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Ecologist, Co-Pi of BioNept and based at the Marine Station of Lille University (LOG) France
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28 days ago
📢Exciting news! BioNept PhD student Lorenzo Cozzolino (
@univlille.bsky.social
–LOG) is featured in Nature! 🌊 The interview highlights coastal fieldwork and the research we carry out on how microplastics impact marine
#biodiversity🦀🦪🦭🦞🪼
@nature.com
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📢 New paper out! 🌊🦀 Environmentally realistic
#microplastic
concentrations show limited effects on
#behaviour
&
#physiology
of green crab lineages 🔗
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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#pollution
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about 2 months ago
Sometimes the smallest details steal the show 🦦🔍🐚
#limpets
#biodiversity
@katynicastro.bsky.social
@bionept.bsky.social
#art
#intertidal
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about 2 months ago
Hanging on with style. Cornwall’s intertidal crew—mussels, limpets, and fucoids 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊
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#intertidal
#biodiversity
#marinelife
#fieldwork
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Gerardo Zardi
2 months ago
More intertidal life from the Moroccan coast 🇲🇦Always something new to spot🦪🦀🐚🐟🌊🐙
#Morocco
#Intertidal
#MarineLife
#Biodiversity
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Gerardo Zardi
2 months ago
Another low tide, another peek into Moroccan intertidal life 🇲🇦🐙🐟🐚🦀🦪🌊
#intertidal
#biodiversity
#marinelife
#Morocco
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Gerardo Zardi
2 months ago
Limpets on sale! Spotted at the fish market in Essaouira alongside the usual catch 🐚🦑🐟🦀🐙🦪
#Essaouira
#MarineLife
#Intertidal
#biodiversity
#Morocco
🇲🇦
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2 months ago
So long from the Moroccan intertidal 🇲🇦 — heading back to France 🇫🇷 Last snapshot: three tide pools side by side — perfect little replicates.
#Intertidal
#Morocco
#Fieldwork
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#biodiversity
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Katy Nicastro
BioNept.bsky.social
2 months ago
BioNept Intertidal Moroccan tour 2025 🌊🦪🇲🇦 Great to be back to survey intertidal rocky shores along this fascinating stretch of coast! 🌊🦀🦪
#Morocco
#intertidal
#biodiversity
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Katy Nicastro
BioNept.bsky.social
2 months ago
Our survey campaign continues along the stunning Moroccan shores 🇲🇦🌊🦪Unbelievable
#intertidal
landscapes & yesterday's accommodation had everything we needed: WiFi, terrace &...dromedaries🐪
#fieldwork
#marineecology
#Morocco
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Katy Nicastro
BioNept.bsky.social
3 months ago
The Norwegian
#intertidal
always delivers surprises 🇳🇴🌊 From microbial biodiversity to unexpected megafauna encounters - though we’re not sure we should count the 🫎 in the transect 😉
#Fieldwork
#IntertidalEcology
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Katy Nicastro
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3 months ago
Our PhD student Sarah Bollina is on the move! 🚐🧪 Currently sampling her way through the stunning Norwegian coast 🇳🇴 🐚
#MarineBiology
#Fieldwork
#PhDLife
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@univlille.bsky.social
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Katy Nicastro
BioNept.bsky.social
3 months ago
Huge congrats to Lorenzo Cozzolino for successfully defending his 🎓🥳🍾🍾🍾 Thanks to the jury for a lively viva full of sharp and stimulating questions🦀🌊
#PhDDefense
#MarineEcology
#Intertidal
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ICArEHB
3 months ago
Postdoc in Geochronology / Plio-Pleistocene Geology Join the ERC WRAP project at ICArEHB! Apply now 👉
www.icarehb.com/research-pos...
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Katy Nicastro
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@katynicastro.bsky.social
up tomorrow morning at
#ITRS2025
! She’ll be speaking on the Impact of Leachates from
#Microplastic
and Novel Plastic Forms on
#Mussels
Adaptive
#Behaviour
& Self-Organisation ROOM 2 at 16:30🦪🌊🐚
##ITRS
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#plasticpollution
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Katy Nicastro
Gerardo Zardi
3 months ago
Cheers to a great
#ITRS2025
🍻 Wonderful to reconnect with old friends meet new ones & dive into exciting science Until next time, so long!
@marclim-uk.bsky.social
@svenjatidau.bsky.social
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#ITRS
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Louise Firth
3 months ago
See you all at the next
#ITRS
in
#Tauranga
, New Zealand 🇳🇿. Hosted by Chris Battersall, Chris Cornwall & Dave Schiel. Can’t wait to see you all there!
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@nessocon.bsky.social
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Katy Nicastro
BioNept.bsky.social
3 months ago
Off to Brest for
#ITRS2025
— bags packed and ready to go! 🪸🦪🌊 Catch not one, not two... but FIVE talks from the BioNept crew:
@gerardozardi.bsky.social
@katynicastro.bsky.social
Sarah Bollina, Jonathan Monsinjon and Lorenzo Cozzolino
#ITRS
here we come 🦪🌊🐚🦀
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Louise Firth
4 months ago
28-mo postdoc OPEN TO ALL in Cork 🇮🇪. Hybrid
#ecoengineering
in
#saltmarshes
@ucc.ie
. 🇪🇺-funded BLUESHORES Project. Collaborators: Laura Airoldi (Uni Padova 🇮🇹), Tjeerd Bouma &
@jimvanbelzen.bsky.social
(NIOZ 🇳🇱) Start: 1/9/25. Salary: €45k–€52k. 🌱🌊🦀🐌 See link:
universityvacancies.com/university-c...
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Don't forget to register! See you there!👋👇
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Amelia Curd
4 months ago
🥁 🥁 🥁 The
#ITRS2025
scientific program is online 🙌
itrs-home.org/scientific-p...
please share! 42 days until 🚀
#marineecology
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Katy Nicastro
BioNept.bsky.social
6 months ago
Awesome to see our paper shared by
@meps-ir.bsky.social
—highlighting the role of South African🇿🇦 mussels in intertidal bioengineering!🌊
#MarineEcology
#mussels
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#southafrica
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Gerardo Zardi
6 months ago
You know you're in
#Normandy
when you stumble upon a vending machine… full of
#oysters
! 🦪🇫🇷
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Gerardo Zardi
6 months ago
Back in
#Normandy
for foggy intertidal
#fieldwork
with
#oysters
, kicking off another round in collaboration with SATMAR. Always good to be back by the coast—even if we can't see much of it today!
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Well done Catia!
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From the beautiful shores of South Africa...
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Thomas Mock
8 months ago
Worth reading: Sequence-dependent activity and compartmentalization of foreign DNA in a eukaryotic nucleus | Science
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Sequence-dependent activity and compartmentalization of foreign DNA in a eukaryotic nucleus
In eukaryotes, DNA-associated protein complexes coevolve with genomic sequences to orchestrate chromatin folding. We investigate the relationship between DNA sequence and the spontaneous loading and a...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adm9466
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Amelia Curd
8 months ago
⏰ ⏰⏰Abstract submission to
itrs-home.org/submit-abstr...
ends Friday! Thank you to all who have submitted so far. 260 abstracts and counting 🙌 🌊🪨🌱🦪🦞🐟🐚🦀🙌
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Submit Abstracts – ITRS 2025
Session assignment During abstract submission, you will be asked to rank two themes to guide the grouping of your presentation into a session with similar presentations. Please consider the themes…
https://itrs-home.org/submit-abstracts.html
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Katy Nicastro
BioNept.bsky.social
9 months ago
🌟🎉 Happy New Year from all of us at BioNept! 🌊🐚 Here's to another year of exploring the wonders of marine life. 🌍🦠 Cheers to science and sustainability in 2025! 🌿✨
#NewYear
#MarineScience
#marinelife
#biodiversity
#wildlife
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Katy Nicastro
BioNept.bsky.social
10 months ago
Living Common Goose Barnacles washed ashore🌊 attached to a piece of wood flotsam 🪵 at Boulogne sur Mer (France 🇨🇵)
#MarineLife
#biodiversity
#barnacles
#intertidal
#wildlife
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10 months ago
The blue mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis and the brown mussel Perna perna coexisting in the South African
#intertidal
🇿🇦🌍
#biodiversity
#musselsarecool
#SouthAfrica
#marinelife
#wildlife
#nature
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Katy Nicastro
BioNept.bsky.social
10 months ago
📢New paper out! ‘Plastiskin’, a new
#plasticpollution
type, affects
#mussels
by disrupting endolithic communities 🦠& impact
#macroalgae
#photosynthesis
🌱 🔗
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#MarinePollution
#pollution
#microplastic
#fucoids
#mytilus
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10 months ago
Mytilus edulis in Warhol-style pop art 🎨🌊
#PopArt
#MarineLife
#AndyWarhol
#popart
#musselsarecool
#biodiversity
#intertidal
#wildlife
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10 months ago
Marvel at the mussel's magic! ✨ Hard at work weaving byssal threads 🧶🌊
#MarineLife
#NatureWonders
#musselsarecool
#intertidal
#mussels
#wildlife
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Shell corrosion triggered by microbial endoliths protects mussels from heatwaves ☀️🌊
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#intertidal
#heatwave
#wildlife
#marinelife
#musselsarecool
#biodiversity
#climatechange
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Thanks for highlighting this!indeed field-based research is fundamental to understanding what really happens out there but sooo often the effort is not fairly valued🐦🔥🐠🦞🦀🦑🪼🦪
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10 months ago
The grey volcano
#barnacle🌋
Tetraclita serrata and the eightshell barnacle Octomeris angulosa coexisting in the
#intertidal
zone. 📍 Morgans Bay (
#SouthAfrica
) 🇿🇦🌍
#biodiversity
#wildlife
#marinelife
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Stunning 19th-century illustrations from the world's first scientific effort to bring public awareness to the Great Barrier Reef. The
#GreatBarrierReef
of Australia: Its Products and Potentialities by William Saville-Kent.
#biodiversity
#corals
#science
#nature
#climatechange
#marinelife
#wildlife
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