Moriaki Yasuhara
@moriakiyasuhara.bsky.social
Professor@HKU - Marine paleoecology, macroecology and biodiversity, deep-sea biology, conservation paleobiology, paleontology of Ostracoda, etc.
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New! Climatic forcing of the Southern Ocean deep-sea ecosystem. Featured as cover in @currentbiology.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Understanding the relationship between #foraminifera & their #symbionts can help corals phys.org/news/2025-09...
Specific host - #algae relationship, yet flexible bacterial #microbiome, in diatom-bearing foraminifera: Elsa Girard et al. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#Protists #Microbes #Diatoms
Specific host - #algae relationship, yet flexible bacterial #microbiome, in diatom-bearing foraminifera: Elsa Girard et al. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#Protists #Microbes #Diatoms
November 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Understanding the relationship between #foraminifera & their #symbionts can help corals phys.org/news/2025-09...
Specific host - #algae relationship, yet flexible bacterial #microbiome, in diatom-bearing foraminifera: Elsa Girard et al. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#Protists #Microbes #Diatoms
Specific host - #algae relationship, yet flexible bacterial #microbiome, in diatom-bearing foraminifera: Elsa Girard et al. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#Protists #Microbes #Diatoms
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Leicester's Palaeontology program has a long track record including discovery that conodonts were vertebrates, graduates who are Fellows of the Royal Society, innovative researchers, and a growing body of undergraduate students.
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November 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Leicester's Palaeontology program has a long track record including discovery that conodonts were vertebrates, graduates who are Fellows of the Royal Society, innovative researchers, and a growing body of undergraduate students.
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Deep-sea mining in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone may release waste into midwaters that support diverse marine life. A study in Nature Communications finds such discharges could dilute key food particles and disrupt trophic links from zooplankton to large marine predators. go.nature.com/3Jm0C2U 🌊 🧪
November 19, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Deep-sea mining in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone may release waste into midwaters that support diverse marine life. A study in Nature Communications finds such discharges could dilute key food particles and disrupt trophic links from zooplankton to large marine predators. go.nature.com/3Jm0C2U 🌊 🧪
Finally I have new microscope in my new office!! IDing Tokyo Bay ostracods~
November 15, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Finally I have new microscope in my new office!! IDing Tokyo Bay ostracods~
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Dont remember seeing any Australian media articles about this - although i was at a conference last week. But it seems kind of a big deal that the # GBR wont survive till the end of the century and will decline sig by mid century. #auspol #qldpol #cop30
A rapidly closing window for coral persistence under global warming - Nature Communications
Global warming is causing widespread coral mortality through bleaching. Here, simulations of coral eco-evolutionary dynamics forecast strong population declines in the 21st century. Coral reefs may co...
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November 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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On Saturday November 15, 2025 we will open the call to submit proposals for the Analytical Paleobiology School 2026 for grad students in Erlangen for a training in analytical methods. Do you want to join or send someone? More info and details: www.paleosynthesis.nat.fau.de/science-scho...
November 11, 2025 at 7:03 AM
On Saturday November 15, 2025 we will open the call to submit proposals for the Analytical Paleobiology School 2026 for grad students in Erlangen for a training in analytical methods. Do you want to join or send someone? More info and details: www.paleosynthesis.nat.fau.de/science-scho...
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Some ancient stony corals were able to survive extreme environmental changes, which suggests that some modern species could possess some resilience to the effects of climate change, according to research in Nature. go.nature.com/4hrpLpi 🌊 🧪
November 3, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Some ancient stony corals were able to survive extreme environmental changes, which suggests that some modern species could possess some resilience to the effects of climate change, according to research in Nature. go.nature.com/4hrpLpi 🌊 🧪
Congrats Wolfgang! Very well deserved
We warmly congratulate Wolfgang Kießling on his outstanding achievement in the Ranking of the Stanford List 2025. Wolfgang is ranked among the top 50 in his field!
This year’s ranking takes into account a total of 236,313 researchers. Visit: www.fau.eu/2025/09/news... for more details.
This year’s ranking takes into account a total of 236,313 researchers. Visit: www.fau.eu/2025/09/news... for more details.
October 31, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Congrats Wolfgang! Very well deserved
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We warmly congratulate Wolfgang Kießling on his outstanding achievement in the Ranking of the Stanford List 2025. Wolfgang is ranked among the top 50 in his field!
This year’s ranking takes into account a total of 236,313 researchers. Visit: www.fau.eu/2025/09/news... for more details.
This year’s ranking takes into account a total of 236,313 researchers. Visit: www.fau.eu/2025/09/news... for more details.
October 31, 2025 at 8:30 AM
We warmly congratulate Wolfgang Kießling on his outstanding achievement in the Ranking of the Stanford List 2025. Wolfgang is ranked among the top 50 in his field!
This year’s ranking takes into account a total of 236,313 researchers. Visit: www.fau.eu/2025/09/news... for more details.
This year’s ranking takes into account a total of 236,313 researchers. Visit: www.fau.eu/2025/09/news... for more details.
Ostracod communities through a cold fluid seepage during the Late Jurassic: the Sahune site (Drôme, France): sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiqu...
Ostracod communities through a cold fluid seepage during the Late Jurassic: the Sahune site (Drôme, France)
The oldest known ostracods from a chemosynthetic community at a cold seep were recently described from an authigenic carbonate lens enclosed within the Upper Jurassic (middle Oxfordian) Terres Noires ...
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October 25, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Ostracod communities through a cold fluid seepage during the Late Jurassic: the Sahune site (Drôme, France): sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiqu...
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👏 Congratulations 👏 to the Big Questions team lead by Jansen A. Smith! After such a hard work the paper "Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a
community-driven project"is published in Paleobiology (doi.org/10.1017/pab.2025.10042)
community-driven project"is published in Paleobiology (doi.org/10.1017/pab.2025.10042)
October 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM
👏 Congratulations 👏 to the Big Questions team lead by Jansen A. Smith! After such a hard work the paper "Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a
community-driven project"is published in Paleobiology (doi.org/10.1017/pab.2025.10042)
community-driven project"is published in Paleobiology (doi.org/10.1017/pab.2025.10042)
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Day three of the Deepwater Horizon work was a success. Unfortunately the red crabs still look like this…
October 22, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Day three of the Deepwater Horizon work was a success. Unfortunately the red crabs still look like this…
Also press release here: www.fau.eu/2025/09/news...
Palaeonology: A small subject has big questions
The involvement of around 200 researchers from over 30 different countries and more than five years’ work have resulted in 89 “Big Questions” – the most important research questions in paleontology…
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October 11, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Also press release here: www.fau.eu/2025/09/news...
Jansen's great leadership appreciated! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core
Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project
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October 11, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Jansen's great leadership appreciated! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core
Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project
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October 11, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Here are the details of the shrinking bryozoan paper, as the dot doesn't seem to work.
October 9, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Here are the details of the shrinking bryozoan paper, as the dot doesn't seem to work.
New! Huang et al. Benthic ostracod diversity and biogeography in an urban semi-enclosed eutrophic riverine bay bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/...
Benthic ostracod diversity and biogeography in an urban semi-enclosed eutrophic riverine bay
Abstract. The benthic ecosystem has been greatly altered by environmental pressure over the past several decades. Compared to some well-studied large bays, the situation in populated small bay areas i...
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September 17, 2025 at 12:42 PM
New! Huang et al. Benthic ostracod diversity and biogeography in an urban semi-enclosed eutrophic riverine bay bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/...
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What a great bunch of paleobiologists and soooo international!! the annual @paleosynth.bsky.social summer school. Such a pleasure to share methods with u all. Thanks @devapriya-chat.bsky.social @dralexdunhill.bsky.social @moriakiyasuhara.bsky.social & others for sending ur grad students over!
September 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
What a great bunch of paleobiologists and soooo international!! the annual @paleosynth.bsky.social summer school. Such a pleasure to share methods with u all. Thanks @devapriya-chat.bsky.social @dralexdunhill.bsky.social @moriakiyasuhara.bsky.social & others for sending ur grad students over!
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“These vast, seemingly timeless seascapes have become some of the world’s most vulnerable marine habitats, according to a new study published on Thursday in the journal Science that adds up and maps the ways human activity is profoundly reshaping oceans and coastlines around the world.”
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Humans Are Altering the Seas. Here’s What the Future Ocean Might Look Like. (Gift Article)
Some marine ecosystems could soon be unrecognizable, according to new research. We mapped the possibilities.
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September 7, 2025 at 12:56 AM
“These vast, seemingly timeless seascapes have become some of the world’s most vulnerable marine habitats, according to a new study published on Thursday in the journal Science that adds up and maps the ways human activity is profoundly reshaping oceans and coastlines around the world.”
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SWIMS will be a very busy place from tomorrow because Integrative Marine Ecology & Conservation (IMEC) MSc has launched! Tomorrow, forty-four students will start their journey at SWIMS and HKU. Their first class – Ocean Biodiversity, is at 9am. Welcome to SWIMS, everyone!
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September 1, 2025 at 9:12 AM
SWIMS will be a very busy place from tomorrow because Integrative Marine Ecology & Conservation (IMEC) MSc has launched! Tomorrow, forty-four students will start their journey at SWIMS and HKU. Their first class – Ocean Biodiversity, is at 9am. Welcome to SWIMS, everyone!
@jonscibulski.bsky.social
@jonscibulski.bsky.social
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[New Paper] We found a SECOND SNAIL with HARD SCALES on the foot -- Ifremeria nautilei lives in deep-sea hot vents and makes chitinous scales not by secretion but by cell differentiation, like our own skin!
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August 27, 2025 at 4:08 AM
[New Paper] We found a SECOND SNAIL with HARD SCALES on the foot -- Ifremeria nautilei lives in deep-sea hot vents and makes chitinous scales not by secretion but by cell differentiation, like our own skin!
@royalsocietypublishing.org Proceedings B, OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
@royalsocietypublishing.org Proceedings B, OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
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In the interest of celebrating good things, former lab postdoc David Fastovich (and new Assistant Prof at University of Georgia!) has a new paper looking at rates of ecosystem change in response to past climate change: press release: phys.org/news/2025-07...
Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Climate change outpaces trees: Forests face centuries-long lag in adaptation
Ecologists are concerned that forest ecosystems will not keep pace with a rapidly changing climate, failing to remain healthy and productive. Before the rapid climate change of the past century, tree ...
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July 4, 2025 at 1:32 PM
In the interest of celebrating good things, former lab postdoc David Fastovich (and new Assistant Prof at University of Georgia!) has a new paper looking at rates of ecosystem change in response to past climate change: press release: phys.org/news/2025-07...
Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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This makes me really sad: Richard was a great guy. Some of my best memories from my Smithsonian are from interacting with him.
June 25, 2025 at 9:49 PM
This makes me really sad: Richard was a great guy. Some of my best memories from my Smithsonian are from interacting with him.
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Vegetation might not be able to keep up with current rates of environmental change, given data from the pollen fossil record. Fun doing this work with David Fastovich in the lead, but sobering www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Coupled, decoupled, and abrupt responses of vegetation to climate across timescales
Climate and ecosystem dynamics vary across timescales, but research into climate-driven vegetation dynamics usually focuses on singular timescales. We developed a spectral analysis–based approach that...
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July 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Vegetation might not be able to keep up with current rates of environmental change, given data from the pollen fossil record. Fun doing this work with David Fastovich in the lead, but sobering www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...