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Dive into Wool Creature Lab's World of Vibrant Felted Nudibranchs How artist Arina Bovenich's job at a remote biology research station transformed into a unique craft practice.

Wow, amazing #sciart via @thisiscolossal.com

Making march for science posters

Showing off March for science posters

The lab getting ready for the March for Science this Saturday March 7. See you all there!! 🌎🧪🪸🌿🦑

Scientists deployed 14 million coral larvae in seedboxes on the Great Barrier Reef — achieving settlement rates up to 56x higher than traditional methods. A new trial in the Whitsundays is already underway. 🪸 happyeconews.com
#CoralReef #ReefRestoration #HappyEcoNews
Photo courtesy of CSIRO.

Mother and daughter discover contender for world's largest known coral colony Mother and daughter citizen scientists find what is believed to be the largest coral colony on the Great Barrier Reef an

Some wonderful news to kick off your weekend: locals in Far North Queensland have uncovered a coral colony the length of a football field on the GBR. It shows some coral reefs are surviving mass bleaching events.

We must never lose hope of what is still possible in the face of the climate crisis.

NOAA’s satellite data shows parts of Northern GBR experiencing above average sea surface temps and are now on Alert Level 1, which means coral bleaching is expected. Central and southern regions are at lower warning levels but still experiencing low and accumulating heat stress.

Snapping shrimp are the cicadas of the ocean when they really get going. Thousands of them clicking at the same time make an intense noisy chorus. Hear more in my new sound library from French Polynesia. 24-hour release sale: thomasrexbeverly.com/products/sna... #fieldrecording #listening #coralreef

Guam’s coral reefs face new threats from U.S. policy changes Policy loopholes under the Endangered Species Act may be putting Guam’s fragile coral reefs at greater risk, scientists warn.

Guam’s coral reefs face new threats from U.S. policy changes #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth

Bottom: Dyctiota sp., second from bottom: Silvetia sp., third from bottom left: articulated coralline, middle: Gellidium sp., right: Rhodyminia sp., top left: Rhodyminia?, top right: Macrocystis pyrifera

Macrocystis peryfera

Learning how to press algae with Tonya Kayne, the UCLA EEB winter quarter class instructor. So much fun!! Thank you!! 🌿🧪🌊

a graph that illustrates the point in the post

Incredible to me that all but two major tipping points have uncertainty intervals that dip into heating under 2°C—w coral reefs, the basis for human systems that affect billions, already tipped under 1.5C of heating—and people are out here saying temperature goals for halting heating don't matter.

Fossil isotope evidence for trophic simplification on modern Caribbean reefs - Nature Using nitrogen isotopes from ancient and modern fish otoliths and corals, the study shows Caribbean reef food webs are now 60–70% shorter and functionally less diverse, indicating human-driven tr...

Coral reef ecosystems are in decline and indeed, have been assessed to have passed their Tipping Point. A new study used 7,000 year old fossil evidence to track changes in the food webs of Caribbean reefs.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#climatechange #oceans #coralreefs #ecosystem #tipppingpoint

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!

"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

Graphic showing weekly concentration of CO2 in parts per million for the years from 2020 to 2026. We are currently setting new record high levels.

Webinar advertisement with picture of frozen outdoor faucet announcing the monthly climate brief webinar about the warm west and cold east. Time is February 17 at 12pm EST by Climate Central.

I'll be discussing the recent eastern US cold and western US heat/snow drought in our next webinar in a few days! Open Q/A too! 🧪⚒️🌊

We'll also be introducing a new @climatecentral.org tool to find local climate data in your backyard.

➡️ Please register here: www.climatecentral.org/climate-brie...

Won't you be mine? 😆😍

(h/t @sarahmackattack.bsky.social ) 🌊 🦑 @deepstewardship.bsky.social @deepoceanobs.bsky.social

Emergent climate change signals within Antarctic sea ice and associated ecosystems - Nature Climate Change The authors model the emergence of climate-driven changes in Antarctic sea ice, phytoplankton, krill, fish and penguins. They show earlier emergence for higher trophic levels, as well as highly season...

🌊 Climate change in Antarctica is anything but uniform.

Regional hotspots. Seasonal reversals. Early biological signals.

The story is more than “less ice = collapse”.

Complex, uneven, and already unfolding.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Picture of delicious Darwin birthday cake!

Graduate students celebrating Darwin’s 217th birthday in class! 🎂🎉🎊

We celebrated Charles Darwin’s 217th birthday in our UCLA EEB 200b Evolution graduate class today! We are reading On the Origin of Species and it is been great fun!! Happy birthday Chuck! 🌿🧪🌎

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 🧪

The EMBO Women in Science Lectures address issues related to gender and diversity in science.

Find out more and apply here:
https://www.embo.org/funding/lecture-travel-and-childcare-grants/women-in-science-lectures/

Women in Science A Journey Through the Discoveries and Challenges of Women Scientists Across History and the World

Today is #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience 💜👩‍🔬🧪🧠🧫🔬 #WomenInSTEM #Neuroethology

Check out the #Unesco virtual museum about #Women in #Science ↘️ www.unesco.org/en/virtual-s... ↙️

Feel free to post interesting facts about women researchers and link women neuroethologists below 👇

Visual with the text: Action plan for women in research, innovation and startups.

Women make up just 34% of the researchers in the EU.

The European Commission launched a call for evidence to shape an Action plan for women in R&I, tackling gender gaps and boosting equality in the European Research Area by 2030.

Have your say by 23 Feb: link.europa.eu/hh3vx6

#SciComm 🧪

Women in Science 2026 YouTube video by BiozentrumBasel

Happy International Day of Women & Girls in Science🧪. To mark this day, we feature three female scientists from our core facilities and share their professional journeys, which reflect the diversity of careers in science. #WIS #STEM
👉 www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/research/res...

youtu.be/BVkxirHBqJk

A Microscopic Coral Trick Could Help Save the Great Barrier Reef Scientists have revealed how corals anchor themselves to reefs through a multi-step biological process. The findings could help restoration efforts focus on coral species most likely to survive and thrive.

A Microscopic Coral Trick Could Help Save the Great Barrier Reef #Science #Biology #Ecology #CoralReefConservation #GreatBarrierReef #EcologicalInnovation

https://scitechdaily.com/a-microscopic-coral-trick-could-help-save-the-great-barrier-reef/

Group photo with students and instructors during break

View of the lab’s beach

Entrance of marine lab

View of SWIMS marine reserve from Accra road

Just finished guest teaching a 2-week module in evolutionary and ancient DNA genomics for Hong Kong U’s masters program on Integrative Marine Ecology & Conservation. Great students! Great fun! Great location! Thabk you for the invitatiob! www.scifac.hku.hk/prospective/...

www.scifac.hku.hk/prospective/...

Student presenting at SWIMS group tutorial on Diversity Equity and Inclusion

Masters students working in groups during a tutorial at SWIMS

Classroom view from HKU’s Swire Institute of Marine Science in Cape D‘Aguilar

View of SWIMS from the visitor’s housing

It has been great fun to teach about marine genomics for the masters program in marine ecology at Hong Kong U’s marine lab (SWIMS). We have even been able to discuss the importance of equity in marine conservation practices in the region. How refreshing!! 🧪🪸🦑🧬

Advocates and Lawmakers Are Fighting to Save the USDA’s Flagship Campus The Trump administration wants to get rid of the “crown jewel” of the Anacostia watershed

The Trump administration is trying to shut down USDA’s flagship campus. Here’s what that would mean. 🌎🧪

A bid to clean up shipping industry intensified a coral bleaching event on Great Barrier Reef, study says The removal of sulphur from shipping fuels caused ‘a lot of extra sunlight’ to get through atmosphere and hit reef in 2022 Steps to clean up the shipping industry by removing sulphur from fuels intensified a major coral bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef by allowing more of the sun’s energy to hit the oceanic wonder, according to a new study. Sulphur pollution can cause respiratory problems for humans and cause acid rain, but it also has a shading effect and can make clouds brighter, providing more shade to areas underneath. Continue reading...

A bid to clean up shipping industry intensified a coral bleaching event on Great Barrier Reef, study says

Florida reefs offer multimillion-dollar flood protection—if they survive It's no secret that Florida's iconic coral reefs are in trouble. Repeated body blows from hurricanes, pollution, disease, climate change—and a near-knockout punch from a 2023 marine heat wave—has effectively wiped several species off the map and shrunk the reefs that stretch from the Keys throughout South Florida.

Florida’s coral reefs help prevent hundreds of millions in annual flood damages, with preservation and restoration offering significant economic and coastal protection benefits. doi.org/hbk63s

🧪🌎🇨🇴🌐🌿

Picture of Francisco José de Caldas, an illustrious scholar of Colombia’s 19th century

Felipe Zapata presenting the altitudinal map of plan distribution in the Andes produced by Caldas

Felipe presenting a topographical map of Colombia illustrating how the geography contributes to the high biodiversity of the country, the second most bio diverse country in the planet that is only 2.5X the size of California

Felipe Zapata showing the famous map made by Humboldt, which he drew after meeting Caldas upon his return to Europe from the New World

Today we had Dr. Felipe Zapata come talk to our UCLA Evolution graduate class about how Caldas, a naturalist in the vice kingdom of Nueva Granada in the early 19th century plaid a key role in shaping Humboldt’s theory of plant altitudinal distributions

Symbiosis

🦑 New research in 'Symbiosis' explores the #mycobiome of the upside-down jellyfish using culture-based methods and metagenomic sequencing. This study reveals how location shapes fungal diversity in a benthic #jellyfish. bit.ly/3Nu1Hav @raulgoch.bsky.social @momedinamunoz.bsky.social 🪼🧪🐙🪸

A crazy amount of heat has accumulated in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean over the past two months.

Hold on to your hats when this reaches the surface with the next El Niño.

Y-axis shows depth, X-axis shows degree longitude (one degree equals 111 km) and colors temp anomalies.

@noaa.gov PMEL data