🧪 Dr. Emily Aguirre's final dissertation chapter is published! She isolated a putative bacterial symbiont then cocultured it with axenic algal symbionts to ask how it impacted growth and gene expression - results were unexpected but do support a beneficial relationship - read more here rdcu.be/eUKQz

After a searing ocean heat wave in 2023, two of the most historically important coral species in Florida are functionally extinct from the state’s reef, scientists have found.

Some additional coverage of our report on the major loss of acroporid corals in the Florida Keys by @cbsnews.com: www.cbsnews.com/news/florida...

Results I'm sad to share but must be told - branching coral are now functionally extinct in Florida - to learn more check out the full study www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... and our personal summary theconversation.com/2-iconic-cor...

🧪🌏 Why some coral genotypes die when planted to a reef, while others thrive? interesting leads from *constitutively expressed* immunity-related genes @drcarl.bsky.social www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...

Today’s #DailyCoralRead 📖🪸 🧬 Two new telomere-to-telomere genome assemblies for Acropora digitifera and A. tenuis! 🧬 The study reveals highly disordered genomic regions with potentially neofunctionalized genes from lineage-specific expansions. 🧪 🔗 http://tiny.cc/z61q001

🧪There are no words. E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...

Amid Fear of Retaliation, N.S.F. Workers Sign Letter of Dissent www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/s...

Without a research arm to support its regulatory arm, Americans will get sicker, and preventable deaths will go up. The EPA was started by (Republican!) President Richard Nixon in 1970. Some of its first regulations were to ban DDT and leaded gasoline, as well as the Clean Air and Water Acts.

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...

You may have seen a lot of headlines since yesterday about budget negotiations, the threat to Medicaid & new restrictions that block transgender care. It's hard to track it all. Really grateful for the @unbreaking.org team that did incredible work to push updates to our pages today - unbreaking.org

Its that time again - the list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2026 is live! PIs enter your position info here: forms.gle/2XTHBP6CZGEn... Prospective students (and PIs not recruiting) share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share! 🧪

Really wish people would stop talking about the problem with Science under Trump as “budget cuts”. No. Budgets are set deliberatively by elected members of congress. Budgets haven’t been cut. What’s happening are *purges* and *censorship*.

I didn’t realize how much I needed this #StandUpForScience rally - thank you #LA organizers!! 🧪

🧪 www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blog...

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Happy to share our new paper "Cryptic coral diversity is associated with symbioses, physiology, and response to thermal challenge". Check it out and share with your friends! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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

Grateful for some good news after this last week - first dissertation chapter for @ecoevodanny.bsky.social is out now in Ecology & Evolution! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🧪

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...

I'm looking for a postdoc! The successful applicant will lead neuro- and comparative genomic analyses to characterize neurobiology-related genetic variation in wild coral populations. Learn more and apply here - I will be reviewing apps beginning Oct 18: usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

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/

It's finally official - excited to begin working with this team! Stay tuned for PhD and Postdoc positions in my lab as part of this project!! today.ucsd.edu/story/uc-san...

Fantastic Op-Ed from fellow #Storymaker @drcarl.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2024/08/15/o...

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...

New #CEELab paper has dropped in Ecology - led by the indomitable @maria-ruggeri.bsky.social with funding from USCWrigley: Microhabitat acclimatization alters sea anemone–algal symbiosis and thermal tolerance across the intertidal zone esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Happy birthday to #botanist Isabella Aiona Abbott (1919-2010), renown algae expert, celebrated seaweed cook, devoted teacher & mentor, expert on Hawaiian ethnobotany, 1st Indigenous Hawaiian woman to earn a doctorate in science & 1st woman or person of colour to become a full prof 🐡🧪👩🏻‍🔬#histsci 🧵1/n

New: Hawaii has agreed to develop a roadmap to get its transportation system to zero carbon emissions by 2045 to settle a climate change lawsuit by 13 young people alleging the state was violating their rights under its constitution.

The ecoevojobs google doc has crowdsourced postdoc, fixed term faculty, and TT faculty jobs!! ecoevojobs.net

Back by popular demand - the list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2025! PIs - Enter your position info here: forms.gle/adBbhEBqYUg5... Prospective students (and PIs not recruiting) - share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share!

Rounding out an incredible month for the #CEElab is the publication of @jennadilworth.bsky.social first dissertation chapter in Proc R Soc B! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

And just like that - new life level unlocked! 🥳🍾🙌 I get the promotion but the credit goes to the #CEElab, my collaborators, colleagues and friends who raised me up, talked me down and kept me sane.

New opinion piece in @TrendsMicrobiol @CellPressNews A microbial matter close to my heart: the role of #Endozoicomonas in #corals. @marenziegler.bsky.social and I synthesized evidence from diverse studies, concluding corals and Endoz may not be the dream team we make them out to be 🧫🪸 👇🏻

As Prof. Priyanga Amarasekare's heartbreaking saga at UCLA drags into another year, I've compiled a thread of articles written about the situation. My sardonic take: Some people didn't like to be accused of racism and decided to destroy her career over their hurt feelings. 1/21

new work evidencing that H2O2 (ROS) is neither trigger nor smoking gun of coral bleaching kudos to Marlen & all authors! doi.org/10.1007/s003... #CBASS #microsensors #ROS @unikonstanz.bsky.social @icrs.bsky.social

Sustainability solutions postdoc fellowship at USC round 2 is a go! Email me if you’re interested in developing a proposal provost.sma.usc.edu/prog/postdoc...

Hot off the presses and a #CEELab first - Dr. Emily Aguirre's image made the cover of this months @Ecol_Evol! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... To read more about the backstory of our cover model check out shorturl.at/qMSV8

I am so grateful that my wonderful colleagues at the Wrigley Institute and the Annenberg Climate Center for using their platform to spread the word about this summer's major coral bleaching event dornsife-wrigley.usc.edu/news/climate...

Are you interested in joining the CRIOBE as a postdoc fellow for one year to explore the genomic basis of marine microbial ecology, interactions, and/or symbiosis in the context of global change, disease, or probiotic development? Please reach out ASAP to discuss a @MOPGAFrance application!

People of the US: election day is tomorrow. Voting is harm reduction and small, local elections are the ones where your vote has the highest impact. Go do the thing.

Come work with me :) I’m recruiting a post-doc to collaborate on a funded coral population genomics project! Flexibility to develop additional projects in marine ecol-evol. (Deets: 2yr contract with possible extension, start within next ~6 months, good pay/benefits/work-life balance.)

Princeton EEB and HMEI are hiring (Assistant, Associate, or Full Prof) - we are seeking a broad thinker in the area of biodiversity puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

Tried my hand at an NIH proposal this summer. Results are in and it was so bad it was not discussed at panel 😳. I’ve been in the game long enough to learn rejection is a normal part of this career. But it still stings! I’m gonna need that candy pick me up

Will any #coral people be at #SACNAS #NDiSTEM conference this week? Would love to meet up and chat :)

Hi everyone 👋👋 My name is Natalie, I’m a 1st year PhD student in @drcarl.bsky.social’s Cnidarian Evolutionary Ecology lab at USC! I’m broadly interested in using genetic + microbial tools to further coral conservation, and love thinking about how to integrate science into policy 🪸🪸

Hot off the presses at Global Change Bio - Yingqi Zhang's 3rd chapter - Performance of Orbicella faveolata larval cohorts does not align with previously observed thermal tolerance of adult source populations doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

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...