"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one child per hour during Israel's war in Gaza. “A whole classroom of children killed every day for nearly two years,” UNICEF’s executive director said. Here are some of their stories: wapo.st/3UCiAjn

I authored a blog post for @uscwrigley.usc.edu about the work I've been doing along with fellow lab members at the CEE Lab (led by @drcarl.bsky.social) to identify intervention priorities for coral restoration in the Caribbean under the impacts of climate change! dornsife.usc.edu/wrigley/2025...

The Senate appropriations committee has voiced its intent to ignore the request by President Donald Trump to slash the budgets of the National Science Foundation and NASA science programs. scim.ag/4nW7XWi

Based on some quick math, this alone could fund the NSF Plant Genome Research Program for ~4 years; the NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology, which was totally axed in the NSF budget request, for ~9 years; and ~ half the total NSF GRFP budget

ICYMI: All corals (as well as sea fans and anemones) have a mobile larval life phase. But how do they know where to settle? Learn more about how coral babies choose their forever homes in our latest #Reefbites blog post! 👇🏼

How bad is Australia's simultaneous coral bleaching? ‼️ 12 systems at ALERT levels involving mortality ‼️ 7 systems at BLEACH WATCH/WARNING Yet, ""fossil fuel companies were “doubling down” to get more mega projects running" eg."areas around Scott Reef in WA being targeted for expansion by Woodside"

"Two months ahead of the usual annual peak of CO2 concentration in the atmosphere, parts per million in air exceeded 430. Crossing 430 ppm was an entirely predictable but sad milestone. The rise is mostly caused by fossil fuel usage." - Ralph Keeling, director of the Scripps Oceanography CO2 program

The #CEELab at the @standupforscience.bsky.social event in Los Angeles today!

Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”

Cuts to NSF will dismantle the scientific enterprise, ceding our leadership to other nations. It is antithetical to fund science along idealogical grounds while ignoring the most pressing scientific challenges of our time. Those challenges do not disappear when the voices of science are taken away.

My colleagues at NOAA fear for their jobs. Their satellite observation today of accumulating heat stress (already above mortality thresholds) on the northern Great Barrier Reef: Yet again a deadly mass coral bleaching event is underway. Without NOAA, climate & reef scientists will be blind.

Flashdance squid style 🦑✨🦑 #caribbeanreefsquid #reefsquid #squid #cephalopod #flashdance #chromatophore #flashing #matingdance #courtship #cephalopod #cephalopodsofcoralcity #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #miamibeach #biscaynebay #coralcity

The ICRS student and early career chapter is now on Bluesky - make sure you give them a follow! Being a part of this chapter has been so wonderful and fulfilling - you’ll definitely want to keep up with what they’re up to next!

Taking 2025 one wave at a time ✨🌊 The ICRS has been endorsed by the UN Ocean Decade! 🐳 With this support, we further our goal in providing crucial funding & support for early-career ocean professionals working on coral reefs. 🪸 oceandecade.org/actions/inte...

Check out my first chapter 📖🧬. I’m very grateful to have worked with such a brilliant and supportive team 😊

Second request: If you are a professional scientist or science communicator who is at least 18 years old and uses social media (including Bluesky) for professional purposes, please consider taking this survey. 🧪🌎 #SciComm Please help us to share it. umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Wrigley summer fellowship app is live!! Both NSF REU and Zinsmeyer - we've got 2 slots earmarked for our lab - apply to work with us! dornsife.usc.edu/wrigley/educ...

Looking forward to connecting with people working on all things coral restoration next week at #ReefFutures! Working on putting together my schedule this week, so please let me know if there’s any talks/sessions you’re particularly excited about!

Happy Thanksgiving Baby Coral Friends 🍗🪸 Just like us humans, the Baby Corals Eating Turkey are thankful for their many new Bluesky friends, their many arms, their many venomous stinging cells, and their many digestive filaments. Don't forget to eat and leave no crumbs today 🧡

Super excited to see many more coral people joining Bluesky these days!

Calling all #reeffutures conference attendees - consider donating your brainpower to our workshop!

I'm recruiting a fully funded PhD student for a Fall 2025 start - see details below and learn more about my lab here: dornsife.usc.edu/carlslab/

Caribbean reefs are in trouble. But we have a real opportunity to prevent their extinction if we can rise to the challenge.‌ www.nytimes.com/2024/08/15/o...

Had so much fun talking about tidepools and how animals in them move with a great group of kids during yesterday’s Fun Interactive Science Hour (FISH) at the Angeles Mesa library branch!

This is the fourth documented global bleaching event. The worst on record. We thought 1998 was a wake-up call. Then 2010. Then 2016. Will this finally be it?! 🪸🦑

The ocean has now broken temperature records every day for more than a year. Last month, the average global sea surface temperature reached a new monthly high of 21.07 degrees Celsius, or 69.93 degrees Fahrenheit, according to new research. nyti.ms/3VPnfk1

Super thrilled to share the first chapter of my dissertation, out today in Proceedings B! See below for a fabulous summary from Carly, who guided me through my first ever gene expression analysis! 🧬

‼️PhD Opportunity‼️ The Ushijima Lab is looking for a PhD student to start in Fall of 2024! Research would be related to coral microbes. Microbiology experience preferred! Join an amazing lab that works all throughout the Caribbean! 🪸 Our lab & contact info www.ushijima-lab.com

Had a wonderful time presenting my work and exploring the Frost Science Museum at the #ReeFLorida Symposium yesterday!

Just got to Miami for the #ReeFLorida Symposium - super excited to share my research during my talk on Wednesday! This will be my first time attending a conference as the only person from my lab - would love to connect with other people who will be there as well!

Celebrated passing my qualifying exams with a camping trip to Big Sur!

👋🏻 My name is Jenna, I’m a PhD student in the CEE lab led by @drcarl.bsky.social. I study how genetic diversity translates to functional diversity in the context of coral restoration under climate change. Excited to connect w/ others interested in eco/evo & hoping to learn more about policy as well!

I'm looking to hire a postdoc in coral genomics - $66k/yr plus benefits - follow link for more info - review of apps begins Nov 10 usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...