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John Parkinson
@parkinsonje.bsky.social
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Coral reef ecologist, scuba diver, Jurassic Park enthusiast. Assistant Professor at the University of South Florida. Posts are my own.
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John Parkinson @parkinsonje.bsky.social · Aug 29
USF media produced a nice article about our lab!

Many thanks to those who put it together, and of course to my students who make the research possible.

www.usf.edu/arts-science...
In the Parkinson Lab at USF, saving Florida's Coral Reef is a top priority
University of South Florida
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Iliana Baums @ibaums.bsky.social · Jul 25
Proactive assisted gene flow for Caribbean corals in an era of rapid coral reef decline | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Proactive assisted gene flow for Caribbean corals in an era of rapid coral reef decline
Regulatory action could facilitate cross-border efforts to retain ecosystem function
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Raúl González-Pech (he/him) @raulgoch.bsky.social · Jun 11
Stoke to announce that I will be joining the Department of Biology @txst.edu this coming Fall semester as an Assistant Professor!

Looking for grad students with interests in #Symbiodiniaceae, #corals 🪸, microbial #symbiosis 🦠, comparative #genomics 🧬 and #phylogenomics soon. Feel free to reach out!
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Terry Hughes @profterryhughes.bsky.social · May 2
After months of official silence, mass mortality of corals in Western Australia - since January - is finally getting attention. www.watoday.com.au/national/wes...
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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · Apr 11
Our "Guide to communicating microbiomes in the media", created in collaboration @lindsaybroadbent.bsky.social aims to help navigate the complexities of communicating microbiome research. Click the link in our bio to read and download the guide.
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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · Mar 27
Change is coming to microbiology publishing. A new space for authoritative reviews and forward-looking perspectives is on the horizon. Be the first to hear the full announcement at #Microbio25.
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John Parkinson @parkinsonje.bsky.social · Mar 6
Congrats to Parkinson lab PhD students Lauren & Matt (and former postdoc Raul!) and the whole team for putting together this nice perspective on efforts to incorporate microbiome analyses into conservation efforts.
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Raúl González-Pech (he/him) @raulgoch.bsky.social · Mar 6
🚨 Paper alert: our multidisciplinary team emphasizes the importance of microbes 🦠 in conservation of biodiversity and ecosystems🌱. We also encourage studying their ecological functions! 🧪🧫

authors.elsevier.com/c/1kjAVB8cd4...
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Misha Matz @heatshok.bsky.social · Feb 28
Florida elkhorn corals need active genetic help to handle climate change, they cannot do it on their own. The risk is far less than the risk of doing nothing. 🌏🧪https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14920439 @coralconsortium.bsky.social
Safeguarding Florida's Coral Reefs: The Urgency of Assisted Gene Flow for Elkhorn Coral Conservation
The devastating 2023 heatwave is the latest in a series of disasters that has decimated the Florida population of elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata) to a critically low level, pushing this species to a ...
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John Parkinson @parkinsonje.bsky.social · Feb 17
Congrats to Peter Fisichella for presenting his undergraduate research on #Symbiodiniaceae thermal tolerance this weekend at the #Florida Undergraduate Research Conference! (hosted this year in Tampa @ USF) @usouthflorida.bsky.social hflorida.bsky.social
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John Parkinson @parkinsonje.bsky.social · Feb 5
I don't come on social media often anymore, but I can't resist when there's a new #JurassicPark trailer to share.

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Jurassic World Rebirth | Official Trailer
YouTube video by Universal Pictures
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Christian R Voolstra @reefgenomics.bsky.social · Nov 19
PSA: pre-print of Symbiodiniaceae chapter for the upcoming coral microbiome book; was super fun to write w/ @parkinsonje.bsky.social & Raquel Peixoto; I find this very accessible & hopefully fun to read, have a look & stay tuned for the upcoming book doi.org/10.31219/osf... @unikonstanz.bsky.social
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John Parkinson @parkinsonje.bsky.social · Feb 7
A very helpful guide!
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Feb 6
Friends, I wrote up a quick guide to getting started on Bluesky for folks who are used to old Science Twitter.

Please share it with your folks who are joining. And please let me know if I missed anything or got anything wrong. 🧪

www.southernfriedscience.com/bluesky-is-n...
Bluesky is now open. Science Twitter, here’s how to use it!
The once-great science twitter is, depending on who you talk to, either dying or dead. Once a vibrant place for many discussions related to my fields of marine biology, ocean conservation, and publ…
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John Parkinson @parkinsonje.bsky.social · Jan 4
Caribbean Acropora genomes/maps now available. Congrats @ibaums.bsky.social et al.!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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John Parkinson @parkinsonje.bsky.social · Jan 3
I will second this! My interaction with Jon for a science story was fantastic.
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John Parkinson @parkinsonje.bsky.social · Jan 3
Reading: Novel plastid genome characteristics in Fugacium kawagutii and the trend of accelerated evolution of plastid proteins in dinoflagellates doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...
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John Parkinson @parkinsonje.bsky.social · Dec 28
Great artwork! (and tools) journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Openly available illustrations as tools to describe eukaryotic microbial diversity
The microbial world is diverse and critically important to understanding evolution and global ecology, but we lack teaching and communications resources. This Essay provides a series of technical diag...
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Nils Rädecker @radecker.bsky.social · Dec 13
Take a deep dive into the world of cassiosomes and their photosymbionts with @gaelletoullec.bsky.social’s first PhD paper. These autonomous cell structures of rhizostome jellyfish could be exciting model systems to study cnidarian symbioses! 🧫🪸🔬 doi.org/10.1128/msph... @cpogoreutz.bsky.social
The Cassiosomes of Cassiopea- stinging cell structures fueled by algal symbionts.
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John Parkinson @parkinsonje.bsky.social · Nov 7
We're hiring!

The University of South Florida, Tampa is searching for a Marine/Coastal Biologist (assistant professor / tenure track). Come join a great department!

Details: bit.ly/usf_marine_bio_search
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Dr. Carly Kenkel @drcarl.bsky.social · Oct 18
Hot off the presses at Global Change Bio - Yingqi Zhang's 3rd chapter - Performance of Orbicella faveolata larval cohorts does not align with previously observed thermal tolerance of adult source populations
doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
Pic courtesy of NOAA/Allyson DeMerlis
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John Parkinson @parkinsonje.bsky.social · Oct 17
Come help us with an expansive coral GWAS! Cool data, great team, and I hear Los Angeles is fun.
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Dr. Carly Kenkel @drcarl.bsky.social · Oct 17
I'm looking to hire a postdoc in coral genomics - $66k/yr plus benefits - follow link for more info - review of apps begins Nov 10 usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...
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