Jag synar och höjer med några grader till (fast för fyra timmar sen vände det och temperaturen sjönk under 27 för första gången på fem dagar - helt sjukt och onormalt här på baskiska kusten)

Fast notera att det bara är de "orättvisa" utvisningarna, som de vill slopa. Och man kan tänka sig att de har kontrollerat med Chefen, dvs Åkesson, före de törs gå ut med det

Zorionak - congratulations Dr. @ionferrico.bsky.social Abad to an extremely well (and hard) earned PhD degree! It's been an absolute pleasure to have the privilige of being your supervisor for these last years and today you aced the defence, as I knew you would 😉. >

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

Just coming back from a sunny walk to the actual, physical post office, from where I sent physical copies of the thesis of the talented Mr (soon, hopefully Dr) Abad-Recio that I've had the pleasure to supervise. Nice feeling, like being back in time to the 90s. And obviously I paid with cash, too.

Scientific hobby side home project - what lives in the communal swimming pool during winter? Today, with the help of my two junior assistants, we filtered 1.5L of this beautiful but smelly, stale water through a 0.2 micron pore polycarb filter.

Tror jag delar denna istället. Det är inte min mormor, som boken tillhörde, sin handstil, så någon vän till henne, när hon var 24 år gammal, 1944. Varsågod. Ska pröva mig på dessa chokladsnittar själv tror jag.

or moral implications have captured and "infected" the topic, to an extent that it's not possible to discuss publicly any more. And the counter reaction, as we just saw. That guy, who unlike me knows nothing about biology, blocked me, for *this* answer, which is ridiculous. >

We're now halfway through the Ostreobila project (EU Interreg) with lots of interesting results presented in its general meeting related to the aim of to better understand and monitor the toxic algae Ostreopsis that is an emerging threat to human and ecological health here, and to standardise >

Well, he did self identify with this guy in his social media posts. Don't anyone from photographers that take this kind of shot to journalists that publish it get summarily executed yet, btw? If not, better, but I'm surprised. Are we still in 1933?

Sounds reasonable

Gau beltza on! (or happy Halloween, if you celebrate the Christianised version, and speak English..) Illustration by Zorione, 4yo

"A gardner told me, some plants move, but I coukd not believe it" - Vampire Weekend, Hannah Hunt

First tiger mosquito I've seen here in Zumaia. So far they've officially only reached Donostia-San Sebastian as they're spreading locally from the north but it was just a question of time. Thanks for that, humanity, and the runaway climate change we've caused 😡. (1/2)

First try brewing sriracha ("the ketchup of Asia) on my home-grown chilis. Microbes, do your thing!

Lobster Mac'n'Cheese. No, thank you, Jeeves, I'd rather, I mean, wtaf? Mac'n'Cheese? Serve me actual dinner and pack your bags tomorrow, if youd be so kind

How about just declaring full independence?

So, don't just start blocking people based on random lists from accounts you don't know. And also, what's up with this whole behaviour, and is there anything to do with these people making and sharing these ridiculous false flag lists? Is it common?

Photos from yesterday the set of MicroMon the Movie in beautiful Zumaia - coming soon to a YouTube channel near you (don't miss it).

Join the worst bully on the schoolyard and let him control your life and make it miserable, you'll get his word that he'll protect you from possible revenges from the kids he bullied, in return. Something that would cost, let's say a hundred million gazillion global GNP equivalents otherwise

Before you spread your wings, there's just no knowing how far you will have to walk, or how much bloody time you will waste doing it. As they say. (no ERC grant for me, at least this time)

Cherry blossoms (trad. European cultivar, selected for berries not flowers), Iraeta here in the Basque country, this time of year 2 ya vs the Japanese kind, shot in Kyoto, ages ago. (Will break the chain here - I don't do chain posting stuff, not me 😉)

Explored the flysch limestone caves of my local beach Itzurun (that also happens to be the most spectacular beach of the world 😅) today

Au revoir Evian et #Aquaecomics ( @aquaecomics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy ). I hope very much to see you again.

...and the exciting results from the MerClub project I am happy to have been part of hunting mercury "detoxifier" microbes in marine sediments and using them for biorestuaration

Silvia Acinas AT CSIC ICM presenting impressive results from the Tara polar expeditions. Lots of unknown taxa, bigger genomes v temperate waters, 60% MAGs with polar distribution (as opposed to bipolar ie both Arctic and Antarctic) at #Aquaecomics d3

Today in #Aquaecomics, my amazing colleague in @azti.bsky.social Leire Garate presented our work using time series to study the temporal stability, potential interaction structure and effects of human pressures on those, in estuary sediment microbe communities. #microbialEcology