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Hannah Reich
@hannahgreich.bsky.social
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Asst Prof SUNY ESF + #newPI of the PhycoSymbiosis Lab. Fan of microalgae, cell culture & trace metals. Swammer, cat person, #NeurodiverseSquad 🧪🌊🪸🧫🐈🏊🏽‍♀️

https://phycosymbiosis.weebly.com/
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margaretbrisbin.bsky.social
Happy New Years All! I am so excited to share the very first preprint from my lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... - from @lydiaruggles.bsky.social's thesis-also my first student 😊. tldr: Only bacteria collected during a Pyrodinium bloom rescued Pyro from B12 limitation #microbialsky #microsky 🦠🧪🧬🌊
B-vitamin requirements and phycosphere interactions for the HAB-forming dinoflagellate, Pyrodinium bahamense var. bahamense
Pyrodinium bahamense is a saxitoxin-producing dinoflagellate found in tropical and subtropical estuarine waters globally, with the var. bahamense variety forming recurrent harmful algal blooms (HABs) ...
www.biorxiv.org
January 5, 2026 at 4:52 PM
hannahgreich.bsky.social
What a year! Attempted a (science) recap on my lab website blog. Hoping to post more regularly in 2026 so this year’s recap isn’t also a catch up 😎

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Thank you, 2025!
What a year! Towards the end of 2025, I started working towards one (two) of my 2026 intentions: updating my lab website blog more frequently to (and) share with scienctific whereabouts more broadly.....
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January 2, 2026 at 3:57 PM
hannahgreich.bsky.social
A year ago today we moved Dad to independent living a mere 17 days after his #Alzheimers diagnosis. Though Dad’s done well with the transition, he made the move to memory care over the summer. (1/2)
December 23, 2025 at 7:24 PM
hannahgreich.bsky.social
Happy winter solstice from the ocean state! Grateful for my fav place in the 🗺️
December 21, 2025 at 8:44 PM
hannahgreich.bsky.social
What a semester! For sure my fave thus far as a #newPI! I even met my goal of maintaining our lab website blog. Here’s a recent post on our “ridge to reef” excursion… in Buffalo! 🪸🌴

Time for some R&R with fam but WITHOUT my laptop! phycosymbiosis.weebly.com/updates/a-ri...
A 'ridge to reef' end-of-semester celebration!
The Reich and Ninokawa Labs celebrated the fall semester with a  'ridge to reef'  adventure in... Buffalo! We nerded out at the Aquarium of Niagara, feasted at the Rainforest Cafe, and went to...
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December 20, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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napaaqtuk.bsky.social
I cannot stress enough how much PIs appreciate hand written notes from graduating mentees. I cherish each one, & many are hanging in my office.

Related, if you left a while ago & have good news, we love to get emails from former mentees! Let us celebrate with you!

Today I was lucky to get both 💜
December 18, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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hormiga.bsky.social
Y'all, I just got out of the NSF-BIO webinar where they explained changes to peer review. It's not good. 🧪 scienceforeveryone.science/changes-to-n...
Changes to NSF peer review
They're not good. At all.
scienceforeveryone.science
December 18, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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dralgaegirl.bsky.social
"Must deliver societal benefits"....the research that found T. aquaticus would never be funded under these rules. Imagine the breakthroughs that won't ever happen because some (seemingly niche) basic science never received funding.
dangaristo.bsky.social Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 19d
The National Science Board, which oversees NSF, has published recommendations to update the foundation's merit review (which was just updated).

Below are the main points. www.nsf.gov/nsb/updates/...
The Board recommends that NSF: Boost participation and invite expert reviews from a wider range of industry, research institutions, venture capital, and regions of the country. Emphasize that NSF-funded research must deliver societal benefits, including research that advances the nation's economic competitiveness and national security. Build NSF's award portfolio at the agency level for greater nimbleness and strategic alignment with national priorities, both current and emerging. NSF previously announced operational changes to its Merit Review to streamline, clarify, and harmonize agency funding strategies to achieve top scientific and national priorities, similar to those made by the National Institutes of Health. In the coming year, the Board will continue working with NSF leaders to implement NSB recommendations for Merit Review policy changes, such as encouraging verification of previously reported results and pursuing more bold research with high reward potential. "We can't succeed in a new era with yesterday's playbook," says McCrary. "For our nation to win the race for the future, NSF must develop transformative partnerships with the private sector, states and communities. Together, we can blaze a trail to the next frontiers of science, usher in a Golden Age of American Innovation, and deliver on the promise of science and technology for the benefit of all Americans."
December 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
hannahgreich.bsky.social
Well this is a gut punch after getting excited about grant planning today 😖 #newPI
December 16, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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ljrissler.bsky.social
NSF

- Forced reorg

- POs down ~ 40% (DRP, most rotators not renewed, retirements)

- Forced move (and we have to pack and clean) to a building with no furniture, little to no conference space for panels, inadequate 🛜, …)

I personally love the boxes they gave us for packing.
“Details matter” 🙃
Boxing up the NSF at Eisenhower Av for the forced relocation. Boxes have “Details Matter” signage.
December 11, 2025 at 11:16 AM
hannahgreich.bsky.social
Some small wins from today…

-1st PhD student had 1st committee mtng (& did great)
-did half of the writing I was supposed to do on mon/tues
-we had a fun bubble buddies project meeting (freshwater sponges) 🧽

Baby steps… #newPI
December 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
hannahgreich.bsky.social
10 weeks of #MarineSymbiosis paper discussions & the verdict on their favorites is in! I had a blast piloting an upper-level course this semester & had them vote on superlatives to celebrate their hard work. #newPI #SymbiosisSky

Mini blog here: phycosymbiosis.weebly.com/updates/mari...
December 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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istuetzle.bsky.social
You'd have to be a “scientific publisher.” You'd make better profits than Apple and could benefit twice from public funds, from research and from libraries, which would then have to buy back the results in book form. Simply awesome.
hansonmark.bsky.social Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · Nov 11
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

a 🧵 1/n

Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision. A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
December 3, 2025 at 10:41 AM
hannahgreich.bsky.social
Today was a special day! I got to sit on my first PhD defense! Congrats to Dr Abby Webster for her exciting, innovative dissertation on benthic Cyanobacteria! You did @sunyesf.bsky.social, @aslo.org LOREX, and MANY other collaborator institutions & funding agencies extremely proud! #MicrobialSky
December 2, 2025 at 10:57 PM
hannahgreich.bsky.social
Christmas came early… Lab sticker restock!

Featuring some lab staples: classic lab logos, taxidermied leopard… and some new glow in the dark #Pyrodinium (cartoon designed by one of my PhD students).
November 30, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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phylogenomics.bsky.social
Today is my traditional post-Thanksgiving Day of:

"OMG I have so many letters of reference due 12/1"

Along with my:

"Why the F(*#(@ does every place have to have a different system"?
November 30, 2025 at 5:08 PM
hannahgreich.bsky.social
Sunday scaries hit differently when they’re before a 6 hour drive & the last week of the semester (they start on Saturday). 🥶 #AcademicSky
November 30, 2025 at 1:04 PM
hannahgreich.bsky.social
Thankful for time at home & with the fam! 🌊
November 28, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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hollybik.bsky.social
Faculty plan out our grant writing MONTHS if not YEARS in advance - having programs suddenly disappear like this is utterly demoralizing and completely destructive for everyone’s productivity (including students!)
robingnelson.blacksky.app Robin G Nelson @robingnelson.blacksky.app · Nov 26
The NSF Bio Anthro Program DDRIG, Cultural Anthrpology DDRIG, and Archaeology DDRIG have all been archived (as of yesterday afternoon). Please speak with your grad students and plan accordingly. To say I am angry and depressed about this is an understatement.
November 26, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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margaretbrisbin.bsky.social
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)
docs.google.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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margaretbrisbin.bsky.social
Hey #microbialsky - anyone looking for a good PhD student this cycle? Ugrad from my lab is looking but no luck with the PIs she has contacted (no funding, no response). She worked in my lab for 1.5 years, now is a research tech at the FWC research institute. Excellent at the bench & super smart!
November 26, 2025 at 1:36 AM
hannahgreich.bsky.social
Every semester our kickoff lab meeting is updating our sharpie mark & recapture meeting. #newPI
November 20, 2025 at 9:34 PM
hannahgreich.bsky.social
Yay @micromaresca.bsky.social !!!

@sunyesf.bsky.social
markowenmartin.bsky.social Mark O. Martin @markowenmartin.bsky.social · Nov 15
It’s Friday: a new episode of #MattersMicrobial! This week, Dr. Julie Maresca joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss microbes and concrete and road salt! Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord? @ASMicrobiology @univpugetsound @microbe.tv

youtu.be/3JpbySeOO20?...
November 15, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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markowenmartin.bsky.social
It’s Friday: a new episode of #MattersMicrobial! This week, Dr. Julie Maresca joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss microbes and concrete and road salt! Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord? @ASMicrobiology @univpugetsound @microbe.tv

youtu.be/3JpbySeOO20?...
November 15, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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markowenmartin.bsky.social
Fridays are a bit challenging. Next, recording a fabulous #MattersMicrobial podcast session with Dr. Julie Maresca about microbes and concrete! Holler to @mostlymicrobeshost .
November 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM