Compared to continental ones, only a few #marine species are considered #extinct. Now we have one more, the #snail Conus lugubris from São Vicente Island (Cape Verde Archipelago). This species had a very restricted range now lost to "development". www.iucnredlist.org/species/1922...

This colossal coral in the Mariana Islands is the largest of its kind! @noaa.gov scientists recently took the first approximate measurements of the coral during the 2025 National Coral Reef Monitoring Program surveys. It measured a whopping 14,500 square feet! oceanservice.noaa.gov/news/mar26/c...

Lack of publications does not equal lack of production. A nice story about slow productivity which ended well. But how many end well? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

PhD position in integrative evolutionary biology at Lille University to study mollusks from Lake Tanganyika. Funding available for 3 years. Apply by April 5. Info: https://eep.univ-lille.fr/en/presentation-english/ #phd

Researcher position on marine #hydroacoustics. Work on passive acoustic datasets: extracting underwater #noise metrics, detecting #cetacean and other marine fauna sounds, and characterizing marine #soundscapes using acoustic and video data. Deadline: 21 March 👉 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/416394

Open MSc-level researcher / scientific diver position for the LIFE #PINNACARE project. Focus: conservation and recovery of #Pinna nobilis in Greece through field monitoring, transplantations, larval collectors, repopulation, and more. Deadline: 12 March 👉 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/node/413319

Thought-provoking post on how we can promote better science. I was not familiar with what a strong- vs weak-link problem is, but it is well explained! www.experimental-history.com/p/science-is...

A #mollusc of spectacular beauty!

...and eventually the most long awaited starter pack: the one to connect all those interested in molluscs! Please message me if you prefer to opt out or if you wish to suggest new members (just briefly add the reason) go.bsky.app/Eh4qpKr

...that made quitting X an easy decision 1.5 years ago. No users, no social media.

Shifted baselines in the Indian Ocean...!

He/She glows.

Italian newspapers featuring our work on the climate refugium for marine biodiversity in the eastern Mediterranean: www.repubblica.it/green-and-bl...

All set for New Horizons 💎 #OpenAccess in Nijmegen! Thank you to the organisers for the opportunity to speak on the Strain, Stain, & Drain of scientific publishing. Looking forward to great conversations on moving #ScientificPublishing forward! bit.ly/StrainQSS www.horizondiamond.nl#schedule

The most beautiful #snail ever to exist! Many #marine snails go through an early life stage called #veliger, wherein they drift along with the #plankton before settling onto the sea floor as an adult. We call this, #sparkles #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #mollusk #gug

Hydatina is elegantly beautiful!

Writing is thinking Outsourcing the entire task of writing to LLMs will deprive us of the essential creative task of interpreting our findings and generating a deeper theoretical understanding of the world.

Southwestern #Cyprus hosts the only refugium against #climate warming in the easternmost #Mediterranean Sea! Great collaboration with many colleagues hoping to contribute to the protection of this area! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#AI is transforming #ecology — but at what cost? A new #Nature piece warns that as models, drones & remote sensing boom, many scientists are spending less time outdoors (“I rarely get outside”). Are we losing essential natural-history insight? 🌿🤖 🧪🌍🌐 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Ready to attend #TIBS2026 in Denmark presenting my viewpoint on the future #biogeography of the Mediterranean Sea, with @roellammerant.bsky.social showing how altered seasonality in the eastern #Mediterranean connects warming to #biodiversity collapses. conferences.au.dk/tibs-aarhus-...

Interested in a PhD at @icmcsic.bsky.social with me & @fonamental.bsky.social? We’re seeking motivated candidates for an #INPhINIT incoming fellowship to study mesophotic coral ecosystems as thermal refuges & holobiont responses across depth gradients. Info: fundacionlacaixa.org/ca/beques-do...

The Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition shows the diversity of shapes and colors, behaviours and interactions that only #Nature can offer. Many very young photographers! Among my favorites this soft #coral photographed from within... www.nhm.ac.uk/wpy/gallery/...

A great guide to write reproducible #code by @britishecologicalsociety.org. Tip of the day: "Split long scripts: Make scripts do just one thing". Hundreds of lines of script are overwhelming for peers and supervisors alike. www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/...

The next edition of the CPEG meeting to be hosted in London in August 2027! A great multidisciplinary meeting, don't miss it!

Glad to read a quantitative appreciation of #taxonomy and field studies! "ongoing species discoveries substantially alter our understanding of macroecological patterns" And this is about terrestrial #vertebrates, think about the #invertebrates... ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Interested in Historical Ecology and Conservation Palaeobiology? 🪸🦀 Steve Pates and I are offering a PhD project on Unlocking Palaeo-Historical Biodiversity Data to Inform Ecological Baselines @es-ucl.bsky.social @uclcber.bsky.social 🗓️ Apply by 19th January 2026 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

The fact that a large research institution drifts away from privately-owned databases which became the main system to assess scientists, institutions and science itself triggers the hope that critical mass to build a novel scientific ecosystem may soon be reached.

Science of the total environment (elsevier) gets deindexed. This is your regular reminder to please stop chasing impact factors and shitty metrics so we can stop feeding this awful system... An alternative is to publish in more society journals (when possible).

We used a really unique museum collection in #Mozambique as #baseline to quantify impacts due to harvesting of intertidal #molluscs. Action is needed to guarantee long term sustainability of this vital resource to local communities and biodiversity conservation. academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...

We need new collections but - most importantly - the future generations of scientists will need new collections. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"The domination of scientific publishing by major commercial publishers is harmful to science. We need the most powerful members of the research community, funders, governments and Universities, to lead the drive to re-communalise publishing to serve science not the market." arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820

I am giving an online presentation "Biodiversity collapses and future invasions in the Mediterranean Sea" in the "Tipping points in Earth's history" webinar series (Prof William Foster) @uni-hamburg.de on Tuesday 4 November 16:15 CET. You can register here: www.geo.uni-hamburg.de/en/geologie/...

Ready to take the next step in your research career at @icmcsic.bsky.social?We’re seeking enthusiastic candidates to join our team + apply for prestigious pre/postdoc fellowships. Learn more👇 🔗 icm.csic.es/ca/oferta-tr... 🔗 icm.csic.es/ca/oferta-tr... @em-oyster.bsky.social @bryozoology.bsky.social

Debating the aesthetics of #wind & #solar is a luxury. The real crisis is climate change—threatening billions with deadly heat & catastrophic ecosystem breakdowns ♨️🥵🔥 Green #energy is a necessity🍃 Challenges exist (noise, land use) but are manageable - biggest risk is inaction #dkpol #climatechange

As the Sea Around Us PI, Dr. Daniel Pauly, "put it in a TED talk in 2010, 'we transform the world, but we don’t remember it' wildfish.org/latest-news/...

Come to our amazing Bergen! Great work-life environment, 100s km of hiking around Bergen, and the project also looks pretty cool 😄

“Rightwing populists all over Europe want to destroy the ability of the UK and the EU to regulate large tech platforms — a move that might threaten their disinformation campaigns with genuine political debate.” www.ft.com/content/62b1...

🌊 What climate change means for the Mediterranean Sea July 2025 was the hottest on record, with sea surface temperatures hitting 28°C Climate change is pushing marine life to the brink: seagrass dying, fish stocks shrinking, invasive species rising Every 0.1°C matters phis.org/news/2025-09...

Tax cuts will not reverse the #demographic crisis in #Greece nor in other countries facing similar "existential threats". Young people need jobs commensurate to their qualifications and conditions to realize their potential. Or they will just continue fleeing. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Excellent thread on what is going on at academic journals, from the perspective of an editor. Clearly highlights the strain (direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...) caused by quantitative incentives, and that publishers cannot be allies in solving the mess -- they are part of the problem & profit from it.

The deadline for submitting an Abstract to the #GuardIAS Conference is close! Conference Theme: “Prevention of Invasive Alien Species Introductions and Biosecurity Risk Assessment” #bioinvasions #MarineEcology #AquaticEcology

I tried Google Lens to identify a sea slug... The first reply was impressive: Aplysia parvula, correct! However, I refreshed the page by mistake and it re-identified it as Aplysia juliana... Then I refreshed the page on purpose and got genus Aplysia alone... Also Lens knows Aplysia is tricky...

why we are doing this: PRI is one of America's largest museum collections, and they need to raise the last 1/3 of funds (~$1mil) needed to pay off their mortgage by Dec (a donor backed out of a pledge) or it will be the largest orphaned collection in US history. www.science.org/content/arti...

I am pleased to advertise the publication of the first part of the catalogue of type specimens of the #molluscs (and a brachiopod...) in the Born collection in the @nhmwien.bsky.social. Many Born's names introduced in the late 18th c. are still valid today. zse.pensoft.net/article/1618...

I asked again "How can I estimate wave base from significant wave height?" to Perplexity AI and was impressed by the reply that correctly included "Significant wave height alone is not sufficient by itself; wave period or wavelength information is also generally needed" plus sources!

BHL's #CallforSupport soft closes Aug 31. Even if your ideas aren’t fully formed, we want to hear from you. 🌱 Thinking about hosting? 🌱 Considering funding support? 🌱 Want to partner but unsure how? Every possibility helps secure BHL’s future. about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup... #ILoveBHL

First time I see the concept of shifting #baselines in a natural history #museum! Effective exhibit in the Naturhistorisk museum at the University of #Oslo.

This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered

AWESOME JOB OPPORTUNITY: Aldabra Science Coordinator (The Seychelles Islands Foundation) www.sif.sc/node/679 #jobs #seychelles #coralreefs #jobopportunity #marinescience #coral #sciencecoordinator #marineecology #careers #marinebiology

Oh, bugger. This is serious. Funding cuts are hitting bad. Like many colleagues, I wouldn't be able to get my hands on a lot of necessary literature, if not for BHL.