In response to the mass die-offs of California sea cucumbers in Nanoose, BC, we'd officially like to ask the dive community to please count healthy and diseased sea cucumbers on your next dives and report your observations here: forms.gle/xjJhFZ3TZbWeEq…

Inaction is a choice; it’s a risk that has costs. @RyanPhelan6 does a great job highlighting intended consequences and the potential for genetic rescue!

Conservation Genomics Summit TOMORROW! Register to hear from leaders in the field of conservation & learn how genomics is supporting their efforts Revive & Restore @_ellie_cat @giacomo_fish @JBYoder Moi Expósito-Alonso (#MOILAB) Lauren Schiebelhut Blank #CGS2021 dovetailgenomics.com/cgs2021/

What're your emerging approaches, concepts, and findings in marine biogeography, and how will they shape biogeography's future?

Out paper on the importance of genome-wide genetic variation in conservation is now published in PNAS. With Sarah W Fitzpatrick @_ellie_cat @SamanthaSHauser @millerjm86 @fieldgenomics.bsky.social, Dave Tallmon, and Phil Hedrick. pnas.org/content/118/48…

🚨Ahead-of-print🚨 "Progress Toward Complete Life Cycle Culturing of the Endangered Sunflower Star, Pycnopodia helianthoides," by Hodin et al. Friday Harbor Labs 🔗 doi.org/10.1086/716552 📸 Early juvenile ontogeny of P. helianthoides

Starting in Fall 2022, the University of California will be free to attend for all Tribal members who are California residents. The University is also exploring partnerships and support for terminated and unrecognized Tribes.

Helping spread the word to marine folk who might be interested in the #oceanhealth2022 symposium. PRIMED Network UC Davis Coastal and Marine Sciences Institute Friday Harbor Labs Hakai Institute PISCO Science Dr. Alyssa Gehman Dr. Drew Harvell

Interested in Coral Health and Disease? Join us in beautiful Kiel for the #OceanHealth2022 Symposium. Raquel Peixoto Carlos Duarte Martin Visbeck Prof. Michael Sweet @MarineEvolEcol Christian R Voolstra annar01k GEOMAR_en @OceanAndSociety

New post on the #AGABlog blog.theaga.org by @annie_guillaume & Lauren Schiebelhut about Congen 2021

🚨Ahead-of-print🚨 "A Review of Asteroid Biology in the Context of Sea Star Wasting: Possible Causes and Consequences" by Oulhen, Byrne lab Dr. Paige Duffin Marta Gomez-Chiarri Cornell Marine Mass Mortality Laboratory 🏳️‍🌈 @lipp_lab Lauren Schiebelhut gary wessel @wareslab et al 🔗 doi.org/10.1086/719928 📸 Sea star wasting

This Dungeness crab die off indicates there is a hypoxia event developing off the coast of central Oregon. Fishermen carrying oxygen sensors are reporting low O2 and dead crabs in pots. Keep an eye out and report what you see to PISCO Science or PRIMED Network

Informative and FREE! Virtual GAP conference Oct 18-20.

The decline of the #SunflowerSeaStar underscores the need for coordinated, science-driven conservation. Many thanks to our partners and contributors for partnering on this roadmap. (🧵3/4)

Great opportunity here for undergrads! Bioinformatics training with FREE registration, room & board.

Recap: I #Resign @jbiogeography because big publishers prioritize profit over access, journal quality, an open market-place for ideas; while eroding editorial independence & devaluing editors (despite record revenues last year, e.g. WIley >$2b!). #JBI #BetterPublishing

We can change the system from within! A large portion of the publishing problem is us, academics. How about starting a new non or low-profit publishing company and all move there? No…bc we like the glossy journals and IFs.

An important discussion arpund the future of the academic publishing circus👇👇👇

Hub just released for exploring the genome of the ecologically important sunflower sea star, a community resource to facilitate genomically-informed conservation actions. MichaelNDawson

and Norah Saarman and others! Great team to work with!