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Emily E. Gipson @oceanemily.bsky.social · 2d

Has anyone ever made their own Utermohl chamber? (settling chamber/sedimentation chamber for inverted microscope) #plankton

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Emily E. Gipson @oceanemily.bsky.social · 6d

please know it was not my choice 😂

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Emily E. Gipson @oceanemily.bsky.social · 6d

onedrive is trying to ruin my life

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 9d

The insides of a bivalve larva! Bloomin’ gorgeous!
#marineplankton 🦑

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Emily E. Gipson @oceanemily.bsky.social · 10d

is there a zoom link?👀

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 11d

A developing Platyhelminthes (flatworm) in its egg case, I think.
#marineplankton 🦑

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Eduardo Abarca @eduwildlifemoments.bsky.social · 15d

Here’s a Boat-billed heron from the mangroves of Costa Rica. #birds

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 14d

I thought this was a pretty cool natural arrangement of these Grammatophora sp. diatoms.
#marineplankton 🦑

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Emily E. Gipson @oceanemily.bsky.social · 16d

words are losing meaning and we can’t let that happen 😭

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16d

Hegseth: "As history teaches us, the only people who actually deserve peace and those who are willing to wage war to defend it. That's why pacifism is so naive and dangerous."

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The Marine Biological Association @thembauk.bsky.social · 17d

The star of the show this #MicroscopyMonday is Noctiluca scintillans — a giant among plankton! At up to 2 mm across, visible to the naked eye.

Around UK and European coasts, it sometimes forms blooms that appear pinkish-red or orange, creating the phenomenon known as “red tides.”

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John Burns @burnsajohn.bsky.social · 20d

Sparkles in the night, an acantharian and radiolarian in semi-dark field (or two arms of a goose-neck lamp pointed at the sides of the dish 😅). #protistsonsky 🦑

A microscopic acantharian in something like darkfield.

The balloon-like central capsule of a radiolarian sitting in it's glass throne.

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John Burns @burnsajohn.bsky.social · 26d

Some little circus performers. #protistsonsky

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John Burns @burnsajohn.bsky.social · Sep 12

I collected this beautiful acantharian cell into an intermediate dish knowing it was getting ready to swarm... but by the time I returned to it to transfer it to an individual well it had already started to release swarmers. So, I just captured the end of the process. Enjoy! #protistsonsky 🦑

A microscope image of an acantharian cell in the process of releasing reproductive cells (swarmers).

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John Burns @burnsajohn.bsky.social · Sep 12

Saw this angry monster in my marine plankton tow in Maine, USA... anyone recognize it (@elizabethbeston.bsky.social)? It's a few mm across, took up the whole field of view at 5x.

A "large" planktonic animal. Probably a juvenile of something!

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Emily E. Gipson @oceanemily.bsky.social · Sep 4

i cringe every time i think about how much they are probably paying someone to update and “improve” it 💀

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · Sep 3

A little timelapse of an early ascidiacea sea squirt found in my latest sample.
#marineplankton

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Out of Context Tracers in the Sea @tracers-in-the-sea.bsky.social · Sep 1

🌊🧪 As biologically active constituents pass through the ocean, they participate in its internal cycles. Warm surface waters receive their supply of dissolved constituents from two sources: river water and water from the deep ocean, which exchanges with surface water. If the concentration of a

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Emily E. Gipson @oceanemily.bsky.social · Aug 27

me and my paul revere (the person who sprinted across the R/V Savannah on day 14 of a research cruise to tell me that taylor swift and travis kelce got engaged) @drt-bythesea.bsky.social

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Emily E. Gipson @oceanemily.bsky.social · Aug 23

Mexico 😊

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Emily E. Gipson @oceanemily.bsky.social · Aug 23

day 10 in the GoM

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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · Aug 20

SO proud of first pub by recent Wares lab PhD Margot Popecki!!https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.71927

The Role of Pigments in Light Color Variation of the Firefly Photinus pyralis

We tested the novel hypothesis that genes encoding enzymes and transporters in pigment pathways (“pigment genes”) produce pigments in the firefly light organ that filter bioluminescent light, tuning ....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Maria Elena Martino @memartino.bsky.social · Aug 19

Join us! This is more than a scientific meeting, it's a platform to catalyze collaboration, share knowledge openly and develop solutions for safeguarding marine ecosystems in a changing world. Great line-up of speakers and early bird rate still available!

Please RT!

Trends in Marine Host-Microbe Symbioses @tmhms.bsky.social · Aug 19

📢#TMHMS25 is just around the corner! 🦠🌊

Join us to dive into the latest discoveries in #marinehostmicrobesymbioses and explore how microbial superpowers can contribute to restoring ocean health!

Please share with fellow marine science and microbiology enthusiasts!

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Emily E. Gipson @oceanemily.bsky.social · Aug 15

greetings from your favorite pelagic tunicate

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Paul Rainey @paulbrainey.bsky.social · Aug 11

Makes sense that diverse microbial communities can be maintained on a recalcitrant substrate like cellulose, but on glucose, surely not? Surprisingly there is no difference 🤔 The first part is live 👇 but more to come (including answers).

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Diverse microbial communities assemble on both recalcitrant and labile carbon sources

Microbial community assembly is shaped by the nature of available resources, with labile carbon sources such as glucose often expected to support low diversity due to rapid growth and competitive excl...

www.biorxiv.org

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