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“I have to decide...whether to take new students into my lab, and I don’t know if I can afford them,” said Rutgers prof @annikabarber.bsky.social "there are no NIH study sections...there is a six-month funding gap …That is going to close small labs.” @aaup.bsky.social @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social

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For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

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“It is advisable to look from the tide pool to the stars and then back to the tide pool again.” - Steinbeck, Sea of Cortez

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Remembering John Lewis on his birthday (February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020) #GoodTrouble 💙🕊

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This will directly affect the future, & the present, of Pennsylvania & the country. Jonas Salk invented the Polio vaccine at Pitt. Pitt helped unlock DNA & pioneered organ transplants. Musk is offering a future where Americans are poorer, sicker, & less free. One word: NO www.wesa.fm/health-scien...

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Sea of Rays

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Studies of frogs. Drawing by Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717). © The Trustees of the British Museum. 🌿 #FrogFriday #SciArt 🐸

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Throwback: In 2021 I began #ProjectAnimalia, a 365 day art project...which grew. As I prep new #animalart here's some OG #animals! Day 4: Cuban land snail (Polymita picta) #sciart #artchallenge #animalart #wildlife #medart #dailyart #snail #digitalart #scientificillustration #projectanimalia

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#PhycologyFriday

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When you are just trying to chill but the winds of chaos be a-blowin' Couldn't help but chuckle at this little nudibranch feeling the gusts, rhinophores (bunny ears!) getting swept flat side to side in the surge 🧪🦑🐙 #MarineLife #inverts How would you caption this? 😄

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Lunch sketch

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funky crustaceans! #marinelife

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Unbelievably cool #crab about to unpack from her shell and get to work. I call her "Lefty". Check out those blue #eyes. 🦑 #marinelife #smallwonders #tidepool #ocean #nature #wildlife #maui #photography #macro #hawaii #goodnight

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Beasties from the deep. #invertebrates from 700 m deep around South Georgia in the Southern Ocean. #BIOPOLE2 @biopole.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk

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Gelasimus tetragonon found in Fiji. Their color pattern looks defferent from Japanese specimens. フィジーのルリマダラシオマネキです。オスの爪が赤く、日本で見るものとは色彩の傾向が違うように見えます。 🦀🦑🧪 #crab #カニ #invertebrate

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#PhycologyFriday

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Happy #PhycologyFriday! Northeast Algal Symposium coming up in April. Looking forward to seeing phriends and talking science.

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#PhycologyFriday

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#PhycologyFriday #MarineLife 🧪

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#PhycologyFriday #MarineLife #Invertebrate 🦑🐡

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A new in progress #pottery project for #phycologyfriday: #Alaria marginata carved on a bowl #kelp #seaweed #marineart #phycology #sculpture #carving #ceramics #clay

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#PhycologyFriday

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Feeling Fucoid on this fine #phycologyFriday Throwback to this amazing low tide series in summer 2022 on the ancestral lands of the Makah near the western entrance of the Strait of Juan de Fuca / Salish Sea How many different phyla can you count? 🦑🧪

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How it started…. How it’s going. Sorting seaweeds & measuring their functional traits. Here, PhD candidate Beatriz Rios Rojas is measuring surface area & perimeter by photographing the red seaweed Odonthalia floccosa against a light table for digital analyses. #PhycologyFriday

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File under "best news you've heard in a while". Wisdom the albatross has a new baby ❤️ #birds 🌿 www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/s...

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"NSF leadership is apparently helping with layoffs, and that 'permanent Program Directors will be undergoing RIF or Reduction In Force process within the next month or so. So far, through buyout and firing today we lost about 16% of the workforce, and RIF is expected to bring it up to 50%.'" 1/2

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Seaweed whisky… #PhycologyFriday

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Happy #PhycologyFriday indeed - Manuscript Accepted! I can't wait to share with you all the tale of a Euglena viridis bloom IN A RIVER!

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How the kelp forest looks in intact areas, with all the millions associated species, versus how it looks in more sea urchin grazed areas. Huge areas of kelp forests have been lost along the Norwegian coast, and we do a lot of work to restore these magnificent forests. #PhycologyFriday

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New paper hot of the press for #phycologyfriday !!!! 🌱🌊🌞We conducted a warming experiment in the field to test stress responses of the intertidal habitat forming seaweed Fucus serratus: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Tiny Polyneura latissima baldes and crustose coralline algae for #PhycologyFriday from a night time fieldwork expedition. There are also 2 #nudibranchs doing nothing of note and multiple #chitons if you look closely! 🦑🧪

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Colpomenia close-up! C. tuberculata - the specific name refers to its amazing, warty appearance - is a striking member of the Southern California algal flora. #PhycologyFriday

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‼️The US-based @ipcc.bsky.social technical support unit (TSU) for Working Group 3 Co-Chairs has been terminated, and the US won’t be attending next week’s IPCC meeting where the AR7 chapter outlines will be approved. More by @afreedma.bsky.social here:

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JOB OPPORTUNITY: Postdoctoral Researcher – Seaweed Ecology (The Institute of Marine Research, Norway) www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... #coralreefs #seaweed #seaweedecology #marineecologicalresearch #careers #careerdevelopment #jobopportunity #marinescience #marinebiology

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I am hiring a lab technician! If you know anyone who has experience with field studies, enjoys working with plants, and is a good communicator and hard worker, pls pass this along! The position is for one year with the possibility of renewal. Please re-skeet! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

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The court ordered that NIH grant funding be unfrozen, so The Regime found a way around it. For NIH grants to be funded, a review panel must rank them. In order for a review panel to meet, they must post it on the Federal Register. Submissions to the Federal Register are now on hold “indefinitely”.

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The US military/intelligence communities have acknowledged the threat climate change poses to US national security since the 80s. Trump will censor that fact That won't change the science. It WILL worsen the safety of the nation & effectiveness of our armed forces. www.gleick.com/blog/a-histo...

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Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

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Pictures are not doing the fabric justice but Elvis worm beanie complete!! Happy #WormWednesday ! 🐡🦑🐙

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This excellent Nature paper from 2015 discussed multiple ways that sex is not binary, and why the idea of two sexes is simplistic. Required reading right now - please share! www.nature.com/articles/518... 🧪👨‍🔬🧬🖥️

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Anyone can be a bright light in the dark

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For no particular reason, what the Commonwealth of Virginia thinks about kings.

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🦑🐙 BIRTHDAY CEPHALOPODS 🐙🦑 A few years ago I offered cephalopod doodles on my birthday, and it was so fun I'm doing it again! send me a prompt today (any cephalopod + anything else) and I'll draw it! here are some examples from 2021/2022

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