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LEC Reefs @lec-reefs.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

A busy week for LECREEFS at #ICRS2026🪸 A plenary from @christinahicks.bsky.social & talks from @cherfychow.bsky.social @lisagoberdhan.bsky.social @lljeannot.bsky.social Khatija & @nickajgraham.bsky.social about diversity patterns, cryptofauna distributions & pelagic subsidies to coral reefs 🪸🐠

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

When you visit Trieste, Italy, you and you go and buy tickets for bus, in the buss station ticket office you can find this beautiful two projection section of Cretaceous rudist bivalve mollusk from the Radiolitidae family, which converged in their for with corrals! 🧪 #Geology ⚒️ #Paleobio

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Cher Chow 周馥溢 @cherfychow.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Super excited to announce I've started as a postdoc at LEC REEFS @lec-reefs.bsky.social with James Robinson @james-robinson.bsky.social and Renato Morais @renatoamorais.bsky.social. Not only can I stick with my reef fish, but we're scaling up work on fish productivity and nutrient fluxes 🦠🐠

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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!

Book cover for Reproducible Code guide. The cover has a red background with a large yellow-bodied black-headed stag beetle.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Love Notes from Nature Calendars are how we're funding the 2026 Native Plant Project in Philly! We're planning to distribute 10,000 packets of native plant seeds in the city & doing a bar-level promo campaign w/local artists. We have 72 calendars left. Reposts v helpful! Get one at SquidFacts.Net

Sarah presents you with a calendar that has an anglerfish surrounded by the words "Light up the darkness". The paper is matte and it's for the month September.

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Neal Agarwal @neal.fun · 10/12/2025

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/

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Cher Chow 周馥溢 @cherfychow.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

My newest paper and 1st chapter from the PhD is also officially out! I test how random encounter models work on reef fish 🐠Also great for anyone with a healthy dose of scepticism about reef fish survey methods *Contains one of the most painful tables I've ever written. doi.org/10.1111/2041...

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Random encounter modelling as a viable method to estimate absolute abundance of reef fish

Remote underwater video (RUV) surveys are increasingly replacing diver-based underwater visual censuses (UVCs) in fish ecology studies, especially on coral reefs. However, extracting reliable esti...

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Cher Chow 周馥溢 @cherfychow.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

And that is the PhD submitted!!! 🥳 With the lab there to build up that anticlimactic button click :P BIG thank you to my supervisors, Maria, Andy, and @ninamds.bsky.social

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Maria Paniw @paniw.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

🚨 Job alert 🚨 Postdoc position in ecological forecasting 📈 as part of the Horizon Europe OSCARS call. The postdoc will be based in lovely Sevilla (fantastic place to live) and will include working closely with several European forecasting projects. Apply by Dec 11! 🌎🧪 globalchangeeco.com/jobs

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

His life's work is the infection of children with preventable illnesses, why the fuck would you try to help him win

I have never been able to convey her near-total obsession with Bobby properly. What I can say with authority is that it seeped into every corner of her life, affected every relationship she had, and drove every decision she made in late 2023 and all of 2024, including her catch-and-kill operations on his behalf, the campaign strategy memos she wrote him, and the other journalistic transgressions that have still not been disclosed.

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Cher Chow 周馥溢 @cherfychow.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Nothing hits like a paper acceptance email coming in after a long day in the field!!! 🥂🥂 Exciting (long overdue) paper coming your way soon :)

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Tim Lamont @timlamont.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

We're hiring! 🥳 Come and join our team in Lancaster - we're looking for two senior postdocs to work on corporate sustainability and restoration ecology. 🌳 🪸 ♻️ (1 of 2) @lec-reefs.bsky.social @pentlandcentre.bsky.social @sci-tech-lancaster.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social

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Mónica Medina @momedinamunoz.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Join our session to discuss the role of art in coral reef conservation at the International Coral Reef Symposium in Auckland, New Zealand July 19-24, 2026. Abstract deadline Dec 1, 2025. 🧪🪸🌎🌊🧬🌐🌿🐡🐙

Call for abstracts Reefs Reimagined: Art and Reefs. International Coral Reef Symposium July 19-24, 2026. Submission deadline Dec 1, 2025.

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Cher Chow 周馥溢 @cherfychow.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

reviewers, it's thankless work but definitely make sure to look over code now more than ever!!

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

For those who aren't familiar, H1B visas aren't just used in the tech industry. They are also widely used by universities, hospitals, engineering firms, and other industries that rely on extensive training. Fees were previously under $5k -- still high, but doable, and many employers would pay them.

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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Each Friday, I summarize what is happening to American science & higher ed. 🧪 This was Week 35: - executive order on H-1B visas - travesty of vaccine advisory council updates MMRV & COVID recs - Texas A&M fires president - California faculty file suit & so much more buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

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Week 35

Sept 15-19, 2025 - our way out of the woods

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Tommaso Jucker @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this! The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems 📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025... Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!

Global distribution of forest landscapes covered by airborne LiDAR

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

If you have published anything, please consider doing this. The window is closing and you should get your details registered now for a chance at a settlement. The form works wherever in the world you are based.

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Cher Chow 周馥溢 @cherfychow.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

mushroom season is keeping me sane in this final phd push! Saffron milkcaps, chanterelles, and dryad's saddle!

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Necessary tools from the bad old days (or: the smallest taste of why marriage equality matters.)

Legal documents same-sex
couples should have in case marriage equality is overturned
Revocable Living Trust
Last Will & Testament
Healthcare Power of Attorney
Durable Power of Attorney
Living Will
Hospital Visitation Authorization Form one for your partner & one for your Chosen Family
Agent for Disposition of Remains
Pet Care Directive
Tangible Personal Property Memorandum

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Jack A Brand @jack-brand.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

🚨 Proceedings B is recruiting new Data Editors! Join our editorial board to help ensure data/code transparency across biology. 🗓 Term: 3 yrs from Jan 2026 📩 Apply by 30 Sep 2025 with a 2-page CV + cover letter: proceedingsb@royalsociety.org 🔗 Info: jackbrand.work@gmail.com /dylan.ge.gomes@gmail.com

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Cher Chow 周馥溢 @cherfychow.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

This is how I feel with the changes to hermatypic coral taxonomy!!!

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Cher Chow 周馥溢 @cherfychow.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

6 years in Scotland and I only just found out about one of the most fossiliferous beaches in the UK! Lots of crinoids, solitary corals, and bryozans 🤩

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 21/07/2025

Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza. Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza. Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza. Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza. Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza. Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza.

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

You know if you’re struggling and you need to time or space to get stuff some, it’s okay to say you’re having a health issue and leave it at that. Mental health is health. You don’t need to say if it’s an appendectomy or a hip replacement or depression or BPD.

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

For every conversation, I'd like to add a footnote to "I'm doing great!"¹ ¹ Notwithstanding the hellscape of authoritarian rule, genocide, federal goons roaming my city kidnapping innocent people and putting them into concentration camps, and livelihood threatened by nincompoops in charge.

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

I'm back home with my dad and have thoughts about being an Indigenous scientist and academic. I'm writing this in real time so it might get disrupted and will have typos. I am fairly successful by academic standards. I have a tenure track job, wrote papers, have grant funding, mentor students.

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Cher Chow 周馥溢 @cherfychow.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Does anyone know of a blog/resource similar to Zuur & Ieno 2016 (besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....) that shows explicitly how model notation should be presented for zero-inflated GLMMs or GAMMs?

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

You will have to pry my em dashes from my cold, dead hands.

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Inês Martins @inesismartins.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

3-year #Postdoc opportunity at the University of York! I am #hiring a Postdoc to join my URF project on exploring how #biodiversity change is unfolding in the #Anthropocene. Deadline: 10th August 2025. All details and the link to apply: shorturl.at/qOQst @anthropocenebio.bsky.social #ecology

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Jobs - The University of York

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Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Pro tip, folks: if you make a figure for a publication, don’t just hand the copyright over to the publisher. Post it on OSF first and then give yourself permission to use it in the first publication and then all future publications. That way, no permissions issues.

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Simon J. Brandl @gobyone.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Heard of "Darwin's paradox"? It refers to Charles Darwin's observation that coral reefs are wildly productive despite occurring in nutrient-poor tropical oceans. Reefs are, so the story goes, oases in marine deserts 🏝️... Turns out that 2/3 of these assertions are very wrong... 🌐 🦑🧪 🧵⬇️

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Andreas Nord @cyanistesnord.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

There is still time to apply for this post. DL extended until 15 June. Read more and apply 👇 @biologylu.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu #HotLife

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Katie Matthews, PhD @katieocean.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

New axis labels have dropped

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Dr. Carly Kenkel @drcarl.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Its that time again - the list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2026 is live! PIs enter your position info here: forms.gle/2XTHBP6CZGEn... Prospective students (and PIs not recruiting) share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share! 🧪

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Ecology/Evolution/Marine Biology labs recruiting for Fall 2026

Please complete this form if you are a PI recruiting graduate students for a Fall 2026 start. If you are NOT recruiting, feel free to share the response sheet with prospective students looking for lab...

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Inês Martins @inesismartins.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Don't know where to start? Don't worry! We have developed an R package to get you started. #BioTIMEr now provides tools to interact with the database and some useful tips and examples. Our website is also getting an uplift in the upcoming days, so stay tuned!

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Cher Chow 周馥溢 @cherfychow.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Are you a community/macro ecologist? Looking for more data? Sick of compiling/cleaning data?? 🧪🌍🦤🦑🌐

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Cher Chow 周馥溢 @cherfychow.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

🚨New data paper/open data alert!🚨 BioTIME v2.0 is out now! We've expanded the database with improved spatial and taxonomic coverage, with a new R package! As always, free, public, and open acess :) Paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Database: biotime.st-andrews.ac.uk

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BioTIME 2.0: Expanding and Improving a Database of Biodiversity Time Series

Motivation Here, we make available a second version of the BioTIME database, which compiles records of abundance estimates for species in sample events of ecological assemblages through time. The up...

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Cher Chow 周馥溢 @cherfychow.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I haven't gone back to China since protesting in Hong Kong in 2020 because they were doing these same authoritarian phone checks. It's terrifying to see the US switch to fascism in the blink of an admin change.

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elle is not ok [📌’d 👀] @scretladyspider.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

happy international women’s day to all women, including but not limited to trans women nonbinary women disabled women neurodivergent women autistic women ADHD women cis women aromantic women bi women asexual women queer women women who are good at math and women who sincerely love lizards

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

If you have experienced direct harm to your work/lab/job due to recent changes at US NSF, & are willing to share this on behalf of the Am. Society of Naturalists and NSF, please DM/ email me ASAP (this is time-sensitive) or submit story here sites.google.com/view/scienti... Please share widely

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Scientists' Stories - How to Contribute

How to contribute a Story

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Laura Antao @lauraantao.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

📢New paper!! 📢using #BioTIME #timeseries we showed that faster rates of #turnover in community composition were associated with faster rates of #temperature #change across biomes, for both cooling & warming + microclimate availability & human impacts modulate these responses go.nature.com/3WD7cWa

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Cher Chow 周馥溢 @cherfychow.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I'm not surprised but I got chills down my back. NOAA?!

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Dr. Martin Visbeck @mvisbeck.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Today marks one of the saddest day in my professional career. I am reading about several hundert employees fired from NOAA. NOAA provides critical services for the US but also globally. (1/2)

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BioSS @bioss.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

🚨NEW VACANCIES!🚨 Our Offshore Renewables group are seeking TWO ecological statisticians to join the growing team. Both are permanent roles- more info: www.bioss.ac.uk/vacancies/ec... 📆Deadline: 27th Mar 2025 #StatisticalEcology #OffshoreRenewables #Statistics #DataScience #Seabirds #MarineMammals

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Cher Chow 周馥溢 @cherfychow.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

developing code for a biig analysis means that you celebrate every error/NA free code step, but then hindsight is 20/20 and you see how dumb you were a week ago 🥸🤪 y a y

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Caitlin S., PhD @paleophile.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

The Democrats on the House Science Committee have set up a website to collect stories from fired federal employees, anonymously if desired. Please amplify. (This helps the lawyers establish standing for bringing legal cases against the administration!) democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings

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