Guibert Isis

Post-doctoral Fellow at The University of Hong Kong.
Marine ecosystems/eDNA/Holobiont/Species Interaction/Coral & Giant clams lover.

[The University of Hong Kong @HKUniversity]

Urban tropical marine #biodiversity has been understudied. Scientists @SWIMSHKU, using metabarcoding & sampling structures known as ARMS, showed that biodiversity of invertebrates in Hong Kong seas is remarkably high, even at highly impacted sites.

https://t.co/AxJ51ahgGJ

[Dr Lyle D Vorsatz @LyleVorsprung]

Exciting research opportunities in my lab for 2025! MSc on microplastics in estuaries & PhD on mangrove trophic dynamics in South Africa. Apply now! Share widely #MarineScience #PhD #MSc #SouthAfrica #Mangroves

[Global Change Biology @GlobalChangeBio]

OUT NOW
Life goes on: Spatial heterogeneity promotes biodiversity in an urbanized coastal marine ecosystem

📄 https://t.co/v8dwjYuikP @symbio_shelby @stable_isodope @GuibertIsis

[Matthieu Leray @Matt_Leray]

New paper out led by amazing @symbio_shelby with @GuibertIsis @thedmbaker "Life goes on: Spatial heterogeneity promotes biodiversity in an urbanized coastal marine ecosystem" @GlobalChangeBio @stri_panama @stable_isodope @SImarineGEO
https://t.co/mstMltnLow

[Guibert Isis @GuibertIsis]

📢 Paper Alert 📢
Wondering how benthic surrounding species influence coral recruitment?
Read our new paper published in Restoration Ecology!
@ocean_roisin @UMREntropie @hku_science @Sorbonne_Univ_ @criobe_pf
https://t.co/MSbnadq4Kr

[Global Change Biology @GlobalChangeBio]

INVITED COMMENTARY
Assisted evolution of algal symbionts to enhance coral reef bleaching tolerance: A success story

📄 https://t.co/y59o2odJuf @HKU_Science @GuibertIsis

[eDNA&eEcology @EdnaEecology]

Day 10: We made it! 🌟

Our first workshop has come to the end. Big congratulations to our participants, we can’t wait to see more researchers to integrate eDNA in their research!

Thank you again to our guests lecturers and helpers. This workshop won’t happen without you all!

[Guibert Isis @GuibertIsis]

I had a blast co-chairing the giant clam session yesterday! Lot of good science! Thank you to all the presenters and to the chairs @MeilinNeo @likeat92

[Li Keat @likeat92]

Full house for our last speaker @ocean_roisin in Giant Clam sessions @apcrs2023

[Guibert Isis @GuibertIsis]

Really great talk from @ocean_roisin yesterday!! Looking forward to get the big picture. Well done!

[Dr. Róisín Hayden @ocean_roisin]

My first presentation at an international conference! Sharing our ongoing work looking heat stress & recovery on giant clam transcriptomes 🪸🐚🧬 #APCRS2033

[Guibert Isis @GuibertIsis]

Registration are open for the 1st International eDNA workshop in HK (16-27 Oct) !! Come and learn from our guest expert in eDNA !!

[eDNA&eEcology @EdnaEecology]

1st eDNA Workshop in HK‼️

Do you want to integrate eDNA methodologies into your research? We will cover the fieldwork practice, lab and data analysis for the participants to be able to run their own eDNA study afterwards.

Registration & details: https://t.co/45lFzSAxxb

[Guibert Isis @GuibertIsis]

@ClementTanvet @RMetalpa @BenzoniFran @jpGattuso @LemarLab @UMREntropie Bravo !!!

[Guibert Isis @GuibertIsis]

Stay tuned for registration!! This is going to be fun !! We will host amazing experts in the field from overseas 🧑‍🔬🤓🧬💧

[Mathew Seymour @MatSeymour]

Excited to annouce we will host the first Hong Kong eDNA workshop this October @HKUSBS with support from the @croucherFDN. Many thanks to our inter-institutional and external organizers and supporters, with key heavy lifting from @GuibertIsis. More details to come shortly.

[Andrew Akbashev @Andrew_Akbashev]

No reward - no duties.  75% of respondents have reduced the hours spent on academic duties since 2020 (Nature polls).

Mostly due to burnout and unwillingness to work for free.

This included attending conferences, peer reviewing manuscripts and grant proposals, committees, mentoring and even teaching.

Why?

Because scientists are tired of not being able to do #science.

- Students are tired of being unappreciated and overloaded

- Faculties are tired of “community duties” that become overwhelming (conferences, committees, reviewing, outreach, etc)

And everyone is tired of small salaries, zero empathy and little credit.

The problem is greatly summarized by Isabel Müller (in the article):

“There’s so little acknowledgement that people have difficult, complicated lives outside of work.”

A year ago, Nature described how PhD students don’t want to be postdocs and faculties are leaving academia. Now, we see that those who stayed are trying to resist the system from the inside.

But the problem is - the system is too rigid, too traditional and too elitist.

So, as a community, we can change it only by raising our voices and expressing distaste with the status quo. I applaud Nature for writing about these issues so regularly. The academic world has too many interdependent parts which should be addressed concurrently.

This is why we should stay united and strong as a community.

Regarding the academic environment we all hope to have, I loved how Isabel Müller put it in the article:

- I hope it becomes the new normal to say: “My life matters. My work is an important part, but I decide what my life looks like, not my employer”.

#AcademicTwitter #education

[Guibert Isis @GuibertIsis]

@ctying0705 Don't worry we have PCRs to do, that will add up some hours 😅🤣

[Phillip Cleves @pacleves]

Come take our new Molecular and Cell Biology of Symbiosis course at MBL this summer! Applications are due on Feb 10th. Share broadly. https://t.co/012sV6nzBC

[Guibert Isis @GuibertIsis]

@stable_isodope K

[Guibert Isis @GuibertIsis]

@MeilinNeo @nustmsi Kung Hei fat Choi! 🙂🐇

[Guibert Isis @GuibertIsis]

@HB_Tilley Well done 😊🍾🥂