Christine Baran

@FishMcFishyface @irisgorgona Now I understand. Thanks for the correction @FishMcFishyface

@Tintinnidae @irisgorgona This is an anemone, Thalassianthus

Cute little eggs of a bleached xeniid coral :) #octocoralfriday

Starting the new year with new discoveries! Have you ever wondered why there is so much attention on how #corals react to #microplastics, with little comparison to their interaction with natural particles? 🤔 Yes? So did we @jlugiessen🧵1/8 doi.org/10.1016/j.scit…

Sharing our paper on the impacts of the 2020 bleaching event to soft corals in northwestern Philippines #coralbleaching tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

During this year I have been putting together a global trait database for octocorals that will complement the coraltrait.org database made for scleractinians in 2016. Come tomorrow to session #SS115B at #ASLO2023 to hear more about it!👇(8 June; Sala Menorca A: 6:15 pm)

Are corals really non-aging organisms?🤔 New study by Rapuano, @TomShlesinger et al. challenges the notion that colony size determines coral reproductive effort Small fragments of mature colonies still capable of #CoralReproduction Read more: doi.org/10.1016/j.isci…

Crustose Coralline Algae (CCA): they are not all the same! Larval settlement preferences for 15 coral species vary according to CCA species nature.com/articles/s4159…. Great work @MAAbdulWahab1 and all involved @aims_gov_au @SeaSim_AIMS @DrCarlyRandall @NegsAndrew @GBRFoundation

@Ronen_Liberman Unfortunately, we didn't have the chance to look at the zoox transmission. But probably in the next spawning season, we can work on that 😅

@Tintinnidae Beautiful pink colours! Did you get to see how early they start taking up symbionts?

Delighted to share the early development stages of the #softcoral Lobophytum pauciflorum from ex situ #spawning in the Philippines. #Octocoralfriday

A colony of Isis sp. from the northwestern Philippines. Showing some bony-like skeleton for #octocoralfriday

Pain no more for these cool polyps of Sarcophyton sp. #OctocoralFriday

Check out our latest paper led by the great @TreeOfFife - Going with the flow: How corals in high‐flow environments can beat the heat onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111… @DerbyUni

World first? Corals from #Australia #Indonesia & #Singapore all #exsitucoralspawning @HornimanMuseum at the same time, allowing us to further explore intergeographical hybridisation possibilities. And all this before 16.00 pm!! #Epicday of #Science

@ktybnll Coke!

San mig pale pisen or redhorse? 🍺

On #spongethursday I share these beautiful spicules that I photographed using the SEM of a sponge collected from a submarine cave in Taiwan last year, probably new to science!

So... I will be defending my master's thesis online on friday, 15 May 2020, 2:00 pm (Philippine Standard Time) via zoom. If you're interested, DM me for the link.