Today we arrived in Reykjavík fleeing before Erin. This expedition has left me with a lot of unforgettable sceneries, nice people to interact with and a lot of samples to work with back home.
Thank you to Captain and Crew of the Maria S. Merian for such a smooth passage through little known waters.
@arcticstationucph.bsky.social as we finish our stay in the arctic station, it is time to take stock. Great to get the samples that we have, even with the difficult conditions. In addition, a big thank you for the staff‘s support and warmth. GreenHAB returns to Disko Bay in August
Mauskopf querschnitt und UDE BioSLiDES logo
Weltrekord?
UDE BioSLiDES hat vermutlich einen Weltrekord gebrochen: Das neueste digitale Präparat umfasst über eine Billion(!) Pixel und zeigt den frontalen Dünnschnitt eines Mäuseschädels in feinsten Details. Schaut es euch selbst an unter bioslides.biologie.uni-due.de/viewer.html?...
Look at this round-up of meetings surrounding diatomology
It has been a very useful and rewarding experience. Want to read about what it could mean for you? Take a look!
Same from me. Going home for the time so „Guten Rutsch“ or good slide into the year 2025!
A plate full of decorated diatom and algae cookies to be identified in the christmas party.
Diatom christmas cookies for the phycolab christmas party (and part of the diatom creation effort flr #Dinktember of @youngisdr.bsky.social
An SEM image of a testate amoebozoan that makes its shell from debris in the environment.
An SEM image of a testate amoebozoan that makes its shell from food particles--mostly diatom tests in this case!
The rhizarian testate amoeba that I shared yesterday makes its shell out of intricate, self-constructed glass scales. Other testate amoebozoans in the same environment make their shells out of debris (left) or food (right). These are interesting examples of convergence! #protistsonsky #protistaday
This is amazing, thank you for sharing! You can even identify the diatoms on the right amoeba!
📢📢📢 Tomorrow, Friday, December 13, 2 pm - T03 R04 D10: „The Role of Horizontal Gene Transfer in the Evolution of Photosynthetic Eukaryotes 🧪🧪🌿“ by Michael Melkonian. Come and learn 𖤖 𖠘 𖠶 𖡎 𖡊 𖡹 𖢅 𖢄 𖢨 𖥓 𖤒 𖤫 𖦄 𖥚 𖤜 𖤒
Always a nice experience :)
Nathan Bullen and Aaron Whiteley wrote a nice summary of our Osterman et al 2024 study
www.cell.com/molecular-ce...
We have an opening for a 4-year postdoc position to study the #rhizosphere #microbiome in @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social, joint project with @marnixmedema.bsky.social in the context of MiCRop. Please tag/forward this to potential candidates and/or repost: www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
Beautiful!
Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science 🧪 disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" ✂️
So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality?
We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary
#WomeninSTEM
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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It is so cool that this paper is the sum of other ecological studies from our group. Great to see the data use this way! doi.org/10.1093/giga...
Magical Diatom Christmas: a week of science and creativity. Stay tuned! We’ll be sharing the activity calendar soon so you can join in and share on instagram and twiyter. Mark your calendars: december 16th to 20th. Don’t miss the winter solstice celebration in the 20th!
Some nice news for the coming month. #WinterSolsticeParty #diatomActivities #diatomsAreFun
Bluesky tip for newbies: Bluesky has no real algorithm. Likes here do nothing but show the poster that you enjoyed their content.
That kindness is always going to be appreciated by creators, but if you want to help to boost something here, you have to repost it so others see it. 🙂
Menne river, dry reach
At the Arctic Station in Qeqertarsuaq
My own first post here. Just a bit of ecology of diatoms in temporary rivers, no with excursion into the Arctic phytoplankton.