Scientists have found oysters could be very useful in gobbling-up nutrient pollution from tropical waterways, including the Great Barrier Reef.
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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY #IWD2024 is an important day to celebrate all women's social, economic, cultural, academic & political achievements. Wishing academic, support & student members of Fisheries and Aquaculture @ JCU & our collaborators an #inspired & #inclusive day. #InvestInWomen .

Our preprint on chromosomal inversions in Acropora kenti is out today. Work with Prof Jan Strugnell, Cheong Xin (CX) Chan, Matt Field, Cynthia Riginos and Line K Bay , others not on X, and of course Jia Zhang who did the majority of analyses

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Delighted that our research is published in Science Magazine today! 🐙 🧬 Sally Lau Nerida Wilson Tim Naish Nick Golledge Ira Cooke Prof Louise Allcock @[email protected] Catarina Silva MarineOmics James Cook Uni Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future SCAR INSTANT

Paper is now out in Science Magazine! We found 🐙🧬 evidence for Last Interglacial West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse.

Supported by ARC MBIE Australian Academy of Science Antarctic Science Ld Antarctic Science Foundation AeRO Suomen Akatemia | Research Council of Finland Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future SCAR INSTANT

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

A The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand synopsis of how we found Last Interglacial West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse using octopus DNA 🐙🧬, some of our reflections and what's next! Prof Jan Strugnell Nerida Wilson

What octopus DNA tells us about Antarctic ice sheet collapse
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Habitat preferences of pygmy #squid Idiosepius pygmaeus and their use of conspecific cues - top work Tess Jenkins, Blake Spady in Marine Ecology James Cook Uni CIAC MarineOmics onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ma… 🦑🦑🦑

Exciting #PhD opportunity available on population genomics of sub-Antarctic Heard Island and McDonald Islands benthic taxa with Prof Jan Strugnell Nerida Wilson and me!

Please share widely! Deadline 24 Nov 23

For more info: marine-omics.net/phd-projects-o…
Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future James Cook Uni MarineOmics

It was a pleasure to have Andhika Prasetyo as a guest speaker today! He guided us through his recent publication on the importance of monitoring the shark and ray trade using portable DNA-based tools! James Cook Uni Fisheries and Aquaculture @ JCU MarineOmics

Check out new Masters project on offer on Tropical Black-lip rock oysters!. ⁦⁦MarineOmics⁩ ⁦Prof Jan Strugnell⁩ ⁦James Cook Uni⁩ marine-omics.net

Our marine dream team are in the antarctica.gov.au freezers.🥶

They're collecting samples for genetic and genomic work to better understand evolutionary processes in the #SouthernOcean . 🐙🦐🦑

Want to know more about the importance of sustainable fisheries and aquaculture? Here’s some insights from our researchers!

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#aquaculture #fisheriesscience #cstfa_jcuresearch #jamescookuniversity

Congratulations to ⁦Sally Lau⁩ & ⁦Dr Rachael Lappan⁩ who are the inaugural recipients of the SAEF Biddable Research funding. 👏👏👏

Aimed at ECRs, it’s an initiative designed to support innovative, high-risk science.

Pleasure to have SCAR INSTANT fellow Sally Lau in the lab this week subsampling Ophiuroids to better understand speciation in the #SouthernOcean Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future Western Australian Museum #wholegenome

Rewarding few days at Western Australian Museum to sample Antarctic critters A/Prof Zoe Richards Lisa Kirkendale + delivering a seminar on the importance of museum bio samples in understanding past and future Antarctic ice sheet changes! Funded by SCAR INSTANT! MarineOmics Nerida Wilson Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future

#Kinship analysis reveals low dispersal in a hog #deer (Axis porcinus) population in Wilsons... - goo.gl/scholar/CoADRk Top work Erin Hill! 🦌🧬🦌🧬🦌

How many blue-ringed #octopus species are there?! SNP data reveals the complex and diverse evolutionary history of the blue-ringed #octopus genus ( #Hapalochlaena )Amazing work by Brooke Whitelaw sciencedirect.com/science/articl… MarineOmics Ira Cooke CIAC James Cook Uni Fisheries and Aquaculture @ JCU 🐙🧬🐙🧬🐙

Congratulations to ⁦Nikki⁩ on passing her confirmation today! Looking fwd to her unlocking secrets of Southern Ocean benthos using genomics! ⁦Nerida Wilson⁩ ⁦Sally Lau⁩ ⁦MarineOmics⁩ ⁦James Cook Uni⁩ ⁦Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future⁩ 🇦🇶🪱🧬⭐️🐚

Application for Research Officer position at our lab closes TODAY! Join us in sunny Townsville, QLD! #Antarctica #tropics #job #AcademicTwitter #phdchat

🚨🌊 Job opportunity!!

MarineOmics lab is hiring a full/part-time 3-year Research Officer in Townsville, QLD! Reasonable chance to do Antarctic 🚢 fieldwork, supported by Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future

📅 TOMORROW!
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