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3. Recent changes in Caribbean/western Atlantic coral reefs, as elkhorn (orange), staghorn (yellow) and massive boulder corals decline. Illustration redrawn by Rashpal Dhilon (Rush Studio), based on a 2016 review paper in Conservation Biology by Kuffner and Toth.
1. Misha Matz. Photo credit: Eileen Chong.
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🎉 Congratulations to Allan MacDonald on winning a 2026 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience!
2. Could “super recruiter” corals—like these that sprung up in the western Pacific just several years after a typhoon destroyed the reef—help save Caribbean coral reefs? Photo of Acropora corals in Palau in 2018. Credit: Mark Priest.
Happy World Reef Day! 🪸🐠 Misha Matz, a coral biologist at The University of Texas at Austin is proposing a radical plan to save Caribbean coral reefs from collapse. Read more: cns.utexas.edu/news/feature...
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Meet Chip Breier, a marine scientist developing cutting-edge robotics & other tools to explore some of the most extreme environments on Earth. 🌊🔬 Read our Q&A: www.texasscientist.cns.utexas.edu/articles/joh...
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By mapping protein networks in an ancient ancestor of all complex life, a U. of Texas at Austin-led team found new genes connected to three rare disorders. It might yield hundreds more. New study in Cell Genomics cns.utexas.edu/news/researc... @edwardmarcotte.bsky.social @jbwallingford.bsky.social
Meet James Álvarez, a new college administrator and alum who is working to bolster programs across the college that support STEM education not just at UT, but across the country and at every level.
#STEMEducation #STEMSuccess
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Hot off the virtual presses: Jenna Samuel @texasastronomy.bsky.social) has led a huge new effort to understand galaxy formation in the early Universe. These simulations can serve as key comparisons with JWST observations to see where our best models do and do not work 🧪
arxiv.org/abs/2605.24104
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Congratulations to UT Computer Science Ph.D. student Yeonju Ro on being named a 2026 MLCommons ML and Systems Rising Star!
Co-advised by Aditya Akella and @atlaswang.bsky.social, Yeonju is also a contributor to UT’s @ldosexpedition.bsky.social and Infra AI Center.
