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Predicting the translation efficiency of messenger RNA in mammalian cells go.nature.com/4mgXR0C

Cell-free DNA testing for the detection and prognosis prediction of pancreatic cancer nature.com/articles/s4146…

BioinAI: a general bioinformatic framework for multi-level transcriptomic data analysis using multiple semi-agents biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🌊🦠#FieldworkFriday! It’s a carbon feast🍽️and microbes🦠are invited! During the March 2025 C-CoMP cruise, early career researchers incubated surface ocean microbial communities on novel carbon sources produced by phytoplankton to study carbon drawdown rate and post-uptake fate.

Underway! R/V Falkor (too) left port for our first expedition in Argentine waters. Stay tuned for livestreamed ROV dives from the #MarDelPlataCanyon and learn more about the expedition here: schmidtocean.org/cruise/underwa… #TaludContinental4

In a single E. coli, about 25 percent of all proteins use metals (like zinc, iron, copper, magnesium, etc) to do their chemistries. And yet, incredibly, fewer than ONE FREE METAL ION is present per cell on average. There are, in other words, basically no loose metal ions…

Unleash the power of ggraph, an innovative extension package for ggplot2 designed to simplify and enhance the visualization of network and graph structures in R. If you've ever struggled to make sense of complex relationships, ggraph turns those challenges into opportunities for…

We are pleased to have @mickgriff02 and @samantha_bova as invited speakers for our 4th #PaleoSEA session at #AGU25. Last week to submit abstract: tinyurl.com/paleoSEA2025 AGU Student Travel Grant: agu.org/honors/fmstg

Eco-evolutionary robustness of wild bacterial communities to experimental perturbation academic.oup.com/ismej/advance-…

So, The Metals' Company new US-focused strategy, published in May 2025 (slide shown) says "US flagging for all mining vessels." And yet, the cost to operate US-flagged vessels is 2.5-5x higher than non-US ships. And yet this has no effect on profitability? Huge omission.

New GEOTRACES Science Highlight! Paradoxical influence of hydrothermal methylmercury on local ecosystems geotraces.org/paradoxical-in… Paper first author: Natalia Torres Rodrigues, MIO, Marseille #OceanScience @SCOR_Int @UNOceanDecade #MarineScience #Mercury

🦠 Interested in microbes & litter decomposition? Check out this new paper by Katie Rocci (postdoc, INSTAAR & IGCB U Mich) et al. Will Wieder (researcher, INSTAAR & NCAR) is a co-author too onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gc…

🌊 Southern Ocean storms leave lasting imprints on surface chlorophyll & ocean productivity. New modeling shows satellites often misread these effects, & chlorophyll alone can’t reveal the full carbon story New paper by Nissen, Clow, Lovenduski, et al: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/20…

In China, schoolchildren built a two-stage rocket using cola bottles and water pressure

Flickr images are being used to estimate air pollution. Yes, seriously. A new deep learning model uses crowd-sourced photos to identify urban hotspots:

A Pagel '94 type correlational model for one binary & a second continuous trait in #phytools: blog.phytools.org/2025/07/a-page….

428.23 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 10-Jul-2025 keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

🌊🦠#FieldworkFriday! During the March 2025 cruise, C-CoMP rigorously sampled diel ☀️🌙 (and sometimes hourly) dynamics at 15 m at 2 stations: the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS) site and Northeast U.S. Shelf (NES) Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Station 11 site.

Defining the ecological strategies of phytoplankton associated bacteria nature.com/articles/s4146…

I was graciously invited to debate in the Tongan Parliament on the Deep Sea Mining debate -- a privileged to try and contribute to the discussion for these great people and yes, I still oppose it. Here is a link to the debate. I start my part at 1:01:56. facebook.com/watch/live/?re…