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Dr. Chris Wall

@coraloha.bsky.social
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Physiology ecologist | Isotopes | Biogeochemistry | Symbioses | Research Faculty in Earth Sciences @UHMānoa working in marine and freshwater ecosystems 🌊 🐠 🪸 🦠 🏄‍♂️

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Dr. Chris Wall @coraloha.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Excited to share our new paper on #zooplankton 16S #microbiomes and #bacterioplankton across alpine lakes. We found deterministic processes > than intraseasonal temporal effects overall, with host filtering and dispersal limitation driving change in zoopl. #MolecularEcology tinyurl.com/4e4rnjhk
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
An entire nightmare brought to you by Trump, Miller, & Noem.
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Elakha Alliance @elakhaalliance.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
🌟 It's being hailed as the “discovery of the decade” by Drew Harvell, a disease ecologist at the University of Washington and member of the research team behind the breakthrough. After years of mystery, scientists have finally pinpointed the cause of sea star wasting disease! #marinescience #ocean
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Scientists Finally Identify Killer Microbe Behind ‘Terrifying’ Sea Star Disease
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Evan Frost @wildwoods.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
“Fire is always where people are,” Mike Flannigan continues. “It goes with us wherever we go. But fire is now uncontrollable, and we're going to see more and more fire and more and more catastrophic fire...Sometimes I say we’re in Dante's circle of hell." 🌏 time.com/7299284/age-...
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We're Living in the Age of Fire. It Will Only Get Worse
Canada's megafires are a sign of what's to come with out of control climate change.
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 01/07/2025
Water quality in the western United States is affected by wildfires, with sediment and turbidity levels increasing up to eight years post-fire, according to an analysis in Communications Earth & Environment. go.nature.com/4nhBER6 ⚒️ 🧪
This is figure 3, which shows covariates’ influence on water quality by region and constituent type.
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Mark Pickens @airshipwriter.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
This is why we call: Also on the chopping block: US Forest Service monitoring and research of our vast public lands and forests. Call your Senators -so many reasons to preserve this agency’s function. Noted some in this #resistbot petition below: Click, sign, share resist.bot/petitions/PG...
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Budget: Oppose Cuts to US Forest Service, Research, and Grants
Text SIGN PGLMJS to 50409 to send this to your officials.
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
I encourage everyone to consider attending one of the many demonstrations planned for tomorrow across the country. Show up. Demand accountability. Peacefully protest. Find the rally closest to you: NoKings.org
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Dr. Chris Wall @coraloha.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Teachers: are AI checkers worth a damn? Any preference for reliable checkers or approaches to addressing high similarity scores? I've used TurnItIn, ZeroGPT, AskGPT and all are so variable...
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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Based on some quick math, this alone could fund the NSF Plant Genome Research Program for ~4 years; the NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology, which was totally axed in the NSF budget request, for ~9 years; and ~ half the total NSF GRFP budget
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Ian James @ianjames.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Seeking solace, and finding hard truths, on California’s Highway 395 "Here’s the truth: There’s not enough water in Mono or Owens lake. It’s hotter than it used to be." — Insightful essay by @sammyroth.bsky.social reflecting on a trip to the Eastern Sierra: www.latimes.com/environment/...
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Commentary: Seeking solace, and finding hard truths, on California's Highway 395
Reflections from a road trip to Mono Lake and the Owens Valley, the northernmost reaches of Southern California.
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Mark Parrington @mparrington.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
With the recent rapid increases in #wildfires as we head into summer, a timely reminder of this excellent starter pack on #wildfire experts put together by @fkearns.bsky.social go.bsky.app/RmQuXhp #IIFF
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Dr. Chris Wall @coraloha.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
New paper! How does fire affect aquatic ecosystem plankton and microbes? We found 🔥 and loading amount shifted zooplankton and microbial community composition over 90d. Recovery of microbial community (and function) was > in host-assoc. vs. free living 🦠 @jonshurin.bsky.social tinyurl.com/mwbkhxsv
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Wildfire‐Driven Changes in Terrestrial Subsidies Shift Freshwater Microbial and Zooplankton Communities to New Compositional States
Wildfire frequency and intensity are increasing globally, impacting terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Deposition of burned materials into aquatic environments can affect biotic communities and nutr...
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography @scrippsocean.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
🪸 An innovative approach to #CoralReef restoration: Gel! A new substance designed by Scripps Oceanography & @jacobsschool.bsky.social scientists improved coral larvae settlement by up to 20 times! Learn more about SNAP-X & how it's helping corals thrive. ⬇️ 🌊 @ucsandiego.bsky.social
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New Gel Could Boost Coral Reef Restoration
Coral larvae are picky about where they attach and settle down. One of the ways they decide is by “smelling” chemicals in the water that are associated with healthy reefs.
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Martha W. Alibali @marthaalibali.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
"Imagine the auto industry without 3D printing. NSF funded that. Artificial intelligence? NSF. MRI machines that help doctors diagnose you? NSF. Doppler radar technology that makes aviation safer by conquering wind shear? NSF. Duolingo‘s underlying programming? NSF. The internet itself? NSF."
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K.T. Elliott @ktelliottmicro.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
I know you all know this, but apparently it needs to be said that basic science is a NECESSARY PRECURSOR to translational science
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Dr. Chris Wall @coraloha.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
I don't know what to say... this is the purposeful sabotage and dismantling of the leading force supporting science research in USA. Dark days lie ahead for us all...
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Dr. Chris Wall @coraloha.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
I got to spend the morning working with Paepae o He'eia pulling invasive upside down sea jellies from the loko i'a. They estimate 5 million in the pond, we pulled ~ 35,000 out today. Small progress, but rewarding to work hand-in-hand with the community kia'i. Join us next time! 🪼
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Isaac Dovere @isaacdovere.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
"It's time to fight everywhere and all at once" Pritzker says, blasting "the do nothing crowd" of Dems in response to Republicans: "We have to abandon the culture of incrementalism that has led us to swallow their cruelty and their callousness with barely a cowardly croak."
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Dr. Chris Wall @coraloha.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
No, deep sea mining is not benign, it is will harm ancient ecosystems vital to the deep sea and our planet. Pillaging the earth is not NOAA's mandate. phys.org/news/2025-04...
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Deep-sea mining study reveals significant environmental and economic risks to coastal communities and businesses
Deep-sea mining (DSM) not only poses significant environmental, social, and economic risks that may have far-reaching implications for coastal communities and Small Island Developing States (SIDS), it...
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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Compliance with the regime will not save you. Piece of evidence n+1
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Exclusive: NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy
“I have done all I can,” says Sethuraman Panchanathan, a Trump appointee who has led agency since 2020
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Dr. Chris Wall @coraloha.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
2025 has been hard... I didn't agree with the capitulation by NSF to the illegal EOs, but I appreciate that Director Panch was doing his best in an impossible time. Thank you for your service, sir. www.science.org/content/arti...
science.org
Exclusive: NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy
“I have done all I can,” says Sethuraman Panchanathan, a Trump appointee who has led agency since 2020
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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 19/04/2025
Read to the end for a fun bit where the Project 2025 proposal to ax this program suggests getting the same scientific work from university researchers funded by the federal grants, which of course the administration is also axing
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
On it. Report your terminated NSF grant here: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... And spread the word. We'll have a database up once we build out the back end and receive submissions. All credit to @noamross.net for standing this up so quickly.
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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale
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Dr. Chris Wall @coraloha.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Opening up sanctuaries of biodiversity for commercial fishing does not make America stronger. This is an abdication of USA leadership in preserving culturally and ecologically sensitive heritage sites. Oh, and it is illegal. www.civilbeat.org/2025/04/trum...
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Trump Lifts Commercial Fishing Ban In Central Pacific Protected Area
Members of the Trump administration signaled that Papahānaumokuākea, the protected area around the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, could be next.
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Stickleback Stock Center at UConn @sticklestock.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
We have a new video to share! How to prepare stickleback muscle tissue for stable isotopes analysis from the Bolnick lab space at UConn. www.sticklestock.com/protocols-1/...
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How to prepare stickleback muscle tissue for stable isotopes analysis — Stickleback stock center
Dan Bolnick’s lab member created this video on preparing stickleback muscle tissue for stable isotopes analysis. You can click to go to YouTube to view, or watch it here on the page.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 07/04/2025
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You can stop asking where the mass opposition is. It's everywhere.
People poured out to protest not only what Trump has done—but what they fear he will do next.
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Dr. Chris Wall @coraloha.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
A tale of two titles: One on the website, the other on the pdf of record. Is this a sloppy edit or an attempt to self-censor for the techno-Fascists? @nature.com @asm.org www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Dr. Chris Wall @coraloha.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
From UC: "...the Board has directed President Drake to take action to ensure that diversity statements are no longer required for new recruitments....Diversity statements may lead applicants to focus on an aspect of their candidacy outside their expertise or prior experience." W😤WWWWWW
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Federal research instability risks postdoc careers, American leadership www.statnews.com/2025/03/13/p... via @statnews.com
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Federal research instability risks postdoc careers, American leadership
In a new National Postdoctoral Association report, 43% of postdocs said Trump administration policies have threatened their positions, while more than one-third said their research is delayed or in je...
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
USDA has eliminated two food safety advisory committees for microbiological contamination and meat inspection. Most recently, they had been reviewing regulatory approaches in response to the fatal Listeria outbreak from Boar’s Head meats and fatal Cronobacter contamination in powdered infant formula
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USDA eliminates two food safety advisory committees
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has eliminated two committees that advise it on food safety, the agency said on Friday, raising concerns about government oversight of the food supply as the Trump administration seeks to downsize the federal bureaucracy and slash costs.
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Dr. Chris Wall @coraloha.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
More bad news for science training in the USA...
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Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
How US science agencies could fare amid future budget cuts and Trump team push for huge government layoffs: “NSF as we know it could cease to exist” NIH scientist: “they want to send us back to the Dark Ages by stopping science in its tracks completely”. @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Trump team orders huge government layoffs: how science could fare
Nature talks with scientists inside US agencies about what the latest directive could mean for their staff members and budgets.
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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Goddamnit. The lack of response on this is so stupid. It also implies an answer.
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NPR @npr.org · 22/02/2025
The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.
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NIH funding freeze stalls applications on $1.5 billion in medical research funds
The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.
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Dr. Chris Wall @coraloha.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
New paper alert: Check it out! A big effort on "flying plankton" and the traits of prokaryotic and eukaryote microbes that shape dispersal and colonization @jonshurin.bsky.social and @ucsandiego.bsky.social inhttps://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/aem.02055-24
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Traits determine dispersal and colonization abilities of microbes | Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Microbes have long been thought to disperse rapidly across biogeographic barriers; however, whether dispersal or colonization vary among taxa or groups or is related to cellular traits remains unknown...
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Dr. Chris Wall @coraloha.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
THIS.
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Dr. Chris Wall @coraloha.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
licking the boot won't gain us favor... "Come and Take It" should be the mantra, not "Thank you may I have another."
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The share of Americans employed by the government steeply dropped in the decades leading up to 2000, and has remained essentially flat since. A bloating federal workforce is a myth.
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Dr. Chris Wall @coraloha.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The worm overlord ate his integrity, as well as his brain.
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Seth Campbell @alpinesciences.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Please repost this government led survey to get this into every fired government employees hands! 🧪 democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings
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Were you fired by President Trump? | House Committee on Science, Space and Technology
The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology
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Dr. Chris Wall @coraloha.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Wow this Judge paid attention in genetics class 🍻
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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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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
I hope there's a class-action lawsuit about these illegal firings because Congress doesn't seem to be doing anything about it.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Firings are happening right now at the National Science Foundation. Essential staff are being cut. This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.
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Dr. Nyssa Silbiger @nsilbiger.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
One of our amazing grad students lost everything in the LA fires. She is so kind & compassionate & always 1st to help out a friend. She is also a champion of protecting coral reefs through research & action. If you have any capacity to help her it would be so appreciated. ❤️https://gofund.me/27c354ef
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Donate to Support friend who lost their home to LA fire, organized by Hannah Merges
Please consider donating if you are able, to help support one of the most … Hannah Merges needs your support for Support friend who lost their home to LA fire
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Dr. Nyssa Silbiger @nsilbiger.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
📣 JOB ALERT📣 The Silbiger Lab is hiring a full time research tech @ University of Hawai’i at Mānoa to support research on intertidal ecology in Hawai’i & coral reef/coastal oceanography in Okinawa, Japan. RCUH ID: 225085 application link below. 1 year to start, but have several years of funding.
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Dr. Chris Wall @coraloha.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Why learn to code? So you don't mistake legacy code structure (CODL database here) for actual data points and become a bombastic twat claiming you've discovered "the greatest fraud in US history". We need programmers, we need educators, we don't need fascist pigs.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/02/2025
The uncertainty caused by Trump’s funding and hiring freezes has limited training, postponed work to reduce flammable vegetation in areas vulnerable to wildfire and left some firefighters with little choice but to leave the force.
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How Trump’s Federal Funding and Hiring Freezes Are Leaving America Vulnerable to Catastrophic Wildfire
Uncertainty over funding and hiring stemming from the president’s executive orders has limited wildfire training and postponed work to reduce flammable vegetation. It has also led some firefighters…
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