And now it's out! Happy that PNAS selected for the cover this SEM image snapped by @samjlord.bsky.social, one of the most evocative visualizations of Euplotes that I have ever encountered.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Stay tuned for what is shaping up to be some fascinating follow-up in the lab...
The Selander Lab at Lund University, Sweden, is looking for a PhD student to study the ecology of fear in marine plankton. Exciting topic with great supervision!
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Some time ago, I wnt on a casual trip to Frøya, Norway.
It turned out to be a bit more than just a fun observation… The scientific paper is now out 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Small observations can sometimes open up new questions.
We need more long-format journals. Brevity is good. But there are topics that would benefit from more space than tight word limits allow.
And there's a cost to summarising methods or shunting them to appendices. For science to be reproducible, we need to be able to clearly describe what was done.
Coral reefs are increasingly threaten by marine heatwaves, but what pushes corals past their breaking point?
New in @ScienceAdvances @science.org: we found that corals can lose the microscopic system that helps move oxygen around their tissues during heat stress 🪸
doi.org/10.1126/scia...
Happy to see our new paper led by @marangureng.bsky.social
on metabolic signatures of high temperature adaptation in diatoms published! 🎉
In collaboration with @suleles.bsky.social, Angel Diz, María Huete-Ortega, Andy Allen and Naomi Levine.
Ben Larson
Claude seems fantastic at writing Shiny apps. You can in principle go from knowing nothing about how to create one to having one online in minutes (obviously, best to spent more time checking it!).
Fabulous for sharing ideas quickly and an excellent accompaniment to papers and lectures.
71% of our planet is ocean, but you wouldn’t know it from traditional maps.
Shift your land-based perspective this Earth Week with a story about the Spilhaus Projection map and the WHOI oceanographer who created it: go.whoi.edu/spilhausmap
Fredrik Ryderheim
🚨Job Alert!🚨 Please share widely! We are hiring *two* postdocs (one ASAP, one Oct '26) using models and data to identify pathways involving the gut-brain axis that link the infant microbiome with neurodevelopment and Autism Spectrum Disorder. 1st review date: April 24!
recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF03089
Ciliary flows buffer coral O2 supply under heat stress until a tipping point, above which hypoxia and tissue failure are induced.
I'm looking for a postdoc to work on diatom phylogenomics. Reach out by email with questions. Please share and repost!
uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/UASYS/job/Fa...
What could be more exciting than watching Euplotes scurry around under the microscope? How about adding some raptorial predation by supergiant cannibal cells?
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Video by Vittorio Boscaro.
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