The Deeplings at Science Online
A shoal of Deeplings will be attending this week’s Science Online conference in North Carolina. If you’ll be there, come say hi to Craig, Al, Kim, Holly, and me. (Sadly, Rick and Kevin can’t make it.)...
View ArticleTo take arms against a sea of troubles: my life in blogging, and farewell
I started blogging in 2007, at my mother’s deathbed. This isn’t the story I usually tell. I usually say that I always liked to write, and that I was inspired by the communications education at the...
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Behind the scenes: plastic-eating barnacles in the North Pacific Gyre
I’ve been temporarily released from my social media silence to talk about my latest paper, which is published in the open-access journal PeerJ. So first of all HAI EVERYONE! Second of all – here’s how...
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How do you figure out how much plastic is in the ocean?
Nobody ever told me that becoming a marine biologist would involve spending four years figuring out how to count. Because, seriously, how hard can counting be? Well, it turns out, when you’re trying to...
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Guest post: The invisible consequences of mistaking plastic for dinner
This is a guest post by Chelsea Rochman. Chelsea is a post-doc at the University of California Davis. This is her second guest post at DSN. The long and windy path to a Ph.D. is lined with blood,...
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Guest post: Playing Detective in the Great Blue Sea
This is a guest post by Chelsea Rochman. Chelsea is a post-doc at the University of California Davis. This is her third guest post at DSN. You may have heard me say it once, and I’ll say it again: the...
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The scariest inhabitant of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is not what you think
When you think of terrifying monsters that might inhabit the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, what do you think of? Mutant sharks? Pissed-off squid? Rabid barnacles? (Well, ok, probably not rabid...
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The sea is full of life, but not quite that full
A couple weeks ago this photo was going viral with the headline “A Single Drop of Seawater, Magnified 25 Times”: This is not a single drop of seawater, though it is probably magnified 25 times. This...
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The Plankton Pundit
One of the many reasons that I find plankton to be so delightful is the sheer joy of seeing something so beautiful and alien pop out of an ordinary seawater sample. I mean, I _know_ the sea is filled...
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A story about fish, plastic debris and sex
This is a guest post by Chelsea Rochman. Chelsea is a post-doc at the University of California Davis. This is her fourth guest post at DSN, and the first one to come with this. WARNING: Some content...
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