Check out our new paper “The Role of Live and Dead Corals in Shaping Fish Assemblages Across Life Stages” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

NEW PAPER “Pioneer generation shapes long-term recovery of coral populations" Here we challenge what a reef recovery looks like and show: 🪸 Early recruits drive long-term recovery 🪸Later recruits failed to survive 🪸 Apparent recovery masks declining diversity link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Our interconnected planet is all we have 🌍❤️

First day back teaching of a new semester after a wonderful, science-filled 4 days in the Lerin Islands with new MSc students!

Check out our new paper: 🐠 🪸 🔈 🌊 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Fantastic opportunity in beautiful Taiwan with a great PI! Apply ASAP! 🪸 🐟 🌊 🤿 ☀️

It was also a privilege to meet and talk to Sylvia Earle outside the opera. This coming week at #UNOC3 calls for the most experienced and recognised voices of our ocean!

Was a real honour to speak at the #OOSC #UNOC3 last week about our inherent relationship between the terrestrial and marine, corals and seaweeds and how we can effectively apply science in restoration efforts 🌲 🪸 🌊

If you're attending the One Ocean Science Congress in Nice this coming week, come discuss corals, seaweeds and everything marine forest recovery on Thursday 5th June at 2pm in Room 7! #OOSC #UNOC

As an official affiliated event of UNOC (United Nations Ocean Conference) 2025, we set out on a 24-hour live relay, following the Sun across all time zones, speaking to professionals in all fields of marine science across 24 sessions. Catch up with all sessions here: lnkd.in/gn75BhT3

Join us LIVE on Youtube for 24 hours of #MarineScience as we welcome the 3rd United Nations Ocean Conference #UNOC3 to Nice, France! Use this link to access the entire schedule: univ-cotedazur.eu/msc/marres/u... And this link to watch live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=x07A...

Check out our new pre-print www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...

Beautiful Cladocora caespitosa, forms the only true coral reef in the Mediterranean 🪸

Field work à Île Sainte-Marguerite with those special people from Taiwan 🇹🇼❤️

I was lucky enough to receive a grant from @britishecologicalsociety.org this year! Would definitely recommend applying! 🤿 🪸 🌊 🇬🇧 🇫🇷

A little hope in all the doom from @nancyknowlton.bsky.social - Resilience through change - New ecological balances - Long-term perspective is important www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Excited to present at the UN One Ocean Science Congress next year in our beautiful home that is Nice 🇫🇷 looking forward to meeting lots of new people too! #OOSC2025

Final couple of weeks leading up to Christmas and we are lucky enough to have a quick getaway along the coast from all the rush to Sanary-sur-Mer. Extra beautiful at this time of year 🎄✨ (It might be 12° but it’s still cold for the south of France and we’re in training for the U.K!!)

Of all the concepts that humankind needs to absorb + act on with extreme urgency, this tops the list.

What a life, what achievements right until the end. We truly stand on the shoulders of giants and Kike Ballesteros was one big one. 🪸

Diving under full moon conditions like this for coral reproduction means you don’t really need your torch! #CoralReefs 🪸

A list of #marinebiology starter packs! 🌊 go.bsky.app/4PTX62K Marine Ecology go.bsky.app/RS5zQHv Marine Biologists I go.bsky.app/8DoyTMs Marine Biologists II go.bsky.app/Qo5Gh2H Coral reef science go.bsky.app/E8vrnd6 LGBTQIA+ Grads go.bsky.app/7MdiLgo Ocean Women go.bsky.app/4wMsfX4 Ocean Women II

In Nature, Delavaux et al., 2024 suggest that species richness on oceanic islands is reduced by mutualism rates on the mainland. In arxiv.org/abs/2411.15105, @maximilianpichler.bsky.social and I had another look at this question and conclude that this effect is likely a statistical artefact.

Marine folk, you’re needed! 👇

This week has been one paper rejection and one grant approval. I’ll take the balanced approach 💪

Aziz here! Currently between tropical coral reefs in Taiwan and Mediterranean marine forests in the south of France! Looking forward to more science-focused discussions on here! Will be sharing beautiful pics, great papers and updates from our underwater world!

Beautiful as always