Correct. Now let’s sit down and actually think about where AI aids and enhances the human experience rather than hampers or compromises it, then try this again

Planting crops in 2026 may be pointless, Southwell farmer says Farmer Oliver Collingham says he is questioning whether to plant any crops this year.

When a farmer is stating that planting crops in 2026 may be pointless, you know something in our society has gone very, very wrong with food security.

It's a hard & dangerous way of life. And unless profitable there will be no motivation for future generations of farmers.

Via BBC News

I LOVE that MSU is positioning Extension as human expertise in direct opposition to AI ❤️ 🤘

Great science happens in great teams — research assessments must try to capture that Europe must reform the ways in which science is evaluated. To boost innovation, it must improve research culture.

Great science happens in great teams — research assessments must try to capture that www.nature.com/articles/d41...

One Health

Postdoc opportunity at the Batten School & VIMS/William & Mary! If you have interests in shellfish pathology and parasitology, parasite phylogenetics and phylogeography, marine disease ecology and evolution, consider applying to work in our lab.

williammary.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WM/job...

A map of part of Britiain and northern europe showing loads and loads of roman roads, picked out in red.

Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓

itiner-e.org

We might have to have a lie-down.

Open positions Open positions

The University of Hamburg has opened 14 PhD positions focused on ecological and evolutionary research, including climate change impacts on aquatic populations. Details here: www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/en/forschung/grk2530/ope... #phd

#nokings Williamsburg Va! Great peaceful protest

#PopGen New preprint of the team on the discovery of a very high rate of polymorphic duplication in a marine bivalve.

Imagine looking at the distribution of the allelic coverage fraction at heterozygous calls in an indivdual and getting this distribution 👇 😱😱😱

Giant pest oyster spreads through Australian waters A problematic oyster species that can grow up to 24 centimetres long is spreading through Queensland, with the potential to invade much of the nation's coastline.

www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2...

What’s the oyster disease season going to look like this fall in the Chesapeake? Our Spring Imports disease sentinels provide one indication that it might not be bad: we are observing extraordinarily low Perkinsus marinus infection for September in these sentinels in the York River, Virginia

As we bid a fond farewell to Professor Stephen Widdicombe, we share his parting reflections on what makes a great scientist - and why the world needs marine science now more than ever.

yo this guy is cooking

As salmon in Alaska plummet, scientists home in on a killer Chinook in the Yukon River appear to be particularly vulnerable to a common parasite—and warming waters may be abetting the infection

www.science.org/content/arti...

Hauraki Gulf Weather live stream (HaurakiGulfWeather.com) YouTube video by Hauraki Gulf Weather Live Webcam

Live seaside webcams for Aotearoa New Zealand (not a complete list) #earthquake #Tsunami

Oamaru: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKhG...
Dunedin: www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5gl...
Wellington: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWrY...
Castlepoint: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gmI...
Hauraki: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXE6...

The biosecurity of bivalve seed transfers during different life stages with respect to their pathogens The expansion of molluscan aquaculture in the United States has induced a rising demand for molluscan seed to sustain it. Out-of-state transfers of se…

Our new paper highlighting the relative freedom from protozoan infection of hatchery shellfish seed, information foundational to shellfish health management in the US: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"eliminate all funding for [NOAA] climate, weather, and ocean laboratories and cooperative institutes"

"ending the operations of a huge host of earth science satellites"

"closure of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center"

Attention all beaver lovers! This one’s for you. A beaver dam in British Columbia holding back sediment after heavy rain 🦫👇💚

📸: Dave Throup

“A new global analysis reveals that coral restoration…. often overlooks current and future levels of thermal stress, which places most restoration projects at high risk of failure.”

A new paper we’re so pleased to be a part of, led by our colleagues @cofcharleston.bsky.social : www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Bioinformatics without the command line? Yes please.
We just launched a free app where non-comp bio folks can run bioinformatics software like SprayNPray, Megahit, Bakta, and more, via simple GUIs.

Get your FASTAs ready!

omix.midauthorbio.com

Studies show a massive return of fish and marine megafauna to sites with these underwater tidal turbines. How?

Simple: overfishing is prevented.

If they proved suitable for Irish locations, it would be *such* a win-win, generating clean electricity AND providing a haven for marine ecosystems.

I’m so happy that I’ve finally done a firefly&glowworm themed piece!

When we talk about bioluminescent insects, we usually first think of those flying & twinkling little fairies. However, many of them are in the form of wingless “worms”, and I found them equally fascinating 💙

75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.

We polled Nature readers to ask if they were thinking of leaving the US for jobs abroad. Three-quarters of them (who said they were US-based scientists) said yes. 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

In "Dynamics of Mixed-Ploidy Populations under Demographic and Environmental Stochasticities", Gaynor et al. discover a tetraploid advantage in times of high environmental stress!
Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Vacancies The University of Iceland is one of the largest employers in Iceland. The university's mission is to conduct academic research and education, a goal that can only be achieved through the continuous en...

Join us at the University of Iceland! They are hiring an assistant professor in marine and freshwater ecology! 🤓

Lots of water available in and around the country, plenty of cool nature and a volcanic eruption every now and then!
🌊🐟🐳🌿🌋

english.hi.is/about-ui/wor...

The US once benefitted from autocrats chasing away scientists and academics from Europe, now somewhere else will benefit from autocrats doing the same thing in the US. Shame.

This gritty reboot of Rocky IV where the U.S. government roots for Drago for some reason, is terrible