We're out at sea with C-COMP @microbialplanet.bsky.social and the AUV Clio. Clio's social media account has migrated from the other place to the blue place @clio-thebgcauv.bsky.social , follow for mild sarcastic pseudo-first robot humor
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We have learned that the National Science Foundation is moving ahead with plans to decommission the U.S. Research Vessel/Ice Breaker Nathaniel B. Palmer this October.

If you care about Antarctic research, please read on (1/n)

Study Reveals how Deep Ocean Currents Shape Microbial Life across South Pacific A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning circulation—play a pivotal role in shaping the diversity and function of microbial life ...

🌊 ↪️↩️ Deep ocean currents play a pivotal role in shaping the diversity and function of microbial life across the South Pacific Ocean, according to a groundbreaking study led by @jcvi.org and Scripps Oceanography scientists. More on the study published by @science.org. ⬇️

I know folks are using orbitraps to look at isotopes for geochemical applications with sulfur molecules. Also just had another geochemist colleague visiting to learn protein extraction to get at N isotopic signatures. I’ve always wanted to go next door and to use the AMS for C14 in peptides.

Here Are the Nearly 2,500 Medical Research Grants Canceled or Delayed by Trump (Gift Article) Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.

New powerful article up in the New York Times on cancelled and delayed grants

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

2025 LIFE RCN Seminar Series Episode 1: Dr. Rogier Braakman — LIFE Research Coordination Network On June 10th, 2025, at 8AM PDT/11AM EDT, the LIFE RCN will be excited to introduce Dr. Rogier Braakman, a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an adjunct scientist at Th...

Excited to give a virtual seminar in the NASA LIFE RCN series next Tuesday June 10th, at 8am PST/11am EST.

I'll be talking about the Chitin Raft Hypothesis and the rise of planktonic marine cyanobacteria.

🧪🦠⚒️🌐 #Paleobio #MEvoSky #MicroSky

www.lifercn.org/events/2025-...

One visible impact of the illegal firing of NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab (GLERL) employees -

no 2025 data updates for water quality in W Lake Erie, meaning no public info on the harmful algal blooms.

We detected toxins in April, but we lost the folks who organize & report this data

🌊 Pre-registration is open for GEOTRACES Summer School 2025!

📅 17–21 Nov | 📍 Cape Town
🎓 Training in marine biogeochemistry of trace elements & isotopes for 36 students.

Apply by 30 June 2025 👉 geotraces-2025.sciencesconf.org

#MarineScience #Biogeochemistry #SummerSchool
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Thanks for the plug Ben! Coming out on streaming in a few days too. Hope fellow chemists enjoy the cover art too.

Zinc stimulation of phytoplankton in a low carbon dioxide, coastal Antarctic environment: evidence for the Zn hypothesis Abstract. The ocean acts as a carbon sink, absorbing carbon from the atmosphere and resulting in substantial uptake of anthropogenic CO2 emissions. As biological processes in the oceans such as net pr...

Is the Zinc Hypothesis true? (Zn control of marine primary production). Apparently yes: by multiple independent lines of evidence, including zinc stress protein biomarkers, in the low pCO2 waters of a coastal Antarctica bloom. Thesis work by Riss Kell and many wonderful collabs. In Open review BG. 🌊

A screenshot of Google's AI Overview answer to the question "is haggis an animal". It says "Yes, the haggis is a small, furry mammal native to Scotland" and goes on to give the typical "asymmetrical legs" details.

The Scottish have won the AI Wars.

We appreciate and understand the sentiment Ron. The ocean protein portal will not be blocking foreign IPs.

Part 1: Zonal gradients in phosphorus and nitrogen acquisition and stress revealed by metaproteomes of Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus Abstract. Ocean warming alongside changes to the natural and anthropogenic supply of key nutrient resources such as nitrogen, phosphorus and trace metals is predicted to alter the magnitude and stoich...

Super glad to share two new papers about how nutrient gradients impact alkaline phosphatase in the ocean. This was "that project" which followed from PhD to Postdoc to Assist. Prof, motivated by awesome collaborators! egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20... egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

Inside the Collapse at NIH Administration officials pressured NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.

I talked to NIH officials, current and former, about what's been happening inside the agency since the Trump administration shut down their grantmaking pipeline in January. Their stories showed just how willing our new leaders are to break the law: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

John Raven, FRS, FRSE: a truly great innovator in plant physiology, photosynthesis and much more - Photosynthesis Research This is a tribute to a truly inspirational plant biologist, Prof. John A. Raven, FRS, FRSE (25th June 1941– 23rd May 2024), who died at the age of 82. He was a leader in the field of evolution and phy...

"John Raven, FRS, FRSE: a truly great innovator in plant physiology, photosynthesis and much more" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.

Rapid Zinc uptake rates in Antarctica with a new stable isotope method, by former student Riss. If you know how easy it is to contaminate for zinc you’ll appreciate this study.

Why Environmental Biomarkers Work: Transcriptome–Proteome Correlations and Modeling of Multistressor Experiments in the Marine Bacterium Trichodesmium Ocean microbial communities are important contributors to the global biogeochemical reactions that sustain life on Earth. The factors controlling these communities are being increasingly explored usin...

Well, hopefully not the about worst... We modeled how correlations work for environmental responsive transcripts and proteins because the starting inventory of both is small so the dynamic range is large, and why in log2 space many gene products don't correlate because of large protein inventories.

Ha, at least when they ask if you work on toxic chemicals you can say yes. I try to start a discussion about metal micronutrients…

Sunset on a chilly walk in Woods Hole

We have them too, as well as photovoltaics. Guilt free hot water.

We are very happy to announce a free-to-attend #anvio workshop and ECR symposium in Oldenburg to discuss integrated microbial 'omics and learn applications of anvi'o.

More information and application link (application deadline is Jan 10): anvio.org/workshops/20...

Please apply and/or circulate 😇

Love the photo!

Ha! Maybe this will inspire me to finish a thesis paper too…

I like using notebooks for composing text often as well. Or computers without internet…

Results from a multi-laboratory ocean metaproteomic intercomparison: effects of LC-MS acquisition and data analysis procedures Abstract. Metaproteomics is an increasingly popular methodology that provides information regarding the metabolic functions of specific microbial taxa and has potential for contributing to ocean ecolo...

Ocean Metaproteomics intercomparison study out. Really fun project working together with colleagues to examine this method. And Intercomparisons are really valuable to connect between dstasets across time and space in the environment bg.copernicus.org/articles/21/...

Our rock group, Deep Six, just released a second album this week, The Abyss. Mostly instrumental tunes, melancholy, but hopeful, good writing or walking tunes. With fellow marine chemists Adam Subhas and Tristan Horner. Enjoy!
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Hey Chris, generally speaking protein trends with biomass, which is highest in the upper ocean where the sunlight reaches. Even In the cold of Antarctica there are huge blooms due to nutrient rich upwelled waters. How climate change and warming will affect productivity is not well known.

Our new multi-omic and micronutrient study,
A 1km section in the western North Atlantic measured by the AUV Clio. We also sent Clio on a 4000m dive and detected fungi in the large nephaloid layers there. Congrats @oceanatalie.bsky.social !