How am I supposed to leave for a monthlong research trip when he looks at me like this? Gnasher is 14years young and the very best dog. ❤️❤️🐶🐶🐶 Research cruises would be so much better if we could bring our pets. I swear Gnasher would not hurt any Antarctic wildlife 🐧🌊 #oceanography #microbialsky

Happy holidays Bsky! - from the MICOlab and our Pyrodinium ❤️🌊 #microbialsky #microsky #phytosky animation by recent MICOlab graduate @lydiaruggles.bsky.social

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And some parting #protist shots - two giant acantharians hand-collected with prey inside (a copepod and maybe a foram) - crazy to see a copepod being digested by an acanth, so curious how the acanth managed to catch it! #microbialsky #microsky #christmasatsea ❤️🌊

Excited to share new published work on Phaeocystis antarctica microbiomes! Given the world, I was hesitant to self-promote, but a key finding is P. antarctica phycosphere interactions should be studied in situ. Antarctic fieldwork is necessary! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Getting ready to head out on the RV Sally Ride in the Gulf of California. Am mostly serving as a scientific diver on this cruise (!!!!), but will also be looking for cool plankton (rads, Dinos, obvi) and sharing lots of plankton pics :) #microbialsky #microsky 🌊

Today was a special day! I got to sit on my first PhD defense! Congrats to Dr Abby Webster for her exciting, innovative dissertation on benthic Cyanobacteria! You did @sunyesf.bsky.social, @aslo.org LOREX, and MANY other collaborator institutions & funding agencies extremely proud! #MicrobialSky

Out on a mini-cruise to follow up on our post-hurricane cruise to study the responses of coastal microbes to major disturbance events. Dolphins escorted us out of Tampa Bay ❤️🌊 best Christmas present ever - cool science, good weather, lots of charismatic microflora 🦠🧪 #microbialsky

Extremely proud to share that @lydiaruggles.bsky.social, my very first graduate student, successfully defended her thesis on Pyrodinium vitamin requirements and bacterial interactions yesterday afternoon! #microbialsky

My first conference was a GRC. Many years later, I am elated to be at another GRC with my first student @lydiaruggles.bsky.social presenting her first poster. Proud new PI here ☺️☺️☺️ #microbialsky #marinemicrobes

That’s a wrap! Last little cruise of 2024 in the books. 15 CTD, 6 bucket, and 5 underway stations, uncountable plankton images, 41 filters for DNA extractions, 35 samples for flow, many aux samples- will be interesting to see how coastal communities bounce back post disturbance #microbialsky

Happy New Years All! I am so excited to share the very first preprint from my lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... - from @lydiaruggles.bsky.social's thesis-also my first student 😊. tldr: Only bacteria collected during a Pyrodinium bloom rescued Pyro from B12 limitation #microbialsky #microsky 🦠🧪🧬🌊

My first conference was a GRC. Many years later, I am elated to be at another GRC with my first student @lydiaruggles.bsky.social presenting her first poster. Proud new PI here ☺️☺️☺️ #microbialsky #marinemicrobes

Hey #microbialsky - anyone looking for a good PhD student this cycle? Ugrad from my lab is looking but no luck with the PIs she has contacted (no funding, no response). She worked in my lab for 1.5 years, now is a research tech at the FWC research institute. Excellent at the bench & super smart!

Is it bad luck to do pcr on Halloween? #microbialsky 🎃👻💀

Only a few days left to register for the Phycological Society annual meeting in Juneau, Alaska this summer! Looking forward to seeing all the phytophiles and talking #phytoplankton at my favorite meeting :) #oceanography #microbialsky 🌊🦠🧪 www.psaalgae.org/meetings/202...

One week extension for abstracts and registration (phew :)) our lab will be presenting several HAB projects - I can’t wait for Alaska!! 🌊❤️🧪🦠🐻‍❄️ #oceanography #phytoplankton #microbialsky

MICO/Brisbin lab is hosting Making Waves REUs this summer! Please share with your favorite undergrads! Are you an undergrad excited about oceanography? Apply or reach out with questions! #reu #microbialsky