Dr. Carly Kenkel

This but for peer reviews

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I have modernized and enhanced the NSF COA generator tool. Results now update dynamically • Published under more than one name? Covered! • Other people share your name? No problem! • You prefer searching by ORCID? Go ahead! Give it a try. Feedback, bug reports, feature requests are MOST welcome! 🧪

🧪Channeling my critical old lady energy to some purpose - don't come to my house and tell me coral reefs are doing fine! www.latimes.com/opinion/lett...

Hi, Bluesky! Ecstatic my inaugural post gets to be one where I share the news that my dissertation chapter on ochre star pop genomics has finally been published!! ⭐ 🍾 🧬

I’m excited to share the 🌷🪻 "meadow plot" 🌻🌷, a new pop genomics visualization tool I created to ID putative selective sweeps across the genome using windowed π & FST estimates from pixy. User-friendly tutorial here: paigeduffin.github.io/meadow_plot_... Please help spread the word by sharing! 🧬

What does it really take to land a faculty position? @jazlynmooney.bsky.social shares insights on preparing competitive applications, navigating interviews, building a research vision, and more. 🔗: buff.ly/nLWXT9m

Please share! This fully-funded postdoc position at the UCLA La Kretz Center allows candidates to design their own projects in California conservation, and offers mentorship from both academics and conservation practitioners. drive.google.com/file/d/1K2Qi...

Postdoc Positions: Coral Cell and Molecular Biology Reach out directly to mg2@stowers.org or follow the link below to read more and apply through the institute portal! Postdoctoral Research Associate - REQID0002557 www.stowers.org/careers/post...

Aspiring Eco-Evo PhD students - check out the Simons Graduate Fellowships! it's a full ride!! 🧪https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-graduate-fellowships-in-ecology-and-evolution/

resist.bot/petitions/PT... 🌊 🦑

The list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2027 is live! PIs enter your position info here: forms.gle/MAGd4ohyPeoY... students (and PIs not recruiting) share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely! 🧪

🧪Calling all Americans who value science - this OMB rule will crush independent science - its essential that you comment by July 13 to voice your concerns open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...

🧪 FIRST STUDY to compare direct air capture of CO2 vs renewables: “An amount of money spent deploying wind or solar delivers more combined climate and public health benefit than if it is spent on DAC.” Releasing CO2 into air and then trying to suck it up is dumb. techxplore.com/news/2026-05...

Excited to share this documentary created by #USC Annenberg student Sethan Perez which features work from the #CEELab - a great example of how students are using their skills to help communicate science! 🧪 www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2026/04/13/c...

Resurrecting thread with new wrinkle - what to do when you suspect reviewers used AI to review your MS, you can't prove so just push back on (generic, oddly phrased) critique with rebuttal and the AE rejects appeal with text that is a generic, oddly phrased version of the original decision 😵‍💫 🧪

ICYMI: New online! Accelerating coral assisted evolution to keep pace with climate change

Excited to see this out after years of work from many folks in the field and lab. @ben-glass.bsky.social did such a lovely job of doing this work justice! 2023 heatwave was no joke in Bocas..... Global Change Biology | onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

DC-based friends, mark your calendars. www.atlasarts.org/events/tela-... After the concert, there's a science panel w/ @momedinamunoz.bsky.social & others. Raises $$ to build a coral gene bank & marine lab in Honduras. Vetted & endorsed by Storymaker fellow & trusted researcher @drcarl.bsky.social

Calling all researchers working on *Genomics of Adaptation to Extreme Thermal Environments* I'm serving as a guest editor of an upcoming collection in BMC Genomics and am eager to read your submission! More on scope and how to contribute here: bit.ly/4kH3PIx 🧪 @springer.springernature.com

🧪 Dr. Emily Aguirre's final dissertation chapter is published! She isolated a putative bacterial symbiont then cocultured it with axenic algal symbionts to ask how it impacted growth and gene expression - results were unexpected but do support a beneficial relationship - read more here rdcu.be/eUKQz

After a searing ocean heat wave in 2023, two of the most historically important coral species in Florida are functionally extinct from the state’s reef, scientists have found.

Some additional coverage of our report on the major loss of acroporid corals in the Florida Keys by @cbsnews.com: www.cbsnews.com/news/florida...

Results I'm sad to share but must be told - branching coral are now functionally extinct in Florida - to learn more check out the full study www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... and our personal summary theconversation.com/2-iconic-cor...

🧪🌏 Why some coral genotypes die when planted to a reef, while others thrive? interesting leads from *constitutively expressed* immunity-related genes @drcarl.bsky.social www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...

Today’s #DailyCoralRead 📖🪸 🧬 Two new telomere-to-telomere genome assemblies for Acropora digitifera and A. tenuis! 🧬 The study reveals highly disordered genomic regions with potentially neofunctionalized genes from lineage-specific expansions. 🧪 🔗 http://tiny.cc/z61q001

🧪There are no words. E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...

Amid Fear of Retaliation, N.S.F. Workers Sign Letter of Dissent www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/s...

I authored a blog post for @uscwrigley.usc.edu about the work I've been doing along with fellow lab members at the CEE Lab (led by @drcarl.bsky.social) to identify intervention priorities for coral restoration in the Caribbean under the impacts of climate change! dornsife.usc.edu/wrigley/2025...

You may have seen a lot of headlines since yesterday about budget negotiations, the threat to Medicaid & new restrictions that block transgender care. It's hard to track it all. Really grateful for the @unbreaking.org team that did incredible work to push updates to our pages today - unbreaking.org

Its that time again - the list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2026 is live! PIs enter your position info here: forms.gle/2XTHBP6CZGEn... Prospective students (and PIs not recruiting) share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share! 🧪

Really wish people would stop talking about the problem with Science under Trump as “budget cuts”. No. Budgets are set deliberatively by elected members of congress. Budgets haven’t been cut. What’s happening are *purges* and *censorship*.

I didn’t realize how much I needed this #StandUpForScience rally - thank you #LA organizers!! 🧪

🧪 www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blog...

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Happy to share our new paper "Cryptic coral diversity is associated with symbioses, physiology, and response to thermal challenge". Check it out and share with your friends! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Check out my first chapter 📖🧬. I’m very grateful to have worked with such a brilliant and supportive team 😊

Wrigley summer fellowship app is live!! Both NSF REU and Zinsmeyer - we've got 2 slots earmarked for our lab - apply to work with us! dornsife.usc.edu/wrigley/educ...

I'm looking for a postdoc! The successful applicant will lead neuro- and comparative genomic analyses to characterize neurobiology-related genetic variation in wild coral populations. Learn more and apply here - I will be reviewing apps beginning Oct 18: usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

Calling all #reeffutures conference attendees - consider donating your brainpower to our workshop!

I'm recruiting a fully funded PhD student for a Fall 2025 start - see details below and learn more about my lab here: dornsife.usc.edu/carlslab/

It's finally official - excited to begin working with this team! Stay tuned for PhD and Postdoc positions in my lab as part of this project!! today.ucsd.edu/story/uc-san...