🌊 How do scientists study deep particle flux? Rut Pedrosa Pàmies and JC Weber from the Oceanic Flux Program shared details about how subsurface mooring, exciting discoveries, and more. 🔗 Full videos: go.mbl.edu/gt0y4o 🎥: Tim Musso and OFP 💻: Cathy Ching

What if you could see light in a whole new way? Michael Shribak (@mshribak), a senior scientist at the MBL, developed and patented a polychromatic polarization microscope that allows him to visualize an "invisible" property of light. 🔗 Read more here: go.mbl.edu/light

🧬 Oops, we missed World #CRISPR Day yesterday… we were a little busy gene editing cells in the lab! Want to get hands-on with CRISPR? Our Advanced Research Training Courses offer opportunities to learn cutting-edge techniques. 🔗 go.mbl.edu/ARTC27

🔬 Happy #MicroscopyMonday! Meet Arietellus plumifer, a deep-sea calanoid copepod collected 500 meters below the surface. Imaged by JC Weber, a senior research assistant at the Oceanic Flux Program, using a ZEISS Stemi SV-11 stereomicroscope and Olympus DP73 camera. (@NSF)

👏 We loved welcoming this year’s The Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT (@KSJatMIT) fellows to the Marine Biological Laboratory!

🪝 “Start with the hook.” MBL alumna and science communicator Samantha Jones, PhD (@samjscience at @AmerChemSociety), shared tips with Comparative Developmental Biology students on turning a love of science into a career in science communication. 🔗 go.mbl.edu/n3hj0b

🔬 Myth vs. fact? Let’s take a closer look at the impact of giving. Learn how your support helps the Marine Biological Laboratory make groundbreaking discoveries. 🔗 Donate today: mbl.edu/give

📣 APPLICATIONS OPEN! Applications for the MBL's Advanced Research Training Courses are now open. 🔗 Check out details for course offerings here: go.mbl.edu/ARTC27

⏰ EARLY AND ROLLING ADMISSIONS! Apply to early admissions round 2 for Semester in Biological Discovery program by October 15, with the final deadline on December 15. 🔗 More info here: go.mbl.edu/SBD

A video of Filoreta ramosa, a fascinating protist that can form multinucleate networks, for #MicroscopyMonday. Imaged by Erandi Sachinthanie, Andrew Kennard, Amaranta Kahn, Jason Bear, Annie Rowe, and John Spear (@spearmicrobe) from the 2026 Microbial Diversity course.

Congratulations to MBL alumnus Karl Deisseroth, co-recipient of the 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine! We’re proud to celebrate this remarkable achievement. 🔗 More info here: go.mbl.edu/p30rtz

Happy #MicroscopyMonday! Check out this free-swimming cercaria larva of a local parasitic flatworm Lepocreadium setiferoides, which infects mud snails. Imaged and sampled by Ana Corum and Yuxuan Xu in the Rawlinson Lab.

We’re exploring the possibility of an MBL Alumni Weekend—and we want to know what would make you excited to return! Tell us what you’d love to see, do, learn, and experience during an alumni weekend. Take the Alumni Weekend Interest Survey: surveymonkey.com/r/6YBKF5M

Marine copepod legs for #MicroscopyMonday! Exoskeleton (blue) stained with WGA and nuceli (pink-orange) stained with Hoescht. This image was placed #20 in Nikon’s 2025 Small World photomicrography competition. Imaged by Zachary Sanchez.