Ian Hewson
@ianhewson.bsky.social
PI of the Cornell Marine Mass Mortality Lab (CM3L). Views are my own. 🏳️🌈🇦🇺. 1st gen phd, immigrant. Swimming content at @oceansciswim.bsky.social lab site http//team-aquatic-virus.com travel blog @ianfliesplacez.bsky.social
Carpe diem. Do I take the opportunity to visit the Mascarene Islands (Indian Ocean) in January?
December 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Carpe diem. Do I take the opportunity to visit the Mascarene Islands (Indian Ocean) in January?
Last day in St Thomas on our Diadema project. Quick snorkel this morning to look at protists in the mucus of corals and were accompanied by some 8 legged friends! Back to the white north this afternoon…
December 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Last day in St Thomas on our Diadema project. Quick snorkel this morning to look at protists in the mucus of corals and were accompanied by some 8 legged friends! Back to the white north this afternoon…
Day 3 of December Diadema project trip. Today chased some non echinoid echinoderms (which are everywhere!) and then processed a bunch of experiments set up 48h ago. Also ran a couple of gels on the bento box- yay for real time data!! Last full day here. Heading home tomorrow!
December 8, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Day 3 of December Diadema project trip. Today chased some non echinoid echinoderms (which are everywhere!) and then processed a bunch of experiments set up 48h ago. Also ran a couple of gels on the bento box- yay for real time data!! Last full day here. Heading home tomorrow!
Day 2 of our December Diadema sampling in St Thomas. Today was all about diadema - collecting spines and coelomic fluid (blood) samples. This afternoon set up two approaches to detect our ciliate- LAMP and PCR (first time using a bento box!). Awesome to go from field to lab to results within 20yds.
December 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Day 2 of our December Diadema sampling in St Thomas. Today was all about diadema - collecting spines and coelomic fluid (blood) samples. This afternoon set up two approaches to detect our ciliate- LAMP and PCR (first time using a bento box!). Awesome to go from field to lab to results within 20yds.
Day one of our December Diadema time series sampling today in St Thomas USVI with @aquaticmicrolab.bsky.social and Marilyn Brandt. Fascinating to see season changes in microbial ecology of our site. Today we saw a big increase in diatoms, presumably due to cooler water.
December 6, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Day one of our December Diadema time series sampling today in St Thomas USVI with @aquaticmicrolab.bsky.social and Marilyn Brandt. Fascinating to see season changes in microbial ecology of our site. Today we saw a big increase in diatoms, presumably due to cooler water.
First real snow of the season in Ithaca. Though I very much enjoy the snow, looking forward to an upcoming trip to the Caribbean to continue our project on Diadema scuticociliatosis
November 28, 2025 at 1:54 PM
First real snow of the season in Ithaca. Though I very much enjoy the snow, looking forward to an upcoming trip to the Caribbean to continue our project on Diadema scuticociliatosis
The question is, should I grind up a bottle of statins and then sprinkle this on my entire Thanksgiving dinner like salt?
November 27, 2025 at 7:51 PM
The question is, should I grind up a bottle of statins and then sprinkle this on my entire Thanksgiving dinner like salt?
Hey so does anyone know how to defrost a turkey in like 2 hours? Asking for a friend
November 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Hey so does anyone know how to defrost a turkey in like 2 hours? Asking for a friend
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Also @hannahgreich.bsky.social shared this great resource with me for anyone else on the hunt: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Ecology/Evolution/Marine Biology labs recruiting for Fall 2026 (Responses)
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November 26, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Also @hannahgreich.bsky.social shared this great resource with me for anyone else on the hunt: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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So excited for our #nsffunded research to kick off with an amazing team of researchers @viromegirl.bsky.social @ianhewson.bsky.social @drchriskellogg.bsky.social Dr. Marilyn Brandt (UVI).
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NIU biologist dives into coral reef mystery with NSF-funded research | NIU Newsroom
DEKALB, IL — When long-spined sea urchins across the Caribbean began dying by the thousands in 2022, marine scientists feared a repeat of an ecological...
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November 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
So excited for our #nsffunded research to kick off with an amazing team of researchers @viromegirl.bsky.social @ianhewson.bsky.social @drchriskellogg.bsky.social Dr. Marilyn Brandt (UVI).
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Assistant Professor position posted for my Department, Biological Sciences at UNC Charlotte! Current research foci: Immunology, Microbiology, Virology; Biomolecular Function; Proteostasis; Genome Integrity; Epigenome Regulation; Cancer; Environmental Risks. jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/65141
Assistant Professor
Applicants should possess a Ph.D. in the biological sciences or related fields.Candidates are expected to document expertise in their specialty by a record of postdoctoral training, peer reviewed publ...
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November 19, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Assistant Professor position posted for my Department, Biological Sciences at UNC Charlotte! Current research foci: Immunology, Microbiology, Virology; Biomolecular Function; Proteostasis; Genome Integrity; Epigenome Regulation; Cancer; Environmental Risks. jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/65141
Scientific supply company to me: we sent you two of something by mistake 5 months ago, and you need to pay for the second thing
Me: sure, please send me an invoice (invoice arrived with a phone number)
Called their phone number, nobody answered, on voicemail.
Asked for a secure link to pay
Me: sure, please send me an invoice (invoice arrived with a phone number)
Called their phone number, nobody answered, on voicemail.
Asked for a secure link to pay
November 18, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Scientific supply company to me: we sent you two of something by mistake 5 months ago, and you need to pay for the second thing
Me: sure, please send me an invoice (invoice arrived with a phone number)
Called their phone number, nobody answered, on voicemail.
Asked for a secure link to pay
Me: sure, please send me an invoice (invoice arrived with a phone number)
Called their phone number, nobody answered, on voicemail.
Asked for a secure link to pay
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Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island.
jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960
jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960
November 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island.
jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960
jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960
Hmm maybe this is why my euk primers don’t work on some turf algal samples from St Thomas. Does anyone know what type of cyano this is? Lyngbya majuscula? It’s super purple…
November 14, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Hmm maybe this is why my euk primers don’t work on some turf algal samples from St Thomas. Does anyone know what type of cyano this is? Lyngbya majuscula? It’s super purple…
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Excited to recruit a new PhD student for Fall 2026 in my lab at Cornell! Looking for someone interested in evolutionary genomics + fisheries/conservation applications. Quick timeline this year—reach out soon. More details: www.therkildsenlab.org/join-us.html
Join Us
The lab of Nina Overgaard Therkildsen in the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment at Cornell University invites applications for a PhD position starting in Fall 2026. Our group works...
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November 14, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Excited to recruit a new PhD student for Fall 2026 in my lab at Cornell! Looking for someone interested in evolutionary genomics + fisheries/conservation applications. Quick timeline this year—reach out soon. More details: www.therkildsenlab.org/join-us.html
Ah Ithaca. Looking for the aurora that everyone else is reporting but alas, as usual, just clouds… for the next 5 months
November 12, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Ah Ithaca. Looking for the aurora that everyone else is reporting but alas, as usual, just clouds… for the next 5 months
Yes!!! Another 20 page response to reviewers for a 1000 word short communication.
November 8, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Yes!!! Another 20 page response to reviewers for a 1000 word short communication.
Trying to figure out how to travel to New Zealand, Philippines, and Reunion, all within a 3 week period over the holiday period, while also spending at least two weeks in Australia, and carrying sampling materials for science, and keeping it under $3000.
November 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Trying to figure out how to travel to New Zealand, Philippines, and Reunion, all within a 3 week period over the holiday period, while also spending at least two weeks in Australia, and carrying sampling materials for science, and keeping it under $3000.
Super proud of Dr Brayan Vilanova Cuevas for successfully defending his dissertation on Philaster diadema interactions. Well done, and watch out world!!
November 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Super proud of Dr Brayan Vilanova Cuevas for successfully defending his dissertation on Philaster diadema interactions. Well done, and watch out world!!
Witnessing this in real time first hand along the Florida Reefs two years ago was extremely depressing.
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'Functionally extinct': After 10,000 years on the Florida coast, two key corals are dead
In a grim study, a team of nearly 50 researchers concludes that extreme ocean heat killed off two crucial coral species that had been building reefs in Florida since the Ice Age.
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October 24, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Witnessing this in real time first hand along the Florida Reefs two years ago was extremely depressing.
www.nbcnews.com/science/clim...
www.nbcnews.com/science/clim...
Museums are invaluable resources for science. Please help if you can! www.ithaca.com/news/regiona...
Saving the Museum
After years of financial troubles and millions of funds raised in support, the Museum of the Earth is still struggling to bridge its multi-million dollar budgetary gap. It needs to
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October 23, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Museums are invaluable resources for science. Please help if you can! www.ithaca.com/news/regiona...
An amazing day in Southern California collecting Centrostephanus coronatus, the distant relative of Diadema antillarum for a microbiome sequencing project. Amazing weather and field assistants Mitch Johnson and Leo Wall. Let’s see how different these are to their tropical cousins…
October 20, 2025 at 1:51 AM
An amazing day in Southern California collecting Centrostephanus coronatus, the distant relative of Diadema antillarum for a microbiome sequencing project. Amazing weather and field assistants Mitch Johnson and Leo Wall. Let’s see how different these are to their tropical cousins…
Anyone have any recommendations for general references (ie a book perhaps?) on tropical coral reef structure, evolution, and biology?
October 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Anyone have any recommendations for general references (ie a book perhaps?) on tropical coral reef structure, evolution, and biology?