We're advertising a PhD project to investigate the hydrodynamics of Aldabra Atoll @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social! We are looking for a student with strong quantitative skills and interest in ocean modelling. Competitive funding available through ILESLA. Please share with anybody who may be interested!

Coral reefs with high ecological integrity are able to quickly recover from extreme climate impacts. In our new study in Coral Reefs, we found high integrity Fiji reefs were able to rebound rapidly following a category 5 cyclone. Full study: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Today, we published a study long in the making on how upper and subsurface tropical Pacific waters responded (and maybe will adjust) to warmer global climate. Here’s the story of how we got here after 15 years. many authors but shout out @jfarmersalmanac.bsky.social 🌊 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🚨 NEW PUBLICATION 🚨 Today in @currentbiology.bsky.social, we found that 30 species of #sharks, #rays, and #chimaeras overlap with proposed #deepseamining in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction #ABNJ - over 60% are already #threatened with #extinction 🦈 📸 Blue Planet Archive / Masa Ushioda

New paper led by @seaprinceaaron.bsky.social in @currentbiology.bsky.social looking at the threats deep sea mining poses for sharks, rays, and chimaeras. We found 30 species are threatened via various pathways including collector impact and plumes at depth and pelagic discharge plumes.

JOB OPPORTUNITY: Lecturer in Marine Biology and Scientific Diving (University of Plymouth) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOS637/l... #jobs #lecturer #scientificdiving #plymouth #coralreefs #university #marinescience #marinebiology #marineecology #jobopportunity

Over 70% of coral reefs in the tropical western Atlantic Ocean are projected to be in a state of erosion by 2040, increasing to nearly all reefs in 2100 if warming exceeds 2 °C above preindustrial levels, a study in Nature suggests. go.nature.com/48m9Y8F 🌊 🧪

Regarding the below Panama paper, we also documented climate disruptions to upwelling reaching shallow reefs across the Chagos Archipelago in the central Indian Ocean: aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

New paper! ‘Climate change impacts to upwelling and shallow reef nutrient sources across an oceanic archipelago’ Out now in Limnology and Oceanography @aslo.org aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... ⬇️🧵

PAPER: Territorial damselfish are more aggressive to neighbours if their neighbour is larger, but this weakens If they don't know each other link.springer.com/article/10.1... Led by my awesome former PhD student @sheppardcat.bsky.social @lec-reefs.bsky.social @envisiondtp.bsky.social #FishInBottles

#Panama's January to April #ocean #upwelling which brings normally cool, nutrient-filled waters from the deep. 2025 was different; "this vital oceanographic process did not occur for the first time" 😮 share.google/v7taeyp4vmr3...

Unprecedented suppression of Panama’s Pacific upwelling in 2025 - new in @pnas.org by O'Dea et al: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... We recently wrote about the urgent need to better quantify coral reef-ocean interactions under climate change in @natecoevo.nature.com (see below).

Out today! ‘Quantifying coral reef–ocean interactions is critical for predicting reef futures under climate change’ in @natecoevo.nature.com #EcologicalOceanography #InterdisciplinaryResearch #CoralReefs #OceanicSubsidies doi.org/10.1038/s415... @sosbangor.bsky.social

And here is the News & Views commentary by Kevin Lafferty, one of the experts who reviewed the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A marine serial killer at large, caught at last: researchers identify the agent of the sea star wasting disease that nearly caused the collapse of kelp forests along the Pacific Northwest www.nature.com/articles/s41... @hakai.org @science.ubc.ca @tula.org @nature.org @uwenvironment.bsky.social

❗️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

Some don't like it hot - the Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) survey @thembauk.bsky.social shows how marine heatwaves are reshaping phytoplankton communities in the Northeast Pacific 🌊🔬 Open Access Read @aslo.org 👉 aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

AWESOME JOB OPPORTUNITY: Aldabra Science Coordinator (The Seychelles Islands Foundation) www.sif.sc/node/679 #jobs #seychelles #coralreefs #jobopportunity #marinescience #coral #sciencecoordinator #marineecology #careers #marinebiology

FULLY FUNDED PhD opportunity on edible crab disease with a great team here in a stunning location @sosbangor.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social @cefasgovuk.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Thrilled to be part of this new paper led by Mayukh Dey & Nature Conservation Foundation, summarizing 25 yrs of 🪸 reef resilience monitoring in Lakshadweep 🏝️ 🇮🇳 We find distinct recovery archetypes shaped by atoll location & coral assemblages onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Opportunity at the Australian Institute of Marine Science using decision support and ecological modelling to predict reef futures and inform restoration: www.seek.com.au/job/85158879...

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...

Check out the new paper on coral reef benthic depth zonation led by @bexturner.bsky.social from @sosbangor.bsky.social in @royalsocietypublishing.org. I've long been fascinated with how variable coral reef communities across the Pacific are. Nice to see it so coherently summarised. Well done Bex!

There is still hope to save irreplaceable coral ecosystems, but time is running out. Baby corals can ride ocean currents for hundreds of miles, but they can’t outrun climate change. And humans have a limited capacity to make new reefs in cooler waters. buff.ly/nY4jJs0 #WorldOceanDay

🪸 Announcing RCUK 2025! 🪸 📅 Saturday December 6th 2025 (With workshops Friday 5th @ 1 pm) 📍 Bangor University’s main campus Main Arts Lecture Theatre & Prichard-Jones Hall Call for abstracts opens in July – further details over the coming months. More info: www.reefconservationuk.org #RCUK2025

Commercial fishing is the most destructive activity we undertake in the ocean 🌊. Trump just issued an executive order opening the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument to commercial fishing. 🤬

🌊🌊🪸🪸 Ever wonder how a hurricane modifies the landscape structure of a coral reef? In this newly published study, we use high-resolution drone imagery to explore how the impact of disturbances modulates the spatial arrangement and distribution of Acropora palmate patches. doi.org/10.1007/s003...

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

Second PhD paper by @sosbangor.bsky.social's @alicefishoo.bsky.social in @royalsocietypublishing.org looking at unpacking what characterises/drives different levels of community variability in coral reef benthic communities. Great work Alice! Open Access: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

A sustainable museum collection of historical imagery for coral reef baselines https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00338-016-1426-z

This will be the future for all #coralreefs if we don't get serious about tackling #climatechange: Large areas of WA’s Ningaloo corals could die in ‘weeks ahead’ after widespread bleaching documented www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... 🪸 🔥 ☠️

Marine reserves contribute half of the larval supply to a coral reef fishery doi.org/10.1126/scia...

Job Opportunity 🌊 National Geographic’s Pristine Seas Program is hiring a Coral Reef Ecologist 🪸 tinyurl.com/ytfzjtvd

Is the coral reef community comparing “apples to apples” when measuring in-water temperatures? Learn more about recent research published in PLOS Climate by @reefwally.bsky.social and colleagues in the latest Latitude blog post 👇 latitude.plos.org/2025/01/behi...

A massive meta-analysis of 30+ years of research shows that within-population genetic diversity is declining, and impacted by human activities. This has significant implications for the resilience of populations and ecosystems www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨Our paper now out and Open Access in Conservation Biology🚨 🦈Urgent conservation action needed for WIO’s large-bodied fish. Sharks, giant groupers & green humphead parrotfishes face alarming declines in the WIO due to overfishing & climate change. 🦈 @sosbangor.bsky.social t.co/wJiMuTmZih

Interesting new paper on inference with observational data in ecology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Marine heatwaves imperil emblematic reef fishes by altering the energetic landscape of coral reefs New paper from @thecaseylab.bsky.social in @animalecology.bsky.social #science #ecology besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Are you interested in land-sea connections and how they influence coral reefs? We’ve got two new papers for you this week on submarine groundwater discharge and how it affects coral physiology, species interactions, and community metabolism. Links below!

Check out this FANTASTIC postdoc opportunity below. Calling all folks interested in coral reef ecology/oceanography/trophic ecology to better understand pelagic~reef pathways.

NEW JOB: How does pelagic-reef connectivity vary across atolls and oceans? 2 year post-doc position based at research-intensive @lancasteruni.bsky.social, and part of the fantastic @lec-reefs.bsky.social team Apply: hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... #AcademicSky 🦑 🧪 🌊 🌍

Big paper drop by @reefjav.bsky.social ! Reef fish communities are undergoing substantial change on the Great Barrier Reef, with latitude and through time. Changing coral composition, not simply coral cover, a major driver. @lec-reefs.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great Barrier Reef fish reveal that large-scale macroecological patterns have changed significantly 🐟🐠 We found that changes in latitudinal diversity gradient & rising species turnover were strongly correlated with shifts in coral composition Out now in Nature Comms www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congrats @reefjav.bsky.social on a beast of a paper showing that coral composition, not cover, drives reef fish assemblage change over space & time. 28yrs of #AIMS data over entire #GBR www.nature.com/articles/s41... Not bad for 1st paper of PhD 🤯 @lec-reefs.bsky.social @nickajgraham.bsky.social

I mentioned previously that we are hiring a joint AIMS/UWA postdoc. I'm happy to say the advert for a *second* position (UWA & Minderoo) is active: external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/cw/en/job/51... Looking for someone with expertise in fisheries models to work on spillovers from marine parks. Please share!

Still hope for coral reefs. Using 28-years of data in Seychelles, we find reefs recovering 4-5 years faster from the 2016 bleaching event, than they did after 1998. Also, a reef that had regime-shifted to macroalgae for over 15 years, is recovering to coral. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A sad reminder this week that even the most remote and most diverse coral reef ecosystems on Earth are vulnerable to anthropogenic heating. youtu.be/ZgQpD1Q03rM?...

🚨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...

#PhD opportunity on "Decoding biological colour: leveraging AI to analyse big data on animal images in a changing world" with me, @chris-nemeth.bsky.social Chris Cooney (U Sheff) & David Roy (UKCEH) thru new @exageo-dla.bsky.social based at Lancaster Uni www.exageo.org/phd-student-...

🚨New postdoc positions available: we are looking for 2 postdoctoral researchers to join a large, collaborative effort to document, describe, and investigate the biodiversity of tiny, cryptobenthic fishes in the Indo-Pacific 🤏🐠🧪. More details: fishandfunctions.com/join%F0%9F%9... Please repost 🦑🧪