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Montastrea cavernosa 😍 never gets old 🪸🧪🔬👩‍🔬🌊❤️

#ICRS2026 session 120 🪸🇳🇿

#ICRS2026 session 74 🪸🇳🇿

#ICRS2026 session 74 🪸🇳🇿

#ICRS2026 session 120 🪸🇳🇿

Register now and let’s talk about coral research in the desert, art & science, and science communication!

Register now and let’s talk about coral research in the desert, art & science, and science communication!

The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

I’m not enjoying the news these days so here’s a sea anemone under fluorescence microscope to give you something nice to look at in case you share my dislike of current news..

#ASBMB2025 Great series of talks on biochemistry & climate change, from condensates & heat stress, to phosphorylation, stem cell therapy & even electrochemistry for climate adaptation energetics! Thanks for attending our session!! @karlaneugebauer.bsky.social @henryvj.bsky.social we missed you!

THIS WEEKEND!

It starts this Saturday! #DiscoverBMB2025 #Chicago2025 join us! #ASBMB #biochemistry #climatechange #coralreef #plantengineering #education and more! 🧪🪸🌱🌎

Last day of our Scripps trip! Sun’s out 👌🌊☀️🔬🧪🪸 let’s get some data! It’s been great hanging out with the Coral Reef Engineering lab team (Wangpraseurt team @ Scripps)! #NSF #coralresearch

Does anyone know if the NIEHS is still standing at all? Looks like they have shut down the small grants and the website is all messed up.. Any of the alt-accounts know anything? 🧪🥼🔬🧬

#ASBMB25 Come see us talk biochemistry, climate change, coral reefs, plant bioengineering and more! 🌍🧪🪸🔬

Come taste the forbidden fruit! Let’s talk about Climate Change and Biochemistry! Join us! ✊🪸🧪🌪️🌱🌊⚗️⚛️ coral reefs, plan engineering and more!

JOB OPPORTUNITY: Chief of Staff - Coral Catch coralcatch.org/we-are-hirin... #coralreefs #coraljobs #jobopportunities #coralconservation #coralcareers #coralreefecology #coralscience #marineecology #marinebiology

📣 JOB ALERT📣 The Silbiger Lab is hiring a full time research tech @ University of Hawai’i at Mānoa to support research on intertidal ecology in Hawai’i & coral reef/coastal oceanography in Okinawa, Japan. RCUH ID: 225085 application link below. 1 year to start, but have several years of funding.

Come taste the forbidden fruit! Let’s talk about Climate Change and Biochemistry! Join us! ✊🪸🧪🌪️🌱🌊⚗️⚛️

Let us do this!!!

Terrible news 😥

📢 If you are not fighting right now, you are collaborating. 🗣️🗣️🗣️

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the nation’s largest private funder of biomedical research, yesterday killed a $60 million program aimed at making universities’ STEM education more inclusive. scim.ag/3EtS0US

A story: During GW Bush admin, I had to pitch a collaborative project to NOAA’s internal climate board. Right before presenting, I was advised not to mention the words “climate change”. The project and the presentation were titled “Climate Change and Coral Reefs”. I ignored the advice...

Did you know, the Black Microbiologist's Association is a non-profit society that supports underrepresented scientists? I made a donation. What good cause can you support (if you have the means?) blackinmicrobiology.org

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

It's all gone. They've taken down all the CDC datasets from data.cdc.gov Data that's critical for public health & research. Data paid for by citizens. That the government now censors. "Do not fear those who tell the truth. Fear those who try to hide it. They are willing to sacrifice other things."

NEW: The webpage for vaccine recommendations from the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) is offline. www.cdc.gov/acip-recs/hc... ACIP is a federal advisory committee that develops recommendations for all vaccines used in the civilian population of the U.S. before-after:

And now it’s just “page not found”

Yesterday I was asked to resign from the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board. I tendered my resignation with this note. Nobody will read it, most likely, but it’s the writing of it that mattered to me.

Per an NIH source: “Discussions with colleagues have suggested that if the universities all come together and raise hell about the delays to funding caused by not holding meetings, that might move the needle. From every state. There are well-funded universities in red states that will be impacted.”

This one hour of day seven of the presidency.

The National Science Foundation cancelled over 60 grant review panels today, effectively grinding funding of new projects to a halt. The so-far indefinite pause comes as NSF grapples with the impact Trump's executive orders will have on their grantmaking process. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Separately, if you've been impacted by the removal of any DEI grant programs (at NSF or any other federal agency), I'm also working on another story about that.

If you're a scientist that serves on an NSF panel that got cancelled today, I'd love to talk to you about it for an NPR story. DM, email or reach out on signal.

💔 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Just give some Italian high school students a crash course on corals and nanoparticles for the First Lego League! Great to see how interested they are and what kind of ideas they have 👌 🪸🧪🥼

Oh geez, BRC-BIO was SUCH a good program! It was essentially giving start-up grant funds to faculty at smaller schools with lower start-ups so those faculty would be competitive for later grant cycles. Also the science being funded was just as good as any I've seen

Registration for the 8th International Cassiopea Workshop is open. This year we are meeting at the beautiful Whitney Lab in St. Augustine FL June 6-8, with tutorials June 3-5, 2025. Student travel grants available 🌎🌊🐙🧪https://cassiopeabase.org/2025-workshop/

🧪🔬🦠🧫Wow. This is one of the most exciting papers I've read... in my recent life! I wonder when I'll get to hear/see @flamholz.bsky.social explain it to a general public! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Recruiting NOW!

3 Weird Ways Science Is Saving Coral Reefs

Some ASU research on corals and coral reefs (shameless self-promo) 🪸 urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

Happy Holidays from the team! #ASU_SMS #ASU_SOF #forcoral

Check out these legends! Middle schoolers Katie, Evelyn, Avery, Ray and Hailey of team Purring Fury 😻 have invented *BARFS* (Buoy Assisted Reef Feeding System) to help coral reefs! Based in Oregon, they are now qualified for the State Finals of the FIRST LEGO League competition! 🪸🐡🤮❤️ #ASU_SMS

Could a crappy semester end in a worse way than with a multibuilding power outage? The aquaria temperature is now room temp.. corals and cassiopea are not happy.. and the freezers are packed with dry ice

We will also be talking Coral Reefs ! 🪸😉👌

🧪 SAVE THE DATE! See you in Chicago #ASBMB

Diploria 🧠