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Introducing MERMAID AI: Smarter Photo Quadrats with Image Classification (Beta) | MERMAID MERMAID - Marine Ecological Research Management Aid Transform your underwater insights into data-driven actions that save coral reefs

Do you know that MERMAID now has an AI model to help classify coral genera and other benthic groups, and substrate types? 👀✨✨ It is currently available in beta! Try it for yourselves! 🧵(1/2)

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Pentagon will no longer share satellite data that tracks hurricanes overnight Scientists were initially given less than a week to prepare for the loss of microwave observations that are key in detecting rapid intensification of storms.

In another move by the Trump administration that will result in greater loss of lives and property, Pentagon will no longer share satellite data that tracks hurricanes overnight wapo.st/44ImQDK

"Under the terms of the executive order, political appointees loyal to the president can willfully find justification to label any research finding as scientific misconduct"

This should terrify every single scientist in America.

A reproductive and trophic analysis of corals in a degraded environment - Coral Reefs Understanding the persistence and resilience of corals in degraded environments can provide insight into the potential persistence of coral communities as coastline urbanization expands. We assessed t...

New paper alert❗️We looked at #coral reproduction and nutrition in a degraded shipping port. We found colonies in the Port to be more fertile than those in nearshore reefs and demonstrate the value of using amino acid isotope analysis to understand mixotrophic diets. #firstpublication #coralreefs

🧪 Ranking member Lofgren and 11 other House dems sent a fiery 7-page letter to acting NSF director today

"The cancelation of these awards suggests instead that NSF is willing to apply political censorship of awards under direction from President Trump and the DOGE teenagers"

Share widely #SaveNSF

A cryptic role for reciprocal helping in a cooperatively breeding bird - Nature A study of the cooperative breeding behaviour of superb starlings during 40 consecutive breeding seasons over 20 years reveals long-term reciprocal helping between both related and unrelated individua...

Our latest superb starling work in @nature.com. We observe long-term reciprocal helping relationships, and suggest reciprocity is an underappreciated mechanism promoting the stability of cooperatively breeding societies. Led by Alexis Earl and @gerrycarter.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

U.S. scientists’ lives and careers are being upended. Here are five of their stories As the second Trump administration sends U.S. science into upheaval, countless researchers are fighting for their futures

"It’s like I have to choose between my life and my career." The personal stories of 5 scientists affected by Trump's assault on science. www.science.org/content/arti...

National Science Foundation Terminates Hundreds of Active Research Awards (Gift Article) The agency targeted grants focused on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as research on misinformation.

@katrinamillerphd.bsky.social & I took a look at over 400 active National Science Foundation grants that got killed in the past few days. Here's our story (gift link) nyti.ms/4jp4aOx

Thanks, Justin! 😁

We examined the microbiome of Madracis aurentenra, an urban coral off the coast of the Colombian Caribbean. Interesting dynamics between Endozoicomonas and Vibrionaceae 🧪🪸 #MicroSky peerj.com/articles/192...

“Exploring Careers in Ecology” webinar tomorrow!

Join me, Rese Cloyd, and host Aaron Stoler, to duscuss finding jobs, navigating new careers, and defining success as a professional ecologist.

Webinar is part of a series by @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social.

Register: esa.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Hi coral peeps! Anyone have any Caribbean spawning predictions for summer 2025? Please share so I can reach more people! Thanks :)

Seasonality modulates coral trophic plasticity in an extreme, multi‐stressor environment Corals with high trophic plasticity, i.e., the ability to change the relative contribution of heterotrophic and autotrophic nutrition to their mixotrophic diet, can have increased tolerance to indivi...

🌊New study🌊 out today highlights a diversity of trophic strategies among 3 species in a multi-stressor habitat & that coral tolerance to more extreme conditions is promoted through dynamic seasonal shifts in their diet @verenaschoepf.bsky.social aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Ax falls on elite group of Ph.D.s training to lead U.S. public health labs Most of the fellows in CDC’s highly competitive Laboratory Leadership Service were fired last weekend

From @science.org : Ax falls on elite group of Ph.D.s training to lead U.S. public health labs | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

#BREAKING: We’re taking the Trump administration to court!

Oceana, alongside other environmental groups, is challenging President Trump's attempts to revoke ocean protections & open up millions of acres to offshore drilling. More 👉 oceana.ly/3EMOhSt

The Democrats on the House Science Committee have set up a website to collect stories from fired federal employees, anonymously if desired. Please amplify. (This helps the lawyers establish standing for bringing legal cases against the administration!)

democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings

The U.S. #NationalWeatherService, housed within #NOAA, is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. It costs only ~$3/yr per taxpayer, & yields ~10:1 return on investment--saving economy 10s-100s of billions, not to mention thousands of lives.

A graph of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations at the Mauna Loa observatory, Hawaii, from 1958 to 4th February 2025. It shows carbon dioxide levels rising at an accelerating rate over the decades. This is known to be due to emissions of carbon dioxide from human activity, mainly fossil fuel burning but also deforestation. The first CO2 concentration value in March 1958 was 315 parts per million (ppm). The latest daily value is 426 ppm. The graph also shows a seasonal cycle of a few ppm within each year, which is known to be linked to the growing season in the northern hemisphere causing a temporary uptake of carbon in spring and summer and release in autumn. The graph is produced routinely by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego.

Although NOAA's page on atmospheric CO2 levels has vanished, you can still get this vital information from Ralph Keeling's team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share

Don't let science be hidden

Action of the day that takes 5-10 min: Google your representatives in Congress and call or send them an email imploring them to stop DOGE from cutting funding to NSF. They're not reading your posts here unless you tag them or DM them. Make Congress Listen: v2v.opengovfoundation.org/staff-perspe...

Exclusive: how NSF is scouring research grants for violations of Trump’s orders The US National Science Foundation has unfrozen grant funding, but it continues to scrutinize research projects, sowing turmoil.

"Since 1980, Congress has mandated that the [NSF] seek to broaden participation of underrepresented groups, including women and other minorities, within science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪👨‍🔬 executive orders are at odds with this mandate

A story:

During GW Bush admin, I had to pitch a collaborative project to NOAA’s internal climate board. Right before presenting, I was advised not to mention the words “climate change”. The project and the presentation were titled “Climate Change and Coral Reefs”. I ignored the advice...

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Hope for a better future & proactivity are vital ingredients for progressive change. I'm just as worried as the next about the threat that the current US admin poses to science & our mission to celebrate diversity & uplift marginalized communities. But please, protect your energy. Stay the course.

YouTube video by International Coral Reef Society ICRS SECC Indigenous & Local Coral Scientists Panel (Updated)

We can all do more to uplift diverse voices in coral reef science. For a bit of inspiration, check out this panel discussion from four scientists on their lived experiences as local/indigenous scientists. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UACb...

Services 3 — ICRS - SECC

If you are looking for a job, post-doc, PhD, MSc, or internship related to coral reefs or HIRING, make sure to check out the ICRS-SECC Job Board for new listings or to post your new position! coralreefsecc.org/jobboard