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Brett Baker

@archaeal.bsky.social

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Professor of microbial ecology and evolution at Univ of Texas Austin.

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Brett Baker @archaeal.bsky.social · 6h

#AsgardArchaea
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Brett Baker @archaeal.bsky.social · 7h

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The Origins of Complex Life | Searching for the Asgards

YouTube video by Schmidt Ocean

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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 12h

Sea star, ophiuroid, stalked barnacles, sponge. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 871 #asgardarchaea #MarineLife

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Livestream Oceanographic @livestreamocean.bsky.social · 15h

@schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 871 is live! #asgardarchaea #MarineLife
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Station 12 | SOI Divestream 872

YouTube video by Schmidt Ocean

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Brett Baker @archaeal.bsky.social · 16h

Diving deep today, 2,700m.

Live stream here youtube.com/@schmidtocea...

#Asgardarchaea
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Brett Baker @archaeal.bsky.social · 2d

Deployment! ROV SuBastian. www.youtube.com/@SchmidtOcean

#AsgardArchaea
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Brett Baker @archaeal.bsky.social · 2d

In the water diving to 900m. www.youtube.com/@SchmidtOcean

#AsgardArchaea
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@moorefound.bsky.social
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Brett Baker @archaeal.bsky.social · 2d

Getting ready to dive into this canyon. You can watch the stream from the ROV here www.youtube.com/@SchmidtOcean

#AsgardArchaea
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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 5d

This fluttery finned fish, possibly from the family Oreosomatidae, was spotted during #AsgardArchaea at around 1000 m. Read more about this expedition led by @archaeal.bsky.social from @texasscience.bsky.social here: https://schmidtocean.org/cruise/searching-for-the-asgard/

Brett Baker @archaeal.bsky.social · 5d

nope, just you

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Edward Marcotte @edwardmarcotte.bsky.social · 5d

Here's the R/V Falkor (too) and the bay inside with the amazing robot sub (SuBastian), suspended from a giant A frame for deploying it through an even larger door. The two workbenches in front give you a sense of scale. You can also just make out @archaeal.bsky.social in front of the Falkor

Brett Baker @archaeal.bsky.social · 5d

Live and amazing

Brett Baker @archaeal.bsky.social · 5d

ROV in the water, diving to 2600m

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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 5d

An archaeal genetic code with all TAG codons as pyrrolysine www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1... #jcampubs

An archaeal genetic code with all TAG codons as pyrrolysine

Multiple genetic codes developed during the evolution of eukaryotes and bacteria, yet no alternative genetic code is known for archaea. We used proteomics to confirm our prediction that certain archae...

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Brett Baker @archaeal.bsky.social · 5d

Yes, but diving in a few hours

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Buzz Baum @buzzbaum.bsky.social · 5d

Waiting for the wind to subside, while the ship maps a channel on the sea floor for the next dive, Galen visits the bridge and settles right in.

Brett Baker @archaeal.bsky.social · 5d

Today's dive site, to ~2,200m. We will be streaming 9am-3pm Central. At www.youtube.com/@SchmidtOcean

#AsgardArchaea
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@moorefound.bsky.social
@texasscience.bsky.social
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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 6d

#AsgardArchaea team, led by @archaeal.bsky.social fr @texasscience.bsky.social — sequencing the DNA collected fr mouth of Rio de la Plata to the continental shelf of Uruguay to detect Asgards, a group of single-celled organisms & our closest microbial relatives on the tree of life. bit.ly/3MdniTH