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Marc Peipoch
@marcpeipoch.bsky.social
Ecosystem ecologist at Stroud Water Research Center | Nutrient and algae dynamics in fluvial ecosystems | It's pronounced 'Pay-pock'
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I'm looking to switch out the Winogradsky column lab I've been doing in my Wetlands course for something new (I never get visible diffs among treatments and I don't think students are getting much from it).

What are your favorite labs for an upper level Wetlands course? Bonus if biogeochemistryish!
November 6, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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I normally am a cheerful optimist, but I am just at a loss about what to even say to young scientists right now. Devastating overview of the cuts: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Dismantling of US federal agencies will ‘destroy science’
From NASA to the National Institutes of Health, federal agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and ...
www.nature.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
On the importance to always take a closer look... Letters to scientific journals surge as ‘prolific debutante’ authors likely use AI | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Letters to scientific journals surge as ‘prolific debutante’ authors likely use AI
New study reinforces worries about “mass production of junk” by unscrupulous scholars aiming to pad their CVs
www.science.org
November 4, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Parasites? pah!....
Here the bunnies have proper enemies, from the Wild Wood - stoats, weasels & crows.
And decent parents - kind, rural country folks, who look out for their kits and who do their best by them.
November 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Check out our new paper, led by @abagaelpruitt.bsky.social, quantifying whole stream/river denitrification rates in an ag river and its tributary across seasons. Abagael did a great job leading this work and its a really great application of the open-channel N2 method! dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025...
dx.doi.org
October 30, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Are you interested in an MS position in Stream Ecology?

My lab (www.benjamintumolo.com) is recruiting a Master's student to join us at Northern Michigan University.

🐛🧪🕸️🍂🌊

Please get in contact if you are interested, and pass on this ad to anyone you know that might be!

Apply by Dec 16
October 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This should be in the 'must read list' for 1st year grad students. Loved the quotes, spirit, and important message. I do worry that science is necessary but not sufficient against the current challenges though.
In our latest paper in PNAS, we ask: How can scientific progress be accelerated to meet the urgent challenges of the Anthropocene? We point to significant barriers in forecasting & prediction efforts for the biosphere 🧵👇 🧪🌎🦋 1/n www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#ScienceTwitter #Ecology #Anthropocene
October 28, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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In our latest paper in PNAS, we ask: How can scientific progress be accelerated to meet the urgent challenges of the Anthropocene? We point to significant barriers in forecasting & prediction efforts for the biosphere 🧵👇 🧪🌎🦋 1/n www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#ScienceTwitter #Ecology #Anthropocene
May 9, 2024 at 6:55 PM
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Proof that climate change is real and horrible:

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time after record heat
Previously the country was one of the world's only mosquito-free zones.
www.bbc.com
October 22, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Researchers challenge claim of a strong Yellowstone trophic cascade after wolf reintroduction
🌎

phys.org/news/2025-10...
Researchers challenge claim of a strong Yellowstone trophic cascade after wolf reintroduction
A new analysis challenges one of the most publicized claims about Yellowstone's wolves. In a detailed comment published in Global Ecology and Conservation, researchers from Utah State University and C...
phys.org
October 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Indeed. This is what the Headwaters Leadership Academy at the Society for Freshwater Science is trying to remediate! Apply!
freshwater-science.org/headwaters-l...
October 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Freshwater science researchers: Join the #ASLO_ECC and the Society for Freshwater Science (SFS) for the virtual networking event "Building Bridges in the Aquatic Sciences" on 28 Oct (1:00 PM ET). Learn more about funding opportunities, research pathways, and more
🔗 www.aslo.org/building-bri...
October 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Just out in PNAS - Been thinking about these three graphs for nearly a decade with a great team of smart colleagues. We finally have a story to tell that makes these interesting observations make sense. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
October 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾
October 21, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Last two days to apply! #postdocjobs #remotesensing #ecology
Looking for a postdoc, and interested in river-coastal linkages, #remote sensing, and time series analysis? Come work with us @natureatcal.bsky.social on an exciting project led by @rachelspatial.bsky.social! CC @sfs-src.bsky.social @aslo.org @cerfscience.bsky.social ‪‪@caseagrant.bsky.social‬
We're hiring! My lab is seeking a 2-yr Postdoc in 🌊 marine ecology + 🛰️ remote sensing. You'll work with a big team (including @albertruhi.bsky.social @cgerleinsafdi.bsky.social) to study the impacts of changing rainfall on marine freshwater plumes + coastal organisms. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05114
October 13, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Our peer review system for scientific publishing
-we pay to publish our MSs
-pay to read other’s MSs
-and donate our time to review MSs
is bad enough without passive aggressive review reminders, touting the “quality” journal’s rapid turnaround time and asking why you are setting back science.
October 1, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Research by my former PhD student, Daniel Gschwentner, on how grassland wildfires impact lakes is now live in Ecosystems: doi.org/10.1007/s100...
Wildfires are contributing to P loading in lakes, but lakes are N-limited so that P is likely not being processed by algae.
DM if you need access.
September 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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I went on my first bull trout redd survey of the year today. Saw some absolutely incredible fish! One of the biggest specimens I've ever seen, and it was close enough to touch (I was invisibly filming from the other side of a root wad). 🐟
September 23, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Looking for a postdoc, and interested in river-coastal linkages, #remote sensing, and time series analysis? Come work with us @natureatcal.bsky.social on an exciting project led by @rachelspatial.bsky.social! CC @sfs-src.bsky.social @aslo.org @cerfscience.bsky.social ‪‪@caseagrant.bsky.social‬
We're hiring! My lab is seeking a 2-yr Postdoc in 🌊 marine ecology + 🛰️ remote sensing. You'll work with a big team (including @albertruhi.bsky.social @cgerleinsafdi.bsky.social) to study the impacts of changing rainfall on marine freshwater plumes + coastal organisms. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05114
Postdoc Scholar - Marine ecology – ESPM The Coastal Climate Resilience Lab - MCECO - ESPM Ecosystem Sciences Div - Carlson Lab
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
September 23, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Super happy to share the first chapter of my PhD, published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface ✨🐀 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Iridescence in mammals is not as rare as we thought, but it’s all created in the same way!
September 17, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Please share! Virginia Tech's Biological Sciences Dept is #hiring an instructor with expertise in genetics, cell biology, &/or microbiology. The ideal candidate will have a PhD in biology, life sciences, or related field + college-level teaching experience. careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us...
Details | Instructor | Careers | Division of Human Resources | Virginia Tech
careers.pageuppeople.com
September 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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It's true: Academic publishing has become a racket.

But I think the idea that #peerreview can happen haphazardly in the comments of a preprint server is naive.

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🧪 #AcademicSky #SciPub
Opinion | Academic Publishing Has Become a Racket
Scientists write and review papers without getting paid, and their institutions have to pay for access.
www.wsj.com
September 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Coyote whiskers grow gradually over several months, so we cut each whisker into small segments. Each segment gave us a isotopic “snapshot” of diet from a different point in time, letting us measure how consistent (or variable) an individual’s diet was ✂️🐾
September 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM