Moisés A. Bernal
@evofish.bsky.social
Assistant Professor Climate Change Biology at Auburn University. Interested in all things fish. Music enthusiast, vinyl collector, cook and traveler!
Research website: https://sites.google.com/site/moisesbernalresearch/home
Research website: https://sites.google.com/site/moisesbernalresearch/home
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We’re looking for a postdoc to join the Hendrickson lab!
The project will involve dissecting the molecular mechanisms of a fascinating mobile element in our honeybee biocontrol phages. Sound like something you would be interested in? Get in touch! Details:
jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/a...
The project will involve dissecting the molecular mechanisms of a fascinating mobile element in our honeybee biocontrol phages. Sound like something you would be interested in? Get in touch! Details:
jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/a...
Research Associate / Postdoctoral Fellow - Honeybee Bacteriophages and Advanced Biotechnology -
University of Canterbury | Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha
jobs.canterbury.ac.nz
January 9, 2026 at 12:27 AM
We’re looking for a postdoc to join the Hendrickson lab!
The project will involve dissecting the molecular mechanisms of a fascinating mobile element in our honeybee biocontrol phages. Sound like something you would be interested in? Get in touch! Details:
jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/a...
The project will involve dissecting the molecular mechanisms of a fascinating mobile element in our honeybee biocontrol phages. Sound like something you would be interested in? Get in touch! Details:
jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/a...
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From a past visit to one of the art museums in Melbourne Australia, a fantastic cameo engraved Cassis shell! #molluscmonday
January 14, 2026 at 9:24 AM
From a past visit to one of the art museums in Melbourne Australia, a fantastic cameo engraved Cassis shell! #molluscmonday
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Just a reminder that NOAA releases monthly desktop screens with calendars featuring deep-sea animals and its reminder right now that at least some in government are still wholesome oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/multimedia/c...
Chimaera - NOAA Ocean Exploration
This cute chimaera was seen at a depth of 820 meters (2,690 feet) in the Stetson-Miami Terrace Deepwater Coral Habitat of Particular Concern off the coast of Florida during Dive 04 of the 2019 Southea...
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January 14, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Just a reminder that NOAA releases monthly desktop screens with calendars featuring deep-sea animals and its reminder right now that at least some in government are still wholesome oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/multimedia/c...
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Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average.
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January 14, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average.
climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...
climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...
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In a newly published paper, we find that in 2025 human emissions of greenhouse gases added around 23 billion trillion joules of heat to the world's oceans – 39 times as much as the annual energy produced by all human activity on Earth. link.springer.com/ar...
January 13, 2026 at 12:32 AM
In a newly published paper, we find that in 2025 human emissions of greenhouse gases added around 23 billion trillion joules of heat to the world's oceans – 39 times as much as the annual energy produced by all human activity on Earth. link.springer.com/ar...
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Do you work on connectivity and management of #estuarine dependent species? Submit to our Special Collection on in the journal Estuaries & Coasts! Open submission with a deadline of June 1, 2026. More information at bit.ly/ESCOconnectivity @cerfscience.bsky.social @estuariescoasts.bsky.social
January 13, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Do you work on connectivity and management of #estuarine dependent species? Submit to our Special Collection on in the journal Estuaries & Coasts! Open submission with a deadline of June 1, 2026. More information at bit.ly/ESCOconnectivity @cerfscience.bsky.social @estuariescoasts.bsky.social
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As much as I WANT this to be a magic portal to a happier world, it's not.
Captured on the slopes of an Austrian ski resort, it's a LIGHT PILLAR, an optical phenomenon created by the alignment of hexagonal ice crystals reflecting a strong light source in a way that creates the illusion of a pillar.
Captured on the slopes of an Austrian ski resort, it's a LIGHT PILLAR, an optical phenomenon created by the alignment of hexagonal ice crystals reflecting a strong light source in a way that creates the illusion of a pillar.
January 12, 2026 at 2:03 PM
As much as I WANT this to be a magic portal to a happier world, it's not.
Captured on the slopes of an Austrian ski resort, it's a LIGHT PILLAR, an optical phenomenon created by the alignment of hexagonal ice crystals reflecting a strong light source in a way that creates the illusion of a pillar.
Captured on the slopes of an Austrian ski resort, it's a LIGHT PILLAR, an optical phenomenon created by the alignment of hexagonal ice crystals reflecting a strong light source in a way that creates the illusion of a pillar.
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Essential listening this week…
The seashore is most people’s window on the ocean. In this episode, Professor Hawkins reviews the main threats to coastal seas, and asks, how do predictions of impacts on rocky shores hold up a quarter century on?
🎧 Listen now buzzsprout.com/1958156/episodes/18474004
The seashore is most people’s window on the ocean. In this episode, Professor Hawkins reviews the main threats to coastal seas, and asks, how do predictions of impacts on rocky shores hold up a quarter century on?
🎧 Listen now buzzsprout.com/1958156/episodes/18474004
January 12, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Essential listening this week…
The seashore is most people’s window on the ocean. In this episode, Professor Hawkins reviews the main threats to coastal seas, and asks, how do predictions of impacts on rocky shores hold up a quarter century on?
🎧 Listen now buzzsprout.com/1958156/episodes/18474004
The seashore is most people’s window on the ocean. In this episode, Professor Hawkins reviews the main threats to coastal seas, and asks, how do predictions of impacts on rocky shores hold up a quarter century on?
🎧 Listen now buzzsprout.com/1958156/episodes/18474004
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Our eLetter github.com/caseywdunn/s... responding to a recent Science paper was just posted. The paper found more genes with consistent support for sponge-sister than ctenophore-sister. We found several technical issues that, when corrected, reverse the conclusions and recover ctenophore-sister.
January 9, 2026 at 11:44 AM
Our eLetter github.com/caseywdunn/s... responding to a recent Science paper was just posted. The paper found more genes with consistent support for sponge-sister than ctenophore-sister. We found several technical issues that, when corrected, reverse the conclusions and recover ctenophore-sister.
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BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!
January 9, 2026 at 8:02 PM
BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!
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In a single year, the Ocean absorbed as much energy as released by ∼110,000 Tsar Bombs, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever tested.
The ocean keeps getting hotter: In 2025, it absorbed 23 zettajoules (that’s 23 * 10²¹ joules) of heat, breaking a record for the ninth consecutive year. 🧪🌎🌊 eos.org/research-and...
In 2025, the Ocean Stored a Record-Breaking Amount of Heat, Again - Eos
The ocean soaked up more heat last year than any year since modern measurements began around 1960, according to a new analysis published in Advances in Atmospheric Science.
eos.org
January 9, 2026 at 2:51 PM
In a single year, the Ocean absorbed as much energy as released by ∼110,000 Tsar Bombs, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever tested.
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The world feels rough right now
So please enjoy this shrimp, filmed off Cozumel, Mexico. It may be a larval reef shrimp, but we don’t know what species or how long it lives or what it eats. The world is still full of wonder and beauty and mystery.
🎥 @pedrovalenciam scuba diver on Insta
So please enjoy this shrimp, filmed off Cozumel, Mexico. It may be a larval reef shrimp, but we don’t know what species or how long it lives or what it eats. The world is still full of wonder and beauty and mystery.
🎥 @pedrovalenciam scuba diver on Insta
January 8, 2026 at 8:20 PM
The world feels rough right now
So please enjoy this shrimp, filmed off Cozumel, Mexico. It may be a larval reef shrimp, but we don’t know what species or how long it lives or what it eats. The world is still full of wonder and beauty and mystery.
🎥 @pedrovalenciam scuba diver on Insta
So please enjoy this shrimp, filmed off Cozumel, Mexico. It may be a larval reef shrimp, but we don’t know what species or how long it lives or what it eats. The world is still full of wonder and beauty and mystery.
🎥 @pedrovalenciam scuba diver on Insta
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We offer a 2-year postdoc position in Climate Change Epidemiology at Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD) in Sevilla, Spain, to work in the international Wellcome project BREATHE.
Application deadline is 18 January 2026.
Interested?
See further details here: www.ebd.csic.es/sites/defaul...
Application deadline is 18 January 2026.
Interested?
See further details here: www.ebd.csic.es/sites/defaul...
www.ebd.csic.es
January 8, 2026 at 1:30 PM
We offer a 2-year postdoc position in Climate Change Epidemiology at Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD) in Sevilla, Spain, to work in the international Wellcome project BREATHE.
Application deadline is 18 January 2026.
Interested?
See further details here: www.ebd.csic.es/sites/defaul...
Application deadline is 18 January 2026.
Interested?
See further details here: www.ebd.csic.es/sites/defaul...
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“We cannot withdraw from the fact that over 1 million species of plants and animals face extinction.”
IPBES remains committed to its mandate to provide the most credible science and evidence about biodiversity to all decision makers and actors.
— @davidobura.bsky.social , @ipbes.net Chair
IPBES remains committed to its mandate to provide the most credible science and evidence about biodiversity to all decision makers and actors.
— @davidobura.bsky.social , @ipbes.net Chair
January 8, 2026 at 6:13 PM
“We cannot withdraw from the fact that over 1 million species of plants and animals face extinction.”
IPBES remains committed to its mandate to provide the most credible science and evidence about biodiversity to all decision makers and actors.
— @davidobura.bsky.social , @ipbes.net Chair
IPBES remains committed to its mandate to provide the most credible science and evidence about biodiversity to all decision makers and actors.
— @davidobura.bsky.social , @ipbes.net Chair
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Dr. Daniel Pauly's #shiftingbaselines: "By the time the Atlantic cod fishery collapsed in the early 1990s, each generation of managers had already internalized a diminished baseline."
www.thewildlifenews.com/2026/01/08/s...
www.thewildlifenews.com/2026/01/08/s...
Shifting Baselines: How Ecology Loses Its Memory
Recently I was interviewing an environmentalist and naturalist about his new book at a small venue in Point Reyes Station, California. The conversation swung back and forth from fun wildlife encounter...
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January 8, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Dr. Daniel Pauly's #shiftingbaselines: "By the time the Atlantic cod fishery collapsed in the early 1990s, each generation of managers had already internalized a diminished baseline."
www.thewildlifenews.com/2026/01/08/s...
www.thewildlifenews.com/2026/01/08/s...
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You don’t need a brain to benefit from a good night of sleep. Despite lacking a central nervous system, jellyfish and sea anemones have sleep patterns remarkably similar to those of humans, researchers report.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/3NgeAEQ
Learn more: https://scim.ag/3NgeAEQ
January 8, 2026 at 5:15 PM
You don’t need a brain to benefit from a good night of sleep. Despite lacking a central nervous system, jellyfish and sea anemones have sleep patterns remarkably similar to those of humans, researchers report.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/3NgeAEQ
Learn more: https://scim.ag/3NgeAEQ
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After the US admin cancelled the $B Climate + Weather Disaster dataset, @climatecentral.org hired the scientists who ran it and set it back up.
Now the 2025 numbers are in: it's 3rd highest year on record and highest year w/o land-falling hurricanes.
More: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
Now the 2025 numbers are in: it's 3rd highest year on record and highest year w/o land-falling hurricanes.
More: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
January 8, 2026 at 5:33 PM
After the US admin cancelled the $B Climate + Weather Disaster dataset, @climatecentral.org hired the scientists who ran it and set it back up.
Now the 2025 numbers are in: it's 3rd highest year on record and highest year w/o land-falling hurricanes.
More: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
Now the 2025 numbers are in: it's 3rd highest year on record and highest year w/o land-falling hurricanes.
More: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
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Sea cucumbers are everywhere in the deep sea and swimming off the seafloor may be the norm, not the exception. New ROV footage shows them actively swimming: webbed podia fanning in sync, bodies flexing, and that sail-like “tail” helping them drift along near-bottom currents.
January 8, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Sea cucumbers are everywhere in the deep sea and swimming off the seafloor may be the norm, not the exception. New ROV footage shows them actively swimming: webbed podia fanning in sync, bodies flexing, and that sail-like “tail” helping them drift along near-bottom currents.
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Excited that our newly described Okanagan Crayfish makes an appearance on the CBC's cool species of 2025 list: www.cbc.ca/news/science...
Tarantula with XXL genitalia, 'death ball' sponge among cool species of 2025 | CBC News
A spider with extraordinary genitalia, a carnivorous caterpillar that wears its prey's body parts, and a tiny opossum are among the cool new species described by science in 2025.
www.cbc.ca
January 7, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Excited that our newly described Okanagan Crayfish makes an appearance on the CBC's cool species of 2025 list: www.cbc.ca/news/science...
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I had a great time working at the LSUMNS. It's a fun group of people doing good science. Highly recommend applying if you're at that career stage!
LSU Museum of Natural Sciences is hiring a postdoc! Come join our very active and supportive museum community. Applicants can work with any of the major divisions: 🐀🦜🦎🐸🐠
Review begins February 15th, please share!
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Review begins February 15th, please share!
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Postdoctoral Researcher
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January 7, 2026 at 5:45 PM
I had a great time working at the LSUMNS. It's a fun group of people doing good science. Highly recommend applying if you're at that career stage!
Can anyone help me ID these eggs I found in the Coiba National Park? In the Pacific side of Panama.
Thanks in advance!
#inverts #underwater #uwphotography
Thanks in advance!
#inverts #underwater #uwphotography
January 6, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Can anyone help me ID these eggs I found in the Coiba National Park? In the Pacific side of Panama.
Thanks in advance!
#inverts #underwater #uwphotography
Thanks in advance!
#inverts #underwater #uwphotography
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New paper alert!
We reconstructed the diversification trajectory of sharks & rays over the past 145 myrs to answer:
When did they experience major extinction events?
Does age play a role in extinction selectivity?
If so, does it change with extinction intensity?
👉 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
We reconstructed the diversification trajectory of sharks & rays over the past 145 myrs to answer:
When did they experience major extinction events?
Does age play a role in extinction selectivity?
If so, does it change with extinction intensity?
👉 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
December 17, 2025 at 12:50 PM
New paper alert!
We reconstructed the diversification trajectory of sharks & rays over the past 145 myrs to answer:
When did they experience major extinction events?
Does age play a role in extinction selectivity?
If so, does it change with extinction intensity?
👉 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
We reconstructed the diversification trajectory of sharks & rays over the past 145 myrs to answer:
When did they experience major extinction events?
Does age play a role in extinction selectivity?
If so, does it change with extinction intensity?
👉 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
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Defensive responses of titan triggerfish to tiger sharks at a provisioned reef 🦑🌿🐟🦈 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
December 17, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Defensive responses of titan triggerfish to tiger sharks at a provisioned reef 🦑🌿🐟🦈 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The K/Pg extinction created a buffet for open-ocean fishes. A new paper shows that Pelagiaria underwent an adaptive radiation following the extinction based on new jaw shapes to fill the vacuum @knapprew.bsky.social @evoswami.bsky.social @sternarchella.bsky.social academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...
December 12, 2025 at 5:47 PM
The K/Pg extinction created a buffet for open-ocean fishes. A new paper shows that Pelagiaria underwent an adaptive radiation following the extinction based on new jaw shapes to fill the vacuum @knapprew.bsky.social @evoswami.bsky.social @sternarchella.bsky.social academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...