Ong Jing Hui
@ongjh.bsky.social
population genomics and connectivity | coral reefs | spatial conservation prioritisation
Transitioning into the deep sea! Research Fellow @ NUS Tropical Marine Science Institute
Transitioning into the deep sea! Research Fellow @ NUS Tropical Marine Science Institute
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🌿 #GivingTuesday is coming! 💚
On 2 Dec, help us #GiveBHLWings and support the Biodiversity Heritage Library’s transition to independence by 1 January 2026. Your gift keeps biodiversity knowledge accessible for all. 🧪 📖 🌏 💸 #OpenScience #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL
On 2 Dec, help us #GiveBHLWings and support the Biodiversity Heritage Library’s transition to independence by 1 January 2026. Your gift keeps biodiversity knowledge accessible for all. 🧪 📖 🌏 💸 #OpenScience #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL
Help the Biodiversity Heritage Library Take Flight
After nearly two decades under the Smithsonian Institution, the Biodiversity Heritage Library needs to become fully independent by 1 January 2026. Help #GiveBHLWings this Giving Tuesday and support…
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November 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
🌿 #GivingTuesday is coming! 💚
On 2 Dec, help us #GiveBHLWings and support the Biodiversity Heritage Library’s transition to independence by 1 January 2026. Your gift keeps biodiversity knowledge accessible for all. 🧪 📖 🌏 💸 #OpenScience #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL
On 2 Dec, help us #GiveBHLWings and support the Biodiversity Heritage Library’s transition to independence by 1 January 2026. Your gift keeps biodiversity knowledge accessible for all. 🧪 📖 🌏 💸 #OpenScience #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL
Slowly but steadily translating this french monograph using google and it's a really good read... why aren't we in the era where we can just download languages into our brain yet, I wish I were able to read this in its original french!!
November 21, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Slowly but steadily translating this french monograph using google and it's a really good read... why aren't we in the era where we can just download languages into our brain yet, I wish I were able to read this in its original french!!
I have totally forgotten about this account... Only just back after a week-long workshop that was held immediately a week after an expedition! Excited to start working on the samples collected but boy do I need some sleep.
November 20, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I have totally forgotten about this account... Only just back after a week-long workshop that was held immediately a week after an expedition! Excited to start working on the samples collected but boy do I need some sleep.
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We're advertising a PhD project to investigate the hydrodynamics of Aldabra Atoll @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social! We are looking for a student with strong quantitative skills and interest in ocean modelling. Competitive funding available through ILESLA. Please share with anybody who may be interested!
October 22, 2025 at 9:32 AM
We're advertising a PhD project to investigate the hydrodynamics of Aldabra Atoll @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social! We are looking for a student with strong quantitative skills and interest in ocean modelling. Competitive funding available through ILESLA. Please share with anybody who may be interested!
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I think for me the most compelling answer for "why fund basic research?" (and the one most relevant to the people doing the work) is that humans are curious and finding stuff out makes us happy and fulfilled. Science is a thing humans like. Life would be more dull and sad if we didn't do it.
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October 3, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I think for me the most compelling answer for "why fund basic research?" (and the one most relevant to the people doing the work) is that humans are curious and finding stuff out makes us happy and fulfilled. Science is a thing humans like. Life would be more dull and sad if we didn't do it.
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I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.
September 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.
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Another folder of never-before seen Aliens dives has been sorted, and I present you with a collage of B-listers that would otherwise go unloved - this time from 9-13 May, 2024.
Have fun zooming in!
Have fun zooming in!
September 8, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Another folder of never-before seen Aliens dives has been sorted, and I present you with a collage of B-listers that would otherwise go unloved - this time from 9-13 May, 2024.
Have fun zooming in!
Have fun zooming in!
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It can be hard to get sense of scale in the deep sea. Galiteuthis phyllura might look like your average cranchiid, but they are BIG, with an estimated maximum mantle length of 2.7m!
It shouldn't be all that surprising that they are in the same family as the colossal squid.
#SQUIDtember
It shouldn't be all that surprising that they are in the same family as the colossal squid.
#SQUIDtember
September 16, 2025 at 10:36 PM
It can be hard to get sense of scale in the deep sea. Galiteuthis phyllura might look like your average cranchiid, but they are BIG, with an estimated maximum mantle length of 2.7m!
It shouldn't be all that surprising that they are in the same family as the colossal squid.
#SQUIDtember
It shouldn't be all that surprising that they are in the same family as the colossal squid.
#SQUIDtember
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September 16, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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When chanchitos fly, it happens 2,340 meters deep in the Ocean! This is a sea pig, or chanchito, if you’re a member of the #Uruguaysub200 science team. Scotoplanes sp. is a genus of deep-sea sea cucumbers of the family Elpidiidae. 🎥ROV SuBastian / Schmidt Ocean Institute
September 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
When chanchitos fly, it happens 2,340 meters deep in the Ocean! This is a sea pig, or chanchito, if you’re a member of the #Uruguaysub200 science team. Scotoplanes sp. is a genus of deep-sea sea cucumbers of the family Elpidiidae. 🎥ROV SuBastian / Schmidt Ocean Institute
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![Comic. [Two people on shore looking at body of water] PERSON 1: Hey, where’s that big island we were looking at this morning? PERSON 2 with short hair: Oh, it’s underwater. The ocean’s depth here goes up and down by like ten feet every day. PERSON 1: What? PERSON 2: It’s because the planet has a big moon orbiting near the surface. It causes weird gravity effects. PERSON 1: *What???* [caption] People here are used to them, but tides are one of the weirdest and most sci-fi elements of life on Earth.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreidj2tdqhkgoamiqf5reqt7kvbpt26x3cgjxsp4rtwwb46qumcltdq@jpeg)
September 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Clearly amazing appearance around 888m in #MarDelPlataCanyon: Amphitretus sp. This telescope octopus has adapted to live in a place where there is nowhere to hide but in plain sight. Deep gratitude to @autsquidsquad.bsky.social for species ID. Description on Insta: www.instagram.com/reel/DNittGh...
August 19, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Clearly amazing appearance around 888m in #MarDelPlataCanyon: Amphitretus sp. This telescope octopus has adapted to live in a place where there is nowhere to hide but in plain sight. Deep gratitude to @autsquidsquad.bsky.social for species ID. Description on Insta: www.instagram.com/reel/DNittGh...
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We’re deeply disappointed negotiations for a global plastics treaty have ended without a final agreement.
Over the past 3 years, the momentum has been undeniable. The world now understands, plastic is a full lifecycle problem that demands systemic solutions, & that its health impacts are profound.
Over the past 3 years, the momentum has been undeniable. The world now understands, plastic is a full lifecycle problem that demands systemic solutions, & that its health impacts are profound.
August 20, 2025 at 2:12 AM
We’re deeply disappointed negotiations for a global plastics treaty have ended without a final agreement.
Over the past 3 years, the momentum has been undeniable. The world now understands, plastic is a full lifecycle problem that demands systemic solutions, & that its health impacts are profound.
Over the past 3 years, the momentum has been undeniable. The world now understands, plastic is a full lifecycle problem that demands systemic solutions, & that its health impacts are profound.
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This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered
July 31, 2025 at 3:38 PM
This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered
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🔭 A Double Detonation Supernova
Image Credit: ESO, P. Das et al.; Background stars (NASA/Hubble): K. Noll et al.
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25072...
Image Credit: ESO, P. Das et al.; Background stars (NASA/Hubble): K. Noll et al.
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25072...
July 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM
🔭 A Double Detonation Supernova
Image Credit: ESO, P. Das et al.; Background stars (NASA/Hubble): K. Noll et al.
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25072...
Image Credit: ESO, P. Das et al.; Background stars (NASA/Hubble): K. Noll et al.
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25072...
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Amphipod, corals, anemone, tube worms... @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 811 #MarDelPlataCanyon #MarineLife
July 26, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Amphipod, corals, anemone, tube worms... @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 811 #MarDelPlataCanyon #MarineLife
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this silly little guy
July 22, 2025 at 11:49 PM
this silly little guy
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Global mean sea surface temperature anomalies (departure from average) so far this year ➡️ 2nd highest on record
Data from NOAA ERSSTv5 averaged over January to June.
Data from NOAA ERSSTv5 averaged over January to June.
July 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Global mean sea surface temperature anomalies (departure from average) so far this year ➡️ 2nd highest on record
Data from NOAA ERSSTv5 averaged over January to June.
Data from NOAA ERSSTv5 averaged over January to June.
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Can tropical corals find refuge at higher latitudes under future warming? In our new paper in Science Advances, we argue that coral range expansion will be *far too slow* for most coral species to outpace climate change. 🪸🌊
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A short 🧵 (1/16)
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A short 🧵 (1/16)
June 7, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Can tropical corals find refuge at higher latitudes under future warming? In our new paper in Science Advances, we argue that coral range expansion will be *far too slow* for most coral species to outpace climate change. 🪸🌊
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A short 🧵 (1/16)
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A short 🧵 (1/16)
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A new paper in Nature Ecol & Evol by
@rosafernandez.bsky.social et al. shows a #punctuated burst of genome evolution in #annelids as they transitioned from marine to land and freshwater habitats.
@rosafernandez.bsky.social et al. shows a #punctuated burst of genome evolution in #annelids as they transitioned from marine to land and freshwater habitats.
June 18, 2025 at 11:07 AM
A new paper in Nature Ecol & Evol by
@rosafernandez.bsky.social et al. shows a #punctuated burst of genome evolution in #annelids as they transitioned from marine to land and freshwater habitats.
@rosafernandez.bsky.social et al. shows a #punctuated burst of genome evolution in #annelids as they transitioned from marine to land and freshwater habitats.