Dr. Matthew Tietbohl
@whyoceansmatter.bsky.social
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Over the past 250 million years, periods when coral reef growth has peaked have coincided with big rises in sea temperatures
Coral reefs have fuelled severe global warming in Earth's past
Over the past 250 million years, periods when coral reef growth has peaked have coincided with big rises in sea temperatures
www.newscientist.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Over the past 250 million years, periods when coral reef growth has peaked have coincided with big rises in sea temperatures
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1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot
I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:55 AM
1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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When we think about fish large enough to attack people, sharks are usually what comes to mind. However, there is one fish in the ocean that even most sharks would choose to leave alone. And that is the goliath grouper, a fitting choice for #FishOfTheWeek
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December 5, 2025 at 6:41 PM
When we think about fish large enough to attack people, sharks are usually what comes to mind. However, there is one fish in the ocean that even most sharks would choose to leave alone. And that is the goliath grouper, a fitting choice for #FishOfTheWeek
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Check out our latest publication from the #FREE group at #CESAB taking a functional and trait perspective on classic metapopulation ecology led by @nmouquet.bsky.social 🧪🌐
Spatial Insurance of Distinct Ecological Functions
Communities can act as functional sources and sustain rare ecological roles across space. We reveal patterns of functional vulnerability for plants and birds
Check out our Perspective in Ecol Lett
👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Communities can act as functional sources and sustain rare ecological roles across space. We reveal patterns of functional vulnerability for plants and birds
Check out our Perspective in Ecol Lett
👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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November 26, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Check out our latest publication from the #FREE group at #CESAB taking a functional and trait perspective on classic metapopulation ecology led by @nmouquet.bsky.social 🧪🌐
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A Bayesian model for assessing organic matter supply in complex marine food webs using amino acid stable isotope analysis peerj.com/articles/202... via @PeerJLife #stableisotopes
A Bayesian model for assessing organic matter supply in complex marine food webs using amino acid stable isotope analysis
While several software packages have been developed to solve stable isotope mixing models, none are currently equipped to trace the flow of organic matter through the lower trophic levels of planktoni...
peerj.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:56 PM
A Bayesian model for assessing organic matter supply in complex marine food webs using amino acid stable isotope analysis peerj.com/articles/202... via @PeerJLife #stableisotopes
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A new Reef Exchanges episode dives into how #MERMAID grew from simple spreadsheets into a global tool helping scientists and MPA teams collect and report coral reef data more efficiently.
Happy to support this effort through several @blueactionfund.org grants.
reefresilience.org/reefexchange...
Happy to support this effort through several @blueactionfund.org grants.
reefresilience.org/reefexchange...
Reef Exchanges Podcast | Reef Resilience Network
reefresilience.org
November 26, 2025 at 8:26 AM
A new Reef Exchanges episode dives into how #MERMAID grew from simple spreadsheets into a global tool helping scientists and MPA teams collect and report coral reef data more efficiently.
Happy to support this effort through several @blueactionfund.org grants.
reefresilience.org/reefexchange...
Happy to support this effort through several @blueactionfund.org grants.
reefresilience.org/reefexchange...
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🔥 New post! | Beyond science: Traits that drive success in marine conservation | 👉 https://www.conservation-careers.com/interviews/beyond-science-traits-that-drive-success-in-marine-conservation/
#ConservationCareers #ConservationJobs
#ConservationCareers #ConservationJobs
November 11, 2025 at 5:58 PM
🔥 New post! | Beyond science: Traits that drive success in marine conservation | 👉 https://www.conservation-careers.com/interviews/beyond-science-traits-that-drive-success-in-marine-conservation/
#ConservationCareers #ConservationJobs
#ConservationCareers #ConservationJobs
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Strongly agree with this letter in Science arguing that field-based research should be more highly and fairly valued in academia. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The value of field research in academia
From anthropology to zoology, immersion within communities, cultural settings, and study systems is integral to research and learning (1, 2). Fieldwork, the direct observation and collection of data i...
www.science.org
November 28, 2024 at 8:26 AM
Strongly agree with this letter in Science arguing that field-based research should be more highly and fairly valued in academia. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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🚨🎉 Check out our new paper assessing the impacts of fishing (🎣) and climate change (🌡️) on carbon export and sequestration by commercial fish! 🐟
🔗 rdcu.be/eMTU6
🔽 Here are some key results! 🔽
@oceanicu.bsky.social
@natcomms.nature.com
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🔗 rdcu.be/eMTU6
🔽 Here are some key results! 🔽
@oceanicu.bsky.social
@natcomms.nature.com
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October 27, 2025 at 1:19 PM
🚨🎉 Check out our new paper assessing the impacts of fishing (🎣) and climate change (🌡️) on carbon export and sequestration by commercial fish! 🐟
🔗 rdcu.be/eMTU6
🔽 Here are some key results! 🔽
@oceanicu.bsky.social
@natcomms.nature.com
🌐🦑🦈🌊
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🔗 rdcu.be/eMTU6
🔽 Here are some key results! 🔽
@oceanicu.bsky.social
@natcomms.nature.com
🌐🦑🦈🌊
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I am pleased to announce the publication of the most extensive assessment of the coral reefs of Thailand conducted to date! This took years of work, but we are now placed for conservation action to embrace the nuances and complexity of reef ecosystems!
Link in the comments!
#MarineEcology 🌐🌏🪸🌊🦑
Link in the comments!
#MarineEcology 🌐🌏🪸🌊🦑
October 28, 2025 at 2:56 AM
I am pleased to announce the publication of the most extensive assessment of the coral reefs of Thailand conducted to date! This took years of work, but we are now placed for conservation action to embrace the nuances and complexity of reef ecosystems!
Link in the comments!
#MarineEcology 🌐🌏🪸🌊🦑
Link in the comments!
#MarineEcology 🌐🌏🪸🌊🦑
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Our new review on the “circular seabird economy”
- how seabirds circulate nutrients betwem ocean and land, supporting ecosystems and livelihoods …https://www.nature.com/articles/s44358-025-00099-w
- how seabirds circulate nutrients betwem ocean and land, supporting ecosystems and livelihoods …https://www.nature.com/articles/s44358-025-00099-w
The circular seabird economy is critical for oceans, islands and people - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
Seabirds are top predators and nutrient cyclers in marine island ecosystems, but are threatened by risk of extinction. This Review explores the circular seabird economy around islands and discusses ho...
www.nature.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Our new review on the “circular seabird economy”
- how seabirds circulate nutrients betwem ocean and land, supporting ecosystems and livelihoods …https://www.nature.com/articles/s44358-025-00099-w
- how seabirds circulate nutrients betwem ocean and land, supporting ecosystems and livelihoods …https://www.nature.com/articles/s44358-025-00099-w
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Hot off the press is the final chapter of my dissertation now published in @pnas.org Here, I explore the genetic drivers of extreme body size reduction using goby fishes as a model. I'll write up a short summary thread later tonight...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
October 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Hot off the press is the final chapter of my dissertation now published in @pnas.org Here, I explore the genetic drivers of extreme body size reduction using goby fishes as a model. I'll write up a short summary thread later tonight...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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hot off the press doi.org/10.1111/geb....
led by @oldenfish.bsky.social and featuring an array of fishy isotope folk funded by the CESAB programme of the @frbiodiv.bsky.social
led by @oldenfish.bsky.social and featuring an array of fishy isotope folk funded by the CESAB programme of the @frbiodiv.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
hot off the press doi.org/10.1111/geb....
led by @oldenfish.bsky.social and featuring an array of fishy isotope folk funded by the CESAB programme of the @frbiodiv.bsky.social
led by @oldenfish.bsky.social and featuring an array of fishy isotope folk funded by the CESAB programme of the @frbiodiv.bsky.social
Reposted by Dr. Matthew Tietbohl
One in six species on Earth experienced extraordinarily high temperatures across more than 25% of their range in 2024--the hottest year on record. For most, this was the second year of extreme heat, likely compounding risks. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
September 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
One in six species on Earth experienced extraordinarily high temperatures across more than 25% of their range in 2024--the hottest year on record. For most, this was the second year of extreme heat, likely compounding risks. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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An Intergeneric Hybrid Between Historically Isolated Temperate and Tropical Jays Following Recent Range Expansion | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶
September 12, 2025 at 5:00 AM
An Intergeneric Hybrid Between Historically Isolated Temperate and Tropical Jays Following Recent Range Expansion | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶
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Fresh off the press! Our perspective in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com discusses the wealth of information on biodiversity contained in historical sources, and its integration for long-term ecological knowledge and biodiversity conservation. A thread on the paper and what led to it:
rdcu.be/eEcIt
rdcu.be/eEcIt
September 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Fresh off the press! Our perspective in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com discusses the wealth of information on biodiversity contained in historical sources, and its integration for long-term ecological knowledge and biodiversity conservation. A thread on the paper and what led to it:
rdcu.be/eEcIt
rdcu.be/eEcIt
Hot new fish dropped! Look at these little beauts!!! 😍🐠👌
New species alert! A Pascua goby from the Coral Sea. This genus now contains four species. Two from the Eastern Pacific and two from Australia, with more than 5,500km separating them. Lots of fun describing my second new species. #TeamFish #Fish
doi.org/10.3390/fish...
doi.org/10.3390/fish...
September 5, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Hot new fish dropped! Look at these little beauts!!! 😍🐠👌
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Ever wonder how the axial locomotor system is arranged into segmented myomeres of red and white muscle in a large pelagic surgeonfish? Well, now you know! 🐟🧪🦑
August 27, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Ever wonder how the axial locomotor system is arranged into segmented myomeres of red and white muscle in a large pelagic surgeonfish? Well, now you know! 🐟🧪🦑
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This Seaweed Was a Caribbean Disaster, Now It's Gold.
Caribbean beaches are ankle-deep in slimy, smelly seaweed. Wave after wave of sargassum is blanketing shorelines from Barbados to Cancún.
It traps sea turtles. It smothers coral reefs. And it drives tourists away.
Caribbean beaches are ankle-deep in slimy, smelly seaweed. Wave after wave of sargassum is blanketing shorelines from Barbados to Cancún.
It traps sea turtles. It smothers coral reefs. And it drives tourists away.
This Seaweed Was a Caribbean Disaster, Now It's Gold
YouTube video by Undecided with Matt Ferrell
youtu.be
August 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
This Seaweed Was a Caribbean Disaster, Now It's Gold.
Caribbean beaches are ankle-deep in slimy, smelly seaweed. Wave after wave of sargassum is blanketing shorelines from Barbados to Cancún.
It traps sea turtles. It smothers coral reefs. And it drives tourists away.
Caribbean beaches are ankle-deep in slimy, smelly seaweed. Wave after wave of sargassum is blanketing shorelines from Barbados to Cancún.
It traps sea turtles. It smothers coral reefs. And it drives tourists away.
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He's a billionaire with a submarine and he's just out there quietly funding tons of ocean research and teaching kids about coral reefs and giving interviews where he says that he owes a ton of his success to luck and it's a little reminder that a better world is possible.
Steam's Gabe Newell is just out there quietly running a great little ocean research and education program with relatively little fanfare.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekCU...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekCU...
Inspiring the Next Generation of Ocean Stewards | Ocean Discovery Day, Solomon Islands
YouTube video by Inkfish Expeditions
www.youtube.com
August 14, 2025 at 10:36 PM
He's a billionaire with a submarine and he's just out there quietly funding tons of ocean research and teaching kids about coral reefs and giving interviews where he says that he owes a ton of his success to luck and it's a little reminder that a better world is possible.
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New #OA systematic review of the current state of marine
functional connectivity research in @meps-ir.bsky.social. This #SEA-UNICORN output uses an 'umbrella review' approach to summarise this growing field and includes a bibliometic analysis of 'who' is doing what. 1/2.. 🦞🐟🌊 doi.org/10.3354/meps...
functional connectivity research in @meps-ir.bsky.social. This #SEA-UNICORN output uses an 'umbrella review' approach to summarise this growing field and includes a bibliometic analysis of 'who' is doing what. 1/2.. 🦞🐟🌊 doi.org/10.3354/meps...
A systematic review of the current state of marine functional connectivity research
Marine functional connectivity underpins biodiversity and ecosystem functions, ensuring resilience in marine and land-sea interface ecosystems. Research on this topic has advanced rapidly in...
doi.org
August 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
New #OA systematic review of the current state of marine
functional connectivity research in @meps-ir.bsky.social. This #SEA-UNICORN output uses an 'umbrella review' approach to summarise this growing field and includes a bibliometic analysis of 'who' is doing what. 1/2.. 🦞🐟🌊 doi.org/10.3354/meps...
functional connectivity research in @meps-ir.bsky.social. This #SEA-UNICORN output uses an 'umbrella review' approach to summarise this growing field and includes a bibliometic analysis of 'who' is doing what. 1/2.. 🦞🐟🌊 doi.org/10.3354/meps...
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Out today! ‘Quantifying coral reef–ocean interactions is critical for predicting reef futures under climate change’ in @natecoevo.nature.com
#EcologicalOceanography #InterdisciplinaryResearch #CoralReefs #OceanicSubsidies
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
@sosbangor.bsky.social
#EcologicalOceanography #InterdisciplinaryResearch #CoralReefs #OceanicSubsidies
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
@sosbangor.bsky.social
August 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Out today! ‘Quantifying coral reef–ocean interactions is critical for predicting reef futures under climate change’ in @natecoevo.nature.com
#EcologicalOceanography #InterdisciplinaryResearch #CoralReefs #OceanicSubsidies
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
@sosbangor.bsky.social
#EcologicalOceanography #InterdisciplinaryResearch #CoralReefs #OceanicSubsidies
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
@sosbangor.bsky.social
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🌊 New SCB Marine webinar series - "Navigating Marine Conservation Careers" kicks off w/ amazing speakers:
Dr. David Obura (CORDIO East Africa) & Dr. Austin Allen (Dolphin Quest)
Come learn about marine conservation careers!
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#MarineConservation #OceanScience
Dr. David Obura (CORDIO East Africa) & Dr. Austin Allen (Dolphin Quest)
Come learn about marine conservation careers!
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#MarineConservation #OceanScience
August 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
🌊 New SCB Marine webinar series - "Navigating Marine Conservation Careers" kicks off w/ amazing speakers:
Dr. David Obura (CORDIO East Africa) & Dr. Austin Allen (Dolphin Quest)
Come learn about marine conservation careers!
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#MarineConservation #OceanScience
Dr. David Obura (CORDIO East Africa) & Dr. Austin Allen (Dolphin Quest)
Come learn about marine conservation careers!
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#MarineConservation #OceanScience
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Saw this largely white-colored yellow tang #snorkeling in #Maui. Had no idea how rare it was until I did some research. Very cool. Generally called leucistic or piebald. #youdoyou 🦑
#fish #tropicalfish #ocean #hawaii #love #marinelife #diving #coralreef #vacay #photography #underwaterphotography
#fish #tropicalfish #ocean #hawaii #love #marinelife #diving #coralreef #vacay #photography #underwaterphotography
August 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Saw this largely white-colored yellow tang #snorkeling in #Maui. Had no idea how rare it was until I did some research. Very cool. Generally called leucistic or piebald. #youdoyou 🦑
#fish #tropicalfish #ocean #hawaii #love #marinelife #diving #coralreef #vacay #photography #underwaterphotography
#fish #tropicalfish #ocean #hawaii #love #marinelife #diving #coralreef #vacay #photography #underwaterphotography
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📣 Exciting news: The 'Handbook of Social Networks & the Environment' - co-edited with the brilliant Örjan Bodin - is now out!
Access here: 🌐 tinyurl.com/hb2cz9er
Access here: 🌐 tinyurl.com/hb2cz9er
Handbook of Social Networks and the Environment
‘This brilliant volume comprehensively explains how and why social networks are so critical to help society address environmental challenges, including the climate crisis. It significantly extends pre...
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August 4, 2025 at 6:46 AM
📣 Exciting news: The 'Handbook of Social Networks & the Environment' - co-edited with the brilliant Örjan Bodin - is now out!
Access here: 🌐 tinyurl.com/hb2cz9er
Access here: 🌐 tinyurl.com/hb2cz9er