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📚 New scientific paper about Picozoa ! This challenges traditional views on species evolution and adaptation. 👉 Learn more by reading the article : microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… Tropical Microbes log[lab] Paula Huber Hugo Sarmento Ramon Massana Ramiro Logares Sebastian Metz Colomban de Vargas

I am looking for a PhD student to start in fall of 2025 at MSU. Potential topics include trait-based approaches to plankton community resilience, temperature effects on communities, harmful algal blooms, etc . Please get in touch if interested. More info: kl-lab.group.

New work reveals the impact of anxiety & depression on PhD students. "Anxiety and depression can have a substantially detrimental impact on graduate students’ experiences [..] and likely also contribute to increased time to degree and student attrition." nature.com/articles/s4158…

🚨 Exciting new postdoctoral opportunities Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)! We are looking for a biogeochemical modeler interested in developing next generation ecosystem and carbon cycle models for the Northwest Atlantic. 1/n whoi.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WHOI-Ext…

Fascinating paper on where 6000 global elites went to college. Billionaires, CEOs, heads of state, central bankers, etc. In a word: Harvard. Fully 10% of global elites went to Harvard. Elite US schools are over-represented (23% IvyPlus), but nobody comes close to Harvard. 🧵

Daniele Iudicone Andrea Capocci il manifesto Corretto. Qual he elemento fattuale nel nostro paper "strain on scientific publishing" qui direct.mit.edu/qss/article/do…

At the invitation of Prof Eleanor Frajka-Williams, I'll be teaching this two-week graduate course in person: Ocean/Atmosphere Time Series Analysis Univ. of Hamburg 17-28 March 2025 If you are based elsewhere, you can still come, at no cost. Details and application: conferences.uni-hamburg.de/event/560

Diatom phytochromes integrate the underwater light spectrum to sense depth nature.com/articles/s4158…

Researcher: "We let the data speak for itself." Earlier that day:

Good papers lead to more questions than they answer. That's because (as Blaise Pascal wrote) knowledge is like a sphere: the larger it gets the larger also its surface, which is its interface with the unknown.

🌍🍷 Denmark 🇩🇰 as a wine producer? #Climatechange is reshaping traditional winemaking boundaries, with northern Europe emerging as a serious contender in the industry. ft.com/content/1c94c2…

Here's the thing. We have **NO IDEA** how to pick good graduate students. I served on admission committees for 10+ years, and chaired a few, and what I learned is that all the spreadsheets of grades and test scores and recommendations and essays and publications and interview

🎉🎉We’re on the cover of Nature Physics!! Here is the original paper nature.com/articles/s4156…

Here a new point of view on the response od fhe global ocean to climate change. In short: we cannot separate temperature from the rest when we look at trends in the dynamics. It is just a starting point. With the great Bruno Buongiorno Nardelli. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

We have two types of Dangers in world.

This is a fantastic master program. Students of the international track spend 1 semester in Trieste ( at ICTP and SISSA ), 1 in Turin ( Politecnico di Torino ), and 1 in Paris (Sorbonne / Saclay / Paris-Cité ) + final proj. Apply! Deadline May 25 polito.it/en/education/m…

Sebastião #Salgado ha dipinto affreschi del mondo, della sua bellezza e dei suoi orrori. Il suo lavoro sull’inferno della miniera della Serra Pelada è uno dei momenti più alti della fotografia mondiale.

📢Communicate your science! Whether you're a student, researcher, or early-career scientist, this webinar by Leila Nefdt is your chance to sharpen your skills and learn how to share your science with clarity, confidence, and impact. Watch recording here: youtube.com/watch?v=tLulkM…

Academic ironies