Mónica Medina
@momedinamunoz.bsky.social
Mom. Coral reef scientist and environmentalist. Host-microbe interactions. Anthropocene coral holobionts. Diversity in STEM advocate. Former fencer. Diver. Sailor wannabe. medinalab.org, redcientificacol.org 🇨🇴, diversifyoceansciences.org, spawnwatch.org
Pinned
A last reminder that the deadline (Dec 1) for abstract submissions is fast approaching for our session on Art as Catalyst in Coral Conservation, at the International Coral Reef Symposium to be held in Auckland, New Zealand July 19-24, 2026🧪🪸🌎🌊🧬🌐🐙🌿🦠🌿
Reposted by Mónica Medina
Right on the heels of #WorldOceanDay, it’s US pub day for REEFS OF TIME: WHAT FOSSILS REVEAL ABOUT CORAL SURVIVAL @princetonupress.bsky.social. I hope its story of reef resilience brings some joy in this unsettled time. 🧪💙📚🪸https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691247335/reefs-of-time
Reefs of Time
How fossilized reefs hold clues to the survival of corals in the Anthropocene
press.princeton.edu
June 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Right on the heels of #WorldOceanDay, it’s US pub day for REEFS OF TIME: WHAT FOSSILS REVEAL ABOUT CORAL SURVIVAL @princetonupress.bsky.social. I hope its story of reef resilience brings some joy in this unsettled time. 🧪💙📚🪸https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691247335/reefs-of-time
Reposted by Mónica Medina
Coral reefs protect coasts, nurture biodiversity, and help feed millions.
But they’re vanishing fast.
Every fraction of a degree counts in the fight to #SaveOurOcean.
But they’re vanishing fast.
Every fraction of a degree counts in the fight to #SaveOurOcean.
November 26, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Coral reefs protect coasts, nurture biodiversity, and help feed millions.
But they’re vanishing fast.
Every fraction of a degree counts in the fight to #SaveOurOcean.
But they’re vanishing fast.
Every fraction of a degree counts in the fight to #SaveOurOcean.
Reposted by Mónica Medina
🚨Last week to submit your #ICRS2026 abstract!
Consider submitting to session 124:
🪸Reefs through time⌛
Leveraging today's interdisciplinary tools to better understand the past of reef organisms and ecosystems.
Consider submitting to session 124:
🪸Reefs through time⌛
Leveraging today's interdisciplinary tools to better understand the past of reef organisms and ecosystems.
November 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
🚨Last week to submit your #ICRS2026 abstract!
Consider submitting to session 124:
🪸Reefs through time⌛
Leveraging today's interdisciplinary tools to better understand the past of reef organisms and ecosystems.
Consider submitting to session 124:
🪸Reefs through time⌛
Leveraging today's interdisciplinary tools to better understand the past of reef organisms and ecosystems.
Reposted by Mónica Medina
The 2023 marine heatwave was devastating for Caribbean reefs; in this study, we report full mortality of over 5,000 Acropora palmata colonies across a reef scale. What is worrisome is that nearly 70% of reef crests across the Caribbean faced equal or higher levels of stress doi.org/10.1016/j.is...
October 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The 2023 marine heatwave was devastating for Caribbean reefs; in this study, we report full mortality of over 5,000 Acropora palmata colonies across a reef scale. What is worrisome is that nearly 70% of reef crests across the Caribbean faced equal or higher levels of stress doi.org/10.1016/j.is...
Reposted by Mónica Medina
Opsin genes drive speciation in corals. New paper by Matias Gómez and Carlos Prada shows divergence in G-Protein coupled Receptors such as Opsins drive the formation of new species across depths. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Speciation across depth gradients in reef corals
Nature Communications - Here, the authors explore mechanisms associated with common depth distributions in sister lineages of corals. They document sequence divergence for proteins related to...
www.nature.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Opsin genes drive speciation in corals. New paper by Matias Gómez and Carlos Prada shows divergence in G-Protein coupled Receptors such as Opsins drive the formation of new species across depths. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Mónica Medina
Final reminder to consider submitting an abstract to join our thematic session on "Reefs through time" at the @icrs.bsky.social meeting next July.
The call for abstracts closes Dec 1! See below for details.
Hope to see you there!
The call for abstracts closes Dec 1! See below for details.
Hope to see you there!
Work on reef paleoecology? Join our session "Reefs through time: leveraging today's interdisciplinary tools to better understand the past of reef organisms and ecosystems" at the 2026 International Coral Reef Symposium
📆Abstract deadline: Dec 1, 2025
🔗https://www.icrs2026.nz/call-for-abstracts
📆Abstract deadline: Dec 1, 2025
🔗https://www.icrs2026.nz/call-for-abstracts
November 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Final reminder to consider submitting an abstract to join our thematic session on "Reefs through time" at the @icrs.bsky.social meeting next July.
The call for abstracts closes Dec 1! See below for details.
Hope to see you there!
The call for abstracts closes Dec 1! See below for details.
Hope to see you there!
A last reminder that the deadline (Dec 1) for abstract submissions is fast approaching for our session on Art as Catalyst in Coral Conservation, at the International Coral Reef Symposium to be held in Auckland, New Zealand July 19-24, 2026🧪🪸🌎🌊🧬🌐🐙🌿🦠🌿
November 19, 2025 at 2:59 AM
A last reminder that the deadline (Dec 1) for abstract submissions is fast approaching for our session on Art as Catalyst in Coral Conservation, at the International Coral Reef Symposium to be held in Auckland, New Zealand July 19-24, 2026🧪🪸🌎🌊🧬🌐🐙🌿🦠🌿
Reposted by Mónica Medina
In a major win for UC faculty groups and unions that sued, a federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump from imposing a $1.2-billion fine on UCLA along with stipulations for deep campus changes in exchange for being eligible for federal grants: www.latimes.com/california/s...
Judge blocks Trump administration push to fine UCLA $1.2 billion for alleged antisemitism
A federal judge late Friday issued a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration from imposing a $1.2-billion fine on UCLA for alleged civil rights violations over antisemitism, its recog...
www.latimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:12 AM
In a major win for UC faculty groups and unions that sued, a federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump from imposing a $1.2-billion fine on UCLA along with stipulations for deep campus changes in exchange for being eligible for federal grants: www.latimes.com/california/s...
Reposted by Mónica Medina
"With the US government’s stance on climate change best summed up as “Make it worse, faster,” somebody’s got to fill the void."
@clicabedu.bsky.social walks state and local policymakers through the many tools they have.
Today in @bloomberglp.bsky.social by @markgongloff.bsky.social (Gift link)
@clicabedu.bsky.social walks state and local policymakers through the many tools they have.
Today in @bloomberglp.bsky.social by @markgongloff.bsky.social (Gift link)
How to Fill the Climate Void Left by the White House
Regardless of your party affiliation, it was hard to feel too jazzed about California Governor Gavin Newsom representing the US at the COP30 climate talks in Belem, Brazil. Democrats will grouse that ...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
"With the US government’s stance on climate change best summed up as “Make it worse, faster,” somebody’s got to fill the void."
@clicabedu.bsky.social walks state and local policymakers through the many tools they have.
Today in @bloomberglp.bsky.social by @markgongloff.bsky.social (Gift link)
@clicabedu.bsky.social walks state and local policymakers through the many tools they have.
Today in @bloomberglp.bsky.social by @markgongloff.bsky.social (Gift link)
Reposted by Mónica Medina
Donald Trump just thanked Bill Gates for “admitting he was wrong about the climate crisis.” — should we listen to the tech bros or the scientists? Watch👇 and judge for yourself!
Share this video
if you think it’s time
to listen to the scientists
instead of the tech bros.
youtu.be/NLM0oaPXmBQ
Share this video
if you think it’s time
to listen to the scientists
instead of the tech bros.
youtu.be/NLM0oaPXmBQ
Should we listen to the tech bros or the scientists?
YouTube video by We Don't Have Time
youtu.be
November 3, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Donald Trump just thanked Bill Gates for “admitting he was wrong about the climate crisis.” — should we listen to the tech bros or the scientists? Watch👇 and judge for yourself!
Share this video
if you think it’s time
to listen to the scientists
instead of the tech bros.
youtu.be/NLM0oaPXmBQ
Share this video
if you think it’s time
to listen to the scientists
instead of the tech bros.
youtu.be/NLM0oaPXmBQ
Visited U. of Arizona’s Biosphere 2 and learned about all the research possibilities it provides! We can do long term controlled experiments in multiple biomes, possibly including bringing our beloved Upside-down Jellies to their coral reef and mangrove habitats for manipulation!! 🌎🧪🪼🪸🦠🧬
November 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Visited U. of Arizona’s Biosphere 2 and learned about all the research possibilities it provides! We can do long term controlled experiments in multiple biomes, possibly including bringing our beloved Upside-down Jellies to their coral reef and mangrove habitats for manipulation!! 🌎🧪🪼🪸🦠🧬
Reposted by Mónica Medina
A nice story in @science.org this week about the collaboration between archaeologists and Kuikuro people in Brazil, which has been central to uncovering evidence of social complexity in the Amazon region more than 600 years ago.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
To unearth their past, Amazonian people turn to ‘a language white men understand’
A model partnership between archaeologists and the Kuikuro people has helped rewrite the history of early Amazonian societies
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
A nice story in @science.org this week about the collaboration between archaeologists and Kuikuro people in Brazil, which has been central to uncovering evidence of social complexity in the Amazon region more than 600 years ago.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Reposted by Mónica Medina
Did you know a former White House climate advisor flipped a GOP stronghold in Virginia by running entirely on putting a stop to more AI data centers?
For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.
For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.
This Virginia Election Was a Warning for Data Centers
John McAuliff ran his campaign almost entirely on data centers — and won.
heatmap.news
November 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Did you know a former White House climate advisor flipped a GOP stronghold in Virginia by running entirely on putting a stop to more AI data centers?
For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.
For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.
A reminder that abstract submissions for the Reefs Reimagined session at the International Coral Reef Symposium (July 19-24, 2026) in New Zealand is coming up December 1st, 2025.
🧪🪸🌎🌐🐙🐡🌊
🧪🪸🌎🌐🐙🐡🌊
November 6, 2025 at 10:44 PM
A reminder that abstract submissions for the Reefs Reimagined session at the International Coral Reef Symposium (July 19-24, 2026) in New Zealand is coming up December 1st, 2025.
🧪🪸🌎🌐🐙🐡🌊
🧪🪸🌎🌐🐙🐡🌊
Reposted by Mónica Medina
Dear friends,
I'd like to share with you that there is still time to register for the exciting congress on Microbial Pangenomes in One Health we are oganizing in Valencia this 4-5 of December!
Don't miss it!! Check out our webpage below for all the details.
www.alocongress.com/pangenome2025
I'd like to share with you that there is still time to register for the exciting congress on Microbial Pangenomes in One Health we are oganizing in Valencia this 4-5 of December!
Don't miss it!! Check out our webpage below for all the details.
www.alocongress.com/pangenome2025
PANGENOME2025
The biology of prokaryotic cells is directly dependent on the differential gene pools that characterize each cell or strain. This has been a fundamental aspect of epidemiology for delimiting outbreaks...
www.alocongress.com
October 14, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Dear friends,
I'd like to share with you that there is still time to register for the exciting congress on Microbial Pangenomes in One Health we are oganizing in Valencia this 4-5 of December!
Don't miss it!! Check out our webpage below for all the details.
www.alocongress.com/pangenome2025
I'd like to share with you that there is still time to register for the exciting congress on Microbial Pangenomes in One Health we are oganizing in Valencia this 4-5 of December!
Don't miss it!! Check out our webpage below for all the details.
www.alocongress.com/pangenome2025
Please join us in this uplifting and inspiring session bringing Art and Science together at the upcoming International Coral Reef Symposium in Auckland, New Zealand, July 19-24 2026. See you all there! Fighting to save reefs through Art!🧪🪸🧬🌎🌊🐙🦠🌿
October 27, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Please join us in this uplifting and inspiring session bringing Art and Science together at the upcoming International Coral Reef Symposium in Auckland, New Zealand, July 19-24 2026. See you all there! Fighting to save reefs through Art!🧪🪸🧬🌎🌊🐙🦠🌿
Reposted by Mónica Medina
🌊 Marine heatwave leaves critical Florida corals "functionally extinct"
Following the record-breaking 2023 marine heatwave and the ninth mass coral bleaching, staghorn and elkhorn corals have dwindled to populations too small to reproduce
oceanographicmagazine.com/news/marine-...
Following the record-breaking 2023 marine heatwave and the ninth mass coral bleaching, staghorn and elkhorn corals have dwindled to populations too small to reproduce
oceanographicmagazine.com/news/marine-...
Marine heatwave leaves critical Florida corals "functionally extinct" - Oceanographic
Following a record-breaking marine heatwave in 2023 Florida's critical staghorn and elkhorn corals have been left 'functionally extinct.'
oceanographicmagazine.com
October 25, 2025 at 5:25 AM
🌊 Marine heatwave leaves critical Florida corals "functionally extinct"
Following the record-breaking 2023 marine heatwave and the ninth mass coral bleaching, staghorn and elkhorn corals have dwindled to populations too small to reproduce
oceanographicmagazine.com/news/marine-...
Following the record-breaking 2023 marine heatwave and the ninth mass coral bleaching, staghorn and elkhorn corals have dwindled to populations too small to reproduce
oceanographicmagazine.com/news/marine-...
Reposted by Mónica Medina
“… fermentation in the civet’s innards does add a little something extra to the coffee’s flavor, including amping up the fat content and the concentrations of certain aromatic compounds”.
#scicomm
www.sciencenews.org/article/coff...
🧪 🦊
#scicomm
www.sciencenews.org/article/coff...
🧪 🦊
Coffee beans pooped out by civets really are tastier. Here's why
Pricey civet coffee gets its cred from its journey through the mammal’s gut, which changes the content of fat, protein, fatty acids — and even caffeine.
www.sciencenews.org
October 26, 2025 at 7:24 AM
“… fermentation in the civet’s innards does add a little something extra to the coffee’s flavor, including amping up the fat content and the concentrations of certain aromatic compounds”.
#scicomm
www.sciencenews.org/article/coff...
🧪 🦊
#scicomm
www.sciencenews.org/article/coff...
🧪 🦊
Reposted by Mónica Medina
Pandas, snow leopards...and bacteria. A newly formed team of scientists is setting out to conserve the world's diversity of microbes. Here's my story: nyti.ms/47vEfRC
October 17, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Pandas, snow leopards...and bacteria. A newly formed team of scientists is setting out to conserve the world's diversity of microbes. Here's my story: nyti.ms/47vEfRC
Reposted by Mónica Medina
Opportunity for staff scientist in genomics at EMBL-EBI (Hinxton Cambridgeshire UK) ref: JR2425 | duration: 3 years renewable to maximum of 9 years | closing: 08-Nov-2025 #bioinformatics #CompBiol #ML 🧪
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
Staff Scientist
About EMBL-EBI EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute is a data powerhouse, utilised on a global scale to advance scientific discovery through bioinformatics and solutions to some of the world’s mos...
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Opportunity for staff scientist in genomics at EMBL-EBI (Hinxton Cambridgeshire UK) ref: JR2425 | duration: 3 years renewable to maximum of 9 years | closing: 08-Nov-2025 #bioinformatics #CompBiol #ML 🧪
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
Join our session to discuss the role of art in coral reef conservation at the International Coral Reef Symposium in Auckland, New Zealand July 19-24, 2026. Abstract deadline Dec 1, 2025. 🧪🪸🌎🌊🧬🌐🌿🐡🐙
October 14, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Join our session to discuss the role of art in coral reef conservation at the International Coral Reef Symposium in Auckland, New Zealand July 19-24, 2026. Abstract deadline Dec 1, 2025. 🧪🪸🌎🌊🧬🌐🌿🐡🐙
Reposted by Mónica Medina
🧪 September’s most-read #Biochemistry paper uncovers a novel way that opsins in coral use a chloride ion to fine-tune light sensing: buff.ly/vqT3Yl9
Have a paper people should see? See what our Editors look for: buff.ly/MPF8zs9
Have a paper people should see? See what our Editors look for: buff.ly/MPF8zs9
October 13, 2025 at 8:02 PM
🧪 September’s most-read #Biochemistry paper uncovers a novel way that opsins in coral use a chloride ion to fine-tune light sensing: buff.ly/vqT3Yl9
Have a paper people should see? See what our Editors look for: buff.ly/MPF8zs9
Have a paper people should see? See what our Editors look for: buff.ly/MPF8zs9
Reposted by Mónica Medina
Each Friday, I summarize what is happening to American science & higher ed. 🧪
This was Week 38:
- MIT declines loyalty oath/compact & I review latest at other 8 universities
- Newest RIFs gutting CDC
- “Payroll pirates” targeting university HR
& so much more buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
This was Week 38:
- MIT declines loyalty oath/compact & I review latest at other 8 universities
- Newest RIFs gutting CDC
- “Payroll pirates” targeting university HR
& so much more buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
Week 38
Oct 4-10, 2025 - failure state
buttondown.com
October 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Each Friday, I summarize what is happening to American science & higher ed. 🧪
This was Week 38:
- MIT declines loyalty oath/compact & I review latest at other 8 universities
- Newest RIFs gutting CDC
- “Payroll pirates” targeting university HR
& so much more buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
This was Week 38:
- MIT declines loyalty oath/compact & I review latest at other 8 universities
- Newest RIFs gutting CDC
- “Payroll pirates” targeting university HR
& so much more buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
Reposted by Mónica Medina
If the CDC firings fill you with the fury of a thousand white hot suns, might I suggest this rally and joining/supporting @standupforscience.bsky.social
🧪🩺 #ScienceSky
🧪🩺 #ScienceSky
I’m a mom.
I’m a scientist.
I’m an activist.
I’m not going to stand by while unqualified, Quack, fringe-ass conspiracy theorists make decisions about my family’s health that is going to kill people.
Join me outside of HHS on 10/16 at 3pm.
@standupforscience.bsky.social
I’m a scientist.
I’m an activist.
I’m not going to stand by while unqualified, Quack, fringe-ass conspiracy theorists make decisions about my family’s health that is going to kill people.
Join me outside of HHS on 10/16 at 3pm.
@standupforscience.bsky.social
October 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
If the CDC firings fill you with the fury of a thousand white hot suns, might I suggest this rally and joining/supporting @standupforscience.bsky.social
🧪🩺 #ScienceSky
🧪🩺 #ScienceSky
We examined Oxford Nanopore 16S amplicon sequencing as a tool for recovering marine microbial communities and we are pleased with the results! Check out our preprint 🌎🧪🧬🌊🖥️🦠https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.20.676612v2.abstract
Evaluation of full-length 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing using Oxford Nanopore Technologies for diversity surveys of understudied microbiomes
1. The use of long-read sequencing using portable Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) is becoming increasingly popular in the study of host-associated microbiomes. However, its application has not yet...
www.biorxiv.org
October 7, 2025 at 1:15 AM
We examined Oxford Nanopore 16S amplicon sequencing as a tool for recovering marine microbial communities and we are pleased with the results! Check out our preprint 🌎🧪🧬🌊🖥️🦠https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.20.676612v2.abstract