Prof. Maria Byrne, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway alum & Prof. of Marine Biology University of Sydney, was awarded the prestigious DSc on Published Work Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway. This honour recognises significant international contributions in a field. NUI #UniversityOfGalway

The latest paper from my time at @TerrEcol_NIOO with the amazing Emilia Hannula and Elly Morrien is out now! 🍄 In short, we found that identity of fungal species and their interaction with collembola affects soil aggregation and thus soil structure. doi.org/10.1016/j.fune…

Our local Tripneustes sea urchin on the southeast coast of Australia is now called T. australiae! Read here how we re-named this sea urchin based on samples collected in 1878! publish.csiro.au/IS/fulltext/IS… Sydney Science USYD MSI eec_sydney Sydney Uni Life&Env Byrne lab

On the way back to Sydney after a week of science at #CERF2023. Thank you Coastal & Estuarine Research Federation (CERF) for a great conference and for letting me present some of my PhD work on #seagrass and their belowground #microbiome 🦠Gribben Lab @ZiggyMarzinelli UNSW CMSI

📣 New Paper!🦠🌿 The effect of seaweed canopy disturbance on understory microbial communities 🦠🌿 This one has been in the works since my time at Sydney Uni Life&Env - a great collaborative effort with Sebastian Vadillo, @ZiggyMarzinelli & co-authors! frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

2mins of Hashi Mohamed absolutely smashing the Conservatives Rwanda policy to bits.👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 ‘Our learned judges said the Home Office hadn’t even assessed that policy before adopting it It’s unviable, it’s expensive & the only people it’s going to work for is the Rwandans’ #BBCQT

Such a great experience working with these amazing students along with seaweed experts @ZiggyMarzinelli Melinda Coleman Reina Veenhof to apply methods and concepts developed for fish and marine inverts to seaweeds!

📣 PhD students wanted: Future-proofing seaweeds on the #greatsouthernreef 🥬 Lead meaningful research in a global biodiversity hotspot 🐠🏄‍♀️🌊 Email me CV and letter of motivation or get in touch for more info

📢 Excited to finally release our new tool ReefAdapt.org - making genomic information more accessible for #marinerestoration. Out now Communications Biology nature.com/articles/s4200… UWA Oceans Institute UWA Research Flinders University