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Mat Cobain
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Post-Doc Researcher | 🧐🐟🧪⚛ with Antti Eloranta on #FreshRestore @BiodiversaPlus at @uniofjyvaskyla | Lake & Marine Ecosystems | Stable Isotope Ecologist
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The other night I managed to snap the beautiful aurora or "revontulet" in finnish. The literal translation means "fox's fire" as it was believed that they came from the reflection of moon and starlight on glistening snow that is cast into the sky by the tail of a dashing fox. Enjoy 😀
Green swirling aurora borealis reflected in a still lake, with twinkling street lights on the far shore.
October 5, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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New paper alert! Was great to contribute to work of @mikealthaus.bsky.social and colleagues demonstrating how re-entering the marine environmental led to the evolutionary loss of the high concentration "stress" signalling sodium ion channel isoform in mammals!

nature.com/articles/s42003-025-08436-7
Graphical abstract with marine mammals on the left where the alpha sodium ion channel isoform is closed under high salt concentrations. On the right are terrestrial mammals where there is an additional ion channel isoform, the delta isoform, that is open under high salt concentrations. This is hypothesised to function as a potential “stress” protein for monitoring high salt levels that has secondarily been lost in marine mammals.
July 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM