Such a great experience working with these amazing students along with seaweed experts Ziggy Marzinelli Melinda Coleman Reina Veenhof to apply methods and concepts developed for fish and marine inverts to seaweeds!

2mins of Hashi Mohamed absolutely smashing the Conservatives Rwanda policy to bits.👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

‘Our learned judges said the Home Office hadn’t even assessed that policy before adopting it

It’s unviable, it’s expensive & the only people it’s going to work for is the Rwandans’ #BBCQT

Our new #OpenAccess paper in #ProcB Royal Society Publishing showing that even cool-edge populations of #kelp can be very sensitive to #OceanWarming , and may be more threatened by than previously recognised.

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

📣 New Paper!🦠🌿 The effect of seaweed canopy disturbance on understory microbial communities 🦠🌿
This one has been in the works since my time at Sydney Uni Life&Env
- a great collaborative effort with Sebastian Vadillo, Ziggy Marzinelli & co-authors! frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Our local Tripneustes sea urchin on the southeast coast of Australia is now called T. australiae!

Read here how we re-named this sea urchin based on samples collected in 1878!

publish.csiro.au/IS/fulltext/IS…

Sydney Science USYD MSI eec_sydney Sydney Uni Life&Env Byrne lab

What's wrong with high seas plastic cleanup?

In our new paper, we discovered a HUGE issue at the heart of these efforts. And ignoring it is a dangerous risk... [a thread 🧵]
Study: bit.ly/3p4ZgyP
#INC3 #PlasticsTreaty

On the way back to Sydney after a week of science at #CERF2023 . Thank you Coastal & Estuarine Research Federation (CERF) for a great conference and for letting me present some of my PhD work on #seagrass and their belowground #microbiome 🦠Gribben Lab Ziggy Marzinelli UNSW CMSI

The latest paper from my time at Terrestrial Ecology Department - NIOO-KNAW with the amazing Emilia Hannula and Elly Morrien is out now! 🍄

In short, we found that identity of fungal species and their interaction with collembola affects soil aggregation and thus soil structure.

doi.org/10.1016/j.fune…

Prof. Maria Byrne, @UniOfGalway alum & Prof. of Marine Biology University of Sydney, was awarded the prestigious DSc on Published Work @UniOfGalway. This honour recognises significant international contributions in a field.

NUI #UniversityOfGalway

PhDone! Submitted my PhD thesis yesterday and got the best cake from Laura Branscombe including particles - now with added fungi!!! 🍄 I am a big fan of the faecal pellet also. Thanks to all those who helped to shape this work and me as a researcher over the years. 🌊🦠💩