Leocadio Blanco-Bercial

Buckle fracture

You: am so tired of the week thank God I will be home for dinner and rest.
Your child: nah, I have another idea about what to do tonight

I should start reading then before deleting... Did not realize they were getting that passive - aggressive

Definitively a worm

Fecal pellet packaging enhances marine carbon sequestration Fecal pellets produced by marine zooplankton contribute substantially to transporting biologically fixed carbon from the sunlit sea surface into deeper water layers. Their occurrence and composition ....

Led by Clarissa Karthäuser and her RotoBOD, we studied zooplankton fecal pellets, including very small ones; we find that here animals cannot be picky eaters, and that small pellets are efficient exporters with low remineralization 🌊
aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

... Last leg before home...

NOAA announces planned rollback of North Atlantic right whale protections There are fewer than 380 right whales left in the world, with roughly 70 females capable of bearing young.

NOAA announces planned rollback of North Atlantic right whale protections www.mainepublic.org/environment-...

And that is why, kids, I do not teach almost anything to my children. Only cycling.

I am going to create a diatom circus. Jumping through rings of fire

So multicellularicentric

Spanish bars are great

Glass skyscrapers Monday, medieval walls on Tuesday.

I do not enjoy having dinner alone that much but... I do need to have dinner! Quiet restaurant, nice food, and walking distance!

It is a beautifully crisp morning in Madrid!

Allá donde se cruzan los caminos, donde el mar no se puede concebir...

I love the train system - so easy and fast to go anywhere

Spanish treats

NSF-Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) at BIOS An REU internship is a great way for U.S. undergraduate students to gain the experience necessary to embark on graduate studies or careers in science.

Come to BIOS this fall for an undergraduate #NSFREU internship!

bios.asu.edu/education/ns...

Beautiful trees

The #OSM is done, but we had time to have a lab dinner together - we missed a few members though, but it was great to be all there!

On a train, behind three teenagers, listening to them trying to (painfully) resolve a redox equation from their homework

Already left, flying back... Didn't realize you could be around!! So many people!!

Are you at #OSM? Did I completely miss you there?

Showing our bilingual children's book about pteropods at #OSM. You can download it at www.mariposasmarinas.com!

Presenting Lauren's e-lighting poster at #OSM! While she is in the Indian Ocean..

We are attending #OSM in Glasgow! This is the @biosstation.bsky.social team at the conference, from physics to biology!

Fancy headsets here at #OSM

I will be very happy the day I do not have to go through Heathrow airport for all my European trips... Man they got stuck on the XX century

I mean, she is right 😂😂😂

See you Tuesday!