Biodiversity, evolution, oceans, people. Opinions and enthusiasm my own.
Meg Daly
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Incredible new snail discovered that eats the tubes of deep sea worms (!!)
Great opportunity for students!
YEP!
Wait until you find out how Google was started with a sub $1m NSF grant, GPS was developed with fed funding, we've reduced overdose deaths by 25% with fed funding, and of 354 new medications released between 2010-2019 99.4% of them were started by NIH grants/funded labs.
Remember that Golden Orb?
#MarineLife is cool, and Exploration is key to learning the stories of species, every one of which is fascinating. with @echinoblog.bsky.social @megdaly.bsky.social @abcollens.bsky.social and others.
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1. Let your reps in Congress know your concerns about putting political appointees who lack necessary expertise in charge of science & research funding decisions
2.Respond to OMB during public comment period.
3. Encourage your institutions to speak up.
Dear Friends,
Please send this to your networks. Project Drawdown is offering full-time, paid (with benefits) fellowships to scientists and engineers working on climate solutions in the public interest.
Deadline is April 17.
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A joy to work with @mirandaanderson.bsky.social and @tbrresearch.bsky.social on this cool introduced species!
End-of-semester requires ALL the emotional support beverages
Iz collection gig!!
Every tear, on every face, tastes the same
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A two-and-a-half-year-old mystery of the "golden orb," an unidentified object that captured significant public interest when it was collected during a 2023 NOAA expedition, has finally been solved. Sc...
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Although research has bipartisan support in the US Congress, and trust in science is above 75% across the country, the Trump administration seems as determined as ever to mortally wound the nation’s s...
[New Paper] in Ecology @esajournals.bsky.social reports a remarkable limpet feeding exclusively on chitinous tubes of deep-sea tubeworms! Chitin may be key energy reserves in the deep. New species in the family Osteopeltidae previously only known from whale fall.
OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.1002/ecy....
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Allen Collins
TIL that the basic research that led to GLP-1 drugs was conducted by government scientists at the VA and NIH whyy.org/segments/oze...
C. Chen @ Jamsteeeec
I am recruiting PhD students for my new lab housed in the Sam Noble Museum at University of Oklahoma! If you are interested in fish macroevolution, geometric morphometrics, specimen-based research & phylogenomics please reach out. More info here: fishdiversitylab.weebly.com
Please share widely!!!
So happy to see the first paper from my MSc out in the world! This anemone went misidentified in a South African MPA for over 20 years. That has changed thanks to sea anemone expert @megdaly.bsky.social and marine invasion pro @tbrresearch.bsky.social.
Read it here: doi.org/10.11646/zoo...
Clarifying the identity of alien species is vital for understanding spatial and temporal patterns in introductions. Let's celebrate our taxonomists. #bioinvasions #anemones
Great work @mirandandersen.bsky.social
