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Hannah Epstein @hannah-eps.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

As a marine biologist I never thought I’d care so much about bird poop, but here we are! This was such a fun paper to write with a truly amazing group of co authors! Check it out in Holly’s post below🪶

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Courtney Stuart @courtney-stuart.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

How do seabirds shape nutrient patterns in coral reef lagoons? 🐥🌊 🪸Our new Ecography paper combines field data + remote sensing to show how enrichment varies with seabird biomass, depth, distance to land, and seafloor curvature in a recovering atoll. Check it out: doi.org/10.1002/ecog...

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Seascape configuration determines spatial patterns of seabird‐vectored nutrient enrichment to coral reefs

Pelagic-feeding seabirds deliver nutrient subsidies that enhance the productivity, biodiversity, and resilience of terrestrial and marine ecosystems, particularly in nutrient-poor tropical environmen...

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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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Simon J. Brandl @gobyone.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

🐠🧪🎓 New position alert: I am looking for a full-time research technician to work on my NSF CAREER project. Perks: ✅ SCUBA-based fieldwork in Belize 🤿 ✅ Chemistry labwork 🧪 ✅ Lots of fish and fun(ctions) 🐠📈😀 Deadline: Feb 21st utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/... Please share widely.

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Casey Benkwitt @cbenkwitt.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Check out our new paper! We compare indicators for monitoring the impacts of island restoration on coral reefs. Massive thanks to our huge list of collaborators, which enabled us to look at seabirds, nutrients, microbes, algae, corals, and fish! 🐦🦠🌱🪸🐠 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Diagram showing links between seabirds and various coral-reef monitoring outcomes.

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Jennifer Appoo @jenniferappoo.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

A bit late but excited to share our new paper exploring how seabird nutrient inputs influence mangrove food webs! 🐦🌿 @entropie-marinelab.bsky.social @lec-reefs.bsky.social @iomarinescience.bsky.social Open access: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Nick Graham @nickajgraham.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Still hope for coral reefs. Using 28-years of data in Seychelles, we find reefs recovering 4-5 years faster from the 2016 bleaching event, than they did after 1998. Also, a reef that had regime-shifted to macroalgae for over 15 years, is recovering to coral. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Increased resilience and a regime shift reversal through repeat mass coral bleaching

Assessing coral reefs across the inner Seychelles islands, using a 28-year dataset, we document faster coral recovery from the 2016 than the 1998 marine heatwave events. Further, a reef that had regi....

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Hannah Epstein @hannah-eps.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Another 🚨 new paper alert! We found some of the first evidence of a microbially-mediated life history tradeoff in tropical corals driven by dominance of our fave bacterial symbiont, Endozoicomonas! Read more about it here: animalmicrobiome.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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Evidence for microbially-mediated tradeoffs between growth and defense throughout coral evolution - Animal Microbiome

Background Evolutionary tradeoffs between life-history strategies are important in animal evolution. Because microbes can influence multiple aspects of host physiology, including growth rate and susce...

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Hannah Epstein @hannah-eps.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

🚨New paper alert! With an amazing group of collaborators, we explore potential indicators for assessing the impacts of island restoration on nearshore tropical marine ecosystems (plus it's my first senior author paper - a mini milestone!). Check it out here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Re-connecting ecosystems: Integrating coral reefs into monitoring of island restoration

Ecosystems are intrinsically linked, such that management actions in one ecosystem can influence adjacent ecosystems. However, adequate data, and even…

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Hannah Epstein @hannah-eps.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Finally made the jump! Came for the vibes, staying for the science 🧪

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