#PhilTransB in @theconversation.com | The biosphere in the Anthropocene: doi.org/10.1098/rstb... theconversation.com/welcome-to-t...

Good write-up in Science on our recent paper: www.science.org/content/arti...

Kansikuva!

New from the The biosphere in the Anthropocene special issue: Yasuhara et al Delayed Anthropocene in the deep-sea biosphere: a last paradise soon lost? royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...

New! Transactions B special issue on The biosphere in the Anthropocene: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...

Deep sea folks. Hope you like! doi.org/10.1098/rstb... @deepstewardship.bsky.social @dsbsoc.bsky.social

Interesting case of recent human-modulated geodispersal which was enabled by the building and functioning of the Suez Canal. Interesting to think about this case as an analogue of ancient tectonic restructuring of seaways 👇 t.co/k6Qdu82nti 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Geology #Macroecology #Biogeography

The Biosphere in the Anthropocene: CityUHK Scholar Co-Edits Landmark Issue www.cityu.edu.hk/en/see/outre... Press release via City University of Hong Kong, School of Energy and Environment

Deep sea folks. Hope you like! doi.org/10.1098/rstb... @deepstewardship.bsky.social @dsbsoc.bsky.social

New ostracod paper from the lab! Lalita Weerachai et al, Ostracod introductions show how the Lessepsian invasion is undermining the unique evolutionary history of the Mediterranean Sea doi.org/10.1098/rstb...

New on the Lessepsian invasion: Lalita Weerachai et al, Ostracod introductions show how the Lessepsian invasion is undermining the unique evolutionary history of the Mediterranean Sea doi.org/10.1098/rstb...

The biosphere in the Anthropocene doi.org/10.1098/rstb...

Delayed Anthropocene in the deep-sea biosphere: a last paradise soon lost? doi.org/10.1098/rstb...

New from the The biosphere in the Anthropocene special issue: Yasuhara et al Delayed Anthropocene in the deep-sea biosphere: a last paradise soon lost? royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...

New! Transactions B special issue on The biosphere in the Anthropocene: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3... Hope you like the cover and lineup!

New! Transactions B special issue on The biosphere in the Anthropocene: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...

Open invitation to collaborate with the Ocean Floor excellence cluster in Bremen and Oldenburg. Annual calls planned. Pls distribute @eesaupe.bsky.social @moriakiyasuhara.bsky.social @chrisklausmeier.bsky.social @elenalitchman.bsky.social @itchyshin.bsky.social @nmouquet.bsky.social

Out now: 1st call for Synthesis Working Groups by "The Ocean Floor – Earth’s Uncharted Interface". We bring cluster members & external experts together to address key scientific questions in ocean floor research 🧪👉 theoceanfloor.de/en/The-Ocean... @marumunibremen.bsky.social @icbm-uol.bsky.social

New paper is out 🔓! We reconstructed the 145-myr diversity of sharks & rays using deep learning, unveiling hidden patterns: - modern diversity levels by the Cretaceous 📈 - small decline in the K/Pg 🤏 - a peak in the Eocene 🌄 - a long-term decline towards the present � www.cell.com/current-biol...

Our new paper is online! We found that 1) today's shark & ray diversity was already reached ~100Ma; 2) that the K/Pg extinction was not catastrophic; 3) that the max diversity was reached ~50Ma; and 4) that today's diversity is depleted compared to the past. www.cell.com/current-biol...

A study in Nature Communications shows southern right whale, humpback whale, and dolphin were exploited 5000 years ago by Sambaqui groups in Brazil to manufacture whale-bone harpoons and other artefacts. go.nature.com/3YL5EtL 🏺 🧪

Ready to attend #TIBS2026 in Denmark presenting my viewpoint on the future #biogeography of the Mediterranean Sea, with @roellammerant.bsky.social showing how altered seasonality in the eastern #Mediterranean connects warming to #biodiversity collapses. conferences.au.dk/tibs-aarhus-...

Hopping Hotspots Shaped the Global Biogeography and Diversification of Orectolobiform sharks 🦑🧪🐟🦈 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Much-needed good news. As 2025 draws to a close, PRI's wonderful life continues: www.priweb.org/blog-post/pr...

Busy 2025 is ending. Having a bit relaxed time to think back on 2025 these days. Here is Yasuhara Lab annual summary for 2025: moriakiyasuhara.com/annual-summa... Have a happy new year!

Continuing to try to sort through too many pictures from Panama: here are some of the frogs. Attempted IDs in the alt text (apologies to @rdtarvin.bsky.social for inevitable taxonomic atrocities)(1/6)

Towards a broader perspective on marine biodiversity change. @hillebr1.bsky.social et al. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Coral Bleaching: The Equatorial‐Refugia Hypothesis 🔗 buff.ly/xtRwbvO

🌊 Funded PhD: Advancing Plankton Imaging & Machine Learning to Transform Marine Biodiversity Monitoring 🔬🌍 @plymuni.bsky.social Bring together AI-powered image analysis, innovative sensors, and real-world policy frameworks. Two funding options: 1. lnkd.in/e566f8RR 2. lnkd.in/eKPRGhsP

Understanding the relationship between #foraminifera & their #symbionts can help corals phys.org/news/2025-09... Specific host - #algae relationship, yet flexible bacterial #microbiome, in diatom-bearing foraminifera: Elsa Girard et al. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #Protists #Microbes #Diatoms

Leicester's Palaeontology program has a long track record including discovery that conodonts were vertebrates, graduates who are Fellows of the Royal Society, innovative researchers, and a growing body of undergraduate students. c.org/HJW7FVxPwv

Deep-sea mining in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone may release waste into midwaters that support diverse marine life. A study in Nature Communications finds such discharges could dilute key food particles and disrupt trophic links from zooplankton to large marine predators. go.nature.com/3Jm0C2U 🌊 🧪

Finally I have new microscope in my new office!! IDing Tokyo Bay ostracods~

Dont remember seeing any Australian media articles about this - although i was at a conference last week. But it seems kind of a big deal that the # GBR wont survive till the end of the century and will decline sig by mid century. #auspol #qldpol #cop30

On Saturday November 15, 2025 we will open the call to submit proposals for the Analytical Paleobiology School 2026 for grad students in Erlangen for a training in analytical methods. Do you want to join or send someone? More info and details: www.paleosynthesis.nat.fau.de/science-scho...

Some ancient stony corals were able to survive extreme environmental changes, which suggests that some modern species could possess some resilience to the effects of climate change, according to research in Nature. go.nature.com/4hrpLpi 🌊 🧪

Congrats Wolfgang! Very well deserved

We warmly congratulate Wolfgang Kießling on his outstanding achievement in the Ranking of the Stanford List 2025. Wolfgang is ranked among the top 50 in his field! This year’s ranking takes into account a total of 236,313 researchers. Visit: www.fau.eu/2025/09/news... for more details.

Ostracod communities through a cold fluid seepage during the Late Jurassic: the Sahune site (Drôme, France): sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiqu...

👏 Congratulations 👏 to the Big Questions team lead by Jansen A. Smith! After such a hard work the paper "Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project"is published in Paleobiology (doi.org/10.1017/pab.2025.10042)

Day three of the Deepwater Horizon work was a success. Unfortunately the red crabs still look like this…

Also press release here: www.fau.eu/2025/09/news...

Jansen's great leadership appreciated! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Here are the details of the shrinking bryozoan paper, as the dot doesn't seem to work.

New! Huang et al. Benthic ostracod diversity and biogeography in an urban semi-enclosed eutrophic riverine bay bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/...

What a great bunch of paleobiologists and soooo international!! the annual @paleosynth.bsky.social summer school. Such a pleasure to share methods with u all. Thanks @devapriya-chat.bsky.social @dralexdunhill.bsky.social @moriakiyasuhara.bsky.social & others for sending ur grad students over!

“These vast, seemingly timeless seascapes have become some of the world’s most vulnerable marine habitats, according to a new study published on Thursday in the journal Science that adds up and maps the ways human activity is profoundly reshaping oceans and coastlines around the world.” 1/3

SWIMS will be a very busy place from tomorrow because Integrative Marine Ecology & Conservation (IMEC) MSc has launched! Tomorrow, forty-four students will start their journey at SWIMS and HKU. Their first class – Ocean Biodiversity, is at 9am. Welcome to SWIMS, everyone! @jonscibulski.bsky.social

[New Paper] We found a SECOND SNAIL with HARD SCALES on the foot -- Ifremeria nautilei lives in deep-sea hot vents and makes chitinous scales not by secretion but by cell differentiation, like our own skin! @royalsocietypublishing.org Proceedings B, OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...