Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island. jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960

🪸 Two weeks to go! Please apply for this Postdoc position! 🪸

Climate tipping points are close: scientists urge radical action before it’s too late Tipping point risks are interconnected. Most interactions among them are destabilising, meaning that tipping one system into disaster makes tipping another more likely. theconversation.com/climate-tipp...

Couldn't be more proud of my James Cook University honours student, Joshua Lesicar, who has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship for 2026. Josh will commence his DPhil at University of Oxford next year! www.jcu.edu.au/news/release...

#Plastic #ghostnets #australia 🌊🏝️🐢🪸🐟

Applications now open for the position of Director of Pacific Biosciences Reseach Center, at University of Hawaiʻi. PBRC fosters cutting-edge research across cellular, molecular, developmental, ecological, evolutionary, and conservation biology—with a focus on Hawaiʻi and the Pacific.

🧵🧪 In session on policy and societal requirements at the Royal Society discussion meeting today, Prof Hans-Otto Pörtner, former Co-Chair of the IPCC Working Group II, stated that he thinks keeping global temperature rise "below 1.5 [°C above pre-industrial] is probably now out of reach".

🌋🌊🪸🐟 As part of an international team of researchers, @jcuofficial.bsky.social PhD candidate Lucy Southworth is studying what's happening on the seafloor three years after the 2022 eruption of the Tonga underwater volcano. Listen to the full SBS News story 🎧 👉 tinyurl.com/3c8fp5cf

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Job opening! CSIRO @csiropublishing.bsky.social is currently hiring 2 #eDNA Postdoctoral Fellowships! sednasociety.com/2025/09/04/j...

Any philanthropists out there that would like to support some Antarctic-focused climate change & ecosystem science? I have some ideas, and a great team...

🏆 Octopus and Ice Sheet Team @marine-omics.bsky.social is awarded the Aspire Scholarship Eureka Prize for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Scientific Research. Learn more: youtu.be/8H3bCE6wfjM #EurekaPrizes @janstrugnell.bsky.social @lausally.bsky.social @nick-golledge.bsky.social

New 2yr postdoc position @ University of Queensland on coral distributions and Allee effects. Must have permission to work in Australia uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/uqcareers/jo...

🚨Job alert Want to know what’s behind these doors? TAMU’s Gulf Coast Repository is looking for a Curatorial Specialist to support the GCR on shore & who will be sailing on expeditions operated by the Scientific Ocean Drilling Coordinating Office (SODCO). tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/System-wide_...

“Sea-level rises of multiple meters mean global political instability that will dwarf what we’re seeing right now.” - @profmattengland.bsky.social #Antarctica #ClimateEmergency grist.org/climate/anta...

Emerging evidence for abrupt #Antarctic changes: declining sea ice, slowing ocean circulation, reduction in ice sheets and changing ecosystems. theconversation.com/from-sea-ice...

❗️Job Alert: Deep-Sea Benthic Biologist (Assistant Professor) at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA 🌊 Apply by Dec 1, 2025: apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04175 📷 Auckland Museum Collections (CC) #MarineBiology

So, what it's gonna be? Motherfucking windfarms!!! Or....motherfucking windfarms #Vattenfall #GHG #CO2

Giant Australian Cuttlefish are still gathering in large numbers and currently laying plenty of eggs, with the waters around Point Lowly remaining clean. Today, the SA Government is holding an emergency meeting to plan for risks from the harmful algal bloom spreading to the upper Spencer Gulf.

Octopus and Ice Sheet Team @marine-omics.bsky.social is a finalist in the Aspire Scholarship Eureka Prize for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Scientific Research. Learn more: youtu.be/8H3bCE6wfjM #EurekaPrizes @janstrugnell.bsky.social @lausally.bsky.social @nick-golledge.bsky.social

I am currently advertising a new 3-year research position in my TerraLuma team: Research Associate in Drone Field Operations (Academic Level A) The position will support the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network’s (@TERN_Aus) Dronescape project. careers.utas.edu.au/cw/en/job/50...

An ongoing Academic (Research and Teaching) position in Genomics, here at Monash University in Melbourne. Closing in a little over a week! Please share widely! Lecturer/Senior Lecturer level (similar to Assistant Professor). careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

Two (!) ongoing Academic (Research and Teaching) positions in Ecology, here at Monash University in Melbourne. Closing in a little over a week! Please share widely! Both at Lecturer/Senior Lecturer level (similar to Assistant Professor) careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

Check out Joe Perkins' research detecting toxic algal species in Hervey Bay, Australia #HABs www.marine-omics.net/2025/07/24/j...

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

New paper in Nature: global evolutionary biogeography of my favourite animals. www.nature.com/articles/s41... theconversation.com/five-arms-no... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Abstract deadline for Climate and Cryosphere 2026, in Wellington NZ, now extended till August 31st. Spread the word... clic2026.com #climate #academicsky #nz

The three academic positions (Lecturer/Senior Lecturer) in the School of Biological Sciences at Monash University are now advertised. Details here: Ecology: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo... Genomics: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

🌊 Deep ocean currents shape microbial communities across South Pacific, scientists discover phys.org/news/2025-07...

🚨 Lecturer in Animal Ecology position @jcuofficial.bsky.social. Candidates with expertise in terrestrial animal ecology are encouraged. 📍 Townsville, AU Closes: 8th Aug 2025 🔗 careers.jcu.edu.au/jobs/lecture...

Lecturer in Animal Ecology at James Cook Uni www.seek.com.au/job/85671632...

New paper with @birdpicsandscience.bsky.social out TODAY!! We found that choosing "highly informative loci" (aka high fst loci) may bias results in common population genetic analyses onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Explainer thread to come! #PopGen #PopulationGenomics #Evolution

NHM London is looking for a Director of Research as part of our leadership team. Guide a world-class research community, set a strong vision for collections-based research, and ensure research excellence across NHM activities. plusportal.perrettlaver.com/VacancyDetai...

You know now what to bring to the next lab meeting 🍫

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...

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🌏 Rare opportunity to join us! We’re hiring two new Lecturer/Senior Lecturers in the School of Earth Atmosphere & Environment #MonashUni, a top 50 global university 🔬 Isotope Geochemistry 🛰️ Remote Sensing/Geospatial careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo... careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

Joe Perkins entertaining the audience in his precompletion PhD seminar on Ecology, detection, and impacts of benthic toxic dinoflagellates in Qld: a focus on #ciguatera poisoning. @marine-omics.bsky.social 🧬

@zoologistedel.bsky.social wowing the crowd about her genomic research on Heard and McDonald Islands #pintofscience

‘A horror movie’: sharks and octopuses among 200 species killed by toxic algae off South Australia

Is there a core response to heat stress in #abalone? You bet there is. Check out this fantastic new meta-analysis of heat stress studies across abalone led by Roy Barkan. @marine-omics.bsky.social @iracooke.bsky.social 🧬🧬 rdcu.be/elVL2

Is there a core response to heat stress in #abalone? You bet there is. Check out this fantastic new meta-analysis of heat stress studies across abalone led by Roy Barkan. @marine-omics.bsky.social @iracooke.bsky.social 🧬🧬 rdcu.be/elVL2

Putting Structural Variants Into Practice: The Role of Chromosomal Inversions in the Management of Marine Environments. New @marine-omics.bsky.social paper by Nadja Schneller with @janstrugnell.bsky.social, @mattfield100.bsky.social and Kerstin Johannesson out today doi.org/10.1111/mec....

ANTARCTIC INVERTEBRATES! PHOTO ESSAY! GO! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Big thanks to the fabulous crew, deck officers and all the expeditioners onboard RSV #Nuyina on our voyage to the Denman Glacier, East #Antarctica. @arcsaef.bsky.social @jcuofficial.bsky.social @marine-omics.bsky.social @lausally.bsky.social 🐙🇦🇶🧬 www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAhD...

Potentially no updates to sea ice indices coming from the US for a while... this is horribly damaging to global climate science. Yes, there are EU and Japanese alternatives to some of these, but multi-dataset inter-comparisons are a critical part of assessing reliability and confidence in the data.

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