Taylor Lindsay
@t-lindsay-sci.bsky.social
She/Her • Coral biology & intertidal ecology • Passionate about inclusive pedagogy, building community in academia, and isotope ecogeochemistry
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Very excited to be featured in this article all about the URI dive program and to share a little bit about my PhD research with our diving community!
www.uri.edu/magazine/iss...
www.uri.edu/magazine/iss...
Beneath the Surface
URI’s Diving Research and Safety Program helps ocean scientists unlock their living lab.
www.uri.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Very excited to be featured in this article all about the URI dive program and to share a little bit about my PhD research with our diving community!
www.uri.edu/magazine/iss...
www.uri.edu/magazine/iss...
🌊 Phylum Friday - Urochordata 🌊 Tunicates come in colonial (many individuals living in a colony) & solitary forms and are filter feeders, pumping water through their two siphons to collect food. Fascinatingly, tunicates are closely related to vertebrates because they have a nerve cord as larvae.
November 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
🌊 Phylum Friday - Urochordata 🌊 Tunicates come in colonial (many individuals living in a colony) & solitary forms and are filter feeders, pumping water through their two siphons to collect food. Fascinatingly, tunicates are closely related to vertebrates because they have a nerve cord as larvae.
🌊 Phylum Friday - Arthropoda! 🌊
This week’s pinchy pals are among the most diverse and most abundant group of organisms in the world! There are upwards of 70,000 species of crustaceans ranging from microscopic copepods to deep sea crabs to tropical shrimps to intertidal barnacles!
This week’s pinchy pals are among the most diverse and most abundant group of organisms in the world! There are upwards of 70,000 species of crustaceans ranging from microscopic copepods to deep sea crabs to tropical shrimps to intertidal barnacles!
October 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
🌊 Phylum Friday - Arthropoda! 🌊
This week’s pinchy pals are among the most diverse and most abundant group of organisms in the world! There are upwards of 70,000 species of crustaceans ranging from microscopic copepods to deep sea crabs to tropical shrimps to intertidal barnacles!
This week’s pinchy pals are among the most diverse and most abundant group of organisms in the world! There are upwards of 70,000 species of crustaceans ranging from microscopic copepods to deep sea crabs to tropical shrimps to intertidal barnacles!
🌊 Phylum Friday: Bryozoa! 🌊
These small colonial organisms are usually found encrusting rocks or blending in with algae. However, many of the species found in New England are invasive, and have become a concern for intertidal and subtidal ecosystems as they encrust and out-compete native species.
These small colonial organisms are usually found encrusting rocks or blending in with algae. However, many of the species found in New England are invasive, and have become a concern for intertidal and subtidal ecosystems as they encrust and out-compete native species.
September 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
🌊 Phylum Friday: Bryozoa! 🌊
These small colonial organisms are usually found encrusting rocks or blending in with algae. However, many of the species found in New England are invasive, and have become a concern for intertidal and subtidal ecosystems as they encrust and out-compete native species.
These small colonial organisms are usually found encrusting rocks or blending in with algae. However, many of the species found in New England are invasive, and have become a concern for intertidal and subtidal ecosystems as they encrust and out-compete native species.
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Fascinating dive in a kelp forest to urchin barren transition zone yesterday in Monterey! 🌊🤿
September 12, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Fascinating dive in a kelp forest to urchin barren transition zone yesterday in Monterey! 🌊🤿
JUMBO announcement:
This week I started my Postdoc at Tufts University in the Rotjan Lab! Our research will explore the energetic trade-offs of facultative symbiosis in temperate corals up and down the Atlantic coast!
This week I started my Postdoc at Tufts University in the Rotjan Lab! Our research will explore the energetic trade-offs of facultative symbiosis in temperate corals up and down the Atlantic coast!
September 6, 2025 at 7:45 PM
JUMBO announcement:
This week I started my Postdoc at Tufts University in the Rotjan Lab! Our research will explore the energetic trade-offs of facultative symbiosis in temperate corals up and down the Atlantic coast!
This week I started my Postdoc at Tufts University in the Rotjan Lab! Our research will explore the energetic trade-offs of facultative symbiosis in temperate corals up and down the Atlantic coast!
We found some awesome critters this week on our research cruise in the Gulf of Mexico!
July 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
We found some awesome critters this week on our research cruise in the Gulf of Mexico!
We had an amazing time in Crete with amazing people, incredible food, and challenging yet rewarding science!
🇬🇷 The DEB 2025 Symposium was a big success. 🥳 Presentations ranged from theoretical developments, the evolution of traits and biodiversity, stress ecology and ecotoxicology, to metabolism across levels of organization. 🤯 DEB theory is now actively used on several fronts of applied science. 🍀🐄⚗️
June 11, 2025 at 11:37 AM
We had an amazing time in Crete with amazing people, incredible food, and challenging yet rewarding science!
Less than one week until I defend my PhD! If you’d like to learn about coral biology, isotopes or temperate ecosystems please join us on zoom!
April 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Less than one week until I defend my PhD! If you’d like to learn about coral biology, isotopes or temperate ecosystems please join us on zoom!
Yesterday we marched. Today we get back in the lab to do what we love #marchforscience
March 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Yesterday we marched. Today we get back in the lab to do what we love #marchforscience
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It’s ICRS Awards time! Are you a post graduate student or early career scientist looking to support your research? Check out our Graduate Fellowships and Ruth Gates Fellowships. Deadline March 15. Details on these Fellowships and more exciting awards at: coralreefs.org/awards-and-h...
Awards, Honors & Fellowships - International Coral Reef Society
coralreefs.org
February 26, 2025 at 1:20 AM
It’s ICRS Awards time! Are you a post graduate student or early career scientist looking to support your research? Check out our Graduate Fellowships and Ruth Gates Fellowships. Deadline March 15. Details on these Fellowships and more exciting awards at: coralreefs.org/awards-and-h...
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Do #kelp forests really matter for fish? Check out our new meta-analysis w/ Ale Pérez-Matus in Ecology showing 1) multistipe kelps do more than single stipe, 2) all kelps enhance juveniles, 3) kelps help small herbivores & big predators.
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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February 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Do #kelp forests really matter for fish? Check out our new meta-analysis w/ Ale Pérez-Matus in Ecology showing 1) multistipe kelps do more than single stipe, 2) all kelps enhance juveniles, 3) kelps help small herbivores & big predators.
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
I’m excited to share the first of my PhD publications! We aimed to fill a critical knowledge gap on the ecology of the temperate coral #Astrangia by quantifying its distribution along a depth gradient. We found that light & algae control abundance & ecotype in Rhode Island.
doi.org/10.1111/maec...
doi.org/10.1111/maec...
Macroalgae and Light Availability Modulate the Distribution of the Temperate Coral Astrangia poculata
The temperate coral Astrangia poculata is rapidly becoming a convenient system for studying symbiosis, microbiome, and thermal resilience. However, the ecology of this species is poorly understood. A....
doi.org
February 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I’m excited to share the first of my PhD publications! We aimed to fill a critical knowledge gap on the ecology of the temperate coral #Astrangia by quantifying its distribution along a depth gradient. We found that light & algae control abundance & ecotype in Rhode Island.
doi.org/10.1111/maec...
doi.org/10.1111/maec...
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A reminder to US scientists: yes, your research is at risk. It's terrifying. But these efforts are systematically targeting programs meant to broaden access to science. This is the time to check in with BIPOC, LGBTQ+, disabled, and international students and colleagues in your departments.
January 29, 2025 at 12:53 PM
A reminder to US scientists: yes, your research is at risk. It's terrifying. But these efforts are systematically targeting programs meant to broaden access to science. This is the time to check in with BIPOC, LGBTQ+, disabled, and international students and colleagues in your departments.
Looking for even more coral research and conservation content? Check out some of my incredible friends that have just joined Bluesky:
@jillashey.bsky.social
@coralonthemind.bsky.social @catherineraker.bsky.social
@jillashey.bsky.social
@coralonthemind.bsky.social @catherineraker.bsky.social
January 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Looking for even more coral research and conservation content? Check out some of my incredible friends that have just joined Bluesky:
@jillashey.bsky.social
@coralonthemind.bsky.social @catherineraker.bsky.social
@jillashey.bsky.social
@coralonthemind.bsky.social @catherineraker.bsky.social
December 13, 2024 at 11:23 PM
Celebrating our wonderful undergraduate researcher Sofia Piccone today at the #URI undergraduate research conference! Sofia has been working with me to create conservation baselines for #octocoral physiology, morphology, and trophic ecology along depth gradients!
December 13, 2024 at 2:18 AM
Celebrating our wonderful undergraduate researcher Sofia Piccone today at the #URI undergraduate research conference! Sofia has been working with me to create conservation baselines for #octocoral physiology, morphology, and trophic ecology along depth gradients!
After 9 semesters, 5 different courses & 324 students, I just wrapped up my last day of teaching in grad school! Feeling grateful for all my fellow TAs & for the opportunity to teach field courses & be an instructor of record at URI. Here’s one thing I learned from each course:
December 5, 2024 at 5:24 PM
After 9 semesters, 5 different courses & 324 students, I just wrapped up my last day of teaching in grad school! Feeling grateful for all my fellow TAs & for the opportunity to teach field courses & be an instructor of record at URI. Here’s one thing I learned from each course:
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How does environmental variability affect coral calcification? 🪸🪸🪸 Check out our new paper:
New paper!! We reveal that life-long exposure to environmental variability induces frontloading of key #coral calcification genes. These special corals may possess an enhanced capacity to cope with climate change 🧪🦑🪸🌊🌏 @zdellaert.bsky.social @upenn.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
December 2, 2024 at 11:34 PM
How does environmental variability affect coral calcification? 🪸🪸🪸 Check out our new paper:
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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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#LGBTQInSTEM day isn’t over yet! Here’s a starter pack of LGBTQIA+ graduate students (PhD & MS) in marine science! 🌊🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️✨
It’s so important to build microcommunities! They can provide support from others at the same career stage who hold similar identities.
Comment if you’d like to be added! 🧪🧬
It’s so important to build microcommunities! They can provide support from others at the same career stage who hold similar identities.
Comment if you’d like to be added! 🧪🧬
November 19, 2024 at 2:07 AM
#LGBTQInSTEM day isn’t over yet! Here’s a starter pack of LGBTQIA+ graduate students (PhD & MS) in marine science! 🌊🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️✨
It’s so important to build microcommunities! They can provide support from others at the same career stage who hold similar identities.
Comment if you’d like to be added! 🧪🧬
It’s so important to build microcommunities! They can provide support from others at the same career stage who hold similar identities.
Comment if you’d like to be added! 🧪🧬
Dorid nudibranch fondly named “dippin dots” • Appledore Island, Maine, August 2024
November 19, 2024 at 2:21 PM
Dorid nudibranch fondly named “dippin dots” • Appledore Island, Maine, August 2024