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
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.
www.nbcnews.com/science/clim...
www.nbcnews.com/science/clim...
'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.
www.nbcnews.com
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
www.ithaca.com
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?
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#SouthAustralia is suffering from an ongoing and expanding harmful algal bloom (#HAB) but @flindersuniversity.bsky.social and @sagenomicscentre.bsky.social are sequencing the genome of the miscreant to help figure out how to control it
#microsky #microbiome
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#microsky #microbiome
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Genetic code could unlock harmful algae secrets
SAGC playing key role in research targeting the harmful algal bloom this year
sahmri.org.au
October 16, 2025 at 4:16 AM
#SouthAustralia is suffering from an ongoing and expanding harmful algal bloom (#HAB) but @flindersuniversity.bsky.social and @sagenomicscentre.bsky.social are sequencing the genome of the miscreant to help figure out how to control it
#microsky #microbiome
sahmri.org.au/news/researc...
#microsky #microbiome
sahmri.org.au/news/researc...
Planning a field-based DNA detection protocol for a parasite. Anyone have any recommendations for one or two step DNA extraction protocols that might be compatible in conditions with limited equipment? #science
October 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Planning a field-based DNA detection protocol for a parasite. Anyone have any recommendations for one or two step DNA extraction protocols that might be compatible in conditions with limited equipment? #science
Fieldwork participating #marinescience friends- looking to put together some physical exercises/workouts to prepare folks for things like snorkeling, diving and boat work (nets, buckets, etc) as a way to prevent injuries and increase fitness. Anyone have any workouts they do to prepare?
October 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Fieldwork participating #marinescience friends- looking to put together some physical exercises/workouts to prepare folks for things like snorkeling, diving and boat work (nets, buckets, etc) as a way to prevent injuries and increase fitness. Anyone have any workouts they do to prepare?
Sometimes you just have to sit and enjoy… I can’t have the ocean here in Ithaca but I can have vast expanses over which to gaze
October 5, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Sometimes you just have to sit and enjoy… I can’t have the ocean here in Ithaca but I can have vast expanses over which to gaze
Fantastic to see so many new faculty in our college, including those affiliated with Cornell Oceans and the Department of Microbiology!
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Meet our new faculty - fall 2025
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October 3, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Fantastic to see so many new faculty in our college, including those affiliated with Cornell Oceans and the Department of Microbiology!
cals.cornell.edu/news/2025/09...
cals.cornell.edu/news/2025/09...
What an amazing way to kick off our Diadema project in Brewers Bay, USVI. Four days of hard work underwater, followed by hard days in the lab processing. Two experiments, and over 500 individual samples.
September 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM
What an amazing way to kick off our Diadema project in Brewers Bay, USVI. Four days of hard work underwater, followed by hard days in the lab processing. Two experiments, and over 500 individual samples.
Final (full) day in USVI for NSF Diadema kickoff. This morning was about training the amazing Moriah Sevier at UVI in urchin sampling, then terminating experiments. This afternoon the team stole a couple of hours to go for a snorkel survey of Diadema in waters we had not previously scanned!
September 30, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Final (full) day in USVI for NSF Diadema kickoff. This morning was about training the amazing Moriah Sevier at UVI in urchin sampling, then terminating experiments. This afternoon the team stole a couple of hours to go for a snorkel survey of Diadema in waters we had not previously scanned!
Day 3 Diadema NSF kickoff. Today we tested out transect approaches and new high resolution visual transects on our second site on the western end of Brewers Bay. This afforded us the opportunity to sample additional Diadema at a second site. So many of them! Very encouraging to see!
September 29, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Day 3 Diadema NSF kickoff. Today we tested out transect approaches and new high resolution visual transects on our second site on the western end of Brewers Bay. This afforded us the opportunity to sample additional Diadema at a second site. So many of them! Very encouraging to see!
Day 2 of Diadema kickoff. Today was all about Diadema itself (cf environmental parameters). We were excited to see so many apparently healthy animals in shallow water! We also set up an experiment to examine microbial participation in echinoderm tissue decay. Such a great start to this time series!
September 28, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Day 2 of Diadema kickoff. Today was all about Diadema itself (cf environmental parameters). We were excited to see so many apparently healthy animals in shallow water! We also set up an experiment to examine microbial participation in echinoderm tissue decay. Such a great start to this time series!
Day 1 of NSF sponsored Diadema antillarum scuticociliatosis time series in Brewers Bay, St Thomas, USVI with @drchriskellogg.bsky.social @viromegirl.bsky.social @aquaticmicrolab.bsky.social and Prof Marilyn Brandt at UVI. After months of planning it was time to figure out what makes sense from
September 27, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Day 1 of NSF sponsored Diadema antillarum scuticociliatosis time series in Brewers Bay, St Thomas, USVI with @drchriskellogg.bsky.social @viromegirl.bsky.social @aquaticmicrolab.bsky.social and Prof Marilyn Brandt at UVI. After months of planning it was time to figure out what makes sense from
Getting ready for my world famous swimming pool microbiology lecture for the intro micro for non majors class. Took samples before and after water polo class, as well as from my suit. Gross.
September 18, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Getting ready for my world famous swimming pool microbiology lecture for the intro micro for non majors class. Took samples before and after water polo class, as well as from my suit. Gross.