Last week we sampled in Cap de Creus to test #eDNA on fish and invertebrate communities 🧬🐟.This technique detects species from their genetic traces in the water,no need to capture them.The work is part of the EU projects #GES4SEAS and #PETRIFY @icmcsic.bsky.social @jeroensteenbeek.bsky.social

I don't post often, but the US slaughterhouse is getting beyond ridiculous. NOAA forced to decommission essential monitoring and historical climate data!? Good grief. Mango Mussolini is insane. www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume...

OceanViz on Unity is coming!! First devised to include any audience into marine ecosystem modelling, OceanViz will soon be available as an public and open-source toolkit for visualizing marine ecosystems and how they change over time. This endeavour is funded by EU project MarinePlan. Stay tuned!

🚨 BREAKING: Illinois Governor JB Pritzker says he’s going to rename Lake Michigan to “Lake Illinois.” EPIC TRUMP TROLL!!! 🤣

Is all of this DOGE madness legal?

The Ecoscope project blogged about my thesis. A neat summary of what kept me up at night for the past 4 years: ecoscopium.eu/news/article... #Ecoscopium

Today, we are excited to participate in the kickoff of the MOIRAI project 🌊, marking the beginning of this exciting initiative. @martacoll.bsky.social and @jeroensteenbeek.bsky.social have successfully presented their key roles and contributions to the project. #MOIRAI @ICMCSIC

The data is in. 2024 was the warmest year on record, and probably in the whole of human history – about 1.6°C warmer than the pre-industrial period. More than 1 billion individual thermometer measurements, made by thousands of people over many decades, have been condensed into a single number.

2024 @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social #climate data out today: 📈 2024 - first year more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial; for ERA5 it was 1.6ºC 🌡️ the past 10 years were the 10 warmest years on record 📈 2024 was warmest year for all continental regions, except Antarctica and Australasia 🌍🌡️🧪⚒️🌊

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Yeah -- I looked into this recently. There isn't a projection ready-to-go from cartopy/proj, but I did find this repo: github.com/rtlemos/spil...

I closed my former Twitter account today. Feels good.

Interesting read about the deplorable state of the Western Mediterranean fish stocks and decades of systematic fisheries mismanagement (in Spanish): miquelortega.blog/2024/12/05/l...

"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." - Carl Sagan

This whale species is so rare it's never been seen alive. A dissection may decode its mysteries #marineecology apnews.com/article/rare...

🎉 The Ecopath with Ecosim course kicks off today at @ICMCSIC, organized by the Ecopath International Research Association! 🌊 We're thrilled with the interest shown and wish all participants a week full of learning and enriching experiences! 💻 @martacoll.bsky.social @jeroensteenbeek.bsky.social

Amen

“Experts and scientists are migrating to Bluesky in record numbers.” Welcome if you’re new (and if you’re not, please help by reposting) - here’s a starter pack for the #biodiversity science-policy community: go.bsky.app/LjV86zg