So much we don't know about the deep sea! Why send people to the moon AGAIN?
Peng, X., Zhou, P., Song, X. et al. A 5.3-million-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone. Nature (2026). doi.org/10.1038/s415...
The attack on sciences and humanities is about controlling the narrative, knowledge and how to question is dangerous to vested interests.
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from "Ueber den Sarcodekörper der Rhizopoden" (Haeckel 1865) From a 1864 visit to Villefranche-sur-Mer - The lost art of scientific illustration - #protistsonsky
Over the last nearly 100 years, these folks have made remarkable contributions to our knowledge of the microscopic wonders, Tintinnid Ciliates!
Find out about these folks:
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We NEED Scientific Societies - don't leave yours! New Article "The value of learned societies in the biological sciences: benefits, threats, and futures"
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New aquisition by the Challenger Expedition artist J.J. Wild
If you want to know a bit about Fereidoun Rassoulzadegan - Mr. Marine Microbial Ecology of the Station Zoologique in Villefranche, who sadly left us in January: a short obit @ doi.org/10.1002/lob....
Protist lovers: Please apply for a week of rhapsody! Learn by doing:
MicroSEA (Microbial Sea Eukaryotes) course is a one-week, field-based summer school to train early-career researchers in the diversity, ecology, and single-cell biology of marine protists. opbc.sciencesconf.org
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Probably never happened to you - getting stuck inside your house because of a misplaced diatom...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has eliminated its postdoctoral fellowship funding for Earth scientists.
