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Local human impacts interact with geography to drive benthic community depth zonation on contemporary coral reefs #ProcB - find out more from authors in our blog - royalsociety.org/blog/2025/06...

Here’s what I teach my students about finding jobs in marine biology and conservation Our field is competitive, some job postings are confusing, and some career advice is contradictory or wrong. Here’s an exercise I have my students perform that I hope can help you. Graphic vi…

I keep seeing heartbreaking stories about people who spend years in grad school, apply to jobs, and only then learn that their dream job needs a skill they didn’t learn during grad school.

Looking at job ads *now*, years before you’re applying, can help identify skills to develop.

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Protecting existing coral reefs must be our priority - Nature Ecology & Evolution A global analysis reveals that coral restoration sites are often located in areas with high human impacts and overlook current and future levels of thermal stress, which places most restoration projec...

Protecting existing coral reefs MUST be our priority.

A message that's been voiced several times before by @profterryhughes.bsky.social and others, but one that we should not lose sight of.

My short 'News&Views' piece in @natureecoevo.bsky.social

Link: tinyurl.com/2jfskntd

IPCC is calling for authors for its Seventh Assessment Report!

📣 #IndigenousPeoples! Join the webinars on 7-8 April to learn about how Indigenous experts can help shape the IPCC report.

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Diagram showing links between seabirds and various coral-reef monitoring outcomes.

Check out our new paper!

We compare indicators for monitoring the impacts of island restoration on coral reefs. Massive thanks to our huge list of collaborators, which enabled us to look at seabirds, nutrients, microbes, algae, corals, and fish! 🐦🦠🌱🪸🐠

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

An illustration of a city skyline in the background, and a boy sitting on the roof of a timber house surrounded by flood waters in the foreground. Overlay text reads: "Come hell and high water. As fires and floods hit the poor hardest, it is time for the world to step up adaptation actions." The UNEP logo and #AdaptationGap appears at the bottom of the graphic.

📢 NOW OUT📢

UNEP has launched the 2024 #AdaptationGap Report.

The report provides an assessment of global progress in adapting to the climate crisis and its worst impacts.

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Widespread inconsistency in logger deployment methods in coral reef studies may bias perceptions of thermal regimes Ocean warming is the greatest threat to coral reefs, prompting a need to accurately monitor in situ temperatures. Advancements in sensing technologies have led to a proliferation of temperature logger...

🚨New paper alert! Do you deploy loggers to monitor temperature in coral reefs, or any shallow aquatic environments? Do you shade them from direct sunlight? You should! 🌊🦑 journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

The Last Hunt for the Jabberwock: A Feywild Adventure in Ecologic Succession - Dungeon Masters Guild | Dungeon Masters Guild Hunt the Jabberwock, Defend the Warren, Save the Forest Welcome to the Warren. Within this tiny Domain of Delight, Rabb

Regularly scheduled reminder that this month I published The Last Hunt for the Jabberwock: A Feywild Campaign in Ecologic Succession: www.dmsguild.com/product/5056...

This adventure takes you through a domain of the Feywild in which the ecology of the forest plays a starring roll.

Starter packs BIOLOGY General Science community https://go.bsky.app/HVYAMEA Research Institutions in Life Sciences https://go.bsky.app/LxXpcvJ LGBTQIA+ in STEM https://go.bsky.app/BFc4wgf LGBTQIA+ in STEM 2 h...

Thank you so much to whoever put this very comprehensive list of #science Bsky starter packs together. This is just amazing: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

📢New Paper Alert📢 (and first chapter of my PhD!)

We show that scale matters when quantifying motile cryptofauna on tropical coral reefs 🦀

Paper in MEPS: www.int-res.com/abstracts/me...

Daily Sea Surface Temperatures in the main El Niño region (ENSO 3.4) show clearly how El Niño developed gradually in 2023 and turned neutral in May this year.

It is still uncertain whether tropical Pacific temperatures will decrease enough for La Niña to be declared soon.

Fitted Fv/Fm temperature response curves: applying lessons from plant ecophysiology to acute thermal stress experiments in coral holobionts - Coral Reefs Maximum photochemical efficiency, Fv/Fm, is the preferred metric for quantifying the loss of photosystem II (PSII) function in photosynthetic algal symbionts (Symbiodiniaceae) of reef-building corals ...

New & Open-access in Coral-Symbiodiniaceae interactions: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#coralreefs 🧪🦑🪸

This week I’m giving thanks for the Sling-Jaw Wrasse, and it’s amazing jaw #biomechanics!
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🚨 Exciting news for marine science & microbiology enthusiasts!
Don't miss the Trends in Marine Host-Microbe Symbioses Symposium #TMHMS25 now LIVE!
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marinesymbioses.eu

📅 22-25 October 2025
📍 Padua, Italy

Incredible line-up of speakers!

A list of #marinebiology starter packs! 🌊

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go.bsky.app/RS5zQHv Marine Biologists I
go.bsky.app/8DoyTMs Marine Biologists II
go.bsky.app/Qo5Gh2H Coral reef science
go.bsky.app/E8vrnd6 LGBTQIA+ Grads
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Many coral 'species' may, in fact, be separate 'cryptic' species! We found that up to 68% of #popgen studies in corals had putative cryptic taxa!! Check out the ms in Peer Community Journal! @peercommunityin.bsky.social
#corals #crypticspecies

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An exciting few days at #CORDAP’s “Capacity Development Workshop in the Global South”. So many shared experiences in science, research, and conservation among participants from over 20 countries in the Global South. Hoping the outcomes of this workshop creates some meaningful change! #ForCoral

A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are walking somewhere. Blue looks puzzled. Blue: Was there something we were supposed to do? I feel like I've forgotten something. Green raises his tail in sudden recollection. Green: Oh right! I remember thinking "I should write this down so we won't forget it"! Blue and Green look at each other. Blue: Well, what was it? Green looks down in defeat. Green: ...I forgot to write it down.

Job alert! Are you interested in palaeoclimate over geological timescales? If so, we have an open post-doc @OxUniEarthSci on @NERCscience project, with me @ClimateSamwell @sebsteinig & others @bridge_geog

Please spread the word! Deadline Feb 20th.

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Meta-analysis reveals weak associations between reef fishes and corals - Nature Ecology & Evolution A meta-analysis of papers that relate reef fish abundance, biomass or species richness to proportion of living hard coral cover finds correlations that are predominantly positive but consistently weak...

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"These findings question our assumptions regarding the strength and ubiquity of fish–coral associations, and caution against assuming a direct and omnipresent relationship between these two iconic animal groups."

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SAVE THE DATE
In our upcoming webinar, experts will present the knowledge gaps identified in the @ipbes.bsky.social #InvasiveAlienSpecies Assessment, and opportunities to contribute to filling those gaps. 🌏🧪
Register by 10 March 2024 to join: bit.ly/3UKcJtO

Bluesky is now open. Science Twitter, here’s how to use it! The once-great science twitter is, depending on who you talk to, either dying or dead. Once a vibrant place for many discussions related to my fields of marine biology, ocean conservation, and publ…

Friends, I wrote up a quick guide to getting started on Bluesky for folks who are used to old Science Twitter.

Please share it with your folks who are joining. And please let me know if I missed anything or got anything wrong. 🧪

www.southernfriedscience.com/bluesky-is-n...

Annual GMSAT predictions and ENSO Predictions for next years annual global mean surface air temperature anomaly based on the long term trend and the state of ENSO have been quite skillful. Until 2023.

What's up with 2023? (not just the temperature!).
www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

Christmas in the deep sea

Seabirds help corals grow twice as fast, recovering coral populations following an extreme marine heatwave.

Check out our new paper in Science Advances here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Microplastic burden in marine benthic invertebrates depends on species traits and feeding ecology wi... Microplastic uptake by animals is often assumed to reflect the level of contamination in the environment. Here, the authors compile a global inventory of individual microplastic body burden in benthic...

✨ New paper! ✨ Research from
@uniofexeter.bsky.social and University of Southampton shows microplastic burden of benthic marine inverts depends on species traits. Great work from Dr Adam Porter and team.

Read here: nature.com/articles/s41...

#ExeterMarine 🧪🌊🌍🦑

It is important to have two computer monitors so that one can be used for coding and the other can be used for googling "help, my code is not runningy, whyyyyyy" on stack exchange.

The orange-pink tentacles emanating from a pom-pom anemone give it a delicate flower-like appearance in the darkness of the deep sea exhibit.

This is how we roll 🤸

This deep-sea denizen isn’t your average anemone. Unlike its shallow-water cousins, the pom-pom anemone doesn’t like to stay attached to rocks or hard surfaces. In fact, it can roll itself up into a ball and cruise the currents along the seafloor like a tentacled tumbleweed.

Osprey and bonnethead shark

It’s rare to see a flying shark, and rarer still to see an osprey catching a ride on one!

Photo by Dragana Connaughton

Amazing three days at the Envision DTP welcome event at Lancaster! Exciting to meet the rest of the cohort and hear about their projects.