Heard of "Darwin's paradox"? It refers to Charles Darwin's observation that coral reefs are wildly productive despite occurring in nutrient-poor tropical oceans. Reefs are, so the story goes, oases in marine deserts 🏝️...
Turns out that 2/3 of these assertions are very wrong...
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Hi! I'm Stephanie, an aquatic ecologist working on species interactions at multiple scales.
Unfortunately, the ecology moderator's post seems to be missing, so hopefully you can help me out!
Here's a link to my ORCID profile: orcid.org/0000-0002-88...
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Here are several Sally lightfoot crabs (Grapsus grapsus). The baby crabs are dark in color for camouflage. The adults have colorful patterns. The atmosphere is bright and happy.
🦀 Sally lightfoot crab
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Hell yes here for this. 🤘🦑
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Raise your hand if you'll be at #SICB2025 this week! ✋
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Finally completing my migration from the bird app. Hello friends!
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TV, comics and film writer. LEVERAGE, JACKIE CHAN ADVENTURES, BLUE BEETLE, MARRY ME, a couple other things. Free newsletter of reviews, recommendations, and general oddities at https://buttondown.email/kungfumonkey
🧬 Professor of Evolutionary Genomics at @zoology.ubc.ca and @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social. Editor-in-Chief of @evolletters.bsky.social. Science with a sprinkling of dachshund pictures. https://www.zoology.ubc.ca/mank-lab/
Assistant Professor @Dalhousie - Macroecology, Biogeography, Conservation, Aquatic Ecology 🛀, Fish!!!🐟🐠🐡🦈
https://www.macbelab.org/
Aquatic Ecologist interested in global changes and multiple stressors | University of Essex | BESAG and FBA committee member, AE for Ecology and Evolution & Nature Communications Earth & Environment
The British Ecological Society Aquatic Ecology (BESAG) Special Interest Group - a network of aquatic, freshwater and marine scientists.
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/aquatic-ecology-group
Posts by @daniaalbini & @margauxsteyaert
The Society for Freshwater Science (SFS) is an international scientific society whose purpose is to promote understanding of freshwater ecosystems. #2025SFS https://freshwater-science.org/
Scientist, marine community ecology, biodiversity change, phytoplankton
Works at University of Oldenburg and @hifmb.bsky.social.
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he/him
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Professor @virginia_tech | Freshwater ecosystems & data science | Studying and forecasting the ecology of lakes and reservoirs in a changing world | carey.biol.vt.edu
I am a scientist who works (& plays) in waterways to understand their health & function.
Associate Professor in Biological Sciences & Global Change Center Faculty Affiliate @ Virginia Tech. UWYO/Emory alum. she/her. Posts=my opinions. www.hotchkisslab.com
Dad X 3, Professor at Carleton University, Editor-in-Chief of AFS #Fisheries + Environmental Evidence, Fellow of the Royal Soc Canada, aquatic biodiversity champion, #keepfishwet & #OTN & #GLFC-BOTE board chair. www.fecpl.ca
limnologist | Director - Flathead L Bio Station | Bierman Prof of Ecology - U Montana | Director - Sustainable P Alliance, ASU | Member - NAS | opinions mine
Full Professor of Aquatic Ecology University Zurich & @eawag.bsky.social | Kuratorium Forum Biodiversity | Founding Director https://biodiversitaet.uzh.ch/en.html | all & beyond #biodiversity, #eDNA & #AquaticEcology | Like=interesting
www.altermattlab.ch
Senior researcher with @florianaltermatt.bsky.social (#UZH & @eawag.bsky.social): #Freshwater and #Groundwater #Ecology, #Biodiversity, and #Amphipods, in Switzerland and beyond. #cycling. He/Him. Views my own.
https://www.romanalther.ch/en/links_en/
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https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=E6WubOUAAAAJ&hl=en & LinkedIn
Science that matters 🔬💧 The official account of the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology Eawag. www.eawag.ch
Understand. Engage. Inspire Change.
Research and teaching in Environmental and Agricultural Sciences at ETH Zurich. Managed by D-USYS Comms team. #usyslife #usysscience #usysawards #usysstudents
Where the future begins. 🚀🔬 One of the world’s leading universities for technology & natural sciences. Posts in both English and German.
www.ethz.ch
Aka ‘Lady of the lakes’.
Associate Professor, Queen’s University, Canada. Specializing in aquatic #ecotoxicology. Current research - oil spills, plastic pollution, nutrient cycling.
Lab website: https://qe3research.ca/
Ecologist; Biodiversity Synthesis Professor @idiv; Dad
