Another critique showing that the Sala et al. 2021 estimate of carbon release by bottom trawling is ridiculous. It estimates an increase in NW European shelf OC mineralization of 0.27 Mt C yr−1, which is an order of magnitude smaller the previous estimates. academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...

stats.stackexchange.com/a/140579 Opportunity to plug one of the great StackOverflow answers

Old but gold: How including data on behaviour, morphology and life-history can improve our ability to predict population collapse?🕐🐳🦭🐀🦤📉 Find out at @natecoevo.nature.com here: rdcu.be/c4dXqVery, with @expecocons.bsky.social @dzchilds.bsky.social

🗞️ New article in Biogeosciences #EGU by Nathaelle Bouttes et al. ⬇️

New paper out, lead by Johanne Vad! Interested in what drives cold-water coral and sponge community composition and size structure in the Labrador Sea? Check it out ⬇️⬇️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🌊 More images from Otto Fiord which is above 80 N on the west side of Ellesmere Island, Nunavut 🇨🇦 in the Arctic. Sofie Ohrling is heading out from the icebreaker on a zodiac to sample near the glacier front and nearshore for trace elements @geotraces.bsky.social @uvicscience.bsky.social

Fascinating dive in a kelp forest to urchin barren transition zone yesterday in Monterey! 🌊🤿

Correcting environmental sampling bias improves transferability of species distribution models vist.ly/46kcu #ENM #GBIF

Do birds tune their songs to their hearing? Is there tight coevolution between avian vocal signals and hearing-or do signallers and perceivers evolve more loosely? It turns out perfect tuning is not required... Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #bioacoustics #prattle 💬 #ornithology 🪶

How much do tides vary at your shoreline? The greatest variation can be found at the Bay of Fundy in North America where tide variation reaches 16 meters. It's a fascinating map to study. Have a look at the coastal areas that you are familiar with from your travels.

Het warme water in de oceaan houdt eerder op met stromen

Light pollution is causing birds around the world to sing for longer each day, prolonging their vocalizations on average by 50 minutes, according to a new study in Science. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Uz7vzP

This resonates strongly… (As it says “scientists”, economists are excluded 😉).

Pacific oysters in British Columbia died in a mass mortality event in 2020. A study identifies the cause: Pacific Oyster Nidovirus 1. The virus possesses one of the largest reported genomes for an RNA virus at 64,331 base pairs. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

"if we plan restoration targets to match future climatic conditions and consider state transitions of currently natural ecosystems due to climate change, the potential for natural climate solutions related to ecosystem restoration is close to zero." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interested in doing a 3-month #internship on treehopper vibrational communication at STRI in Panama? 🤩 Check this out: stri.si.edu/academic-pro... Contact me for more info! #AnimalBehavior

#rstats So chuffed! I printed the first PDF copy of my book to see what it might look like in print! It will be printed in full color! Visualizing Multivariate Data and Models in R On the whole, looks good, but lots of tweaking to do. It weighs in at ~440 pgs., so perhaps some cutting needed.

Short paper showing how phenology responds nonlinearly to warming (and why summed degree-days are better than days/°C) www.nature.com/articles/s44...

📢 deeptime: an R package that facilitates highly customizable and reproducible visualizations of data over geological time intervals 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2096... Fully #openaccess in @bigearthdata1.bsky.social with insight about deeptime📦 development and code examples! #rstats #geology #paleontology

For the morning crowd: NASA employees have revealed that the Trump admin, via Sean Duffy, have secretly directed them to make plans to terminate two highly successful, widely-used carbon monitoring satellites, despite warnings from lawmakers that doing so would be illegal. 🧪🛰️

☀️August Issue Out Now!☀️ 📙South-west Finnish Archipelago, the study site in the article ‘Marine heatwaves amplify benthic community metabolism and solute flux in a seafloor heating experiment’, which features in this issue. Credit: Alf Norkko🌊 💡Read it here: 👉 buff.ly/JTXdj1C 🧪🌍

🧪🌊 This is cool! @usocb.bsky.social @solas-ipo.bsky.social oceanobservatories.org/2025/08/unpr...

OPINION Counterintuitive Range Shifts May Be Explained by Climate Induced Changes in Biotic Interactions 🔗 buff.ly/4Uf5v3p

I still have my (many) reservations about ocean alkalinity enhancement. But I'm very happy to see this sort of study about it, looking at how it may affect plankton. Also, the title is brilliant. 🧪🌊 Link: aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

New research led by Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales and involving School of Ocean Sciences @bangoruniversity.bsky.social found genetic connectivity in a deep sea species over 1000s of km, but genetic isolation over depth. Read all about it here: academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

🎉New preprint! "TADA! Simple guidelines to improve code sharing" tinyurl.com/8rmnwjrk We present simple guidelines to help researchers of all coding levels improve the transparency and reproducibility of their analytical code, TADA! Transferable, Accessible, Documented, Annotated.

How do tropical #trees deal with droughts? The answer is published today in @science.org Our pantropical #treering analysis revealed 2.5% growth reduction during #drought years. Yet, growth declined by >10% in 1/4 of 500 study sites, and in hotter & drier regions. doi.org/10.1126/scie... 🌍🍁🌐 (1/4)

This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered

My latest: Polar scientists warn that the White House and NSF are planning to terminate the Nathaniel Palmer, the only US research icebreaker capable of handling Antarctic extremes, this October. So far the plan has seen minimal pushback from Congress.

How much nitrogen are plants taking up from the soil? How efficient are they at building biomass with it? Are models doing a good job assessing it? Find your answers in our last publication (open access!): esd.copernicus.org/articles/16/...

“Sponges are among the least studied organisms in Peru, along with many others that at first glance seem to have no significant importance to humans. As a result, the biodiversity of our country is highly undervalued” — Hugo Vicente, sponge biologist Read the article oceancensus.org/more-than-ju...

De publiekssamenvatting is al verschenen: www.waddenacademie.nl/nieuws/nieuw...

In the documentary, I mention that the first experimental deep-sea mining site just barely missed dredging up the world's largest cold water coral reef. Here's my write up of that discovery: www.southernfriedscience.com/the-worlds-l...

'Behoud van bestaande koraalriffen is veel effectiever én goedkoper dan achteraf proberen te herstellen wat verloren is gegaan', schrijft Naturalis-onderzoeker Lisa Becking in Trouw. www.trouw.nl/opinie/opini...

Analysis of data on 971 bird species in Colombia finds that near-national-scale losses of bird diversity greatly exceed losses recorded at the local scale, suggesting that extrapolations from local studies will severely underestimate biodiversity losses www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪

have you heard about the fish that forgot its migration? herring used to feed in northern Norway and migrate south (>1000km) to spawn a few years ago they abruptly stopped doing that authors think older adults were overfished & didn't "teach" younger fish to migrate! doi.org/10.1038/s415...

#JustOut: "Spatial distribution of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in natural and restored intertidal wetlands in the Scheldt estuary" 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Take a stroll on the Arctic Ocean..

Live from the #Arctic #Ocean: Watch real-time webcams of the ocean surface and the underside of the sea ice! +1 station to come. #CONTRASTS 🌊❄️🛰️ awi.panomax.com/ice1_surface awi.panomax.com/ice2_surface awi.panomax.com/ice1_water awi.panomax.com/ice2_water follow-polarstern.awi.de/blog/18-07-2...

How a small number of authors can cause chaos in biology’s system for naming species and what can be done about it. #taxonomy #bugsky thebiologist.rsb.org.uk/biologist-fe...

Could the same tools that bring us Internet and phone service be used to monitor the seafloor? New #AGUPubs research investigates. 🧪 eos.org/research-spo...

An exciting new study from our group, led by @polarguy.bsky.social, sheds light on the ancient pre-glacial landscape beneath East Antarctica and how an extensive network of fluvial surfaces has modulated subsequent ice sheet response to climate. Read more here! 👇❄️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

Voor mij nieuw dit. Laatste keer dat ik WeTransfer heb gebruikt.

ICYMI: New online! Marine heatwaves as hot spots of climate change and impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services

Salt marshes that look healthy aboveground may be losing biomass in their roots, according to a study of spartina marshes on the coast of Georgia between 2014 and 2023. This below-ground biomass loss could be a harbinger of salt marsh loss. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We are super proud of this paper led by @jcuofficial.bsky.social PhD student @joelgaylard.bsky.social - so cool that #sharks follow these centuries-old mathematical scaling 'rules' almost perfectly!!

Data on how ecosystems evolve over geologic time may be key to understanding modern-day ecosystem changes. A study of marine biomass over the past 541 million years gets scientists one step closer.