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... 🌐🧪🦑🦤

Pleased to share my first website blog! We've seen great white sharks disappear in South Africa; whether down to orcas or something else. What effects do we see when this apex predator is lost? Well, a recent study answered it 🦈 Give it a read here: www.drjackacooper.com/writing/a-re...

We need an experienced Project Manager to play a pivotal role in a multi-partner, multi-disciplinary project exploring cultural, social, and ecological dimensions of #biophilic retrofitting (integrating nature into buildings), adapting our cities to climate change. www.swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swan...

Louder for the people in the back: "It has been a public health failure that the public does not realize how much organ damage #COVID infection can cause to things that aren’t your lungs (or throat or nose or taste buds)." The image below is based on data collected from 80,071 kids and teens:

Do you want to know about past, present, future of rocky shores? ➡️ shorturl.at/WSeZb We revisited 25-year predictions made in 2002 by Thompson et al, assessed where we are now & forecast the next 25 years 🧪🌐🌊🐙 Huge team effort 🙌 ⬇️... @louisefirth.bsky.social y.social @benthicecol.bsky.social

Herculean collation of >12K megafauna tracks, >100 species, reveals 75% overlap of critical habitats with shipping, fishing, pollution or warming. Protection targets not enough to safeguard megafauna. New paper in @science.org, led by @anammsequeira.bsky.social 👇 📸silvana-palacios,daniel-torobekov

Our new paper is out to day in Nature Ecology and Evolution! It is called: Thresholds of functional trait diversity driven by land use intensification ⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... #FunctionalTraits 🌐 ➕📏 @inrae-france.bsky.social @urep.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @bexplo.bsky.social

New paper in @behavecol.bsky.social (link: academic.oup.com/beheco/advan...) led by PhD student @marcofele.bsky.social using hard-won data from our amazing baboon team. Our @swanseauni.bsky.social press release: www.swansea.ac.uk/press-office... We introduce the idea of a "social spandrel".....

We are advertising a 28-mo postdoc on hybrid #ecoengineering in #saltmarshes @ University College Cork, @ucc.ie 🇮🇪🇪🇺. Ref no 087274. EU & @marineinst.bsky.social funded BLUESHORES Project. State date: 1st Sept 2025. Salary: €45,847–€52,339. 🌱🌊🦀🐌 See link: universityvacancies.com/university-c...

Not the future I hope for.. I haven’t been to the #GoldCoast since cyclone Alfred caused massive #erosion and understand restoration has been challenging, but devastated at transformation of normally idyllic beaches & glimpse of what’s ahead if we don’t act on #ClimateChange. No swim for me today ☹️

If you think the seasons are feeling… different, you may be right. Our new review in Science (@science.org) shows that Earth’s changing rhythms could have major and underestimated consequences for life on Earth. 🌍🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...