎉
Ecological datasets as sf data frames and their companion raster data ready for analysis and modeling.
Built as example data for R packages, but great for teaching too!
🔗 blasbenito.github.io/spatialData/
❗check the Articles section!
Provides spatial datasets ready to use for ecological modelling and raster companion data for prediction: Neanderthal presence during the Last Interglacial (Benito et al. 2017 <doi:10.1111/jbi.12845>)...
Funding from the project came from Running Tide, which operated in Iceland from 2022 until it went bankrupt in 2024. In total 52 whole Saccharina latissima genomes were generated and they are publicly available here: trace.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Traces/study...
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Beautiful day for the start of an expedition. As part of the "State of the Sea" (Ástand Sjávar) survey over the next two weeks, we'll be sampling to predict algal blooms, develop eDNA monitoring around aquaculture pens, and take oceanographic measurements all around Iceland
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Interestingly, aragonite saturation was the key environmental factor which explained allelic turnover in a Gradient Forest analysis. This is an environmental factor which is impacted by the density of sugar kelp, and could suggest density dependent substructure across this range.
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Released: Tue Mar 3 17:41:34 EST 2026
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Our new article on sugar kelp genomics across western Iceland is now out. We find substructure across a North-South and inner- to outer-bay gradient. SNP association with key environmental variables suggest local adaptation and/or density dependent selection is having an effect.
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