Looking at the absolutely massive scars left by the Archimedes' screws on the old OMCO mining tool is a reminder of just how destructive commercial deep sea mining could have been if it started in the 80s and how much we still have left to learn before we can allow the industry to progress.

Giant Oyster and small giant clam (Tridacna maxima). Sources: card: Gatherer; photograph: Wikimedia Commons (Dupont, 2009), CC BY-SA 2.0.

While in our world, molluscs are the second most diverse animal group. But their representation in game universes (like Magic: The Gathering) is skewed, and someone felt the need to look into that!
(and maybe research expense some boosters)

🧪 #MTG

Link: jgeekstudies.org/2025/08/24/m...

UC Berkeley professor Kwabena Bediako under investigation for sexual harassment allegations Since the allegations were publicized, nearly every graduate and undergraduate student in the Bediako Lab has left the lab.

I'm struck by the bravery of this student and the fantastic way the union handled this allegation. What a model for all of us to follow in terms of how to show up for our members.

Scientists stunned by ‘fundamentally new way’ life produces DNA | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Deep-sea wildernesses are more important than the promise of seafloor mining (analysis) When I set sail on the MV NorSky in the summer of 2008 to probe the depths of Manus Basin off the coast of Papua New Guinea, I believed in the promise of deep-sea mining. As an early-career deep-sea e...

The only thing inevitable in the deep sea is discovery.

Deep-sea wildernesses are more important than the promise of seafloor mining.

news.mongabay.com/2026/04/deep...

Post Doc position alert! Come work with us on the evolution of cannibalism. Full job description in link below. Salary starts at $58k plus benefits. (Please help spread the word)
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Hey y'all. Love all the love for the program (we're pretty proud of it too). But the fact that the solicitation is archived does NOT mean that the program is shutting down. We're hanging in there, struggling through the uncertainty with everyone else.

‘It’s just madness’: Trump administration to close three-quarters of Forest Service research stations Between funding cuts, facility closures, and the inevitable resignations that will follow, there’s virtually no way for the Forest Service to continue to do research at its current level or quality, w...

My big takeaway from reporting this story is that it's not JUST about the Forest Service.

The closure of these stations threatens to upend a delicate system of mutually beneficial collaboration and resource sharing, and the impacts will ripple out far beyond the Forest Service itself.

NSF LTER program “archived”.

LTER=“Long Term Ecological Research”.

This program has been incredibly successful, incredibly frugal for what they accomplish, and…of course…targeted by evil know-nothings.

My heart is breaking.

Received a review request for a journal I wasn't aware of. Manuscript title and abstract were fanciful.

An opportunity to "discover" 😆 that Springer Nature copied MDPI with a bunch of (semi)predatory journals named "discover something".

Be sure not to review or publish in these journals. ⚒️ 🧪

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OMG Vitreledonella carry eggs!!! #MarineLife OceanX seems to have a page but it is private so I'm not tagging them.

a cartoon fish is swimming in the ocean with its eyes closed . Alt: Scene from Finding Nemo, Dory the blue tang touches a jelly fish which stings her, causing her to retreat

While jellies are quite scary during stinger season, fishes that feed on these planktonic jellies contribute a whopping ~25% to the productivity of coral reef fishes 🪼🐟

Check out our new OA paper in @natecoevo.nature.com, led by PhD student James Gahan, here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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What a MASSIVE scientific undertaking 🤩

Stephens et al. inferred orthogroups for over 100 scleractinia reference genomes/transcriptomes - 228 datasets total!

I can only begin to imagine what incredible insights can be gained from this 🪸🧬🧪

#popgen #evolution #coralreefs #phylogentics #EvoBio

more details www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

#PoetryInOcean: “I speak of underneathedness...
I speak for the damselfly, water skeet, mollusk,
the caterpillar, the beetle, the spider, the ant.
I speak from a time before spinelessness was frowned upon.”
Camille T. Dungy’s poetry seemed a lovely way to celebrate tiny marvels in the midwater.

Wow. Amazing. Looking at bathymetric charts of drop-offs is one thing, but seeing the life that clings to those crazy slopes is another

Is this the real slope or is it the image angle? Either way, super cool

The Chirodectes jellyfish, seen only twice, is a rare marvel of the ocean. This footage captures its stunning speed and unique markings. A gem for marine research.

ICRS - SECC Translation Sub-Committee Application 2026 The International Coral Reef Society (ICRS) Student & Early Career Chapter (SECC) is a community dedicated to providing support and resources for students and recent graduates in transitional roles within coral reef science. We are proud to be a diverse international network comprised of 51 Students & ECRs representing 25 countries! We are committed to continuing to expand the diversity of our chapter (and ICRS) through several avenues, including increasing awareness of issues surrounding equity, diversity, and inclusion, expanding our team of translators who translate our communications materials, and providing career development resources and opportunities. We are currently seeking individuals to join the Translation sub-committee within our chapter, with a focus on recruiting currently underrepresented languages. The Translation Team focuses on translating existing ICRS content, official communications, and website materials into widely spoken languages to expand the reach of ICRS’s mission and activities. We are looking for enthusiastic and diverse students, post-grads, post-docs, and other early career individuals who are involved in the coral reef community. We particularly encourage those from historically marginalized communities to apply. To see more about what we do, check out our pages: https://linktr.ee/icrssecc Deadline: April 8th @ 11:59 PM UTC! Applicants will be informed of decisions by early May. If you have any questions please write to us at icrs.students@gmail.com ****** Please note that although these are volunteer positions, chapter members are expected to contribute equally to their sub-committee tasks and maintain their position for 2 years. The time commitment required will vary depending on the current activities of each sub-committee throughout the year. Translation Sub-Committee Member - As a chapter, one of our aims is to promote ICRS chapter diversity and inclusion by providing content in multiple languages. Our Translation Team translates various chapter content including, but not limited to, Reefbites articles, social media posts, infographics, and webpage content. We have capacity to translate content into Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, and Italian. We are looking for additional translators in these languages to assist and new, under-represented languages (for example: Chinese, Indonesian and Arabic) to become translators in our team and expand the mission and activities of the ICRS-SECC. As a translator, you would translate SECC content from English to another language that you are fluent in, review other individual's translations, and attend regular Translation Team meetings. Your contributions as translators are a valuable part of the Student & Early Career Chapter’s work.

Help make coral reef science accessible worldwide!

ICRS-SECC is recruiting translators in new, underrepresented languages (eg Chinese, Indonesian, Arabic).

Open to students, post-grads, post-docs & early-career researchers.

Apply by April 8 👉

Summer Courses Each summer BIOS offers a suite of courses for both undergraduate and graduate students that capitalize upon the expertise of our faculty.

Study marine science at ASU BIOS in Bermuda this summer. Courses include Coral Reef Ecology (June 22-July 10) and Marine Molecular Ecology (July 13-31). Open to undergrad and graduate students. Financial aid is available.

Apply by April 30:
bios.asu.edu/education/su...

Day 79/100: Coral Catshark … this reclusive shark is commonly found on shallow coral reefs across the Indo-West Pacific. It is small and harmless

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Diversity, inclusion, and representation in coral reef science Purpose & Privacy You are being invited to participate in a research study titled “Diversity, inclusion, and representation in coral reef science”. This study is being conducted by a collective of students and researchers from the International Coral Reef Society’s Student and Early Career Chapter (ICRS SECC) and the University of Leeds, U.K. The purpose of this research study is to understand equality, diversity, and inclusion in the current global coral reef science and restoration community so we can inform the design of better support, policies, and opportunities and will take you approximately 20 minutes to complete. Your participation in this study is entirely voluntary and all questions are optional. You do not have to answer any questions you do not want to and can select “Prefer not to say”. No personal identifiable data is being collected. We believe there are no known risks associated with this research study; however, as with any online related activity the risk of a breach is always possible. To the best of our ability your participation in this study will remain confidential, and only aggregated data will be published. We will minimise any risks by collecting no personal data (including name, email, and IP address) and Data will be stored securely by the research team in line with institutional policy. Further information is available via the University of Leeds Privacy Notice. Additional Information Participant Information Sheet can be found here. Research conducted under the University of Leeds ethics BESS 3916. Research team contact: Dr. Michelle Taylor, ICRS Student and Early Career Chapter, icrs.students@gmail.com. Estimated time: 20 minutes By clicking “Next”, you confirm that: (a) you are aged 18+; (b) you have read and understood the information above; (c) you are taking part voluntarily and understand you can skip questions or stop at any time before submitting; and (d) you appreciate that because the survey is anonymous, it might not be possible to withdraw or remove your responses after submission.

Help us understand quality, diversity, and inclusion in the current global coral reef science and restoration community so we can inform the design of better support, policies, and opportunities!

Survey will take ~20 min.

Please share widely!

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🐠 Which reef fishes yield reliable #SDMs? Analysing 1900+ species, this study shows #modelperformance mostly depends on latitude, coastal proximity and environmental match, offering a framework to predict reliability and improve #marinebiodiversity assessments.

🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ddi....

When the global pandemic dashed her plans to study coral reefs in the remote Society Islands, MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Megan Gillen turned to Google Earth.

Explore the river-reef patterns that emerged from a distance: go.whoi.edu/riverreef

🚨 Paper Alert!

In 2023, Mexican coral reefs experienced an unprecedented bleaching event.

But bleaching wasn’t the biggest issue.

Our study in Proceedings B @royalsociety.org shows a marine heatwave caused massive coral mortality and pushed reefs from production to net erosion

#Reefs

A thread 🧵

An Army Corps project could wipe out one of Florida’s last thriving coral reefs The fate of one of the last thriving coral reefs in Florida may be imperiled by plans to widen the shipping channel leading into Port Everglades.

The US army corps of engineers is considering, right now, what would be the largest destruction of coral reefs in US history. To make a port slightly bigger.

People know this, right?

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is planning to widen the shipping channel leading into Port Everglades, blasting through a coral reef and dredging up sediment that could smother acres of coral, federal scientists say. https://wapo.st/4r7kRAU

2023: The first mass coral bleaching event in the Veracruz Reef System National Park, southwestern Gulf of Mexico - Coral Reefs The 2023 Fourth Global Bleaching Event impacted coral reef ecosystems worldwide. At the Veracruz Reef System National Park (VRSNP), the mean monthly sea surface temperature in August reached 30.3 ºC,…

The first mass coral bleaching event in the Veracruz Reef System National Park, southwestern Gulf of Mexico link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🦑 🧪 🌍️

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.

Citizen scientists discover a Great Barrier Reef coral giant ‘like a rolling meadow’ Volunteer group Citizens of the Reef made the find as part of the Great Reef Census

Citizen scientists discover a Great Barrier Reef coral giant ‘like a rolling meadow’

Volunteer group Citizens of the Reef made the find as part of the Great Reef Census

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