Workshop Application Form 2025 Thank you for your interest in the second annual Challenges in the Shellfish Industry Workshop, taking place in Oban, Scotland, from 30 September to 1 October 2025. This year’s theme, “Skills for Eff...

🦪 UK ECRs in aquaculture, marine sci, env policy or sci comm — join the Shellfish Industry 2025 Workshop 🌊
📅 30 Sept–1 Oct | Oban
🎯 Skills for research comms & engagement + industry networking
Free | Apply by 22 Aug: forms.gle/2jzSzgeQxe6R...
Funded by ASSG & @roslininstitute.bsky.social

Readvertising a PhD opportunity in my group investigating molecular mechanisms of biological patterning by studying mollusc shells. Based at St Andrews, Scotland, and co-supervised by
@vs-marine.bsky.social! Deadline 17/01/25. More details: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Time to be shellfish: why the UK should go back to feasting on oysters and mussels Popular in Victorian times, they are sustainable, a good source of protein and brilliant for biodiversity, say those championing the bivalves

Nice write up on the importance of supporting #sustainable #shellfish #aquaculture for delicious meals that help the planet
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

For the first time, a humpback whale was spotted near the mouth of a river in Ireland.
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-... via @miamiherald.bsky.social

125ml Erlenmeyer tissue culture flask holder by GC | Download free STL model | Printables.com Flask holder for shaking platform in TC incubator. Fits disposable PETG plain bottom flasks (e.g. Thermo 4115-0125) | Download free 3D printable STL models

If you happen to have this combination of TC needs and a Stuart mini orbital shaker, you can download and print one too: www.printables.com/model/108765...

Specific question:

Does anyone out there have any data on sex ratios for soft-shell clams (Mya arenaria) they're willing to share?

Trying to compile a database for #metaanalysis. I've found all I could find in the literature but want to maximize data!

If so, please reach out!

🧪🦑 #MarineEcology

An intranuclear bacterial parasite of deep-sea mussels expresses apoptosis inhibitors acquired from its host - Nature Microbiology ‘Candidatus Endonucleobacter’ is a pathogen of deep-sea mussels that can successfully reproduce in the nuclei of its host by expressing inhibitors of apoptosis, likely acquired through horizontal gene...

OK, this is just a damn cool article 🤯 🦠 🔬 Infecting the cell nucleus, gaining nutrients, but preventing cell death!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

EASTBIO: Exploring Interactions between Mussels and Pathogenic Vibrio for Enhanced Shellfish Health and Food Safety at University of Edinburgh on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - EASTBIO: Exploring Interactions between Mussels and Pathogenic Vibrio for Enhanced Shellfish Health and Food Safety at University of Edinburgh, listed on FindAPhD.com

🌊 Interested in shellfish health & food safety? 🦪
Join our EastBIO PhD project at the Roslin Institute!

Explore mussel immunity & Vibrio interactions using genomics, transcriptomics & more 🦪🦠🧫🧬🌊

💡 Includes fieldwork & CASE placement at Cefas
📍 Edinburgh, UK
Apply👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

🦪 Out yesterday some genome-wide work on the native European flat oyster , <i>Ostrea edulis</i>. Once widespread along European coasts but is now functionally extinct due to overfishing and disease. Threads 1/n 🦪
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Compiling some videos for our upcoming #bioc102 class with MSc Biological Oceanography students at Kiel University and #Geomar. Critter of the week: blue mussels with forests of small creatures living on their shells. We‘ll zoom into these forests in the next weeks… 🦑

Project Project details

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Fantastic PhD opportunity to advance #seaweed #aquaculture in the face of climate breakdown 🌊🌡️🔬🧬🌊

Based at SAMS on the Scottish west coast with stunning kelp farm fieldwork locations & placement in our lab at the Roslin Institute.

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And this afternoon Rob Stewart presented results from his PhD on TRIM25 in salmon in response to virus infections. He confirmed through multiple analysis that they are 2 copies of ssTRIM25 in A. salmon and only one on chr2 is up regulated upon infection with a putative role in suppressing ISAVirus

Kallen Sullivan, a PhD student from the Bean's lab at Roslin presented her awesome work on developing cell culture in oysters 🦪🧫🔬 to study oyster immune response to bonamia infection. I'm always amazed by the different organs you can find in a rock, an oyster sorry 😅
👩🏻‍🔬🧪

Ambre is also doing some long read nanopore sequencing after managing to extract really long (too long even!) DNA from her mussels 🧬🧬💻, looking forward to hearing those results that she currently analysing in @timreganlab.bsky.social lab at Roslin
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#EID is a network of 900 infectious disease researchers across different institutes in Edinburgh.

Give them a follow to connect with global experts and their cutting edge science.

Heart cockle shells transmit sunlight to photosymbiotic algae using bundled fiber optic cables and condensing lenses - Nature Communications Some bivalves have evolved photosynthetic symbioses. Here, the authors show that heart cockles transmit light through their upper shell to internal photosynthetic symbionts, using mineral fiber optic ...

Heart clams have evolved optic fibres and windows to bathe their symbionts in sunlight 👽❤️🌞. Worth reading the whole story (which is beautifully written) by Dakota McCoy and colleagues www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.bsky.social

Scottish oyster mortality event and association with Vibrio aestuarianus Pacific oysters, Crassostrea (Magallana) gigas, are the most commonly cultured invertebrate species globally. Recent years have seen outbreaks of summ…

🌊New paper!
A Scottish oyster farmer faced summer mortalities linked to Vibrio spp.
We provide sequences for V. splendidus + highly virulent V. aestuarianus isolates🦠🖥️🧬
Bonus content: Morts declined each year, with no unusual deaths this year!💪🦪
#Oysters #Vibrio
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Advancing responsible genomic analyses of ancient mollusc shells The analysis of the DNA entrapped in ancient shells of molluscs has the potential to shed light on the evolution and ecology of this very diverse phylum. Ancient genomics could help reconstruct the re...

Best practices to extract ancient DNA from mollusc shells #MusselsAreCool

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PhD position available in our lab in 🇨🇭! Interested in microbial ecology and evolution in the context of #Symbiosis, #Microbiota, #Bees? Like to analyze shotgun metagenomics data with the possibility for fieldwork and experiments? This is for you. Apply here: shorturl.at/swHf1 #SymbioSky

LSI PhD programme | Living Systems Institute | University of Exeter

Fully funded #PhD Studentship with myself and JJ Phillips at the Living Systems Institute, @uniofexeter.bsky.social

"Control of chromatin remodeller activity to direct cell fate decisions"

#Chromatin #Transcription #StemCells #StructuralBiology

Please re-skeet!

www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins...

A screenshot of a blue slide from the WiSA Awards with me (woman) smiling and holding a wooden award for the Academic champion winner. My name role and position in my in research institute are written on the side

For #IWD, the UN's theme for the day is "Invest in women: accelerate progress", an empowering theme for us all 👩‍🔬
I'm very happy and deeply touched to have been awarded "Academic Champion of the year" from #WiSA 💜
I am very proud to be part of an 🐟 Aquaculture community that is very supportive 🧬💻

Those are awesome!

Don't miss this opportunity! Few days left to apply to the Tenure-track assistant professor position in our Department at the University of Lausanne and with the NCCR Microbiomes. Topics: microbial interactions, microbiome research, microbial symbiosis (...) Deadline: Jan 31! tinyurl.com/4k2mevax

"BATH matches the accuracy of HMMER3 for annotation of sequences containing no errors, and produces superior accuracy to all tested tools for annotation of sequences containing nucleotide indels."

#HiSciSky Happy to migrate over here. I'm a postdoc in Edinburgh, interested in #trypanosomes, #coinfection, and #drugresistance.

I post mostly about science, but occasionally comment on politics that impact researchers (esp. from the Global South).

T. brucei image: Sue Vaughan/ Welcome Collection

Have a good one everyone!
Good thing some bivalves have feet, otherwise how could they ice skate?!

WATCH: Rare video captured off the coast of San Diego showed an #orca teaching a baby #whale how to hunt a #dolphin after subduing it youtu.be/oChZ9fYf_GM?... via @YouTube @nbcnewspolitics.bsky.social

More diverse microbiome communities provide protection against infection, but how?

New paper in Science shows this is achieved by nutrient blocking -- diverse communities will consume all the nutrients an incoming pathogen needs to colonize

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

World's 1st 'conversation' between humans and whales could help us talk to aliens someday, scientist... Researchers are studying humpback whale communication systems to learn how to detect and interpret extraterrestrial signals from outer space.

World's 1st 'conversation' between humans and #whales could help us talk to aliens someday, scientists claim www.livescience.com/space/extrat...

How seaweed can help heal wounds> bit.ly/3CzL6tn