Soft corals provide a tasty bite to reef fishes, but they recover well! We now have a better appreciation that soft coral is a source of food to some fishes and they are resilient to such damage rdcu.be/b5Vl8 ⁦@CoralCoE⁩ ⁦James Cook Uni⁩

We are excited to announce that the ASFB will host a virtual conference over three mornings from Oct 13–15, 2020. Student abstracts are due Aug 23, with over $10,000 in awards up for grabs. asfb.org.au/virtualconfere…

Great new behavior papers out today by Matt Tietbohl, PhD on titan triggerfish and Suzanne Mills Isabelle M Côté on red lip cleanerfish. To celebrate, here they are together in Moorea #teamfish

Great opportunity for any graduates keen on applied ecophysiology

Fully funded PhD opportunity on Fishy Food: The Power and Politics of Food Systems, with me, Pip Cohen WorldFish, and giovanni bettini. Important times for food -inequities have never been more apparent. 1 month to apply 👇🏾 lancaster.ac.uk/lec/graduate-s…

The best time to argue about what a replication means? Before you do it. Perhaps an intervention is needed in the OA behavior debate where a collaborative process will help resolve more amicably? For better science? nature.com/articles/d4158…

Naively, I thought this was what science was about. Collaboration, conversation, professional respect. Am I wrong?

This was a tricky field experiment for Maria to conduct, but it has produced a cool story - hope you all agree...

kevin wrote it. malcolm signed it. ...as have 381,809 others. please, add your voice — an important step in restoring a well-functioning #australian democracy. aph.gov.au/petition_list?…

Top predators like coral trouts can be important for healthy functioning of coral reef ecosystems. New field research shows these predators limit the activities of smaller predators and dramatically increase recruit survival. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111… @CoralCoE Maria Palacios

Ex-labby Maria del Mar doing an amazing job at publicising climate change.

Ocean Acidification effect generality- How much of this debate comes from our expectations. Ecologists embrace w/btwn species variances in performance as building blocks of selection. Physiologists may see the same variability as problematic methodological error. Thoughts?

Cool field study, which took a while to publish. The Sups are almost larger than the paper. Hopefully you find it a useful start as lots more work to do!

Great new paper showing adverse effects of noisy outboard-powered boats on fish escape. Pleasure working with you Harry!

We are now advertising one Postdoc (3yrs) and one Research Officer (2yrs) position with the project below 👇 Visit the Careers at JCU Website and select vacancy 17685 or 17686 Australian Institute of Marine Science James Cook Uni

This is a very exciting opportunity for some adventurous and field oriented students

We're very proud of this one. It involves some very complex field manipulations of interactions between a generalist and specialist on a coral reef. How important is it to arrive first when the quality of the habitat is degrading? rdcu.be/cGWOu

The search for the 'truth' of ocean acification effects on fishes backfires as effect size meta-analyses are misused doi.org/10.1101/2022.0…