My submission for National Geographic's art contest, thanks to Bella (@LittleWildLines)'s workshop on Nature Journalling at #ICCB2025!

@kepra3.bsky.social Presented a fantastic talk at #ICCB2025 on estimates of coral dispersal through genomics. Using Wright's neighbourhood area theory, she estimates the true realised dispersal of corals using genetic data. Coral connectivity is crucial for est pop resilience and resp. to stressors!

@annacresswell.bsky.social Presented an incredible and detailed view of her coral modelling and outputs from her model called CScape at #ICCB2025 modelling fine-scale within-reef area responses to future climate projections for 6 different growth forms, all informed by fine-scale reef photogrammetry

Come see my talk at #ICCB2025 this arvo on assisted evolution interventions in corals to promote adaptation to climate change!
It's in the speed talks in Genetics, Evolution, & Biogeography II in P4 from 3:30-4:30 (3:46pm talk)

I'm practicing Mr. Bean Christmas level excitement and self-love this holiday season

Booping the Boops boops at Museo do Mar de Galicia #BeautBoopsboopsboop

One thing that I really hated when eMusk took over Twitter was that the TwitteR package stopped working, which meant I couldn't do any scrapes of conference tweets and produce real-time word cloud or network plots. I'm very happy to report that the bskyr package appears to fill this gap!

This is a real problem, as studies that are supposedly sampling only one coral taxon may be capturing multiple taxa, which can bias a number of common population metrics and result in misleading values! #DontBeBiased

Many coral 'species' may, in fact, be separate 'cryptic' species! We found that up to 68% of #popgen studies in corals had putative cryptic taxa!! Check out the ms in Peer Community Journal! @peercommunityin.bsky.social
#corals #crypticspecies

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Starter packs seem likely to be misused...

Hey all, please RT this new starter pack for locating our fellow ecological modellers on Blue Sky! And please reply to this post if you'd like to be added to the starter pack!
go.bsky.app/EfUQaM2