John Parkinson
@parkinsonje.bsky.social
Coral reef ecologist, scuba diver, Jurassic Park enthusiast. Assistant Professor at the University of South Florida. Posts are my own.
Some additional coverage of our report on the major loss of acroporid corals in the Florida Keys by @cbsnews.com:
www.cbsnews.com/news/florida...
www.cbsnews.com/news/florida...
Marine heat wave caused key part of Florida's coral reef to become "functionally extinct," report says
A record 2023 heat wave all but eradicated two species of coral that historically served as the backbone of Florida's reefs, researchers said in a new report.
www.cbsnews.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Some additional coverage of our report on the major loss of acroporid corals in the Florida Keys by @cbsnews.com:
www.cbsnews.com/news/florida...
www.cbsnews.com/news/florida...
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Results I'm sad to share but must be told - branching coral are now functionally extinct in Florida - to learn more check out the full study www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... and our personal summary theconversation.com/2-iconic-cor...
Heat-driven functional extinction of Caribbean Acropora corals from Florida’s Coral Reef
In 2023, a record-setting marine heat wave triggered the ninth mass coral bleaching event on Florida’s Coral Reef (FCR). We examined spatial patterns of heat exposure along the ~560-kilometer length o...
www.science.org
October 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Results I'm sad to share but must be told - branching coral are now functionally extinct in Florida - to learn more check out the full study www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... and our personal summary theconversation.com/2-iconic-cor...
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This is an INCREDIBLE advance in our understanding of coral diversification. 🪸🎉 Fantastic new work led by @claudiavaga.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A global coral phylogeny reveals resilience and vulnerability through deep time - Nature
The most recent common ancestor of the stony coral Scleractinia dates to about 460 million years ago and was probably a solitary, heterotrophic and free-living organism.
www.nature.com
October 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
This is an INCREDIBLE advance in our understanding of coral diversification. 🪸🎉 Fantastic new work led by @claudiavaga.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
USF media produced a nice article about our lab!
Many thanks to those who put it together, and of course to my students who make the research possible.
www.usf.edu/arts-science...
Many thanks to those who put it together, and of course to my students who make the research possible.
www.usf.edu/arts-science...
In the Parkinson Lab at USF, saving Florida's Coral Reef is a top priority
University of South Florida
www.usf.edu
August 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
USF media produced a nice article about our lab!
Many thanks to those who put it together, and of course to my students who make the research possible.
www.usf.edu/arts-science...
Many thanks to those who put it together, and of course to my students who make the research possible.
www.usf.edu/arts-science...
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Proactive assisted gene flow for Caribbean corals in an era of rapid coral reef decline | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Proactive assisted gene flow for Caribbean corals in an era of rapid coral reef decline
Regulatory action could facilitate cross-border efforts to retain ecosystem function
www.science.org
July 25, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Proactive assisted gene flow for Caribbean corals in an era of rapid coral reef decline | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Stoke to announce that I will be joining the Department of Biology @txst.edu this coming Fall semester as an Assistant Professor!
Looking for grad students with interests in #Symbiodiniaceae, #corals 🪸, microbial #symbiosis 🦠, comparative #genomics 🧬 and #phylogenomics soon. Feel free to reach out!
Looking for grad students with interests in #Symbiodiniaceae, #corals 🪸, microbial #symbiosis 🦠, comparative #genomics 🧬 and #phylogenomics soon. Feel free to reach out!
June 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Stoke to announce that I will be joining the Department of Biology @txst.edu this coming Fall semester as an Assistant Professor!
Looking for grad students with interests in #Symbiodiniaceae, #corals 🪸, microbial #symbiosis 🦠, comparative #genomics 🧬 and #phylogenomics soon. Feel free to reach out!
Looking for grad students with interests in #Symbiodiniaceae, #corals 🪸, microbial #symbiosis 🦠, comparative #genomics 🧬 and #phylogenomics soon. Feel free to reach out!
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After months of official silence, mass mortality of corals in Western Australia - since January - is finally getting attention. www.watoday.com.au/national/wes...
May 2, 2025 at 11:42 AM
After months of official silence, mass mortality of corals in Western Australia - since January - is finally getting attention. www.watoday.com.au/national/wes...
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Our "Guide to communicating microbiomes in the media", created in collaboration @lindsaybroadbent.bsky.social aims to help navigate the complexities of communicating microbiome research. Click the link in our bio to read and download the guide.
April 11, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Our "Guide to communicating microbiomes in the media", created in collaboration @lindsaybroadbent.bsky.social aims to help navigate the complexities of communicating microbiome research. Click the link in our bio to read and download the guide.
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Change is coming to microbiology publishing. A new space for authoritative reviews and forward-looking perspectives is on the horizon. Be the first to hear the full announcement at #Microbio25.
March 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Change is coming to microbiology publishing. A new space for authoritative reviews and forward-looking perspectives is on the horizon. Be the first to hear the full announcement at #Microbio25.
Congrats to Parkinson lab PhD students Lauren & Matt (and former postdoc Raul!) and the whole team for putting together this nice perspective on efforts to incorporate microbiome analyses into conservation efforts.
🚨 Paper alert: our multidisciplinary team emphasizes the importance of microbes 🦠 in conservation of biodiversity and ecosystems🌱. We also encourage studying their ecological functions! 🧪🧫
authors.elsevier.com/c/1kjAVB8cd4...
authors.elsevier.com/c/1kjAVB8cd4...
March 6, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Congrats to Parkinson lab PhD students Lauren & Matt (and former postdoc Raul!) and the whole team for putting together this nice perspective on efforts to incorporate microbiome analyses into conservation efforts.
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Florida elkhorn corals need active genetic help to handle climate change, they cannot do it on their own. The risk is far less than the risk of doing nothing. 🌏🧪https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14920439 @coralconsortium.bsky.social
Safeguarding Florida's Coral Reefs: The Urgency of Assisted Gene Flow for Elkhorn Coral Conservation
The devastating 2023 heatwave is the latest in a series of disasters that has decimated the Florida population of elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata) to a critically low level, pushing this species to a ...
doi.org
February 28, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Florida elkhorn corals need active genetic help to handle climate change, they cannot do it on their own. The risk is far less than the risk of doing nothing. 🌏🧪https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14920439 @coralconsortium.bsky.social
Congrats to Peter Fisichella for presenting his undergraduate research on #Symbiodiniaceae thermal tolerance this weekend at the #Florida Undergraduate Research Conference! (hosted this year in Tampa @ USF) @usouthflorida.bsky.social hflorida.bsky.social
February 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Congrats to Peter Fisichella for presenting his undergraduate research on #Symbiodiniaceae thermal tolerance this weekend at the #Florida Undergraduate Research Conference! (hosted this year in Tampa @ USF) @usouthflorida.bsky.social hflorida.bsky.social
I don't come on social media often anymore, but I can't resist when there's a new #JurassicPark trailer to share.
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Jurassic World Rebirth | Official Trailer
YouTube video by Universal Pictures
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February 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I don't come on social media often anymore, but I can't resist when there's a new #JurassicPark trailer to share.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jan5...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jan5...
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PSA: pre-print of Symbiodiniaceae chapter for the upcoming coral microbiome book; was super fun to write w/ @parkinsonje.bsky.social & Raquel Peixoto; I find this very accessible & hopefully fun to read, have a look & stay tuned for the upcoming book doi.org/10.31219/osf... @unikonstanz.bsky.social
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November 19, 2024 at 9:56 AM
PSA: pre-print of Symbiodiniaceae chapter for the upcoming coral microbiome book; was super fun to write w/ @parkinsonje.bsky.social & Raquel Peixoto; I find this very accessible & hopefully fun to read, have a look & stay tuned for the upcoming book doi.org/10.31219/osf... @unikonstanz.bsky.social
A very helpful guide!
Friends, I wrote up a quick guide to getting started on Bluesky for folks who are used to old Science Twitter.
Please share it with your folks who are joining. And please let me know if I missed anything or got anything wrong. 🧪
www.southernfriedscience.com/bluesky-is-n...
Please share it with your folks who are joining. And please let me know if I missed anything or got anything wrong. 🧪
www.southernfriedscience.com/bluesky-is-n...
Bluesky is now open. Science Twitter, here’s how to use it!
The once-great science twitter is, depending on who you talk to, either dying or dead. Once a vibrant place for many discussions related to my fields of marine biology, ocean conservation, and publ…
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February 7, 2024 at 8:11 PM
A very helpful guide!
Caribbean Acropora genomes/maps now available. Congrats @ibaums.bsky.social et al.!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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January 4, 2024 at 3:19 PM
Caribbean Acropora genomes/maps now available. Congrats @ibaums.bsky.social et al.!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reading: Novel plastid genome characteristics in Fugacium kawagutii and the trend of accelerated evolution of plastid proteins in dinoflagellates doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...
January 3, 2024 at 1:31 PM
Reading: Novel plastid genome characteristics in Fugacium kawagutii and the trend of accelerated evolution of plastid proteins in dinoflagellates doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...
Great artwork! (and tools) journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Openly available illustrations as tools to describe eukaryotic microbial diversity
The microbial world is diverse and critically important to understanding evolution and global ecology, but we lack teaching and communications resources. This Essay provides a series of technical diag...
journals.plos.org
December 28, 2023 at 3:17 PM
Great artwork! (and tools) journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Take a deep dive into the world of cassiosomes and their photosymbionts with @gaelletoullec.bsky.social’s first PhD paper. These autonomous cell structures of rhizostome jellyfish could be exciting model systems to study cnidarian symbioses! 🧫🪸🔬 doi.org/10.1128/msph... @cpogoreutz.bsky.social
December 13, 2023 at 4:50 PM
Take a deep dive into the world of cassiosomes and their photosymbionts with @gaelletoullec.bsky.social’s first PhD paper. These autonomous cell structures of rhizostome jellyfish could be exciting model systems to study cnidarian symbioses! 🧫🪸🔬 doi.org/10.1128/msph... @cpogoreutz.bsky.social
We're hiring!
The University of South Florida, Tampa is searching for a Marine/Coastal Biologist (assistant professor / tenure track). Come join a great department!
Details: bit.ly/usf_marine_bio_search
The University of South Florida, Tampa is searching for a Marine/Coastal Biologist (assistant professor / tenure track). Come join a great department!
Details: bit.ly/usf_marine_bio_search
November 7, 2023 at 5:16 PM
We're hiring!
The University of South Florida, Tampa is searching for a Marine/Coastal Biologist (assistant professor / tenure track). Come join a great department!
Details: bit.ly/usf_marine_bio_search
The University of South Florida, Tampa is searching for a Marine/Coastal Biologist (assistant professor / tenure track). Come join a great department!
Details: bit.ly/usf_marine_bio_search
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Hot off the presses at Global Change Bio - Yingqi Zhang's 3rd chapter - Performance of Orbicella faveolata larval cohorts does not align with previously observed thermal tolerance of adult source populations
doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
October 18, 2023 at 3:55 PM
Hot off the presses at Global Change Bio - Yingqi Zhang's 3rd chapter - Performance of Orbicella faveolata larval cohorts does not align with previously observed thermal tolerance of adult source populations
doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
Come help us with an expansive coral GWAS! Cool data, great team, and I hear Los Angeles is fun.
I'm looking to hire a postdoc in coral genomics - $66k/yr plus benefits - follow link for more info - review of apps begins Nov 10 usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...
October 17, 2023 at 7:19 PM
Come help us with an expansive coral GWAS! Cool data, great team, and I hear Los Angeles is fun.