"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one child per hour during Israel's war in Gaza.
“A whole classroom of children killed every day for nearly two years,” UNICEF’s executive director said.
Here are some of their stories: wapo.st/3UCiAjn
Coming soon: a policy brief making recommendations for unified coral reef governance in the Caribbean, and a peer-reviewed paper outlining which priority interventions we identified!
If you’d like to know more about the outcomes of the workshop we organized at Reef Futures 2024, check out the executive summary: drive.google.com/file/d/1LUNY...
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...
The Senate appropriations committee has voiced its intent to ignore the request by President Donald Trump to slash the budgets of the National Science Foundation and NASA science programs. scim.ag/4nW7XWi
Based on some quick math, this alone could fund the NSF Plant Genome Research Program for ~4 years; the NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology, which was totally axed in the NSF budget request, for ~9 years; and ~ half the total NSF GRFP budget
ICYMI: All corals (as well as sea fans and anemones) have a mobile larval life phase. But how do they know where to settle? Learn more about how coral babies choose their forever homes in our latest #Reefbites blog post! 👇🏼
How bad is Australia's simultaneous coral bleaching?
‼️ 12 systems at ALERT levels involving mortality
‼️ 7 systems at BLEACH WATCH/WARNING
Yet, ""fossil fuel companies were “doubling down” to get more mega projects running" eg."areas around Scott Reef in WA being targeted for expansion by Woodside"
"Two months ahead of the usual annual peak of CO2 concentration in the atmosphere, parts per million in air exceeded 430. Crossing 430 ppm was an entirely predictable but sad milestone. The rise is mostly caused by fossil fuel usage." - Ralph Keeling, director of the Scripps Oceanography CO2 program
The #CEELab at the @standupforscience.bsky.social event in Los Angeles today!
Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”
Cuts to NSF will dismantle the scientific enterprise, ceding our leadership to other nations. It is antithetical to fund science along idealogical grounds while ignoring the most pressing scientific challenges of our time. Those challenges do not disappear when the voices of science are taken away.
My colleagues at NOAA fear for their jobs.
Their satellite observation today of accumulating heat stress (already above mortality thresholds) on the northern Great Barrier Reef: Yet again a deadly mass coral bleaching event is underway.
Without NOAA, climate & reef scientists will be blind.
Flashdance squid style 🦑✨🦑 #caribbeanreefsquid #reefsquid #squid #cephalopod #flashdance #chromatophore #flashing #matingdance #courtship #cephalopod #cephalopodsofcoralcity #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #miamibeach #biscaynebay #coralcity
The ICRS student and early career chapter is now on Bluesky - make sure you give them a follow! Being a part of this chapter has been so wonderful and fulfilling - you’ll definitely want to keep up with what they’re up to next!
Taking 2025 one wave at a time ✨🌊
The ICRS has been endorsed by the UN Ocean Decade! 🐳 With this support, we further our goal in providing crucial funding & support for early-career ocean professionals working on coral reefs. 🪸
oceandecade.org/actions/inte...
Check out my first chapter 📖🧬.
I’m very grateful to have worked with such a brilliant and supportive team 😊
Recruitment text for the survey.
Second request:
If you are a professional scientist or science communicator who is at least 18 years old and uses social media (including Bluesky) for professional purposes, please consider taking this survey. 🧪🌎 #SciComm
Please help us to share it.
umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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...
Looking forward to connecting with people working on all things coral restoration next week at #ReefFutures! Working on putting together my schedule this week, so please let me know if there’s any talks/sessions you’re particularly excited about!
Happy Thanksgiving Baby Coral Friends 🍗🪸
Just like us humans, the Baby Corals Eating Turkey are thankful for their many new Bluesky friends, their many arms, their many venomous stinging cells, and their many digestive filaments.
Don't forget to eat and leave no crumbs today 🧡
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Super excited to see many more coral people joining Bluesky these days!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScUGGUOKZFwQ26TL5xPzupa35z2gAIGxpL5X-Az6gNFSCnZjA/viewform
Calling all #reeffutures conference attendees - consider donating your brainpower to our workshop!
https://today.ucsd.edu/story/uc-san-diego-receives-10-million-for-center-on-neurobiology-in-changing-environments
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/
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...
Had so much fun talking about tidepools and how animals in them move with a great group of kids during yesterday’s Fun Interactive Science Hour (FISH) at the Angeles Mesa library branch!
