Tara Coral expedition to the Coral Triangle .. it's on! www.uni-konstanz.de/en/universit... @taraoceans-science.bsky.social

the Tara research vessel has left Lorient and is on its way to the coral triangle; official press conference was last week in Paris, see below & here: fondationtaraocean.org/en/expeditio...

Just wrapped up the 2nd edition of the CBASS workshop in the Maldives! 🌍 A full week of hands-on work assessing coral thermotolerance amid climate change. 🌡🪸 Huge thanks to @reefgenomics.bsky.social our MaRHE team and all participants. More updates soon — see you in the next edition! 💙

new work: UniCor metric->wonder what bacteria associate w/ a variable of interest (sal, temp, stress etc pp)? doi.org/10.1093/isme... - identifies UNIquely CORrelated eNtities (“UNICORNs”) linked to a variable of interest - hierarchy-aware propagation to select features across taxonomic levels

The #TMHMS25 has just wrapped up! It’s been four amazing days of stimulating discussions and sharing our science in a wonderfully relaxed and supportive atmosphere. There was a truly genuine sense of community among all participants, which I really cherish. Cheers, to the next one! 🌊

Chris Voolstra @reefgenomics.bsky.social kicking off the 2nd day of the #SPP2299 "Meeting & Status Seminar 2025" with a Perspective Lecture on "The future of reefs and reefs of the future"

We are welcoming applications for a full professorship on Molecular and Evolutionary Zoology at Kiel Univerdity, Northern Germany, with fantastic facilities and infrastructure! @uni-kiel.de @crc1182.bsky.social @transevo.bsky.social www.nature.com/naturecareer...

new work: fascinating study demonstrating rapid viral activation & subsequent rapid antiviral innate immunity response by cnidarians under heat stress .. response conserved across symbiotic/non-symbiotic hexacorallia -> link to bleaching!? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @uni-konstanz.de

New paper: Do corals keep their thermal tolerance in nurseries? #CBASS assays show A. cytherea lose then recover, while A. florida retain tolerance=>To inform restoration, screening should be conducted prior to nursery propagation www.nature.com/articles/s42... @uni-konstanz.de @coralku.bsky.social

🪸 CBASS Workshop – Maldives 🌡️ 24 Nov–2 Dec ’25 @ MaRHE Center, Magoodhoo Hands‑on CBASS experiments, lectures, snorkeling & SCUBA with Prof. Christian Voolstra @reefgenomics.bsky.social Deadline: 17 Sep ’25 | Limited spots! 🔗 en.unimib.it/news/2nd-edi... #CBASS #CoralReefConservation #MarineWorkshop

SPP 2299 members @thomasfelis.bsky.social @reefgenomics.bsky.social and Christian Wild contributed to a recent article lead by Andrea Grottoli on the "Future of coral bleaching research" url: academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

pumped that CBASSED50 R package now officially released on CRAN cran.rstudio.com/web/packages... ... easy for everyone to install package for R Studio processing! #CBASS #coral #bleaching #ThermalTolerance

pretty amazing how much money publishers make, how they pay little to zero to their reviewers/editors , and how they do not invest better in ensuring fair, transparent, and quality peer-review .. paying your reviewers/editors, entails pathway to identity check: www.science.org/content/arti...

And so it begins #OOSC let’s make it count and kick into decisive action!

new work: "Spatially restricted coral bleaching"-> why do corals (start to) bleach in one place but not another? what implications does it hold if bleaching susceptibility differs across a colony surface? read on: www.nature.com/articles/s42... thanks to coauthors! @uni-konstanz.de @icrs.bsky.social

Our new work in Environmental Microbiology on Symbiodiniaceae diversity between reef habitats and across the coral holobiont. Sediment, seawater, and turf algae-associated communities were distinct while the coral mucus and tissue showed nearly identical ITS2 type profiles. tinyurl.com/mr2hasb5

OUT NOW 'coral reef microbiome' by Springer Nature link.springer.com/book/10.1007... .. some 2.5 years in the making, jam packed: check out Ch.16 on Assisted Restoration as the sum of approaches required to deliver effective ecological restoration! Many thanks to all contributors @uni-konstanz.de

Don't miss out, October 22-25, 2025: International Symposium – Trends in Marine Host-Microbe Symbioses with an exciting lineup of speakers marinesymbioses.eu/invited-spea...; looking forward to insightful & inspiring discussions; registration: marinesymbioses.eu/register/ @uni-konstanz.de

Interested in current & upcoming #standardization practices to accelerate discoveries of #heatstress impacts on #marine life? Review paper @annualreviews.bsky.social —> shorturl.at/kVuh9 @reefgenomics.bsky.social @amyapprill.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de

new work: deep dive into microbiome differences of coral exhibiting thermally resilient & susceptible phenotypes, long time coming, great team effort @unikonstanz.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #coral #bleaching #microbiome

new ms, to all shark lovers out there: distinct bacterial niche habitats within the ‘microbial landscape’ of black-tip reef sharks @unikonstanz.bsky.social kudos to @cpogoreutz.bsky.social & team link.springer.com/article/10.1...

new ms: Coral thermal tolerance changes seasonally for some species, but not others. Such detail provides insight re. diff. coral ecologies & informs thermal tolerance screenings. Nice use case of CBASS acute thermal assays! Kudos to the team! @unikonstanz.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...

🔬The first edition of the "CBASS in the Maldives" workshop has just ended, with the collaboration of Prof. Christian Voolstra @reefgenomics.bsky.social and his team. A big thanks to everyone who made this workshop such a success! This is just the start—stay tuned for more updates on coral reefs. 🪸

Our thanks to outgoing Officers and Council members. Treasurer Anderson Mayfield; Recording Secretary Anastazia Banaszak; Council Members Nicole Browne, Luis Eduardo Calderon, Sarah Davies, Ilsa Kuffner, Vikash Munbodhe, Kennedy Osuka, Raquel Peixoto, Nikki Traylor-Knowles

Congratulations to the new ICRS Officers and Council members. Treasurer John Burt; Recording Secretary Mariana Rocha De Souza; Council Members Amy Apprill, Keisha Bahr, Ranjeet Bhagooli, Javier del Campo, Simon Harding, Maggie Johnson, Karen Neely, Alma Paola Rodriguez-Troncoso.

speaking truth to 'power' -> after all the recent bad press that restoration got, a more nuanced view was in order: let's not get lost in absolutes and mind the detail! rdcu.be/d1S5K @natureportfolio.bsky.social @unikonstanz.bsky.social cheers & hugs to my "partners in crime"

worth a read: www.nature.com/articles/d41... .. bsky as a safe space from digital toxicity ..

new work: Red Sea Acropora hemprichii draft genome @natureportfolio.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... .. yes, the pretty blue coral :D .. glad to see this out! kudos to coauthors! @unikonstanz.bsky.social @reefprokaryota.bsky.social etc pp

Tara Polar Station crowdfunding (raise remaining 300k of 21 mio): in any aspect this project is exceptional, paradigm-shifting, groundbreaking .. your chance to contribute www.kisskissbankbank.com/fr/projects/...

.. I was about to post the same thing (the plot thickens, see X :D) .. doi.org/10.1038/s420... similar implications (nutrient cycling at heart of coral-algal symbiosis) as doi.org/10.1371/jour... (primer: doi.org/10.1371/jour...) showing how coral larvae counter heat stress & OA. congratulations!

A commentary on this work by @reefgenomics.bsky.social summarizes the study nicely! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

🚨 Exciting news for marine science & microbiology enthusiasts! Don't miss the Trends in Marine Host-Microbe Symbioses Symposium #TMHMS25 now LIVE! 🌊🦠🐟🐠🐙🐚 marinesymbioses.eu 📅 22-25 October 2025 📍 Padua, Italy Incredible line-up of speakers!

PSA: pre-print of Symbiodiniaceae chapter for the upcoming coral microbiome book; was super fun to write w/ @parkinsonje.bsky.social & Raquel Peixoto; I find this very accessible & hopefully fun to read, have a look & stay tuned for the upcoming book doi.org/10.31219/osf... @unikonstanz.bsky.social

whoa, the last couple of days massive signing up for bsky .. nice, nice .. I hope we can all move away from the digital toxicity of a certain other platform!

of coral, conservation, children books: tune in @quarkswdr.bsky.social where we discussed live with listeners all things coral reefs (German only). direct link: wdrmedien-a.akamaihd.net/medp/podcast... @unikonstanz.bsky.social webpage: www1.wdr.de/mediathek/au...

Curious about what the #spp2299 is up to at ECRS2024? You can come along to a number of talks today from SPP 2299 members! Highlights from @reefgenomics.bsky.social, Catarina Martins, and Merlin Weichler from @geomarkiel.bsky.social Stay tuned for posters coming up today!

Join us at the #ECRS2024 in Naples this week and learn more about the research done within the DFG Priority Programme "Tropical Climate Variability & Coral Reefs" (SPP 2299). Visit the 14 talks, 3 posters, and 2 organized sessions by #SPP2299 team members

📣 Excited to share our new Editorial led by James Reimer and @reefgenomics.bsky.social! "The Fourth Global Coral Bleaching Event: Where do we go from here?" Open access: shorturl.at/BCYU9 @icrs.bsky.social @daviesswphd.bsky.social @markeakin.bsky.social @gwoerhe.bsky.social and many others 🦑🧪

wow, just got the researchcom Ecology&Evolution in Germany Leader Award 2nd time in a row (2023&2024) .. world ranking 874->modesty reminder :) .. still happy&feels good @unikonstanz.bsky.social !possible only cos work&publish w/ so many great peeps/minds! research.com/u/christian-...

Mit Nadine Zeller im SWR Science Talk über die weltweite Korallenbleiche und der ökologische Kollaps von Korallenriffökosystemen .. und was wir dagegen tun können/müssen! hier anschauen: lnkd.in/eMPXDfgw @unikonstanz.bsky.social

#UniKonstanz Biologist @reefgenomics.bsky.social interviewed by @3sat.bluesky.com.de "NANO" regarding the announcement of 4th Global Coral Bleaching. View full episode: www.3sat.de/wissen/nano/...

new work evidencing that H2O2 (ROS) is neither trigger nor smoking gun of coral bleaching kudos to Marlen & all authors! doi.org/10.1007/s003... #CBASS #microsensors #ROS @unikonstanz.bsky.social @icrs.bsky.social

happy new year y'all! very happy w/ new pub in Bioinformatics "Coracle - a machine learning framework to identify bacteria associated with continuous variables" doi.org/10.1093/bioi... using AI to identify bacteria relevant for host biology @unikonstanz.bsky.social

following yesterday's end of the year @icrs.bsky.social council meeting, we are now on Bluesky :)

recent talk recording for public sustainability week @unikonstanz.bsky.social "coral reefs & climate change-mitigating the ecological collapse" 40min crash course through a lil bit of all we are doing atm (few slides German, mostly English; ignore first 10s audio). DL/stream link: t.co/J0kRb8sI58

just in time for #COP28: great feature by ⁦‪@NatureMicrobiol‬⁩ with ⁦‪@peixotors‬⁩ and ⁦‪@reefgenomics‬⁩ on the importance of microbiology tackling climate change ⁦‪@ICRSCoralReefs‬⁩ ⁦‪@CORDAP_‬⁩ @UniKonstanz‬⁩ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

To round out our day we had @reefgenomics.bsky.social give a keynote talk on universal signatures of coral resilience and the role of climate and environment. His work highlights some of the connectivity between different disciplines across the SPP2299 programme, between the present and past. cnt-

We are hiring a Bioinformatics Scientist: if you love big data, coral, analytical frameworks, genomics, computer, programming -> apply and join our lab. Good data need good data scientists! (alternatively: lots of data need lots of data scientists :P)

fantastic new work by the great @radecker.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s414... coupled C & N cycling regulates coral-algal symbiosis across wide range of environments, but favors parasitic interactions under conditions in the Anthropocene (=bleaching!)