Seaweed selfie! Collecting Alaskan *Alaria* for our global canopy-forming #seaweed traits network! @intertidaleco.bsky.social @jngriffy.bsky.social #PhycologyFriday #MarineLife🦑🌊

Mexico has already beaten England

Look at that: 2 #megalodon papers in 2 days! 🦈🚨 This paper re-assesses a hypothesis that Bergmann's rule affected Meg size; & provides multiple lines of statistical evidence to support widespread nursery use instead 🦈 Many congrats to the authors: doi.org/10.1002/spp2... 🦈

Opening plenary of the 2026 World Biodiversity Forum with a plea by Becky Chaplin-Kramer to emphasize successes in restoring biodiversity and bending the curve @worldbioforum.bsky.social #wbf2026

Excited to be in Davos for #WBF2026! And *really* looking forward to this discussion of what to do about the lack of a biodiversity analogue of the World Climate Research Program. Please do come along and contribute - Wednesday, 12:00-13:00, in room Wisshorn! And please pass the word on 😀.

Great discussions yesterday at #EARSeL2026 on bridging the gap between 1D and 3D vegetation modelling. I presented SILVO, a lightweight 3D illumination model designed to explicitly represent canopy heterogeneity. Thanks to everyone for the insightful feedback. 🌳🛰️ @iascsic.bsky.social @uco.es

I’m really excited about this paper, which links #seaweed species’ nitrate uptake & photosynthesis rates w/ functional #traits, providing a predictive framework for understanding roles in nutrient cycling & productivity. 🌊🦑🧪📏🌐 @jngriffy.bsky.social @intertidaleco.bsky.social @mle425.bsky.social

Temporal shifts in kelp forest structure and distribution largely reflect recent ocean warming trends vist.ly/55kj2 #KelpForests #OceanWarming #SpeciesDistribution

There was a time, not long ago, when peaceful protestors were never sent to jail in the UK But at least 286 people have been locked up for protesting climate breakdown and genocide in recent years It's a fucking scandal

*JOB* We are seeking a marine ecologist to investigate how physical disturbance - bottom trawling - influence carbon, nutrient and greenhouse gases. The advert is now live until 08/06/2026. PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY. jobs.soton.ac.uk/3416326HN

1st chilly 🥶 day of fieldwork for the biogeographic #befscale fucoid resilience project. Bit short on fucoids even in our control plots 😬 Electric Blue envloggers are a go for hourly 🌡️ data. Lodonnec tomorrow! Good luck @rubygeorge.bsky.social with your last batch of PhD data 📉 💪🏻

Amazing first day yesterday in the field in Sao Paulo state for our @britishecologicalsociety.org funded working group on forest restoration! First, Pedro Brancalion led us on a tour of the nursery of re.green, which produces >2 million seedlings of >100 species per year for forest restoration (!)

Tom's first publication from his PhD and a great review of substrate-borne vibration on embryonic and newly hatched marine invertebrates file:///Users/novamieszkowska/Downloads/978-3-031-94229-7_220-2.pdf @livuniresearch.bsky.social @thembauk.bsky.social

Wrapping up the Easter holidays with a new paper in #EcologyLetters. Our latest study shows how ocean acidification reshapes temperate marine communities and their ecosystem functioning 🌐🌊🦑🧪👇🧵

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So far, 47 participants from 25 countries signed up to take part in our global bioturbation experiment across freshwater, terrestrial and marine ecosystems. No prior experience needed and we’ll send you a bioturbation kit - to join in, sign up here: www.thermalecologyalliance.org/projects

Our new short communication is out in Aquatic Botany! 🌊 We show how the key canopy-former in the Atlantic, Fucus serratus, shifts its form and function along wave-exposure gradients. #seaweed #rockyshores #marine #ecology #intraspecific #traits doi.org/10.1016/j.aquabot.2026.104021

Sunrise #seaweed sampling. #PhycologyFriday #MarineLife 🦑🌊🌄

“Since March last year, it has affected 20,000 sq km of coast – an area twice the size of greater Sydney – and ranks among the worst for marine mass mortality globally, killing millions of sea creatures” “the most awful, tragic thing I’ve personally seen in the ocean in my 40-year career”.

The University of Tübingen seeks applications for a W3-Professorship in Experimental Biodiversity Research starting Oct 1, 2027. Apply by April 26, 2026. More info: https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/213700. #job

Our review of #trait - based approaches to ecological restoration is finally out in @esajournals.bsky.social *Ecological Applications*, highlighting the value of functional traits for creating system-general restoration strategies. 🌐 🧮➕📏 urldefense.com/v3/__http://...

📢 Save the date! The 59th European Marine Biology Symposium ( #EMBS59 ) will take place 7–10 July 2026 in Peniche, Portugal 🇵🇹 🌊 Hosted by ESTM (Polytechnic of Leiria) & MARE 📍 Coastal campus overlooking the Berlengas UNESCO Biosphere Reserve 🙌 More here👇 www.embs-symposium.com

El cambio climático está perdiendo la capacidad de sorprendernos: ya intuimos que se superará al año siguiente. Los gráficos de principios de 2026 se parecen tanto q casi da igual la localidad o el parámetro analizado. Izq. lluvias en Grazalema; derecha emisiones de carbono de incendios de Argentina

A summary of our recent #research exploring how #amphibian diversity and threats vary across elevational zones in the #Colombian #Andes 🧪🦤🐸🌐🌎

Essential listening this week… The seashore is most people’s window on the ocean. In this episode, Professor Hawkins reviews the main threats to coastal seas, and asks, how do predictions of impacts on rocky shores hold up a quarter century on? 🎧 Listen now buzzsprout.com/1958156/episodes/18474004

⏩️❓️‼️ If you have your biogeography research to be published, there is the perfect journal with an impact factor of 2.5 & being led & driven by a great society @biogeography.bsky.social🎉‼️⏪️ ❤️FRONTIERS OF BIOGEOGRAPHY❤️ biogeography.pensoft.net #tibs2026 #macroecology @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social

Wrote about how disappointing it is that Jon Stewart punched down on people masking at @motherjones.com, when people should mind their own business and leave mask wearers be. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Love this short opinion piece on “mechanical bypass” in analogy to “spiritual bypass”.

New postdoctoral fellowship opportunity! Please pass along. Excited to announce the launch of the Tom Lovejoy Fellowship Program at the University of Arizona for innovative research to protect species, sustain ecosystems, and promote a thriving planet lovejoycenter.arizona.edu/lovejoy-fell... 🧪🌐🌾

New paper alert! We reconstructed the diversification trajectory of sharks & rays over the past 145 myrs to answer: When did they experience major extinction events? Does age play a role in extinction selectivity? If so, does it change with extinction intensity? 👉 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Happy to share that our paper is out in @jappliedecology.bsky.social 😄 Experimentally increasing structural heterogeneity in forest landscapes (deadwood + canopy gaps) boosts taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity of hoverflies 🪰🌳 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

More than a year ago researchers from @hifmb.de and @icbm-uol.bsky.social started to write about different perspectives on marine biodiversity change from natural and social science perspectives. This morphed into a review paper that was published online today link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧪

🧪🦤🌐 How are terrestrial arthropod assemblages in tidal marshes shaped? Environmental filters and species traits drive metacommunity patterns in SW-Atlantic marshes. Connectivity matters—preserving habitat links is key for coastal biodiversity. bit.ly/meps_775_53

This quarter, in our weekly meeting of ecologists in the department, we’re observing & journaling about patterns in nature. Because of our lab’s recent focus on seaweeds’ morphological traits, we led a cyanotype activity today. It was super-fun, & the results were great! #PhycologyFriday #SciArt 🌊🦑🐡

How did you celebrate #KingTides ? @ehsellinger.bsky.social and team had us out on the mudflats tonight ♥️

Whooop! New paper online! "A Systems Perspective: How Social–Ecological Networks Can Improve Our Understanding and Management of Biological Invasions" Phenomenal effort by Fiona Rickowski to pull this all together, wrangling a large co-author/bag-of-cats team into shape! doi.org/10.1093/bios...

🚨Two funded PhDs on the evolutionary ecology of antipredator colouration 🦋 with myself and Iliana Medina. One in Swansea tinyurl.com/4thtbph6 deadline Jan 12th @crocus-dla.bsky.social The other in Melbourne - deadline Jan 1st Please share among potential students!

Awesome PhD opportunity, deadline in one week! Please re-post.

🚨 Job alert 🚨 Postdoc position in ecological forecasting 📈 as part of the Horizon Europe OSCARS call. The postdoc will be based in lovely Sevilla (fantastic place to live) and will include working closely with several European forecasting projects. Apply by Dec 11! 🌎🧪 globalchangeeco.com/jobs

what a difference two years makes... #COP28 > #COP30 we absolutely must end fossil fuels – for the climate, for nature, for human rights, for our air and water, for our energy bills

Check out our review in @annualreviews.bsky.social on the intricate interplay between the evolutionary adaptations that enabled some marine animals to reach gigantism, the their environmental context & the ecological consequences in marine habitats #oceangiants www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

1 of 2 days fieldwork (the ☀️ day!) in Brittany for the #befscale fucoid disturbance-resilience biogeographic study - aka Ruby’s PhD! More and more #sabellaria 🍯 🪱 + 100’s of by-the-wind sailors brought by hurricane Melissa @rubygeorge.bsky.social @jngriffy.bsky.social @pippajmoore.bsky.social

🧪🦤🌐 This study examines macrobenthic communities in eight deep sub-Arctic fjord basins of northern Norway, using taxonomic and biological trait data to characterize basin-specific ecological patterns and assess processes underlying community assembly. bit.ly/meps_772_61

3 year postdoc funded by @ukri.org NERC on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins is now live - please share widely 🙏 www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Opportunity! Anybody knows of young marine ecologists (within 7 years from earned PhD) that would like to come to Gothenburg, Sweden, for a nationally funded Assistant Professorship? It is highly competitive but well funded. (1) of (3)

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