Looking to recruit 3 grad researchers. (1) Drinking water micro-ecology, (2) Nitrogen micro (specifically comammox), and (3) Algal micro + imaging. as Spring 2024 & late as Fall 2024. if you know someone creative + motivated + interested in these topics - would appreciate u sharing this with them.

The 12th SNO Conference was fantastic. The plenary talks were phenomenal, and sessions were thought-provoking!

John Bowers (UC Santa Barbara) will be the first plenary speaker at the 12th SNO Conference holding on Nov 10-12.

The Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to the discovery of quantum dots.

The strain on scientific publishing 📄:

We've got issues. Scientists overwhelmed, editors overworked, constant special issue invites, mass article retractions, journal delistings… JUST WHAT IS GOING ON!?

See: arxiv.org/abs/2309.15884

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An introduction...

If you're funded by NSF, or in the middle of writing a proposal (or review!) for NSF, here's our agency's lapse plan. Basically you can still do those things but will have no help or communication from us (sorry, we hate it too!) www.nsf.gov/pubs/2023/sh...