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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 15d

🌊🔬 Grad Student Opportunity!
I’m recruiting PhD students to explore marine biodiversity, body size, and bioenergetics with flexibility to design your own project! PDF of ad link below.
#PhDPosition #MarineBiology #Macroecology #Biodiversity #GradSchool #Ecology #OceanScience tinyurl.com/5n9434wk

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Nature Reviews Microbiology @natrevmicro.nature.com · 13d

ICYMI: New online! Warming waters, declining Prochlorococcus

Warming waters, declining Prochlorococcus

Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 18 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41579-025-01244-0This study reports the possible negative effects of warming sea surface temperatures on Prochlorococcus populations.

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Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social · 19d

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

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Julia Wester, PhD @drjuliawester.bsky.social · 25d

Good things happening alert: Field School is running our 5th annual Drag n’ Tag event (drag queens+shark research). We run this event to raise funds for local LGBTQ+ youth org Pridelines. Enjoy these photos and donate to support their work here! donate.misselasmo.org/event/drag-n...

Drag show on the back of Research Vessel Garvin

Our research team secures a shark for one of our lovely queens to measure

Miss Toto and Jake secure a nurse shark while a participant takes a measurement. Pure joy.

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Anthony M. Bonacolta @ambonacolta.bsky.social · Jul 4

New ‪preprint! Through plastid MAGs and 18S rRNA gene retrieval 🧬 we identify chromerids (including a novel clade ⭐) associated with marine and freshwater microbialites across the globe 🌎, expanding their ecological niche beyond coral reefs 🪸. #ProtistsOnSky #MicroSky #Algae

Modern microbialites harbor an undescribed diversity of chromerid algae

Chromerid algae and the heterotrophic colpodellids together make up the chrompodellids, which are the closest known relatives to apicomplexan parasites [1]. As apicomplexans are prolific parasites of ...

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Emily Yeager @emilyyeager9.bsky.social · 29d

One of the best (science related) feelings ever is the moment when you realize that an experiment you spent years working on and had thought didn’t work 100% did work 🥹

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Matthew Gidden @gidden.bsky.social · Sep 4

Our paper is out today in @nature.com where we assess a Prudent Planetary Limit for Geologic Carbon Storage:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A prudent planetary limit for geologic carbon storage - Nature

A risk-based, spatially explicit analysis of carbon storage in sedimentary basins establishes a prudent planetary limit of around 1,460 Gt of geological carbon storage, which requires making explicit ...

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See Through Canoe @seethroughcanoe.bsky.social · Sep 1

A sea turtle surfacing by a MASSIVE school of rays near Clearwater, Florida a couple days ago. Another post into the BluSky void. Maybe 2 or 3 people will see this one and my time won't have been wasted. I'll keep trying a little longer. #nature #animals #amazing #wildlife #awesome #ocean

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Emily Yeager @emilyyeager9.bsky.social · Aug 28

I just learned that a group of whale sharks is called a constellation 🌌 (a fact which makes me incredibly happy)

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Norin 🦈 🔜 Twitchcon @mahoukarp.com · Aug 24

Shark care instructions 🦈
#art #comics #sharks

Shark care instructions

"This is rude that is their dorsal fin"

(Image depicts shark being picked up by dorsal fin)

"He will get brain damage"

(Image depicts sharks dome being squeezed)

"Hold your hand out and let them climb on when they are ready"

(Shark gently climbs into hand)

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Emily Yeager @emilyyeager9.bsky.social · Aug 21

Great Guy Harvey Fellows webinar today with Florida Sea Grant!

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N.S. Vitek @nsvitek.bsky.social · Aug 20

🚨 Job Alert! 🚨

Assistant Professor in Global Change and Disease Ecology at Stony Brook University, Department of Ecology & Evolution. Deadline: October 1.

#AcademicJobs #tenuretrack #facultyjobs

apply.interfolio.com/171403

(I love being here. Come join!)

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Emily Yeager @emilyyeager9.bsky.social · Aug 21

Thank you @moorefound.bsky.social, @mblscience.bsky.social, and @pcleves.bsky.social for making this course possible!

Emily Yeager @emilyyeager9.bsky.social · Aug 21

I’m going to miss the @mblscience.bsky.social Symbiosis Course (and the crazy amounts of daily discoveries) when it ends next week. I would highly recommend the course for any grad students or post docs interested in learning more about the molecular and cell biology of symbiosis across systems!

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Emily Yeager @emilyyeager9.bsky.social · Aug 21

Before today, I would have never known it was possible to run DNA extractions and PCR without a lab. Who knew that a molecular bio bento box could facilitate bringing the lab into the field? I’m very excited to see how our hornwort Cyanobacteria community sequencing turns out later this week.

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Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org · Aug 18

It’s time for the puffling playoffs! 🐣

This summer we welcomed two hatchlings to our tufted puffin colony. Our aviculturists chose the name Nori, like the type of seaweed used in sushi, for the older puffling.

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Emily Yeager @emilyyeager9.bsky.social · Aug 20

Hi Bluesky! I’m Emily, a PhD candidate @miamirosenstiel.bsky.social studying marine symbioses in @drcatmac.bsky.social’s lab! I work on symbiotic systems ranging from corals and elasmobranchs to marine arthropods using a combination of molecular and ecological tools🦈🌊

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Neil Tsutsui @neiltsutsui.bsky.social · Aug 14

Job alert! We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Physical Climate Science. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05084

Assistant Professor - Physical Climate Science - Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

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Andrew Stoehr @andrewstoehr.bsky.social · Aug 14

We're hiring TWO (two!) tenure-track assistant professors in my Biology department: cellular/molecular biology and plant biology. Within those categories, we are very open to research focus. Come work with me! And please spread the word! fa-exer-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Careers At Butler Careers

Welcome

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Emily Yeager @emilyyeager9.bsky.social · Aug 12

Skype a scientist has been one of the coolest (and most rewarding) outreach experiences of my PhD. Sign up while you can—you won’t regret it!!

Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · Aug 11

We need about 300 more scientists before we let teachers loose on the database!

Tell your colleagues, we need ya!

Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · Aug 7

Scientists!

@skypeascientist.bsky.social matches scientists with classrooms, libraries, & more for virtual Q&As! It's easy and fun!

We are looking for 750 more volunteers by 8/15

If you're down to chat with 1-5 classrooms this semester, sign up here
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · Aug 12

Join UConn's virtual RNA-seq (de novo) Workshop on Aug 19-21 to learn about transcriptomics workflows. Register now at https://bioinformatics.uconn.edu/cbc-workshops/ for hands-on experience! #workshop

Training Workshops | Computational Biology Core

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Mike Moore @gypsumbotany.bsky.social · Aug 5

🚨🚨 New tenure track position in #ConservationBiology @oberlincollege.bsky.social in the #Biology department--come join us, and contribute to our brand new Environmental Science major too! #biologyjobs #ecologyjobs

jobs.oberlin.edu/postings/16671

Assistant Professor of Biology

The Biology Department at Oberlin College invites applications for a full-time tenure track faculty position in the College of Arts and Sciences in conservation ecology. Initial appointment to this po...

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Aug 1

An extra opportunity for you to join me for 3 days of shark research has opened up!

And there's also an online complete-at-your-own-pace course.

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Aug 1

Friends, the November 11-13 field research experience is full, but due to popular demand we’ve opened a second one November 20-22!

And you can also take just the online course without the field part, for course credit, CPE credit, or just for fun!

www.centerforwildlifestudies.org/courses/p/bi...

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Nature @nature.com · Jul 31

This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · Jul 31

New palaeo-PhD opportunity! Will you be the one to figure out the anatomy and function of fossil jawless fish? Come join the team! Application Deadline August 22nd, funding for UK student only (sorry)
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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