joe vallino ∫🦠dxdt ≻∫🔥dxdt
@mepjoe.bsky.social
Microbial biogeochemistry, non-equilibrium thermodynamics, Maximum Entropy Production (MEP). Defining how life differs from fire, maybe. he/him
Reposted by joe vallino ∫🦠dxdt ≻∫🔥dxdt
Congratulations to WHOI's @julesdeep.bsky.social, who was recently selected to deliver the prestigious @agu.org Rachel Carson Lecture.
The award recognizes women whose work in ocean science is both cutting-edge and deeply relevant to today’s societal & environmental challenges: go.whoi.edu/Huber
The award recognizes women whose work in ocean science is both cutting-edge and deeply relevant to today’s societal & environmental challenges: go.whoi.edu/Huber
October 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Congratulations to WHOI's @julesdeep.bsky.social, who was recently selected to deliver the prestigious @agu.org Rachel Carson Lecture.
The award recognizes women whose work in ocean science is both cutting-edge and deeply relevant to today’s societal & environmental challenges: go.whoi.edu/Huber
The award recognizes women whose work in ocean science is both cutting-edge and deeply relevant to today’s societal & environmental challenges: go.whoi.edu/Huber
Fantastic news! Julie Huber @julesdeep.bsky.social was just awarded the prestigious Rachel Carson Lecture by @agu.org! Not only well deserved, but also a fitting tribute. Rachel Carson was one of Julie’s childhood heroes that guided her path. Congratulations Julie!! 🎉🙌 www.whoi.edu/press-room/n...
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Julie Huber Awarded Prestigious Rachel Carson Lecture by the American Geophysical Union
WHOI’s Julie Huber Awarded Prestigious Rachel Carson Lecture by the AGU
www.whoi.edu
October 8, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Fantastic news! Julie Huber @julesdeep.bsky.social was just awarded the prestigious Rachel Carson Lecture by @agu.org! Not only well deserved, but also a fitting tribute. Rachel Carson was one of Julie’s childhood heroes that guided her path. Congratulations Julie!! 🎉🙌 www.whoi.edu/press-room/n...
SES students got to measure bacterial production in their Winogradsky Columns using radioactive 14C-Leucine yesterday! My favorite lab! ☢️🦠❤️
September 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
SES students got to measure bacterial production in their Winogradsky Columns using radioactive 14C-Leucine yesterday! My favorite lab! ☢️🦠❤️
Reposted by joe vallino ∫🦠dxdt ≻∫🔥dxdt
The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
www.nsf.gov
September 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
A beautiful day for a field trip to Little Sippewissett Marsh for the annual construction of Winogradsky columns for the Microbial Methods course in the Semester in Environmental Science program @mblscience.bsky.social
Purple sulfur bacteria at low tide 🦠💜
Purple sulfur bacteria at low tide 🦠💜
September 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM
A beautiful day for a field trip to Little Sippewissett Marsh for the annual construction of Winogradsky columns for the Microbial Methods course in the Semester in Environmental Science program @mblscience.bsky.social
Purple sulfur bacteria at low tide 🦠💜
Purple sulfur bacteria at low tide 🦠💜
Reposted by joe vallino ∫🦠dxdt ≻∫🔥dxdt
After learning it would be evicted from its current headquarters and left in limbo about its future home, the National Science Foundation appears headed to new digs just down the street—and soon. https://scim.ag/4p1zzto
NSF could be moving down the street
Government sets requirements for new space that sound like nearby patent office campus
www.science.org
September 2, 2025 at 7:15 PM
After learning it would be evicted from its current headquarters and left in limbo about its future home, the National Science Foundation appears headed to new digs just down the street—and soon. https://scim.ag/4p1zzto
Interesting. If you're a scientist who publishes, your papers are likely in the database.
There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.
As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how
Part 1: is your work in Libgen?
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how
Part 1: is your work in Libgen?
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
August 29, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Interesting. If you're a scientist who publishes, your papers are likely in the database.
Beyond the Second Law: Darwinian Evolution as a Tendency for Entropy Production to Increase
www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/27...
or, to a faster heat death of the universe, use life!
www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/27...
or, to a faster heat death of the universe, use life!
www.mdpi.com
August 19, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Beyond the Second Law: Darwinian Evolution as a Tendency for Entropy Production to Increase
www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/27...
or, to a faster heat death of the universe, use life!
www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/27...
or, to a faster heat death of the universe, use life!
Reposted by joe vallino ∫🦠dxdt ≻∫🔥dxdt
Our opinion piece is hot off the presses! Cutting science funding has profound implications for STEM education & training & will negatively impact the San Diego region. TAKE ACTION by calling your congressional reps & demand no cuts to science funding! #StandUpForScience 🧪
tinyurl.com/ywxkvv25
tinyurl.com/ywxkvv25
August 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Our opinion piece is hot off the presses! Cutting science funding has profound implications for STEM education & training & will negatively impact the San Diego region. TAKE ACTION by calling your congressional reps & demand no cuts to science funding! #StandUpForScience 🧪
tinyurl.com/ywxkvv25
tinyurl.com/ywxkvv25
Reposted by joe vallino ∫🦠dxdt ≻∫🔥dxdt
I chased this all day:
UCLA research grants suspended after Trump administration faulted campus for antisemitism
calmatters.org/education/hi...
UCLA research grants suspended after Trump administration faulted campus for antisemitism
calmatters.org/education/hi...
UCLA research grants suspended after Trump administration faulted campus for antisemitism
The Justice Department issued UCLA a notice of violation for not responding “adequately” to complaints about antisemitism.
calmatters.org
August 1, 2025 at 5:33 AM
I chased this all day:
UCLA research grants suspended after Trump administration faulted campus for antisemitism
calmatters.org/education/hi...
UCLA research grants suspended after Trump administration faulted campus for antisemitism
calmatters.org/education/hi...
Reposted by joe vallino ∫🦠dxdt ≻∫🔥dxdt
Check out "the deepest and the most extensive chemosynthesis-based communities known to exist on Earth" - methane seeps along Russia's NE coast, down to a depth of 9500 meters! 😮
It's amazing that such incredible ecosystems remain to be found in the deep sea...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
It's amazing that such incredible ecosystems remain to be found in the deep sea...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches - Nature
The discovery of chemosynthesis-based benthic communities at depths of 5,800 m to 9,533 m in the Kuril–Kamchatka and western Aleutian trenches challenges traditional perspectives on the energy sources...
www.nature.com
July 31, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Check out "the deepest and the most extensive chemosynthesis-based communities known to exist on Earth" - methane seeps along Russia's NE coast, down to a depth of 9500 meters! 😮
It's amazing that such incredible ecosystems remain to be found in the deep sea...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
It's amazing that such incredible ecosystems remain to be found in the deep sea...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Superb!
July 31, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Superb!
Reposted by joe vallino ∫🦠dxdt ≻∫🔥dxdt
A quick update re NIH and NSF terminated grant tracking:
Grant Watch has a new name!
We're now called **Grant Witness**
You can find us at grant-witness.us
Please update your bookmarks and spread the word! 🙏
(And no, this wasn't our preference, but trademarks are a thing. 🤦♂️🤷♂️)
Grant Watch has a new name!
We're now called **Grant Witness**
You can find us at grant-witness.us
Please update your bookmarks and spread the word! 🙏
(And no, this wasn't our preference, but trademarks are a thing. 🤦♂️🤷♂️)
July 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A quick update re NIH and NSF terminated grant tracking:
Grant Watch has a new name!
We're now called **Grant Witness**
You can find us at grant-witness.us
Please update your bookmarks and spread the word! 🙏
(And no, this wasn't our preference, but trademarks are a thing. 🤦♂️🤷♂️)
Grant Watch has a new name!
We're now called **Grant Witness**
You can find us at grant-witness.us
Please update your bookmarks and spread the word! 🙏
(And no, this wasn't our preference, but trademarks are a thing. 🤦♂️🤷♂️)
Anyone know someone, or a company, that can analyze brackish pond water (0.3%) samples for simple substrates (specifically, glucose, xylose, acetate, ethanol, and methanol) in the 0 to 200 micromolar range? The number samples is between 15 to 100 depending on cost per sample.
July 21, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Anyone know someone, or a company, that can analyze brackish pond water (0.3%) samples for simple substrates (specifically, glucose, xylose, acetate, ethanol, and methanol) in the 0 to 200 micromolar range? The number samples is between 15 to 100 depending on cost per sample.
Reposted by joe vallino ∫🦠dxdt ≻∫🔥dxdt
Excellent piece on keeping US as maritime leader and ocean science is vital to national security. 🧪🌊https://wapo.st/4kMAcUs
Opinion | To lead at sea, we must understand the sea
The U.S. still has an advantage on the waves, but ocean science needs more — not less — investment.
wapo.st
July 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Excellent piece on keeping US as maritime leader and ocean science is vital to national security. 🧪🌊https://wapo.st/4kMAcUs
Reposted by joe vallino ∫🦠dxdt ≻∫🔥dxdt
There is a new, rather detailed and annotated "Statement of Solidarity and Support" out called "The NASA Voyager Declaration" regarding the current state of affairs at #NASA. It is modeled after similar efforts by employees at #EPA and #NIH nasawatch.com/activism/the...
The NASA Voyager Declaration
Statement of Solidarity and Support
nasawatch.com
July 21, 2025 at 2:48 PM
There is a new, rather detailed and annotated "Statement of Solidarity and Support" out called "The NASA Voyager Declaration" regarding the current state of affairs at #NASA. It is modeled after similar efforts by employees at #EPA and #NIH nasawatch.com/activism/the...
Preaching to the choir here, but if you've been living under a rock, this👇
"In the past six months, the Trump administration has systematically and recklessly undermined federal science. Read the new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists here:" act.ucsusa.org/Trump6Months
"In the past six months, the Trump administration has systematically and recklessly undermined federal science. Read the new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists here:" act.ucsusa.org/Trump6Months
Science and Democracy Under Siege
This administration's first 6 months have been characterized by destruction, division, and chaos.
act.ucsusa.org
July 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Preaching to the choir here, but if you've been living under a rock, this👇
"In the past six months, the Trump administration has systematically and recklessly undermined federal science. Read the new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists here:" act.ucsusa.org/Trump6Months
"In the past six months, the Trump administration has systematically and recklessly undermined federal science. Read the new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists here:" act.ucsusa.org/Trump6Months
Reposted by joe vallino ∫🦠dxdt ≻∫🔥dxdt
reminder of amazing fellowship opportunity!
There are 10 days left to apply for our Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution! Deadline is 7/31: www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/06/02/s... #science #ecology #evolution
Simons Foundation Accepting Applications for Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution
The Simons Foundation’s Life Sciences division is pleased to announce a new fellowship opportunity for graduate students in ecology and evolution.
www.simonsfoundation.org
July 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
reminder of amazing fellowship opportunity!
Reposted by joe vallino ∫🦠dxdt ≻∫🔥dxdt
This was a very scary but incredibly positive experience for me-connecting to the deeply personal, funny, & scary parts of our scientific journeys. I encourage you to listen as intended- full long form radio, with host @jayall.bsky.social & live music. Links at end of article. #stemstories @prx.org
Scientists took the stage last month to tell their stories to a crowd of community members. The room was filled with warmth and awe. Listen to the stories and read all about the night.
transom.org/2025/making-...
transom.org/2025/making-...
Making Waves - Transom
Making Waves - Transom
transom.org
July 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
This was a very scary but incredibly positive experience for me-connecting to the deeply personal, funny, & scary parts of our scientific journeys. I encourage you to listen as intended- full long form radio, with host @jayall.bsky.social & live music. Links at end of article. #stemstories @prx.org
Reposted by joe vallino ∫🦠dxdt ≻∫🔥dxdt
Some personal news…
The NAS Council has approved the nomination of Neil H. Shubin to be the next president of the National Academy of Sciences. An evolutionary biologist and science communicator, Shubin would succeed Marcia McNutt when her term ends on June 30, 2026. Read more: www.nasonline.org/news/neil-h-...
July 14, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Some personal news…
Reposted by joe vallino ∫🦠dxdt ≻∫🔥dxdt
NASA ROSES-2025 released today
science.nasa.gov/researchers/...
science.nasa.gov/researchers/...
Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Science (ROSES)-2025 Released - NASA Science
NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) announces the release of its annual omnibus solicitation for basic and applied research, Research Opportunities in
science.nasa.gov
July 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
NASA ROSES-2025 released today
science.nasa.gov/researchers/...
science.nasa.gov/researchers/...
Reposted by joe vallino ∫🦠dxdt ≻∫🔥dxdt
Under Trump, NOAA ran the most recent competition for their highly prestigious postdoc program in climate and global change — but funded no one, wasting huge amounts of applicant and reviewer time.
It gets a lot worse. Now current postdocs in the program are going unpaid.
It gets a lot worse. Now current postdocs in the program are going unpaid.
Recipients of a U.S. Climate Science Fellowship Are Put on Unpaid Leave
www.nytimes.com
July 9, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Under Trump, NOAA ran the most recent competition for their highly prestigious postdoc program in climate and global change — but funded no one, wasting huge amounts of applicant and reviewer time.
It gets a lot worse. Now current postdocs in the program are going unpaid.
It gets a lot worse. Now current postdocs in the program are going unpaid.
Reposted by joe vallino ∫🦠dxdt ≻∫🔥dxdt
The Lucky Engine: Probabilistic Emergence and Persistence of Near-Maximum Dissipation States
"... there are simply more numerous quasi-steady microstates ... that are near the maximum ... dissipation rate ... than there are far from it, and so it is more probable..."
doi.org/10.3390/e270...
"... there are simply more numerous quasi-steady microstates ... that are near the maximum ... dissipation rate ... than there are far from it, and so it is more probable..."
doi.org/10.3390/e270...
doi.org
June 30, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The Lucky Engine: Probabilistic Emergence and Persistence of Near-Maximum Dissipation States
"... there are simply more numerous quasi-steady microstates ... that are near the maximum ... dissipation rate ... than there are far from it, and so it is more probable..."
doi.org/10.3390/e270...
"... there are simply more numerous quasi-steady microstates ... that are near the maximum ... dissipation rate ... than there are far from it, and so it is more probable..."
doi.org/10.3390/e270...
Reposted by joe vallino ∫🦠dxdt ≻∫🔥dxdt
good take on the current state of the State attack on scientific infrastructure by @joshuasweitz.bsky.social
joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/on-sticks-...
joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/on-sticks-...
On Sticks, Karats, and Charades: The Structural Dismantling of American Science
The displacement of NSF employees from their headquarters opens a new front in the dismantling of American leadership in science.
joshuasweitz.substack.com
June 27, 2025 at 9:24 PM
good take on the current state of the State attack on scientific infrastructure by @joshuasweitz.bsky.social
joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/on-sticks-...
joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/on-sticks-...