Katrina Phillips

Hello world! You bored? My research group is documenting flower color variation and you can help! check out tribblelab.org/flower_color... and dm me with any technical difficulties or issues. Share with your friends! The more players the better.

Happy World Sea Turtle Day! Recently had a chance to chat about my latest pub 👇 Many thanks to journalist Emily Dougherty for a great write-up and my lab mate @jenna-n-palmisano.bsky.social for the lab photos! All sea turtle handling and research done as part of permitted research activities 🌊🐢🧬

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! 🧪

Marsh periwinkle snails (Littoraria irrorata) settling in to their temporary home after volunteering to participate in my Marine Ecology class’ mark-recapture exercise this week. 🐌 🖊️ 🧮 Special thanks to Matt Boehm for adding snail jungle gyms to the tanks to help them feel right at home 🪜🛝

Awesome intertidal oyster restoration work underway on Dauphin Island thanks to the @disealab.bsky.social Studies of Marine Ecology & Evolution lab, with @leesmee.bsky.social & missmarinebio.bsky.social & some muddy volunteers You can check it out at the Christopher Blankenship Eco-Tourism Area 🌊🦪🛶

We invite you to submit an abstract for a session on animal movement, behaviour and biologging at the 7th World Conference on Marine Biodiversity in Bruges, Belgium (17-20 November 2026) @wcmb2026.bsky.social, @inbo.be, @vliz.be, @aquatictracking.bsky.social More info below! 👇

Exciting to see new technology help us better understand monarch butterfly migration 🦋🗺️📱 I hope we continue to see smaller (and cheaper 🙏) tags opening up new research opportunities. #AnimalMigration #MovementEcology #SpatialEcology #biologging

The #FindThatLizard scholarship provides $1000 to support conference participation, tuition, or research expenses across career stages. For more information and to apply: earynmcgee.com/findthatliza...

New OA pub in @stacksjournal.bsky.social : @zoologistkate.bsky.social social compared the isotopic composition of hair and feathers to the whole body of mammals and birds. It turns out these tissues can sometimes (but not always) represent the whole body. stacksjournal.org/article/davi...

It was a beautiful day to be on the water with the ADCNR gillnet sampling program in Grand Bay and by the west end of Dauphin Island. The Marine Resources Division collects fisheries-independent data throughout the year to monitor fish populations & guide #FisheriesManagement decisions.🌊🐟

It’s almost time for the Genomics for Biodiversity Conference — happening next week! 🗓️ 29–31 October 💻 Fully online & free of charge Find all the details, including the full programme 👇 www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/genomic... @biogeneurope.bsky.social @ebpgenome.bsky.social #genomics #biodiversity

Good news and bad news here. The GRFP solicitation is now live. Yay! However, those who have completed more than a year of graduate school already are no longer eligible. This absolutely sucks...

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

✨Life Update✨: I'm excited to announce that I've started a new position as Senior Marine Scientist at Dauphin Island Sea Lab. Stay tuned for new scientific adventures from the Gulf coast of Alabama 🌊🐢👩‍🔬 @disealab.bsky.social

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Great to see this published in @gigascience.bsky.social! Using @nanoporetech.com, we generated genome and methylome resources simultaneously to drive molecular insights for conservation of loggerhead sea turtles in Cape Verde 🐢🧬🇨🇻 doi.org/10.1093/giga...

Does anyone have intel on the new Simons Foundation fellowships to support incoming PhD students in ecology and evolution? 👀 Types of projects most likely to be funded? Strings attached? 🤷 www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

Join us live for our next #EcoEvo author seminar to hear Katrina Phillips @katrinaphillips.bsky.social talk about her #ProcB paper 'New insights on sea turtle behaviour during the ‘lost years’. Wed 4 June, 3:00 PM (GMT+1). Reserve your place: cassyni.com/events/U1GH1... #ecology

To learn how researchers collect DNA samples from eagle rays - and why this work is important - read John @mobulasana.bsky.social's blog, detailing fieldwork & how the research contributes to our understanding of population connectivity. Read the full blog below. saveourseas.com/update/ray-s...

So happy to be able to contribute to this paper and for the US Animal Telemetry Network to be part of such a collaborative group! I'm excited to see our community continue to grow! #biologging #telemetry #opendata 🌐🌊📈

🚨 New Paper Alert 🚨 Interested in fish #migration 🐟, acoustic #telemetry 🔊, #genomics 🧬, and #morphometrics 📐? Check out how we combined them all in this study! Read it here #OpenAccess 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Excellent new #OpenAccess paper by Holly Stokes and others demonstratng lack of negative impacts of satellite tracking of juvenile hawksbill turtles. Important insights from long term work. More studies appraising impacts needed 🐢🌍🧪🦑 🌐🦤 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨 New paper! Something a little bit different this time. We used genomics to trace the invasion history of a predatory marine gastropod, identify potentially adaptive loci, and then leverage the invasive populations to test for predictable allele shifts! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Movement and migration ecology starter pack! Help me fill it out as more folks join Bluesky 🌎🌍🌏 go.bsky.app/SSiWN2u