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microbiomedata.org
We are keeping busy this July! 🧪 Highlights:
🦠 @msafungi.bsky.social MSA annual meeting
🦠 "'Omics for Everyone" workshop
🦠 FAIR data best practices @aspbofficial.bsky.social ASPB workshop
🦠 @esipfed.bsky.social ESIP Meeting in Seattle, WA featuring an NMDC-led session on AI-ready data
July 8, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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science.org
Scientists have developed a miniature robot that can reposition its fins and legs to swim, glide, and crawl untethered in different deep-sea environments, including the Mariana Trench.

Learn more in #ScienceRobotics: scim.ag/4iECQeB
March 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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invertebabe.bsky.social
Did you know octopus, squid, and cuttlefish are editing their RNA to modify the functionality of their proteins? No other animal does it quite like they do.

Read about it in this blog post I wrote and illustrated 🥰🫶🦑🐙🧪

octonation.com/octopus-can-...
Octopus Can Edit Their RNA – Here’s How
Ever wonder why people label octopuses as "aliens"? It's not because they hitched a ride on a meteor from outer space. Nope, these eight-armed geniuses earned their intergalactic reputation by doing s...
octonation.com
February 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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unhingedmillennial.bsky.social
every day i'm strugglin'
*drops beat*
#pain #agony #frog
February 6, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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kassthefish.bsky.social
Hi everyone. Just a reminder that it's okay to not be okay.

I'm overwhelmed by everything and very much LIVID at what's happening.

Things are bad and unprecedented.

Know I love you all.
Science is real.
Trans people deserve life and happiness.
Your feelings are valid.
YOU are valid.
February 5, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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rosemarymosco.com
While I work on this year's valentine, here's last year's.
A four-panel comic. In panel 1, a wood frog stands on a pink background. The text says: "Feeling unlucky in love? Did you know that male Wood Frogs have difficulty perceiving members of their species? Here are some things they’ve been documented trying to mate with." "Spotted Salamander." The wood frog looks at a large yellow-spotted salamander, with a heart over the frog's head. "Cattail." The frog looks amorously at a large cattail flower or "sausage." "Green frog." The wood frog looks at a large confused-looking green frog. "Dead fish." The wood frog stares at a large dead fish. "Live fish." The wood frog looks amorously at a large trout. "Pine cone." The wood frog looks at a large pine cone. The final text says: "Sorry, there's no moral here. I just thought you'd enjoy this fact about frogs."
February 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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umiamiconservation.bsky.social
Research News!

📣 Johnson Center faculty affiliate Juan Carlos Villaseñor-Derbez has co-authored a new study in Science on the benefits of large-scale marine protected areas for highly migratory species AND economically valuable fisheries.

Read more:
news.miami.edu/rosenstiel/s...
Study shows spillover benefits from large marine protected areas
No-fishing zones protect species and possibly lead to increases in catch rates
news.miami.edu
January 30, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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tomtomorrow.bsky.social
in retrospect I think it may have been a mistake to make the work machine and the procrastination machine be the same machine
January 26, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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nerdychristie.bsky.social
Microplastics are everywhere—including inside us. And that's not awesome, given that new research in mice finds they can mess up blood flow in the brain. That and more of the best from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
That bright spot is a plastic-filled cell stuck in a blood vessel (the otherwise dark channel) for a week. Credit: Huang et al./Science Advances (2025)
January 25, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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oceanfilly.bsky.social
If you take a marine biologist to the aquarium...
January 13, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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zefrank.bsky.social
A new True Facts about Rays - youtu.be/DbaiBY8De54?...
True Facts: Rays, The Floppy Sombreros of the Sea
YouTube video by Ze Frank
youtu.be
December 27, 2024 at 4:36 PM
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axelvisel.bsky.social
The National Microbiome Data Collaborative (NMDC)
@microbiomedata.bsky.social is now also here on BlueSky.

Connecting data, people, and ideas for all things microbiome🦠

microbiomedata.org

#microbiome #metagenomics #genomics #datascience #databases
Logo of the National Microbiome Data Collaborative (NMDC)
December 6, 2024 at 1:40 AM
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franklinleonard.bsky.social
My grandmother voting for Kamala Harris.

Born 1918.
2 years old when the 19th Amendment was ratified.
47 when the Voting Rights Act secured her vote.
Will turn 107 on inauguration day.

She’s lived through it all, and she’s damn sure not going back.
November 5, 2024 at 9:04 PM