✨Dream job alert!✨ Come join our Oceans Department at Stanford University! We are hiring an Assistant Professor. This faculty search focuses on 3 major areas: Oceans & global change, Ocean technologies & solutions, or Human dimensions of oceans 🌊
facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

PSA roomie dream team! 🇵🇷 ☕️ @hannahgreich.bsky.social @raemariew.bsky.social

⚠️ Call for Special Feature @journalofecology.bsky.social
Functional traits in primary producers: recent advances and future directions.

Topics include:
- Approaches in understanding, measuring and predicting traits
- Scaling from traits to ecosystem processes.

Submit here: shorturl.at/sP5LC

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News flash! ⚡ GBIF establishes an international task group led by Dr Lydia Jennings on Indigenous data governance to offer input and guidance for implementing the #CAREPrinciples within the GBIF network 🌱

Read more: 🔗 https://gbif.link/IDG

@localcontexts.bsky.social

We are recruiting submissions of digitized lab slides demonstrating taxonomic features, cell structure, reproduction, etc. in different algal groups in a presentation format for use in classroom and lab activities. Submissions due June 30!
#phycologyfriday

Really comprehensive and brutal description of what’s going on at US science agencies by @dereklowe.bsky.social. Read to the end: because this doesn’t need to continue, the rest is not inevitable. We can fight back.

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Worried about losing access to US federal data that may go off-line, or already is? You’re not alone—but duplication isn’t the answer.

Many ongoing efforts have already archived key datasets and many more are ongoing. Check out these existing resources and, if you can, support their work. 🧵

Dear Modern Humans,

You thought you were so much smarter than people from the Middle Ages. But you're not.

Why do you think the dark ages lasted so long? It was because of greedy, insane despots who crushed progress and dangerous thoughts.

It won't end until you rise up and overthrow them all.

Who’s quitting academia? Data reveal gender gaps in surprising fields Even in scientific areas in which women are well represented, they are up to 40% more likely than men to leave research within 20 years.

“‘It’s very easy to assume that science is going to change organically towards equality — and what this study shows is that that’s not happening…It is an ‘important reminder for us that we need to stay vigilant in working towards equality in science’” @crsugimoto.bsky.social 🧪
#AcademicSky 👩🏽‍🔬

Hi, everyone - it’s #PhycologyFriday! Be sure to check out the awesome folks in the “Algal Appreciation” starter pack, & lmk if you’d like to be added. go.bsky.app/RwMphxS

Metatranscriptomics sheds light on 'who is doing what' in the coral Porites lutea www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs

Ash tree variability may offer restoration path post-beetle decimation | Penn State University The invasive emerald ash borer, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, was first found in the United States in southeast Michigan in 2002. In the decades since, the wood-boring beetle has sp...

News article describing our recent conservation genomics efforts in Oregon ash. Great study led by former postdoc, Anthony Melton www.psu.edu/news/researc...

🪩 Excited to share our paper in #BiologyLetters about recent trends & biases in #mesophotic research! Huge effort by our volunteer community worldwide @pimbongaerts @AlelimonHA @perez-rosales-g.bsky.social & entire @mesophotic team!
▶️ doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
#ForCoral @rsocpublishing.bsky.social

Looking for a new target microbes for cultivation? Check out our new review on "Earth's most needed uncultivated aquatic prokaryotes"!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

KZLab is Seeking a Lab Technician! The Zamudio Lab (zamudiolab.org) in the Department of Integrative Biology at UT Austin seeks a highly motivated and detail-oriented laboratory technician to play a key role in supporting the resear…

Friends, plz repost and share! We are hiring a lab technician with exp in mol biology and general lab management. BS or MS degree and good org skills are required. Deadline Feb 1, 2025. We are a welcoming and equitable lab community. Details at link below. 🐸🐢🐍🦎

zamudiolab.org/2024/12/18/k...

Have had some good chats recently about pivoting to non-profit and society journals. A point to share/underline is that such options exist across the "prestige" spectrum. Some examples in the image. All heavily subjective of course; would love to hear thoughts from others!

Unified approach could improve nature, climate and health all at once The biodiversity, climate, health, water and food crises need to be addressed together rather than regarded as separate issues, urges a major report

An incredible stat: more than HALF of global GDP – some $50 trillion – is moderately to highly dependent on nature. From the @ipbes.bsky.social Nexus report.
www.newscientist.com/article/2461...

We have a fully funded PhD position out focusing on adaptation strategies in filamentous Cyanobacteria www.slu.se/en/about-slu... please share to those potentially interested 😊

Ok, here you have the Starter Pack. This is just the beginning, and we will be adding more researchers progressively.
go.bsky.app/BBgq3df

There's a sticker on a window that read, "Directed by DAVID LYNCH," and now my fucked up funhouse of a ilife doesn't seem QUITE as - no, that's not quite right. It's still a surreal, bizarre, whackadoo carnival of fuckery from hell. But at least if it's taking place in a Lynchian universe, I can assuage my devastating anxiety and terror with the knowledge that all of this is ordinary in Lynchworld. Now all I have to do is keep an eye out for anything that seems NORMAL in the NORMAL sense... because that's the shit that'll really fuck you up.

Stuck this to the window and now the world makes a LITTLE more sense...

Lets put this back in the feed and see if there is anyone else who who'd like to be added.

We are getting your future grad students ready, and plan on writing a book one day…maybe.

go.bsky.app/RnHK313

Blueskyers: how do you get totally green undergrads going with command line? Does your institution offer a class? Book/workbook? Struggling to provide the support needed for an independent project when starting from square 1

Now hiring:

Are you a technician? Do you enjoy the lab? Plants 🌱? DNA 🧬? Microscopes 🔬?

We are looking for you! We are looking for a Biological Technical Assistant for the new molecular botany lab at @rwth.bsky.social Aachen. Please apply!

www.biologie.rwth-aachen.de/cms/biologie...

Here's a Rhodolith from the central coast of BC for #PhycologyFriday !

Photo credit goes to the Hakai Institute, but that is my thumb.

All the bull kelp in these artsy presses were entirely lab-grown grown in closed-system recirculating culture doi.org/10.1111/jpy....
#phycologyfriday #phycology #nereocystis #nereocystisluetkeana #bullkelp #aquaculture #mariculture

Are you interested in the #restoration of marine ecosystems?

I'm co-chairing a @icesmarine.bsky.social Workshop on Nature Restoration (WKREST) in March, join if you're interested!

www.ices.dk/community/gr...

Early-career fellowship on climate impacts on ocean-derived 🌊 foods & food security: oceansolutions.stanford.edu/sites/g/file...

Join Wilson Freshwater and me for a 5-week intensive graduate/advanced undergraduate course to study #seaweeds. More info below. Applications open soon- fhl.uw.edu/courses/appl...

Courtesy of Meaghan Sorce at the @harvard.bsky.social museum of natural history. 😉