What does it really take to land a faculty position? @jazlynmooney.bsky.social shares insights on preparing competitive applications, navigating interviews, building a research vision, and more. 🔗: buff.ly/nLWXT9m
Dr. Carly Kenkel
@drcarl.bsky.social
PI of the Cnidarian Evolutionary Ecology Lab at the University of Southern California working on EcoEvo, plasticity, genomics, climate change, symbiosis, coral
Please share! This fully-funded postdoc position at the UCLA La Kretz Center allows candidates to design their own projects in California conservation, and offers mentorship from both academics and conservation practitioners. drive.google.com/file/d/1K2Qi...
LKC 2027 Postdoctoral Fellowship.pdf
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Postdoc Positions: Coral Cell and Molecular Biology Reach out directly to mg2@stowers.org or follow the link below to read more and apply through the institute portal! Postdoctoral Research Associate - REQID0002557 www.stowers.org/careers/post...
Postdoctoral Research Associate - REQID0002557
If you have a collection of outstanding people who ask really interesting questions, like each other and push the envelope, important discoveries will…
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Don’t forget to take action on the proposed OMB rules! Public comments, contacting your societies or environmental nonprofits, contacting your Congresspeople, etc.
Jacquelyn Gill@jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 2mo ago🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n
Aspiring Eco-Evo PhD students - check out the Simons Graduate Fellowships! it's a full ride!! 🧪https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-graduate-fellowships-in-ecology-and-evolution/
Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution
The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...
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The list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2027 is live! PIs enter your position info here: forms.gle/MAGd4ohyPeoY... students (and PIs not recruiting) share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely! 🧪
Ecology/Evolution/Marine Biology labs recruiting for Fall 2027
Please complete this form if you are a PI recruiting graduate students for a Fall 2027 start. If you are NOT recruiting, feel free to share the response sheet with prospective students looking for lab...
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🧪Calling all Americans who value science - this OMB rule will crush independent science - its essential that you comment by July 13 to voice your concerns open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...
Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule
Russell Vought is going to destroy American Science
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🧪 FIRST STUDY to compare direct air capture of CO2 vs renewables: “An amount of money spent deploying wind or solar delivers more combined climate and public health benefit than if it is spent on DAC.” Releasing CO2 into air and then trying to suck it up is dumb. techxplore.com/news/2026-05...
Renewable energy is more cost effective than direct air capture at reducing carbon, study finds
The case for investing in direct air capture weakens substantially once it is directly compared against solar and wind, according to an analysis published in Communications Sustainability. The paper i...
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Excited to share this documentary created by #USC Annenberg student Sethan Perez which features work from the #CEELab - a great example of how students are using their skills to help communicate science! 🧪 www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2026/04/13/c...
Coral Crisis
Over the years, coral bleaching, a result of warmer conditions, has put coral reefs across the globe at risk of extinction. Across California, laboratories and hobbyists alike find ways to study coral...
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Resurrecting thread with new wrinkle - what to do when you suspect reviewers used AI to review your MS, you can't prove so just push back on (generic, oddly phrased) critique with rebuttal and the AE rejects appeal with text that is a generic, oddly phrased version of the original decision 😵💫 🧪
Matthew Hahn@3rdreviewer.bsky.social · 6mo agoA reviewer just very clearly used AI to write a review. What do I do (as an author)?
ICYMI: New online! Accelerating coral assisted evolution to keep pace with climate change
Accelerating coral assisted evolution to keep pace with climate change
Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 30 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s44358-026-00147-zOngoing and projected climate changes are bringing increased marine heatwave frequency and intensity, threatening the health and survival of coral reefs. This Roadmap outlines the potential for assisted evolution methods to increase thermal tolerance in corals and describes ways to accelerate research and development for enhancing coral adaptation rates.
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Excited to see this out after years of work from many folks in the field and lab. @ben-glass.bsky.social did such a lovely job of doing this work justice! 2023 heatwave was no joke in Bocas..... Global Change Biology | onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Legacy Effects of an Extreme Marine Heatwave on a Stress‐Tolerant Coral
This work explored the effects of an unprecedented marine heatwave on the reef-building coral Siderastrea siderea across four sites (Cristobal Island, Hospital Point, Punta Donato, and STRI Point) on...
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DC-based friends, mark your calendars. www.atlasarts.org/events/tela-... After the concert, there's a science panel w/ @momedinamunoz.bsky.social & others. Raises $$ to build a coral gene bank & marine lab in Honduras. Vetted & endorsed by Storymaker fellow & trusted researcher @drcarl.bsky.social
Tela Coral/Chad Cannon: Music for the Ocean | Atlas Performing Arts Center
Immerse yourself in the ocean—while sitting in the concert hall. Music for the Ocean is an evening of new compositions ...
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Calling all researchers working on *Genomics of Adaptation to Extreme Thermal Environments* I'm serving as a guest editor of an upcoming collection in BMC Genomics and am eager to read your submission! More on scope and how to contribute here: bit.ly/4kH3PIx 🧪 @springer.springernature.com
Genomics of adaptation to extreme thermal environments
As climate change continues to influence ecosystems around the globe, understanding the genomics of adaptation to hot and cold environments is becoming ...
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🧪 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.
Staghorn and Elkhorn Coral Are Functionally Extinct Off Florida, Researchers Say
Elkhorn and staghorn coral are now functionally extinct around the state, researchers say, meaning they no longer play any significant role in their ecosystem.
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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...
Marine heat wave caused key part of Florida's coral reef to become "functionally extinct," report says
A record 2023 heat wave all but eradicated two species of coral that historically served as the backbone of Florida's reefs, researchers said in a new report.
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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...
Heat-driven functional extinction of Caribbean Acropora corals from Florida’s Coral Reef
In 2023, a record-setting marine heat wave triggered the ninth mass coral bleaching event on Florida’s Coral Reef (FCR). We examined spatial patterns of heat exposure along the ~560-kilometer length o...
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🧪🌏 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...
Immune gene expression as a biomarker for predicting restoration success in the branching coral Acropora cervicornis
BackgroundAs coral reefs continue to decline across the globe there has been a rise in coral restoration efforts where a diversity of genets of different coral species are outplanted from nursery-grow...
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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
Nearly T2T, phased genome assemblies of corals reveal haplotype diversity and the evolutionary process of gene expansion
Abstract. Gene family expansion illustrates a critical aspect of evolutionary adaptation. However, the mechanisms by which gene family expansions emerge an
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🧪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...
E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change
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Amid Fear of Retaliation, N.S.F. Workers Sign Letter of Dissent www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/s...
Amid Fear of Retaliation, N.S.F. Workers Sign Letter of Dissent
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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...
Envisioning a future for Caribbean coral reefs: lessons in resilience and collaboration - Wrigley Institute for Environment and Sustainability
Creating a more sustainable and environmentally just future for our planet and all who live on it
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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
Unbreaking
How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
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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! 🧪
Ecology/Evolution/Marine Biology labs recruiting for Fall 2026
Please complete this form if you are a PI recruiting graduate students for a Fall 2026 start. If you are NOT recruiting, feel free to share the response sheet with prospective students looking for lab...
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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*.
