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Katie’s amazing and an incredibly thoughtful scientist. The MSC is a collaborative and vibrant academic community. Living in the North Shore of Boston is awesome. A postdoc in Katie’s lab helped change the path of my career for the better. This is a dream postdoc.

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The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants. www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

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Great job in MA! I love GMGI and attend their conference every year! Amazing opportunity for a marine genomics researcher! gmgi.bamboohr.com/careers/69

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We examined the microbiome of Madracis aurentenra, an urban coral off the coast of the Colombian Caribbean. Interesting dynamics between Endozoicomonas and Vibrionaceae 🧪🪸 #MicroSky peerj.com/articles/192...

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Happy to share our work on jellyfish microbiomes across space and life history stages @akerwin.bsky.social #Microsky #Symbiosky 🧪🌊https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0319944&?utm_id=plos111&utm_source=internal&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=author

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Hi coral peeps! Anyone have any Caribbean spawning predictions for summer 2025? Please share so I can reach more people! Thanks :)

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Know any soon to graduate or recently graduated undergrads interested in a full year, paid postbac research position in microbiome sciences? Have them join our zoom Q&A session on Friday, April 11, 11:30am-12:30pm PST. More info here: sites.google.com/berkeley.edu...

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If you’re a Canadian Citizen with an opinion about the United States you need to vote. You don’t have to wait until April 28th to vote. If you’re in Canada: go to elections Canada or to an advanced poll. If you’re outside of Canada: get your postal vote now. #elbowsup #vote2025

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Congrats Jeric “JK” Da-Anoy (member of the sites.bu.edu/davieslab ) JK is a #Ph.D. #student fascinated by #evolution of #metazoan complexity. He received his Master’s at the Uni of the Philippines, exploring stress response & #evolutionary #neurobiology under Dr. Cecilia Conaco’s supervision.

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Corals maintain stable populations of essential photosynthetic symbionts by controlling their cell cycle, not by eating them! Our new #PNAS paper monitored and modelled #aiptasia cell cycle, autophagy, and expulsion for over a year. #symbiosis #microbiology www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Excited to share JK Da'Anoy's first dissertation chapter published in @sicbjournals.bsky.social! What started off as a side project morphed into great work! "Microbial depletion is associated with slower cnidarian regeneration" LOTS of wondergrads made this happen! Go team :) doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

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Are you interested in marine larval dispersal? Come join us and investigate the plasticity of larval dispersal traits in response to variation in parental environments! Position based at St. Olaf's in Minnesota (low COL!). Please share widely! shorturl.at/NYYXN

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New preprint on Xestospongia muta population genetics across the Florida Reef Tract. www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5... 🪸 🦑🧪

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New preprint on BioRxiv! doi.org/10.1101/2025... We investigate environmental drivers of genetic adaptation in two corals sampled across the Florida Reef Tract. @heatshok.bsky.social

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🪸 We are hiring! 🪸 The Coral Reef and Ocean Health Research Group at the Harte Research Institute (HRI) is seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher to advance our understanding of coral reef resilience and health.

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More of this!

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Our unit at OIST is hiring two postdocs, one lab manager/technician, and one field technician! If you're passionate about exploring microbial and ecosystem ecology at the international institute on Japan's beautiful island, please apply by April 20! 🍄🦠🌳🌞 www.oist.jp/research/res...

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I have an NSF annual report due but I cannot get into SciEnv because of the NIH website issues. It really feels like things are collapsing at our feet.

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!? Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one! #standupforscience2025

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Francis Collins, the NIH Director for 12 years, led the Human Genome Project and other NIH efforts for 32 years, resigned today. Key words from his resignation letter www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...

submitted 76 days ago • 64 comments

Hi folks, we have a full time lecturer position in our department at BU! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29783 We are a fun group of people, dedicated to creating an inclusive space! Consider joining us! Please share widely!

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Florida elkhorn corals need active genetic help to handle climate change, they cannot do it on their own. The risk is far less than the risk of doing nothing. 🌏🧪https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14920439 @coralconsortium.bsky.social

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Elkhorns corals (Acropora palmata) have been building Caribbean reefs for the past 100,000 years or more, but now are hanging on the brink of extinction.

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Scientists are now organizing events, called Stand Up for Science, on 7 March in Washington, D.C., and state capitals. So far, they have attracted more than 100 volunteers from some 30 states who are hoping to rally support for research as a public good. scim.ag/4328LAD

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“Panama communicates to the world my absolute rejection of this method of managing bilateral relations on the basis of lies and falsehoods.” —President Mulino (gift link) wapo.st/3WTA50b

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"Since 1980, Congress has mandated that the [NSF] seek to broaden participation of underrepresented groups, including women and other minorities, within science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪👨‍🔬 executive orders are at odds with this mandate

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Graduating college seniors - looking for a year long research experience? Apply for the RAMP program @uconn.bsky.social @uconnramp.bsky.social in genomics. Please RT

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🐠🧪🎓 New position alert: I am looking for a full-time research technician to work on my NSF CAREER project. Perks: ✅ SCUBA-based fieldwork in Belize 🤿 ✅ Chemistry labwork 🧪 ✅ Lots of fish and fun(ctions) 🐠📈😀 Deadline: Feb 21st utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/... Please share widely.

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Does anyone have any updates on NSF ORCC? @cgrupstra.bsky.social and I resubmitted our proposal in Dec and now the program has been deleted. This would be devastating. We spent a long time reworking this resubmission. Appreciate any updates!

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Two weeks left to apply for a postdoctoral researcher position in my lab, working on cuties like this Trimma capostriatum. If you're into pop gen, fish, and fieldwork, please consider applying. We're a fun group to science with! 🥹👉👈 fishandfunctions.com/join fishandfunctions.com/s/Postdoc_Ad...

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Somewhere in the U.S., there’s a scientist staring at their NSF/NIH grant application wondering why they bother. This post is for you. Science and society both need you. Hang in there and know there is a whole community supporting you.

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Have you been impacted by recent federal funding changes/freezes? A team of public health scientists is working to collect stories to share what is actually happening on the ground. Share your story and circulate within your networks 👇 www.youcanknowthings.com/allrant-fund...

submitted 107 days ago • 5 comments

If you're a scientist that serves on an NSF panel that got cancelled today, I'd love to talk to you about it for an NPR story. DM, email or reach out on signal.

submitted 109 days ago • 12 comments

Panama, here we come! Excessive amounts of bags for the intense amount of science planned! Fingers crossed everything arrives!

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We are hiring several postdoctoral associates at Boston University's interdisciplinary Kilachand Honors College! It is a 3 year teaching position. I am on the committee and happy to answer any questions. The position is unionized. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29595. Please share widely.

submitted 120 days ago • 1 comment

Happy to share our new paper "Cryptic coral diversity is associated with symbioses, physiology, and response to thermal challenge". Check it out and share with your friends! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Overjoyed to see this effort led by @mallorymrice.bsky.social published in @plosbiology.org as part of the EEB Language Project Grateful to be part of this amazing collaboration, and looking forward to what's next! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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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...

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“Female-led [scientific] teams generate more novel & disruptive ideas. However, they tend to produce articles with fewer scientific impact [sic] compared to their male counterparts…this gender bias intensifies in later career stages and with larger team sizes." 🧪 direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

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Pleased to share the cover story I wrote for this year's arts x sciences magazine at @bostonu.bsky.social. I wove the work of three BU College of Arts & Sciences researchers into a piece on what evolution can teach humans about adapting to climate change. www.bu.edu/cas/arts-sci...

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I had a fantastic time presenting on a forthcoming manuscript at Boston University with co-author @allydefduf.bsky.social last week! Thank you to BU and @daviesswphd.bsky.social for the invite. Stay tuned for our ✨pre-print✨, which will be available soon!! #QueerInSTEM

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🚨New Preprint🚨: A Single-cell Atlas of Coral Bleaching! 🪸🦠🔥. We show the microbial ecology of coral bleaching from the gene expression of host and symbiont cells to the shifts in the bacterial and protist communities within the holobiont! #ProtistsOnSky #SymbioSky #MicroSky 🧪

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I wrote (ranted) on experimental design as I was frustrated as an editor at how little guidance students were getting. I underestimated the interest in the issue: it has been downloaded 10,000+ times! Clearly it’s something we need to be talking about more. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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New paper out in GCB Today! We leveraged a system of typical (“classic”) and high-temperature “extreme” reef sites in Chelbacheb (Palau) to study the diversity in symbiotic partners, holobiont traits, and thermal tolerance among cryptic lineages of massive Porites.

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We are thrilled to announced the publication of chromosome level genome assemblies and genetic maps for the Caribbean corals, Acropora palmata and Acropora cervicornis. bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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