The Amoeba Lab
@amoeba-lab.bsky.social
David Evans and the ‘Amoeba’ Lab at the University of Southampton (UK), researching (foraminifera) biomineralisation and climate change in Earth’s past
Absolutely delighted to announce the publication of our benthic foraminifera trace element compilation + revised multivariate calibrations: Nauter-Alves et al. (2025):
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
With @willerstorfi.bsky.social @mudwaterclimate.bsky.social and others
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
With @willerstorfi.bsky.social @mudwaterclimate.bsky.social and others
Thermal and Non‐Thermal Controls on Benthic Foraminiferal Mg/Ca, Sr/Ca, B/Ca, and Mg/Li: Global Core‐Top Compilation, Revised Calibrations, and Application to the Geologic Record
We compile ∼1,500 core-top benthic foraminiferal Mg-Sr-B-Li/Ca measurements from five species and one genus to produce new calibrations Many benthic foraminiferal elemental systems require multiv...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Absolutely delighted to announce the publication of our benthic foraminifera trace element compilation + revised multivariate calibrations: Nauter-Alves et al. (2025):
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
With @willerstorfi.bsky.social @mudwaterclimate.bsky.social and others
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
With @willerstorfi.bsky.social @mudwaterclimate.bsky.social and others
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Fully funded PhD projects available in my group (Please share with interested parties, details here: www.thefosterlab.org/blog/2025/11...):
PhD Topics - Entry September 2026 — The Foster Lab
This year we are involved in 3 fully funded PhD projects via IGNITE our NERC DLA. The deadline is Thursday Jan 8th 2026 . 1. Is the world already 1.5 C warmer?...
www.thefosterlab.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Fully funded PhD projects available in my group (Please share with interested parties, details here: www.thefosterlab.org/blog/2025/11...):
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Hello! we have a new paper out today in @science.org reviewing Calcifying Plankton : from Biomineralization to Global change 🌊🧪🐚
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Calcifying plankton: From biomineralization to global change
The cycling of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) in the ocean is closely linked to seawater alkalinity and the regulation of atmospheric CO2. In the modern pelagic ocean, almost all CaCO3 is produced by three...
www.science.org
October 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Hello! we have a new paper out today in @science.org reviewing Calcifying Plankton : from Biomineralization to Global change 🌊🧪🐚
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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New Paper Alert!! Tessa Page and others show how corals deal with low or unbalanced nutrients www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The main issue is lack of P that causes them to upregulate P-transporter genes and likely consume their symbionts and bleach! 🪸🌊🧪
The main issue is lack of P that causes them to upregulate P-transporter genes and likely consume their symbionts and bleach! 🪸🌊🧪
Changes in host gene expression patterns underpin responses of the coral Stylophora pistillata to nutrient stress - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Changes in host gene expression patterns underpin responses of the coral Stylophora pistillata to nutrient stress
www.nature.com
August 5, 2025 at 8:23 AM
New Paper Alert!! Tessa Page and others show how corals deal with low or unbalanced nutrients www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The main issue is lack of P that causes them to upregulate P-transporter genes and likely consume their symbionts and bleach! 🪸🌊🧪
The main issue is lack of P that causes them to upregulate P-transporter genes and likely consume their symbionts and bleach! 🪸🌊🧪
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🎉Are you a mineralogist who also loves museums? 🎉
Come join the Natural History Museum Denmark! We are looking for an assistant professor and curator of mineralogy. Advert can be found below, but apply soon! Deadline is 11th August😱
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
Come join the Natural History Museum Denmark! We are looking for an assistant professor and curator of mineralogy. Advert can be found below, but apply soon! Deadline is 11th August😱
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
211-0241/25-2N Tenure-track Assistant Professor and Curator in Mineralogy at Natural History Museum Denmark
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July 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
🎉Are you a mineralogist who also loves museums? 🎉
Come join the Natural History Museum Denmark! We are looking for an assistant professor and curator of mineralogy. Advert can be found below, but apply soon! Deadline is 11th August😱
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
Come join the Natural History Museum Denmark! We are looking for an assistant professor and curator of mineralogy. Advert can be found below, but apply soon! Deadline is 11th August😱
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
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Fascinating study on a #giantclam that was kept in the Dutch @burgerszoo.bsky.social aquarium for a decade and recorded changes in it's (semi)controlled environment in its shell. These types of growth experiments allow us to use shells as archives of past change
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Ten years of Tridacna sclerochemistry at up to daily resolution from a controlled aquarium environment – Records of habitat change, induced seasonality and growth variability
Giant clams such as Tridacna sp., with their rapid shell accretion (mm-cm/year), decade-long lifespans and aragonitic shells, are invaluable (palaeo)e…
www.sciencedirect.com
May 19, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Fascinating study on a #giantclam that was kept in the Dutch @burgerszoo.bsky.social aquarium for a decade and recorded changes in it's (semi)controlled environment in its shell. These types of growth experiments allow us to use shells as archives of past change
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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👇🏼extended #ICP15 deadlines to submit abstracts and complete registration -5th May!
The Registration and Abstract Deadline submission deadline for #ICP15 has been extended to the 5th May.
We know you were all busy at #EGU25 😁
@egu.eu
www.icp15.com/news/5th-may...
We know you were all busy at #EGU25 😁
@egu.eu
www.icp15.com/news/5th-may...
5th May - Extension — ICP15
Deadline extension!
www.icp15.com
May 2, 2025 at 9:26 AM
👇🏼extended #ICP15 deadlines to submit abstracts and complete registration -5th May!
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Great to finally hold this in my hand! Pleasure to work with @amoeba-lab.bsky.social and Ros Rickaby in editing this issue of Elements: Biomineral Geochemistry. Thanks also to all the authors who made such a great set of articles! www.elementsmagazine.org 🧪🌊⚒️
May 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Great to finally hold this in my hand! Pleasure to work with @amoeba-lab.bsky.social and Ros Rickaby in editing this issue of Elements: Biomineral Geochemistry. Thanks also to all the authors who made such a great set of articles! www.elementsmagazine.org 🧪🌊⚒️
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!New Paper Alert! Matrix independent and interference free in situ boron isotope analysis by laser ablation MC-ICP-MS/MS pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a.... In it we use our Neoma MC-ICPMS/MS to overcome the complexities of measuring boron isotopes by Laser Ablation in carbonates and other minerals. ⚒️🧪🌊🪸
April 3, 2025 at 11:52 AM
!New Paper Alert! Matrix independent and interference free in situ boron isotope analysis by laser ablation MC-ICP-MS/MS pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a.... In it we use our Neoma MC-ICPMS/MS to overcome the complexities of measuring boron isotopes by Laser Ablation in carbonates and other minerals. ⚒️🧪🌊🪸
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Need micropaleontology slides? I started a company! MicroPaleoWorks.com. If you need slides, hit me up. Prices range from 1.50 to 2.20 each depending on the variety. We can customize with numbering for a fee. We are a #smallbusiness #womenowned #madeintheUSA using #canadianaluminum & #recycledpaper
MicroPaleoWorks | micropaleoslides
MicroPaleoWorks, a Foraminarium company. Supplier of micropaleoslides for foraminifera and other microfossils or small samples
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April 2, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Need micropaleontology slides? I started a company! MicroPaleoWorks.com. If you need slides, hit me up. Prices range from 1.50 to 2.20 each depending on the variety. We can customize with numbering for a fee. We are a #smallbusiness #womenowned #madeintheUSA using #canadianaluminum & #recycledpaper
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Very pleased to have co-edited the latest version of Elements Magazine (www.elementsmagazine.org) "Biomineral Geochemistry" with @amoeba-lab.bsky.social and Ros Rickaby. Topics range from controls on CaCO3 polymorph to the role of amorphous intermediate phases and "vital effects". 🧪🌊🪸⚒️
April 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Very pleased to have co-edited the latest version of Elements Magazine (www.elementsmagazine.org) "Biomineral Geochemistry" with @amoeba-lab.bsky.social and Ros Rickaby. Topics range from controls on CaCO3 polymorph to the role of amorphous intermediate phases and "vital effects". 🧪🌊🪸⚒️
Absolutely delighted to announce that our issue of Elements was published today:
www.elementsmagazine.org
Highlighting how biomineral geochemistry can be (simultaneously) used to reconstruct past climate change and constrain biomineralisation processes
www.elementsmagazine.org
Highlighting how biomineral geochemistry can be (simultaneously) used to reconstruct past climate change and constrain biomineralisation processes
April 1, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Absolutely delighted to announce that our issue of Elements was published today:
www.elementsmagazine.org
Highlighting how biomineral geochemistry can be (simultaneously) used to reconstruct past climate change and constrain biomineralisation processes
www.elementsmagazine.org
Highlighting how biomineral geochemistry can be (simultaneously) used to reconstruct past climate change and constrain biomineralisation processes
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About ten days left for this job! Don't miss the chance!
WE ARE HIRING. Interested in ocean mixing? Come work with us in the ARIA-funded POLEMIX project to create and deploy a float-based mixing observing system in the subpolar North Atlantic. Applications here: jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
@sotonoceanearth.bsky.social @noc.ac.uk
@sotonoceanearth.bsky.social @noc.ac.uk
March 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
About ten days left for this job! Don't miss the chance!
Today in the Amoeba lab - an initial step on our path to building a new dedicated foraminifera culturing facility. Here are our first images of live foraminifera!
March 26, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Today in the Amoeba lab - an initial step on our path to building a new dedicated foraminifera culturing facility. Here are our first images of live foraminifera!
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#ICP15 #perspective #speakers are Raja Ganeshram @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social , B N Goswami, Sidney Hemming @lamontearth.bsky.social @bridgetwade.bsky.social Thomas Westerhold @marumunibremen.bsky.social
All our #pleanry #speakers are now announced 👇🏼😊
www.icp15.com/themes
All our #pleanry #speakers are now announced 👇🏼😊
www.icp15.com/themes
March 17, 2025 at 6:29 PM
#ICP15 #perspective #speakers are Raja Ganeshram @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social , B N Goswami, Sidney Hemming @lamontearth.bsky.social @bridgetwade.bsky.social Thomas Westerhold @marumunibremen.bsky.social
All our #pleanry #speakers are now announced 👇🏼😊
www.icp15.com/themes
All our #pleanry #speakers are now announced 👇🏼😊
www.icp15.com/themes
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#ICP15 announces #invited #plenary #speakers on #ocean-climate dynamics
Cristiano Chiessi
Sophie Hines @whoi.edu
@fpoeppelmeier.bsky.social Margit Simon @bjerknes.bsky.social
And Xu Zhang @bas.ac.uk
Cristiano Chiessi
Sophie Hines @whoi.edu
@fpoeppelmeier.bsky.social Margit Simon @bjerknes.bsky.social
And Xu Zhang @bas.ac.uk
March 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
#ICP15 announces #invited #plenary #speakers on #ocean-climate dynamics
Cristiano Chiessi
Sophie Hines @whoi.edu
@fpoeppelmeier.bsky.social Margit Simon @bjerknes.bsky.social
And Xu Zhang @bas.ac.uk
Cristiano Chiessi
Sophie Hines @whoi.edu
@fpoeppelmeier.bsky.social Margit Simon @bjerknes.bsky.social
And Xu Zhang @bas.ac.uk
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#ICP15 announces #invited #plenary #speakers on past climate state reconstructions from #proxies and #models Alex Farnsworth
Lukas Jonkars @marumunibremen.bsky.social
Johann allege @awi.de
And
Pam Vervoort @unibirmingham.bsky.social
Complete line of theme speakers:
www.icp15.com/themes
Lukas Jonkars @marumunibremen.bsky.social
Johann allege @awi.de
And
Pam Vervoort @unibirmingham.bsky.social
Complete line of theme speakers:
www.icp15.com/themes
March 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
#ICP15 announces #invited #plenary #speakers on past climate state reconstructions from #proxies and #models Alex Farnsworth
Lukas Jonkars @marumunibremen.bsky.social
Johann allege @awi.de
And
Pam Vervoort @unibirmingham.bsky.social
Complete line of theme speakers:
www.icp15.com/themes
Lukas Jonkars @marumunibremen.bsky.social
Johann allege @awi.de
And
Pam Vervoort @unibirmingham.bsky.social
Complete line of theme speakers:
www.icp15.com/themes
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#ICP15 presents #invited #plenary #speakers for #paleomonsoon #monsoon dynamics theme @triptychphrases.bsky.social Pedro DiNezio @edhathorne.bsky.social @antacl.bsky.social Chuan-Chou (River) Shen and Arun Deo Singh
www.icp15.com/themes
www.icp15.com/themes
March 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
#ICP15 presents #invited #plenary #speakers for #paleomonsoon #monsoon dynamics theme @triptychphrases.bsky.social Pedro DiNezio @edhathorne.bsky.social @antacl.bsky.social Chuan-Chou (River) Shen and Arun Deo Singh
www.icp15.com/themes
www.icp15.com/themes
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#ICP15 presents #invited #speakers in theme 5, #innovation / #novel approaches in #paleocenaography and #paleoclimatology
Hana Jurikova -> Uo St Andrews
Lenart De Nooijer ->
Matt Osman -> UoCambridge
Yi Wang -> Tulane Uni
Martin Ziegler -> Utrecht Uni
www.icp15.com/themes
(Scroll down to theme 5).
Hana Jurikova -> Uo St Andrews
Lenart De Nooijer ->
Matt Osman -> UoCambridge
Yi Wang -> Tulane Uni
Martin Ziegler -> Utrecht Uni
www.icp15.com/themes
(Scroll down to theme 5).
March 4, 2025 at 5:18 PM
#ICP15 presents #invited #speakers in theme 5, #innovation / #novel approaches in #paleocenaography and #paleoclimatology
Hana Jurikova -> Uo St Andrews
Lenart De Nooijer ->
Matt Osman -> UoCambridge
Yi Wang -> Tulane Uni
Martin Ziegler -> Utrecht Uni
www.icp15.com/themes
(Scroll down to theme 5).
Hana Jurikova -> Uo St Andrews
Lenart De Nooijer ->
Matt Osman -> UoCambridge
Yi Wang -> Tulane Uni
Martin Ziegler -> Utrecht Uni
www.icp15.com/themes
(Scroll down to theme 5).
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#ICP15 presents theme 1 #invited #speakers #biogeochemistry #Climate
@eleniwater.bsky.social @alexauderset.bsky.social @chalkyoceans.bsky.social @seavdavis.bsky.social @jfarmersalmanac.bsky.social and Arvind Singh
@eleniwater.bsky.social @alexauderset.bsky.social @chalkyoceans.bsky.social @seavdavis.bsky.social @jfarmersalmanac.bsky.social and Arvind Singh
March 3, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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New paper out in Biogeosciences: Exploring macroevolutionary links in multi-species planktonic foraminiferal Mg/Ca and δ18O from 15 Ma to recent. Read all about it here doi.org/10.5194/bg-2...
Exploring macroevolutionary links in multi-species planktonic foraminiferal Mg∕Ca and δ18O from 15 Ma to recent
Abstract. The ratio of the trace element Mg over Ca (Mg/Ca) and the oxygen isotopic composition (δ18O) of foraminiferal calcite are widely employed for reconstructing past ocean temperatures, although...
doi.org
March 2, 2025 at 4:29 PM
New paper out in Biogeosciences: Exploring macroevolutionary links in multi-species planktonic foraminiferal Mg/Ca and δ18O from 15 Ma to recent. Read all about it here doi.org/10.5194/bg-2...
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new paper led by Flavia Boscolo-Galazzo 'Exploring macroevolutionary links in multi-species planktonic foraminiferal Mg∕Ca and δ18O from 15 Ma to recent'
bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/...
bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/...
Exploring macroevolutionary links in multi-species planktonic foraminiferal Mg∕Ca and δ18O from 15 Ma to recent
Abstract. The ratio of the trace element Mg over Ca (Mg/Ca) and the oxygen isotopic composition (δ18O) of foraminiferal calcite are widely employed for reconstructing past ocean temperatures, although...
bg.copernicus.org
February 28, 2025 at 9:49 AM
new paper led by Flavia Boscolo-Galazzo 'Exploring macroevolutionary links in multi-species planktonic foraminiferal Mg∕Ca and δ18O from 15 Ma to recent'
bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/...
bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/...
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Dear Paleoceanographers,
#ICP15 #registration, #abstract, and #ECR #grant submission is now open. Please follow link on the website.
If you are applying for ECR grant then please wait to register/book accommodation until you hear from us. 🙏🏼
www.icp15.com/register
#ICP15 #registration, #abstract, and #ECR #grant submission is now open. Please follow link on the website.
If you are applying for ECR grant then please wait to register/book accommodation until you hear from us. 🙏🏼
www.icp15.com/register
Register — ICP15
www.icp15.com
February 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Dear Paleoceanographers,
#ICP15 #registration, #abstract, and #ECR #grant submission is now open. Please follow link on the website.
If you are applying for ECR grant then please wait to register/book accommodation until you hear from us. 🙏🏼
www.icp15.com/register
#ICP15 #registration, #abstract, and #ECR #grant submission is now open. Please follow link on the website.
If you are applying for ECR grant then please wait to register/book accommodation until you hear from us. 🙏🏼
www.icp15.com/register