Dr Andrew Mahon
Biologist and molecular ecologist, studying animals in Antarctica, e.g., sea spiders. I also use eDNA to study biodiversity all over the globe.
Web: MahonLab.com
Google Scholar: rb.gy/6z3tre
LinkedIn: tinyurl.com/4kvx48s
- More delays....and yet the fish keep swimming....saying they are not yet into the lakes is irresponsible. They're there. Now is when we keep the population numbers low...the longer we wait and delay, the worse/quicker the invasion will be. 🧪🌎
- I actually have a question for science community that I HOPE someone can direct me...I have a species of marine organism that was previously described but while I'm sure I have collected this species, the original description, published in the 1993 is objectively not...ideal. 🧪🌎🦑🇦🇶
- In case folks needed to know, as a #scicomm announcement and PSA to everyone, there are no penguins in Greenland. #Antarctica🧪🇦🇶 I can't believe that needs to be said but yep....it needs to be....
- An "angry" isopod (Ceratoserolis trilobitoides) collected in April 2023 in East Antarctica. Research cruise NBP23-03. 🧪🌎🦑🇦🇶
- Another from our 2013 research cruise....(LMG13-12) along the Western Antarctic Peninsula. I BELIEVE this is Gorganocephalus chilensis (Ophiuroidea). #antarctica 🧪🌎🦑🇦🇶
- Antarctic amphipod Friday ....the gammarid Paraceradocus gibber collected on LMG13-12 along the Western Antarctic Peninsula. 🧪🌎🦑🇦🇶
- ....numbers matter. 🧪🌎🦑
- Photo of the day....Austropallene cornigera, a sea spider from the continental shelf waters around #Antarctica #Pycnogonida 🧪🌎🦑🇦🇶 Collected in East Antarctica in 2023 on the NBP23-03 research cruise.
- Reposted by Dr Andrew Mahon[Not loaded yet]
- Time to celebrate! The @sicb-diz.bsky.social auction at the #SICB2026 meeting raised $4790 for student and postdoctoral support!!!! This will be the basis for the John and Vickey Pearse Fund being established by DIZ! Thanks to @kmkocot.bsky.social for being our exuberant auctioneer and all donors!!!
- Reposted by Dr Andrew Mahon[Not loaded yet]
- Last call for the DIZ auction at the SICB meeting in Portland, OR! @sicb.bsky.social @sicb-diz.bsky.social If you need to ship an item to make it to the auction, DM me or email me (see form!). PLEASE DONATE! Art items, books, crafts, nerdy stuff, stickers, .....Funds help STUDENTS!!! Please RT!
- Donations for the auction at our annual meeting in Portland in January. Jim's quilt will be amazing!!! Donate and help us make this huge! This is a major fundraiser for DIZ's ability to support students! If you would be so kind and want to donate, please use this link: forms.gle/nz8WWSmsdagp...
- 🧪🦑🇦🇶🌎
- Donations for the auction at our annual meeting in Portland in January. Jim's quilt will be amazing!!! Donate and help us make this huge! This is a major fundraiser for DIZ's ability to support students! If you would be so kind and want to donate, please use this link: forms.gle/nz8WWSmsdagp...
- Happy Anniversary everyone! 🧪🌎🦑
- Tomorrow, Nov. 12, is the 55th anniversary of Exploding Whale Day. I got to talk about this to my marine bio class today, as I do every year to bring some levity and about the practical nature of how these things happen. 🧪🌎🦑🐋 www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6CL...
- Tomorrow, Nov. 12, is the 55th anniversary of Exploding Whale Day. I got to talk about this to my marine bio class today, as I do every year to bring some levity and about the practical nature of how these things happen. 🧪🌎🦑🐋 www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6CL...
- ... yeah. This will have multi-generational impacts to the entire planet. 🧪🌎
- this is insanely amazing and terrifying all at once. 🧪🌎
- Please donate! If you are not coming to the meeting we will have a mailing address available to ship donations (after December 1). Let's make this the biggest DIZ auction to date! (a social will follow the auction too!). 🧪🌎🦑 Questions? DM me!
- Please consider donating! All proceeds help both undergrad and grad student's complete their work and attend this fantastic conference! 🧪🌎🦑🧬 Questions? DM me! All donations for the auction are welcomed (gift cards, etc!)! Form link below! @sicb.bsky.social @sicb-diz.bsky.social
- I'm soliciting donations for the @sicb-diz.bsky.social auction at our annual meeting in Portland in January. This is a major fundraiser for the Division's ability to support students! If you would be so kind and want to donate, please use this link: forms.gle/nz8WWSmsdagp... @sicb.bsky.social
- Reposted by Dr Andrew Mahon[Not loaded yet]
- I'm soliciting donations for the @sicb-diz.bsky.social auction at our annual meeting in Portland in January. This is a major fundraiser for the Division's ability to support students! If you would be so kind and want to donate, please use this link: forms.gle/nz8WWSmsdagp... @sicb.bsky.social
- Reposted by Dr Andrew Mahon[Not loaded yet]
- 🧪these changes will have deep implications for future generations of scientists, weakening the foundation of science for decades to come.
- NSF today released instructions for the next round of applicants to its Graduate Research Fellowship Program. A key group—second-year Ph.D. students—is no longer eligible, and students who are still able to apply will face an unusually narrow timeframe. scim.ag/3KlQkQk
- Legging it in to the weekend. #antarctica. Dodecalopoda mawsoni from east Antarctica in 2023 (nbp23-03 research cruise). So many legs (12 walking legs!!) yes there’s another “normal” pycno there too! 🧪🌎🇦🇶🦑🐧
- A short time-lapse of the clouds going by as we sat at Davis Station in East #Antarctica in 2023 on the RVIB NBP (NBP23-03 research cruise). 🧪🌎🦑🇦🇶🐧
- Retiring the only remaining ship in the US arsenal that was dedicated to research in the Southern Ocean....it hurts my soul to know how badly this will impact the science and all (scientists, students, crew, etc) who have worked so hard to advance our knowledge of all things #Antarctica 🧪🌎🦑🇦🇶🐧
- Is #fishfriday a thing? Taken in East #Antarctica via our YoYo cam transects in 2023, (NBP23-03)....here are some Antarctic skates (Amblyraja georgiana). 🧪🌎🦑🇦🇶🐧
- Don't want to think about politics today. Here's the southern lights over the RVIB NBP (yes, the one currently being decommissioned) taken from Davis Station in East Antarctica (NBP23-03). We had stopped and they were able to capture the greatest photos all night of our ship and the aurora. 🧪🌎🦑🇦🇶🐧
- correct....BUT the problem is that eRNA is even more susceptible to contamination at every step. Great idea...but is it practical? single species maybe...but for metabarcoding studies? Other thoughts? 🧪🌎🧬
- With all going on in the world...I needed to post something that makes me smile today. Here, a Colossendeis robusta (Colossendeidae; sea spider) and a Gentoo penguin being followed by a chinstrap penguin. Both taken on the RVIB NBP as a part of our research cruises to #Antarctica. 🧪🌎🦑🇦🇶🐧
