During the 4th Global Coral Bleaching Event (GCBE4; January 2023–September 2025), an extreme marine heatwave occurred on the Bocas del Toro Reef Complex (BTRC) in Panama. We characterized how this heatwave impacted the health and holobiont communities of the stress‐tolerant coral Siderastrea siderea at four sites across the BTRC. Tagged colonies at each site ( N = 30–53 colonies per site) were visited before, during, and after...

There is ongoing scientific and societal discourse on the definition of biological sex. At this critical moment when misinformation about sex is being applied to policy globally, scientific clarification is valuable. Here, we evaluate the primary approaches to defining sex and synthesise the active discourse to conclude that there is no current consensus on a definition of sex that is free of assumptions and limitations. While...