Emily E. Gipson
@oceanemily.bsky.social
zooplankton enthusiast. larvae lover. using isotopes and genomes to study doliolid ecology. bio oce PhD candidate at UGA - Skidaway Institute of Oceanography 🌊 emilygipson1.wordpress.com
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Cutie baby sea snails hanging out.
#marineplankton 🦑
#marineplankton 🦑
November 16, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Cutie baby sea snails hanging out.
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#marineplankton 🦑
THIS IS AWESOME
Conserved genetic markers reveal widespread diatom sexual reproduction in the global ocean www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs 🌊
Conserved genetic markers reveal widespread diatom sexual reproduction in the global ocean - Nature Communications
Diatoms dominate the oceans, yet sexual reproduction - key to bloom dynamics and species evolvability - is rarely observed. Using a lab-to-field approach, this study presents conserved markers applica...
www.nature.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:54 PM
THIS IS AWESOME
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Conserved genetic markers reveal widespread diatom sexual reproduction in the global ocean www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs 🌊
Conserved genetic markers reveal widespread diatom sexual reproduction in the global ocean - Nature Communications
Diatoms dominate the oceans, yet sexual reproduction - key to bloom dynamics and species evolvability - is rarely observed. Using a lab-to-field approach, this study presents conserved markers applica...
www.nature.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Conserved genetic markers reveal widespread diatom sexual reproduction in the global ocean www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs 🌊
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A lovely look at the antennules of a Cirripedia cyprid larva (barnacle). They use the antennules almost like legs, walking across the substrate and exploring (chemically) for a place to settle. They also secrete the ‘cement’ that they use to attach themselves to their chosen spot!
#marineplankton 🦑
#marineplankton 🦑
November 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
A lovely look at the antennules of a Cirripedia cyprid larva (barnacle). They use the antennules almost like legs, walking across the substrate and exploring (chemically) for a place to settle. They also secrete the ‘cement’ that they use to attach themselves to their chosen spot!
#marineplankton 🦑
#marineplankton 🦑
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Super excited to be part of this beautiful effort led by @zhuyt0515.bsky.social and Hanna Anderson!
A true team effort to characterize diversity in phytoplankton-excreted metabolites and identify key chemical currencies within the ocean ecosystem and carbon cycle
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A true team effort to characterize diversity in phytoplankton-excreted metabolites and identify key chemical currencies within the ocean ecosystem and carbon cycle
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Characterization of Phytoplankton-Excreted Metabolites Mediating Carbon Flux through the Surface Ocean
The marine labile dissolved organic carbon (DOC) pool is a dynamic reservoir of thousands of molecules that cycles approximately one-quarter of Earth primary production within days to weeks. After exc...
www.biorxiv.org
November 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Super excited to be part of this beautiful effort led by @zhuyt0515.bsky.social and Hanna Anderson!
A true team effort to characterize diversity in phytoplankton-excreted metabolites and identify key chemical currencies within the ocean ecosystem and carbon cycle
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A true team effort to characterize diversity in phytoplankton-excreted metabolites and identify key chemical currencies within the ocean ecosystem and carbon cycle
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Tracing the contribution of dust origins on deposition and phytoplankton carbon uptake in global oceans bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/... #jcampubs 🌊
Tracing the contribution of dust origins on deposition and phytoplankton carbon uptake in global oceans
Abstract. Dust provides iron, essential for marine phytoplankton growth, altering their carbon uptake capacity and affecting the global carbon cycle. However, due to the limited availability of observ...
bg.copernicus.org
November 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Tracing the contribution of dust origins on deposition and phytoplankton carbon uptake in global oceans bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/... #jcampubs 🌊
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This spermy-looking tadpole dude is the larva of a sea squirt, and it’s rare for me to find one so active! Enjoy! P.S. on my other platforms I coupled this with ‘Every Sperm is Sacred’ by Monty Python. Here, you’ll have to sing it yourselves!
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November 3, 2025 at 10:16 AM
This spermy-looking tadpole dude is the larva of a sea squirt, and it’s rare for me to find one so active! Enjoy! P.S. on my other platforms I coupled this with ‘Every Sperm is Sacred’ by Monty Python. Here, you’ll have to sing it yourselves!
#marineplankton 🦑
#marineplankton 🦑
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The last time I saw this diatom species in plankton samples from Cromer Pier was back in the autumn of 2022, so I’ve been very delighted to see several over the last few weeks. Neocalyptrella robusta. This one is asexually reproducing.
#marineplankton 🦑
#marineplankton 🦑
October 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The last time I saw this diatom species in plankton samples from Cromer Pier was back in the autumn of 2022, so I’ve been very delighted to see several over the last few weeks. Neocalyptrella robusta. This one is asexually reproducing.
#marineplankton 🦑
#marineplankton 🦑
slightly majestic
October 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
slightly majestic
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Snail babies spinning in their egg (timelapse)! Probably periwinkles.
#marineplankton 🦑
#marineplankton 🦑
October 22, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Snail babies spinning in their egg (timelapse)! Probably periwinkles.
#marineplankton 🦑
#marineplankton 🦑
onedrive is trying to ruin my life
October 10, 2025 at 11:40 AM
onedrive is trying to ruin my life
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The insides of a bivalve larva! Bloomin’ gorgeous!
#marineplankton 🦑
#marineplankton 🦑
October 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The insides of a bivalve larva! Bloomin’ gorgeous!
#marineplankton 🦑
#marineplankton 🦑
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A developing Platyhelminthes (flatworm) in its egg case, I think.
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#marineplankton 🦑
October 5, 2025 at 1:08 PM
A developing Platyhelminthes (flatworm) in its egg case, I think.
#marineplankton 🦑
#marineplankton 🦑
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I thought this was a pretty cool natural arrangement of these Grammatophora sp. diatoms.
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October 2, 2025 at 7:01 AM
I thought this was a pretty cool natural arrangement of these Grammatophora sp. diatoms.
#marineplankton 🦑
#marineplankton 🦑
words are losing meaning and we can’t let that happen 😭
Hegseth: "As history teaches us, the only people who actually deserve peace and those who are willing to wage war to defend it. That's why pacifism is so naive and dangerous."
September 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
words are losing meaning and we can’t let that happen 😭
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The star of the show this #MicroscopyMonday is Noctiluca scintillans — a giant among plankton! At up to 2 mm across, visible to the naked eye.
Around UK and European coasts, it sometimes forms blooms that appear pinkish-red or orange, creating the phenomenon known as “red tides.”
Around UK and European coasts, it sometimes forms blooms that appear pinkish-red or orange, creating the phenomenon known as “red tides.”
September 29, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The star of the show this #MicroscopyMonday is Noctiluca scintillans — a giant among plankton! At up to 2 mm across, visible to the naked eye.
Around UK and European coasts, it sometimes forms blooms that appear pinkish-red or orange, creating the phenomenon known as “red tides.”
Around UK and European coasts, it sometimes forms blooms that appear pinkish-red or orange, creating the phenomenon known as “red tides.”
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Sparkles in the night, an acantharian and radiolarian in semi-dark field (or two arms of a goose-neck lamp pointed at the sides of the dish 😅). #protistsonsky 🦑
September 26, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Sparkles in the night, an acantharian and radiolarian in semi-dark field (or two arms of a goose-neck lamp pointed at the sides of the dish 😅). #protistsonsky 🦑
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Some little circus performers. #protistsonsky
September 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Some little circus performers. #protistsonsky
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I collected this beautiful acantharian cell into an intermediate dish knowing it was getting ready to swarm... but by the time I returned to it to transfer it to an individual well it had already started to release swarmers. So, I just captured the end of the process. Enjoy! #protistsonsky 🦑
September 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I collected this beautiful acantharian cell into an intermediate dish knowing it was getting ready to swarm... but by the time I returned to it to transfer it to an individual well it had already started to release swarmers. So, I just captured the end of the process. Enjoy! #protistsonsky 🦑
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Saw this angry monster in my marine plankton tow in Maine, USA... anyone recognize it (@elizabethbeston.bsky.social)? It's a few mm across, took up the whole field of view at 5x.
September 12, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Saw this angry monster in my marine plankton tow in Maine, USA... anyone recognize it (@elizabethbeston.bsky.social)? It's a few mm across, took up the whole field of view at 5x.
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A little timelapse of an early ascidiacea sea squirt found in my latest sample.
#marineplankton
#marineplankton
September 3, 2025 at 6:28 AM
A little timelapse of an early ascidiacea sea squirt found in my latest sample.
#marineplankton
#marineplankton
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🌊🧪 As biologically active constituents pass through the ocean, they participate in its internal cycles. Warm surface waters receive their supply of dissolved constituents from two sources: river water and water from the deep ocean, which exchanges with surface water. If the concentration of a
September 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
🌊🧪 As biologically active constituents pass through the ocean, they participate in its internal cycles. Warm surface waters receive their supply of dissolved constituents from two sources: river water and water from the deep ocean, which exchanges with surface water. If the concentration of a
me and my paul revere (the person who sprinted across the R/V Savannah on day 14 of a research cruise to tell me that taylor swift and travis kelce got engaged) @drt-bythesea.bsky.social
August 27, 2025 at 10:52 PM
me and my paul revere (the person who sprinted across the R/V Savannah on day 14 of a research cruise to tell me that taylor swift and travis kelce got engaged) @drt-bythesea.bsky.social