Climate experts were increasingly saying that keeping heating below 1.5C is near impossible, yet it remains the global goal. So I asked hundreds of top IPCC scientists what they thought. What they said shocked even me… 🧵 1/n #ClimateCrisis

LA MER call for students open now! Want to do biology grad school in beautiful Okinawa? #thisishowMISErolls sci.u-ryukyu.ac.jp/?page_id=443

🚨🪸 We are hunting for a Research Assistant @ntuase Earth Observatory SG to work on coral reef projects in SE & South Asia. Dive on beautiful #coralreefs & work with a diverse team of collaborators. Diving experience & knowledge of IP corals required. Apply here: l1nq.com/VslNd

The value of ‘wasting time’ on deep thinking is often overlooked in a scientific ecosystem increasingly tainted by Wall Street’s productivity mindset. nature.com/articles/d4158…

Great new comment about the need for evidence based management to support coral reefs in the face of climate change 🪸

We are hiring a Research Assistant to join our team SIRMS-HKU - the The University of Hong Kong #stableisotope laboratory. jobs.hku.hk/cw/en/job/5275…

NEW #sharkscience out today in Science Magazine led by Simon Dedman. "Biological role and importance of sharks in the Anthropocene ocean". Shark conservation needs to prioritise recovery of the ecosystem function of sharks. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… James Cook Uni Shark Conservation Fund @CSTFA_JCU

Severe 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 observed yesterday in Hong Kong 🇭🇰, with in situ water temperatures measured above 32°C 🌡️ during July 2024 ☠️🪸☠️ 🤿 PhD - Gonzalo Perez-Rosales Yu-De Pei (裴郁德) Markus Rummel

Longer and more intense marine heatwaves have larger negative effects on our giant kelp: nzherald.co.nz/nz/more-marine… More marine heatwaves likely for NZ this summer; study reveals risk to critical ocean species

Published #PAPER alert 🚨 in International Coral Reef Society Springer Nature😀🍾! The last chapter of my #PhD is finally out today. How do corals cope with low-light #mesophotic environments? See: link.springer.com/article/10.100… Thanks to criobe_pf Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) HKUST UNDER THE POLE & co-authors! 1/4

🎉Congratulations 🎉(overdue) to Gonzalo Pérez-Rosales (PhD - Gonzalo Perez-Rosales) on being awarded a Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC) Postdoctoral Fellowship (2024-2027) to support our work exploring the drivers of #mesophotic #coral ecosystems in the #CoralTriangle 📷Markus Rummel

📣Interested in a prestigious, fully-funded PhD in #OceanScience❓ ➡️HK PhD #Fellowship HKUST 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐧𝐨𝐰: ~US$43,230‼️ 🔎Info on #OceanEcol: bit.ly/3ukgarD 👉Apply: bit.ly/3FYSmBs ⏰Deadline: 𝟏 𝐃𝐞𝐜 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒 #studyabroad #phdstudies #funding

🎊Congratulations🎊 to Shiyue Wang for passing her MPhil Defense with minor corrections yesterday HKUST. 🔜Coming soon: our exploration of #trophic strategies of #photosymbiotic #corals around #HongKong! 🇭🇰󠁣󠁮🪸🪸🪸🇭🇰

We are excited about our #SPP2299 DFG public | @[email protected] meeting on "Tropical coral records of climate change and environmental stress" which is about to start in Bremen. Invited speakers include @marenfaren Ocean Ecol Lab (@oceanecol.bsky.social) Tries Blandine Razak @theFosterlab Dr. Diane Thompson Juan Pablo D'Olivo and many more

Our #SPP2299 DFG public | @[email protected] meeting on "Tropical coral records of climate change and environmental stress" this week in Bremen is now over. Thanks to everyone for exciting days full of talks and discussions about tropical climate variability and coral reefs

Open letter from a group of sleuths re problems with editors/papers at Scientific Reports deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/10/an-ope… They've published 23K papers in 2024 with APC of £2090, raising £48 million from this journal alone, so should be able to put resource into cleaning this up.

Thrilled for being awarded the best #postdoctoralfellowship #PDFS in #HongKong by the University Grants Committee #RGC to conduct our #research Thank you for your support: HKUST #OceanScienceDepartment Ocean Ecol Lab (@oceanecol.bsky.social)