🌊🔬 Grad Student Opportunity! I’m recruiting PhD students to explore marine biodiversity, body size, and bioenergetics with flexibility to design your own project! PDF of ad link below. #PhDPosition #MarineBiology #Macroecology #Biodiversity #GradSchool #Ecology #OceanScience tinyurl.com/5n9434wk

ICYMI: New online! Warming waters, declining Prochlorococcus

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Good things happening alert: Field School is running our 5th annual Drag n’ Tag event (drag queens+shark research). We run this event to raise funds for local LGBTQ+ youth org Pridelines. Enjoy these photos and donate to support their work here! donate.misselasmo.org/event/drag-n...

New ‪preprint! Through plastid MAGs and 18S rRNA gene retrieval 🧬 we identify chromerids (including a novel clade ⭐) associated with marine and freshwater microbialites across the globe 🌎, expanding their ecological niche beyond coral reefs 🪸. #ProtistsOnSky #MicroSky #Algae

One of the best (science related) feelings ever is the moment when you realize that an experiment you spent years working on and had thought didn’t work 100% did work 🥹

Our paper is out today in @nature.com where we assess a Prudent Planetary Limit for Geologic Carbon Storage: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A sea turtle surfacing by a MASSIVE school of rays near Clearwater, Florida a couple days ago. Another post into the BluSky void. Maybe 2 or 3 people will see this one and my time won't have been wasted. I'll keep trying a little longer. #nature #animals #amazing #wildlife #awesome #ocean

I just learned that a group of whale sharks is called a constellation 🌌 (a fact which makes me incredibly happy)

Shark care instructions 🦈 #art #comics #sharks

Great Guy Harvey Fellows webinar today with Florida Sea Grant!

🚨 Job Alert! 🚨 Assistant Professor in Global Change and Disease Ecology at Stony Brook University, Department of Ecology & Evolution. Deadline: October 1. #AcademicJobs #tenuretrack #facultyjobs apply.interfolio.com/171403 (I love being here. Come join!) @stonybrooku.bsky.social

Before today, I would have never known it was possible to run DNA extractions and PCR without a lab. Who knew that a molecular bio bento box could facilitate bringing the lab into the field? I’m very excited to see how our hornwort Cyanobacteria community sequencing turns out later this week.

It’s time for the puffling playoffs! 🐣 This summer we welcomed two hatchlings to our tufted puffin colony. Our aviculturists chose the name Nori, like the type of seaweed used in sushi, for the older puffling.

Job alert! We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Physical Climate Science. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05084

We're hiring TWO (two!) tenure-track assistant professors in my Biology department: cellular/molecular biology and plant biology. Within those categories, we are very open to research focus. Come work with me! And please spread the word! fa-exer-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Skype a scientist has been one of the coolest (and most rewarding) outreach experiences of my PhD. Sign up while you can—you won’t regret it!!

Join UConn's virtual RNA-seq (de novo) Workshop on Aug 19-21 to learn about transcriptomics workflows. Register now at https://bioinformatics.uconn.edu/cbc-workshops/ for hands-on experience! #workshop

🚨🚨 New tenure track position in #ConservationBiology @oberlincollege.bsky.social in the #Biology department--come join us, and contribute to our brand new Environmental Science major too! #biologyjobs #ecologyjobs jobs.oberlin.edu/postings/16671

An extra opportunity for you to join me for 3 days of shark research has opened up! And there's also an online complete-at-your-own-pace course.

This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered

New palaeo-PhD opportunity! Will you be the one to figure out the anatomy and function of fossil jawless fish? Come join the team! Application Deadline August 22nd, funding for UK student only (sorry) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Excited to share the lab's 1rst preprint! Rapid high-res immunofluorescence is now possible in cultured & environmental diatoms thanks to 4-fold expansion microscopy. A step-change for comparative cell biology in one of the most important phytoplankton groups on the planet 🥳 tinyurl.com/m9s5su7s 1/2

Baby otter doing baby otter stuff!

JOIN US!!! @garlab.bsky.social is looking for a PhD and MS student to join our team studying ecology & conservation of gars, bowfin, and other non-game native fishes beginning Spring 2026! Posting & more info coming soon. Please DM or email [email protected] with CV if interested!

Friends, if you want to learn about shark ecology and biology and how scientists study these, I am teaching an online course through Center for Wildlife Studies! You can take it for graduate course credit, for CPE credit, or just to learn! There’s also an optional 3-day field research experience!

Very excited to be participating in the Molecular and Cell Biology of Symbiosis Course at @mblscience.bsky.social this month!

Swimming kinematics of white sharks using drones! We can understand shark movement better using drones and by getting machine learning to do the work www.publish.csiro.au/WR/WR24193?f...

New paper comparing the light organ symbiosis in the hummingbird bobtail squid to the infamous Hawaiian bobtail squid. Congrats to @markjmandel.bsky.social and crew, and thanks for letting me take some light organ images for the pub!

The population of Bigg’s killer whales has grown into the hundreds since the government stopped culling harbour seals and sea lions. In stark contrast there are only 73 endangered southern resident #orcas left. @ubcoceans.bsky.social vancouversun.com/news/vancouv...

In this week’s episode of cute sharks I saw in south Florida: a juvenile Caribbean reef shark and an itty bitty baby nurse shark 🥰

Ever wondered how DNA metabarcoding compares to traditional methods for assessing diet? Curious whether these techniques could help inform the management of introduced deer in Australia? Then our latest research is for you! @janstrugnell.bsky.social @coatiben.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...

1/27 We have a new paper out! Turns out that snowflake yeast have been hiding a secret from us - they've evolved a (very!) crude circulatory system. Not with blood vessels or a heart, but through spontaneous fluid flows powered by their metabolism. 🧪🔬 www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Please pass along - postdoc position! with our working group on #FunctionalTraits and rarity. This is part of the FREE (Functional Rarity in Ecology and Evolution) working group led by Cyrille Violle in Montpellier France 🧪🌐🌾 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

First post on Bluesky! Our paper on previously uncultured Group-TE Glissomonad protists has been published. Video teaser below. #protists #ProtistsOnSky journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Out now in Coral Reefs: 'Active and passive pathways of nutrient transfer in coral reef ecosystems' doi.org/10.1007/s003... 🐚 Thank you to my co-authors and field friends from @lec-reefs.bsky.social and beyond for all their help bringing this piece of work together 🌊

Remember: just because you pelican does not mean you peli-should. Photo by Mark Smith

Meet the Manefish, Caristius macropus. Named for their distinctive shape, macropus means large foot. This fish was observed in Monterey Bay 483 meters (1584 feet) deep in August of 2018. #MBARIFromTheVault

NEW: A team of researchers have discovered that chimpanzees living in Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania employ a degree of engineering when making their tools, deliberately choosing plants that provide materials that produce more flexible tools for termite fishing.

Puff came by to give the Cam a kiss again 😘🔮🐡 #porcupinepuffer #pufferfish #pufferfishofcoralcity #kisscam #smooch #pufferlove #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #miamibeach #biscaynebay #coralcity #civicpridethroughbiodiversity #glennnevis

🚨New preprint🚨 Here we provide the first evidence for a non-anthozoan host of Corallicolids: the bearded fire worm (Hermodice carunculata) 🪱🔥 #ProtistsOnSky #Symbiosky #CoralReefs

Hadrosaur skin impressions with dorsal osteoderms at the Natural History Museum of Utah. Many hadrosaur fossils found at Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument include skin impressions. #FossilFriday

300 people have looked at my paper in the last 5 days…that’s pretty darn cool😄

Our latest on the genetic content carried within different populations of DNA-containing particles in the oceans! Vesicles and viruses likely play distinct roles in microbial horizontal gene transfer networks. Grateful to all collaborators www.nature.com/articles/s41... #MicroSky

Congrats on your #first #firstauthor paper! 🎉🎉🎉

I am incredibly excited and proud to share the (open access) publication of my first, first author paper: Diel patterns of symbiont expulsion in Caribbean reef corals are coral species-dependent and driven by symbiont load and photosynthetic performance link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I am hiring a lab technician! If you know anyone who has experience with field studies, enjoys working with plants, and is a good communicator and hard worker, pls pass this along! The position is for one year with the possibility of renewal. Please re-skeet! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Don’t get it twisted like CamDam, Coral City is run by the Mob… of Parrotfish! #rainbowparrot #queenparrotfish #blueparrotfish #midnightparrotfish #parrotfish #damselfish #camdam #mob #mobbin #mobrules #coral #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

Black History is NOW.

"... I ended up being reluctant to work with undergraduate researchers at all—until a new student helped me realize what is required to mentor undergraduates, and the rewards it can bring." #NationalMentoringMonth https://scim.ag/3E1bAYj