Marsh periwinkle snails (Littoraria irrorata) settling in to their temporary home after volunteering to participate in my Marine Ecology class’ mark-recapture exercise this week. 🐌 🖊️ 🧮 Special thanks to Matt Boehm for adding snail jungle gyms to the tanks to help them feel right at home 🪜🛝

Awesome intertidal oyster restoration work underway on Dauphin Island thanks to the @disealab.bsky.social Studies of Marine Ecology & Evolution lab, with @leesmee.bsky.social & missmarinebio.bsky.social & some muddy volunteers You can check it out at the Christopher Blankenship Eco-Tourism Area 🌊🦪🛶

We invite you to submit an abstract for a session on animal movement, behaviour and biologging at the 7th World Conference on Marine Biodiversity in Bruges, Belgium (17-20 November 2026) @wcmb2026.bsky.social, @inbo.be, @vliz.be, @aquatictracking.bsky.social More info below! 👇

I’ll be posting this week from the International Sea Turtle Society symposium in Hawai’i Day 1 was full of fantastic workshops: in the morning I attended one about applying for research permits to study turtles, and my afternoon was all about sea turtle epibionts 🌊🐢 #ISTS44 #ISTS2026 #seaturtle

✨🌊Marine Science research opportunity for undergraduates🌊✨ Join us summer 2026 at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab, located on the beautiful Gulf coast of Alabama. Housing & stipend provided. More at www.disl.edu/univ-prog/ns... @disealab.bsky.social #NSF #REU #UndergraduateResearch

Exciting to see new technology help us better understand monarch butterfly migration 🦋🗺️📱 I hope we continue to see smaller (and cheaper 🙏) tags opening up new research opportunities. #AnimalMigration #MovementEcology #SpatialEcology #biologging

Now that the publication is officially out, boosting the announcement that we now have high-quality reference genomes for all 7 sea turtle species. Congrats to the team that made this a reality! New haplotype-resolved assemblies for 5 of the 7 available from doi.org/10.1093/giga...

The #FindThatLizard scholarship provides $1000 to support conference participation, tuition, or research expenses across career stages. For more information and to apply: earynmcgee.com/findthatliza...

New OA pub in @stacksjournal.bsky.social : @zoologistkate.bsky.social social compared the isotopic composition of hair and feathers to the whole body of mammals and birds. It turns out these tissues can sometimes (but not always) represent the whole body. stacksjournal.org/article/davi...

It was a beautiful day to be on the water with the ADCNR gillnet sampling program in Grand Bay and by the west end of Dauphin Island. The Marine Resources Division collects fisheries-independent data throughout the year to monitor fish populations & guide #FisheriesManagement decisions.🌊🐟

It’s almost time for the Genomics for Biodiversity Conference — happening next week! 🗓️ 29–31 October 💻 Fully online & free of charge Find all the details, including the full programme 👇 www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/genomic... @biogeneurope.bsky.social @ebpgenome.bsky.social #genomics #biodiversity

The 2026 Gulf Conference will be here in Mobile, AL from May 4-7 Open to coastal scientists & stakeholders in government, academia, non-profit, and private sectors to discuss current Gulf research and help plan for the future of the Gulf. Abstracts due Nov 7 gulfofamericaalliance.org/gulfcon2026

Good news and bad news here. The GRFP solicitation is now live. Yay! However, those who have completed more than a year of graduate school already are no longer eligible. This absolutely sucks...

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...

✨Life Update✨: I'm excited to announce that I've started a new position as Senior Marine Scientist at Dauphin Island Sea Lab. Stay tuned for new scientific adventures from the Gulf coast of Alabama 🌊🐢👩‍🔬 @disealab.bsky.social

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Great to see this published in @gigascience.bsky.social! Using @nanoporetech.com, we generated genome and methylome resources simultaneously to drive molecular insights for conservation of loggerhead sea turtles in Cape Verde 🐢🧬🇨🇻 doi.org/10.1093/giga...

Does anyone have intel on the new Simons Foundation fellowships to support incoming PhD students in ecology and evolution? 👀 Types of projects most likely to be funded? Strings attached? 🤷 www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

Join us live for our next #EcoEvo author seminar to hear Katrina Phillips @katrinaphillips.bsky.social talk about her #ProcB paper 'New insights on sea turtle behaviour during the ‘lost years’. Wed 4 June, 3:00 PM (GMT+1). Reserve your place: cassyni.com/events/U1GH1... #ecology

Awesome new paper showing that sea turtles can learn the magnetic field associated with a food source. 💭🍽️🗺️ #AnimalNavigation #MagneticMap #MagneticCompass #AnimalMigration #MovementEcology #SeaTurtles Come for the cutting-edge science, stay for the 'turtle dance' videos...

I'm happy to share that the spatial component of my dissertation work on 'lost years' sea turtles is out now! If you're attending #SERSTM2025 this week, I'll be presenting the highlights in the #MovementEcology session this afternoon. 🌊🐢🗺️ #seaturtle #telemetry #OpenAccess

To learn how researchers collect DNA samples from eagle rays - and why this work is important - read John @mobulasana.bsky.social's blog, detailing fieldwork & how the research contributes to our understanding of population connectivity. Read the full blog below. saveourseas.com/update/ray-s...

So happy to be able to contribute to this paper and for the US Animal Telemetry Network to be part of such a collaborative group! I'm excited to see our community continue to grow! #biologging #telemetry #opendata 🌐🌊📈

🚨 New Paper Alert 🚨 Interested in fish #migration 🐟, acoustic #telemetry 🔊, #genomics 🧬, and #morphometrics 📐? Check out how we combined them all in this study! Read it here #OpenAccess 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Excellent new #OpenAccess paper by Holly Stokes and others demonstratng lack of negative impacts of satellite tracking of juvenile hawksbill turtles. Important insights from long term work. More studies appraising impacts needed 🐢🌍🧪🦑 🌐🦤 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨 New paper! Something a little bit different this time. We used genomics to trace the invasion history of a predatory marine gastropod, identify potentially adaptive loci, and then leverage the invasive populations to test for predictable allele shifts! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Movement and migration ecology starter pack! Help me fill it out as more folks join Bluesky 🌎🌍🌏 go.bsky.app/SSiWN2u

Time to transfer this from the other place... Several sea turtle projects have documented ↘️ average nester size or ↗️ proportion of small nesters. I summarized in the March 2023 SWOT Report. List of published studies in 🧵 below. I will update with new pubs as I see them - please add any I missed!

If you’re attending #Evol2024 🇨🇦 and have an interest in long-distance migration 🗺️ , whole genome analyses 🧬 , or sea turtles 🌊 🐢 - stop by poster I1 this evening to chat!