How will coral reefs respond to climate change? Well, let’s start with an analogy. Suppose you pick an arbitrary time of day, choose a random…
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Author: Holly Bik
I am a computational biologist at the University of California, Riverside. My research uses DNA sequencing and genomics to study microbial eukaryotes (yeah, nematodes!) in marine ecosystems, with an emphasis on evolution and biodiversity in the deep-sea. I can neither confirm nor deny that I like Unix more than I like going to sea.
TGIF: This Glacier is NOT a photo
This BLOWS MY MIND. This is not a photo, it’s a drawing using pastels: The artist is Zaria Forman, and she’s using the pieces to…
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Climate Change vs. The Holiday Season
A US Senator posting on Buzzfeed? AND using animated GIFs to talk about Science? This one’s too good to ignore, but the facts are definitely…
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TGIF: Emoji Dick
This is either the awesomeest or stupidest thing ever: Emoji Dick is a crowd sourced and crowd funded translation of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick into Japanese…
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Hipster bacteria hate the tropics (it’s too mainstream)
Terrestrial biologists have it easy (especially those that work in the tropics) – they can just book a plane ticket and wander around the forest,…
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This isn’t the type of humor we’re used to at DSN – the news these past few weeks has been some new brand of twisted…
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How to celebrate (lament!) the end of Breaking Bad? That’s right, a tribute post with the top 10 reasons I love Crysal Meth(ane). Yo Bitch, let’s…
View More Top 10 Reasons I Love Crystal Meth(ane)Is the Mid-Atlantic ridge an oceanic oasis?
The open ocean is a desolate, nutrient-poor place. For a long time it was assumed that any type of seafloor feature (seamounts! ocean ridges!) would…
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Metagenomics and Mixology are similar in regard to their use of blenders. If metagenomics were a cocktail recipe, it would go something like this: 1.…
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This post is an homage to the wonderful things that we scientists discover when we travel (for SCIENCE!). You see, traveling is an integral part…
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