For all things coral reef related, here's a Coralsky thread! 🪸
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#coralsky #marinescience #research #coralreefs #coral #reefs
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#coralsky #marinescience #research #coralreefs #coral #reefs
October 19, 2023 at 1:21 PM
For all things coral reef related, here's a Coralsky thread! 🪸
bsky.app/profile/did:...
#coralsky #marinescience #research #coralreefs #coral #reefs
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#coralsky #marinescience #research #coralreefs #coral #reefs
Presumed dead for 60 years, a deep-water coral reef off Benin is alive. 🪸 An underwater drone found corals and fish thriving about 54m down, likely the first living reef of its kind confirmed on the Gulf of Guinea's shelf.
Full story: buff.ly/A8wSy58
📸Gérard Zinzindohoué buff.ly/JnHIH40
#CoralReefs
Full story: buff.ly/A8wSy58
📸Gérard Zinzindohoué buff.ly/JnHIH40
#CoralReefs
October 2, 2026 at 1:01 AM
Presumed dead for 60 years, a deep-water coral reef off Benin is alive. 🪸 An underwater drone found corals and fish thriving about 54m down, likely the first living reef of its kind confirmed on the Gulf of Guinea's shelf.
Full story: buff.ly/A8wSy58
📸Gérard Zinzindohoué buff.ly/JnHIH40
#CoralReefs
Full story: buff.ly/A8wSy58
📸Gérard Zinzindohoué buff.ly/JnHIH40
#CoralReefs
Proud PhD Moment 🦀 My third PhD chapter is finally released to the world, and the cherry on the cake: My photo made the cover of the current #ProcB issue @royalsocietypublishing.org 🪸 check it out here: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
#CoralReefs #Biodiversity #Fluorescence #Symbiosis #Decapods
#CoralReefs #Biodiversity #Fluorescence #Symbiosis #Decapods
March 12, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Proud PhD Moment 🦀 My third PhD chapter is finally released to the world, and the cherry on the cake: My photo made the cover of the current #ProcB issue @royalsocietypublishing.org 🪸 check it out here: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
#CoralReefs #Biodiversity #Fluorescence #Symbiosis #Decapods
#CoralReefs #Biodiversity #Fluorescence #Symbiosis #Decapods
Guam’s ‘Twilight Zone’ Reveals New Species — And Warming Waters
#SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social
#ARMS #OceanHealth🌊 #MesophoticReefs #TwilightZone #CoralReefs🪸 #biodiversity🐙 #conservation🌏 #ecosystems #Guam🇬🇺 www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...
#SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social
#ARMS #OceanHealth🌊 #MesophoticReefs #TwilightZone #CoralReefs🪸 #biodiversity🐙 #conservation🌏 #ecosystems #Guam🇬🇺 www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...
December 31, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Guam’s ‘Twilight Zone’ Reveals New Species — And Warming Waters
#SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social
#ARMS #OceanHealth🌊 #MesophoticReefs #TwilightZone #CoralReefs🪸 #biodiversity🐙 #conservation🌏 #ecosystems #Guam🇬🇺 www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...
#SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social
#ARMS #OceanHealth🌊 #MesophoticReefs #TwilightZone #CoralReefs🪸 #biodiversity🐙 #conservation🌏 #ecosystems #Guam🇬🇺 www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...
Pearlescent Blue Damselfish Just Discovered In The Maldives, study out of CalAcademy, published by ZooKeys Journal
by @GrrlScientist
#MesophoticZone #CoralReefs🪸 #ecosystems #MarineBiology #NewSpecies #Fish🐠 #SciComm🧪 www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...
by @GrrlScientist
#MesophoticZone #CoralReefs🪸 #ecosystems #MarineBiology #NewSpecies #Fish🐠 #SciComm🧪 www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...
December 5, 2024 at 5:59 PM
Pearlescent Blue Damselfish Just Discovered In The Maldives, study out of CalAcademy, published by ZooKeys Journal
by @GrrlScientist
#MesophoticZone #CoralReefs🪸 #ecosystems #MarineBiology #NewSpecies #Fish🐠 #SciComm🧪 www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...
by @GrrlScientist
#MesophoticZone #CoralReefs🪸 #ecosystems #MarineBiology #NewSpecies #Fish🐠 #SciComm🧪 www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...
Once a week, the family gets together to watch a documentary. This weeks doc was "CHASING CORAL 🪸 "
It was fundamentally captivating and heartbreaking. Everyone should be informed.
#Nature
#Documentary
#CoralReefs
#Ocean
#Animals
#GlobalWarming
It was fundamentally captivating and heartbreaking. Everyone should be informed.
#Nature
#Documentary
#CoralReefs
#Ocean
#Animals
#GlobalWarming
September 8, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Once a week, the family gets together to watch a documentary. This weeks doc was "CHASING CORAL 🪸 "
It was fundamentally captivating and heartbreaking. Everyone should be informed.
#Nature
#Documentary
#CoralReefs
#Ocean
#Animals
#GlobalWarming
It was fundamentally captivating and heartbreaking. Everyone should be informed.
#Nature
#Documentary
#CoralReefs
#Ocean
#Animals
#GlobalWarming
Coral bleaching looks like a reef-scale catastrophe. But it starts as a breakdown between single cells.
Published in @microbiomej.bsky.social, led by @ambonacolta.bsky.social we watched it at that scale for the first time: the first single-cell transcriptomics of a bleaching coral 🪸 #CoralReefs
Published in @microbiomej.bsky.social, led by @ambonacolta.bsky.social we watched it at that scale for the first time: the first single-cell transcriptomics of a bleaching coral 🪸 #CoralReefs
My final PhD chapter is now published in Microbiome (@microbiomej.bsky.social)!
Using metabarcoding, photochemical measurements, and the first scRNAseq of a bleaching coral, we examined the microbial ecology of coral bleaching at the single-cell level! 🪸🔥 #CoralReefs
🔗 rdcu.be/zWHQ92WqZQUa
Using metabarcoding, photochemical measurements, and the first scRNAseq of a bleaching coral, we examined the microbial ecology of coral bleaching at the single-cell level! 🪸🔥 #CoralReefs
🔗 rdcu.be/zWHQ92WqZQUa
Single-cell ecology of coral-algal symbiosis breakdown - Microbiome
Background The symbiosis between corals and dinoflagellate algae is disrupted by heat stress, leading to bleaching and subsequent coral mortality, devastating reef habitats. Despite its planetary-scal...
link.springer.com
September 1, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Coral bleaching looks like a reef-scale catastrophe. But it starts as a breakdown between single cells.
Published in @microbiomej.bsky.social, led by @ambonacolta.bsky.social we watched it at that scale for the first time: the first single-cell transcriptomics of a bleaching coral 🪸 #CoralReefs
Published in @microbiomej.bsky.social, led by @ambonacolta.bsky.social we watched it at that scale for the first time: the first single-cell transcriptomics of a bleaching coral 🪸 #CoralReefs
What a MASSIVE scientific undertaking 🤩
Stephens et al. inferred orthogroups for over 100 scleractinia reference genomes/transcriptomes - 228 datasets total!
I can only begin to imagine what incredible insights can be gained from this 🪸🧬🧪
#popgen #evolution #coralreefs #phylogentics #EvoBio
Stephens et al. inferred orthogroups for over 100 scleractinia reference genomes/transcriptomes - 228 datasets total!
I can only begin to imagine what incredible insights can be gained from this 🪸🧬🧪
#popgen #evolution #coralreefs #phylogentics #EvoBio
Stephens, Kulczyk & @bhattacharyalab.bsky.social suggest that dark genes (those with no ascribable biological function) in stony corals originated via bursts of lineage-specific duplication, often from genes with known functions.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag072
#genome #evolution #corals
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag072
#genome #evolution #corals
April 9, 2026 at 8:15 PM
What a MASSIVE scientific undertaking 🤩
Stephens et al. inferred orthogroups for over 100 scleractinia reference genomes/transcriptomes - 228 datasets total!
I can only begin to imagine what incredible insights can be gained from this 🪸🧬🧪
#popgen #evolution #coralreefs #phylogentics #EvoBio
Stephens et al. inferred orthogroups for over 100 scleractinia reference genomes/transcriptomes - 228 datasets total!
I can only begin to imagine what incredible insights can be gained from this 🪸🧬🧪
#popgen #evolution #coralreefs #phylogentics #EvoBio
Staghorn coral (Acropora cervicornis) 🪸🐡
Climate change is posing various threats to coral reefs. Reefs recently faced a 4th major global bleaching event (the 2nd bleaching event in the last 10 years).
#acropora #gouache #art #coralreefs #scientificillustration #climatechange #sciart #painting
Climate change is posing various threats to coral reefs. Reefs recently faced a 4th major global bleaching event (the 2nd bleaching event in the last 10 years).
#acropora #gouache #art #coralreefs #scientificillustration #climatechange #sciart #painting
December 1, 2024 at 1:29 PM
Staghorn coral (Acropora cervicornis) 🪸🐡
Climate change is posing various threats to coral reefs. Reefs recently faced a 4th major global bleaching event (the 2nd bleaching event in the last 10 years).
#acropora #gouache #art #coralreefs #scientificillustration #climatechange #sciart #painting
Climate change is posing various threats to coral reefs. Reefs recently faced a 4th major global bleaching event (the 2nd bleaching event in the last 10 years).
#acropora #gouache #art #coralreefs #scientificillustration #climatechange #sciart #painting
On my way to Auckland for #ICRS2026 🪸🇳🇿. Check out my talk on Corallicolids on Friday, July 24th at 9:15 AM during session 5A in NZICC 517! #CoralReefs #MicrobiomeSky
July 17, 2026 at 6:25 PM
On my way to Auckland for #ICRS2026 🪸🇳🇿. Check out my talk on Corallicolids on Friday, July 24th at 9:15 AM during session 5A in NZICC 517! #CoralReefs #MicrobiomeSky
3/3 🪸 Can we help coral reefs survive the heat? Scientists are testing deeper-water relocation, probiotics, heat-tolerant corals — even healthy-reef soundscapes to attract larvae.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#CoralReefs #MarineConservation #ElNino 🧪🌍🌐
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#CoralReefs #MarineConservation #ElNino 🧪🌍🌐
The super El Niño is cooking coral reefs — can lullabies and probiotics save them?
Researchers are trying everything they can to help coral reefs to survive severe heat stress from climate change, including playing sounds underwater.
www.nature.com
October 2, 2026 at 7:08 PM
3/3 🪸 Can we help coral reefs survive the heat? Scientists are testing deeper-water relocation, probiotics, heat-tolerant corals — even healthy-reef soundscapes to attract larvae.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#CoralReefs #MarineConservation #ElNino 🧪🌍🌐
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#CoralReefs #MarineConservation #ElNino 🧪🌍🌐
Happy National Reef Awareness Day! 🐠🪸 Half a billion people rely on coral reefs for food - let's protect them!
#reefawarenessday #coralreefs #sciart #ocean #whaleshark #illustration #kidlitart #procreate
#reefawarenessday #coralreefs #sciart #ocean #whaleshark #illustration #kidlitart #procreate
June 1, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Happy National Reef Awareness Day! 🐠🪸 Half a billion people rely on coral reefs for food - let's protect them!
#reefawarenessday #coralreefs #sciart #ocean #whaleshark #illustration #kidlitart #procreate
#reefawarenessday #coralreefs #sciart #ocean #whaleshark #illustration #kidlitart #procreate
NEWS: At #UNOC3, 11 governments have united to sign a bold new pledge to safeguard climate-resilient #coralreefs.
“This is more than a commitment—it’s a lifeline for coral reefs and the communities that depend on them,” said WCS’s @emilysdarling.bsky.social.
🪸 🌏 bit.ly/3HO6xw9
“This is more than a commitment—it’s a lifeline for coral reefs and the communities that depend on them,” said WCS’s @emilysdarling.bsky.social.
🪸 🌏 bit.ly/3HO6xw9
Eleven Countries Launch First Commitment to Protect Climate-Resilient Coral Reefs
Nice, France, June 10, 2025 – At the Third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3), a growing coalition of countries and partners today launched and signed a high-level global commitment to protect cl...
bit.ly
June 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
NEWS: At #UNOC3, 11 governments have united to sign a bold new pledge to safeguard climate-resilient #coralreefs.
“This is more than a commitment—it’s a lifeline for coral reefs and the communities that depend on them,” said WCS’s @emilysdarling.bsky.social.
🪸 🌏 bit.ly/3HO6xw9
“This is more than a commitment—it’s a lifeline for coral reefs and the communities that depend on them,” said WCS’s @emilysdarling.bsky.social.
🪸 🌏 bit.ly/3HO6xw9
Anish Paul talking about the role of predator-driven nutrients in facilitating herbivory on coral reefs.
🪸🐠🐟
#RCUK2024
#coralreefs #India #Lakshadweep
@lec-reefs.bsky.social
#NCBSIndia
🪸🐠🐟
#RCUK2024
#coralreefs #India #Lakshadweep
@lec-reefs.bsky.social
#NCBSIndia
November 30, 2024 at 11:59 AM
Anish Paul talking about the role of predator-driven nutrients in facilitating herbivory on coral reefs.
🪸🐠🐟
#RCUK2024
#coralreefs #India #Lakshadweep
@lec-reefs.bsky.social
#NCBSIndia
🪸🐠🐟
#RCUK2024
#coralreefs #India #Lakshadweep
@lec-reefs.bsky.social
#NCBSIndia
Back from surveying #fish and #coralreefs in the beautiful Gulf of Aqaba and NEOM in the Red Sea. Some reefs were hit hard over the summer but it’s cooling down and we are seeing some signs of recovery 🪸
November 20, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Back from surveying #fish and #coralreefs in the beautiful Gulf of Aqaba and NEOM in the Red Sea. Some reefs were hit hard over the summer but it’s cooling down and we are seeing some signs of recovery 🪸
My final PhD chapter is now published in Microbiome (@microbiomej.bsky.social)!
Using metabarcoding, photochemical measurements, and the first scRNAseq of a bleaching coral, we examined the microbial ecology of coral bleaching at the single-cell level! 🪸🔥 #CoralReefs
🔗 rdcu.be/zWHQ92WqZQUa
Using metabarcoding, photochemical measurements, and the first scRNAseq of a bleaching coral, we examined the microbial ecology of coral bleaching at the single-cell level! 🪸🔥 #CoralReefs
🔗 rdcu.be/zWHQ92WqZQUa
Single-cell ecology of coral-algal symbiosis breakdown - Microbiome
Background The symbiosis between corals and dinoflagellate algae is disrupted by heat stress, leading to bleaching and subsequent coral mortality, devastating reef habitats. Despite its planetary-scal...
link.springer.com
August 31, 2026 at 2:06 PM
My final PhD chapter is now published in Microbiome (@microbiomej.bsky.social)!
Using metabarcoding, photochemical measurements, and the first scRNAseq of a bleaching coral, we examined the microbial ecology of coral bleaching at the single-cell level! 🪸🔥 #CoralReefs
🔗 rdcu.be/zWHQ92WqZQUa
Using metabarcoding, photochemical measurements, and the first scRNAseq of a bleaching coral, we examined the microbial ecology of coral bleaching at the single-cell level! 🪸🔥 #CoralReefs
🔗 rdcu.be/zWHQ92WqZQUa
Big progress for Antigua’s #CoralReefs! 🪸
AnuBlue, an ocean conservation org in Antigua & Barbuda, is growing 15 reef-building species—including 5 critically endangered species—and helping build healthier, resilient reefs.
📸: Andre Phillip
More from @Caribcompassmag: https://bit.ly/4z1zKJt
AnuBlue, an ocean conservation org in Antigua & Barbuda, is growing 15 reef-building species—including 5 critically endangered species—and helping build healthier, resilient reefs.
📸: Andre Phillip
More from @Caribcompassmag: https://bit.ly/4z1zKJt
September 29, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Big progress for Antigua’s #CoralReefs! 🪸
AnuBlue, an ocean conservation org in Antigua & Barbuda, is growing 15 reef-building species—including 5 critically endangered species—and helping build healthier, resilient reefs.
📸: Andre Phillip
More from @Caribcompassmag: https://bit.ly/4z1zKJt
AnuBlue, an ocean conservation org in Antigua & Barbuda, is growing 15 reef-building species—including 5 critically endangered species—and helping build healthier, resilient reefs.
📸: Andre Phillip
More from @Caribcompassmag: https://bit.ly/4z1zKJt
This will be the future for all #coralreefs if we don't get serious about tackling #climatechange:
Large areas of WA’s Ningaloo corals could die in ‘weeks ahead’ after widespread bleaching documented www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... 🪸 🔥 ☠️
Large areas of WA’s Ningaloo corals could die in ‘weeks ahead’ after widespread bleaching documented www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... 🪸 🔥 ☠️
February 19, 2025 at 8:03 AM
This will be the future for all #coralreefs if we don't get serious about tackling #climatechange:
Large areas of WA’s Ningaloo corals could die in ‘weeks ahead’ after widespread bleaching documented www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... 🪸 🔥 ☠️
Large areas of WA’s Ningaloo corals could die in ‘weeks ahead’ after widespread bleaching documented www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... 🪸 🔥 ☠️
We talk a lot about restoring ecosystems. But what about restoring beauty? Can we measure that? Should we? Two coral reef studies, 10 years apart, tackled these questions from different angles. Together, they change how we think about conservation success. 🪸🧵
#CoralReefs #OceanHoptimism
#CoralReefs #OceanHoptimism
July 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
We talk a lot about restoring ecosystems. But what about restoring beauty? Can we measure that? Should we? Two coral reef studies, 10 years apart, tackled these questions from different angles. Together, they change how we think about conservation success. 🪸🧵
#CoralReefs #OceanHoptimism
#CoralReefs #OceanHoptimism
A 1,500-year-old mystery in the Galápagos shows that persistent La Niña cooling and extreme oxygen loss once wiped out ancient deep-sea corals. The ocean is entirely connected. 🌊🪸
bit.ly/activist360G... #MarineBiology #OceanConservation #Galapagos #DeepSea #CoralReefs
bit.ly/activist360G... #MarineBiology #OceanConservation #Galapagos #DeepSea #CoralReefs
A 1,500-year-old mystery, solved. 🪸🔍
Why did ancient deep-sea corals in the Galápagos vanish? It wasn't ocean warming. It was a prolonged La Niña that suffocated the deep. Learn what this means for the future of our oceans: https://bit.l...
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April 26, 2026 at 7:01 PM
A 1,500-year-old mystery in the Galápagos shows that persistent La Niña cooling and extreme oxygen loss once wiped out ancient deep-sea corals. The ocean is entirely connected. 🌊🪸
bit.ly/activist360G... #MarineBiology #OceanConservation #Galapagos #DeepSea #CoralReefs
bit.ly/activist360G... #MarineBiology #OceanConservation #Galapagos #DeepSea #CoralReefs
A new study co-authored by @ipbes.bsky.social Chair, David Obura, looks at 68 resilience potential assessments of #CoralReefs to determine areas for improvement and make recommendations for future assessments. 🪸🌎🧪
Access the study ⬇️
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Access the study ⬇️
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March 11, 2024 at 8:29 AM
A new study co-authored by @ipbes.bsky.social Chair, David Obura, looks at 68 resilience potential assessments of #CoralReefs to determine areas for improvement and make recommendations for future assessments. 🪸🌎🧪
Access the study ⬇️
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Access the study ⬇️
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata) 🪸 part of the stony corals series
Stony corals are reef-builders, meaning they help build up coral reefs by creating hard, calcium carbonate skeletons. Healthy reefs are essential for supporting biodiversity 🩵
#coralreefs #gouache #illustration #art #painting
Stony corals are reef-builders, meaning they help build up coral reefs by creating hard, calcium carbonate skeletons. Healthy reefs are essential for supporting biodiversity 🩵
#coralreefs #gouache #illustration #art #painting
November 28, 2024 at 10:19 PM
Elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata) 🪸 part of the stony corals series
Stony corals are reef-builders, meaning they help build up coral reefs by creating hard, calcium carbonate skeletons. Healthy reefs are essential for supporting biodiversity 🩵
#coralreefs #gouache #illustration #art #painting
Stony corals are reef-builders, meaning they help build up coral reefs by creating hard, calcium carbonate skeletons. Healthy reefs are essential for supporting biodiversity 🩵
#coralreefs #gouache #illustration #art #painting
Despite a big hit from warming oceans, #CoralReefs are making a comeback. 🌊Scientists are growing baby corals in underwater #nurseries and replanting them on damaged reefs, helping #ecosystems. 🪸🐠 Bringing them back is a huge win for ocean life, since they support over 1/4 of all marine species.
Coral Reefs are Coming Back | Happy Eco News
Coral Reefs are Coming Back. Through the many ongoing restoration projects, innovative techniques, and global community engagement, coral reefs are being afforded a chance to flourish once more. Slowl...
happyeconews.com
March 9, 2026 at 4:16 AM
Despite a big hit from warming oceans, #CoralReefs are making a comeback. 🌊Scientists are growing baby corals in underwater #nurseries and replanting them on damaged reefs, helping #ecosystems. 🪸🐠 Bringing them back is a huge win for ocean life, since they support over 1/4 of all marine species.
Dear algo,
We’re trying to find our corner of ocean people here.🌊
Marine scientists
teachers
ocean educators
students
and anyone who loves learning about #coralreefs, #mangroveforests, and #seagrass meadows. 🪸
Wave in the replies so we can find you. 👋
We’re trying to find our corner of ocean people here.🌊
Marine scientists
teachers
ocean educators
students
and anyone who loves learning about #coralreefs, #mangroveforests, and #seagrass meadows. 🪸
Wave in the replies so we can find you. 👋
March 5, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Dear algo,
We’re trying to find our corner of ocean people here.🌊
Marine scientists
teachers
ocean educators
students
and anyone who loves learning about #coralreefs, #mangroveforests, and #seagrass meadows. 🪸
Wave in the replies so we can find you. 👋
We’re trying to find our corner of ocean people here.🌊
Marine scientists
teachers
ocean educators
students
and anyone who loves learning about #coralreefs, #mangroveforests, and #seagrass meadows. 🪸
Wave in the replies so we can find you. 👋