So cute. The same Chris Langdon who panned our #supercoral theory in 2011 as not worthwhile to science, and the invaluable to science Biscayne Bay corals we now study with UM / NOAA on the @coralcitycamera as a “curiosity” that will be wiped out in the next severe cold snap. 1/3 https://twitter.com/UMiamiRSMAS/status/1307809719231315968

“They’re surviving at the limits of their natural range” Langdon said in a now conveniently deleted Jan. 2016 Biscayne Times article on our work ( https://biscaynetimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2287:urban-corals-a-other-wonders&catid=46:features&Itemid=252). 2/3

Now, in late-2020, we see Langdon appropriating the 'Super Coral' meme in a magnificent self-own. We gave the #supercoral term a sea burial in 2018 with a with a pair of essays:
(Pt. 1 - https://medium.com/@coralmorphologic/on-super-corals-and-where-to-find-them-or-a-cautionary-tale-of-using-memes-in-science-1b4f6a9ace3c)
(Pt. 2 - https://medium.com/@coralmorphologic/on-super-corals-and-where-to-find-them-a-closer-look-at-miamis-urban-coral-ecosystem-part-2-45a1ee2fa729). 3/3