Leocadio Blanco-Bercial
@blancobercial.bsky.social
Eukaryotic Plankton Ecology and Evolution | Associate Professor @biosstation.bsky.social @arizonastateuni.bsky.social | ZoopGroup laboratory | Se Habla Español
https://bios.asu.edu/about/team-members/leocadio-blanco-bercial
https://bios.asu.edu/about/team-members/leocadio-blanco-bercial
Happy Thanksgiving!
November 27, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Happy Thanksgiving!
Deadlline is soon!! Please repost!!
The School of Ocean Futures of ASU (where I am faculty) has two Presidential Graduate Assistantship fellowships for new PhD students to ensure ASU's inclusivity charter.
Students from underrepresented groups are encouraged to contact the faculty at SOF for potential synergies!
tinyurl.com/yjnvd25b
Students from underrepresented groups are encouraged to contact the faculty at SOF for potential synergies!
tinyurl.com/yjnvd25b
Presidential Graduate Assistantship Program | Office of the University Provost | ASU
provost.asu.edu
November 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Deadlline is soon!! Please repost!!
...Paper submitted...
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November 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
...Paper submitted...
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Is it a flagellate? A tiny ball with tentacles? Contamination in my ciliate culture? NEW SUPERGROUP OF EUKARYOTES? Yes to all 4! Meet Solarion - just out in #Nature doi.org/10.1038/s415... Huge congrats to Marek Valt, Cepicka Lab & the star team! Very happy to be part of this project. #ProtistsOnSky
November 19, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Is it a flagellate? A tiny ball with tentacles? Contamination in my ciliate culture? NEW SUPERGROUP OF EUKARYOTES? Yes to all 4! Meet Solarion - just out in #Nature doi.org/10.1038/s415... Huge congrats to Marek Valt, Cepicka Lab & the star team! Very happy to be part of this project. #ProtistsOnSky
Today one of my students passed her comprehensive exam! Time to celebrate - Congratulations Rocio!!!
And now... Let's write those chapters!!
And now... Let's write those chapters!!
a person is writing the word yes with a green marker
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November 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Today one of my students passed her comprehensive exam! Time to celebrate - Congratulations Rocio!!!
And now... Let's write those chapters!!
And now... Let's write those chapters!!
just... wow
Cellular structure self-organizes through an interplay between internal mechanisms and external cues. The single-celled suctorian P. collini builds a trap structure to capture large prey using microtubule feeding tentacles, creating feedback between cell morphology and prey availability.
November 18, 2025 at 6:34 PM
just... wow
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On behalf of the Department of Oceanography at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, we are excited to invite applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position in Ocean Biogeochemical Modeling at the rank of assistant professor. www.schooljobs.com/careers/hawa... position number 0082726
November 15, 2025 at 2:54 AM
On behalf of the Department of Oceanography at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, we are excited to invite applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position in Ocean Biogeochemical Modeling at the rank of assistant professor. www.schooljobs.com/careers/hawa... position number 0082726
The School of Ocean Futures of ASU (where I am faculty) has two Presidential Graduate Assistantship fellowships for new PhD students to ensure ASU's inclusivity charter.
Students from underrepresented groups are encouraged to contact the faculty at SOF for potential synergies!
tinyurl.com/yjnvd25b
Students from underrepresented groups are encouraged to contact the faculty at SOF for potential synergies!
tinyurl.com/yjnvd25b
Presidential Graduate Assistantship Program | Office of the University Provost | ASU
provost.asu.edu
November 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The School of Ocean Futures of ASU (where I am faculty) has two Presidential Graduate Assistantship fellowships for new PhD students to ensure ASU's inclusivity charter.
Students from underrepresented groups are encouraged to contact the faculty at SOF for potential synergies!
tinyurl.com/yjnvd25b
Students from underrepresented groups are encouraged to contact the faculty at SOF for potential synergies!
tinyurl.com/yjnvd25b
Our project on the Portuguese Man'o War made it to the local news!
www.royalgazette.com/environment/...
www.royalgazette.com/environment/...
Scientists work to predict man-of-war appearances
An international team of researchers are attempting to find ways to forecast the movements of Portuguese man-of-war.
According to the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences’ Currents newsletter, the stud...
www.royalgazette.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Our project on the Portuguese Man'o War made it to the local news!
www.royalgazette.com/environment/...
www.royalgazette.com/environment/...
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Seeking a three year postdoc in the field of ocean biogeochemistry and productivity using mechanistic models and synthesis of observations. Note the short fuse for applications. Please help distribute. All nationalities welcome to apply! 🌊
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG117/p...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG117/p...
Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Liverpool
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Postdoctoral Research Associate on jobs.ac.uk!
www.jobs.ac.uk
October 29, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Seeking a three year postdoc in the field of ocean biogeochemistry and productivity using mechanistic models and synthesis of observations. Note the short fuse for applications. Please help distribute. All nationalities welcome to apply! 🌊
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG117/p...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG117/p...
I just recorded my lectures on lophophorata... I am not sure I want to read this. Don't want to re-record!!
Pleased to share our latest paper led by @tomlewin.bsky.social, now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! We present the first chromosome-level genome of a phoronid and show that shared chromosomal fusions unite phoronids and bryozoans as sister groups.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
November 7, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I just recorded my lectures on lophophorata... I am not sure I want to read this. Don't want to re-record!!
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New preprint! 🌊
Hypoxia adaptation shapes genomic architecture and vertical niche transitions in copepods
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social
Great work by Kévin Sugier from @cea.fr and Romuald Laso-Jadart @recherche.mnhn.fr
Hypoxia adaptation shapes genomic architecture and vertical niche transitions in copepods
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social
Great work by Kévin Sugier from @cea.fr and Romuald Laso-Jadart @recherche.mnhn.fr
November 6, 2025 at 9:38 AM
New preprint! 🌊
Hypoxia adaptation shapes genomic architecture and vertical niche transitions in copepods
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social
Great work by Kévin Sugier from @cea.fr and Romuald Laso-Jadart @recherche.mnhn.fr
Hypoxia adaptation shapes genomic architecture and vertical niche transitions in copepods
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social
Great work by Kévin Sugier from @cea.fr and Romuald Laso-Jadart @recherche.mnhn.fr
Stay tuned for our research on Portuguese man'o war! More coming soon!
Researchers are studying how winds, currents, and climate change influence the drift of the Portuguese man o' war in an effort to forecast its seasonal movements.
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bios.asu.edu/currents/pre...
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@blancobercial.bsky.social
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Predicting the Arrival of the Portuguese Man o' War | BIOS
Scientists are studying how winds, currents, and climate change influence the drift of the Portuguese man o' war in an effort to forecast its seasonal movements
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November 6, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Stay tuned for our research on Portuguese man'o war! More coming soon!
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Submissions for the WAC Student Grant program are open now until Dec 1. We anticipate making up to three $1,000 awards to support student (graduate or undergraduate) research on copepods. See details👇
www.monoculus.org/student-gran...
www.monoculus.org/student-gran...
STUDENT GRANT PROGRAM
WAC is offering up to three student research grants per year in accordance with the availability of WAC funds, with each award covering up to $1,000 maximum to support copepod research (including but ...
www.monoculus.org
November 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Submissions for the WAC Student Grant program are open now until Dec 1. We anticipate making up to three $1,000 awards to support student (graduate or undergraduate) research on copepods. See details👇
www.monoculus.org/student-gran...
www.monoculus.org/student-gran...
This summer one of my favorite science colleague and mentor and friend, Janet Bradford-Grieve, died. It is still very painful to me to think about it but I wanted to share some of the notes that are being released about herself and her research (cont)
ojs.victoria.ac.nz/nzsr/article...
ojs.victoria.ac.nz/nzsr/article...
Obituary: Dr Janet Grieve
| New Zealand Science Review
ojs.victoria.ac.nz
November 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
This summer one of my favorite science colleague and mentor and friend, Janet Bradford-Grieve, died. It is still very painful to me to think about it but I wanted to share some of the notes that are being released about herself and her research (cont)
ojs.victoria.ac.nz/nzsr/article...
ojs.victoria.ac.nz/nzsr/article...
Come with me, little friend; let me help you recovering from your misfortune
October 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Come with me, little friend; let me help you recovering from your misfortune
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I wrote an opinion piece about parental/family leave at UConn. I’m only ~75% happy with it but … something needed to be said. Many things actually. Loudly. Repeatedly. And with as many voices as possible.
“This is UConn: Zero paid family leave for professors”
ctmirror.org/2025/10/21/t...
“This is UConn: Zero paid family leave for professors”
ctmirror.org/2025/10/21/t...
Opinion: This is UConn: Zero paid family leave for professors
UConn currently lets every pregnant/expecting individual reinvent the wheel, cobbling together a leave plan with whatever resources and departmental grace they can muster.
ctmirror.org
October 21, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I wrote an opinion piece about parental/family leave at UConn. I’m only ~75% happy with it but … something needed to be said. Many things actually. Loudly. Repeatedly. And with as many voices as possible.
“This is UConn: Zero paid family leave for professors”
ctmirror.org/2025/10/21/t...
“This is UConn: Zero paid family leave for professors”
ctmirror.org/2025/10/21/t...
Congratulations Dr. Millán!!!
October 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Congratulations Dr. Millán!!!
TOMORROW is the great day!! Join to see @coocoo4coccos.bsky.social dissertation defense in #coccolithophores at BATS!!!!
The Great Day is here! @coocoo4coccos.bsky.social will be defending with PhD in October 10, at 1 pm EST. If your are interested in #coccolitophores please join in using the zoom link below!
October 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
TOMORROW is the great day!! Join to see @coocoo4coccos.bsky.social dissertation defense in #coccolithophores at BATS!!!!
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New paper out! 💌🔬Spirorhynchus verrucosus is a Muranotrichean and its sister has been livin' in the deep sea Santa Barbara Basin since the 90's! See them TUFTS!! Wonderful work of B Bourland & Cepicka Lab, R Beinart, & J Bernhard enabling deep sea sampling. Read h1.nu/spiror #ProtistsOnSky #MicroSky
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
New paper out! 💌🔬Spirorhynchus verrucosus is a Muranotrichean and its sister has been livin' in the deep sea Santa Barbara Basin since the 90's! See them TUFTS!! Wonderful work of B Bourland & Cepicka Lab, R Beinart, & J Bernhard enabling deep sea sampling. Read h1.nu/spiror #ProtistsOnSky #MicroSky
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metaPR2 version 3.0 has just been released.
Here are the major changes:
- Metabarcodes (ASVs) are now annotated with the latest version of the PR2 reference sequence database (5.1.0).
- 8 new published datasets have been added from the Arctic and from the South West Pacific.
app.metapr2.org
Here are the major changes:
- Metabarcodes (ASVs) are now annotated with the latest version of the PR2 reference sequence database (5.1.0).
- 8 new published datasets have been added from the Arctic and from the South West Pacific.
app.metapr2.org
MetaPR2
app.metapr2.org
October 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
metaPR2 version 3.0 has just been released.
Here are the major changes:
- Metabarcodes (ASVs) are now annotated with the latest version of the PR2 reference sequence database (5.1.0).
- 8 new published datasets have been added from the Arctic and from the South West Pacific.
app.metapr2.org
Here are the major changes:
- Metabarcodes (ASVs) are now annotated with the latest version of the PR2 reference sequence database (5.1.0).
- 8 new published datasets have been added from the Arctic and from the South West Pacific.
app.metapr2.org
Temperatures dropped thanks to the back to back hurricanes - we can enjoy the back porch again!
October 4, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Temperatures dropped thanks to the back to back hurricanes - we can enjoy the back porch again!