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Ross Cunning

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Coral reef researcher at Shedd Aquarium

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Holly Moeller @mixotrophe.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Simons Graduate Fellowship Applications are open! If you're applying to Ph.D. programs in ecology and/or evolution this year, or if you're an incoming Ph.D. student who won't start your degree program until Fall 2026 or later, apply! www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...
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Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution
The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...
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Heather Randell @heatherrandell.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
“Hot damn, the world is a wreck & the future is uncertain—[yet] I am overflowing with motivation to work toward a better world, even knowing it won’t be a perfect world.” - @ayanaeliza.bsky.social
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Joseph D. Ortiz @earthsciinfo.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
The thing about science is that it happens whether you believe it or not. Pretending we have not modified our weather & climate will not make the damage stop. This delusion from the administration will do lasting harm. If you voted for them, you enabled this. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...
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Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency
White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted
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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
I spoke with Sarah Cooley, the director of NOAA's Ocean Acidification Program, who was fired under the DOGE layoffs, about all she hoped to accomplish before the wreckage of NOAA defector.com/an-interview...
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An Interview With A Fired NOAA Director | Defector
In 2006, by the time the scientist Sarah Cooley finished graduate school in marine science, oyster larvae in the Pacific Northwest had already begun dying mysteriously and dramatically—unable to form ...
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Andrew Ahern @andrewonearth.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
“Billions of people will lose their livelihoods and economic output reduced by up to 34% if the Earth is allowed to warm by 3 degrees Celsius this century, but investing less than 2% of GDP now could eliminate most of those losses, a groundbreaking new report found” www.forbes.com/sites/davidr...
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Climate Inaction Could Cost 1/3 Of Global GDP This Century, BCG Warns
The Big 3 consulting firm finds that most harms come from productivity losses, but also reveals how nations could avoid 90% of climate damage.
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The news has been more than a bit grim of late, so hooray for @carbonbrief.org providing some genuine and really meaningful **good** news: the UK's carbon emissions in 2024 were the lowest since 1872, because demand for fossil fuels just keeps decreasing. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...
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ICRS International Coral Reef Society @icrs.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Time to get applications in for ICRS awards! Exciting awards for all career stages incl. early and mid-career awards, Eminence in Research, and Honorary lifetime memberships. Deadline March 15th. More details on these and more exciting awards at: coralreefs.org/awards-and-h...
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Awards, Honors & Fellowships - International Coral Reef Society
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Emily Yeager, PhD @emilyyeager9.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
I am incredibly excited and proud to share the (open access) publication of my first, first author paper: Diel patterns of symbiont expulsion in Caribbean reef corals are coral species-dependent and driven by symbiont load and photosynthetic performance link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Diel patterns of symbiont expulsion in Caribbean reef corals are coral species-dependent and driven by symbiont load and photosynthetic performance - Coral Reefs
The mutualistic relationship between scleractinian corals and dinoflagellate algae (Family Symbiodiniaceae) is critical to the success of corals on tropical reefs yet underpins their vulnerability to ...
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Evan Frost @wildwoods.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Congress has just released a list of federal DOI offices to be closed under the ongoing massacre of our natural resource agencies -- it's extensive and includes many important NPS, BLM, USGS and USFWS facilities across the country. Truly horrific. democrats-naturalresources.house.gov/imo/media/do...
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The Coral Reef Research Hub @coralreefresearch.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
JOB OPPORTUNITY (REMINDER): Restoration Lead - The Coral Restoration Foundation www.coralrestoration.org/careers #coralreefs #coralrestoration #reefrestoration #coralreefconservation #coraljobs #restorationjobs #coralcareers #careers #marinebiology
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Dr. Kate Quigley @la-cientifica.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
"Unfortunately, there's no quick fix for this, other than really changing the way our governments are managing our energy sources." Record marine heatwave - Western Australia's coastline, www.abc.net.au/news/science...
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'First time on record': Coral reefs across half of WA are bleaching
Western Australia has been hit by marine heatwaves since August, and now coral is bleaching in large areas along the coast from World Heritage-listed Ningaloo Reef to Ashmore Reef.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
No one alive will experience a better climate than today. But young people will experience a much more dangerous and chaotic world in the future, and the extent to which that happens will depend on our choices today. Trump doesn't care because he's old and a sociopath. www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/s...
A visual representation of global temperature change from 1900 to 2100, illustrating past and projected warming relative to 1850-1900 levels. The timeline includes historical data up to 2020, where temperatures were about 1.1°C warmer than pre-industrial levels. Future temperature changes are depicted under different emissions scenarios: very high, high, intermediate, low, and very low. The color scale ranges from blue (cooler) to dark purple (warmer). Human figures show the expected lifetime temperature exposure for individuals born in 1950, 1980, and 2020, reaching 70 years of age in 2020, 2050, and 2090, respectively. The diagram highlights how future climate conditions depend on present choices regarding climate change mitigation.
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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 06/02/2025
I think this is my favourite report cover of all time. Any others?
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Mya Breitbart @viromegirl.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Devastating to all the hard-working folks at NSF and all the incredible, critical science and people doing it 💔
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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The dismantling of American Science continues. The Organismal Response to Climate Change grant call has been cancelled. The NSF Director is a disgrace
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Matt Betts @mattbetts42.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Interesting new article in @Nature showing that up to 91% of environmental impacts can be attributed to 10-20% of consumers. Big potential for positive impacts with behavioral change. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Keeping the global consumption within the planetary boundaries - Nature
An analysis of the environmental footprints of consumption finds that planetary boundary transgressions can be mitigated by following an effective mitigation pathway focused on the food and services s...
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