What makes human guts and coral reefs similar? Here is a blog post with some thoughts on ecosystem stability, stress, and microbiome, following a fresh pre-print by Marko Terzin et al: merenlab.org/blog/coral-r...

From coral reefs to human guts: stress is stress

Reefs and colons share no taxa, no host, no timescale, but they report stress the same way, which tells us where NOT to look for solutions.

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That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

Loved the birds of New Zealand 🇳🇿 🐦 🦢(not pictured is the Kiwi who was in a night enclosure and obviously wouldn’t appreciate a photo)

Declining coccolithophore blooms in the North Atlantic and Western Barents Sea www.science.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs 🌊

Declining coccolithophore blooms in the North Atlantic and Western Barents Sea

Satellite observations reveal substantial decreases in coccolithophore blooms across the North Atlantic and Barents Sea.

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⭐Postdoc position available⭐ How do symbionts evolve new beneficial functions? Join the Henry Lab to investigate how horizontal gene transfer drives host–microbe symbioses. 🦠 Apply below Enquiries: l.henry@qmul.ac.uk Please share! #Postdoc #EvolutionaryBiology #Symbiosis henry-lab.co.uk

So happy to share our new paper out now in @natmicrobiol.nature.com! We establish Pirsonia-Coscinodiscus as a model pathosystem and uncover how this tiny parasite infects and kills bloom-forming marine diatoms 🌊🦠 rdcu.be/fuQyF

Thanks to this grant we will be hiring!! Our grad position ad is already live with more opportunities forthcoming. But if you’re interested in postdoc or technician positions, please reach out! fuesslab.wp.txstate.edu/opportunities/

Dr. Lauren E. Fuess@laurenfuess.bsky.social · last wk.

Alright now that I’m home I guess it’s time to officially announce some really good news: I have received an NIH R35 MIRA!! This award will fund five years of research in my group using Aiptasia to study context dependency and GxGxE interactions in animal-microbe symbioses!

My lab at @stonybrooku.bsky.social Dept of Ecology & Evolution is recruiting a 2-year Postdoc! They will split time between genomics and symbiosis dynamics of cnidarians 🪸, and the development of STAGdb. Start date as early as Sept 2026. Please share this post with anyone who might be a great fit!

Very happy something like this is now available. In protist diversity research we use the rDNA extensively, but I for one doesn't know enough about it's structure, variation, and implications www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Organization of Ribosomal RNA Genes in Eukaryotes

In eukaryotes, ribosomal RNA genes (rDNA) encode the major ribosomal RNA molecules and are typically organized into a distinctive genomic structure involving tandem repetition of a polycistronic codin...

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Fantastic week of science and fun in Auckland for #ICRS2026 🪸. Even managed to get some sampling in at the University of Auckland 🔬

On my way to Auckland for #ICRS2026 🪸🇳🇿. Check out my talk on Corallicolids on Friday, July 24th at 9:15 AM during session 5A in NZICC 517! #CoralReefs #MicrobiomeSky

Also more generally, if you’re here and looking for new opportunities in evolutionary ecology, immunology, and symbiosis of cnidarians, find me! I’m hiring for just about every position you could imagine! Exciting things on the horizon. #ICRS2026

Dr. Lauren E. Fuess@laurenfuess.bsky.social · 2w ago

If you’re planning your afternoon schedule at #ICRS2026, I’ll be speaking on a multi-institutional project investigating how holobiont interactions shape resistance and response to SCTLD. 4:15 in room 515!

At #ICRS2026? Come by at 230 today in room 515, I’ll be talking about coral disease biomarkers!

Brad Weiler@bradweilerdives.bsky.social · 3w ago

Heading to #ICRS2026🪸? Come by my talk where I discuss how machine learning can be used identify molecular and microbial signatures of #coral disease! Monday @ 230pm in room 515

My flight to Auckland got delayed by 24 hours, but I'll make it just in time for my talk at ICRS - Monday at 10:45AM in room 516! This is my first ICRS, very excited! #ICRS2026

The Medina Lab will be at ICRS next week. Below is are schedule of posters and talks. See you all soon! 🪸🦠🌎🧪🌊🧬🌿

Hey coral pals! I’m sitting #ICRS2026 out. BUT one of my wonderful PhD students, Genevieve Dallmeyer-Drennen, is representing the lab! Her talk is Fri 7/24, 9:20am, rm 517. This is her 1st ICRS & she’s en route with lab stickers! 🧪 innovators-icrs2026programme.eventsairsite.com?agendaId=d28...

Heading to #ICRS2026🪸? Come by my talk where I discuss how machine learning can be used identify molecular and microbial signatures of #coral disease! Monday @ 230pm in room 515

Happy to share that our manuscript "A chromosome-level reference genome for the colonial marine hydrozoan Podocoryna americana" is now available at G3: doi.org/10.1093/g3jo... Many thanks to @baxevanislab.bsky.social, @pcart.bsky.social, @amkatzer.bsky.social and all the co-authors!

A chromosome-level reference genome for the colonial marine hydrozoan Podocoryna americana

Abstract. Cnidarians are important models for studying the evolution of animal development, regeneration, cell type differentiation, and allorecognition. T

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On my way to Auckland for #ICRS2026 🪸🇳🇿. Check out my talk on Corallicolids on Friday, July 24th at 9:15 AM during session 5A in NZICC 517! #CoralReefs #MicrobiomeSky

The Ushijima Lab is heading to #ICRS2026 in Auckand, NZ! Come see our presentations on coral pathogens & probiotics! Or come chat with us about coral microbes!

It's more than just the corals holding a reef together. Microbialites do a fair bit of trapping, binding, and biomineralization. Back in the Proterozoics, they made the reefs. But even in modern reefs, such as in Hawaii, they contribute. 🧪🌊 Link: https://bg.copernicus.org/articles/23/4759/2026/​

Last month, my second #PhD chapter was published in @frontiersin.bsky.social - a collaboration with @coralcitycamera.bsky.social to characterize the transcriptomic response of staghorn coral in the Port of Miami! Read the open-access article here: www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...

Really enjoyed The Dark Frontier by @jjmarlow.bsky.social. As someone who’s never been on a research cruise, it was fun reading about how open ocean research is conducted and how this research directly impacts the policy decisions that will determine the future of deep sea ecosystems 🌊

Our new work @natecoevo.nature.com shows Karenia cristata produces brevetoxins and is the dominant player in the prolonged bloom & mass mortality event in Southern Australia. Glad to be part of this work with Shauna Murray & the whole team! rdcu.be/fse9r The Conversation: tinyurl.com/3rnyxrnj

A catastrophic marine mortality event caused by a complex algal bloom including the brevetoxin producer Karenia cristata

Nature Ecology & Evolution - Genomic characterization and toxicity assays identify Karenia cristata as a brevetoxin-producing species that is the dominant component of the prolonged microalgal...

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Nature Ecology & Evolution@natecoevo.nature.com · 4w ago

Genomic characterization and toxicity assays identify Karenia cristata as a brevetoxin-producing species that is the dominant component of the prolonged microalgal bloom causing mass marine mortality in South Australia 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The coccosphere of the heavy calcifying coccolithophore Coccolithus braarudii provides defense against bacteria www.nature.com/articles/s42... #jcampubs

Excited to share that my postdoc work is now out @cp-cell.bsky.social! A collaborative work with co-lead author Catherine Henderson and others in the lab of @pcleves.bsky.social A deep look into how algae form symbiosis with corals and anemones. 🧵 (1/7) www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

Co-option of lysosomal machinery shapes the evolution of the intracellular photosymbiosis supporting coral reefs

Corals harbor intracellular algal symbionts in specialized organelles that enable them to build diverse reef ecosystems. Corals and other cnidarians have repeatedly evolved this symbiosis through the ...

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Really grateful to have gotten to be a part of this paper just as my post doc started. Really neat stuff! A secreted endosymbiont protein essential for colonizing host cells www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A secreted endosymbiont protein essential for colonizing host cells - Nature

SyeA was present in the Buchnera ancestor, is secreted into the host cytoplasm, is homologous to secreted effectors of bacterial pathogens and is essential for Buchnera transmission.

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1/11 🤩Sooooo happy to see this work on a new new group #algae. Looks like #centrohelids - predatory ancient eukaryotic lineage sometimes harbor vertically-inherited plastids from #dictyochophytes. Amazing work, @annewalraven.bsky.social, glad to be on board! More below:

Anne Walraven@annewalraven.bsky.social · last mo.

Very excited that the preprint of the main paper of my PhD is now out! We show that Meringosphaera is the first centrohelid with permanent plastids: doi.org/10.64898/202... @zlatogursky.bsky.social, @pjkeelinglab.bsky.social, prof. Rachel A. Foster, and @fburki.bsky.social #protistsonsky

Very excited that the preprint of the main paper of my PhD is now out! We show that Meringosphaera is the first centrohelid with permanent plastids: doi.org/10.64898/202... @zlatogursky.bsky.social, @pjkeelinglab.bsky.social, prof. Rachel A. Foster, and @fburki.bsky.social #protistsonsky

Single cell genomics and fluorescence microscopy suggest a permanent plastid in a marine centrohelid

Photosynthetic organelles (plastids), which originated via primary endosymbiosis between an Archaeplastida ancestor and cyanobacteria, have shaped the Earth's oxygen-rich atmosphere and spread across ...

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📣 WE ARE HIRING! 📣 Join @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social with a new Laboratory Technician position in #delCampoLab!🤿🦠 🧬In the #CORALPROS project investigates the protists (unicellular eukaryotes) living within corals. #JoinOurTeam 👉https://shorturl.at/vGg1E