Just in: NOAA is forecasting a smaller-than-average #HarmfulAlgalBloom for western #LakeErie this summer. This year’s bloom is expected to measure 3.5, with a potential range of 2-4 on the severity index — whereas last year’s bloom was measured at a 6. noaa.gov/news-release/b…

Exciting work on the viability of carbon capture and storage by my former colleagues Plymouth Marine Lab!

Corals are the "underwater skyline of reefs," home to many organisms like sponges and octocorals that are valuable for water filtration and natural products, and that are used by fish. Explore more about ongoing coral research in UNC's biology department: college.unc.edu/2022/07/coral-…

Q&A feature on the UNC College of Arts and Sciences webpage: college.unc.edu/2022/07/coral-…

Postdoc opening in evolutionary genetics/genomics in my colleague Daniel Matute lab at UNC - check it out!

#coralreef benthic cyanobacterial mats carry a top heavy viral load. New preprint: Top-heavy trophic structure within benthic viral dark matter doi.org/10.1101/2022.1… McCoy Lab #BCMs #HAB #virus

Another exciting preprint up - Predation, community asynchrony, and metacommunity stability in cyanobacterial mats. doi.org/10.1101/2022.1… McCoy Lab #BCMs #HAB

So excited that my first educational research publication is out in #PLOSONE: Are synchronous chats a silver lining of emergency remote instruction? Text-based chatting is disproportionately favored by women dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa… #EDUSTEM Sehoya Cotner Cissy Ballen

Curious about #parrotfish territoriality and species coexistence on #reefs? New preprint: Spatial interactions between parrotfishes and implications for species coexistence by my student Joshua C. Manning, PhD biorxiv.org/content/10.110… McCoy Lab

At #2022SVP hunting for a postdoc starting in fall of 2023? I'm looking to bring on someone to UM Paleontology w/ background in comparative methods and morphometrics. Familiarity w/ fishes &/or function a plus. I'm around Friday evening and Saturday--DM if you want to chat!

I'm looking for a lab tech! unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/243770 marecology.com/post/we-re-hir… McCoy Lab

So proud of my recently minted PhD grad Joshua C. Manning, PhD

Caribbean #parrotfishes just love eating those cyanobacterial mats! Another preprint out by Joshua C. Manning, PhD biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #BCMs #HAB McCoy Lab

New paper out: Crustose coralline algae can contribute more than corals to reef carbonate budgets. nature.com/articles/s4324… Thanks for leading an amazing collab Dr Christopher Cornwall SteeveComeau

Postdoc opening in my lab UNC_Biology for a bioinformatician! Opportunities for lab and fieldwork. marecology.com @marecology

"My name is Madelina Marquez, and I'm a 1st-year Ph.D. student in Dr. Sophie McCoy’s lab (UNC). My research aims to study didymo photosynthesis/respiration mechanisms by assessing daytime and nighttime dynamics as well as quantify changes in final rates across mat senescence"

Priority review for my open postdoc position starts next week after July 1!

So happy to be a part of this work with Dr. Emily H. DuVal Dr. Elizabeth Hobson and Courtney Fitzpatrick! We show that mistakes that females make when trying to infer what others find attractive can lead to the maintenance of variation in preferences and traits, among other cool patterns!

New paper out led by student Maya Powell reviews how resource partitioning structures benthic cyanobacterial mats. Check it out! doi.org/10.1111/jpy.13… Phyc. Soc. America Journal of Phycology