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  December’s Diatom of the Month marks our 50th blog post! Thank you all for your continued support.   This month we are reflecting on the past year and looking forward to the new one. Keep reading for data and thoughts on our annual readership and last month’s survey responses. At the end, we also invite you to submit your thoughts on highlights from a decade of diatom research, which will be the focus of the January 2020 blog post - we like to hear from you to build a more collaborative, dynamic DOM!   2019 readership report   11 different authors contributed to our 12 blog posts in 2019 (2 posts from the DOM editorial team)   Blog posts featured diatoms from 7 regions worldwide .   There was an average of 275 views , 55 Facebook engagements , and 45 Twitter engagements per blog post   The most viewed blog post of 2019 was April’s Diatoms and Education (Shelly Wu, 522 views)   Since 2018 we ...

  November’s Diatom of the Month is you . Aka Diatoma readerii (Fig. 1).   Figure 1 . Diatoma readerii . In reality, blogger and co-editor Nick Schulte dressed as the diatom he wishes he could be ( Chamaepinnularia cymatopleura ). Note the white scale bar and plate-like, golden chloroplasts.   This month we, the editorial board of DOM, want to ask you, the reader, for feedback on our blog series. This will serve both as a census of our readers and as a guide for us to make changes to the blog to best suit our current readers and grow our authorship and readership. We are asking visitors from the website, Facebook, Twitter, and DIATOM-L to fill out a short survey (below) to get a sense of who you are, what you like and don’t like about the blog series, and what you can do for DOM with us in the future.   Survey responses will be accepted until December 15 (but don’t wait!). Then we’ll compile the responses and let you know the ...