Nicole Poulton
@npoulton.bsky.social
Sr Research Scientist, Director - Center for Aquatic Cytometry @ Bigelow Laboratory, plankton ecologist & educator. Msgs are my own.
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Our lab from @HHMINEWS & @UCBerkeley is looking for undergrads to come for an internship!
www.hhmi.org/programs/cec...
www.hhmi.org/programs/cec...
Summer Undergraduate Research Experience | HHMI
The Cech Fellows Program is a paid, nine-week summer research experience empowering the next generation of scientific leaders.
www.hhmi.org
November 20, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Our lab from @HHMINEWS & @UCBerkeley is looking for undergrads to come for an internship!
www.hhmi.org/programs/cec...
www.hhmi.org/programs/cec...
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Join us for “How Deep is Your Love” on Nov. 20—with a special live stream from UT marine scientist Brett Baker & team on the R/V Falkor (too) as they search the deep seas for #AsgardArchaea!
@archaeal.bsky.social @schmidtocean.bsky.social @moorefound.bsky.social
cns.utexas.edu/events/publi...
@archaeal.bsky.social @schmidtocean.bsky.social @moorefound.bsky.social
cns.utexas.edu/events/publi...
Reel Science: How Deep is Your Love & Special Live Stream From Research Vessel Falkor
Hear from leading researchers and experts in this series that is a partnership with the Long Center for the Performing Arts.
cns.utexas.edu
November 14, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Join us for “How Deep is Your Love” on Nov. 20—with a special live stream from UT marine scientist Brett Baker & team on the R/V Falkor (too) as they search the deep seas for #AsgardArchaea!
@archaeal.bsky.social @schmidtocean.bsky.social @moorefound.bsky.social
cns.utexas.edu/events/publi...
@archaeal.bsky.social @schmidtocean.bsky.social @moorefound.bsky.social
cns.utexas.edu/events/publi...
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On behalf of the Department of Oceanography at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, we are excited to invite applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position in Ocean Biogeochemical Modeling at the rank of assistant professor. www.schooljobs.com/careers/hawa... position number 0082726
November 15, 2025 at 2:54 AM
On behalf of the Department of Oceanography at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, we are excited to invite applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position in Ocean Biogeochemical Modeling at the rank of assistant professor. www.schooljobs.com/careers/hawa... position number 0082726
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No crew, no problem! 🤖 Our #AutoNaut has completed a successful mission in #Plymouth Sound with @noc.ac.uk as part of the @marco-bolo.bsky.social project - collecting #plankton images & #eDNA samples autonomously using cutting-edge #AutonomousTech. Find out more🔗 pml.ac.uk/news/no-crew...
November 13, 2025 at 11:47 AM
No crew, no problem! 🤖 Our #AutoNaut has completed a successful mission in #Plymouth Sound with @noc.ac.uk as part of the @marco-bolo.bsky.social project - collecting #plankton images & #eDNA samples autonomously using cutting-edge #AutonomousTech. Find out more🔗 pml.ac.uk/news/no-crew...
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Are you an oceanographer or marine biologist with an interest in marine biodiversity and climate change? Our upcoming scientific meeting will look at #ClimateChange and #BiodiversityLoss linkages in ocean ecosystems:
royalsociety.org/science-even...
royalsociety.org/science-even...
November 13, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Are you an oceanographer or marine biologist with an interest in marine biodiversity and climate change? Our upcoming scientific meeting will look at #ClimateChange and #BiodiversityLoss linkages in ocean ecosystems:
royalsociety.org/science-even...
royalsociety.org/science-even...
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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
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The Brown and Stachowicz labs are looking for a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on the thermal dependence of disease in eelgrass! As a bonus you get to be based at the Bodega Marine Lab! Interested? Find out more here: brown-ecology.com/join-us/
Join Us!
brown-ecology.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
The Brown and Stachowicz labs are looking for a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on the thermal dependence of disease in eelgrass! As a bonus you get to be based at the Bodega Marine Lab! Interested? Find out more here: brown-ecology.com/join-us/
Happy to have been a part of this collaboration on a exciting novel approach to analyze the genomes of individual extracellular genetic elements including non-canonical marine viruses.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Single-particle genomics uncovers abundant non-canonical marine viruses from nanolitre volumes - Nature Microbiology
Environmental micro-compartment genomics provides efficient and high-throughput single-particle DNA sequencing that captures overlooked members of microbial communities.
www.nature.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Happy to have been a part of this collaboration on a exciting novel approach to analyze the genomes of individual extracellular genetic elements including non-canonical marine viruses.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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An important new story on the quiet gutting of one of NASA's most important laboratory campuses, during the federal shutdown. Via @ellanilsen.bsky.social & @jackiewattles.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/s...
Workers fear NASA is quietly gutting the iconic home of Hubble and Webb. The agency says it’s strategically closing buildings | CNN
Buildings at Goddard’s Maryland campus are being emptied and padlocked, sources say. NASA leadership has pushed back against the concerns.
www.cnn.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:14 PM
An important new story on the quiet gutting of one of NASA's most important laboratory campuses, during the federal shutdown. Via @ellanilsen.bsky.social & @jackiewattles.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/s...
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I've finally got around to curating a selection of films about the #climate crisis 🎥
There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️
They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬
Thread:🧵Plz RT
There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️
They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬
Thread:🧵Plz RT
November 1, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I've finally got around to curating a selection of films about the #climate crisis 🎥
There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️
They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬
Thread:🧵Plz RT
There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️
They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬
Thread:🧵Plz RT
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There are more than 100 marine research institutions in the United States and they’re under threat from Trump’s attack on science funding. 🌊
Saving science by the sea
As funding for science tightens across the United States, attention has turned to pressures faced by universities and biomedical research institutions. An often overlooked part of the nation’s science...
www.science.org
October 31, 2025 at 10:44 AM
There are more than 100 marine research institutions in the United States and they’re under threat from Trump’s attack on science funding. 🌊
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Postdoc vacancy: Microbial dormancy in the cryosphere
@erc.europa.eu #ERC_SIESTA
📢 PLEASE RT
🧬 Single cell microbial activity measurements, flow cytometry, cell sorting, omics, ecological interpretation
☀️ Marseille, France
‼️ Apply ASAP & before 7 Nov
Link: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
@erc.europa.eu #ERC_SIESTA
📢 PLEASE RT
🧬 Single cell microbial activity measurements, flow cytometry, cell sorting, omics, ecological interpretation
☀️ Marseille, France
‼️ Apply ASAP & before 7 Nov
Link: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
October 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Postdoc vacancy: Microbial dormancy in the cryosphere
@erc.europa.eu #ERC_SIESTA
📢 PLEASE RT
🧬 Single cell microbial activity measurements, flow cytometry, cell sorting, omics, ecological interpretation
☀️ Marseille, France
‼️ Apply ASAP & before 7 Nov
Link: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
@erc.europa.eu #ERC_SIESTA
📢 PLEASE RT
🧬 Single cell microbial activity measurements, flow cytometry, cell sorting, omics, ecological interpretation
☀️ Marseille, France
‼️ Apply ASAP & before 7 Nov
Link: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
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Please share this with anyone who may be interested in a post-doc in Germany:
jobs.awi.de/Vacancies/20...
This is quite an exciting opportunity to push the boundaries of what is known regarding the molecular basis of the formation and demise of photosymbiotic relationships in marine habitats.
jobs.awi.de/Vacancies/20...
This is quite an exciting opportunity to push the boundaries of what is known regarding the molecular basis of the formation and demise of photosymbiotic relationships in marine habitats.
October 22, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Please share this with anyone who may be interested in a post-doc in Germany:
jobs.awi.de/Vacancies/20...
This is quite an exciting opportunity to push the boundaries of what is known regarding the molecular basis of the formation and demise of photosymbiotic relationships in marine habitats.
jobs.awi.de/Vacancies/20...
This is quite an exciting opportunity to push the boundaries of what is known regarding the molecular basis of the formation and demise of photosymbiotic relationships in marine habitats.
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I'm delighted our paper is out: doi.org/10.1093/isme...
With new SAR11 isolate genomes and time-series metagenomes, we reveal coastal and offshore SAR11 ecotypes, identify associated metabolic traits, and pinpoint selective gene sweeps as a likely evolutionary driver to niche partitioning. 🌊🦠
With new SAR11 isolate genomes and time-series metagenomes, we reveal coastal and offshore SAR11 ecotypes, identify associated metabolic traits, and pinpoint selective gene sweeps as a likely evolutionary driver to niche partitioning. 🌊🦠
Habitat-specificity in SAR11 is associated with a few genes under high selection
Abstract. The order Pelagibacterales (SAR11) is the most abundant group of heterotrophic bacteria in the global surface ocean, where individual sublineages
doi.org
October 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I'm delighted our paper is out: doi.org/10.1093/isme...
With new SAR11 isolate genomes and time-series metagenomes, we reveal coastal and offshore SAR11 ecotypes, identify associated metabolic traits, and pinpoint selective gene sweeps as a likely evolutionary driver to niche partitioning. 🌊🦠
With new SAR11 isolate genomes and time-series metagenomes, we reveal coastal and offshore SAR11 ecotypes, identify associated metabolic traits, and pinpoint selective gene sweeps as a likely evolutionary driver to niche partitioning. 🌊🦠
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📢Putting the spotlight on early-career scientists!
Do you know an ECS whose work should take centre stage?
Nominate them to be our early-career scientist keynote speaker at ICES ASC 2026.
ℹ️https://www.ices.dk/news-and-events/news-archive/news/Pages/ECSasc26Keynote.aspx
Do you know an ECS whose work should take centre stage?
Nominate them to be our early-career scientist keynote speaker at ICES ASC 2026.
ℹ️https://www.ices.dk/news-and-events/news-archive/news/Pages/ECSasc26Keynote.aspx
October 13, 2025 at 10:30 AM
📢Putting the spotlight on early-career scientists!
Do you know an ECS whose work should take centre stage?
Nominate them to be our early-career scientist keynote speaker at ICES ASC 2026.
ℹ️https://www.ices.dk/news-and-events/news-archive/news/Pages/ECSasc26Keynote.aspx
Do you know an ECS whose work should take centre stage?
Nominate them to be our early-career scientist keynote speaker at ICES ASC 2026.
ℹ️https://www.ices.dk/news-and-events/news-archive/news/Pages/ECSasc26Keynote.aspx
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It’s #worldalgaeday and my most favourite of algae is the diatoms! Single-celled and microscopic, these algae are so important, storing carbon, making oxygen, cycling nutrients, providing food, and even helping innovations in science and medicine! #marineplankton 🦑
October 12, 2025 at 9:11 PM
It’s #worldalgaeday and my most favourite of algae is the diatoms! Single-celled and microscopic, these algae are so important, storing carbon, making oxygen, cycling nutrients, providing food, and even helping innovations in science and medicine! #marineplankton 🦑
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🌍💙 Happy International Coccolithophore Day! 💙🌍
Today, Oct 10, we celebrate tiny ocean builders that capture CO₂, shape marine ecosystems & keep our climate in balance.
When Cocco talks, climate walks.
#CoccolithophoreDay #OceanClimate #InvisibleHeroes #OceanGuardians #ClimateWarriors #protistsonsky
Today, Oct 10, we celebrate tiny ocean builders that capture CO₂, shape marine ecosystems & keep our climate in balance.
When Cocco talks, climate walks.
#CoccolithophoreDay #OceanClimate #InvisibleHeroes #OceanGuardians #ClimateWarriors #protistsonsky
October 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
🌍💙 Happy International Coccolithophore Day! 💙🌍
Today, Oct 10, we celebrate tiny ocean builders that capture CO₂, shape marine ecosystems & keep our climate in balance.
When Cocco talks, climate walks.
#CoccolithophoreDay #OceanClimate #InvisibleHeroes #OceanGuardians #ClimateWarriors #protistsonsky
Today, Oct 10, we celebrate tiny ocean builders that capture CO₂, shape marine ecosystems & keep our climate in balance.
When Cocco talks, climate walks.
#CoccolithophoreDay #OceanClimate #InvisibleHeroes #OceanGuardians #ClimateWarriors #protistsonsky
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Now Accepting Workshop, Scientific Tutorial, & Abstract Submissions for CYTO 2026!
Whether you're ready to make waves with a workshop, lead a tutorial under the sun, or dive deep with your latest research abstract, now’s your time!
Learn more & submit: www.cytoconference.org/presentations.html
Whether you're ready to make waves with a workshop, lead a tutorial under the sun, or dive deep with your latest research abstract, now’s your time!
Learn more & submit: www.cytoconference.org/presentations.html
October 6, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Now Accepting Workshop, Scientific Tutorial, & Abstract Submissions for CYTO 2026!
Whether you're ready to make waves with a workshop, lead a tutorial under the sun, or dive deep with your latest research abstract, now’s your time!
Learn more & submit: www.cytoconference.org/presentations.html
Whether you're ready to make waves with a workshop, lead a tutorial under the sun, or dive deep with your latest research abstract, now’s your time!
Learn more & submit: www.cytoconference.org/presentations.html
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A prototype submersible sheathless flow cytometer designed for autonomous platforms aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #jcampubs 🌊
A prototype submersible sheathless flow cytometer designed for autonomous platforms
Development of submersible flow cytometers has allowed for continuous, in situ measurements of natural assemblages of phytoplankton cells. Here we introduce DeepCyte, a sensitive prototype submersibl...
aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
A prototype submersible sheathless flow cytometer designed for autonomous platforms aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #jcampubs 🌊
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🚨GRFP DEADLINE ALERT!🚨 I missed this in my original solicitation read-through, so FYI 📣LETTERS ARE DUE BEFORE PROPOSALS📣 this year!
"Reference letters are due Friday, November 7 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET)."
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
"Reference letters are due Friday, November 7 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET)."
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
www.nsf.gov
October 3, 2025 at 10:36 PM
🚨GRFP DEADLINE ALERT!🚨 I missed this in my original solicitation read-through, so FYI 📣LETTERS ARE DUE BEFORE PROPOSALS📣 this year!
"Reference letters are due Friday, November 7 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET)."
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
"Reference letters are due Friday, November 7 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET)."
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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INTERESTED IN THE NEW GRFP?
On Thursday, October 16th, 2025, 1 – 2pm ET, special #NSF BIO Directorate Virtual Office Hour (VOH) on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program #GRFP.
Attendees should submit questions ahead of the VOH.
Register and submit questions at
nsf.zoomgov.com/webinar/regi...
On Thursday, October 16th, 2025, 1 – 2pm ET, special #NSF BIO Directorate Virtual Office Hour (VOH) on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program #GRFP.
Attendees should submit questions ahead of the VOH.
Register and submit questions at
nsf.zoomgov.com/webinar/regi...
Webinar Registration - Zoom
nsf.zoomgov.com
September 29, 2025 at 9:32 PM
INTERESTED IN THE NEW GRFP?
On Thursday, October 16th, 2025, 1 – 2pm ET, special #NSF BIO Directorate Virtual Office Hour (VOH) on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program #GRFP.
Attendees should submit questions ahead of the VOH.
Register and submit questions at
nsf.zoomgov.com/webinar/regi...
On Thursday, October 16th, 2025, 1 – 2pm ET, special #NSF BIO Directorate Virtual Office Hour (VOH) on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program #GRFP.
Attendees should submit questions ahead of the VOH.
Register and submit questions at
nsf.zoomgov.com/webinar/regi...
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Science news article about 2nd year grad students being unceremoniously dropped from the GRFP eligibility with no explanation or warning:
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
‘Completely shattered.’ Changes to NSF’s graduate student fellowship spur outcry
The announcement comes months later than usual, leaving many would-be applicants stranded
www.science.org
September 27, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Science news article about 2nd year grad students being unceremoniously dropped from the GRFP eligibility with no explanation or warning:
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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#NewResearch
Baizosediminiarchaeum, a key player in the deep biosphere, builds butanetriol dialkyl glycerol tetraether membrane lipids and feeds on both CO2 and lignin, revealing a survival strategy in low-energy environments.
#MicroSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Baizosediminiarchaeum, a key player in the deep biosphere, builds butanetriol dialkyl glycerol tetraether membrane lipids and feeds on both CO2 and lignin, revealing a survival strategy in low-energy environments.
#MicroSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A dominant subgroup of marine Bathyarchaeia assimilates organic and inorganic carbon into unconventional membrane lipids - Nature Microbiology
Baizosediminiarchaeum, a key player in the deep biosphere, builds butanetriol dialkyl glycerol tetraether (BDGT) membrane lipids and feeds on both CO2 and lignin, revealing a survival strategy in low-...
www.nature.com
September 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
#NewResearch
Baizosediminiarchaeum, a key player in the deep biosphere, builds butanetriol dialkyl glycerol tetraether membrane lipids and feeds on both CO2 and lignin, revealing a survival strategy in low-energy environments.
#MicroSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Baizosediminiarchaeum, a key player in the deep biosphere, builds butanetriol dialkyl glycerol tetraether membrane lipids and feeds on both CO2 and lignin, revealing a survival strategy in low-energy environments.
#MicroSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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After a long day of discussing future field work to study #DeepSeaMining, this short documentary was a welcome reminder of the why - there is still so much we don’t know about the deep sea! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jcm...
Nodules: Deep-Sea Life Giver or Key to Our Energy Future?
YouTube video by Scientific American
www.youtube.com
September 17, 2025 at 12:31 AM
After a long day of discussing future field work to study #DeepSeaMining, this short documentary was a welcome reminder of the why - there is still so much we don’t know about the deep sea! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jcm...
Come join the BioGOSHIP team. In search of a postdoc at NOAA/Miami.
My group at NOAA/Miami is hiring a postdoc to lead a marine eDNA biodiversity effort (Bio-GO-SHIP). You'll develop and deploy high-throughput metabarcoding assays for ocean DNA. Help make foundational contributions to global marine biodiversity monitoring! t.co/p53s7E0YiL
https://explore.msujobs.msstate.edu/cw/en-us/job/509519
t.co
September 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Come join the BioGOSHIP team. In search of a postdoc at NOAA/Miami.