Introducing our latest preprint; 'Corals as canaries in the coalmine: towards the incorporation of marine ecosystems into the ‘One Health’ concept' osf.io/gv6s7 There will be more articles coming soon in Journal of Invertebrate Pathology @grantstentiford University of Derby

Eel meet again bbc.in/2Ss0i4G

HOW TO BE THE BEST MOM: Spend 9 months investing all your energy and resources into 100 really good eggs Glue them together with sperm cells Now spit them out quick they’ll probably be fine I mean what can you even do now where’d they go it’s so dark

A Nature paper suggests pangolins have the potential to act as the intermediate host of SARS-CoV-2. The paper reports the virus in the most-trafficked mammal could represent a future threat to public health if the wildlife trade is not controlled. go.nature.com/3fE4oks

Was supposed to be off to sea today on the RV Cefas endeavour as part of the Clean Seas Environmental Monitoring Programme - but due to COVID it has been postponed... here are some highlights from last year’s survey 🌊🐟🦀 Cefas

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First signs of 2020 egg development during today's monthly coral broodstock check! #exsitucoralspawning research Horniman Museum and Gardens with University of Derby Coralassist Lab Cefas

Wow! An Ocean Sunfish (or Mola Mola) spotted off #Portland Harbour yesterday afternoon. #Sunfish are the largest bony fish on the planet and visit UK seas during the summer months to eat jellyfish. Have you ever seen one? Thanks to Liz Hemsley for sending us the picture 📸

HOW TO PULL AN ALL-NIGHTER Gather up some friends Make sure to achieve fertilization not gonna get into specifics on that ok Every 40 mins divide all your cells in half til you're ready for the test The test is grow a coral reef [DLAB #CarmabiCoral - last night on Curacao!]

Here’s the second post in our series explaining the #Cefasscience behind our photos. We carry out research to understand the role of disease in wild and farmed aquatic host populations to improve health outcomes 🐟🧫 📸: Lyndsay Christie Defra UK #research #health #aquatic

Coronocoaster: noun: the ups and downs of a pandemic. One day you’re loving your bubble, working out, making banana bread and going for long walks and the next you’re pulling your hair out, drinking gin for breakfast and missing people you don’t even like.

Galaxea coral closeup #coralmorphologic

It’s #CoralInnovationMonday! 🌊 Over the next few weeks, we will be sharing a short video series about Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease, or SCTLD. Today’s video shows you where our research team has located SCTLD in The Bahamas, but we need more eyes in the water.

Interested in new #technology & solutions to protect #shellfish #aquaculture from #HABs & #biotoxins? 🌊 Safe & Sustainable Shellfish webinar! Mon 28 Sep 2pm 👉 bit.ly/3krdkee Meet Andrey Kurekin Plymouth Marine Lab...presenting with Robert Gordon University (RGU) Cefas Queen's University Belfast 🎓

Another month of coral sampling Horniman Museum and Gardens completed for a long term #exsitucoralspawning experiment in collaboration with Prof. Michael Sweet University of Derby @CDaumich Cefas

Christmas lab clothing Horniman Museum and Gardens. Today preserving coral tissue samples for a long term coral reproduction study with James Guest, Coralassist Lab Prof. Michael Sweet University of Derby and Caroline Daumich Cefas

Completing last sampling of a 16 month experiment today. During this time we've followed gamete development, each month, across 80 colonies from two species Horniman Museum and Gardens to further understand drivers of coral spawning. With Coralassist Lab Cefas University of Derby

Latest paper: Corals as canaries in the coalmine: towards the incorporation of marine ecosystems into the ‘One Health’ concept sciencedirect.com/science/articl… - introducing a ‘ecosystem homogenisation index’, exploring & evaluating habitat homogenisation across environmental gradients.