Mar Benavides
@marbenavides.bsky.social
Microbial Oceanographer
@noc.ac.uk
@ird-fr.bsky.social
www.ocean-bridges.net
@noc.ac.uk
@ird-fr.bsky.social
www.ocean-bridges.net
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Il se prépare au décollage. #Sentinel6B va bientôt sonder les océans terrestres. Histoire complète à lire dans #Lachroniquespatiale @esa.int @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @airbus.com @thalesaleniaspace.bsky.social @gifas.fr @eumetsat.int @cnes.fr
Sentinel 6B va bientôt sonder les océans terrestres
Deux semaines après Sentinel 1D lancé par Ariane 6 VA 265, c’est un autre satellite du programme Copernicus qui se…
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November 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Il se prépare au décollage. #Sentinel6B va bientôt sonder les océans terrestres. Histoire complète à lire dans #Lachroniquespatiale @esa.int @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @airbus.com @thalesaleniaspace.bsky.social @gifas.fr @eumetsat.int @cnes.fr
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Our Earth scientists have discovered how continents are slowly peeled from beneath, fuelling volcanic activity in an unexpected place - the oceans 🌊
Discover more 👉 southampton.pulse.ly/xfz0mvyw2c
@sotonoceanearth.bsky.social
Discover more 👉 southampton.pulse.ly/xfz0mvyw2c
@sotonoceanearth.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Our Earth scientists have discovered how continents are slowly peeled from beneath, fuelling volcanic activity in an unexpected place - the oceans 🌊
Discover more 👉 southampton.pulse.ly/xfz0mvyw2c
@sotonoceanearth.bsky.social
Discover more 👉 southampton.pulse.ly/xfz0mvyw2c
@sotonoceanearth.bsky.social
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#OnThisDay, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize was born: Marie Skłodowska-Curie.
Today, the MSCActions 🇪🇺 fellowship carries her name, supporting young scientists in their research.
Together, we’re building a brighter future for generations to come.
Today, the MSCActions 🇪🇺 fellowship carries her name, supporting young scientists in their research.
Together, we’re building a brighter future for generations to come.
November 7, 2025 at 8:45 AM
#OnThisDay, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize was born: Marie Skłodowska-Curie.
Today, the MSCActions 🇪🇺 fellowship carries her name, supporting young scientists in their research.
Together, we’re building a brighter future for generations to come.
Today, the MSCActions 🇪🇺 fellowship carries her name, supporting young scientists in their research.
Together, we’re building a brighter future for generations to come.
This study by my colleagues at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa shows that deep sea mining waste to be released near the ocean surface would disrupt marine food webs.
The same would be true of grinding and spreading rocks in the ocean for CO₂ removal. 🌊
The same would be true of grinding and spreading rocks in the ocean for CO₂ removal. 🌊
Deep-sea mining discharge can disrupt midwater food webs - Nature Communications
Deep-sea mining in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone may release waste into midwaters that support diverse marine life. This study finds such discharges could dilute key food particles and disrupt trophic l...
www.nature.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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I just wrote the following sentence in a manuscript: “Using pulled Pasteur pipettes, micropipettes, and tools made from toothbrush bristles superglued onto colored pencils, individual cells were isolated and washed in 0.22um-filtered ambient water…”
@burnsajohn.bsky.social 😂😂😂
@burnsajohn.bsky.social 😂😂😂
November 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I just wrote the following sentence in a manuscript: “Using pulled Pasteur pipettes, micropipettes, and tools made from toothbrush bristles superglued onto colored pencils, individual cells were isolated and washed in 0.22um-filtered ambient water…”
@burnsajohn.bsky.social 😂😂😂
@burnsajohn.bsky.social 😂😂😂
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🌊 By 2100, Arctic phytoplankton blooms will start ~34 days earlier, last ~15 days longer, and become less dominant overall, as warming reduces the seasonality of ocean productivity
Climate change is rapidly reshaping the timing and importance of Arctic productivity
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Climate change is rapidly reshaping the timing and importance of Arctic productivity
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
End-of-century Arctic Ocean phytoplankton blooms start a month earlier due to anthropogenic climate change - Communications Earth & Environment
Anthropogenic climate change impacts Arctic Ocean phytoplankton phenology, resulting in phytoplankton blooms which start 34 days earlier and last 15 days longer in 2100 compared with 1970, according t...
www.nature.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM
🌊 By 2100, Arctic phytoplankton blooms will start ~34 days earlier, last ~15 days longer, and become less dominant overall, as warming reduces the seasonality of ocean productivity
Climate change is rapidly reshaping the timing and importance of Arctic productivity
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Climate change is rapidly reshaping the timing and importance of Arctic productivity
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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🧪🪨🌊
Equatorial upwelling of phosphorus drives Atlantic N2 fixation and Sargassum blooms - Nature Geoscience
High near-surface nitrogen-fixation rates that promoted the recent growth of the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt were tied to greater upwelling of phosphorus from the equatorial Atlantic, according to c...
www.nature.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Single-particle genomics uncovers abundant non-canonical marine viruses from nanolitre volumes www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs
Single-particle genomics uncovers abundant non-canonical marine viruses from nanolitre volumes - Nature Microbiology
Environmental micro-compartment genomics provides efficient and high-throughput single-particle DNA sequencing that captures overlooked members of microbial communities.
www.nature.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Single-particle genomics uncovers abundant non-canonical marine viruses from nanolitre volumes www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs
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Could rising antimicrobial activity in warmer soils make microbes less efficient at using carbon & push more CO₂ into the atmosphere?
🦠📈💊
Our new work in @isme-microbes.bsky.social explores how the combined effects of warming & AMR may alter microbial C processing
🧵👇
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Our new work in @isme-microbes.bsky.social explores how the combined effects of warming & AMR may alter microbial C processing
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Microbial interactions between climate warming and antimicrobial resistance threaten soil carbon storage and global health
Abstract. Anthropogenic activities are impacting the environment in ways that may intersect and have compounding effects. In soil, the spread of antibiotic
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November 6, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Could rising antimicrobial activity in warmer soils make microbes less efficient at using carbon & push more CO₂ into the atmosphere?
🦠📈💊
Our new work in @isme-microbes.bsky.social explores how the combined effects of warming & AMR may alter microbial C processing
🧵👇
academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...
🦠📈💊
Our new work in @isme-microbes.bsky.social explores how the combined effects of warming & AMR may alter microbial C processing
🧵👇
academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...
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The return of the night train?
Copenhagen Prague via Berlin and Copenhagen -Basel both starting next year! 🎉🚄🚅🛤️🎉
And the EU is pushing for fast trains between all European capitals.
(Though that's definitely going to take longer). 🇪🇺🛤️🎉🇪🇺
www.zetland.dk/historie/s08...
Copenhagen Prague via Berlin and Copenhagen -Basel both starting next year! 🎉🚄🚅🛤️🎉
And the EU is pushing for fast trains between all European capitals.
(Though that's definitely going to take longer). 🇪🇺🛤️🎉🇪🇺
www.zetland.dk/historie/s08...
Ny karakterskala og fire timer med toget til Berlin
Dagens morgenoverblik siger farvel til karakteren minus 3, og opdaterer dig på planerne for lynhurtige tog i Europa.
www.zetland.dk
November 6, 2025 at 6:29 AM
The return of the night train?
Copenhagen Prague via Berlin and Copenhagen -Basel both starting next year! 🎉🚄🚅🛤️🎉
And the EU is pushing for fast trains between all European capitals.
(Though that's definitely going to take longer). 🇪🇺🛤️🎉🇪🇺
www.zetland.dk/historie/s08...
Copenhagen Prague via Berlin and Copenhagen -Basel both starting next year! 🎉🚄🚅🛤️🎉
And the EU is pushing for fast trains between all European capitals.
(Though that's definitely going to take longer). 🇪🇺🛤️🎉🇪🇺
www.zetland.dk/historie/s08...
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🌊 Oceanographers and people who care about our animal and microbial friends trying to take a deep breath in the ocean: Read @koelling.bsky.social's great thread/paper about how oxygen enters the surface of the subpolar North Atlantic. And, stay tuned... (1/3)
Our new 🌊 paper “Progressive oxygenation of the North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre” is out @jgroceans.bsky.social (open access): agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
We examined the breathing of one of the ocean’s lungs 🩺 and found some surprises
Paper summary in schematic, more info ⬇️
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We examined the breathing of one of the ocean’s lungs 🩺 and found some surprises
Paper summary in schematic, more info ⬇️
1/🧵
November 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
🌊 Oceanographers and people who care about our animal and microbial friends trying to take a deep breath in the ocean: Read @koelling.bsky.social's great thread/paper about how oxygen enters the surface of the subpolar North Atlantic. And, stay tuned... (1/3)
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Tonight, the Royal Society lit up in purple to mark #PurpleTuesday - a global movement and call to action to not only recognise the barriers people with disabilities face but also to share the incredible solutions that are out there.
November 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Tonight, the Royal Society lit up in purple to mark #PurpleTuesday - a global movement and call to action to not only recognise the barriers people with disabilities face but also to share the incredible solutions that are out there.
suggested the university was “explicitly trading my academic freedom for access to the Chinese student market,”
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China
Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:31 AM
suggested the university was “explicitly trading my academic freedom for access to the Chinese student market,”
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Now here is something scary... 👻
And some more spooky climate trends for today: www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt...
#HappyHalloween! 🎃
And some more spooky climate trends for today: www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt...
#HappyHalloween! 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Now here is something scary... 👻
And some more spooky climate trends for today: www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt...
#HappyHalloween! 🎃
And some more spooky climate trends for today: www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt...
#HappyHalloween! 🎃
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Why does the #HighSeasTreaty matter to Indigenous Peoples?
🎙️ In our latest video, Native Hawaiian activist Uncle Sol shares how Indigenous wisdom connects deeply with the ocean and why their knowledge and traditions must be part of the decision-making.
#60toGlobal #BBNJ
t.co/jaWJSBSV08
🎙️ In our latest video, Native Hawaiian activist Uncle Sol shares how Indigenous wisdom connects deeply with the ocean and why their knowledge and traditions must be part of the decision-making.
#60toGlobal #BBNJ
t.co/jaWJSBSV08
https://twitter.com/HighSeasAllianc/status/1983199963614937236/video/1
t.co
October 31, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Why does the #HighSeasTreaty matter to Indigenous Peoples?
🎙️ In our latest video, Native Hawaiian activist Uncle Sol shares how Indigenous wisdom connects deeply with the ocean and why their knowledge and traditions must be part of the decision-making.
#60toGlobal #BBNJ
t.co/jaWJSBSV08
🎙️ In our latest video, Native Hawaiian activist Uncle Sol shares how Indigenous wisdom connects deeply with the ocean and why their knowledge and traditions must be part of the decision-making.
#60toGlobal #BBNJ
t.co/jaWJSBSV08
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Looks like the science community has found a home.
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Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For
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October 29, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Looks like the science community has found a home.
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I usually can't listen to my voice in a recording, but it was worth it to hear this segment that @askpossibly.bsky.social put together on what the R/V Endeavor has meant to @urigso.bsky.social and oceanography. 🌊
The oldest research vessel in the country was just retired. What does it mean for Rhode Island scientists? - TPR: The Public's Radio
The R/V Endeavor, which spent the last 49 years operating out of URI’s Narragansett Bay Campus, was retired last month. Possibly took a tour of the vessel before it’s decommissioned.
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October 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I usually can't listen to my voice in a recording, but it was worth it to hear this segment that @askpossibly.bsky.social put together on what the R/V Endeavor has meant to @urigso.bsky.social and oceanography. 🌊
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Important update: starting today, women in England can access the morning-after pill free of charge on the NHS in high-street pharmacies. www.england.nhs.uk/2025/10/free...
October 29, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Important update: starting today, women in England can access the morning-after pill free of charge on the NHS in high-street pharmacies. www.england.nhs.uk/2025/10/free...
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We have added more than 900 new GenBank sequences to the RCC database that are linked to the web page of the corresponding strains.
October 29, 2025 at 10:10 AM
We have added more than 900 new GenBank sequences to the RCC database that are linked to the web page of the corresponding strains.
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Are you an oceanographer or marine biologist with an interest in marine biodiversity and climate change? Our upcoming scientific meeting will look at #ClimateChange and #BiodiversityLoss linkages in ocean ecosystems:
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October 28, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Are you an oceanographer or marine biologist with an interest in marine biodiversity and climate change? Our upcoming scientific meeting will look at #ClimateChange and #BiodiversityLoss linkages in ocean ecosystems:
royalsociety.org/science-even...
royalsociety.org/science-even...
Are you an oceanographer or marine biologist with an interest in marine biodiversity and climate change? Our upcoming scientific meeting will look at #ClimateChange and #BiodiversityLoss linkages in ocean ecosystems:
royalsociety.org/science-even...
royalsociety.org/science-even...
October 28, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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📣📣📣📣now open for applications!!
PhD available in my group to work on polar nitrogen fixation www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Exploring new drivers for nitrogen fixation in polar oceans at University of Southampton on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Exploring new drivers for nitrogen fixation in polar oceans at University of Southampton, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:49 AM
📣📣📣📣now open for applications!!
The more we look, the more we find - delighted to share this collaboration with IOW
@noc.ac.uk @ird-fr.bsky.social @mioceanologie.bsky.social
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@noc.ac.uk @ird-fr.bsky.social @mioceanologie.bsky.social
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Novel pennate diatom symbionts support high N2 fixation rates
Abstract. Diazotrophy is the most important nitrogen source in the oligotrophic surface ocean, but the organisms involved and their contributions are incom
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October 27, 2025 at 4:40 AM
The more we look, the more we find - delighted to share this collaboration with IOW
@noc.ac.uk @ird-fr.bsky.social @mioceanologie.bsky.social
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@noc.ac.uk @ird-fr.bsky.social @mioceanologie.bsky.social
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