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Assistant professor of biology @ Florida Atlantic University studying coral reef holobionts 🪸🐠.
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New paper out in GCB Today! We leveraged a system of typical (“classic”) and high-temperature “extreme” reef sites in Chelbacheb (Palau) to study the diversity in symbiotic partners, holobiont traits, and thermal tolerance among cryptic lineages of massive Porites.
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Christopher Dutton
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Big picture: large animals don't just move nutrients, they move microbes and restructure food webs from the bottom up. As megafauna decline, we're losing ecosystem functions we've barely begun to describe.
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Christopher Dutton
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More wildlife = more multichannel feeding across detrital and algal pathways. At high input sites, river flow barely affected consumer diets...hippo subsidies may buffer the food web against hydrological variation.
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Christopher Dutton
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In Freshwater Biology, Frauendorf et al. show wildlife subsidies restructure the Mara River food web. Fish shifted from 2% to 73.5% reliance on wildlife-derived resources along a hippo/wildebeest gradient.
doi.org/10.1111/fwb.70208
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A Gradient of Wildlife Subsidies Alters Riverine Food Web Structure
Terrestrial subsidies play a key role in freshwater food web structure and ecosystem function. Animal-mediated subsidies in particular provide high quality resources that shape aquatic food webs. ...
https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.70208
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Christopher Dutton
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In Environmental Microbiology, we argue animals are "mobile bioreactors"...ingesting environmental microbes, transforming them in the gut, and depositing novel communities back into the environment. Case studies from hippos, coral reef fish, and earthworms.
doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.70291
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Bioreactors on the Move: How Animals Contribute to Microbial Community Coalescence and Shape Ecosystem Function
Animals are moving bioreactors, assimilating microbial taxa from the environment, which then undergo selective filtering in their gut. Animals then deposit this new microbial community back into the ....
https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.70291
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Christopher Dutton
11 days ago
Two new papers from our group! Dutton & Subalusky labs
@ufresearch.bsky.social
, Frauendorf lab at
@colgate.edu
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@cgrupstra.bsky.social
lab at
#FAU
, and Post lab at
#Yale
on how large wildlife reshape ecosystems 🦛🌊🧵
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Cynthia Silveira
19 days ago
Finally,
@baileywallace.bsky.social
and colleagues show that temperate and filamentous bacteriophages are significantly associated with stony coral tissue loss disease, a disease of unknown pathogen. Lysogenic conversion would make it really hard to detect pathogens!
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.13.711613v1.abstract
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I'm teaching invertebrate zoology in the fall. I'm looking for textbook recommendations with good online resources like slides and study guides? Does anyone have presentations they're willing to share? Thanks!
#Invert
#Zoology
#Invertebrate
#lecture
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Sarah W. Davies Ph.D.
about 1 year ago
Excited to share JK Da'Anoy's first dissertation chapter published in
@sicbjournals.bsky.social
! What started off as a side project morphed into great work! "Microbial depletion is associated with slower cnidarian regeneration" LOTS of wondergrads made this happen! Go team :)
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
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Microbial Depletion Is Associated with Slower Cnidarian Regeneration
Synopsis. Microbiomes play an important role in physiology and development in cnidarians, but how these communities influence tissue regeneration is poorly
https://academic.oup.com/icb/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/icb/icaf007/8071232?redirectedFrom=fulltext
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Benthos - A Game of Underwater Intrigue
about 1 year ago
Ever wonder what role corals play in tropical reef ecology? Find out by taking up the mantle of Team Coral 🪸! Cover the reef with colonies clad in sturdy calcium carbonate 🧪 and fend off dastardly, quick-growing algae! What is your favorite
#reef
creature you’d love to see in
#benthosgame
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Diane Chen, PhD
about 1 year ago
It’s been a devastating 24 hours with 3 NIH grants terminated…all focused on the health and wellbeing of trans or intersex youth. If folks have any ideas of foundations that may be interested in supporting the completion of these projects so years of work aren’t wasted, please let me know. 🙏
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Andy Gonzalez
about 1 year ago
Rapid butterfly declines across the US during the 21st century Total butterfly abundance fell by 22% across the 554 species & species richness fell by as much as 28% across 7 regions.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Adam Rifkin 🐼
about 1 year ago
“Genuinely care and act for a better world.”
@aoc.bsky.social
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Dave Jones | GeoCollaborate
about 1 year ago
Crowds are massive in Silver Spring, Maryland…the home of NOAA. People chanting, “Save NOAA Now!” and “We will not weather the storm.” Make your voices heard and keep it up.
#NOAA
#NWS
Severe Weather is on its Way. And so is hurricane season. 🌀 🧪
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Andrew T Taylor, PhD
about 1 year ago
Assistant Professor (TT) in Computational Biology at U of North Georgia. Broadly defined, biostatistics and bioinformatics included. Come work with me in a wonderful department! Rolling reviews start March 21st until filled. Please share widely!
careers.hprod.onehcm.usg.edu/psc/careers/...
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Blake Ushijima, Ph.D.
about 1 year ago
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NSF downsizes summer research program for undergraduates
Many participants are from groups underrepresented in science
https://www.science.org/content/article/nsf-downsizes-summer-research-program-undergraduates
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Casey Johnston
about 1 year ago
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Volker Rudolf
over 1 year ago
To understand how climate change affects natural ecosystems we need to know how warming influences species interactions. In our newest paper we show that predator-prey interactions fundamentally change across latitude leading to context dependent effects of warming. 🧪
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Joe Katz
about 1 year ago
Upcoming dates of protests: 2/28: Economic blackout 3/4: 50501 protests AND
@aftunion.bsky.social
's
#ProtectOurKids
day of action 3/7: March for Science protests
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Dr. Kate Quigley
about 1 year ago
Globally important marine protected areas like World Heritage Ningaloo and Shark Bay are under severe heat stress 🔥 . Corals are bleaching. 🗣️We must cut climate-harming carbon emissions now if we are serious about protecting these wild places.
#RealZero
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
about 1 year ago
It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
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Alt National Park Service
about 1 year ago
We are calling for a nationwide and international boycott of all Elon Musk-related products and services. Sell your Tesla shares, avoid buying Tesla vehicles, cancel Starlink, and delete your X accounts.
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Dan Gorczynski
about 1 year ago
New paper out led by Ilaria Greco in
@plosbiology.org
: Landscape-level human disturbance results in loss and contraction of mammalian populations in tropical forest. A huge effort with a global team!
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Landscape-level human disturbance results in loss and contraction of mammalian populations in tropical forests
Tropical forests hold most of Earth’s biodiversity and a higher concentration of threatened mammals than other biomes. This study uses a standardized pan-tropical dataset of 239 mammal species from 37...
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002976
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Simon J. Brandl
about 1 year ago
🦑🧪 Three days left to apply for the postdoctoral position in my lab. We're looking for a population geneticist/ecologist/evolutionary biologist who is interested in studying tiny fishes in the Indo-Pacific! Come join us! 🤗
fishandfunctions.com/s/Postdoc_Ad...
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Marisa Kabas
about 1 year ago
I think it's worth repeating plainly that a federal judge halted Musk's federal funding freeze nearly two weeks ago but funds are still very much being frozen in violation of the court order.
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Dr. Nyssa Silbiger
about 1 year ago
📣 JOB ALERT📣 The Silbiger Lab is hiring a full time research tech @ University of Hawai’i at Mānoa to support research on intertidal ecology in Hawai’i & coral reef/coastal oceanography in Okinawa, Japan. RCUH ID: 225085 application link below. 1 year to start, but have several years of funding.
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Ashkaan K. Fahimipour
over 1 year ago
[Ayo!]: I have a 2-year
#postdoc
available for an ecologist Florida Atlantic University. Apply by Dec 1, here:
t.co/XwMgMKnUYJ
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Nancy Knowlton
about 1 year ago
Marine Protected Areas really do work. My news to me good news for Feb 9
#OceanOptimism
#EarthOptimism
#BeyondTheObituaries
www.technologynetworks.com/applied-scie...
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The Great Barrier Reef's Marine Reserves Supply Half of Local Trout Catch
A new study of the Great Barrier Reef has shown that the network of no-take marine reserves supply nearly half of the region's trout fishery catches.
https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/news/the-great-barrier-reefs-marine-reserves-supply-half-of-local-trout-catch-395857
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Neil Shubin
about 1 year ago
Gene editing technology began by people studying salt marshes. Ozempic began by folks studying the venom of Gila Monsters. Support for basic science has empowered us to understand our world. Tethering it to applications health has transformed and saved countless lives.
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Kristina Black
about 1 year ago
New paper on cryptic coral lineages in St. Croix, USVI 🪸🧬 The first five authors are undergraduates- very proud of these rising scientists 🎉 This work was done in collaboration with The Nature Conservancy
@nature.org
and
@heatshok.bsky.social
. Check it out!
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Joshua J. Friedman
about 1 year ago
“Panama communicates to the world my absolute rejection of this method of managing bilateral relations on the basis of lies and falsehoods.” —President Mulino (gift link)
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Panama rejects U.S. claim it dropped canal fees after Rubio visit
Panama’s president said the State Department’s declaration that tolls have been eliminated was a “falsehood.”
https://wapo.st/3WTA50b
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Dr. K. Lotterhos
about 1 year ago
"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
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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.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00365-z
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Simon J. Brandl
about 1 year ago
🐠🧪🎓 New position alert: I am looking for a full-time research technician to work on my NSF CAREER project. Perks: ✅ SCUBA-based fieldwork in Belize 🤿 ✅ Chemistry labwork 🧪 ✅ Lots of fish and fun(ctions) 🐠📈😀 Deadline: Feb 21st
utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/...
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Kory Evans Ph.D
over 1 year ago
New paper alert 🚨check out our new study in Nature Ecology & Evolution on anglerfish trait evolution led by the fantastic
@lizmillermacroevo.bsky.social
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Reduced evolutionary constraint accompanies ongoing radiation in deep-sea anglerfishes - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Based on phylogenomic and geometric morphometric analyses of 132 anglerfish species, the authors infer a Cretaceous origin of the clade and show that bathypelagic anglerfish are undergoing rapid pheno...
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New paper out in GCB Today! We leveraged a system of typical (“classic”) and high-temperature “extreme” reef sites in Chelbacheb (Palau) to study the diversity in symbiotic partners, holobiont traits, and thermal tolerance among cryptic lineages of massive Porites.
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Sarah W. Davies Ph.D.
about 2 years ago
Jazzed to announce this Davies Lab pub! "Integrating cryptic diversity into coral evolution, symbiosis and conservation" Led by
@cgrupstra.bsky.social
along with other people including Hannah Aichelman, James Fifer, Matias Gomez, and Carlos Prada
rdcu.be/dywh2
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Dr. Claudia Pogoreutz
over 2 years ago
New opinion piece in @TrendsMicrobiol @CellPressNews A microbial matter close to my heart: the role of
#Endozoicomonas
in
#corals
.
@marenziegler.bsky.social
and I synthesized evidence from diverse studies, concluding corals and Endoz may not be the dream team we make them out to be 🧫🪸 👇🏻
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Lauren Howe-Kerr
over 2 years ago
Out today in ISME Journal thru extensive TEM imaging, we show that a diversity of Pacific coral symbionts contain filamentous virus-like particles (fVLPs) see below for highlights
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Sarah W. Davies Ph.D.
over 2 years ago
Congrats to Dr. Daniel Wuitchik who successfully defended his PhD yesterday! The Davies lab wore Canadian tuxedos to celebrate!
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Dr Verena Schoepf (she/her)
over 2 years ago
We're hiring!! Come join us at the Dept. of Freshwater and Marine Ecology at the University of Amsterdam - great colleagues and great city! Asst Prof "Biological Feedbacks in the Marine Carbon Cycle" Deadline: 19 Nov 23 Permanent contract possible after 18 mo! More info:
tinyurl.com/3jez5wb6
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Assistant Professor Biological Feedbacks in the Marine Carbon Cycle
Assistant Professor Biological Feedbacks in the Marine Carbon Cycle
https://tinyurl.com/3jez5wb6
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Anna Allen
over 2 years ago
What does an NSF Program Director mean when they say "Send me a 1-pager"? Find out all about it in today's IOS blog post.
iosblog.nsfbio.com/2023/10/17/n...
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Need help determining if your project idea is a good fit to an NSF program? Send us a “one-pager.�...
In this blog post, we provide tips and an example template for drafting a one-page project summary you can send to NSF Program Directors to initiate a conversation about your proposed work. What i...
https://iosblog.nsfbio.com/2023/10/17/need-help-determining-if-your-project-idea-is-a-good-fit-to-an-nsf-program-send-us-a-one-pager/
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John Parkinson
over 2 years ago
Come help us with an expansive coral GWAS! Cool data, great team, and I hear Los Angeles is fun.
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