Hannah Sima Rempel
@hannah-rempel.bsky.social
Marine ecologist & PhD student interested in how human impacts alter marine trophic interactions. (She/her) 🏳️🌈🪸 🐟 ⚛️ 🧬
Other interests include: rstats, sciart, community engagement and educational outreach
https://hannahrempel.weebly.com
Other interests include: rstats, sciart, community engagement and educational outreach
https://hannahrempel.weebly.com
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Why do animals eat their own poop—and other animals’ too?
This natural survival strategy, known as coprophagy, reveals how wildlife makes the most of every available resource.
nationalgeographic.com
Why do animals eat their own poop—and other animals’ too? It's not just your dog that does it, but fish, moose, and many other creatures! 💩
Learn more in a Nat Geo article by Katarina Zimmer highlighting my research and that other scientists: nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
Learn more in a Nat Geo article by Katarina Zimmer highlighting my research and that other scientists: nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
Thank you! That is so kind of you! 🥰 That support has had such a positive impact on my work and I couldn’t be more grateful for this organization of women supporting women!
November 30, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Thank you! That is so kind of you! 🥰 That support has had such a positive impact on my work and I couldn’t be more grateful for this organization of women supporting women!
Work with 4-5th graders? Check out our 'Coral Reefs & Our Changing Oceans' 3-part lesson series on OER Commons! 🪸👩🏫
Students build a coral reef food web, then explore how human impacts influence it through hands-on group activities!
oercommons.org/courseware/l...
#TEKS #NGSS #K-12 #teachersky
Students build a coral reef food web, then explore how human impacts influence it through hands-on group activities!
oercommons.org/courseware/l...
#TEKS #NGSS #K-12 #teachersky
4-5th Grade Lesson: Coral Reefs & Our Changing Oceans
This three-part series of 50-minute lessons on 'Coral Reefs & Our Changing Oceans' aligns with Texas Essential Knowledge & Skills Standards for 4-5th Grade Science. It covers: (1) Coral Reefs & their ...
oercommons.org
October 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Work with 4-5th graders? Check out our 'Coral Reefs & Our Changing Oceans' 3-part lesson series on OER Commons! 🪸👩🏫
Students build a coral reef food web, then explore how human impacts influence it through hands-on group activities!
oercommons.org/courseware/l...
#TEKS #NGSS #K-12 #teachersky
Students build a coral reef food web, then explore how human impacts influence it through hands-on group activities!
oercommons.org/courseware/l...
#TEKS #NGSS #K-12 #teachersky
Great new pub by Pappalardo et al. on taxon-specific BLAST % identity thresholds for DNA #metabarcoding 🧬, with an associated Shiny app for optimized COI thresholds tailored to your data:
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
shiny.si.edu/ebbs_blast_f...
#eDNA
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
shiny.si.edu/ebbs_blast_f...
#eDNA
Taxon‐specific BLAST percent identity thresholds for identification of unknown sequences using metabarcoding
The identification of organisms in environmental samples using metabarcoding relies on factors such as taxonomic assignment methods, genetic markers, reference databases and confidence thresholds ...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 29, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Great new pub by Pappalardo et al. on taxon-specific BLAST % identity thresholds for DNA #metabarcoding 🧬, with an associated Shiny app for optimized COI thresholds tailored to your data:
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
shiny.si.edu/ebbs_blast_f...
#eDNA
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
shiny.si.edu/ebbs_blast_f...
#eDNA
So excited to see this published, its an amazing synthesis of so much work! Congratulations to you and the team!
July 2, 2025 at 3:42 PM
So excited to see this published, its an amazing synthesis of so much work! Congratulations to you and the team!
Reposted by Hannah Sima Rempel
🐠🦈 Just out: In this paper we ask "How has reef trophic structure changed since humans started removing predatory fishes from Caribbean coral reefs?".
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com
July 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
🐠🦈 Just out: In this paper we ask "How has reef trophic structure changed since humans started removing predatory fishes from Caribbean coral reefs?".
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com
Reposted by Hannah Sima Rempel
On this celebratory day of women and girls in science, let’s reflect that the US National Science Foundation has put the words “women” and “female” (but not “men” and “male”) on the list of forbidden words that will get your grant slated for the reject bin.
February 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
On this celebratory day of women and girls in science, let’s reflect that the US National Science Foundation has put the words “women” and “female” (but not “men” and “male”) on the list of forbidden words that will get your grant slated for the reject bin.
Send Google feedback! (Directions below, its easy!) If enough people voice their outrage, it can influence corporate policy.
February 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Send Google feedback! (Directions below, its easy!) If enough people voice their outrage, it can influence corporate policy.
If were going to be renaming the Gulf, then here’s the improved version (all jokes aside, this is such an idiotic thing to do)
February 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
If were going to be renaming the Gulf, then here’s the improved version (all jokes aside, this is such an idiotic thing to do)
Reposted by Hannah Sima Rempel
Today is the last day of our #Metabarcoding in Microbial Ecology course! A huge thank you to our instructors and all the participants for making this week a great learning experience.
@fonamental.bsky.social @delcampolab.bsky.social
@fonamental.bsky.social @delcampolab.bsky.social
February 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Today is the last day of our #Metabarcoding in Microbial Ecology course! A huge thank you to our instructors and all the participants for making this week a great learning experience.
@fonamental.bsky.social @delcampolab.bsky.social
@fonamental.bsky.social @delcampolab.bsky.social
I'd love to be added if there's space :)
February 3, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I'd love to be added if there's space :)
As part of the ‘24-25 SWIMM program, a group of students from Mexico, Cuba and the US have been helping develop a Report Card of coastal resources of Tabasco. 🇲🇽🇨🇺🇺🇸 Last week, we presented a first draft to collaborators in Villahermosa! This has been an amazing group and project to be a part of! 💕
January 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
As part of the ‘24-25 SWIMM program, a group of students from Mexico, Cuba and the US have been helping develop a Report Card of coastal resources of Tabasco. 🇲🇽🇨🇺🇺🇸 Last week, we presented a first draft to collaborators in Villahermosa! This has been an amazing group and project to be a part of! 💕
I didn't mean to imply aren't reaching tipping points, rather that stating we are "out of time" suggests an inevitability to mitigating climate change impacts. Nancy Knowlton has highlighted how "doom and gloom" science can lead to self-fulfilling inaction. I prefer to focus on actions we can take.
January 7, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I didn't mean to imply aren't reaching tipping points, rather that stating we are "out of time" suggests an inevitability to mitigating climate change impacts. Nancy Knowlton has highlighted how "doom and gloom" science can lead to self-fulfilling inaction. I prefer to focus on actions we can take.
Not if people and our elected governments take dramatic action within the next two decades, according to leading experts. www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...
Humanity can still stop worst consequences of climate change, but time is running out, IPCC warns
This is likely the last warning the IPCC will be able to make about the 1.5 mark because their next set of reports will likely come after Earth has either breached the mark or locked into exceeding it...
www.pbs.org
January 7, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Not if people and our elected governments take dramatic action within the next two decades, according to leading experts. www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...
How is bat acoustic activity influenced by noise pollution? How do impacts differ between natural sounds and human ones with similar acoustic characteristics? 🦇💧🚗
Learn more in our new open-access publication, led by Ryan Vosbigian: dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...
Learn more in our new open-access publication, led by Ryan Vosbigian: dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...
Natural and anthropogenic noise shape bat activity and sonar behavior
As human development has expanded, so has the prevalence of anthropogenic noise, which can interfere with acoustic channels used by wildlife. However, since landscapes contain natural sources of pers....
dx.doi.org
December 27, 2024 at 12:42 AM
How is bat acoustic activity influenced by noise pollution? How do impacts differ between natural sounds and human ones with similar acoustic characteristics? 🦇💧🚗
Learn more in our new open-access publication, led by Ryan Vosbigian: dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...
Learn more in our new open-access publication, led by Ryan Vosbigian: dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...
Just did the last PCR of my PhD and with that, Im done with the last of my lab work! 🧬🧪🎉
December 23, 2024 at 8:28 PM
Just did the last PCR of my PhD and with that, Im done with the last of my lab work! 🧬🧪🎉
Coral bleaching surveys in Bonaire from 2016-2023 show that last year had the most widespread bleaching and related coral colony mortality. While this is disheartening, focusing on increasing local reef resilience can help buy time to address global climate change. 🪸💪
📖: www.dcbd.nl/reposerver/a...
📖: www.dcbd.nl/reposerver/a...
December 22, 2024 at 5:14 PM
Coral bleaching surveys in Bonaire from 2016-2023 show that last year had the most widespread bleaching and related coral colony mortality. While this is disheartening, focusing on increasing local reef resilience can help buy time to address global climate change. 🪸💪
📖: www.dcbd.nl/reposerver/a...
📖: www.dcbd.nl/reposerver/a...
Hi, could I be added?
December 21, 2024 at 2:36 PM
Hi, could I be added?
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December 11, 2024 at 4:31 PM
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a picture of a coral reef with the words that 's the coral of the story
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December 9, 2024 at 7:07 PM
For folks interested in coral reef ecosystem related research and news, check out the Coralsky feed! 🪸🐠🦀
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Could I be added?
December 6, 2024 at 10:05 PM
Could I be added?