Norway's biggest newspaper VG picked up our turtle rescue story! 🤩 Great coverage of the EAF Nansen programme, marine sustainability challenges & R/V Dr. Fridtjof Nansen alongside the main rescue story. Thrilled with how it turned out! 🦑🧪 www.vg.no/nyheter/i/KM...

Two videos showing the release of one of the sea-turtles 🐢 we rescued from the ghost net we encountered yesterday in the Bay of Bengal . Very impressed by the skill and efficiency of the R/V Dr. Fridtjof Nansen Crew! 😊 🧪🦑

🐢 SEA TURTLE RESCUE! 🐢 450km from land in Bay of Bengal, we found 2 sea turtles trapped in a ghost net. Our crew quickly freed both turtles & retrieved the dangerous net. Two lives saved, one less threat in our oceans! #SeaTurtles #GhostFishing #OceanRescue

📣 New paper out! Ecosystem approach to capelin fisheries #marsocsci link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🐍 Snake-news is apparently very popular The IMR facebook post has been picked up by a Norwegian online news media. A bit sensational headline, "Horror-catch" 😂, but the article itself is true to what I sent to the journalist. 🦑 sol.no/nyheter/skre...

Relieved that the Labour party continues to lead the 🇳🇴 government for the next four years. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Lots of fishing boats around us this morning in the Bay of Bengal. They're fishing for hilsa (Tenualosa ilisha), the national fish of Bangladesh, a high-price, fast-swimming schooling pelagic fish species. 🦑🧪

🌊 After the gale passe, Bangladesh's waters come alive! Off-shore shelf: modern trawlers meet traditional wooden boats. Nearshore: 30,000+ small artisanal vessels create livelihoods for coastal communities 🎣 #Bangladesh #Fishing 🦑

Venomous seasnakes are common here in the Bay of Bengal, and we have to be very careful sorting our trawl catches, handling any snakes we catch safely and with care. Our team is trained & we follow a strict protocal. After being weighed and photographed the snakes are released back to sea 🧪🦑🐍

We're using a camera system mounted in the trawl to see what passes through the trawl at different depths (DeepVision). A great tool to see what is actually in the different layers we see on the echosounder. (see this paper by my colleagues for more details: academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...)

So, Bird-bluesky: What species of bird is this? It has been hanging around our research vessel all day in the middle of the Bay of Bengal. nyckel.com thinks it is a 'Short Billed Dowitcher', but only with a 48% confidence. 🧪🦑🐦🦆

🇧🇩 MILESTONE MOMENT! Just crossed into Bangladesh EEZ in the Bay of Bengal and got a call from the Minister of Fisheries herself! First time EVER a minister has personally reached out to learn about our research. Talk about validation for the science! The team is absolutely buzzing right now 🙌 🦑🧪

After 3 days sailing from Colombo 🇱🇰 we arrived at our first station in international waters in the Bay of Bengal. We measured water chemistry, temperature, salinity ++ to 2750m depth. The trawl sampled fish and plankton in the upper 150m, and surprisingly caught a lot of swimming crabs. 🧪🦑

A potential game-changer for feeding bees 🐝: A new nutritionally tailored food supplement which is cost-effective and can provide a sustainable solution to help tackle the devastating decline in honeybees. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Blue whales 🐋 ahead!! Passed a pod of three blue whales south of Sri Lanka (~20km offshore). These ocean giants aggregate in this area, so we hope for more sightings😅 🦑🧪

Off to adventures in the Bay of Bengal😀 Starting a 32-day #EAFNansen fisheries & ecosystem survey in Bangladesh tomorrow. Colombo 🇱🇰 is our start and end port, & today we were visited by the 🇱🇰 minister of fisheries who got a tour of the vessel 🧪🦑

New article published today by my colleague @bjornsamset.bsky.social in Nature Comms: Earth and Environment. Evidence from eight Earth System Models that the reduction in East Asia's (primarily China's) air pollution is consistent with the sharper growth in warming.

Sustainable ocean planning & management is key if we are to solve ocean sustainability challenges & the triple-planetary crisis. www.khrono.no/havets-framt... 🦑🐟

What an Ocean-day in Nice!😀 Very successful India - Norway event on the tall ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl today co-hosted by the Indian minister for Earth Sciences and the Norwegian Minister for Development & with HRH Crown-Prince Haakon as guest of honour.🤩 🦑

Local newspaper @bergenstidende.bsky.social published an article on the #MEGAMOVE paper on area-use by marine mega-fauna www.bt.no/innenriks/i/... 🤩 @anammsequeira.bsky.social 🦑

UN-Backed Study Highlights How Tracking Ocean Giants Advances Marine Conservation A groundbreaking global initiative, known as MegaMove, has brought together nearly 400 scientists from over 50 countries in an unprecedented effort to map the space use of more than 110 species of marine megafauna.…

📢A MegaMove milestone has just been published in @ScienceMagazine! With ~380 collaborators from 50 countries, we mapped the movements of 12k+ marine megafauna to identify key habitats 🌊🐋🦈 @pewenvironment.bsky.social @uwaoceans.bsky.social www.sequeiralab.com/news/megamov...

New mega-paper on mega-fauna movement and area use out in Science: 6.8million locations, 111 species spanning all oceans. Great job by @anammsequeira.bsky.social & team. Honored to be among the >400 authors she pulled together: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The EAF Nansen programme which is developing & promoting more sustainable fisheries management, celebrates it's 50th anniversary in 2025!🥳🎉 The animation below shows where we've carried out surveys since 1975. Read about our achievements in this (translated) article: tinyurl.com/bdf65t38

Trump loves Norway! But I wonder what he likes the most about my country. There’s a lot to love!

The Nansen Programme Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries (EAF) Transformative Research Challenge Price for 2025 has been launched. youth.world-food-forum.org/innovation-l... Application deadline May 9th!

If the planned cuts to NOAA go through it will be devastating for climate and fisheries science, both in the US & globally www.npr.org/2025/04/11/n...

Today FAO’s Council discussed «Global food security challenges & drivers». Almost all highlighted increased hunger & the need of multilateral solutions. 🇺🇸 instead demanded that FAO should get back to its core mandate, ditch DEI , & that US support to FAO should directly benefit US taxpayers 😣

This map (by @theguardian.com ) really shows how #TrumpTarriffs hit the global south. No more US support for global development that's for sure. Better let the people Madagascar, Lesotho, Cambodia, Laos & many more suffer & continue living in poverty. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

In all the outrage on how #TrumpTarrifs will impact EU, & the west, effects on the Global South is worse. Lesotho, Cambodia, Laos & Madagascar get ̈47-50% tarrifs 😡. These are among the worlds 30% least developed nations & need help to grow their economies, not destroy them. tinyurl.com/4rmkfrtt

Goodbye freedom of speech, and no travels to the US the coming 3,5 years for me. Seems that writing private messages being critical of Trump will get you denied entry to the US 😪 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Excellent talk by @dickeycollas.bsky.social showing the connections between EAFM, defining bioregions and the CBD convention.

Good ecosystem state analysis excellently explained by @jangeerthiddink.bsky.social at EAFM in ABNJ Symposium

📢Live from Rome - Science, management, & developing guidance for #EAFM implementation in the deep-sea 11-13 March @fao.org Applying the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management in ABNJ 📢 If you can't be in Rome, don't worry! The symposium will be livestreamed More info 👉 ices.dk/news-and-eve...

Feeling small and awed in Basilica San Giovanni in Laterno (the oldest papal church in Rome)

Today is the 1 year anniversary of my favorite paper on #marine ecosystem-based management. Here are some statistics about the performance of the paper thus far: citations 14, in the top 5% of all research tracked by #altmetric🧪🌊🦑 #EBM Read the #openaccess paper here www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Not even the best satire writer in the world could have come up with “Red, White, and Blueland”

The Danes made my day :-D denmarkification.com#testimonials

Happy International Day of Women & Girls in Science🌊 We asked Marta Ferraro @marineinst.bsky.social about the importance of community - 🗣Community & mentorship play an important role in empowering #WomenInSTEM, just as human knowledge & connection are essential for our ability to thrive.

First work-week in FAO, Rome where I’m a visiting scientist until May. Looking forward to the weekend for seeing sights & savoring the atmosphere, food and drinks 😎 Pics: -The main hall at FAO. -St.Peters basilica seen through a keyhole in Aventino. - Pantheon. -My apartment building in Testaccio

Today encrypted communication has suddenly become important for everyone wanting to #resist the Trump/Musk coup & the US gag-order. I'm no expert, but I've started using @signal.org for secure messaging, and ProtonMail (@proton.me) for email.

Be like Ellen and stand up against the coup 💪

So now the Trump/Musk craziness (aka. coup) is coming for NOAA, and not just the climate change and DEI parts. ALL communications with foreigners is halted. So in case you don't hear back from NOAA friends and colleagues today - this is the reason .

@dorothydankel.bsky.social Welcome to the light side😀

Finally some practical use for condensed matter physics: perfecting the way to prepare "cacio e pepe" pasta 😁 www.popsci.com/science/perf... 🧪🍝

Hilborn: most foregone food from marine fisheries is from underfishing and not overfishing academic.oup.com/icesjms/adva...

New Article "Charting a science course for the sustainable transformation of aquatic food systems" out in #ICESJMS. Based on a working group report on the UN Ocean Decade Challenge 3: "How to sustainably nourish the global population" #UNOD, #UNESCO #IOC @fao.org doi.org/10.1093/ices...

🆕Hot off the press!🗞️A co-authored article on validation protocols for qualitative models of marine social-ecological systems. 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.cr... (led by Bruno Oliveira et al, e.g. @drangelborja.bsky.social)

How many #pelagic #fish 🐠🐟 are left in #Oslofjorden? We are currently conducting an acoustic survey right outside #oslo city center in front of #Akerbryggen and see plenty of #sprat #herring and #anchovy #MarineEcology 🦑 🧪

A really useful starter-pack of marine institutes. Highly recommended!