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Katrina Phillips @katrinaphillips.bsky.social · 2d

#GulfCon sessions include: Living Resources; Resilience of Natural & Human Systems; Data Collection & Synthesis; Science, Practice, & Policy

Workshops include: Examining Gulf Species Declines; Gulf Literacy Principles; Collaborative Modeling for Stakeholder-Driven Science

Image from NatGeo

Illustration of the ecosystems and marine life found in the Gulf. Pelicans fly above mangroves and marsh. Coastal fish and inverts inhabit shallow reefs, while tuna, sea turtles, and a whale shark swim offshore below and among Sargassum. Image by National Geographic.

Katrina Phillips @katrinaphillips.bsky.social · 2d

The 2026 Gulf Conference will be here in Mobile, AL from May 4-7

Open to coastal scientists & stakeholders in government, academia, non-profit, and private sectors to discuss current Gulf research and help plan for the future of the Gulf.

Abstracts due Nov 7

gulfofamericaalliance.org/gulfcon2026

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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 13d

Good news and bad news here. The GRFP solicitation is now live. Yay!
However, those who have completed more than a year of graduate school already are no longer eligible. This absolutely sucks...

Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 13d

New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

www.nsf.gov

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Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social · 20d

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

docs.google.com

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Katrina Phillips @katrinaphillips.bsky.social · Aug 22

✨Life Update✨: I'm excited to announce that I've started a new position as Senior Marine Scientist at Dauphin Island Sea Lab. Stay tuned for new scientific adventures from the Gulf coast of Alabama 🌊🐢👩‍🔬

@disealab.bsky.social

Obligatory selfie in front of an official sign reading "Dauphin Island Sea Lab", complete with a knobbly old oak tree and a couple palmettos in the background.

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Katrina Phillips @katrinaphillips.bsky.social · Jul 22

Moment of zen brought to you by Great Smoky Mountains National Park ⛰️

Sunlight filters through a leafy green canopy onto a narrow trail through the forest, bordered by mosses and ferns

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Katrina Phillips @katrinaphillips.bsky.social · Jun 12

Declining mean size of green turtles nesting in Malaysia from 2005 to 2022.
Summary of nesting female size changes across 13 green turtle rookeries, 9 hawksbill, 6 loggerhead, 2 olive ridley, and 1 leatherback rookery (Hays et al. 2025).
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Global Decline in the Size of Sea Turtles

Changes in mean adult body size may be a universal response to global warming and sometimes lead to conservation concerns. Using a 30-year data set for green turtles from Malaysia, we show a decrease...

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Katrina Phillips @katrinaphillips.bsky.social · Jun 12

Decreased growth rates and size distributions among immature hawksbills measured 1996-2024 in the Chagos Archipelago (Mortimer et al. 2025).
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Low growth rates at high population densities in sea turtles - Marine Biology

Over 29 years (1996–2024) in a lagoon environment in the Chagos Archipelago (Indian Ocean) we conducted a mark-recapture growth rate study during which 135 juvenile hawksbill turtles (Eretmochelys imb...

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Charley Yen, PhD @eugeniecyen.bsky.social · Jun 10

Great to see this published in @gigascience.bsky.social! Using @nanoporetech.com, we generated genome and methylome resources simultaneously to drive molecular insights for conservation of loggerhead sea turtles in Cape Verde 🐢🧬🇨🇻
doi.org/10.1093/giga...

Chromosome-level genome assembly and methylome profile yield insights for the conservation of endangered loggerhead sea turtles

AbstractBackground. Characterizing genetic and epigenetic diversity is crucial for assessing the adaptive potential of threatened populations and species i

doi.org

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Katrina Phillips @katrinaphillips.bsky.social · Jun 4

Does anyone have intel on the new Simons Foundation fellowships to support incoming PhD students in ecology and evolution? 👀

Types of projects most likely to be funded? Strings attached? 🤷

www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution

The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...

www.simonsfoundation.org

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · May 16

Join us live for our next #EcoEvo author seminar to hear Katrina Phillips @katrinaphillips.bsky.social talk about her #ProcB paper 'New insights on sea turtle behaviour during the ‘lost years’. Wed 4 June, 3:00 PM (GMT+1). Reserve your place: cassyni.com/events/U1GH1... #ecology

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Katrina Phillips @katrinaphillips.bsky.social · Mar 29

More coverage of our 'lost years' research on CBC Radio's science show Quirks and Quarks.

www.cbc.ca

Katrina Phillips @katrinaphillips.bsky.social · Feb 27

Declining trends in curved carapace length among both neophyte and remigrant loggerheads measured 2013-2020 nesting in Cabo Verde (Raposo et al. 2025).

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Internesting Period and Clutch Frequency of the Endangered Loggerhead Turtle Population of Cabo Verde

Knowledge about the reproductive success of sea turtles is essential for their conservation. These nest preferentially on the beaches where they were born and may nest more than once during each nest...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Katrina Phillips @katrinaphillips.bsky.social · Feb 13

www.ucf.edu/news/ucf-res...

UCF Researchers Advance Knowledge About Juvenile Sea Turtle’s Early Life Stage, Informing Conservation Efforts

These findings challenge existing hypotheses and provide important data for assessing risks from human activity and informing conservation efforts.

www.ucf.edu

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Katrina Phillips @katrinaphillips.bsky.social · Feb 13

Fascinating work from Dr. Kayla Goforth et al.! 🌊🐢🧭🗺️

Their publication in @nature.com linked below.

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

Learned magnetic map cues and two mechanisms of magnetoreception in turtles - Nature

Loggerhead sea turtles, which undergo long-distance migrations, can learn magnetic signatures associated with different geographic areas and have two different magnetic senses, each based on a differe...

www.nature.com

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Katrina Phillips @katrinaphillips.bsky.social · Feb 13

Awesome new paper showing that sea turtles can learn the magnetic field associated with a food source. 💭🍽️🗺️

#AnimalNavigation #MagneticMap #MagneticCompass #AnimalMigration #MovementEcology #SeaTurtles

Come for the cutting-edge science, stay for the 'turtle dance' videos...

Chris Simms @chrisnsimms.bsky.social · Feb 12

It turns out that they have two distinct geomagnetic senses to help them negotiate their epic ocean journeys www.newscientist.com/article/2468...

Dancing turtles help us understand how they navigate around the world

Some turtles "dance" when they anticipate food, which gives us clues as to how they navigate from A to B

www.newscientist.com

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Katrina Phillips @katrinaphillips.bsky.social · Feb 6

I'm happy to share that the spatial component of my dissertation work on 'lost years' sea turtles is out now!

If you're attending #SERSTM2025 this week, I'll be presenting the highlights in the #MovementEcology session this afternoon. 🌊🐢🗺️

#seaturtle #telemetry #OpenAccess

Kate Mansfield, PhD @katemansfield.bsky.social · Feb 5

🚨 We have an exciting new paper including the largest tracking dataset for WILD-caught dispersal stage sea turtles. This was part of @katrinaphillips.bsky.social‘s dissertation work funded in part by the Florida Restore Act Centers of Excellence Program.

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

New insights on sea turtle behaviour during the ‘lost years’ | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Several marine turtle species spend their first years of life in oceanic habitats. This early life stage is referred to as the ‘lost years’ due to the difficulty of accessing individuals for study off...

royalsocietypublishing.org

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · Jan 10

To learn how researchers collect DNA samples from eagle rays - and why this work is important - read John @mobulasana.bsky.social's blog, detailing fieldwork & how the research contributes to our understanding of population connectivity. Read the full blog below.

saveourseas.com/update/ray-s...

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Connie Kot @connieykot.bsky.social · Jan 6

So happy to be able to contribute to this paper and for the US Animal Telemetry Network to be part of such a collaborative group! I'm excited to see our community continue to grow! #biologging #telemetry #opendata 🌐🌊📈

Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · Jan 6

New Perspective:

Establishing bio-logging data collections as dynamic archives of animal life on Earth rdcu.be/d5ril

Davidson et al discuss the importance of standardization, long-term archiving and sharing of bio-logging data, and outline a roadmap to achieve these goals.

Fig 2 from Davidson et al. outlining proposed set of standards for bio-logging data.

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Katrina Phillips @katrinaphillips.bsky.social · Jan 3

Though not a direct measure of nesting turtles, there was a decline in average clutch size (a proxy for nesting female size) among loggerhead nests on the west coast of Florida 1990-2022 (McNally et al. 2024).

www.herpconbio.org/Volume_19/Is...

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www.herpconbio.org

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Paolo Moccetti @pmoccetti.bsky.social · Dec 18

🚨 New Paper Alert 🚨

Interested in fish #migration 🐟, acoustic #telemetry 🔊, #genomics 🧬, and #morphometrics 📐?

Check out how we combined them all in this study!

Read it here #OpenAccess

👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Brendan Godley @brendangodley.bsky.social · Dec 3

Excellent new #OpenAccess paper by Holly Stokes and others demonstratng lack of negative impacts of satellite tracking of juvenile hawksbill turtles. Important insights from long term work. More studies appraising impacts needed 🐢🌍🧪🦑 🌐🦤
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Blair Bentley @blairbentley.bsky.social · Dec 3

🚨 New paper! Something a little bit different this time. We used genomics to trace the invasion history of a predatory marine gastropod, identify potentially adaptive loci, and then leverage the invasive populations to test for predictable allele shifts!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Successful Invasion Into New Environments Without Evidence of Rapid Adaptation by a Predatory Marine Gastropod

Invasive species with native ranges spanning strong environmental gradients are well suited for examining the roles of selection and population history in rapid adaptation to new habitats, providing ...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Katrina Phillips @katrinaphillips.bsky.social · Nov 22

I'll join! 🙋‍♀️🌊🐢

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Christian John @jepsonnomad.bsky.social · Nov 18

Movement and migration ecology starter pack! Help me fill it out as more folks join Bluesky 🌎🌍🌏

go.bsky.app/SSiWN2u

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