Jan Strugnell

JCU marine scientist named 2026 Rhodes Scholar Marine scientist and James Cook University (JCU) climate change researcher Joshua Lesicar will continue his studies at the prestigious University of Oxford after being named a 2026 Australia-at-Large ...

Couldn't be more proud of my James Cook University honours student, Joshua Lesicar, who has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship for 2026. Josh will commence his DPhil at University of Oxford next year!
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The ocean's least natural predator has come for Australia Illegal fishing is ravaging the world's oceans of fish and shellfish but it is what is left behind that is creating a mess for governments worldwide and of Australia's most remote beaches.

#Plastic #ghostnets
#australia 🌊🏝️🐢🪸🐟

Applications now open for the position of Director of Pacific Biosciences Reseach Center, at University of Hawaiʻi.
PBRC fosters cutting-edge research across cellular, molecular, developmental, ecological, evolutionary, and conservation biology—with a focus on Hawaiʻi and the Pacific.

🧵🧪 In session on policy and societal requirements at the Royal Society discussion meeting today, Prof Hans-Otto Pörtner, former Co-Chair of the IPCC Working Group II, stated that he thinks keeping global temperature rise "below 1.5 [°C above pre-industrial] is probably now out of reach".

The effects of Tonga's massive volcanic explosion linger, three years on It's been more than three and a half years since one of the most powerful volcanic eruptions in recent history left devastation in Tonga. An Australian-led scientific team has been studying the area s...

🌋🌊🪸🐟 As part of an international team of researchers,
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PhD candidate Lucy Southworth is studying what's happening on the seafloor three years after the 2022 eruption of the Tonga underwater volcano.

Listen to the full SBS News story 🎧 👉
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30C warming above South Pole flips Australia's spring weather forecast Temperatures above Antarctica have risen by 30C, in a rare event that could potentially flip Australia's spring weather for months.

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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Job opportunities: 2 Postdoctoral Fellowships at CSIRO CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, is currently recruiting two eDNA Postdoctoral Fellows. Applications close on October 5th. More information and links below. CSIRO Postdoctoral Fell…

Job opening! CSIRO @csiropublishing.bsky.social is currently hiring 2 #eDNA Postdoctoral Fellowships!

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Any philanthropists out there that would like to support some Antarctic-focused climate change & ecosystem science? I have some ideas, and a great team...

🏆 Octopus and Ice Sheet Team @marine-omics.bsky.social is awarded the Aspire Scholarship Eureka Prize for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Scientific Research.

Learn more: youtu.be/8H3bCE6wfjM

#EurekaPrizes
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New 2yr postdoc position @ University of Queensland on coral distributions and Allee effects. Must have permission to work in Australia

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An open door leading to the reefer of the Gulf Coast Repository with core sections stacked in shelves.

🚨Job alert
Want to know what’s behind these doors? TAMU’s Gulf Coast Repository is looking for a Curatorial Specialist to support the GCR on shore & who will be sailing on expeditions operated by the Scientific Ocean Drilling Coordinating Office (SODCO).
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Antarctica is in extreme peril New research catalogs several “abrupt changes,” like a precipitous loss of sea ice, unfolding in Antarctica with dire implications for us all.

“Sea-level rises of multiple meters mean global political instability that will dwarf what we’re seeing right now.” - @profmattengland.bsky.social

#Antarctica
#ClimateEmergency

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From sea ice to ocean currents, Antarctica is now undergoing abrupt changes – and we’ll all feel them The vast ice of Antarctica has long seemed impregnable. But sudden changes are arriving – from shrinking sea ice to melting ice sheets and slowing ocean currents.

Emerging evidence for abrupt #Antarctic changes: declining sea ice, slowing ocean circulation, reduction in ice sheets and changing ecosystems. theconversation.com/from-sea-ice...

❗️Job Alert: Deep-Sea Benthic Biologist (Assistant Professor) at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA 🌊 Apply by Dec 1, 2025: apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04175

📷 Auckland Museum Collections (CC) #MarineBiology

So, what it's gonna be?

Motherfucking windfarms!!!

Or....motherfucking windfarms

#Vattenfall #GHG #CO2

Giant Australian Cuttlefish are still gathering in large numbers and currently laying plenty of eggs, with the waters around Point Lowly remaining clean. Today, the SA Government is holding an emergency meeting to plan for risks from the harmful algal bloom spreading to the upper Spencer Gulf.

Octopus and Ice Sheet Team @marine-omics.bsky.social is a finalist in the Aspire Scholarship Eureka Prize for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Scientific Research.

Learn more: youtu.be/8H3bCE6wfjM

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Current Vacancies

I am currently advertising a new 3-year research position in my TerraLuma team: Research Associate in Drone Field Operations (Academic Level A)

The position will support the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network’s (@TERN_Aus) Dronescape project.

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An ongoing Academic (Research and Teaching) position in Genomics, here at Monash University in Melbourne. Closing in a little over a week! Please share widely! Lecturer/Senior Lecturer level (similar to Assistant Professor). careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

Two (!) ongoing Academic (Research and Teaching) positions in Ecology, here at Monash University in Melbourne. Closing in a little over a week! Please share widely! Both at Lecturer/Senior Lecturer level (similar to Assistant Professor) careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

Check out Joe Perkins' research detecting toxic algal species in Hervey Bay, Australia #HABs www.marine-omics.net/2025/07/24/j...

Nearly T2T, phased genome assemblies of corals reveal haplotype diversity and the evolutionary process of gene expansion Abstract. Gene family expansion illustrates a critical aspect of evolutionary adaptation. However, the mechanisms by which gene family expansions emerge an

Today’s #DailyCoralRead 📖🪸

🧬 Two new telomere-to-telomere genome assemblies for Acropora digitifera and A. tenuis! 🧬

The study reveals highly disordered genomic regions with potentially neofunctionalized genes from lineage-specific expansions. 🧪

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New paper in Nature: global evolutionary biogeography of my favourite animals.

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Home - CliC OSC 2026 About the conference REgister now Abstract Guidelines Registration is open! Register here and use the buttons below to access travel resources. FLIGHT DISCOUNTS ACCOMMODATION TRAVEL INFORMATION Second...

Abstract deadline for Climate and Cryosphere 2026, in Wellington NZ, now extended till August 31st. Spread the word...

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#climate #academicsky #nz

The three academic positions (Lecturer/Senior Lecturer) in the School of Biological Sciences at Monash University are now advertised. Details here:

Ecology:
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Genomics:
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Deep ocean currents shape microbial communities across South Pacific, scientists discover A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning circulation—play a pivotal role in shaping the diversity and function of microbial life ...

🌊 Deep ocean currents shape microbial communities across South Pacific, scientists discover

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Lecturer, Animal Ecology - Townsville, QLD, Australia James Cook University (JCU) is creating a brighter future for life in the Tropics and beyond, through education and research that makes a difference locally and globally.  We now have an opportunity a...

🚨 Lecturer in Animal Ecology position @jcuofficial.bsky.social. Candidates with expertise in terrestrial animal ecology are encouraged.

📍 Townsville, AU
Closes: 8th Aug 2025
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Lecturer, Animal Ecology Job in Townsville, Northern QLD - SEEK The role involves teaching in ecology and conservation biology, supervising students, and building a productive, externally funded research program.

Lecturer in Animal Ecology at James Cook Uni www.seek.com.au/job/85671632...