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Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 2d

We are searching for a technician in Next Generation Sequencing!

Come to our lab University of California, Berkeley Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)

See ad:

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 2d

An article about a former lab tech in my lab, Kim Ballare, in the new NYTimes "Lost Science" series about impacts of federal cuts. Thanks to @carlzimmer.com for doing this!
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/s...

She Studied How Logging Affects Pollinators

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Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 2d

Apply for our PhD program on Evolution Ecology Organismal Biology (Integrative! Biology)

Dec 1 2025 deadline

Check out the Flyer below for more information on our #MOILAB!

Link to Flyer
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
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Misha Matz @heatshok.bsky.social · 1d

🧪🌏 Cool results from @pcleves.bsky.social, re: basic mechanisms of coral-algal symbiosis. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1) Symbiotic vacuoles are arrested lysosomes. (2) The bicarbonate transporter for the coral's carbon concentration loop is SCL26A11

Effect of CRISPR/Cas9 knockdown of SLC26A11 (bicarbonate transporter in symbiotic membrane) on young coral recruit (Galaxea fascicularis). Left panel - control, right panel - knockdown. Brown dots = algae.

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Shumpei Maruyama @shumpeim.bsky.social · 2d

We're excited to share with everyone a preprint of our manuscript that resolves the cellular origins of the symbiosome in cnidarian-algal symbiosis through proteomics of the symbiosome, RNAi, and CRISPR/Cas9 experiments. ⬇️
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Read on below!

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Jason Williams @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social · 16d

The new #NSF #GRFP application now excludes 1000’s of students, including those who were told they could apply this year, or who planned to apply next year.

We have a new specific petition urging #NSFGRFP undo this harmful action. If you are impacted sign here: laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/

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Sarah W. Davies Ph.D. @daviesswphd.bsky.social · 20d

Call for abstracts: @icrs.bsky.social ICRS 2026 session "#26 | Cryptic diversity, hybridization, and chimerism and their influence on ecology and evolution"
www.icrs2026.nz/call-for-abs...

Call for abstracts

www.icrs2026.nz

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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · Aug 20

I'm looking to recruit a PhD student to study patterns of local adaptation and introgression across the spruce hybrid zone in the Rockies near Calgary. Projects can include field work, bioinformatics, pop gen theory, or comparison to plant/ conifer species
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The Nature Conservancy Science @science.nature.org · Aug 20

Over half of the world’s corals have vanished in 50 years. To help restore reefs at scale, TNC and the Coral Restoration Consortium created a science-based guide with best practices, tools, and case studies tailored to local conditions. Resilient reefs start here. 🔗 https://nature.ly/4mRosBE

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Kelsey Beavers, PhD @kelseybeavers.bsky.social · Jul 24

🎉 Exciting news! The last manuscript from my dissertation was just published in Royal Society Open Science!
And in a fun twist of fate, the cover of this issue happens to feature a Caribbean coral colony 🪸 (not from our study, but still serendipitous nonetheless!)

Machine learning reveals distinct gene expression signatures across tissue states in stony coral tissue loss disease | Royal Society Open Science

Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) has rapidly degraded Caribbean reefs, compounding climate-related stressors and threatening ecosystem stability. Effective intervention requires understanding t...

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Sarah W. Davies Ph.D. @daviesswphd.bsky.social · Jun 27

Very excited to have our first #singlecell data paper out in the world. Dr. Valadez Ingersoll worked so hard on this piece and we learned so much about #coral #symbiosis!

Cell type-specific immune regulation under symbiosis in a facultatively symbiotic coral url: academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

Cell type-specific immune regulation under symbiosis in a facultatively symbiotic coral

Abstract. Many cnidarians host single-celled algae within gastrodermal cells, yielding a mutually beneficial exchange of nutrients between host and symbion

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · Jun 23

Email from NSF just now:

“NSF will not implement [15%IDC] policy at this time”

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · May 22

NSF Physics was cut by 85%, basically wiping out most of its capacity for supporting research.

NSF Astronomy was cut by 53%

Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79%

Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO.

#GiftLink ⚛️🔭

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades (Gift Article)

The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.

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Sarah W. Davies Ph.D. @daviesswphd.bsky.social · May 21

Having supported an application this round I can say that this feels like a slap in the face for these juniors researchers who are emerging post PhD. All of that work .....

Julie Libarkin @holdingupthesky.bsky.social · May 20

HHMI lost my good wishes when they reworded sites and cancelled in obvious bowing to fascism. www.statnews.com/2025/02/06/h...

Researchers 'stunned' after HHMI abruptly cancels program to make science more inclusive

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute abruptly ended a $60 million program to improve the retention of diverse college students

www.statnews.com

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Jon Puritz @jonpuritz.marineevoeco.com · May 9

Katie’s amazing and an incredibly thoughtful scientist. The MSC is a collaborative and vibrant academic community. Living in the North Shore of Boston is awesome.

A postdoc in Katie’s lab helped change the path of my career for the better.

This is a dream postdoc.

Dr. K. Lotterhos @drk-lo.bsky.social · May 8

I'm hiring! Postdoc available in my lab in Ecological Genomics. northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/... I will start reviewing applications mid-July. 🧪🧑‍🔬🖥️🧬🦑. Please share widely, thanks!

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Ecological Genomics

About the Opportunity Job Summary A postdoctoral research associate is available at the Lotterhos Lab at Northeastern University. The postdoc will be based at Northeastern University’s Marine Science ...

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Dr. Suzanne Le Menestrel @drsl.bsky.social · May 2

The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants.

www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program

In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

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Sarah W. Davies Ph.D. @daviesswphd.bsky.social · Apr 29

Stirling!

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Sarah W. Davies Ph.D. @daviesswphd.bsky.social · Apr 24

Great job in MA! I love GMGI and attend their conference every year! Amazing opportunity for a marine genomics researcher!
gmgi.bamboohr.com/careers/69

Marine Research Scientist

Join us to Transform Ocean Science The Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute (GMGI) is a pioneering research organization that uses genomic approaches to addressing critical challenges facing our oce...

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Mónica Medina @momedinamunoz.bsky.social · Apr 15

We examined the microbiome of Madracis aurentenra, an urban coral off the coast of the Colombian Caribbean. Interesting dynamics between Endozoicomonas and Vibrionaceae 🧪🪸 #MicroSky peerj.com/articles/192...

Endozoicomonas dominance and Vibrionaceae stability underpin resilience in urban coral Madracis auretenra

Coral resilience varies across species, with some exhibiting remarkable stability and adaptability, often mediated by their associated microbiomes. Given the species-specific nature of coral-microbiom...

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Mónica Medina @momedinamunoz.bsky.social · Apr 12

Happy to share our work on jellyfish microbiomes across space and life history stages @akerwin.bsky.social
#Microsky #Symbiosky 🧪🌊https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0319944&?utm_id=plos111&utm_source=internal&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=author

Cassiopea xamachana microbiome across anatomy, development, and geography

The upside-down jellyfish holobiont, Cassiopea xamachana, is a useful model system for tri-partite interactions between the cnidarian host, the photosymbiont, and the bacterial microbiome. While the i...

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Sarah W. Davies Ph.D. @daviesswphd.bsky.social · Apr 9

Hi coral peeps! Anyone have any Caribbean spawning predictions for summer 2025? Please share so I can reach more people! Thanks :)

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Britt Koskella @bkoskella.bsky.social · Apr 8

Know any soon to graduate or recently graduated undergrads interested in a full year, paid postbac research position in microbiome sciences? Have them join our zoom Q&A session on Friday, April 11, 11:30am-12:30pm PST. More info here: sites.google.com/berkeley.edu...

Bay Area RaMP - 2025-26 Cohort

2025-2026 Cohort

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Katherine T. Tyson @katherinettyson.bsky.social · Apr 7

If you’re a Canadian Citizen with an opinion about the United States you need to vote.

You don’t have to wait until April 28th to vote.

If you’re in Canada: go to elections Canada or to an advanced poll.

If you’re outside of Canada: get your postal vote now.

#elbowsup #vote2025

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SICB journals @sicbjournals.bsky.social · Apr 4

Congrats Jeric “JK” Da-Anoy (member of the
sites.bu.edu/davieslab )
JK is a #Ph.D. #student fascinated by #evolution of #metazoan complexity. He received his Master’s at the Uni of the Philippines, exploring stress response & #evolutionary #neurobiology under Dr. Cecilia Conaco’s supervision.

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Clint Oakley @clintoak.bsky.social · Apr 4

Corals maintain stable populations of essential photosynthetic symbionts by controlling their cell cycle, not by eating them! Our new #PNAS paper monitored and modelled #aiptasia cell cycle, autophagy, and expulsion for over a year. #symbiosis #microbiology www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Cell cycle arrest in the cnidarian-dinoflagellate symbiosis.

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