Associative learning in the box jellyfish, a cnidarian with a dispersed nervous system lacking a conventional centralized brain. Advanced neuronal processes, like operant conditioning, a fundamental property of all nervous systems? cell.com/current-biolog… Current Biology

📢🪸Ocean enthusiasts NSW 🪸📢 We need your help documenting cup coral diversity and biogeography! Have you seen Culicia? Consider contributing to our citizen science initiative ⬇️ or find us at: coldwatercoralprojectaus.com Culicia 📸 Al Blake Kids short story🪸by Dr Tracy Ainsworth A/Prof. @UNSW Science

New study on the state of #coral health research identifies: 📢 How it may not reach intended audiences 🔁 How it can be more trustworthy + reproducible 📍 Researcher location biases 🥼 Future research areas besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/26… Dr. Samantha Burke Erin Macartney @coraltrace

Thinking of 'syndemics' (a bio-social concept of 'health' and 'disease') will be critically important as we orientate towards #OneHealth policy approaches Here, we have a go at considering how syndemics relate to #FoodSystems 👇 #OneHealthDay2023 frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

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Things that I’ve been working on.

Calling all coral reef students! Research awards now open 🤙👇

Great to be on Lord Howe Island with the team starting the summer monitoring program, thanks to DPI for all your help. Hopefully we won’t see coral bleaching this year, reef looks beautiful Dr Tracy Ainsworth A/Prof. @UNSW Science Dr. Charlotte Page

🔥The oceans are getting so hot fast that Coral Reef Watch had to add new levels of extreme #CoralReef stress to the scale because the level of ocean warming was literally #OffTheCharts. 🚨New highest alert warning: ‘near complete mortality.’ theguardian.com/environment/20… The Guardian

Sad to be leaving Lord Howe Island on a beautiful day. Terrible to be seeing coral bleaching across this pristine reef. Back in a few weeks to see the extent of the impact of this severe event Dr Tracy Ainsworth A/Prof. @UNSW Science Uni Newcastle Research

Lord Howe island faces ‘major’ coral bleaching as ocean temperatures continue to break records dlvr.it/T3dy90

In December 2023, this reef in the northern Great Barrier Reef was 100% coral cover. In March 2024, after ~6 weeks of prolonged heat stress, coral bleaching was extensive and mortality underway, with 80% bleached and 20% recently dead colonies.