Dauphin Island Sea Lab and a volunteer group from Georgia Gwinnett College built statge one of a new oyster reef today in the Blankenship Ecotourism Area on Dauphin Island. We will be adding living oysters to the reef over the next few months. #SMEELAB #DISL#marinelife 🧪🦪

The University of South Alabama PR team just published a feature on my lab's research. It's on the homepage now, of you can view it here. I'm very proud of our research group. www.southalabama.edu/departments/...

Structured habitats provide thermal refuges and mitigate effects of heatwaves www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti... 🧪🦑🌎

My graduate student is lead author on this study. We found that oyster restoration could be improved by exposing oysters to predator scent, which causes them to grow a stronger shell. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author... 🧪#science

Life on the edge: Two dissimilar extreme events alter food webs through modification of top‐down control - Smee - 2025 - Ecology - Wiley Online Library esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Glad to see the restored oyster reef we build in 2023 is getting some use. #science #marinelife

HAPPY 75th, NSF! We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond. Read on 🧵(1/11):

"I was telling a colleague that yours was the best cover of the research (among the several recent articles that others have written)" -- Juan Bouzat, email These #Hummingbirds Live In Colonies In Ecuador’s Andes, Surprising Scientists #birding #Ecuador🇪🇨 #SciComm🧪 www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...

The 2025 Benthic Ecology Meeting was epic. Enjoy my favorite photo of the meeting. See ya'll next year!

Benthic Ecology Meeting starts today! I am so excited to see so many friends and colleagues again. #science #BEM

Breathtaking! The Surveyor missions, precursors to the Apollo manned moon landing, gave us this perspective, a visceral and profound testimony to our place in the cosmic vastness; a gift of awareness that intertwines science, philosophy, and a sense of restless wonder. 🔭 🧪 #planetsci

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧪🌎🦑🐠

White Chlorination Syndrome? No - it's MOULDY SPIDERS 🍄🕷️ I've written a post about Gibellula agroflorestalis, a species of spider-killing fungus which has been described from the agroforestry systems of Brazil. #Invertebrate 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2025/03/gibe...

A cool photo I made in Crystal River Florida on a manatee snorkel trip. #addocean

"Birds with plastic also had less of a protein called brain-derived neurotrophic factor. This protein plays a crucial role in the growth and survival of neurons (nerve cells), including those involved in the development of the birds’ ability to recognise each others’ song." 🌏🧪

www.mobilize.us/aflcio/event... 🧪 #standupforscience

At the MBL, scientists study axolotls to help decipher the secrets of regeneration at the cellular and molecular levels. Learn more below! Let us know in the comments if you, like us, are disappointed in the lack of an axolotl emoji 😠 www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMlf...

As so now Trump sacrifices the next generation. No shame. No sense. 🧪 #scicomm #climate #science 🌎 🔬 ⚒️ www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/u...

Local news interviewed today about the cuts in science funding. www.fox10tv.com/2025/03/11/c... #science #standupforscience #discovery 🧪

Climate change and variability drive increasing exposure of marine heatwaves across US estuaries | Scientific Reports

Oysters are important. Our ongoing research seeks to protect and restore them by growing stronger oysters that survive better in nature. #addOcean www.npr.org/2023/08/08/1...

I'm new to BlueSky. I wish I was posting about something more positive. www.al.com/news/mobile/...