My former student Dr. Christine Ewers has started a biodiversity analysis consulting business, she has experience with the breadth of genomic data and a fabulous person to work with :) www.drchristineewers.org/biodiversity...

🌿🌱 We’re hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor (potentially open rank) at the Institute of Plant Sciences @unibe.ch in Plant Population Ecology 🌻🌳 Be our colleague and join us in beautiful Bern, Switzerland Apply by Jan 23 2026 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...

As a primatologist, Jane Goodall was a huge inspiration to me. I admired the way she describes chimpanzee behavior with such detail and empathy, and she’s inspired so many people and advocated for chimpanzee conservation and welfare. However, I'm dismayed at what her narrative leaves out (1/10)

🚨 NEW PAPER: eDNA in the Intertidal 🧬 
We explored how eDNA reveals marine biodiversity across UK rocky shores from local patterns to national trends 🌊 
Read it in Journal of Environmental DNA 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #eDNA #Intertidal #Biodiversity #PhDlife

Does body size predict abundance the same way in all environments, as predicted by the Metabolic theory of Ecology? Our new study challenges this assumption. Read it here: 📄 doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Still plenty of time to submit papers to the Annals of Botany special issue on #Macroalgae and #EcosystemServices. Deadline for submissions is Nov 30th! #Kelp #Fucoid #seaweed #CCA @annbot.bsky.social @pippajmoore.bsky.social @jebyrnes.bsky.social @twernberg.bsky.social @chrisecornwall.bsky.social

“We studied more than 70 different elections that took place in 12 western European countries over several decades, and found that when mainstream parties take more anti-immigration positions, it leads to more support for the radical right, not less.”

📢🦋 Our paper ‘Global selection on insect antipredator coloration’ is out and featured on the cover of @science.org We ran a huge experiment to find out how ecological context favours camouflage and warning colouration as antipredator strategies. 1/6 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Still time to apply! Deadline tomorrow for postdoc on #NbS in salt marshes with fantastic Jim van Belzen & Tjeerd Bouma. Going to be fun project & team! 🤩 @jimvanbelzen.bsky.social @jngriffy.bsky.social @melaniejbishop.bsky.social @jebyrnes.bsky.social @aec13.bsky.social @stonelivinglab.bsky.social

Just 1 week left to apply to a 3yr Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in Landscape Multifunctionality here in beautiful Bergen (deadline Oct 1st) www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... The postion is part of the Agroecology Partnership project SAFER www.agroecologypartnership.eu/safer Please repost!

We continue with the process of #participatoryresearch in the #Amazon, #Colombia, in all its stages from beginning to dissemination. Seeking to create bridges between #knowledgesystems. Big 🙏 to @snsf.ch for support and to the Isaza Lab 🇨🇴 and the Cacua Indigenous People 🍃

Five trains and 1200 km later it is the final leg of journeying from Innsbruck to York - lots of work done, seats sat on, sandwiches eaten and 44 kg of #carbon emitted vs the 72kg of carbon by coach or 175 kg by air @uoyenvironment.bsky.social @rolandgehrels.bsky.social

Postdoc opportunity at University College Cork Ireland 🇮🇪. Interdisciplinary approaches to urban coastlines & multispecies relations. 🚶‍♀️🐚👨‍⚕️🦀👩‍🔬🪸👤🐟 Open to EU & non-EU applicants 🌎 Deadline 3rd Oct. Interviews 9th & 10th Oct. #LivingSeawall #EcoEngineering #Sustainability my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru...

We’re hiring (again)! 🌊🐟 Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (≈ US Assistant Prof) in marine biology/marine ecology @ Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington, NZ. NZ lifestyle, fantastic temperate reefs, a marine lab by the sea, & great colleagues 🌊 Apply here 👉 tinyurl.com/366jnm5d

Well done to Franz Bauer for collecting the 2 year dataset on the biodiversity colonising the Living Seawalls in Plymouth. Fucoid algae continues to dominate. 🤎 Many new species moving in..🦀🐌🪸

What are the interconnections between livelihoods, biodiversity, and the services that connect the two? Maria J. Santos (University of Zurich) will address this question at our Biodiversity Seminar today. Join us in-person or online! 10 Sep at 11 am CEST biodiversitycenter.wsl.ch/en/events/de...

📢 New in Ecology Letters: heterogeneity ≠ stability. 🌊🪨 3-yr rocky-shore experiment: 4 cascades canceled the classic heterogeneity–stability link. 📄 doi.org/10.1111/ele.70158 With @thefairchild.bsky.social , @MatthewPerkins, @JamesBull & @jngriffy.bsky.social — thanks to @NERC & @SwanseaUniversity.

The Israeli government has adopted the double-strike tactic used by Bashar al-Assad in Syria: target a hospital or heavily populated area, then hit it again when rescue workers, reporters and medics turn up, to kill or maim them too. Hideous war crimes piled one upon another.

Very well done @robingauff.bsky.social 🙌 🙌 🙌 Proud to be a co-author on this paper doi.org/10.106/j.sci... sharing with #ITRS ocean sprawl community 🪨🌊🦀🪸🐚🌱@louisefirth.bsky.social @melaniejbishop.bsky.social @cariocamayer.bsky.social @anaellelemasson.bsky.social @ifremer.bsky.social

New #ScienceCommunication website blog from me. Here, I look at another recent #megalodon study - one that used zinc isotopes & found that the giant shark wasn't just a whale killer; but probably ate whatever it wanted. Give a read here: www.drjackacooper.com/writing/mega... 🦈

This review clearly shows that macroalgal decomposition rates vary significantly between experimental approaches and are severely underestimated when a refractory pool is not considered, impacting scaled-up estimates of macroalgal carbon export to the deep ocean 🌊🌱

New online! Emerging uses of artificial intelligence in deep time biodiversity research

Check out our perceptive on the Emerging uses of artificial intelligence in deep time biodiversity research www.nature.com/articles/s44... #AI #paleontology

No explanation needed. The Met police and Yvette Cooper MP should be ashamed.

No, seriously, any Labour MP who doesn't resign the whip is complicit in suppression of the exercise of free and fair speech criticising an ongoing genocide. Parliament must be recalled, this is a crisis. www.bbc.com/news/article...

When everything feels urgent, joy can seem indulgent. But maybe it’s essential — for resilience, connection, even good ideas. A short reflection on why joy matters, even in a world on fire.

This is huge. For years there's been a misconception that it's psychological and all in your head. We can already show changes in blood vessels, muscle tissue, etc. Now we see the genes that show ME/CFS disposition are NOT the same as the genes that show disposition for depression/anxiety/etc.

Doctoral position on genomic basis of Fucus (brown algal) local adaptation - join our exciting #Fubluc team! Fully funded for 3.5 years & we also consider candidates with strong molecular or bioinformatic skillls but no marine / algal experience, see www.geomar.de/en/karriere/...

It cannot be denied: this is a deliberate and coldly-calculated famine, engineered by a technologically-advanced state which knows exactly what it is doing. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Just out! 10-yr labour of love exploring how Plymouth’s coastline transformed over centuries by land reclamation & how changes are often forgotten. Shout out to incredible crack team: historians, geologists, remote sensors, archaeologists, artists, ecologists🧠🌍🎨 www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

The CPEG & CPB meeting is officially underway! 🎉 We kicked things off with two fantastic workshop sessions: 📊 R-based open data science in palaeobiology and ecology 🧠 Deep learning for macroevolutionary analyses Big thanks to all our speakers and participants - spot yourself below! #CPEGCPB25

You can officially call me Dr of Sharks now! 🦈 Delighted to have graduated from my PhD yesterday; and to get to celebrate with my family & girlfriend & my brilliant supervisors Catalina & John. The support has been immense & I've made some great pals in Swansea over the 4 years 🦈

Mass starvation spreading across Gaza, aid agencies warn, as pressure on Israel grows – Middle East crisis live www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

📑 #NewStudy by Marinovich et al. investigates how the gape size of snapper affects the size of sea urchins they eat. This adds more knowledge to the ecosystem interactions between fish, urchins and the transformation of habitat from seaweed forest to urchin barrens. 👀 doi.org/10.3354/meps...

How can the world just keep ignoring this? I just don't get it, I really don't. This is the systematic destruction of a country and its people. It is genocide, and it has been for a very long time now.

We had a really positive experience publishing in an AoB special issue a few years back. Robust reviews and editing and ultimately a great venue for the work. Highly recommended. Deadline for this exciting SI is end of November.

New paper out! 🐟🌿 We studied intertidal fish communities in Iceland & the effects of Ascophyllum nodosum harvesting. Juvenile gadoids relied on these habitats and harvesting showed subtle effects on fish size & diet. 📖 Open access: doi.org/10.1017/S002... #MarineEcology #Iceland

🌿🌊Annals of Botany invites submissions to a new Special Issue on "Macroalgae and ecosystem services", edited by AoB editors Mick Hanley and Kira Krumhansl and guest editor Louise Firth. (1/3) @louisefirth.bsky.social

Thank you so much to @bps-algae.bsky.social for funding me to attend this conference! 🫶

Such a cool project presented by Shane Farrell here at #ITRS2025. Ecology of kelp forests and turf algae meets chemical ecology. Check out the Science paper: www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1... 🧪🦑

Great talk by Franz Bauer on carbon storage potential of @livingseawalls.bsky.social at International Temperate Reefs Symposium #ITRS. Need more carbon neutral concretes. @benthicecol.bsky.social @jngriffy.bsky.social

Sally Henderson making a strong case for the potential of #Limpets to play a role in Self-cleaning slipways. Nature based Solution #NbS. International Temperate Reefs Symposium #ITRS @jngriffy.bsky.social

Finally wrote that blog on this new #megalodon paper! 🦈 Hop on to my website to read me writing about this paper & what it indicates about megalodon biology. Many thanks to Phil Sternes & Kenshu Shimada for discussing their work with me 🦈 Read here: www.drjackacooper.com/writing/mega...

Great to see the new paper picking up so much traction in the press www.theguardian.com/environment/....

🏖️ Beach access is a right, not a luxury. Our new study led by @stamatiadouv.bsky.social reveals €57M lost yearly in Greece because many #wheelchair users are excluded from the coast. Time to invest in truly inclusive beaches. 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ma... #MarineEcology #EcosystemServices #GES4SEAS 🧪🌍🌐

I'm super-excited about #ITRS2025 (itrs-home.org) next week! So much interesting and nerdy science about temperate reefs. Really looking forward to meet all the people there, e.g. @jebyrnes.bsky.social @brackenlab.bsky.social @jngriffy.bsky.social Oh, and the crêpes and cider.

There is no justification whatsoever for the US or UK to provide any support, material or diplomatic, for Israel's attack on Iran. It is a war of aggression, clearly contrary to international law.

Collage of historical pressings by Mary Snyder for #PhycologyFriday

Conserving the beauty of the world’s reef fish assemblages 💙 Check out our last paper @pnas.org We mapped what makes reef fish assemblages beautiful worldwide! 🌍 MPAs boost aesthetic, and developing countries have a chance to align conservation with local benefits doi.org/10.1073/pnas... 🌐🧪🦑🦤