Our latest newsletter is here 🐟 This month we're celebrating two decades of OPI, with special features & reflections from Prof. Cristina Brito and Prof. Daniel Pauly, plus lots more! Keep up to date with current research in the field by joining our mailing list 👉 [email protected].

Call for Oceans Past XI abstracts is OPEN, come join us in Canada next June! Funding available on a competitive basis for early career researchers @icesmarine.bsky.social @oceanspast.bsky.social

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.

Just out! 10-yr labour of love exploring how Plymouth’s coastline transformed over centuries by land reclamation & how changes are often forgotten. Shout out to incredible crack team: historians, geologists, remote sensors, archaeologists, artists, ecologists🧠🌍🎨 www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

Atlantic Bluefin tuna are back in UK waters, but we still don’t exactly know what they are eating. Support crucial marine research to help uncover the secrets of their diet and secure their future. To find out more: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/atlantic-b... 🦑🧪🌍🐟🎣🦤🌊

We are pleased to invite you to the Oceans Past XI Conference! Taking place between 15-19 June 2026 at the University of Victoria, Vancouver Island, Canada (www.uvic.ca) Abstract submissions open early Autumn 2025; stay tuned for updates! More info: oceanspast.org/conferences/... (1/2)

🐚 Out today “Shifting Seas – Understanding Deep-Time Human Impacts on Marine Ecosystems.” 🌊 A theme issue asking how, when, and where humans have impacted oceans over millennia. 🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0026 🧶 below on how it came to life!...

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The importance of #History in understanding the marine environment and environmental change theconversation.com/what-a-19th-... #heritage #marine #fishing #ecosystems #conservation @ruththurstan.bsky.social

theconversation.com/what-a-19th-... Nice article on marine historical ecology by @ruththurstan.bsky.social

New #OA paper on SEASCAPE CONNECTIVITY: Evidence, knowledge gaps and implications for temperate coastal ecosystem restoration practice and policy. Check it out! nature.com/articles/s44...

My co-chair François Houllier and I are delighted with this resounding success, after 2 years of preparation and many hurdles to overcome. The recommendations will be presented to Heads of State and Governments tomorrow, the day before #UNOC starts. #OOSC #ScienceForTheOcean

Happy World #Ocean Day all! After spending an inspiring week at the One Ocean Congress in Nice, I am remembering one of my favourite ocean encounters, which occurred in my home waters of the U.K., in #Cornwall. Showing that British seas host big critters too! #OOSC #shark @exetermarine.bsky.social

Fantastic talk by @ciaranmc.bsky.social on the big stage at #OOSC! Showcasing his ongoing Convex Seascape Survey research mapping historical trawling expansion and associated seabed disturbance @exetermarine.bsky.social @profcallum.bsky.social

Fantastic to see work from the Convex Seascape Survey team presented at the UN One Ocean Science Congress #OOSC by @profcallum.bsky.social! Great progress being made in our understanding of continental shelf blue carbon stores @exetermarine.bsky.social @bluemarinef.bsky.social

Made it to beautiful Nice for the #UN One #Ocean Science Congress. I’ll be at the poster session over the next three evenings so please come have a chat! You can find me at Poster 310 #historicalecology #oyster #seabed #convex @profcallum.bsky.social @exetermarine.bsky.social

New paper out this week 📣 Authors detail 120 years of the UK's reach for seafood, revealing a rapid growth of dependence on global fisheries. By the 21st century, imports tripled 20th-century levels, with seafood travelling over 30% farther. 🐟 🔗 Link to read: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Multiple PhD opportunities available jointly with @exeter.ac.uk and University of Queensland (QUEX Institute) - For more details and how to apply see tinyurl.com/bwzntmfr. Deadline 15 May

New international PhD scholarship jointly at universities of Queensland and Exeter (UK) on coral reef MPAs. Natural and social science. Feel free to reach out. tinyurl.com/bwzntmfr

The @exeter.ac.uk #Cornwall campus is looking beautiful this #spring! Lovely to see a few of my colleagues @uniexecec.bsky.social who were also out and about appreciating the sunshine and spring blooms 😁

Interested in Marine Megafauna, Fishers ecological knowledge or Data Deficient IUCN red list species? Please check out this piece documenting the exploitation history of the largest reef fish in the eastern Pacific Ocean (Pacific Goliath Groupers) in Panama doi.org/10.1002/aqc....

Artists use @exeter.ac.uk SEACHANGE project’s environmental DNA data to create speculative sculptures of new species, and new historical data provides valuable information on lost European flat oyster ecosystems! 🐚🐟 Read the full news article - cordis.europa.eu/article/id/4... 🦑🌐🧪🌍🦤🌊

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! We are so proud to have many incredible women working across disciplines as part of Exeter Marine. 🩵 🦑🦤🌎🌐🧪🤿🌊 #WomeninSTEM #PhDSky #AcademicSky

You asked, we listened. UK-based early/mid level marine roles, hand-picked for our community. Screenshot your favourite or save this post for later! 🦑🌊🌐🌍🐟🦤

Our recent work to uncover the former extent of Europe's forgotten oyster reefs is covered in @uk.theconversation.com today! theconversation.com/oysters-once... Gathering historical evidence is key to raising ambitions to restore our seas and recover vital habitats @exetermarine.bsky.social

📣 New #openaccess paper 📣 In this new @naturesustain.bsky.social paper, authors explored hundreds of written records and descriptions of native oyster (Ostrea edulis) habitat and fisheries published since the 1700s, revealing #oyster reefs spanning >17,000 km2! Link to read: go.nature.com/3ZK3nij

Thanks @ruththurstan.bsky.social! delighted to see two of those photos 👇 in yesterday's BBC Wildlife Magazine piece. I am hopeful too, hopeful they'll receive the protection they need as the last pockets of a lost habitat, clinging here in Ireland. We are documenting them also in case we lose them.

New paper out TODAY in @consletters.bsky.social led by Dr Philine zu Ermgassen. Applying the IUCN #Ecosystem #RedListing criteria to historical & recent data, we find that European native oysters (O. edulis) are #Collapsed. Open access paper at lnkd.in/dJbbkzEa. Image: Maria Eggertsen

Today is International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Just a reminder that ~25% of adults are disabled, ~19% of undergrads, yet less than 10% of graduate degree recipients identify as such. #DisabledInSTEM #DisableAcademia #Disability

Interested in past #oceans, #seas, #marine life and human-ocean interactions through time? The Oceans Past Initiative is now on Bluesky at @oceanspast.bsky.social. Please give us a follow! More details and membership links can be found at oceanspast.org

Are you interested in the #restoration of marine ecosystems? I'm co-chairing a @icesmarine.bsky.social Workshop on Nature Restoration (WKREST) in March, join if you're interested! www.ices.dk/community/gr...

Beautiful native oyster reef habitat photographed by @drjosemfarinas.bsky.social. Oyster reefs support so much marine biodiversity yet are highly threatened and have been completely lost from many areas. Protection and restoration are urgently needed!

🚨 Registration & abstract submission are NOW OPEN for the CPEG Meeting & Conservation Paleobiology Symposium! 🚨 📅 Summer 2025 📍 University of Zurich, Switzerland Visit our website for keynote speakers, deadlines, fees, workshops & more: cpeg-cpb25.uzh.ch/en.html #CPEGCPB25

Global Fishing Watch is hiring a newly created Senior Scientist leadership role to help expand our impact with all the new work we are doing under our 2023 award from The Audacious Project to map all human activity at sea. #hiring #techjob #sciencejob #jobs #careers

In a recent paper led by Dr Philine zu Ermgassen and I, with European collaborators, we identified 100s of written records and descriptions of native oyster (Ostrea edulis) habitat and fisheries published since the 1700s. From these we estimated locations of past reef habitats rdcu.be/dVS55

Hi all, I'm looking forward to (re)connecting on BlueSky. I am a marine historical #ecologist based at the @uniofexeter.bsky.social #Cornwall campus. Interested in past and future #oceans and #fisheries, responses to change and social-cultural #history of #coastal and #marine systems.