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The Evolution of Interspecific Variation in Marine Larval Dispersal Kernels — The Role of Larval Navigation Ability. Led by Lou Schlatter, with Allison Shaw and Colleen Webb. @BUMPatBU @BU_Biology nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

New paper out! BUMP faculty Sergio Fagherazzi featured in Ecological Indicators on research showing that reduced human activity during the COVID-19 pandemic led to widespread and rapid global vegetation recovery. Read more here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

BUMP faculty Sergio Fagherazzi featured in JGR Biogeosciences on research examining how seasonal hydrology shapes vegetation and salinization patterns at the salt marsh-upland boundary. Read more here: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

New paper out! BUMP faculty Sergio Fagherazzi featured in Journal of Hydrology on research showing that wetter pre-storm soil and groundwater conditions can reduce saltwater intrusion during storm surges in coastal forests. Read more here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

BUMP faculty Robinson Fulweiler featured in Estuaries and Coasts on new research showing sediment-enhanced marshes may take a decade or more to fully recover, despite rapid vegetation growth. Read more here: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

BUMP Faculty Jeffery Marlow awarded National Academies' New Voices Honor! Read more here: bu.edu/articles/2026/…

Great thread from @MackenMurphy on his/our experiment in @PNASNews manipulating gender inequality and testing changes in partnering preferences. Hope this advances an ancient scrap, bringing sense and nuance to an unnecessarily polarised issue.

Here is our updated database of grants for early careers researchers in all fields. It goes way beyond traditional NIH and NSF funding opportunities. We list 428 types of grants. Download it here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-op…

Running a research lab is about leading people. I created a free toolkit on the human side of lab leadership—covering hiring, mentoring, conflict navigation, lab culture, and performance management. Open access: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo… #TeamScience #AcademicLeadership

Some dumb researchers still read papers one by one. Stanford PhD students just use Claude. Here are 9 prompts that turn 40+ papers into structured literature reviews, knowledge maps, and research gaps in minutes:

New online! Cultivating biodiversity data sharing in regions where trust is fragile dlvr.it/TRTSL3

And that is more than the entire NSF budget burned in less than a week

From octopuses to snails, the complicated molluscan family tree has been mapped in unprecedented detail, researchers reported last year in Science. Learn more: scim.ag/3LfmvBF #ScienceMagArchives

THE GUARDIAN - Many professors are pissed off: “It’s driving so many of us up the wall.” “Generative AI is the bane of my existence.” A professor from UC Berkeley: “I now talk about AI with my students not under the framework of cheating or academic honesty but in terms that are frankly existential. What is it doing to us as a species?” A professor from OSU: “…students have been left incapable of reading and analyzing, synthesizing data, all kinds of skills.” A professor from SUNY Cortland: “Generated homework creates hours of additional labor. And makes me feel like a cop.” __ 📍If I had to teach, I would likely do this: 1. No more grades for homework. You do it for yourself only (if you want to learn). 2. Grades are given only for midterm and final exams. Only calculators are allowed. Exams can be done in rooms without cell network (they exist on campuses). Oral exams may be conducted in some cases. 3. Students are strongly encouraged to use AI to dig deeper into topics - ask questions, explore adjacent fields, develop a structured understanding of the subject. __ 📍I’d remind students in every lecture that: 1️⃣ I am here to help them. But not to make them learn. It's up to them why they come here. 2️⃣ Education ≠ degree. Education = your collective knowledge, skills & understanding(!) Degree = a paper with your name and the university’s stamp. Your degree may bring short-term satisfaction. But education brings long-term success. 3️⃣ Outsourcing your thinking = outsourcing yourself. This can lead to an identity crisis and very severe imposter syndrome in the future. Your value shouldn’t depend on your proximity to AI. 4️⃣ Finding a job will be harder than ever. And precisely because of AI. It raises employers’ expectations significantly. It makes it much harder to stand out. So, investing in YOUR OWN brain today is more important than ever. __

🚨 Paper Alert! In 2023, Mexican coral reefs experienced an unprecedented bleaching event But bleaching wasn’t the biggest issue Our study in Proceedings B @RSocPublishing shows a marine heatwave caused massive coral mortality and pushed reefs from production to net erosion 🧵

A cross-taxonomic explanatory framework for mobbing behavior #Framework #AntiPredatorBehaviour doi.org/10.1093/beheco…

What is Morpho? 🤔 Collaboration + data + training = science in service of solutions. 📣 📅 Apply by April 15 → nceas.ucsb.edu/morpho

More evidence that the global decline in test scores that began after 2012 is linked to the proliferation of smartphones and computers in class: The slide was bigger in countries where students began spending more time on devices (for leisure) generationtechblog.com/p/phones-at-sc…

Another insightful article from my teaching professor colleague at @OregonState : facultyfocus.com/articles/teach…

@MarkIMcComick ‘tis not your imagination. It’s very quiet. Still some of us here. Some interesting posts occasionally. Like this one :)

This is the first time I have been on twitter since it became X. Is it my imagination or have people in marine science stopped using it?