Cathy Garcia
@cathy-withasea.bsky.social
Microbial oceanographer and biogeochemist, Cat mama to 4
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Global-scale shifts in marine ecological stoichiometry over the past 50 years www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs 🌊
Global-scale shifts in marine ecological stoichiometry over the past 50 years - Nature Geoscience
Fifty years of plankton and water samples show that the proportion of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus in the ocean now substantially differs from the Redfield ratio, probably reflecting a reduction in...
www.nature.com
July 3, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Global-scale shifts in marine ecological stoichiometry over the past 50 years www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs 🌊
Welcome to the USA - a former protector of free speech 🤦♀️
Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered US embassies worldwide to stop scheduling new interviews for student-visa applicants as the Trump administration weighs stricter vetting of social-media profiles
US Orders Pause in Student-Visa Interviews Ahead of New Vetting
Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered US embassies worldwide to stop scheduling new interviews for student-visa applicants as the Trump administration weighs stricter vetting of social-media profiles.
bloom.bg
May 27, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Welcome to the USA - a former protector of free speech 🤦♀️
Flash Memorial Day sale! Gift cat thrown in with purchase.
May 26, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Flash Memorial Day sale! Gift cat thrown in with purchase.
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Out in Science! Zakem et al. mechanistically modeled global marine prokaryotic functional diversity, grounded with field data. Shifts in community composition drive respiration and thus biological C storage. This facilitates C cycle projections in a warming ocean
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Functional biogeography of marine microbial heterotrophs
Heterotrophic bacteria and archaea (“heteroprokaryotes”) drive global carbon cycling, but how to quantitatively organize their functional complexity remains unclear. We generated a global-scale unders...
www.science.org
May 22, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Out in Science! Zakem et al. mechanistically modeled global marine prokaryotic functional diversity, grounded with field data. Shifts in community composition drive respiration and thus biological C storage. This facilitates C cycle projections in a warming ocean
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Report from @science.org:
• NSF staff told that its 37 divisions are being abolished. Programs within to be drastically reduced.
• Layoffs expected, details via memo Friday 5/9.
• Another round of grant terminations expected. (Already 1400 cancelled ~$1bn)
www.science.org/content/arti...
• NSF staff told that its 37 divisions are being abolished. Programs within to be drastically reduced.
• Layoffs expected, details via memo Friday 5/9.
• Another round of grant terminations expected. (Already 1400 cancelled ~$1bn)
www.science.org/content/arti...
Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
www.science.org
May 9, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Report from @science.org:
• NSF staff told that its 37 divisions are being abolished. Programs within to be drastically reduced.
• Layoffs expected, details via memo Friday 5/9.
• Another round of grant terminations expected. (Already 1400 cancelled ~$1bn)
www.science.org/content/arti...
• NSF staff told that its 37 divisions are being abolished. Programs within to be drastically reduced.
• Layoffs expected, details via memo Friday 5/9.
• Another round of grant terminations expected. (Already 1400 cancelled ~$1bn)
www.science.org/content/arti...
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GOOD NEWS - "Thank you to everyone who expressed their strong support for the Regional Climate Center program. Our funding has been restored by NOAA and the Department of Commerce." www.ncei.noaa.gov/regional/reg...
April 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
GOOD NEWS - "Thank you to everyone who expressed their strong support for the Regional Climate Center program. Our funding has been restored by NOAA and the Department of Commerce." www.ncei.noaa.gov/regional/reg...
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Almost all NOAA Research websites that rely on cloud services - including Amazon, Google and WordPress - are poised to disappear at midnight ET Saturday after a contract was targeted for "early termination." Labs may also feel the effects.
Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):
Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):
US Weather Agency Websites to Vanish Under Planned Contract Cuts
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency is poised to eliminate most websites tied to its research division under plans for the cancellation of a cloud web services contract, a move that could s...
www.bloomberg.com
April 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Almost all NOAA Research websites that rely on cloud services - including Amazon, Google and WordPress - are poised to disappear at midnight ET Saturday after a contract was targeted for "early termination." Labs may also feel the effects.
Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):
Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):
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New @pnas.org paper alert, led by QBioS PhD Daniel Muratore & now Omidyar Fellow @sfiscience.bsky.social, Naomi Gilbert, Gary LeCleir & @tn-marine-micro.bsky.social: we find evidence for diel partitioning in microbial phosphorus uptake in the Sargasso.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Diel partitioning in microbial phosphorus acquisition in the Sargasso Sea | PNAS
The daily cycle of photosynthetic primary production at the base of marine food webs
is often limited by the availability of scarce nutrients. Micr...
www.pnas.org
March 14, 2025 at 6:17 PM
New @pnas.org paper alert, led by QBioS PhD Daniel Muratore & now Omidyar Fellow @sfiscience.bsky.social, Naomi Gilbert, Gary LeCleir & @tn-marine-micro.bsky.social: we find evidence for diel partitioning in microbial phosphorus uptake in the Sargasso.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The real (non-political) news on GOP and CR you actually want to read about!
Gross oxygen production and microbial community respiration in the oligotrophic ocean aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #jcampubs 🌊
March 14, 2025 at 11:35 PM
The real (non-political) news on GOP and CR you actually want to read about!
We’re really at the point where I wouldn’t be shocked if “carbon” was on a list like this in the future. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Words Federal Agencies Are Discouraged From Using Under Trump
Federal agencies have issued guidance to employees on hundreds of terms to limit or avoid using. An analysis of government websites shows many of the same words being removed.
www.nytimes.com
March 7, 2025 at 8:12 PM
We’re really at the point where I wouldn’t be shocked if “carbon” was on a list like this in the future. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Reposted by Cathy Garcia
Nice review on connecting marine biogeochemistry models with -omics:
Microbial Ecology to Ocean Carbon Cycling: From Genomes to Numerical Models doi.org/10.1146/annu...
Microbial Ecology to Ocean Carbon Cycling: From Genomes to Numerical Models doi.org/10.1146/annu...
Microbial Ecology to Ocean Carbon Cycling: From Genomes to Numerical Models | Annual Reviews
The oceans contain large reservoirs of inorganic and organic carbon and play a critical role in both global carbon cycling and climate. Most of the biogeochemical transformations in the oceans are dri...
doi.org
February 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Nice review on connecting marine biogeochemistry models with -omics:
Microbial Ecology to Ocean Carbon Cycling: From Genomes to Numerical Models doi.org/10.1146/annu...
Microbial Ecology to Ocean Carbon Cycling: From Genomes to Numerical Models doi.org/10.1146/annu...
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Last Tuesday, I was set to give a talk on 'climate change in the Northeast' at a retirement home but had to cancel due to hourly job threats.
After nearly two weeks of overwhelming uncertainty, today it happened. I was fired from my dream of working at NOAA. I'm so sorry to everyone also affected.
After nearly two weeks of overwhelming uncertainty, today it happened. I was fired from my dream of working at NOAA. I'm so sorry to everyone also affected.
February 27, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Last Tuesday, I was set to give a talk on 'climate change in the Northeast' at a retirement home but had to cancel due to hourly job threats.
After nearly two weeks of overwhelming uncertainty, today it happened. I was fired from my dream of working at NOAA. I'm so sorry to everyone also affected.
After nearly two weeks of overwhelming uncertainty, today it happened. I was fired from my dream of working at NOAA. I'm so sorry to everyone also affected.
Reminder to enjoy the small things like afternoon sunshine. #CatsOfBluesky
February 25, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Reminder to enjoy the small things like afternoon sunshine. #CatsOfBluesky
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Here's our piece objecting to recent federal actions that weaken #science and weaken the ability of FLBS to serve our community with the best possible scientific approaches.
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flatheadbeacon.com/2025/02/24/s...
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flatheadbeacon.com/2025/02/24/s...
Speak Up for the Flathead Lake Biological Station - Flathead Beacon
We are scientists from the University of Montana’s Flathead Lake Biological Station (FLBS), where our research and facilities have long been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation (N...
flatheadbeacon.com
February 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Here's our piece objecting to recent federal actions that weaken #science and weaken the ability of FLBS to serve our community with the best possible scientific approaches.
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flatheadbeacon.com/2025/02/24/s...
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flatheadbeacon.com/2025/02/24/s...
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I’m very excited to finally share the results of a passion project that has been on my mind for nearly a decade. You can find the pre-print below, but what follows is the saga of how this project came to be:
January 15, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I’m very excited to finally share the results of a passion project that has been on my mind for nearly a decade. You can find the pre-print below, but what follows is the saga of how this project came to be:
