We have an exciting opportunity for a Marine Biodiversity Collection Manager (Cnidaria) at Queensland Museum Tropics, Townsville! You'll manage the marine biodiversity collection, supporting scientific research & public engagement initiatives. Apply now: bit.ly/3WB6Wrg

Absolutely biblical skies in Tasmania at 4am this morning. I’m leaving today and knew I could not pass up this opportunity for such a large solar storm. Here’s the image. I actually had to de-saturate the colours. Clouds glowing red. Insane. Shot on Nikon. Rt appreciated

The B story in Rio Grande do Sul(RS)🇧🇷 is just as horrific as the catastrophic floods. It's about parallel realities, blame shifting & disaster opportunism worthy of a sequel to "Don't Look Up." And it has obvious & scary global implications🧵

This is how Auroras are created 🎥 NASA

Science 101:

Meet the next generation of the deep-sea researchers! Highlighted on our website are students and early-career researchers from around the globe that are making deep-sea waves in their respective fields: tinyurl.com/dsbsocnextgen.

Want to work on cold-water coral ecosystem restoration? #Postdoctoral researcher position available School of GeoSciences @ University of Edinburgh to join Redress Project team. For more details and to apply: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

🚨 Interesting observation coming out from Ana Carolina Grillo PhD Pós Graduação em Ecologia - UFRN showing that corals 🪸 can release larvae when in contact competition with zoanthids!😲 It happened in one of her experiments (link🧶), showing the power of observation!💪Check it out👇 link.springer.com/article/10.100…

As iAtlantic winds down after 5, incredible years of research & discovery, we're beyond proud of the 114 publications that came out of the project! Here is a sampling of some recent papers, which can all be viewed, along with many others, here: iatlantic.eu/our-work/publi….

Mesophotic Octocorals: experimental colony of🪸Annella Gray, 1858 and zooxanthellate Sinularia May, 1898. These are at 80 m depth (262 ft) below the surf break P-Pass, Pohnpei, FSM 🇫🇲 Light penetration here is remarkable! #mesophotic #octocoral #gorgonian #womendoingscience

Almost there! youtube.com/@programadepos…

Master's Degree Defence Done ✅ 🇧🇷 Uma #octocoralfriday extremamente especial com a defesa da minha tese de mestrado e um spoiler aí de novas espécies de #Primnoella! 🇺🇲 A very special #octocoralfriday with my thesis' defence and some spoilers for new species of #Primnoella!

This week’s main story is about deep-sea mining, whether it’s worth doing, and what John has in common with Henry Kissinger (unrelated, but still important to note).

Tomorrow, June 12, at 2 pm ET, join Smithsonian NMNH's Andrea Quattrini to learn how scientists are using genomics to rebuild the coral tree of life to inform the sustainability of coral habitats. Register for this free webinar here: register.gotowebinar.com/register/49652…

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Skeletal reconstruction of Mirischia asymmetrica, a basal coelurosaurian (maybe compsognathid) from the Cretaceous of Brazil. Lula for scale is ~1,7 m tall. #MirischiaBelongstoBR

Now recruiting! Andrew Baker Coral Reef Futures Lab is recruiting a PhD student for #coral reproduction and managed breeding (recruit interventions, AGF, etc) in FL and beyond! We seek motivated people with experience in coral reproduction, molecular work, reef ecology, etc. (1/2)

Dear coral experts🪸🪸🪸, Have a look at this job offer to work with my new friend and NGS explorer Titouan Bernicot at Coral Gardeners in French Polynesia. I appreciate your help to share this. Marine Ecology Bremen Yusuf Christian El-Khaled @IMBRSea

Great to see the IUCN Red List update contain 22 cold-water corals assessed last year in Sandgerði, Iceland at a CWC Red Listing & Taxonomy Workshop hosted by SOSA Senckenberg Research and iAtlanticEU senckenberg.de/en/pressemeldu…

#octocoralfriday #deepsea #corals #Paragorgia #bubblegumcoral #Primnoella