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Erin Chille, M.S. 🧬🪸🧪 @erinchille.bsky.social · Jul 23

Today’s #DailyCoralRead 📖🪸

🧬 Two new telomere-to-telomere genome assemblies for Acropora digitifera and A. tenuis! 🧬

The study reveals highly disordered genomic regions with potentially neofunctionalized genes from lineage-specific expansions. 🧪

🔗 http://tiny.cc/z61q001

Nearly T2T, phased genome assemblies of corals reveal haplotype diversity and the evolutionary process of gene expansion

Abstract. Gene family expansion illustrates a critical aspect of evolutionary adaptation. However, the mechanisms by which gene family expansions emerge an

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Dr. Carly Kenkel @drcarl.bsky.social · Jul 23

🧪There are no words.

E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...

E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change

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Dr. Carly Kenkel @drcarl.bsky.social · Jul 23

Amid Fear of Retaliation, N.S.F. Workers Sign Letter of Dissent www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/s...

Amid Fear of Retaliation, N.S.F. Workers Sign Letter of Dissent

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · Jul 19

Without a research arm to support its regulatory arm, Americans will get sicker, and preventable deaths will go up.

The EPA was started by (Republican!) President Richard Nixon in 1970. Some of its first regulations were to ban DDT and leaded gasoline, as well as the Clean Air and Water Acts.

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Jenna Dilworth @jennadilworth.bsky.social · Jul 17

I authored a blog post for @uscwrigley.usc.edu about the work I've been doing along with fellow lab members at the CEE Lab (led by @drcarl.bsky.social) to identify intervention priorities for coral restoration in the Caribbean under the impacts of climate change!

dornsife.usc.edu/wrigley/2025...

Envisioning a future for Caribbean coral reefs: lessons in resilience and collaboration - Wrigley Institute for Environment and Sustainability

Creating a more sustainable and environmentally just future for our planet and all who live on it

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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · May 23

You may have seen a lot of headlines since yesterday about budget negotiations, the threat to Medicaid & new restrictions that block transgender care.

It's hard to track it all. Really grateful for the @unbreaking.org team that did incredible work to push updates to our pages today - unbreaking.org

Unbreaking

How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

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Dr. Carly Kenkel @drcarl.bsky.social · May 15

Its that time again - the list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2026 is live!
PIs enter your position info here: forms.gle/2XTHBP6CZGEn...
Prospective students (and PIs not recruiting) share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Please share! 🧪

Ecology/Evolution/Marine Biology labs recruiting for Fall 2026

Please complete this form if you are a PI recruiting graduate students for a Fall 2026 start. If you are NOT recruiting, feel free to share the response sheet with prospective students looking for lab...

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · Mar 8

Really wish people would stop talking about the problem with Science under Trump as “budget cuts”.

No. Budgets are set deliberatively by elected members of congress. Budgets haven’t been cut.

What’s happening are *purges* and *censorship*.

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Dr. Carly Kenkel @drcarl.bsky.social · Mar 8

I didn’t realize how much I needed this #StandUpForScience rally - thank you #LA organizers!! 🧪

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Dr. Carly Kenkel @drcarl.bsky.social · Feb 22

🧪 www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blog...

A Dear Colleague letter in defense of DEI, by Shaun Harper

Shaun Harper identifies 11 specific actions higher ed institutions can take to uphold their commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.

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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · Feb 4

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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Sarah W. Davies Ph.D. @daviesswphd.bsky.social · Jan 16

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/...

Cryptic coral diversity is associated with symbioses, physiology, and response to thermal challenge

Cryptic coral hosts differ in phenotypes relevant to climate change.

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Eco_evo_danny @ecoevodanny.bsky.social · Jan 14

Check out my first chapter 📖🧬.

I’m very grateful to have worked with such a brilliant and supportive team 😊

Dr. Carly Kenkel @drcarl.bsky.social · Jan 13

Grateful for some good news after this last week - first dissertation chapter for @ecoevodanny.bsky.social is out now in Ecology & Evolution! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🧪

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Dr. Carly Kenkel @drcarl.bsky.social · Jan 13

Special thanks to @la-cientifica.bsky.social for sticking with this one through my mat leave and a pandemic and to @ecoevodanny.bsky.social for pushing through a messy mountain of PCRs and library preps!

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Dr. Carly Kenkel @drcarl.bsky.social · Jan 13

Be sure to check out the paper onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... for more info on the performance differences; and for the first time, an exploration of family-level differences in symbiont community composition!

Symbiont Community Changes Confer Fitness Benefits for Larvae in a Vertically Transmitting Coral

We quantified the fitness consequences of changes in symbiont communities under a simulated heatwave in early life-history stages of Montipora digitata by tracking changes in their growth, survival, ...

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Dr. Carly Kenkel @drcarl.bsky.social · Jan 13

But the same pattern was not observed in the juvenile recruits

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Dr. Carly Kenkel @drcarl.bsky.social · Jan 13

In parallel we saw big changes in symbiont community composition of surviving larvae under heat

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Dr. Carly Kenkel @drcarl.bsky.social · Jan 13

In it he shows that symbiont shuffling may be a mechanism to increase thermal tolerance of Montipora digitata larvae, but that juvenile recruits seem to lack. Elevated temperature impacted survival in both larvae and juveniles, but comparatively, larvae survived for much longer than recruits

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Dr. Carly Kenkel @drcarl.bsky.social · Jan 13

Grateful for some good news after this last week - first dissertation chapter for @ecoevodanny.bsky.social is out now in Ecology & Evolution! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🧪

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Dr. Carly Kenkel @drcarl.bsky.social · Jan 6

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...

Summer Research Internships - Wrigley Institute for Environment and Sustainability

Creating a more sustainable and environmentally just future for our planet and all who live on it

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Dr. Carly Kenkel @drcarl.bsky.social · Oct 2

I'm looking for a postdoc! The successful applicant will lead neuro- and comparative genomic analyses to characterize neurobiology-related genetic variation in wild coral populations. Learn more and apply here - I will be reviewing apps beginning Oct 18: usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

Postdoctoral Scholar - Research Associate at USC

Learn more about applying for Postdoctoral Scholar - Research Associate at USC

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Dr. Carly Kenkel @drcarl.bsky.social · Sep 18

Calling all #reeffutures conference attendees - consider donating your brainpower to our workshop!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScUGGUOKZFwQ26TL5xPzupa35z2gAIGxpL5X-Az6gNFSCnZjA/viewform

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Dr. Carly Kenkel @drcarl.bsky.social · Sep 10

I'm recruiting a fully funded PhD student for a Fall 2025 start - see details below and learn more about my lab here: dornsife.usc.edu/carlslab/

https://today.ucsd.edu/story/uc-san-diego-receives-10-million-for-center-on-neurobiology-in-changing-environments

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Dr. Carly Kenkel @drcarl.bsky.social · Sep 10

It's finally official - excited to begin working with this team! Stay tuned for PhD and Postdoc positions in my lab as part of this project!!
today.ucsd.edu/story/uc-san...

UC San Diego Receives $10 Million for Center on Neurobiology in Changing Environments

The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group has selected UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography to receive a four-year, $10 million grant to establish the Allen Discovery Center for Neurobiology in ...

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Lindsay Naylor @lbnaylor.bsky.social · Aug 15

Fantastic Op-Ed from fellow #Storymaker @drcarl.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2024/08/15/o...

Opinion | To Save Coral Reefs, Let’s Freeze Them

We have to buy time while we wait for the world to slow, and hopefully, one day reverse climate change.

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