🗣️ We want to say one word to you. Just one word: #Plastics 🌐 Today the #negotiations for a global Plastics treaty begin in #Geneva #INC4 Our researcher @felixmuller364.bsky.social is observing & conducting field work. We summarized the most pressing points and will keep you informed here! 👇

🌊 We are proud to present the new @marco-bolo.bsky.social Policy Brief "Addressing Challenges in the Biodiversity Monitoring Data Ecosystem" featuring a big stakeholder survey, offering practical recommendations to improve usage and accessibility 🪸 🐠 Download, share & comment here: bit.ly/4onScaS

New MARCO-BOLO policy brief out! Based on a 2023 stakeholder survey led by @univie.ac.at, it explores barriers to using marine biodiversity data and offers practical recommendations. 👏 @arnela10.bsky.social @alicevadrot.bsky.social @philippbaun.bsky.social 📄 bit.ly/3IEJ3dF #Biodiversity #Data

Big thanks to @arnela10.bsky.social for presenting the #MARCO-BOLO project at the #LivingPlanetSymposium in Vienna this Thursday. His talk covered the project’s approach, results, identified bottlenecks and the need for better links between in situ and remote sensing communities! #LPS25 @esa.int

🌊 📽️ What a wonderful evening with Sir #DavidAttenborough's new movie "Ocean" - a beautful & prescient documentary on the state of our #oceans & how we can preserve them 🪸 🪼 🐠 🙏 We are grateful for our cooperation partners & the speakers 👇& remain more motivated than ever to #SaveOurOcean 💪 🐋

🐳 📽️ We are inviting you to a special screening of "Ocean" With @univie.ac.at, ech.univie.ac.at @highseasalliance.bsky.social and the Embassy of France in Austria we are diving into the wonderful & diverse world of the ocean 🐠 🪸 🪼 Infos below 👇

With : Pascal Lamy @parispeaceforum.bsky.social @delorsinstitute.bsky.social Angelique Pouponneau #AOSIS Andrei Polejack, Dir. of Research & Innovation, National Institute for #OceanResearch – INPO, Brazil, Vanessa Yepes-Narváez, Sci.Researcher #INVEMAR Nicolas Pade @embrc-eu.bsky.social

Side-event #UNOC3 June 12th Making the Digital Twin of the Ocean fit for Global Marine Govenance Ethics, Politics, and Transformative Power @marco-bolo.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @erc.europa.eu @twinpolitics.bsky.social @embrc-eu.bsky.social @embrc-france.bsky.social @sorbonne-universite.fr @cnrs.fr

🌊 Festival sciences-sur-mer Le Centre de Ressources Biologiques Marines : EMBRC Un consortium européen @embrc-eu.bsky.social avec une branche France @sorbonne-universite.fr @cnrs.fr @imev-mer.fr @obs-banyuls.fr @sbroscoff.bsky.social Explorez la biodiversité marine de la molécule à l’écosystème !

🎤🌊On June 6 @arnela10.bsky.social will present in the panel “Inclusive science-policy-society interfaces” #OOSC at 11:20 in Room 4 in Port Lympia: “From Science-Policy to Data-Policy Interfaces: Unpacking Biodiversity Monitoring Data Practices”, a @marco-bolo.bsky.social research! #SaveOurOcean 🐋

👏 We are halfway through! Congratulations to Norway🇳🇴 and Romania🇷🇴 for ratifying the #HighSeasTreaty! These new ratifications advance the #RaceForRatification and get us closer to 60! Follow the progress: highseasalliance.org/treaty-ratif... #BBNJ

🎤On June 6 @arnela10.bsky.social will present in the panel “Inclusive science-policy-society interfaces” #OOSC between 11h20 and 11h30 in Room 4 in Port Lympia: “From Science-Policy to Data-Policy Interfaces: Unpacking Biodiversity Monitoring Data Practices”, a @marco-bolo.bsky.social paper!

We are excited to host the Expert Group Meeting on effective #maritimelaw enforcement in MPAS beyond National Jurisdiction in cooperation with the @univie.ac.at and Environment and Climate Research Hub! Find out more about the #UN Office on Drugs and Crime here: lnkd.in/eSfSWp9s

🐝🌷Today is #BiodiversityDay 🌳🦇 Our research group also hosts Biodiversity Austria, the national liaison of @ipbes.net - check out our work here www.biodiversityaustria.at/international/ For everyone between 18-30 we also recommended the Regional Youth Workshop (Deadline: 31.05.) shorturl.at/HYc9D

📝 In our new #publication in the journal #Qualitative #Research we give an exclusive look #behindthescenes of our methods of #notetaking and #participantobservation 👀during global 🌐 environmental #negotiations - read now #OpenAccess here 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

This is not good. #Birds 🪶

This Thursday I'll present the joint research (co-authored with @alicevadrot.bsky.social & @rakhyunkim.bsky.social) exploring Art. 24 on Emergency Measures in the #BBNJ Agreement—where it came from, how it was negotiated, implications for interpretation @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

We have a date at #UNOC25 🌊🤩 Save the Date June 12 for our high-level panel on the #DigitalTwinoftheOcean followed by a reception at @imev-mer.fr. In cooperation with @embrc-eu.bsky.social we will discuss the ethics, politics & transformative power of the #EU DTO for Global #MarineGovernance 🗣️

Catch our own @carolinhirt.bsky.social today at @egu.eu speaking on "Unpacking Power in the EU Digital Twin of the Ocean: Temporal and Structural Dimensions of a Socio-Technical System" in Room L2 at 17:30 #EGU25 #digitaltwin #oceangovernance

@alicevadrot.bsky.social @arnela10.bsky.social @pauldunshirn.bsky.social @wenwenlyu.bsky.social @ehildeb.bsky.social @felixmuller364.bsky.social

New article! A critical defence of the crime of ecocide, by @rachelkillean.bsky.social & Damien Short -> Criminalisation should complement, rather than replace, broader legal and political strategies for environmental protection and justice. doi.org/10.1080/0964...

Check out the new blog area on our website 💻 📝! Our researchers share insights into high level #negotiations on everything from #Plastics, #DeepSeaMining to the #BBNJ #PrepCom 🌊🐋 Please read, share and let us know what you think here 👇👇👇 twinpolitics.eu/category/blog/

Looking forward to our second session of our #OceanSeminars🌊🐋 next week with Alain Arnaud, Director of the Digital Ocean Department at @mercatorocean.bsky.social - talking about the ongoing construction of the #DigitalTwinoftheOcean #DTO All information for registration below👇:

Live aus New York berichtet auch @wenwenlyu.bsky.social in ihrem neuen Blogbeitrag: twinpolitics.eu/setting-up-i... @arnela10.bsky.social @pauldunshirn.bsky.social @ehildeb.bsky.social @felixmuller364.bsky.social

🐋Live from New York🗽: It's Monday morning & the 2nd week of the #BBNJ #PrepCom is about to start. Our own @wenwenlyu.bsky.social is following the #negotiations closely on site & summarized the first week in our newest #blogpost 📝 Read her insightful look behind the scenes here 👇 shorturl.at/2L5Kk

"Allein, dass sich rund 200 Staaten auf ein Abkommen geeinigt haben, ist ein starkes Signal" 💪, so kommentierte @alicevadrot.bsky.social das #Hochseeabkommen 2023 @derstandard.at - was wird die #BBNJ #PrepCom, die gerade in New York 🗽 läuft bringen? Lesetipp: 👇 www.derstandard.at/story/200014...

🐋 🧐 In light of the #BBNJ @alicevadrot.bsky.social & @arnela10.bsky.social reflect on the negotiations that led to the agreement, spanning from 2018 to the adoption of the final text 2023: what alliances were built? Which special interests cristallized? Read up on our blog: www.maripoldata.eu/blog/

🌊🗣️Today the #BBNJ Preparatory conference starts in New York – our researcher @wenwenlyu.bsky.social is on site, observing the #negotiations. To get an overview we recommend our paper “Zooming In on #Agreement-Making” published in Global Environmental #Politics: shorturl.at/ux3LN 👇

🌊Mining in the deep - our own @ehildeb.bsky.social observed the International Seabed Authority’s 30th Session in Kingston, Jamaica, and is sharing his observations on enormous challenges and little steps taken, including a last minute surprise 👀 Read more here 👇 twinpolitics.eu/big-challeng...

🐋Join our team - we are hiring 🙌 Looking for Bachelor and Master students who want to work in the #ERC project #TwinPolitics and who are interested in working in cutting edge research on international #negotiatons ⏱️Deadline: 18. April 2025 More Information here 👀: twinpolitics.eu/join-our-tea...

🌊 A fantastic start to the TwinPolitics Ocean Seminar Series! Insightful discussions and great exchanges on The EU Digital Twin Ocean with Nicolas Segebarth—thank you to all participants for your engagement! Register now to receive the invite for our next session on April 30: shorturl.at/aal48

🚨 Coming up in just one hour! 🚨Join us for the first TwinPolitics Ocean Seminar Series session today from 17:00 to 18:30 CET. Our guest speaker, Nicolas Segebarth, Policy Officer at the European Commission, will dive into "The EU Digital Twin Ocean". Don't miss out—register now: shorturl.at/aal48

🌊 Exciting news! The TwinPolitics Ocean Seminar Programme for March–June 2025 is here! 🌍📅 Mark your calendar for 17:00-18:30 CET, 26th March as we kick off our first session. ✨Register now via mailchi.mp/ed2568d2b8dd... to receive the meeting invite.

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The idea that #biodiversity is an issue that can be shelved in times of conflict or economic problems is absurd. Delegates are in Rome for a UN conference, I've been at the #BOKU 's #biodiversitaetstage talking #NatureRestoration fm4.orf.at/player/20250... via @fm4.orf.at

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How can we standardise biodiversity (meta)data to better protect coastal and marine ecosystems? 🪸 Join Dan Lear at the next MOD Alliance Webinar, hosted by EMBRC’s MARCO-BOLO EU project, to explore this critical topic 📅 19 Feb 2025, 5PM CET #MarineEcology 🧪🦑🌊

At @marco-bolo.bsky.social General Assembly in rainy Sevilla. So many innovative and useful @marco-bolo.bsky.social products to improve the #marine #biodiversity 🦭observations data 🗺️ to policy 👨‍⚖️ value-chain which now need to be brought to stakeholders to be tested and applied.

Bei der von #BirdLife initiierten Wintervogelzählung wurden heuer 645.540 Individuen gezählt, die Kohlmeise flog vor Haus- & Feldsperling wieder auf Platz 1, Bergfinken zeigten sich überraschend oft & in Wien tauchte ein ganz, ganz seltener Gast auf der Liste auf. bit.ly/40EXMeS 🐦

We’re officially a team! The TwinPolitics crew is now complete, and we kicked things off with an inspiring retreat in Payerbach. Excited for the journey ahead and the amazing work we’ll create together 🤝 #TwinPolitics @ercresearch.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @alicevadrot.bsky.social

🌊 Dive into the TwinPolitics Ocean Seminar Series! Join our monthly virtual seminars to explore the challenges and innovations shaping the future of global ocean governance. Open to all ocean enthusiasts! 🔗 Subscribe: mailchi.mp/ed2568d2b8dd... 🌐 Details: twinpolitics.eu/twinpolitics...

Very happy to announce that our #MARIPOLDATAbase shorturl.at/2IrnO with primary data of the 5 year long #BBNJ negotiation process and the accompanying publication are now published: shorturl.at/5sQgQ @alicevadrot.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @gepjournal.bsky.social @ercresearch.bsky.social

The TwinPolitics-Team is now on Bluesky! 👋 Read our latest blogpost on the global plastics treaty negotiations in Busan, Korea, where we discuss the negotiation format and analyze the conflicts over the scope of the treaty. Negotiations will be resumed in 2025. 🔍 twinpolitics.eu/negotiations...

Wenigstens gehen wir mit diesen Bildern vom Heldenplatz in die Geschichtsbücher ein. #w0901

As many of us are moving to this platform, I've created a list of researchers active in global environmental governance. It might be a useful starting point, and I'll continue adding to it as I discover more go.bsky.app/7sZRvzU

New First View Article: “Negotiating regime complexity: Following a regime complex in the making” by Arne Langley and Alice Vadrot. Have a read, it’s Open Access!   www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

More on how specifically the synergies between the Convention on biological diversity and the #BBNJ #HighSeasTreaty could be strengthened: highseasalliance.org/resources/cb...