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** Join us! ** Interested in marine observation? Motivated to make it better for the future? We have a 4-year #PhD position in Marine Observation System Resilience open! 📆 Deadline 16 August 2026 📍 @umeaunimarine.bsky.social, Sweden 🔗 heidiburdett.wordpress.com/2026/06/12/j... 🦑🧪🌎

Very nice to be in Montpellier this week for #BioMonWeek26! 📝 Talk on Wed about high frequency coastal monitoring, Session MR05 📚 #AquaticConservation Editor-in-Chief hat: if you have any watery work that you are interested in submitting to #AQC reach out! #BiodiversityMonitoring #BioMonWeek2026

Join us at #AQC as an Associate Editor! 🧬 Conservation genetics (incl eDNA, across freshwater and marine realms) 🐟 Freshwater fauna (ecology, biogeography, conservation etc, especially, but not limited to, freshwater fish) More info: 🔗 www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... 🦑🧪🌎 Please share 💙

March issue of #AQC! 📸Investigating freshwater pearl mussel infestation on salmonids. Photo credit: Sebastian Rock. Also: agriculture, turtles, leeches, batoids, crayfish, freshwater protection and barrier removal, beluga, eDNA, wetlands, cod, seagrass 🦑🧪🌎 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10990755...

‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

Feb issue of #AquaticConservation 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10990755... 📸 Settlement tiles in Isfjorden, see Sowa et al. Photo credit: P Balazy / IO PAN Diving Team Also: frogs, corals, seaweed, whales, turtles, fishing, eels, crabs, seals, (e)DNA, dolphins, pike, crayfish, sturgeon #AQC 🦑🧪🌎

Editorial: Valuing Impact in Aquatic Conservation Research It's often not $$$ but that doesn't diminish it's importance. Let's embrace the challenge, & value research impact in all it's forms! 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 📸 Word cloud of available abstracts for 2025 AQC publications 🦑🧪🌎

**Join us!** Two postdocs currently available in AI-driven marine biology at @umeaunimarine.bsky.social, advancing understanding of ecosystem function, sustainability & conservation! 🔗 www.umu.se/en/umea-mari... 📆Applications considered from March 16 until filled 🦑🧪🌎 #OSM26 @nickkamenos.bsky.social

First talk of the day - and by @seabedhabitats.bsky.social from @umeaunimarine.bsky.social! Presenting a year of work in just 3 minutes (!) - where we have predicted loss in blue carbon habitats and carbon stock this century in SE Asia #osm26 🧪🦑🌏

I'll have a few hats at #OSM26! 🎤Session chair: Resilience in a Changing Ocean: Bridging Nature-Based Approaches, Conservation Strategies and Maritime Governance 📋Poster 0307: Persistence of extreme low pH conditions in coralline algae habitats 🌊 @umeaunimarine.bsky.social Exhibit Stand 17 🦑🌎🧪

#AquaticConservation January issue 📸Fishers navigating an Amazonian estuary, see Marques et al. Credit: Dayse Marques Also: manatees, MPAs, water lillies, fish, crustaceans, mangrove, molluscs, streamflow, seals, eDNA, mucilage 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10990755... 🦑🧪🌎 #AQC

Very nice to have our recent paper in JGR:Biogeosciences featured as an Editor highlight in #Eos! 🔗 eos.org/editor-highl... Coastal Coralline Algae Naturally Survive Persistent, Extreme Low pH 🦑🧪🌎 📸Coralline algae in Scotland. Credit: N Kamenos @nickkamenos.bsky.social @umeaunimarine.bsky.social

Nov issue of #AquaticConservation! 📸Dam removal in Sweden; Watz et al. Credit: Johan Watz Also: eels, seahorses, turtles, catfish, sharks, urbanisation, seaweeds, management, oysters, reef fish, mangar, tilapia, microplastics, riverscapes 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10990755... 🦑🧪🌎 #AQC

*Join us!* 2 year #postdoc in #AI driven #ComputationalBiology! Use AI-driven image analysis to investigate decades of coralline algae growth, in collaboration with colleagues in S Korea 🔗 www.umu.se/en/work-with... 📆7 January 2026 📍 Umeå University, Sweden @umeaunimarine.bsky.social 🦑🧪🌎

A bit late, but October issue of #AquaticConservation #AQC 💙 📸Seagrass surveys in Zanzibar. Photo credit: @researchlina.bsky.social Also: Whale sharks, crocodiles, turtle hatchlings, freshwater mussels, coralline algae and seagrass restoration 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10990755... 🦑🧪🌎

A small primer on the #NobelPrize awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi today. This prize was for combining two separate fields of immunology research - genetic research on IPEX and immunology research of regulatory T cells (#Tregs), with enormous impact on biology/medicine

Sept issue of #AquaticConservation 📸Cetacean conservation, Ghana; photo credit: Everlove Asante Also: Arctic, eDNA, Himalyan rivers, tilapia invasion, sturgeon, birds, turtles, urbanisation, wildfire, seagrass, trout, ostracods, seaweed 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10990755... 🦑🧪🌎 #AQC

New paper in @plos.org Sus Trans: mangrove restoration increases C storage, but where that C comes from is different... likely because restored mangroves have altered ecological functioning. And old-forests are stable C stores journals.plos.org/sustainabili... 🦑🧪🌎 @umeaunimarine.bsky.social

🚨New paper out!! Restore #mangroves to capture carbon? Yes!🌱 100% positive? Maybe. Study shows that restored mangroves may not regain the ‘normal’ function of older forests. 🧪🦑🌊 Read more here: www.umu.se/en/news/land... #BlueCarbon @umeauniversitet.bsky.social @plos.org @hlburdett.bsky.social

It was a pleasure to lead the Umeå Marine Sciences Centre (#UMF) Autumn Writing Retreat last week! With participants from several departments and all career stages, we tackled a range of topics, including #Sami culture, #plasmonics, #seaweed, #carbon & more. Can't wait for the next in March! 🧪🦑🌍

Inspiring to listen to Emmanuelle Charpentier (2020 #NobelPrize in Chemistry) today at @umeauniversitet.bsky.social! Wonderful to share #Umeå with it's newest Honorary citizen! 🧪

A wonderful morning spent at @umeaunimarine.bsky.social #EcoChange annual meeting 🌊 Special bravo to my postdoc Luis González Guerrero, who presented his research on Baltic macrophyte photophysiology - initial data from his busy summer of #fieldwork. More data to come! 🤩 🦑🧪🌎

Aug issue of #AquaticConservation! 📸Mangrove wood market in Ghana. Photo credit: One Tree Planted Also: cetaceans, freshwater fish, agricultural streams, litter-vs-invasives, seals, mussels, trout, turtles, MPAs, fish farming & insect bioindicators! 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10990755... 🦑🧪🌎 #AQC

July issue of #AquaticConservation! 📸Oyster farming in China. Credit:Qing Liu Also: eDNA, frogs, sharks, coralline algae, blue carbon, eels, river modelling, genetics, MPAs, petrels, crayfish, dolphins, wind farms, mangroves, whales, & management 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10990755... 🦑🧪🌎

** Join us! ** In February 2026 we will offer two residential advanced short courses: 💻 #R course for marine scientists ❄️ #Arctic marine biology, ecology & biogeochemistry 🗓️ Starting 8 & 15 February 2026 📍 Umeå Marine Sciences Centre, Sweden 🔗 umfcourses.github.io ▶️ Apply by 15 Sept 2025! 🦑🧪🌍

Join us at #OSM26! Session on: Advances in Marine Conservation for Local-to-Global Sustainability Submit abstract here: agu.confex.com/agu/osm26/pr... Abstract deadline: 20 August! 🦑🧪🌎 #MarineConservation #AquaticConservation #AQC

**Join us!** 2 year #postdoc in algal (photo)physiology Multidisciplinary project as part of the @icelabumu.bsky.social Postdoc Programme 🔗 heidiburdett.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/p... 📆 18 September 2025 📍 @umeauniversitet.bsky.social, Sweden @umeaunimarine.bsky.social 🦑🧪🌎

Special Issues in #AquaticConservation 🌍Frontiers in African Marine & Aquatic Conservation 🌿Rugulopteryx okamurae (seaweed) invasion 🦑Cephalopod conservation ⚖️Aquatic Conservation in a Wellbeing Economy 🌊Marine Conservation for Sustainability 🥵Climate Change onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal... 🧪

May issue of #AquaticConservation! 📷 Spiky sea cucumber, cf Job & Mishra. Credit: Amrit Kumar Mishra Also: sharks, molluscs, eco-engineering, fish diversity, rhodolith diversity, seal by-catch, sticklebacks, dolphins, dugongs, MPAs & urchins! 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10990755... 🌎🦑🧪

Great it be at #OOSC this week in Nice! Inspiring science towards blue sustainability, catching up with friends and making new connections! @umeaunimarine.bsky.social was there, with research on carbon, policy, habitat futures and #UMF infrastructure 🦑🌍🧪 @umeauniversitet.bsky.social

Umeå marine benthic science team @umeaunimarine.bsky.social at the One Ocean Science Congress #OneOceanScienceCongress #OOSC #OceanDecade #SDG14 #WeAreTheOcean

Let's think more broadly about blue carbon: @nickkamenos.bsky.social reminds us to take land-sea links & carbon transport between ecosystems in blue carbon policy & management 🧪🌍🦑 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧪🌍🦑 @umeaunimarine.bsky.social @umeauniversitet.bsky.social #OOSC

#AquaticConservation loves #OOSC! With my Editor-in-Chief hat on for #AQC, if you’re interested in publishing with us, let’s chat! Currently have 3 special issues especially relevant to OOSC: 🌍 #Africa 🥵 #ClimateChange 💙 #WellbeingEconomy 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal... 🦑🧪

Co-chair of #OOSC @jpgattuso.bsky.social address: "Without science we risk losing our way" - science, policy and publics need to work together for action "You will not be bored!" Fantastic efforts to bring OOSC to reality Jean-Pierre, thank you!

We need to reconsider what is a #BlueCarbon #ecosystem! #MudFlats #CorallineAlgae, #Sediments and parts of #Coral #Reefs store significant organic #carbon. ➡️ See you at #OOSC Tue | 14:00 | Room 2 @nickkamenos.bsky.social @hlburdett.bsky.social #ScienceForTheOcean #ClimateScience 🧪🦑🌍

It's nice to be in Nice! #OOSC @umeaunimarine.bsky.social @umeauniversitet.bsky.social

@umeaunimarine.bsky.social is at the One Ocean Science Congress this week! Details of our seven presentations below ⬇️ #OOSC #ScienceForTheFuture #UMF #AQC 🌎🦑🧪

Fantastic to hear about Terry Bidleman's environmental chemistry career at @umeaunimarine.bsky.social yesterday! Next week he will deservedly be recognised with the 2025 Career Award from the European Chemical Society Division of Chemistry & the Environment Congratulations to him! 🎉 🧪🦑🌍

Great to have Lina Rasmusson (Gothenburg uni) at @umeaunimarine.bsky.social today to talk about all things #CorallineAlgae & #kelp She also presented her ongoing @formasforsk.bsky.social project, which is bringing a research spotlight to Sweden's elusive #maerl beds! @umeauniversitet.bsky.social 🧪🦑🌍

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Fingers and toes crossed for #KAJ in the #Eurovision final! #BaraBadaBastu #Sauna So lucky to have a sea-view sauna ( #bastu ) in @umeaunimarine.bsky.social!

Huge welcome to the newest members of the #AquaticConservation Editorial Board! - Anthi Oikonomou (freshwater fish ecology & conservation) - Wei Yu (pelagic fish and fisheries management) Full #AQC editorial team here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal... 🌎🦑🧪

April issue of #AquaticConservation 📸 Elephant seals in California (📷 US National Park Service) Also: clams, dolphins, shads, groupers, rhodoliths, sharks, albatross, sea cucumbers, salmon, mayflies, porpoises, frogs, citizen science, blue carbon 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10990755... 🌎🦑🧪🦤💧

Welcome to our newest postdoc Cristian Ramirez Gutierrez, who will investigate the optical properties & light harvesting of coralline algae! 🌎🦑🧪🌊 heidiburdett.wordpress.com/2025/04/09/w... @umeaunimarine.bsky.social @nickkamenos.bsky.social @nicolomaccaferri.bsky.social @umeauniversitet.bsky.social

Bumper March issue of #AquaticConservation ⬇️ 📸Alien Nymphaea lotus & CArolina fanwort, Hungary - see Nagy et al Also: turtles, fish, mining, snails, rabbits, caiman, eel, ducks, dolphins, sharks, coral reefs, newts, ponds, stakholders, coralline algae 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10990755... 🌎🦑🧪

** New paper ** Analysis of #AquaticConservation articles 1991-2023, identifying 30y of trends in aquatic conservation research: internationalising, collaborating, biodiversity vs emerging topics, and prolonged citation impact 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @umeaunimarine.bsky.social 🌎🦑🧪

It's been super fun to lead the 1st UMF writing retreat this week! Great for boosting productivity & motivation, we had all career stages join, from clinical microbiology, env genetics, ecophysiology, computational ecology and more! 🧪🦑🌍 @umeaunimarine.bsky.social @umeauniversitet.bsky.social

Recent practice at UMF for getting out of the ice - important field skills during spring-winter (vårvinter) in the north! ❄️ 🦑🧪🌍 #BaraBadaBastu @umeauniversitet.bsky.social

Chilly exercise on the ice (and in the water) just outside #UMF !❄️❄️❄️ Swim temp is still a bit low, but the #sauna afterwards is a good reward! 🥵🔥🌡️ #ThinIce #StillWinter #UmeåUniversity