Just published: a global synthesis of the ecological, economic, and socio-cultural impacts of #BiologicalInvasions, led by P. Haubrock. A timely framework for science, management, and policy in the Anthropocene. 👉 doi.org/10.1002/brv.... 🧪🌐🌍 #bioinvasions #InvasiveSpecies

Just published: a cross-taxon synthesis of how #non-native species spread: from dispersal and #invasion fronts to Allee effects, human pathways, and predictive models. Understanding spread is key to management & policy. 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #bioinvasions #InvasiveSpecies 🧪🌍🌐

Numerous tools assist #ebm planning and evaluation, yet selecting the correct one remains difficult. To help with this, the #ges4seas project tested and adapted specific instruments at learning sites, ultimately combining these tools into the #tikta toolbox. #mooc

For #EBM, a single tool may be insufficient. As with a Rubik’s Cube, the #GES4SEAS #OceanCube requires strategies for each side; the different tools available can inform various strategies. They might be highly effective for one side but fail once you try […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Deployed ✅ Our partners from University of the Aegean reef station is live: a Raspberry Pi camera/computing system + solar buoy sending reef images continuously. Built on a small budget to make monitoring more affordable—now we’re testing real-world durability + uptime. #MarineScience #Bioboostplus

Season's Greetings from GuardIAS!

"We project a global temperature record of +1.7°C in 2027, which will provide further confirmation of the recent global warming acceleration." Global Temperature in 2025, 2026, 2027 Hansen et al 2025 mailchi.mp/caa/global-t...

A few days before Christmas and near record high temperatures are occurring around the North Pole in the #Arctic 🎅🥵 Download at zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...

Special Session at #ECSA61 📣 Guarding #marine & #estuarine waters from biological invasions We invite talks on #prevention, #monitoring ( #eDNA, #AI, #RemoteSensing), #management, #climate – #IAS links & policy solutions. Abstract submission opens in January #InvasiveSpecies #bioinvasions

Divers in action for BioBoost+: collecting samples + standardised seafloor images with survey frames to train/validate #AI tools for marine biodiversity monitoring. 📷 Credit: Guy Raanan @rilovlab.bsky.social @iolr-il.bsky.social #RilovLab #BioBoostPlus #MarineScience #UnderwaterImaging

Wakame (Undaria pinnatifida) is on the IUCN's list of the 100 "world's worst" invasive species! It's a major threat, known for displacing native seaweeds & clogging coastal infrastructure. The #GuardIAS project is modelling its spread via offshore wind farms. #InvasiveSpecies #BioInvasions #IAS

The best science images of the year - excellent selection from #Nature. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Actual climate scientist here. 2.5C is on the optimistic end of the literature on current policy outcomes, which spans the range from 2.3C to 3C. I wrote a review of the literature on the subject earlier this year: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🌡️ November 2025 was the third-warmest November on record globally, keeping 2025 on track to be the second- or third-warmest year recorded. The global three-year average temperature for 2023–2025 will likely exceed 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels for the first time.  Read more ⬇️

The striped eel catfish (Plotosus lineatus) was the first marine species regulated by the EU for being invasive! It's known for being venomous & outcompeting native fish. The #GuardIAS project is setting up an early warning system to stop its spread. #InvasiveSpecies #BioInvasions #IAS

Our free MOOC on Invasive Alien Species Prevention is live! What you'll learn: ✅ Bioinvasion impacts ✅ Introduction pathways ✅ Management strategies Catch up before Course 2 drops in early 2026. 🔗 Start here: www.ecmunipv.it/login/index.... #InvasiveSpecies #BioInvasions #IAS

The red king crab can have a leg span of nearly 2 meters! It's a major threat, known for devastating seafloor ecosystems & spreading disease to native fish. #GuardIAS is working with groups in Norway to create a management plan. #InvasiveSpecies #BioInvasions #IAS Image: NOAA Fisheries

🦞 A lobster encounter in Lake Grevelingen! While surveying benthic biodiversity for #BioBoostPlus WP2, @NIOZ_Netherlands researchers caught this Homarus gammarus on ROV. Restoration work meets AI + imaging. 🎥 Credit: Zhiyuan Zhao @niozsearesearch.bsky.social #MarineScience #ROV #Biodiversity

So far in this #mooc we’ have explored some core principles of #ebm (Ecosystem-Based Management) 🌊but here’s something we haven’t yet talked about: 👉 EBM isn’t a one-off process. It’s cyclical and constantly evolving. How does this make the ends meet? Stay tuned to find out…

This is the moment we realised what we were looking at. During @nemo-tools.bsky.social ROV surveys to map gorgonian & coralligenous habitats, the seafloor suddenly turned into a landscape of circular nests, each guarded by a male. We weren’t searching for spawning grounds – we dropped onto one.

Just published: a key nesting site of the black seabream identified in the #Aegean Sea - urgently needing protection. link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🌍🌐🧪🐟 #fisheries #Mediterranean #MarineEcology #conservation

I've decided to make a series of paintings of conservation success stories, starting with this here żubr/ wisent/ European bison. They were almost driven to extinction in the early XX century, and the current population is descended from about 17 animals, thanks to the efforts of prof. Jan Sztolcman

The University of the Aegean invites applications for a 2-year Researcher (MSc, #MarineEcology) post under the LIFE-PINNACARE project. Focus: Pinna nobilis #conservation in Greece + field work. 📅 Apply by 6 Jan 2026. 📧 More info: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/393307 — dive in! #Conservation #job 🌍🌐

It’s almost like something dramatically changed after the Industrial Revolution! (figure via Ed Hawkins)

🆕'Breaking the Plastic Wave' report is out, concluding that without ambituous systemic measures #plastic pollution will double until 2040 equivalent to dumping nearly a 🛻 garbage truck worth of plastic waste every second since, growing twice as fast as waste management. www.pew.org/en/research-...

One last update to the daily-color stripes for 2025, with data through the end of November, 2025. The last day of November in this graphic recorded 1.55°C above the pre-industrial baseline.

🔊🌊 Just out in Sensors: a low-cost (~50 €) #hydrophone toolkit for robust underwater #AcousticMonitoring. Built for researchers, educators and #CitizenScientists eager to explore marine #soundscapes. Hear the ocean differently. 🐳🛥️🐬📡 www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/25... #MarineEcology 🌍🌐🧪

New #GES4SEAS paper out: Assessment tools are needed to support marine ecosystem-based #management, but how to get them used practically? #MarineEcology #Research #Ecosystems @azti.bsky.social Read it for free www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

🎥 Here’s ZooImage in action: segmenting and measuring zooplankton from scanned samples — part of a 40+ year time series from Norwegian fjords. @ribas-deulofeu.bsky.social visited @azti.bsky.social to help build AI tools for faster biodiversity monitoring. #BioBoostPlus #AI4Oceans #Zooplankton

Great talk on how tiny satellites are tracking marine wildlife: www.southernfriedscience.com/how-tiny-sat... 🌍🌐🧪

Energy transitions can happen faster than we think: In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels. In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.

From Copernicus: This shows how the expected date for breaching 1.5C has been creeping ever closer in recent years. The orange date shows the baseline for the extrapolation; the red date shows when 1.5C is breached based on the trend...

At a recent workshop in Monaco, Maria Zotou shared how the #GuardIAS project is tackling the lionfish invasion in Crete & Santorini through population control & commercial fishing. Read more about the event here: guardias.eu/lionfish-in-... #InvasiveSpecies #BioInvasions #IAS

October 2025 was the warmest October on record for the #Arctic. Arctic sea-ice extent is currently the lowest on record for late November. My newest 'climate viz of the month' summarizes some of this latest data: zacklabe.com/climate-viz-... #ClimateChange #SciComm #OpenScience #OpenData #DataViz

Your 'moment of doom' for Nov. 28, 2025 ~ The enemy "Human activity is the primary cause of the problem. Farmers are clearing more land for food production. Infrastructure projects and mining are exacerbating the loss of vegetation and global heating... " www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Lionfish (Pterois miles) 🐠 Its stomach expands up to 30x when feeding! It’s a major threat, known for devastating native fish & wrecking marine ecosystems. The #GuardIAS project is running control programs in the Aegean Sea. Read more: guardias.eu #InvasiveSpecies #BioInvasions #IAS

So, is #ebm just a concept on paper? Not at all. 📜 It is already shaping how we manage European seas, through global conventions, directives, regional policies, and local implementation. Stay tuned for next week’s #mooc on how EBM spans marine sectors & the related challenges🚧

But what is the environmental status of European waters? Consult the following paper for an overview: 👇 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Same area, but now with the pressure visible: longlines, ropes and other fishing gear litter entangling gorgonians and covering the seabed. Chronic ghost fishing and structural damage that we urgently need to address. #marinelitter #ghostfishing #MPA #conservation @thanasisnikolaou.bsky.social

Clip from the Tokmakia plateau (NE Lesvos): a mesophotic coralligenous reef with dense red gorgonians and complex bioconstructions. This is the kind of “animal forest” habitat our work focuses on documenting and conserving. #coralligenous #gorgonians #oceans @skatsanevakis.bsky.social

🌊✨ Just out! Our new study dives into a NE Aegean biodiversity hotspot, revealing fragile coralligenous habitats, stressed gorgonians, and too much litter. If you care about the Med’s hidden forests, this one’s for you 👇 www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/13... #MarineEcology 🌍🌐🧪

Your 'moment of doom' for Nov. 25, 2025 ~ and he is us "the species extinction rate is estimated to be between 1 000 and 10 000 times higher than natural extinction rates – the rate of species extinctions that would occur if we humans were not around.” www.2oceansvibe.com/environment-...

Yoshua Bengio has become the first person ever to exceed 1 million citations on #GoogleScholar — a landmark moment for the #AI community. www.nature.com/articles/d41... scholar.google.com/citations?us... 👏 #AcademicImpact #MachineLearning 🧪

🔥🐜 Warning: the notorious “fire ant” has landed in Europe. These tiny invaders don’t just sting — they threaten our biodiversity, crops and health. Time to act now! #InvasiveSpecies #Biosecurity #BioInvasions 🎯

Is #Ecosystem-Based Management just another buzzword scientists use? 🌊👩‍🔬 Or is it something society already works with? Spoiler: #ebm is not imaginary, it’s embedded in the way we manage our seas through laws, directives, & policies across all scales. ⚖️#GES4SEAS #mooc

🟡 Using RoboFlow to ID key species like Axinella cannabina (crucial to Mediterranean benthic ecosystems) from ROV footage in Torre Guaceto (Italy). Tech meets conservation under the sea! 🎥 Marine Ecology Lab, Univ. of Naples Federico II #ROV #AI4Oceans #MarineScience #BioBoostPlus #Sponges

Brown Algae (Rugulopteryx okamurae) 🌿 A single plant can make 600 copies! It’s a major threat, known for suffocating native species & damaging coastal tourism/fishing. The #GuardIAS project is creating an early warning system in Greece. See more: guardias.eu #InvasiveSpecies #BioInvasions #IAS

📣 Be part of the consultation on an IUCN strategy for invasive alien species 📣 The IUCN is developing a dedicated strategy to guide collective action, but they need your input first 👇 🔗 forms.office.com/Pages/Respon... 🗓️ Deadline: 19 Dec 2025 #InvasiveSpecies #BioInvasions #IAS

Conserving biodiversity and water in a human-dominated landscape requires holistic and integrated options, read about our approaches in the @biodiversa.eu INSPIRE project Neusiedl Lake case study to find out more. www.inspire-biodiversa.com/post/options...

What have we learnt this week❓❓ To summarise #EBM means understanding how much the ecosystem can endure, how much we can pull on different strings, where we need to be careful, and where we need to strengthen the web. 🕸️🕸️ Ecosystem knowledge is […] [Original post on fediscience.org]