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No wonder we see so little evidence of successful larval recruitment in Florida & many places in the Caribbean, where declining populations have left colonies of the same species far from one another. Great to see this paper with data helping to quantify the problem!

Two TT Assistant Professor positions, 1 Bio and 1 Marine Bio, open in the Department of Life Sciences at TAMU-CC. Come join a friendly, collaborative, and well-equipped department on the Texas Gulf Coast! tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/TAMUCC_E…

Happy New Year from Honolulu, HI!

Pls share:The Department of Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park, invites applications from individuals studying fundamental questions in ecology and evolutionary biology using microbial systems. umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMCP/job/Unive…

Finally out and open access! In this review we reflect on the sea star wasting investigation in 2013, what went wrong and how it informed later work on Diadema. Some interesting new info on ciliates in sea stars as well! annualreviews.org/content/journa…

Breakthrough alert!!! 🚨New study reveals distinct microbial taxa and function associated with coral thermal resistant or thermal sensitive phenotypes. Erika Santoro (she/her) Christian R Voolstra Anny Cárdenas KAUST BESE Marine Microbiomes Lab Gustavo Duarte science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Another fun collaboration with the Julia van Kessel and Dr. Blake Ushijima labs as part of our NSF-BSF grant. #Vibrio #T6SS Quorum sensing regulates virulence factors in the coral pathogen Vibrio coralliilyticus | Applied and Environmental Microbiology journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ae…

The National Science Foundation cancelled over 60 grant review panels today, effectively grinding funding of new projects to a halt. The pause comes as NSF grapples with the impact Trump's executive orders will have on their grantmaking process. npr.org/sections/shots…

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Marine chemists looking to make a change, my department - UNC Wilmington is hiring a distinguished (full) professor of marine chemistry ( broadly defined) . Related government/ industry equivalency will also be considered. Join us! - open until Feb 27th jobs.uncw.edu/postings/34225

Cornell’s College of Veterinary Medicine is searching for multiple TT faculty in Microbiology and Immunology. Come join us! apps.hr.cornell.edu/recruiting/fac…

PhD programs are pausing admissions to graduate school due to NIH indirect cost cuts. See the growing number of programs here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d… How is science supposed to advance with fewer trainees, less $ for research? This is devastating.

Check out CoastalReview.org's piece on a research team led by UNCW's Bradley Tolar (he/him) for TEALS-SHIPS that includes PIs from UNCW, UNC, NCSU & ECU. Studying the nutrients & species transported to our coast from the Gulf of Mexico thru the Gulf Stream. bit.ly/4bwgsBH

The Rising Impact of Coral Research at UNCW is highlighted by UNCW Research Department in this feature on the preservation and restoration of one of the world’s most vital marine organisms. #uncwcse #uncwbamb uncw.edu/news/research/…

In between the waves of devastating news, sometimes it’s nice to bask in the cleansing joy of a grad student’s first paper. Out today: microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour... Bulk of the work by Dr. Blake Ushijima on new #coralprobiotics species. We just did the pigment analysis 😊.

Really cool new sequencing tech from Roche. Will see what more I can learn (beyond this great primer) & get a video to y’all 🫡

CORAL REEF FUNDING OPPORTUNITY!! cordap.org/clip-award/ Exciting news! The G20 Coral Research & Development Accelerator Platform (CORDAP) has launched a new funding opportunity exclusively for researchers from Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). The program offers a

Breaking news: Thousands of researchers and their supporters, including recently fired federal workers, have gathered across the U.S. in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration. scim.ag/3FlSKvz

Check out the just-released Springer Book "Coral Reef Microbiome" with editors @chrisvoolstra and Raquel Peixoto and with the participation of several @mmslab members. Read more at: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

Our new story on #T6SS WHIX effectors and bacterial warfare is out in PLOS Biology . It has a lot more data than the original bioRxiv preprint, so take a look even if you’ve read that. What did we find? A thread... 1/9 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…