Jo-Jo is not impressed
Environmental microbiologist, humanist, thalassophile
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Jo-Jo is not impressed
Quirky house-ness
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... especially good to hear this news
Raiding retirement savings. Pondering job changes or even marriage. People who buy their own health insurance are strategizing ahead of major price hikes in 2026. Open enrollment starts Nov. 1.
Who is supposed to stop it? Your elected representatives should stop it, but people elected rather a lot of representatives who are on board with this or unwilling to stand up to it.
Ballot? You think there will be a ballot?
Preparation of Cuvette‐Based Sorters for Sorting Submicron Microbial Cells and Viruses from Environmental and Biological Samples currentprotocols.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #jcampubs
As people age, they may be surprised to find that younger folks don't understand what they're going through, but adult children or caretakers can do a lot to help older people adjust to a new reality.
Based on what law?
That's code for "I have a chaotic life and want someone who doesn't care where she is or what I do (or fail to do) and wants to have a lot of sex despite the above." 😬
No surprises there!
Women lead, teach… We will never be deleted.
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"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." -Haruki Murakami
The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true. - Carl Sagan
They will prob be playing the Beatles by then 😬
100 years of July temperature anomalies over land areas through 2025... Data from NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0: www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...
I’m begging, PLEADING, with people - please, please, please do not just assume that because an LLM “cites its sources” that what it says is right. In addition to the well-known (I thought) problem where they make up sources entirely, they often “cite” sources that don’t contain the supposed info.
High-Density Microdroplet Cultivation Reveals the Essential Role of Microbial Interactions in the Growth of Environmental Microbes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs
Male default thinking - more dangerous than you think. Join me in getting a lioness emoji? Baby steps.
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...
Do you like coastal/estuarine microbiology, time-series data, and/or metagenomics? Have we got a dataset for you #NSFfunded Metagenomes and 1,313 metagenome-assembled genomes from a northern Gulf of Mexico coastal time series www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs
Perhaps this highlights the fallacy of promoting vocational, job-focused undergrad degrees instead of encouraging a more widely applicable set of thinking skills in any subject area. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...
All-electric town in Kent supplies power back to the grid. Otterpool Park’s 8.500 homes will run on solar and batteries with enough renewable energy to help keep the lights on elsewhere. Town will have about 34MW of renewable capacity. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Same hair
That is luxurious! Only one private office where I work, and it's shared on a rota basis. Even the CEO has to book a desk in a shared space. Having everyone sharing the situation does help a bit, but days full of online meetings are easier done from home.
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Waste incinerators that burn household rubbish to generate power are regularly polluting the air with toxic emissions in breach of legally permitted limits observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I can see this being valuable in aged care settings too Mum loved ice cream
It’s a Golden thing
Ah, well that would have been an act of god, against which AA had no control and hence no responsibility. Yes, it sucks but it's always been this way (though now flights are fuller so it's harder to get rebooked on a later flight).
While looking for information on carnivorous sponges I found this page by @mbarinews.bsky.social that describes the harp sponge. The ping-pong tree sponge (in same family) is also discussed. So cool; had to share. 🌿 #sponges #porifera www.mbari.org/news/scienti...
Mathematician Mina Rees was born #OTD in 1902. She coordinated work by mathematicians at OSRD during WWII, pushed the development of computers and numerical science as head of mathematics at the Office of Naval Research, and was the first woman to serve as president of the AAAS. 🧪 ⚛️ 👩🔬
Hope you enjoy exploring this cool 3D app of the ocean focusing on NOAA World Ocean Atlas water column measurements of temp, salinity, dissolved O2, and nutrients! #voxels #EcologicalMarineUnits www.esri.com/about/newsro... 🌊 🦑 🌎 🌍 🌏 #GISchat #geogchat #geogsky
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A new published journal article, co-authored by BGS and the Environment Agency, has revealed data around the presence of PFAS in shallow English soils. Some PFAS are known to have adverse impacts on human health and the environment. Read more: www.bgs.ac.uk/news/new-jou...
This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered
All this to reduce a commute time from 15 minutes to 8? Seems an odd priority but maybe folks are in an extra big hurry there. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/u...
How could they tell them apart? Were they labelled?
🎂 Happy birthday, #MarieTharp! 🗺️ A pioneering geologist and cartographer, Tharp created some of the world's first maps of the ocean floor, and helped prove the theory of plate tectonics. Her legacy reverberates across ocean sciences today. Learn more: lamont.columbia.edu/news/happy-b...
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Interested in bivalve shellfish and food safety? Save the date for the 16th International Conference on Molluscan Shellfish Safety. Coming to Exeter in 6th-11th September 2026.
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Came across this again and I'm still in awe of Desq's skill on one of the weirdest and most difficult instruments. Listen and watch because both are fascinating.
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A nice writeup by @caseagrant.bsky.social on the historical microplastic work we're doing @nhm.org along with @nhmlagems.bsky.social, @jessdflores.bsky.social and @jazminenoamie.bsky.social. Take a look if you're interested in what we've found so far! 🐟🧪 caseagrant.ucsd.edu/news/fish-ti...
Because 10-year olds are immune - they love sharks, dinosaurs, and monsters so scary, gothy witches are right up their alley! 👹 🧙♀️😂
That tyrant isn't actually the problem, he's just easy to see. The problem never really went away, it just went underground and has been rumbling along under the surface since the 1960's and 70's.
I thought the National Guard normally helped with this sort of thing. Or used to, anyway.
Rapid increases in satellite-observed ice sheet surface meltwater production www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I don’t even know what to say.
Dynamics of microplastic transfer through the food web in a migratory #seabird * Microplastics were found in 40.83 % of regurgitated fish by Common terns. * Monthly variation in microplastic trophic transfer was observed. * The feeding habitat influenced the abundance of microplastics ingested.
My friend Helen Clifton worked on this excellent piece of investigative journalism uncovering the deceit behind the writing of the Salt Path. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
@yonifreedhoff.com Here are violin plots showing distribution of the ww signal in Ottawa by year and by VOC. "wwlast30d" represents signal sampled over past 30 days. A 5-year, continuous public health dataset unaffected by policy changes--unlike clinical indicators--is a beautiful thing.
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Skip the man cave and the she shed. Give me the attic #library. #books #booksky #WritingCommunity #design
Says the man who was hot never. 🙄
Well done, Miss Feldman.
The Alarm. Postcard from my collection. Copyright 1902, unsent.
🌎 This Scripps Oceanography alum is an earthquake expert who works as a @uoregon.bsky.social associate professor & director of @cascadiaeqs.bsky.social, which aims to bolster earthquake preparedness in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Meet Diego Melgar! @diegosismologo.bsky.social
This. Absolutely.
Arfa loves springtime in the country park! #portuguesewaterdog
Variational inference for microbiome survey data with application to global ocean data #USC_MEB #ResearchAtUSC academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a... #jcampubs 🌊
UK Sandeel commercial fishing ban remains!✊ The EU challenged the ban, claiming the move was "discriminatory and disproportionate" but a European court has now dismissed the challenge, confirming the ban was "based on the best available science." 🎣 ❌ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
🐟 Scripps Oceanography and UCLA researchers have engineered a bacterium with the ability to convert the toxic form of mercury present in seafood — methylmercury — into less toxic forms that are more easily removed from the human body. Learn more. ⬇️
Vegetative electron microscopy. Apparently, it's a recent digital fossil. These things are hard to dig out.🧪 www.sciencealert.com/a-strange-ph...
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I think the issue is that congress, as a whole, is not demanding otherwise.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... I found this to be a nostalgic portrait of a country I also once knew.
Wow, that is creepy.
I don't recognise the UK's place in this ranking given our high levels of childhood poverty and housing issues. Can you provide any more information on the source?
A sinkhole has opened up in Surrey, but what is a sinkhole, and how do they develop? Listen to BGS' Shallow Geohazards and Risks team leader, Vanessa Banks explain on @BBCRadio4. Listen in from 19:50: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
BLACK WOMEN IN #STEM i made a starter pack for black women in the field of science, technology, engineering and mathematics and would really love to keep adding to it so please hmu if you fit the criteria or know someone who does! 🧪 go.bsky.app/9jYkUK1
New hero just dropped
Trevor Edwards 
