📣 Calling all post-docs and recent PhDs! 🧑🔬 We’re currently seeking applicants with background in math, engineering, economics, policy, and physical and biological sciences for 18-month appointments with a WHOI advisor. 📲 Find out more and apply by Oct. 15: go.whoi.edu/pdscholarship
Save our Oceans
by @jejord.bsky.social
Oceanographers, marine biologists, experts and organizations fighting to protect our oceans. Powered by surf.social
New oviraptorosaurian dinosaur Infernogallus jamesi: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Known from several specimens, including one with most of the skull! Skull has similarities to those of parrots that feed on soft fruits, suggesting it may have done the same. 🪶🧪 (📷 @funstonpaleo.bsky.social et al.)
A Review in Nature Reviews Endocrinology describes evidence linking the gut microbiota to bone fractures. go.nature.com/3TJLfXa #microbiome 🧪
Penguin droppings are helping turn parts of Antarctica’s snowy coastline green, and the resulting algae blooms could be accelerating the loss of coastal snow. scitechdaily.com/penguin-poop... #MarineBiology #scatology #ecology #Science #SciChat
🎵 The reefs are alive with the sound of healthy coral reef ecosystems! 🔊 Two studies led by Scripps Oceanography scientists demonstrate how underwater sound can play a role in restoring degraded coral reefs and rebuilding fish communities. Dive in: https://bit.ly/47c5srC
Applications are open to current Student or Postgraduate Members of the MBA with an active MBA Membership, and the deadline for applications is 12 October 2026. Find out more and apply here: 👉 https://www.mba.ac.uk/membership/mba-grants-and-awards/
Meet IOB author R.L. Turner Of his 66 publications, 50 appear in refereed journals and books, and he is coauthor of the textbook Introduction to Marine #Biology, now in its fourth edition. www.fit.edu/faculty-prof... nbsp; nbsp; & read The Tagmatized #Echinoderm doi.org/10.1093/iob/...
This article from GFDL evaluated decadal predictability of bottom T, O2, pH & Ωar in the Gulf of Maine. The forecast model successfully predicted the late 1990s cooling-freshening transitions and the associated changes in biogeochemistry & ocean acidification. 🌊🧪 os.copernicus.org/articles/22/...