Opinion: Kelp forests off coast are disappearing. Who’s paying attention? Kelp forests stabilize coastlines and help regulate carbon in the ocean.

📢 We need attention on California's disappearing kelp forests, says @ucsandiego.bsky.social bioengineering PhD candidate Katherine O'Connor. Inspired by Scripps PhD candidate Mohammad Sedarat's work tracking these trends, she shares why this is important for @sandiegouniontribune.com. ⤵️

🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests ? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲

👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest

This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity!

Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚

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I laughed out loud 😂

Graphic design demo shows how font size and highlighting guides the eye.

Thinking about poster presentations today in our weekly group meeting. Remember to use white space, font size, and graphic design to draw people in. This oldie-but-goodie is a nice reminder of that. 🧪

Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It. 40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.

I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing.

Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service:

cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

Microbial Ecological Signatures Predict Pathogen Emergence and Multidrug Resistance in Cystic Fibrosis Airways up to a Year in Advance Chronic infections in cystic fibrosis (CF) emerge from gradual ecological transitions in the airway microbiome, yet early predictive markers remain poorly defined. We developed a new autoencoder-based...

Check out our preprint on airway microbiome CF

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Q: Can we predict clinical outcomes before the clinic?
A: Yes!

🦠 Microbiome predicts Pseudomonas colonisation & AMR early
🦠 Resistance mechanisms mirror those seen in lab!

#Microbiome #CysticFibrosis #Metagenomics

We're Hiring! Communications and Operations Coordinator - Stone Living Lab Are you enthusiastic about communications? Highly organized and excited to make a positive difference in Boston's climate resiliency? Apply now to be our next

Want to join the @stonelivinglab.bsky.social as our communications and operations coordinator? Come join our team centered on Nature Based Approaches to coastal resilience! stonelivinglab.org/news-article...

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@sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social
@marsobral.bsky.social & @ibartomeus.bsky.social on the (huge, urgent) need to change publishing pathways
While public administrations (regional, national, European) decide to stop paying subscriptions and create their own portals, check journal options below

Cobweb-Covered Skeleton Gripping Senate Desk Expected To Seek 15th Term

Is this ASMR

This wrapping paper turns everything into bread 🥖

Created by Japanese designer Ippei Tsujio

Trump Cuts Threaten Agency Running Meals on Wheels A tiny division responsible for overseeing services for people with disabilities and older Americans is being dismantled as part of an overhaul by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary.

I volunteer my time delivering meals for #MealsOnWheels. I know first hand how the elderly and infirm in need rely on these important services. Call your representatives and tell them to stop the cruelty by Trump and RFKJr and maintain MOW funding. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/h...

A clam on a wooden railing with a stormy grey sea in the background

There it is. The clam before the storm.

New NSF FAQ - Scientists not allowed to study disinformation…Isn’t attempting to sort fact from fiction part of the job?

“Free speech” is the priority, but certain words like “women” and “Black people” are targets

It’s so embarrassing being shut down by people that don’t understand basic logic 😩

We always tell people to create a portfolio to showcase their work, so today we're releasing a template to get you started: github.com/omgenomics/p...

It's made for scientists & engineers who want a living resume that showcases projects, work timeline, and blog posts that demonstrate your expertise

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when they go low, we go Jasmine Crockett @repjasmine.bsky.social 🔥

#HandsOff Santa Barbara!

📷: Society of Fearless Grandmothers

Penguins! #Handsoff

Just a reminder
#BoycottTesla
Make their lives miserable

#HandsOff #BoycottTesla

For the many people that are already just scraping by, I would say this could be catastrophic.

Welcome to Idiocracy.

5 relative abundance plots arranged to have increasing compositional variability (variability across relative abundance samples, here vertical bars)

1/ Hey y'all, I'm excited to share my latest paper, which is out now in PNAS! We introduce FAVA, a statistical framework to measure compositional variability across microbiome samples. If you want to measure variability across a stacked bar plot, FAVA is for you! Paper: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Super late reply lol but I just used SqueezeMeta for the first time & loved it #metagenomics #microsky

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Ah so it’s not just me

AOC was right.

It's probably the right time for a lot of people to start entering the fray and running establishment Dems out of office.