Georges Kanaan
@scientificgio
I wonder how life survives in sea ice. Oceanographer & Astrobioligst in Training. University of Washington.
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How do we get the organisms that live within the ice? A sack hole is a hollow cylinder in which surrounding brine collects trickling in through brine channels in the ice. We use a field peristaltic pump to collect it as cleanly as we can.
Aboard the R/V Kronprins Haakon for microSHIFT 2025! Sampling to investigate community composition across different micro habitats in the ice. Thanks to @ISME_microbes for partial support to attend.
🗣️ Amandine Demore, maire PCF d’Echirolles : « Un point de deal s’est installé devant les portes d’une école maternelle. Les personnels ont exercé leur droit de retrait. J’ai dû interrompre la restauration scolaire pour des enfants. C’était un crève-cœur. »
Arctic sea ice volume up to Jan 31, 2025is much lower than in previous years. More incoming heat threatens to reach the seafloor of the Arctic Ocean and destabilize methane hydrates at the seafloor, resulting in eruptions of huge amounts of methane. arctic-news.blogspot.com/2025/01/heat-f…
Madame Le Pen, j’ai apporté ici votre projet présidentiel. Et j’ai apporté également celui d’Emmanuel Macron. Pourquoi ? Parce qu’entre vous deux, il y a un énorme point commun. Entre vous et Emmanuel Macron, il y a plus qu’un trait d’union : vous êtes d’accord sur l’essentiel.
En 1980, un enseignant était embauché à 2,3 fois le SMIC. Aujourd'hui, c'est 1,2 fois. Un travailleur du bâtiment hautement qualifié était embauché, en 2000, 36% au-dessus du SMIC. Maintenant il est à 16%. Idem pour les infirmières, les ouvriers... L'écrasement des salaires a des…
New 2-year bioinformatic postdoctoral fellowship in my group at the University of Naples Federico II @UninaIT funded by the @ERC_Research project #Erc_CoEvolve coevolve.eu. Start date Nov 1st 2024! DM or contact me! Please RT! More info: donatogiovannelli.com//vacancies
🔴 BREAKING NEWS: Mike Lynch-White, Scientist Rebellion co-founder and Palestine Action activist, has been sentenced to 17 months in prison, suspended for 18 months, and 262h community service for his involvement in the Heathrow Pause action of 2019. 🧵1/6
What an incredible incredible photograph. It was taken by British amateur photographer Nima Sarikhani and has just won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award.
The world needs to know what a sick and dangerous joke the United Nations climate summits have become, so we can have a chance to fix them. And also fuck the fossil fuel industry and its execs. Such insanely evil people. My latest op ed: newsweek.com/climate-summit…
If you've been meaning to get around to reading THE most important climate report of the year & haven't made time, here's your reminder: The 2023 state of the climate report: Entering uncharted territory by @WilliamJRipple, @jrockstrom, et. al. academic.oup.com/bioscience/adv…
It is not easy to talk about this. This weekend - for the first time ever - the world temporarily breached 2° of warming. This is a five-alarm fire for humanity. (1/7) 🧵