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Congrats to PhD student Benjamin H. Glass on his first 1st author paper! We used the starlet sea anemone to test if parental exposure to ocean acidification alters reproduction &/or offspring performance #OA Dr. Kristen Brown Kelsey Speer Biology Open Penn Biology doi.org/10.1242/bio.05…

We’re forming a union! Over 1,900 Penn doctoral, master's, and undergraduate student workers have signed union authorization cards, including a majority of all doctoral students and hundreds of other teaching and research student employees.

We will rally Wednesday 4/26 at 3pm to celebrate this milestone and urge Penn’s administration to respect our democratic right to unionize. Join us!

Rice Coral egg/sperm bundle breaking up into individual egg and sperm. The cloudiness around the bundle is sperm, and the larger circles are eggs. You can even see the algal symbionts (tiny brown dots) in the eggs! Video captured by CRL Research Assistant Elena Mujica

Why does Biology PhD student Rupa Khanal want to form a union? Because "from my perspective as an international student, I strongly believe that unions can play a crucial role in addressing the unique challenges that we face."

Great new article about our amazing summer undergraduate research students! So proud of all the great work they've done 🤩 looking at climate change responses in corals 🪸and sea anemones with mentors Luella Allen-Waller & Benjamin H. Glass! Penn Arts & Sciences Penn Biology omnia.sas.upenn.edu/story/students…

Our Frontiers Research Topic has come to an end! What a pleasure working with my fellow editors: David A. Paz Garcia Iva Popovic Eric Armstrong & Michael Hellberg. A great compilation of #coral #science 🪸 summarized in our Frontiers - Marine Science editorial: t.ly/FD5v7 [1/3]

In her ECRSpotlight, Luella Allen-Waller discusses how her interest in biology stems from a lab experiment during her time as an undergraduate, her work on corals & their symbionts, the importance of finding a good mentor & why cooking helps her to decompress. journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/22…

Absolutely unfair impossible decision

Luella is voting YES because graduate labor is necessary for research and teaching at Penn—we deserve a voice in determining our working conditions. Join your coworkers and pledge to vote YES on April 16 and 17 at tinyurl.com/GETUPvoteYES

I am so excited to defend my "pH-PhD" this Friday! Come learn all about heat effects on acid-base regulation in symbiotic cnidarians 🪸 DM for zoom link Penn Biology Katie Barott

Violet is voting yes TOMORROW(!) because Penn should be a university where every grad worker can thrive. Pledge to vote YES at tinyurl.com/GETUPvoteYES

Happy May Day! POLLS ARE OPEN NOW UNTIL 7PM! It’s time to vote YES for our union!

So proud to vote UNION YES in favor of a more democratic and equitable Penn!

Another Temperate Coral Research Conference Roger Williams University in the books! Exciting to be watching this field move forward so quickly, and to discuss how we can apply the #astrangiathings we’ve learned to address climate change threats on our temperate and tropical marine ecosystems alike!

Postdoc opportunity for coral reef scientists, $90k salary! The University of Chicago's Climate Systems Engineering Iniative fellowship apps are due Oct 15, and I'd be delighted to serve as your research mentor in UChicago Biological Sciences. How does geongineering the ocean affect calcifying organisms?