Aziz J Mulla
@azizjmulla.bsky.social
IdEX Postdoctoral Fellow at the Université Côte d’Azur. Marine forest dynamics, recovery and resilience.
📍Nice 🇫🇷🇪🇺
📍Nice 🇫🇷🇪🇺
Check out our new paper “The Role of Live and Dead Corals in Shaping Fish Assemblages Across Life Stages”
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The Role of Live and Dead Corals in Shaping Fish Assemblages Across Life Stages
We assessed the effects of experimental patches of live and dead corals on reef fish assemblages in different live stages. While dead and live corals provided equal shelter for mobile recruits, only ....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Check out our new paper “The Role of Live and Dead Corals in Shaping Fish Assemblages Across Life Stages”
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
NEW PAPER “Pioneer generation shapes long-term recovery of coral populations"
Here we challenge what a reef recovery looks like and show:
🪸 Early recruits drive long-term recovery
🪸Later recruits failed to survive
🪸 Apparent recovery masks declining diversity
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Here we challenge what a reef recovery looks like and show:
🪸 Early recruits drive long-term recovery
🪸Later recruits failed to survive
🪸 Apparent recovery masks declining diversity
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Pioneer generation shapes long-term recovery of coral populations - Coral Reefs
Reef recovery following a disturbance largely depends on successful coral recruitment and the absence of chronic stressors. However, recent recovery events show increasing homogenization, with dominan...
link.springer.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:28 AM
NEW PAPER “Pioneer generation shapes long-term recovery of coral populations"
Here we challenge what a reef recovery looks like and show:
🪸 Early recruits drive long-term recovery
🪸Later recruits failed to survive
🪸 Apparent recovery masks declining diversity
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Here we challenge what a reef recovery looks like and show:
🪸 Early recruits drive long-term recovery
🪸Later recruits failed to survive
🪸 Apparent recovery masks declining diversity
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Our interconnected planet is all we have 🌍❤️
October 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Our interconnected planet is all we have 🌍❤️
First day back teaching of a new semester after a wonderful, science-filled 4 days in the Lerin Islands with new MSc students!
September 17, 2025 at 6:43 AM
First day back teaching of a new semester after a wonderful, science-filled 4 days in the Lerin Islands with new MSc students!
Fantastic opportunity in beautiful Taiwan with a great PI!
Apply ASAP!
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Apply ASAP!
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📢Research Assistant Job Opportunity! Come join my lab at National Sun Yat-sen University (Taiwan). One-year full-time contract (responsibilities: administrative work, tank maintenance, lab work/field assistance)
Start date: Aug 1. See link for details: mcraemarinelab.weebly.com/opportunitie...
Start date: Aug 1. See link for details: mcraemarinelab.weebly.com/opportunitie...
July 3, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Fantastic opportunity in beautiful Taiwan with a great PI!
Apply ASAP!
🪸 🐟 🌊 🤿 ☀️
Apply ASAP!
🪸 🐟 🌊 🤿 ☀️
It was also a privilege to meet and talk to Sylvia Earle outside the opera. This coming week at #UNOC3 calls for the most experienced and recognised voices of our ocean!
June 8, 2025 at 6:13 AM
It was also a privilege to meet and talk to Sylvia Earle outside the opera. This coming week at #UNOC3 calls for the most experienced and recognised voices of our ocean!
As an official affiliated event of UNOC (United Nations Ocean Conference) 2025, we set out on a 24-hour live relay, following the Sun across all time zones, speaking to professionals in all fields of marine science across 24 sessions.
Catch up with all sessions here: lnkd.in/gn75BhT3
Catch up with all sessions here: lnkd.in/gn75BhT3
May 30, 2025 at 3:57 PM
As an official affiliated event of UNOC (United Nations Ocean Conference) 2025, we set out on a 24-hour live relay, following the Sun across all time zones, speaking to professionals in all fields of marine science across 24 sessions.
Catch up with all sessions here: lnkd.in/gn75BhT3
Catch up with all sessions here: lnkd.in/gn75BhT3
Join us LIVE on Youtube for 24 hours of #MarineScience as we welcome the 3rd United Nations Ocean Conference #UNOC3 to Nice, France!
Use this link to access the entire schedule: univ-cotedazur.eu/msc/marres/u...
And this link to watch live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=x07A...
Use this link to access the entire schedule: univ-cotedazur.eu/msc/marres/u...
And this link to watch live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=x07A...
May 23, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Join us LIVE on Youtube for 24 hours of #MarineScience as we welcome the 3rd United Nations Ocean Conference #UNOC3 to Nice, France!
Use this link to access the entire schedule: univ-cotedazur.eu/msc/marres/u...
And this link to watch live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=x07A...
Use this link to access the entire schedule: univ-cotedazur.eu/msc/marres/u...
And this link to watch live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=x07A...
Beautiful Cladocora caespitosa, forms the only true coral reef in the Mediterranean 🪸
April 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Beautiful Cladocora caespitosa, forms the only true coral reef in the Mediterranean 🪸
Field work à Île Sainte-Marguerite with those special people from Taiwan 🇹🇼❤️
March 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Field work à Île Sainte-Marguerite with those special people from Taiwan 🇹🇼❤️
I was lucky enough to receive a grant from @britishecologicalsociety.org this year! Would definitely recommend applying! 🤿 🪸 🌊 🇬🇧 🇫🇷
Round 1 of applications closes on 10 March.
Find out more about BES grants here:
Find out more about BES grants here:
What grants can I apply for? - British Ecological Society
We invest half a million every year in projects through our member-only grants. Find out more about and how you can apply.
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March 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I was lucky enough to receive a grant from @britishecologicalsociety.org this year! Would definitely recommend applying! 🤿 🪸 🌊 🇬🇧 🇫🇷
A little hope in all the doom from @nancyknowlton.bsky.social
- Resilience through change
- New ecological balances
- Long-term perspective is important
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Resilience through change
- New ecological balances
- Long-term perspective is important
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
December 13, 2024 at 11:02 AM
A little hope in all the doom from @nancyknowlton.bsky.social
- Resilience through change
- New ecological balances
- Long-term perspective is important
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Resilience through change
- New ecological balances
- Long-term perspective is important
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Excited to present at the UN One Ocean Science Congress next year in our beautiful home that is Nice 🇫🇷 looking forward to meeting lots of new people too! #OOSC2025
December 12, 2024 at 4:29 PM
Excited to present at the UN One Ocean Science Congress next year in our beautiful home that is Nice 🇫🇷 looking forward to meeting lots of new people too! #OOSC2025
Final couple of weeks leading up to Christmas and we are lucky enough to have a quick getaway along the coast from all the rush to Sanary-sur-Mer. Extra beautiful at this time of year 🎄✨
(It might be 12° but it’s still cold for the south of France and we’re in training for the U.K!!)
(It might be 12° but it’s still cold for the south of France and we’re in training for the U.K!!)
December 6, 2024 at 7:54 PM
Final couple of weeks leading up to Christmas and we are lucky enough to have a quick getaway along the coast from all the rush to Sanary-sur-Mer. Extra beautiful at this time of year 🎄✨
(It might be 12° but it’s still cold for the south of France and we’re in training for the U.K!!)
(It might be 12° but it’s still cold for the south of France and we’re in training for the U.K!!)
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Of all the concepts that humankind needs to absorb + act on with extreme urgency, this tops the list.
December 6, 2024 at 6:04 AM
Of all the concepts that humankind needs to absorb + act on with extreme urgency, this tops the list.
What a life, what achievements right until the end. We truly stand on the shoulders of giants and Kike Ballesteros was one big one.
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Ahir ens va deixar en Kike Ballesteros. 🖤
No tenim paraules per descriure el gran buit que deixa. Segurament la persona que millor coneixia la biodiversitat marina de Balears. Una pèrdua inestimable per la ciència i la conservació marina.
Que la mar li sigui lleu 💙
No tenim paraules per descriure el gran buit que deixa. Segurament la persona que millor coneixia la biodiversitat marina de Balears. Una pèrdua inestimable per la ciència i la conservació marina.
Que la mar li sigui lleu 💙
November 28, 2024 at 4:07 PM
What a life, what achievements right until the end. We truly stand on the shoulders of giants and Kike Ballesteros was one big one.
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Diving under full moon conditions like this for coral reproduction means you don’t really need your torch! #CoralReefs 🪸
November 26, 2024 at 7:13 AM
Diving under full moon conditions like this for coral reproduction means you don’t really need your torch! #CoralReefs 🪸
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A list of #marinebiology starter packs! 🌊
go.bsky.app/4PTX62K Marine Ecology
go.bsky.app/RS5zQHv Marine Biologists I
go.bsky.app/8DoyTMs Marine Biologists II
go.bsky.app/Qo5Gh2H Coral reef science
go.bsky.app/E8vrnd6 LGBTQIA+ Grads
go.bsky.app/7MdiLgo Ocean Women
go.bsky.app/4wMsfX4 Ocean Women II
go.bsky.app/4PTX62K Marine Ecology
go.bsky.app/RS5zQHv Marine Biologists I
go.bsky.app/8DoyTMs Marine Biologists II
go.bsky.app/Qo5Gh2H Coral reef science
go.bsky.app/E8vrnd6 LGBTQIA+ Grads
go.bsky.app/7MdiLgo Ocean Women
go.bsky.app/4wMsfX4 Ocean Women II
November 25, 2024 at 2:12 PM
A list of #marinebiology starter packs! 🌊
go.bsky.app/4PTX62K Marine Ecology
go.bsky.app/RS5zQHv Marine Biologists I
go.bsky.app/8DoyTMs Marine Biologists II
go.bsky.app/Qo5Gh2H Coral reef science
go.bsky.app/E8vrnd6 LGBTQIA+ Grads
go.bsky.app/7MdiLgo Ocean Women
go.bsky.app/4wMsfX4 Ocean Women II
go.bsky.app/4PTX62K Marine Ecology
go.bsky.app/RS5zQHv Marine Biologists I
go.bsky.app/8DoyTMs Marine Biologists II
go.bsky.app/Qo5Gh2H Coral reef science
go.bsky.app/E8vrnd6 LGBTQIA+ Grads
go.bsky.app/7MdiLgo Ocean Women
go.bsky.app/4wMsfX4 Ocean Women II
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In Nature, Delavaux et al., 2024 suggest that species richness on oceanic islands is reduced by mutualism rates on the mainland. In arxiv.org/abs/2411.15105, @maximilianpichler.bsky.social and I had another look at this question and conclude that this effect is likely a statistical artefact.
Is there a robust effect of mainland mutualism rates on species richness of oceanic islands?
In island biogeography, it is widely accepted that species richness on island depends on the area and isolation of the island as well as the species pool on the mainland. Delavaux et al. (2024) sugges...
arxiv.org
November 25, 2024 at 8:04 AM
In Nature, Delavaux et al., 2024 suggest that species richness on oceanic islands is reduced by mutualism rates on the mainland. In arxiv.org/abs/2411.15105, @maximilianpichler.bsky.social and I had another look at this question and conclude that this effect is likely a statistical artefact.
Marine folk, you’re needed! 👇
I hope this starter pack helps bring our community together on this platform. If you identify as an ECR, work in community ecology, and would like to be added, please reply! 🌱 It's currently too land-centric, but I'd love to see folks from marine and freshwater systems join! 🌊
go.bsky.app/5XJXVyX
go.bsky.app/5XJXVyX
November 23, 2024 at 8:49 AM
Marine folk, you’re needed! 👇