Sarah Solomon
@symbiosarah.bsky.social
Coral biologist, nature enthusiast 🌊 PhD candidate at University of Amsterdam
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Seasonality modulates coral trophic plasticity in an extreme, multi‐stressor environment
Corals with high trophic plasticity, i.e., the ability to change the relative contribution of heterotrophic and autotrophic nutrition to their mixotrophic diet, can have increased tolerance to indivi...
aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
🌊New study🌊 out today highlights a diversity of trophic strategies among 3 species in a multi-stressor habitat & that coral tolerance to more extreme conditions is promoted through dynamic seasonal shifts in their diet @verenaschoepf.bsky.social aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Do you know that MERMAID now has an AI model to help classify coral genera and other benthic groups, and substrate types? 👀✨✨ It is currently available in beta! Try it for yourselves! 🧵(1/2)
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Introducing MERMAID AI: Smarter Photo Quadrats with Image Classification (Beta) | MERMAID
MERMAID - Marine Ecological Research Management Aid
Transform your underwater insights into data-driven actions that save coral reefs
datamermaid.org
July 2, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Do you know that MERMAID now has an AI model to help classify coral genera and other benthic groups, and substrate types? 👀✨✨ It is currently available in beta! Try it for yourselves! 🧵(1/2)
datamermaid.org/reef...
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In another move by the Trump administration that will result in greater loss of lives and property, Pentagon will no longer share satellite data that tracks hurricanes overnight wapo.st/44ImQDK
Pentagon will no longer share satellite data that tracks hurricanes overnight
Scientists were initially given less than a week to prepare for the loss of microwave observations that are key in detecting rapid intensification of storms.
wapo.st
July 1, 2025 at 3:32 AM
In another move by the Trump administration that will result in greater loss of lives and property, Pentagon will no longer share satellite data that tracks hurricanes overnight wapo.st/44ImQDK
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"Under the terms of the executive order, political appointees loyal to the president can willfully find justification to label any research finding as scientific misconduct"
This should terrify every single scientist in America.
This should terrify every single scientist in America.
Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it" by Colette Delawalla (@cdelawalla.bsky.social), Victor Ambros, Carl Bergstrom, Carol Greider, Michael Mann and Brian Nosek for @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it | Colette Delawalla
The new executive order allows political appointees to undermine research they oppose, paving the way to state-controlled science
www.theguardian.com
May 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
"Under the terms of the executive order, political appointees loyal to the president can willfully find justification to label any research finding as scientific misconduct"
This should terrify every single scientist in America.
This should terrify every single scientist in America.
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New paper alert❗️We looked at #coral reproduction and nutrition in a degraded shipping port. We found colonies in the Port to be more fertile than those in nearshore reefs and demonstrate the value of using amino acid isotope analysis to understand mixotrophic diets. #firstpublication #coralreefs
A reproductive and trophic analysis of corals in a degraded environment - Coral Reefs
Understanding the persistence and resilience of corals in degraded environments can provide insight into the potential persistence of coral communities as coastline urbanization expands. We assessed t...
link.springer.com
May 15, 2025 at 2:07 AM
New paper alert❗️We looked at #coral reproduction and nutrition in a degraded shipping port. We found colonies in the Port to be more fertile than those in nearshore reefs and demonstrate the value of using amino acid isotope analysis to understand mixotrophic diets. #firstpublication #coralreefs
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🧪 Ranking member Lofgren and 11 other House dems sent a fiery 7-page letter to acting NSF director today
"The cancelation of these awards suggests instead that NSF is willing to apply political censorship of awards under direction from President Trump and the DOGE teenagers"
Share widely #SaveNSF
"The cancelation of these awards suggests instead that NSF is willing to apply political censorship of awards under direction from President Trump and the DOGE teenagers"
Share widely #SaveNSF
democrats-science.house.gov
May 9, 2025 at 1:00 AM
🧪 Ranking member Lofgren and 11 other House dems sent a fiery 7-page letter to acting NSF director today
"The cancelation of these awards suggests instead that NSF is willing to apply political censorship of awards under direction from President Trump and the DOGE teenagers"
Share widely #SaveNSF
"The cancelation of these awards suggests instead that NSF is willing to apply political censorship of awards under direction from President Trump and the DOGE teenagers"
Share widely #SaveNSF
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Our latest superb starling work in @nature.com. We observe long-term reciprocal helping relationships, and suggest reciprocity is an underappreciated mechanism promoting the stability of cooperatively breeding societies. Led by Alexis Earl and @gerrycarter.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A cryptic role for reciprocal helping in a cooperatively breeding bird - Nature
A study of the cooperative breeding behaviour of superb starlings during 40 consecutive breeding seasons over 20 years reveals long-term reciprocal helping between both related and unrelated individua...
www.nature.com
May 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Our latest superb starling work in @nature.com. We observe long-term reciprocal helping relationships, and suggest reciprocity is an underappreciated mechanism promoting the stability of cooperatively breeding societies. Led by Alexis Earl and @gerrycarter.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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"It’s like I have to choose between my life and my career." The personal stories of 5 scientists affected by Trump's assault on science. www.science.org/content/arti...
U.S. scientists’ lives and careers are being upended. Here are five of their stories
As the second Trump administration sends U.S. science into upheaval, countless researchers are fighting for their futures
www.science.org
May 5, 2025 at 11:25 AM
"It’s like I have to choose between my life and my career." The personal stories of 5 scientists affected by Trump's assault on science. www.science.org/content/arti...
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@katrinamillerphd.bsky.social & I took a look at over 400 active National Science Foundation grants that got killed in the past few days. Here's our story (gift link) nyti.ms/4jp4aOx
National Science Foundation Terminates Hundreds of Active Research Awards (Gift Article)
The agency targeted grants focused on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as research on misinformation.
nyti.ms
April 22, 2025 at 9:43 PM
@katrinamillerphd.bsky.social & I took a look at over 400 active National Science Foundation grants that got killed in the past few days. Here's our story (gift link) nyti.ms/4jp4aOx
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We examined the microbiome of Madracis aurentenra, an urban coral off the coast of the Colombian Caribbean. Interesting dynamics between Endozoicomonas and Vibrionaceae 🧪🪸 #MicroSky peerj.com/articles/192...
Endozoicomonas dominance and Vibrionaceae stability underpin resilience in urban coral Madracis auretenra
Coral resilience varies across species, with some exhibiting remarkable stability and adaptability, often mediated by their associated microbiomes. Given the species-specific nature of coral-microbiom...
peerj.com
April 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
We examined the microbiome of Madracis aurentenra, an urban coral off the coast of the Colombian Caribbean. Interesting dynamics between Endozoicomonas and Vibrionaceae 🧪🪸 #MicroSky peerj.com/articles/192...
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“Exploring Careers in Ecology” webinar tomorrow!
Join me, Rese Cloyd, and host Aaron Stoler, to duscuss finding jobs, navigating new careers, and defining success as a professional ecologist.
Webinar is part of a series by @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social.
Register: esa.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Join me, Rese Cloyd, and host Aaron Stoler, to duscuss finding jobs, navigating new careers, and defining success as a professional ecologist.
Webinar is part of a series by @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social.
Register: esa.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
April 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
“Exploring Careers in Ecology” webinar tomorrow!
Join me, Rese Cloyd, and host Aaron Stoler, to duscuss finding jobs, navigating new careers, and defining success as a professional ecologist.
Webinar is part of a series by @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social.
Register: esa.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Join me, Rese Cloyd, and host Aaron Stoler, to duscuss finding jobs, navigating new careers, and defining success as a professional ecologist.
Webinar is part of a series by @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social.
Register: esa.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Hi coral peeps! Anyone have any Caribbean spawning predictions for summer 2025? Please share so I can reach more people! Thanks :)
April 9, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Hi coral peeps! Anyone have any Caribbean spawning predictions for summer 2025? Please share so I can reach more people! Thanks :)
🌊New study🌊 out today highlights a diversity of trophic strategies among 3 species in a multi-stressor habitat & that coral tolerance to more extreme conditions is promoted through dynamic seasonal shifts in their diet @verenaschoepf.bsky.social aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Seasonality modulates coral trophic plasticity in an extreme, multi‐stressor environment
Corals with high trophic plasticity, i.e., the ability to change the relative contribution of heterotrophic and autotrophic nutrition to their mixotrophic diet, can have increased tolerance to indivi...
aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
🌊New study🌊 out today highlights a diversity of trophic strategies among 3 species in a multi-stressor habitat & that coral tolerance to more extreme conditions is promoted through dynamic seasonal shifts in their diet @verenaschoepf.bsky.social aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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From @science.org : Ax falls on elite group of Ph.D.s training to lead U.S. public health labs | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Ax falls on elite group of Ph.D.s training to lead U.S. public health labs
Most of the fellows in CDC’s highly competitive Laboratory Leadership Service were fired last weekend
www.science.org
February 19, 2025 at 10:52 PM
From @science.org : Ax falls on elite group of Ph.D.s training to lead U.S. public health labs | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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#BREAKING: We’re taking the Trump administration to court!
Oceana, alongside other environmental groups, is challenging President Trump's attempts to revoke ocean protections & open up millions of acres to offshore drilling. More 👉 oceana.ly/3EMOhSt
Oceana, alongside other environmental groups, is challenging President Trump's attempts to revoke ocean protections & open up millions of acres to offshore drilling. More 👉 oceana.ly/3EMOhSt
February 20, 2025 at 5:08 PM
#BREAKING: We’re taking the Trump administration to court!
Oceana, alongside other environmental groups, is challenging President Trump's attempts to revoke ocean protections & open up millions of acres to offshore drilling. More 👉 oceana.ly/3EMOhSt
Oceana, alongside other environmental groups, is challenging President Trump's attempts to revoke ocean protections & open up millions of acres to offshore drilling. More 👉 oceana.ly/3EMOhSt
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The Democrats on the House Science Committee have set up a website to collect stories from fired federal employees, anonymously if desired. Please amplify. (This helps the lawyers establish standing for bringing legal cases against the administration!)
democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings
democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings
February 19, 2025 at 6:24 AM
The Democrats on the House Science Committee have set up a website to collect stories from fired federal employees, anonymously if desired. Please amplify. (This helps the lawyers establish standing for bringing legal cases against the administration!)
democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings
democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings
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The U.S. #NationalWeatherService, housed within #NOAA, is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. It costs only ~$3/yr per taxpayer, & yields ~10:1 return on investment--saving economy 10s-100s of billions, not to mention thousands of lives.
Hearing reports that Musk’s cronies are targeting NOAA — infiltrating key systems and locking out career employees.
NOAA is vital for weather forecasting, scientific research and more. Their critical work saves lives.
My team and I are looking into this and we will not stand for it.
NOAA is vital for weather forecasting, scientific research and more. Their critical work saves lives.
My team and I are looking into this and we will not stand for it.
February 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The U.S. #NationalWeatherService, housed within #NOAA, is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. It costs only ~$3/yr per taxpayer, & yields ~10:1 return on investment--saving economy 10s-100s of billions, not to mention thousands of lives.
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Although NOAA's page on atmospheric CO2 levels has vanished, you can still get this vital information from Ralph Keeling's team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share
Don't let science be hidden
Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share
Don't let science be hidden
February 5, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Although NOAA's page on atmospheric CO2 levels has vanished, you can still get this vital information from Ralph Keeling's team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share
Don't let science be hidden
Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share
Don't let science be hidden
Action of the day that takes 5-10 min: Google your representatives in Congress and call or send them an email imploring them to stop DOGE from cutting funding to NSF. They're not reading your posts here unless you tag them or DM them. Make Congress Listen: v2v.opengovfoundation.org/staff-perspe...
February 5, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Action of the day that takes 5-10 min: Google your representatives in Congress and call or send them an email imploring them to stop DOGE from cutting funding to NSF. They're not reading your posts here unless you tag them or DM them. Make Congress Listen: v2v.opengovfoundation.org/staff-perspe...
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"Since 1980, Congress has mandated that the [NSF] seek to broaden participation of underrepresented groups, including women and other minorities, within science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪👨🔬 executive orders are at odds with this mandate
Exclusive: how NSF is scouring research grants for violations of Trump’s orders
The US National Science Foundation has unfrozen grant funding, but it continues to scrutinize research projects, sowing turmoil.
www.nature.com
February 4, 2025 at 11:04 AM
"Since 1980, Congress has mandated that the [NSF] seek to broaden participation of underrepresented groups, including women and other minorities, within science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪👨🔬 executive orders are at odds with this mandate
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A story:
During GW Bush admin, I had to pitch a collaborative project to NOAA’s internal climate board. Right before presenting, I was advised not to mention the words “climate change”. The project and the presentation were titled “Climate Change and Coral Reefs”. I ignored the advice...
During GW Bush admin, I had to pitch a collaborative project to NOAA’s internal climate board. Right before presenting, I was advised not to mention the words “climate change”. The project and the presentation were titled “Climate Change and Coral Reefs”. I ignored the advice...
February 5, 2025 at 2:08 AM
A story:
During GW Bush admin, I had to pitch a collaborative project to NOAA’s internal climate board. Right before presenting, I was advised not to mention the words “climate change”. The project and the presentation were titled “Climate Change and Coral Reefs”. I ignored the advice...
During GW Bush admin, I had to pitch a collaborative project to NOAA’s internal climate board. Right before presenting, I was advised not to mention the words “climate change”. The project and the presentation were titled “Climate Change and Coral Reefs”. I ignored the advice...
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The entire archive of all CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 has been backed up on Internet Archive.
Incredible work everyone. Science will never be silenced!
Incredible work everyone. Science will never be silenced!
February 4, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Hope for a better future & proactivity are vital ingredients for progressive change. I'm just as worried as the next about the threat that the current US admin poses to science & our mission to celebrate diversity & uplift marginalized communities. But please, protect your energy. Stay the course.
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
February 3, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Hope for a better future & proactivity are vital ingredients for progressive change. I'm just as worried as the next about the threat that the current US admin poses to science & our mission to celebrate diversity & uplift marginalized communities. But please, protect your energy. Stay the course.
We can all do more to uplift diverse voices in coral reef science. For a bit of inspiration, check out this panel discussion from four scientists on their lived experiences as local/indigenous scientists. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UACb...
ICRS SECC Indigenous & Local Coral Scientists Panel (Updated)
YouTube video by International Coral Reef Society
www.youtube.com
January 24, 2025 at 9:25 AM
We can all do more to uplift diverse voices in coral reef science. For a bit of inspiration, check out this panel discussion from four scientists on their lived experiences as local/indigenous scientists. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UACb...
If you are looking for a job, post-doc, PhD, MSc, or internship related to coral reefs or HIRING, make sure to check out the ICRS-SECC Job Board for new listings or to post your new position! coralreefsecc.org/jobboard
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January 24, 2025 at 9:19 AM
If you are looking for a job, post-doc, PhD, MSc, or internship related to coral reefs or HIRING, make sure to check out the ICRS-SECC Job Board for new listings or to post your new position! coralreefsecc.org/jobboard