We are advertising a 12month scholarship for analyzing pictures of macroalgae using an AI tool. The candidate should have a bachelor degree in Biological Sciences or similar. For applications see Borsa di Ricerca n. 44/2025 on www.szn.it/index.php/it... DEADLINE 30 November!!!

Does anyone know what is wrong with this scorpionfish?

Sometimes, if you're lucky, you can capture much of their goofiness in one photo. 🪶

La jornada d'aquest dissabte va ser tot un èxit! 🪸 El dia va començar amb una passejada fins a la Cala Estreta 👣 Llavors vam explicar què són els boscos marins i quina importància tenen 🌳🌊 Vam fer snorkel per descobrir-ho en primera persona 🤿

The spread of the seaweed Rugulopteryx okamurae and the expansion of other #invasivemarinespecies in the #Mediterranean, explained by CEAB-CSIC researcher Maria Garcia, to @efeverde.com 🔽 https://efeverde.com/especies-marinas-invasoras-la-amenaza-en-los-ecosistemas-de-la-peninsula-iberica/

Guidelines for ensuring meaningful engagement of early career researchers in scientific collaborations: recommendations from and for marine and polar scientists 🌊 Many thanks to @laurakaikkonen.bsky.social and team for your efforts! 👥 academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti... @uaveiro.bsky.social #marine

Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper! We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media. Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑 doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

🚀OYSTER 4th Call for #ECR #Cooperation Projects is now open🌊 💡 On-line Networking & Information Session on September 5th 💰 #Funding for 2 projects up to €7000 ⏳ Apply by October 10th 📚 Check Info and documents 👇

📢 Greece announced two huge #MarineParks: the Ionian & South Aegean National Marine Parks! With them, 🇬🇷 meets the 30% marine protection target under the EU Biodiversity Strategy & the Convention on Biological Diversity. A big step for conservation! Greek PM: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSn_... 🌊🐬🌍🌐🧪

Last days for answering the survey‼️⏳ If you are an Early Career Scientist, share your experience with us! 🤩 Every voice counts 🙌

📢 Are you an Early Career in Marine Science? Share your experience! 🌊 Take our ECS network contribution survey 👇 www.surveymonkey.com/r/ECNetworks #MarineScience #ECR #OYSTER #EuroMarine

& the reason for ⬇️ Most sea foam has nothing to do with pollution - but instead is a result of dissolved organic matter in the water being mixed enough by wave and other water movements to cause the organic matter to form a foam (a bit like when you beat egg whites"

Parts of the Mediterranean Sea reached 30C this week, much earlier than usual, raising fears for marine life. For some areas, this is 6 or 7C warmer than usual at this time of year. Our story with more maps by @markpoynting.bsky.social and me here: www.bbc.com/news/article...

📢 Queda poc! #CEAB @csic.es i @medrecover.bsky.social convoquem la Beca Predoctoral Kike Ballesteros 💙 Amb Pristine Seas i en memòria d’un gran del Mediterrani 🌊 💥 Vols fer tesi sobre biodiversitat marina? 

A super presentation by @cgalobart.bsky.social on the change in species and functional trait diversity with fragmentation, i.e. the degree of habitats splitting into smaller patches.

Great evening, gathering the COASTFRAG group at the #ITRS2025 conference in Brest, France, for discussions of results and plans for our intertidal rockweeds habitat fragmentation work.

Part of our team is attending the 14th International Temperate Reef Symposium (ITRS) in Brest!

📢 Are you a #marine #ECR? Join us in the Pre-Event of EMBS in Bodø! Details👇 📅 Date: 5th July 2025 🕘 Time: 11AM to 7PM CET 📍Location: Room: Oscar sund 2, building: Noatun Universitetsalléen 11, 8026 Bodø, Norway 🎟️ Registration: lnkd.in/eERnK686 Please register before the 2nd of July!

It's been hard for early career biologists looking for postdocs, so I created a Google Sheet where we can all compile fellowships/job boards/postdoc opportunities in one place. PLEASE SHARE WIDELY! If you're a PI looking for postdocs, you can add to the 4th tab! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

In my experience, "Data available on request" is a useless claim. I've reached out to a variety of academics that state this in their paper and one of the following things happen: - Their email address is no longer valid - Their whereabouts is unknown - They don't actually reply to the request ...

🚨 Job Thread Alert! 🚨 Dive 🤿 into this thread for #ECR opportunities in #marine #research!

🌊 Happy World Ocean Day! 💙 At Marine Forest, we remain fully committed—body and soul—to researching, understanding, and conserving as many marine forests as possible! 💪🏽🪸 #WorldOceansDay #WorldOceanDay #diamundialdeloceano #diamundialdelocea #fecyt_ciencia @grmar-udg.bsky.social @iea-udg.bsky.social

🎉 Per fi ha arribat el dia! Ja podeu veure el vídeo que us obre les portes al #CEAB @csic.es: què fem, com i per què! Investigació en ecologia i biodiversitat per entendre i protegir els ecosistemes aquàtics 🌊🌍 🎥 Mira el vídeo i descobreix la nostra feina! #SomCEAB www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIRn...

Aquest divendres!!! 👀👇🏼

🚨 Thread alert!🚨 Time for OYSTER weekly #job thread 🧑‍💼 👩‍💼 , our job listing for #ECRs in biology & #marine science 🥳

During our first week of sampling, we have already noticed a remarkable change in the percentage cover of macroalgae in several sites of the Cyclades Islands. Once macroalgal forests, now turf... @skatsanevakis.bsky.social @rilovlab.bsky.social @ceabcsic.bsky.social

Another experiment started! How fishes are interacting with the invasive macroalgae #Rugulopteryx okamurae?

📍Divendres passat l'equip de #MedRecover es va reunir a @univgirona.bsky.social per gaudir i aprendre sobre: 📢Storytelling, com connectar amb l'audiència sense perdre rigorositat, amb el divulgador científic Jesús Martínez. @iea-udg.bsky.social @marineforests.bsky.social @grmar-udg.bsky.social

🎉 New paper out! 🪸🌊 Using rocky reefs as a model and a new organising framework, we show heterogeneity effects depend on: 1) how heterogeneity is generated and measured: 2) the traits of responding organisms; and 3) environmental stress @jngriffy.bsky.social @swanseauni.bsky.social 1/7 🧵

📣 Did you know there’s kelp endemic to the Mediterranean? 🪸Yes, you read that right! Those long algae forming underwater forests with giant curtains also exist only in the Mediterranean! 🧵(1/5) @ceabcsic.bsky.social @iea-udg.bsky.social @grmar-udg.bsky.social @cgalobart.bsky.social

Super interessant el workshop de @medrecover.bsky.social sobre Story Telling, amb @mrmelee_jesus. Estratègies per connectar amb el públic sense perdre rigorositat. @iea-udg.bsky.social @marineforests.bsky.social

🌊🔬¡Recuerda, este jueves tenemos el taller online sobre la conservación del coralígeno en el Mediterráneo! 📅 [24/04/2025] ⌚[10:00](CET) 📄 Consulta la agenda: docs.google.com/document/d/1... 🔗 Regístrate: docs.google.com/forms/d/11Xn... @icmcsic.bsky.social @ub.edu @irbio-ub.bsky.social

Today our Lorena returns from the Centro de Ciências do Mar at the Universidade do Algarve. She’s been on a research stay for almost a month. What has she been up to? 🧵

This is the second chapter of the PhD thesis presented a few months ago by our Cristina Galobart @cgalobart.bsky.social Thesis title: “Evaluating success in macroalgal forest restoration: Indicators for biodiversity and functional recovery.”

Still on campaign in Menorca! ✨ ✍🏽 We’re focusing on the incredible marine forests of Cystoseira: 🔬 Incubating underwater to create controlled environments in both degraded and fragmented areas. 📊 Sampling & setting transects to collect data on growth, reproduction periods & conservation status.

Our #CAMBioMed 2nd annual meeting was completed today in Chania. Very useful discussions on our #monitoring framework and organizing our #field work for this year, #CitizenScience activities, #AI assisted analysis of photo-quadrats, and many more. #MarineEcology @sylvainegiakoumi.bsky.social

Nice days in the beautiful Χανιά🌊🐚🦀🎣

🚀 NEW ARTICLE! 🌊 The Mediterranean faces an ecological crisis! 📉 Vulnerability up 19.1% in 35 years, hitting large & calcifying species hard. "Vulnerability of benthic trait diversity across the Mediterranean Sea following mass mortality events" 👉 lnkd.in/d83rbmzi

🌊¡No te pierdas el próximo taller online sobre la conservación del coralígeno en el Mediterráneo! 📅 24/04/2025 🕒 10h (CET) 📍 Acceso como bajo registro 📄 Agenda: docs.google.com/document/d/1... 🔗 Regístrate: docs.google.com/forms/d/11Xn... @icmcsic.bsky.social @ub.edu @irbio-ub.bsky.social

Last paper of the PhD is out!! 🔔🔔 We used metabarcoding of the COI gene to describe the invertebrate community of a 10-year restored macroalgal forest, dominated by Gongolaria barbata 🌊🌊https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-93327-4

If you are attending the next #ITRS25 in Brest and are interested in sea urchin barrens and their impacts on temperate reefs join our pre-conference workshop! @ceabcsic.bsky.social @uwaoceans.bsky.social @adriatix.bsky.social @bernalocean.bsky.social itrs-home.org/sea-urchin-b...

🚀 We're hiring! Check out our two job openings: 📌 Technician - Knowledge Transfer, Collaboration & Social Impact Unit 📌 Technician - Talent & Training Unit Ready to make an impact? Apply now! ⬇️ www.ceab.csic.es/en/training-...

🙌🏽 Why on International Day of Forests we would love to dive? 🤿 Marine forests can also be considered forests. Two close examples are Kelp forests in the north of Spain, or Cystoseira forests in the Mediterranean 🪸

(3/10) Is it a nudibranch? No, it is a syllid worm mimicking a nudibranch (left on the image)! marinespecies.org/worms-top-te... @alciopidae.bsky.social #toptenmarinespecies #taxonomistappreciationday #OceanDecade #GenOcean #marinespecies

At EuroMarine, we are committed to empowering Early Career Researchers! Today we’re celebrating the first publication coming out of an ECR Cooperation Project funded under our #OYSTER initiative! 🌊👏 Read the full article here: tos.org/oceanography...

🧵Can marine restoration lead to ecological recovery? 🌊Success is often assessed by short-term survival of transplants, but what about long-term changes in community (trait) composition? We studied this for a key Mediterranean octocoral. 👇 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our paper led by Thiago Gonçalves-Souza is out. Habitat fragmentation and habitat loss reduce biodiversity. @natejsanders.bsky.social Results from 37 studies distributed worldwide, on plants and animals, comparing continuous and fragmented landscapes. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

My first PostDoc first publication! Our study shows long-term negative effects of the invasive macroalga #Rugulopteryx #okamurae on the common sea urchin #Paracentrotus #lividus. Invasion context matters! sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🌿 The MedRecover team held its annual retreat at Mas El Collell, spending a few days together to share knowledge, present, new innovations and research in our projects. An inspiring time to connect, learn, and keep working towards marine conservation! Cold, but very happy! ❄️🌊 #MedRecoverTeam

🔬🌊 Una nova doctora per a la restauració dels boscos marins! 🪸🎉 Avui, la nostra Cristina Galobart @cgalobart.bsky.social ha defensat amb èxit la seva tesi doctoral “Evaluating success in macroalgal forest restoration. Indicators for biodiversity and functional recovery”.