It’s the season when the MBL’s Twitter feed is bursting with scientific images and movies that students and faculty are generating in the Advanced Research Courses. Many of these amazing images are possible due to the generous loan of top-shelf equipment from partnering vendors. Below are just a few examples. Follow along @MBLScience to keep
.entry-header Video Produced by Luke Groskin Article by Johanna Mayer Bret Grasse lovingly calls the Cephalopod Operations division at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts the “cephalopod empire.” The lab houses roughly 2,000 to 3,000 cephalopods—likely the largest collection of cephalopods of any research laboratory. But it might not be that way
Katie Wozniak, a graduate student at the University of Pittsburgh, attended the 2017 Frontiers in Reproduction (FIR) course at the MBL. Below, she answers some questions about her experience for her lab’s blog. What was a typical day at FIR like? The days at FIR are packed with science. Often the morning lecture, lab experiment,
By Gisella Higuera Falmouth STEM Boosters, a local volunteer group, invited all Woods Hole science professionals to attend an interactive workshop presented by the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science. Approximately 150 people attended the session, held on April 28 at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL). The goal was to help scientists improve their storytelling
Science and health journalists from five nations are plunging fearlessly into hands-on research this week at MBL through the Logan Science Journalism Program. (Bios of the 12 journalism fellows are here.) The Environmental fellows strapped on waders and collected coastal food-web samples at Waquoit Bay, Falmouth; their data analysis started last night. Meanwhile, the Biomedical
Who wants to wait in a long line to peer into a microscope? Nobody! Which is why the Frontiers in Reproduction (FIR) course students were excited last week to play with the new “Digital Classroom” projection system in their lab. The system sends microscope images wirelessly to an iPad, which projects them on a screen
On the eve of her arrival as an MBL Grass Fellow this summer, Tessa Montague of Harvard University is enjoying unexpected fame: Another video she took while a student in MBL Embryology has gone viral on Twitter. (Her first hit posting was about ctenophores.) Tardigrades are extraordinary. They can survive -270 to +150 degrees celsius,
MBL Hibbitt Fellow Caroline Albertin comments on the controversial idea that an influx of cosmic viruses seeded Earth with the genetic material for many species, as evidenced by the octopus genome. Albertin was on the team that sequenced the first octopus genome in 2015. By Sara Chodosh We have to stop taking away Mother Nature’s
By Andrea F. Carter Woods Hole scientists got some acting tips from actor Alan Alda to better communicate science to the public at a workshop on April 26. The Falmouth STEM Boosters, a parent group that works to build stronger connections between the science community and Falmouth Public Schools, hosted the event with the Alan
Ten members of the MBL’s research, education, and alumni communities are newly elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Election to the Academy recognizes “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research” and is widely considered a mark of excellence in science. It is one of the highest honors a scientist can attain. Among the MBL