I am so excited to share that I will be joining the Marine Science Institue at
@UTAustin
as an assistant professor in August 2025! 🥳 Our lab will focus on plankton & climate change, from cells to ecosystems 👩🏽🔬 👩🏾💻 Recruiting a PhD student, please help spread the word! 📢
Please retweet: TWO postdoc opportunities open in the Levine Lab!📢 Join us if you are passionate about marine microbial ecology and evolution & biogeochemical modeling 😍🦠🌊
Learn more about our open PhD position!🌊🦠Chat with me if you are excited about marine microbes + numerical modeling + experimental evolution. ALL students encouraged to apply! Please DM me if you can help spread the word at local universities in Texas.
📢New paper! Do you also wonder about the relationships between temperature, size & metabolism?
@NaomiMarcil
and I unveil the mechanisms behind why phytoplankton get smaller and more heterotrophic with warming & how evolution can alter these predictions!
My very first podcast interview about... plankton! 🦠🌊 Do you like podcasts? Science? Water? Run and check
@71percent_pod
! Thank you
@treevineseaweed
and
@ba_whittaker
for the invitation, this was so fun!!
Our second interview special is out!🎙️We invited oceanographer and plankton specialist Dr
@SuzanaLeles
to chat about some tiny but mighty creatures called... 🦠🔬
#plankton
! Listen now here or on your podcast player 🎧
#scicomm
#WomenInScience
How happy do you think I was when I saw that one of the key-note speakers at
#OCB2022
was coming to us direct from Floripa, Brazil? 🤩 Had a fun time chatting
#HeatWaves
and
#microbes
with Regina Rodrigues
@rrrocean
!
A very special day: dad, brother and sister were born today 🐟🐟🐟 And this year I also celebrate the beginning of my journey as a Postdoc Fellow
@SimonsFdn
, now working in the Levine and the Moeller
@mixotrophe
Labs👩🏽💻👩🏽🔬🥳 cool science coming, I can feel it 😍
How
#plankton
affect carbon fluxes in the oceans? Keep an eye on their diverse lifestyles, interactions & let's talk about
#mixotrophy
!📣
Our new work in Progress in Oceanography uses a 9y time-series to model
#protist
succession in temperate seas🌊
Today I had a chat with more than 30 kids about the importance of oceans in our lives and it was so magical! I think I will get addicited to it.. 😍🌎🦠🐳
#science
#oceans
#outreach
#lockdown
Back on twitter and back on the microscope checking out Dinophysis and Mesodinium from Guanabara Bay, Brazil!
Also starting the year submitting a paper, very happy researcher over here😍
Please spread the word among mixotroph enthusiasts! 📢Join us on *September 13* to discuss mixotrophs, models and biogeochemistry in the OCB working group 🦠👩💻🌊
Financiada pelo Brasil, eu pesquiso a dinâmica de teias tróficas nos oceanos, procurando entender as relações entre os menores organismos desse ecossistema, o plâncton, responsáveis por produzir metade do oxigênio que respiramos
#existepesquisanobr
#LessonsFromPlants
, what an opening talk at
#ASLO2021
by
@BerondaM
! Beautiful and powerful message on mentoring: instead of looking at skillsets to evaluate the success of individuals, let's first ask ourselves: do we provide the environment that they need to grow?
It was so exciting to be at the international
#mixoplankton
conference listening to the fantastic work of many researchers, especially the early career ones! What a fantastic group of speakers, it was a pleasure to be part of it! Thank you
@mixotrophs
@DrAditeeMitra
I just received reviews on a paper after 5 months and, oh, I was so afraid of looking at it... turned out to be super helpful comments, positive & constructive feedback! Acts like this make all difference in science and definitely made my day!😍Looking forward to working on it!
📢Please consider signing this - let's work towards making conferences more inclusive and diverse: $390 to attend
#OSM2022
virtually equals to the monthly stipend of a PhD student in Brazil.
@altagliabue
and I wrote an open letter to the conference organizers of
#OSM2022
, calling for action on the high fees, lack of clarity on the hybrid format, and short abstract submission and registration deadlines.
Consider signing and supporting us:
Great talk by Patricia Glibert on eutrophication and... mixotrophs! Loving to spend some time with amazing researchers at virtual
#PSA2020
! Thank you
@PSAAlgae
for organising this!
Yesterday I was on the committee evaluating an undergrad student's thesis at the very same place I got my BA degree
@UERJ_oficial
💙It was damn special also because she was so good, and because we talked a lot about
#dinoflagellates
#cyst
#aquaculture
#HABs
🐟🦠🌊
Functional shifts in the
#plankton
community in a bay influenced by
#eutrophication
, intense rainfall & intrusions of
#upwelling
waters. Such a great collaboration, especially with my friend and mentor Gisela Figueiredo! Stay tuned for more...🌊🦠🌧️
Data provided by the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research show the massive increase in Amazon's deforestation during Bolsonaro's government. What happens? The head of the Institute is exonerated. This is a shame and this is dangerous.
Ya está disponible el libro "Oceánicas: pioneras de la oceanografía", 10 historias de científicas ilustres, algunas de ellas olvidadas y todas fundamentales en la historia de la oceanografía 👵🌊🦑🐬🦈🐠🐟🦐
#11F2019
Descárgalo aquí:
Share your best, but also allow yourself to set boundaries in any relationship. This is beautifully simple and yet we are not always conscious about it! So, allow yourself to say, "nope, this is not fine"
#AcademicChatter
#mentoring
Kicking off
#OCB2022
with a raffle for incredible books including Fresh Banana Leaves from Jessica Hernandez
@doctora_nature
, how wonderful is that!! 😍
This is unacceptable!! Francisca worked at USC for the past *24* years and now is accused of theft of a student's backpack. Really?? Please sign this petition to help Francisca 🙏🤎
These are the folks that are so often overlooked in our campus and rarely get thanked or welcomed for their work. Two decades of work for this institution to do her like this - can everyone sign this petition to help out Francisca.
How cool is that when your family texts you about a paper in your field before you even read it!! 😍That's why it is so great to write pieces to communicate your science to the society! Congratulations
@M_E_Larsson
@MartinaADoblin
#mixotrophy
#outreach
.
First day back at work after long holidays back home - fresh, excited and getting inspired at
#OSM2022
! It was a very needed break after 2y of pandemic and only now I realize. So here it comes a reminder - take care of yourself, rest, and have fun to keep doing amazing science💙
"The lead must come from the top — from PIs, deans, provosts. The first step could be something as simple as showing a willingness to hear about racism and intolerance from students and employees."
“Immigrant lack the social and economic safety nets that citizens enjoy.”
Hopefully, our European colleagues who are shaken up by
#Brexit
now understand what others have been going through in the UK and elsewhere.
"The 2020 deforestation rate is 182% higher than the established target of 3,925 km2 and represents a reduction of only 44% instead of the 80% established in law."
#Brazil
#Amazon
#deforestation
I've recently attended a meeting about a society for women in marine science. I was very excited. It ended up not being as inclusive as I thought. Women empowering must include (and support) ALL women. Otherwise there is no point.
#WomensDay
That feeling that nothing is impossible after listening to Alexandra Worden! Thank you
#protistonline
for organising such an incredible event, I really hope that the community will embrace this practice onwards. You showed that is definitely possible to be more inclusive!
What is the future of young scientists in Brazil? Only 13% of approved PhD and Postdoc scholarships will be funded in the country by the most important funding agency
@CNPq_Oficial
. Cuts after cuts in brazilian science.
Not only changes in traits, but also changes in the *correlation between traits* are key to accurately capture phytoplankton evolution and predict future shifts in elemental cycling 🦠🌊 great work led by Nathan Walworth and Naomi Levine!
There is science in Brazil, and history that goes far beyond our borders.
But there is also disregard - politics of 'forgetfulness'.
Yesterday we burned. Today we cry. Tomorrow we fight.
#MuseuNacional
At 7.00pm GMT tomorrow, 10 March and weekly thereafter, I will start a 25 part series of videos about plankton narrated by
#DavidAttenborough
. Tune in to learn about these remarkable creatures. RT to spread the news.
@zeiss_micro
Na abertura da
@SBPCnet
,
@FlaviaCale
, presidenta da ANPG, defendeu a campanha nacional pelo reajuste das bolsas, sem aumento há 6 anos. "Nossa agenda é pela recomposição das bolsas cortar e pelo reajuste das bolsas em vigor".
When I arrived in the US, a colleague said to me "I am so glad you are joining, I will no longer be the only woman of color in the room." She is Asian American. She was identifying with me, uniting. Let's give voice.
This is huge!🎉Congratulations
@MuhaTeja
for being one of the
#MSCA2020
awards finalists!! An incredible researcher that I had the luck to share the PhD journey with. You can get a grasp of her research here! Spoiler - cute mascots in there😁
"The idea that simplicity of explanation is important in science is as old as science itself."
Catched by the opening sentence, can't wait to read the full paper!
#ecology
#evolution
#models
#ciencianobr
AMEMR 2020 Abstract Submission and Registration now open! Present, discuss and learn about a wide variety of
#marine
#modelling
challenges, methods, applications and outcomes. More details at . Please ReTweet
#marinescience
#ecosystem
If you like coding in R, python or matlab but need higher performance such as C++ and fortran, you should have a look at julia (open source!)! I am loving it 😍
Finding
#3
: to adapt to warm temperatures, phytoplankton must store more carbon to support respiration and/or decrease heat damage by evolving production of lipids or antioxidant enzymes – both strategies require larger cell sizes!
...and
@JanaHinners
is coming up with more exciting results on trait correlations through a bottleneck evolution experiment as presented at
#ASLO2021
! Great talk, Jana!
First woman & first black woman to win the FameLab nationals in Brazil - Gabriela Ramos Leal - she is one of the 10 finalists in the FameLab International 2020!! 😍
And just to say.. she has a female mentor!😎
The
@FameLab
International Final is just 1️⃣ week away. This year for the first time it will be streamed online for FREE via the FameLab YouTube channel.
Make sure to subscribe and be in the best - virtual - seat in the house:
A UniFavela é um pré vestibular favelado atuante no Complexo da Maré/RJ. Nascido de uma laje na Nova Holanda, pautado no ensino popular e na horizontalidade, buscamos que a favela ocupe os espaços de produção de conhecimento acadêmicos e não acadêmicos.
📷 Antoine Horenbeek