Fully funded PhD position in future proofing seagrass restoration 🌱in south Australia 🇦🇺 👇

Honeycomb worms 🍯🐝🪱thriving at #Streedagh strand #Sligo. Reefs forming refuge for green algae 🌿 from #Limpet grazing 🐚. The stunning Ben Bulben as dramatic backdrop 🤩. @aec13.bsky.social @fplima.bsky.social @ucc.ie @benthicecol.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social @npwsireland.bsky.social

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

Just out in @jexpbiol.bsky.social: Great work by @racinerangel.bsky.social documenting effects of a 6-month factorial field manipulation of warming X CO2 on intertidal mussel shell thickness, strength, & corrosion. #SitkaNSF @cascadejbs.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

As scientists warn that #AMOC may slow/collapse, experts are trying to improve research on this critical ocean conveyor system We need: - Better measurements - Global cooperation - Sustained funding - New tech for real-time data AMOC research=climate security. Let's keep it going! 🌍💙 @noc.ac.uk

Correction to this post. The deadline for submissions is actually Nov 30th 2025! Still plenty of time to prepare your submissions. @dansmale1.bsky.social @marclim-uk.bsky.social @pippajmoore.bsky.social @thembauk.bsky.social @jebyrnes.bsky.social @aec13.bsky.social @noramare.bsky.social

🌿🌊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

That 🍺 sums it up nicely @gerardozardi.bsky.social Yecher’mad to the #ITRS family for such great science & bonhomie all through last week. The 15th ITRS in 🇳🇿 looks amazing: what a next venue video @chrisecornwall.bsky.social , & Chris Battershill wears the wig so well @waikatouniversity.bsky.social

Anne Salomon taking us on a marvelous deep dive through time, recontextualising people’s relationship with coastal ecosystems #ITRS2025 #marineecology 🧪🦪🌱🎣 @ifremer.bsky.social @ofbiodiversite.bsky.social @sbroscoff.bsky.social @thembauk.bsky.social

Le Symposium international sur les récifs tempérés #ITRS 2025 débute aujourd'hui, à Brest. Amélia Curd, chercheuse en écologie marine à l'Ifremer, vous en dit plus sur ces récifs tempérés 👇 youtu.be/eGqk0UdWRdI

Thank you Rodney 😊 a moment with a Eurovision feel to it 🎤🇪🇺 @ifremer.bsky.social

At last! See you all tomorrow at 5pm @LaFabrik for the @ofbiodiversite.bsky.social sponsored #ITRS2025 🧊⛓️‍💥https://itrs-home.org/icebreaker.html @louisefirth.bsky.social @pippajmoore.bsky.social @nessocon.bsky.social @nelsonvaldivia.bsky.social @ifremer.bsky.social @sbroscoff.bsky.social

We are some people travelling from www.niva.no/en to #ITRS2025. Let me present my colleague Eli, she is talking on Tuesday 1 July from 12:00 to 12:15 - «Effects of darkening and eutrophication in rockweed communities and photosynthetic performance»: itrs-home.org/effects-of-d...

Hiya, Matt Moretti! You were a lobster #aquaculture lab denizen, too! Congrats on the kelp/mussels endeavor! Many, many fruitful harvests ahead for you! From a fellow former lobster nanny at @newenglandaquarium.bsky.social! www.theguardian.com/environment/... #MarineLife! 🦑 #OceanAcidification

Time is running out! ⏳ Only few days left to apply to our PhD program—don’t miss your chance! 🚀 🔬Explore evolution in action in a cool 🐚 ℹ️ Details: tinyurl.com/fhzxr7ed 📆 Deadline: June 14th, 2025 #ScienceThatMatters #PhDlife #EvolutionaryBiology #MarineEcology #BiodiversityConservation

Great initiative! Just subscrived!

🥁 🥁 🥁 The #ITRS2025 scientific program is online 🙌 itrs-home.org/scientific-p... please share! 42 days until 🚀 #marineecology @nessocon.bsky.social @katynicastro.bsky.social @aurelien-boye.bsky.social @louisefirth.bsky.social @pippajmoore.bsky.social @dansmale1.bsky.social @ifremer.bsky.social

We're Hiring for 8 Positions!! Interested in conducting research on nature based solutions in Canada's coastal ecosystems? Blue Carbon Canada is recruiting 3 PDFs & 5 PhD students for Sept. 2025 in partnership w @wwfcanada.org www.bluecarboncanada.ca/were-recruit... Open to int'l scholars Pls repost

Our open-source Intertidal Environmental Chamber is out now in Methods in Ecology and Evolution! It’s a system to realistically simulate the complex tidal and thermal dynamics of intertidal habitats. Proud of our team at @electricblue.bsky.social! Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/2041...

🚨Paper Alert! 🚨 🌊 #MPAs stage of establishment 🪜 + level of protection 🎚️ = good predictors of conservation #outcomes 🐟 : 1️⃣ Actively managed + strongly regulated MPAs -> fish recover 2️⃣ Implemented MPAs that are minimally protected -> detrimental outcomes for fish 📰 doi.org/10.1016/j.cr...

✨ New paper alert! ✨ We found that the #kelp #microbiome is disrupted in a warming ocean! 🌊🌡️ #Temperature had a larger effect than #nitrogen. Thanks to lead author Nichos Molnar, Robin Fales @intertidaleco.bsky.social & Cathy Pfister! enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The full manuscript is available now! cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/...

🚨 New research 🚨 (and the first paper from my PhD) How do we define good vs. degraded marine ecosystems? Our study evaluated four methods for setting ecological thresholds—and not all are equally reliable. 🌊🧵 (1/4)

🚀 Global Ecology feed Digest #11, Feb 24-March 03 - 27 posts ! ✨For the lazy (yes we are) & friends who don't like social media (yes they can) but might benefit from Global Ecology feed, here’s a online DIGEST crafted with 💚 for you to share ! 🌈 👉 globalecologybs.github.io/feeddigest.g... 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁

🚨 📣 Happy to share this new paper on World Seagrass Day 🌱🌊🌱🌊 Community trajectory analyses sheds light on regional and local dynamics of 2️⃣ seagrass species along the 🇫🇷 coast #MarineEcology 🧪 peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10.... @aurelien-boye.bsky.social @ofbiodiversite.bsky.social

Do #kelp forests really matter for fish? Check out our new meta-analysis w/ Ale Pérez-Matus in Ecology showing 1) multistipe kelps do more than single stipe, 2) all kelps enhance juveniles, 3) kelps help small herbivores & big predators. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Document the beauty, not just the demise, of nature

⏳ Only 1 day left! ⏳ Abstract submissions close tomorrow! This is your last chance to submit your work and apply for travel awards. 📅 Deadline: February 16, 2025 🔗 Submit now: marinebioinvasions.info/participate/... #AbstractCall #ICMBXII #MarineScience

Great talk @clementviolet.bsky.social given during the #BIOcean5D general assembly @ICM-CSIC! So much work went into looking up all those marine NIS native origins and building the ✨ Shiny app.Can’t wait to see the future #Rpackage #marineecology #ultraviolet 🧪🦀🐚🌱🪸 @ifremer.bsky.social

Has it really come to this? 🤯🧪❤️‍🩹🇺🇸

Trump administration orders NOAA scientists to halt all international work. Staff were told to stop meetings, discussions, emails with foreign colleagues. Freeze affects travel, virtual meetings, and collaborations until political appointees review them. 🐢🌍🧪🦑 www.opb.org/article/2025...

There is evidence that technologies like search engines and GPS maps can alter our ability to learn and remember. Nature reports how scientists are now working out what AI might do to our memories. 🧪

#marineecology 🐙 #bioinspiration 🐙 #biomimetism 🧪

A #NewStudy, involving scientists from PML, warns of potentially harmful levels of metal being leached from #OffshoreWind turbines, from materials used to protect them from corrosion. The metals could pose risks to #ecosystems, #seafood safety & #HumanHealth: pml.ac.uk/news/offshor...

Well done Elise! 🙌 🧪 🌱🇫🇷 a great #broadscale seagrass study & happy memories of lockdown winter 🤿 diving in the Morbihan gulf for sample collecting. Under the snow in 5 degree 💦 🥶 @aurelien-boye.bsky.social @ifremer.bsky.social #CTAanalysis

📣POSTDOC wanted: We are looking for a marine ecologist to join our #kelp forest team at IMR in Norway 🌊🌿. The position is focused on impacts of harvesting on kelp and kelp forest #biodiversity. Enthusiasm, strong cv and interest in #fieldwork is required. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

So excited to read this! The first paper is one of my favourites and I didn't know we were getting an update. Here's a dyed partial cross-section of a mature Pterygophora stipe to demonstrate the growth rings!

𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 — 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝟑 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐟𝐭 until #abstract submissions, including travel awards, close! Submit your abstract for #ICMB and apply for travel awards here: marinebioinvasions.info/participate/... 💡 Deadline: 𝐅𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟏𝟔𝐭𝐡, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓. #AbstractCall #MarineBioinvasions #ICMBXII #marinelife

⏰ ⏰⏰Abstract submission to itrs-home.org/submit-abstr... ends Friday! Thank you to all who have submitted so far. 260 abstracts and counting 🙌 🌊🪨🌱🦪🦞🐟🐚🦀🙌 @nessocon.bsky.social @katynicastro.bsky.social @louisefirth.bsky.social @dansmale1.bsky.social @ifremer.bsky.social @sbroscoff.bsky.social

Aaah winter fieldwork! 🥶 1st tide of 2025 out on the ecoblocks setting up a defaunation experiment. Lots of emptying deep artificial rock pools, scraping and burning. No human was injured 😮‍💨 #urbanecology #oceansprawl #rockyintertidalecology

New from @charley_clubley very exciting use of network analysis in biophysical model of 🪨🦪dynamics - finds northward connectivity weaker along UK coast NSea than between East England and Netherlands/Denmark /1 @SAGB @naturalengland.bsky.social sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Sign up for the free webinar: 'Climate-smart Marine Spatial Planning as an opportunity for climate action for people and nature', featuring our Professor Ana Queirós ⏰21 January 2025, 14:30 CET. 💻 Register via Zoom here: cmcc-it.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

She’s done it again! Congratulations @clarab.bsky.social on this most excellent review #datagraphforthewin #coccolithsforever 🐚 🚢 🌊 🐚 🚢 🌊

Merry Crustmas! Here’s a caprellid amphipod and the weird giant-eyes Paraphronima gracilis exchanging some holiday cheer!

Transient species driving ecosystem multifunctionality: Insights from competitive interactions between rocky intertidal mussels 🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Wow - bioinspiration +++

What is the best way to define a baseline for marine heatwave (MHW) research – or extreme events in general? A new study from a wide range of experts highlights that the choice of baseline matters and should be tailored to the specific application. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Eight years of BioInvasions Records: patterns and trends in alien and cryptogenic species records doi.org/10.3391/mbi.... #AlienSpecies #ocean #MarineBiology #MarineScience

Updating the #IUCN status of marine fish using AI shows that x5 more species are threatened with extinction than previously thought! see our study in Plos Biol with @nloiseau.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1371/jour... 🔑 This silent extinction affects 12,7% of marine fishes (1337 species) ! 🧪🌐🌍🦤🦑