New paper out today! Autonomous eDNA collection using an uncrewed surface vessel over a 4200‐km transect of the eastern Pacific Ocean - Preston - Environmental DNA - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ed…

Seriously unis wonder why people don’t wanna do postdocs

To my frustration, lions eating gazelles eating grass or orcas eating herring eating phytoplankton is the tale wildlife films only tell. But life's about the flow of carbon and that's the story that must be told. Here's my try, narrated by Attenborough:  vimeo.com/84872751

Bye Bye Barney: Last Friday we congratulated Senior Research Scientist Barney Balch on his well-earned retirement (though he's still engaged in science, of course). We’ll share more on his epic career later, but for now, we’d like to say thanks, Barney! You really take the cake.

#WorldAlgaeDay Coccolithophores are highly calcified marine phytoplankton that can form huge blooms in our oceans. Researchers at the MBA are studying how these tiny algae are able to produce their beautiful coccoliths! Read more: buff.ly/3ZSKeul Daniela Sturm @GLWheeler2

Falling behind: postdocs in their thirties tire of putting life on hold. Read the results of Nature’s second global survey of postdoctoral researchers go.nature.com/3Qtd4hI

🧬Is #metabarcoding a reliable approach to assess #plantkon quantitatively? 👉Check more:doi.org/10.3897/mbmg.6… MBMG Journal

You want a cool Outreach Poster from Aurora? - pimp your office wall #coccolithophoresarecool #scicomm Download here 👇 ina.tmsoc.org/nannos/outreac…

A lot of what we know about #coccolithophores, we know from Emiliania (Gephyrocapsa) huxleyi 🌊 Our new review published in Journal of Phycology traces the journey of G. huxleyi research, showcasing the milestones in our understanding. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

This new perspective piece by Glen Wheeler et al. concludes our first series of special articles Journal of Phycology Hope you've enjoyed them. Big 🙏 to all authors! Gephyrocapsa huxleyi (Emiliania huxleyi) as a model system for #coccolithophore biology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Santa takes a pre-flight pitstop at the White Cliffs – spreading holiday cheer and Cretaceous fossils far and near! 🎅 #FossilFestive #FossilFriday #HappyHolidays #ChalkyChristmas #Waitforyourfossil

Yet another missed flight with KLM due their abysmal scheduling. A 9-hour layover Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and a 15 Euro food voucher hardly compensate for the inconvenience. It's time for a serious review of your flight schedules and customer service standards. #KLM

Today I was contacted by a recruiter from Liquid Trees Biotech - a startup that believes it's reasonable to ask employees to work a 6-day work week to set the bar for a 'high-performance work culture'. Speechless... #worklifebalance

Want to culture beautiful #ctenophores? Our latest: Stable Laboratory Culture System for the Ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi with Joan J. Soto-Angel, Eva Nordmann, Daniela Sturm, Maria Sachkova & Kevin Pang out now in Methods in Molecular Biology. link.springer.com/protocol/10.10… Michael Sars Centre Universitetet i Bergen

Nice find from the beginning of my PhD project - environmental sample from the English Channel. Red: chlorophyll fluorescence showing diatoms and dinoflagellates🌿, bright white: polarized light showing coccolithophores and lose calcite crystals 🔮

💡 Yes, AI can classify plankton - but only with the right image data. See how researchers are using FlowCam images to build smarter tools for bloom detection, biodiversity studies, culture monitoring, and more 🌊🔬 🔗 fluidimaging.com/blog/ai-classi… #MachineLearning

From puddles to plankton! 🌿 Using #FlowCam, I explored peaty puddles in the UK uplands and found thriving microbial life; all captured in seconds. Check out Episode 1 of A Hiker’s Guide to the Planktoverse: 🔬 fluidimaging.com/blog/freshwate… Fluid Imaging #plankton #microscopy