The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is an international center for research & education in biology & ecology in Woods Hole, MA.

Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
Joined February 2010
🌊 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
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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
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🧬 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
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🔬 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)
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👏 We loved welcoming this year’s The Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT (@KSJatMIT) fellows to the Marine Biological Laboratory!
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🪝 “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
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🔬 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
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📣 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
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⏰ 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
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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.
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