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Carrie M. Tribble, PhD @tribblelab.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Hello world! You bored? My research group is documenting flower color variation and you can help! check out tribblelab.org/flower_color... and dm me with any technical difficulties or issues. Share with your friends! The more players the better.

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In Bloom — Flower Color Quiz

A crowdsourced flower-color observation quiz.

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Katie Martin, PhD @katiemartinevo.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Happy World Sea Turtle Day! Recently had a chance to chat about my latest pub 👇 Many thanks to journalist Emily Dougherty for a great write-up and my lab mate @jenna-n-palmisano.bsky.social for the lab photos! All sea turtle handling and research done as part of permitted research activities 🌊🐢🧬

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UCF Researcher Reveals How Genetic Variation Shapes Sea Turtle Immune System Evolution

New research from a UCF biology researcher shows how genetic variation shapes sea turtles’ immune systems, with implications for disease resilience and conservation strategies.

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Dr. Carly Kenkel @drcarl.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2027 is live! PIs enter your position info here: forms.gle/MAGd4ohyPeoY... students (and PIs not recruiting) share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely! 🧪

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Ecology/Evolution/Marine Biology labs recruiting for Fall 2027

Please complete this form if you are a PI recruiting graduate students for a Fall 2027 start. If you are NOT recruiting, feel free to share the response sheet with prospective students looking for lab...

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Katrina Phillips @katrinaphillips.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Stay tuned for a turtle-y new podcast 🐢 coming soon to the @disealab.bsky.social Sea Lab Sidebar series... In the meantime, you can check out the current episodes about Seahorses, Dolphins, and Seagrass 🌊🐟🐬🌱 www.disl.edu/podcast/

A selfie at the podcast mic with Dauphin Island Sea Lab Public Relations Director Angela Levins.

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Katrina Phillips @katrinaphillips.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Marsh periwinkle snails (Littoraria irrorata) settling in to their temporary home after volunteering to participate in my Marine Ecology class’ mark-recapture exercise this week. 🐌 🖊️ 🧮 Special thanks to Matt Boehm for adding snail jungle gyms to the tanks to help them feel right at home 🪜🛝

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Katrina Phillips @katrinaphillips.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Awesome intertidal oyster restoration work underway on Dauphin Island thanks to the @disealab.bsky.social Studies of Marine Ecology & Evolution lab, with @leesmee.bsky.social & missmarinebio.bsky.social & some muddy volunteers You can check it out at the Christopher Blankenship Eco-Tourism Area 🌊🦪🛶

The oyster restoration team passing bags of oyster shell through the muddy marsh to build a base for future reef building

Bagged oyster shell placed near the end of the boardwalk at the Christopher Blankenship Eco-Tourism Area & Kayak Launch

A Town of Dauphin Island sign at the park that reads: "Dauphin Island | Sunset Capital of Alabama | Christopher Blankenship Eco-Tourism Area & Kayak Launch"

View of the oyster restoration work near the boardwalk from across the marsh

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International Bio-Logging Society @ibiols.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

We invite you to submit an abstract for a session on animal movement, behaviour and biologging at the 7th World Conference on Marine Biodiversity in Bruges, Belgium (17-20 November 2026) @wcmb2026.bsky.social, @inbo.be, @vliz.be, @aquatictracking.bsky.social More info below! 👇

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Katrina Phillips @katrinaphillips.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Fantastic lineup of workshops this morning! Machine learning, genomics, and biologging knowledge dropped by some stellar teams, including these goobers. 🧑‍💻👩‍🔬🗺️🧬 #ISTS44

Matt Lettrich, myself, and Tiffany Dawson posed for a group selfie among the tropical foliage while we raved about how thoughtful and engaged our workshop participants were.

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Katrina Phillips @katrinaphillips.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

The #ISTS44 sea turtle epibionts crew I’m planning to embark on a journey to understand the diatom communities on sea turtle carapaces and what they can tell us about sea turtle migration.

A group of sea turtle epibiont enthusiasts posing for a group photo with a sign that reads “Workshop 14: Epibiont insights”

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Katrina Phillips @katrinaphillips.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I’ll be posting this week from the International Sea Turtle Society symposium in Hawai’i Day 1 was full of fantastic workshops: in the morning I attended one about applying for research permits to study turtles, and my afternoon was all about sea turtle epibionts 🌊🐢 #ISTS44 #ISTS2026 #seaturtle

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Katrina Phillips @katrinaphillips.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Want to learn more about the REU opportunity at Dauphin Island Sea Lab? Looking for tips to write a competitive application? Tune in for an informational webinar on Monday 15 Dec at 12pm ET 💻🔉🌊🐬🐢🐟 Register here to receive a zoom link: disl.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #NSF #REU #UndergraduateResearch

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Katrina Phillips @katrinaphillips.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

✨🌊Marine Science research opportunity for undergraduates🌊✨ Join us summer 2026 at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab, located on the beautiful Gulf coast of Alabama. Housing & stipend provided. More at www.disl.edu/univ-prog/ns... @disealab.bsky.social #NSF #REU #UndergraduateResearch

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Research Experience for Undergraduates
Marine Science Fellowships
25 May - 31 July 2016

Eight undergraduate fellowships
• Ecology of marine and estuarine invertebrates & fishes
• Marsh & seagrass ecology
• Microbial ecology
• Molecular biology and genetics
• Biogeochemistry
• Benthic ecology
• Physical oceanography
• Toxicology
• Plankton ecology
• Marine mammal ecology
• Aquatic animal medicine

On-site housing
Travel & food allowance
$7,000 stipend

Research experience with a faculty mentor
Professional development
Field trips

DISLREU@disl.edu

Dauphin Island Sea Lab
101 Bienville Blvd
Dauphin Island, AL 36528

Phone: 251-861-2141

Funded by: NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates Program and the Dauphin Island Sea Lab

Apply Today: www.disl.edu/univ-prog/nsf-reu

Students at 2 or 4 year colleges & universities, nontraditional, veterans, and all others are encouraged to apply

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Katrina Phillips @katrinaphillips.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Exciting to see new technology help us better understand monarch butterfly migration 🦋🗺️📱 I hope we continue to see smaller (and cheaper 🙏) tags opening up new research opportunities. #AnimalMigration #MovementEcology #SpatialEcology #biologging

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Katrina Phillips @katrinaphillips.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Having a full suite of reference genomes allows for all kinds of cool analyses. Look at how much synteny there is among the sea turtles (first 6 shown, I don't know where Kemp's ran off to). That's despite the fact that leatherbacks (in blue) diverged from the other species >50 million years ago!

Figure 2 from Arantes et al. 2025 shows a gene synteny plot for 6 sea turtle species, along with the Chinese pond turtle, Goode's thornscrub tortoise, European pond turtle, red-eared slider, and Mississippi diamondback terrapin. There is extremely high synteny among the sea turtle species. Below is a phylogeny with estimated divergence times for each species above (plus a few more). Leatherbacks diverged from the hard-shelled sea turtles in the ~late cretaceous.

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Katrina Phillips @katrinaphillips.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Now that the publication is officially out, boosting the announcement that we now have high-quality reference genomes for all 7 sea turtle species. Congrats to the team that made this a reality! New haplotype-resolved assemblies for 5 of the 7 available from doi.org/10.1093/giga...

Image of a swimming green turtle with the text: "Data release | Complete reference genomes of all sea turtles!" Below is a list of logos from the contributing groups, including the Vertebrate Genomes Project, Revive & Restore, Leibniz Institute for Zoo & Wildlife Research, UMass Amherst, CSIRO, and NOAA.

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Katrina Phillips @katrinaphillips.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

The #FindThatLizard scholarship provides $1000 to support conference participation, tuition, or research expenses across career stages. For more information and to apply: earynmcgee.com/findthatliza...

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Katrina Phillips @katrinaphillips.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Did you miss the #GulfCon abstract submission deadline? No you didn't! The abstract submission portal is open and accepting abstracts through Nov. 21. app.sessionboard.com/submit/2026-...

An aerial view of downtown Mobile along the Mobile River overlaid with informational text about the upcoming conference: Gulf Conference 2026 | May 4-7 ~ Mobile, Alabama | Now Open! Registration

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Katrina Phillips @katrinaphillips.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

It was a beautiful day to be on the water with the ADCNR gillnet sampling program in Grand Bay and by the west end of Dauphin Island. The Marine Resources Division collects fisheries-independent data throughout the year to monitor fish populations & guide #FisheriesManagement decisions.🌊🐟

Two of the field crew from the Marine Resources Division haul a gillnet back on board the vessel to see what fish and at what sizes are in the area

The water was clear enough to see the ripples in the the sand below

A small pinfish is brought on board for measuring before being released back in the bay

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Katrina Phillips @katrinaphillips.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

#GulfCon sessions include: Living Resources; Resilience of Natural & Human Systems; Data Collection & Synthesis; Science, Practice, & Policy Workshops include: Examining Gulf Species Declines; Gulf Literacy Principles; Collaborative Modeling for Stakeholder-Driven Science Image from NatGeo

Illustration of the ecosystems and marine life found in the Gulf. Pelicans fly above mangroves and marsh. Coastal fish and inverts inhabit shallow reefs, while tuna, sea turtles, and a whale shark swim offshore below and among Sargassum. Image by National Geographic.

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Katrina Phillips @katrinaphillips.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

The 2026 Gulf Conference will be here in Mobile, AL from May 4-7 Open to coastal scientists & stakeholders in government, academia, non-profit, and private sectors to discuss current Gulf research and help plan for the future of the Gulf. Abstracts due Nov 7 gulfofamericaalliance.org/gulfcon2026

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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Good news and bad news here. The GRFP solicitation is now live. Yay! However, those who have completed more than a year of graduate school already are no longer eligible. This absolutely sucks...

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Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

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Katrina Phillips @katrinaphillips.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

✨Life Update✨: I'm excited to announce that I've started a new position as Senior Marine Scientist at Dauphin Island Sea Lab. Stay tuned for new scientific adventures from the Gulf coast of Alabama 🌊🐢👩‍🔬 @disealab.bsky.social

Obligatory selfie in front of an official sign reading "Dauphin Island Sea Lab", complete with a knobbly old oak tree and a couple palmettos in the background.

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Katrina Phillips @katrinaphillips.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Moment of zen brought to you by Great Smoky Mountains National Park ⛰️

Sunlight filters through a leafy green canopy onto a narrow trail through the forest, bordered by mosses and ferns

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Katrina Phillips @katrinaphillips.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Declining mean size of green turtles nesting in Malaysia from 2005 to 2022. Summary of nesting female size changes across 13 green turtle rookeries, 9 hawksbill, 6 loggerhead, 2 olive ridley, and 1 leatherback rookery (Hays et al. 2025). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 🧵 21 of many

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Global Decline in the Size of Sea Turtles

Changes in mean adult body size may be a universal response to global warming and sometimes lead to conservation concerns. Using a 30-year data set for green turtles from Malaysia, we show a decrease...

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Katrina Phillips @katrinaphillips.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Does anyone have intel on the new Simons Foundation fellowships to support incoming PhD students in ecology and evolution? 👀 Types of projects most likely to be funded? Strings attached? 🤷 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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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 16/05/2025

Join us live for our next #EcoEvo author seminar to hear Katrina Phillips @katrinaphillips.bsky.social talk about her #ProcB paper 'New insights on sea turtle behaviour during the ‘lost years’. Wed 4 June, 3:00 PM (GMT+1). Reserve your place: cassyni.com/events/U1GH1... #ecology

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Katrina Phillips @katrinaphillips.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

More coverage of our 'lost years' research on CBC Radio's science show Quirks and Quarks.

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Katrina Phillips @katrinaphillips.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Awesome new paper showing that sea turtles can learn the magnetic field associated with a food source. 💭🍽️🗺️ #AnimalNavigation #MagneticMap #MagneticCompass #AnimalMigration #MovementEcology #SeaTurtles Come for the cutting-edge science, stay for the 'turtle dance' videos...

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Katrina Phillips @katrinaphillips.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I'm happy to share that the spatial component of my dissertation work on 'lost years' sea turtles is out now! If you're attending #SERSTM2025 this week, I'll be presenting the highlights in the #MovementEcology session this afternoon. 🌊🐢🗺️ #seaturtle #telemetry #OpenAccess

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

To learn how researchers collect DNA samples from eagle rays - and why this work is important - read John @mobulasana.bsky.social's blog, detailing fieldwork & how the research contributes to our understanding of population connectivity. Read the full blog below. saveourseas.com/update/ray-s...

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Connie Kot @connieykot.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

So happy to be able to contribute to this paper and for the US Animal Telemetry Network to be part of such a collaborative group! I'm excited to see our community continue to grow! #biologging #telemetry #opendata 🌐🌊📈

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Katrina Phillips @katrinaphillips.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Though not a direct measure of nesting turtles, there was a decline in average clutch size (a proxy for nesting female size) among loggerhead nests on the west coast of Florida 1990-2022 (McNally et al. 2024). www.herpconbio.org/Volume_19/Is... 🧵 18 of many

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Paolo Moccetti @pmoccetti.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

🚨 New Paper Alert 🚨 Interested in fish #migration 🐟, acoustic #telemetry 🔊, #genomics 🧬, and #morphometrics 📐? Check out how we combined them all in this study! Read it here #OpenAccess 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Brendan Godley @brendangodley.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Excellent new #OpenAccess paper by Holly Stokes and others demonstratng lack of negative impacts of satellite tracking of juvenile hawksbill turtles. Important insights from long term work. More studies appraising impacts needed 🐢🌍🧪🦑 🌐🦤 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Blair Bentley @blairbentley.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

🚨 New paper! Something a little bit different this time. We used genomics to trace the invasion history of a predatory marine gastropod, identify potentially adaptive loci, and then leverage the invasive populations to test for predictable allele shifts! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Successful Invasion Into New Environments Without Evidence of Rapid Adaptation by a Predatory Marine Gastropod

Invasive species with native ranges spanning strong environmental gradients are well suited for examining the roles of selection and population history in rapid adaptation to new habitats, providing ...

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Christian John @jepsonnomad.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Movement and migration ecology starter pack! Help me fill it out as more folks join Bluesky 🌎🌍🌏 go.bsky.app/SSiWN2u

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Katrina Phillips @katrinaphillips.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Declining trends in body size among first-time nesting hawksbills in Seychelles (Evans et al. 2024) www.int-res.com/abstracts/es... 🧵 17 of many

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Nesting female hawksbill sea turtles trending smaller in the western Indian Ocean

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