New study warning of the decline in taxonomic skills and what it means for conservation and management. "Taxonomy is a foundation of marine science, and it is in trouble" authors.elsevier.com/a/1lsTbEs4JV...

Dear OPI community! We’re thrilled to announce that the Call for Abstracts and ECR Funding Award submissions are now open for the OPI XI Conference, hosted by the University of Victoria on beautiful Vancouver Island, Canada 🇨🇦, 15–19 June 2026! tinyurl.com/3cjhzf4h #marineecology #conference

📣Opportunity to join the Convex Seascape Survey as Postdoctoral Research Associate 🧪 ▶️Collate and map data on seabed disturbing impacts from offshore industry. Analyses will aim to estimate effects of disturbance on organic carbon stored within seabed sediments. jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

New research from Queens University shows the critically endangered flapper skate continues its slide to extinction. The lead author, Patrick Collins, told me that it's not too late but decisive action is needed. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...

Fresh off the press! Our perspective in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com discusses the wealth of information on biodiversity contained in historical sources, and its integration for long-term ecological knowledge and biodiversity conservation. A thread on the paper and what led to it: rdcu.be/eEcIt

The #ConvexSeascapeSurvey is in Canada! A collaboration between @ulaval.ca @exetermarine.bsky.social and @unisouthampton.bsky.social is investigating the role of animals that live in mud on the #seafloor in helping bury #BlueCarbon and keep our #climate healthy.

This verified report of two sturgeon in Irish waters is pretty incredible considering the species is critically endangered & considered functionally extinct in Ireland due to no evidence of breeding. share.google/jyn5MHKpQHjT...

Sustainable seafood guide🐟 🦑🦞🐚: 1883 edition "Crack on - herring🐟 stocks cannot be impacted by human activity" (They collapsed in the ~mid 20th century) Thankfully, we now have robust science-based management @icesmarine.bsky.social @projectfishistory.bsky.social @oceanspast.bsky.social

NEW PAPER: We discovered some v old but v detailed kelp data in MBA archive (Mary Parke's surveys from the 1940s!! 🤯🤯) and resurveyed some 80 years later. Found that Laminaria hyperborea popns in SW England in decline, likely to due warming.... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We're meeting today to kick off our new NERC-funded project on the 'Impacts of bottom trawling on seabed carbon storage'. It's a consortium project to establish how the disturbance associated with bottom trawling modifies C storage, cycling and air/sea CO2 fluxes. gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref...

NEW in @science.org Global tracking #MarineMegafauna shows <8% of areas used overlap w/ existing MPAs, while >75% of important areas overlapped by threats like #fishing #shipping & ocean warming - 30x30 goal will be insufficient for their conservation www.megamove.org @thembauk.bsky.social

For West Cork locals and lovers: A mussel farm, which would bottom-dredge a massive 23 hectares within the precious Kinsale harbour, has been granted a licence. Meeting this Sunday to organise appeals.

Great talk by @ciaranmc.bsky.social at #OOSC about his ongoing Convex Seascape Survey work on mapping the expansion of trawling and associated sediment disturbance 🌊🌊 @exetermarine.bsky.social @ruththurstan.bsky.social @profcallum.bsky.social

Fantastic talk by @ciaranmc.bsky.social on the big stage at #OOSC! Showcasing his ongoing Convex Seascape Survey research mapping historical trawling expansion and associated seabed disturbance @exetermarine.bsky.social @profcallum.bsky.social

The One Ocean Science Congress (#OOSC) begins in just two days! If you are unable to attend in person but would like to follow some of the discussions, all plenary sessions will be live-streamed. On day 1: Opening session, 3 June 09:00-10:00 CEST: youtube.com/live/XOSGl7P... #ScienceForTheOcean 🌊

What is an ecologically or biologically significant area? How do we prioritise one seagrass bed over another, or a seagrass bed over a seamount? www.nature.com/articles/s44...

My first paper is out! 🥳🐠🐟

Cool new study from Sophie Ward on the Convex Seascape Survey Project - the team used a paleotidal model to trace the formation of carbon-rich seabed sediment deposits over thousands of years. eos.org/research-spo...

The amount of carbon released by seabed fishing worldwide is uncertain and must be urgently investigated, researchers say Read our press release 👉 news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e... Full paper 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @exeter.ac.uk @exetermarine.bsky.social

Rare opportunity.... a permanent observational oceanography position on offer at GEOMAR, one of the world's leading oceanographic centers www.geomar.de/en/karriere/...

Are you an early career researcher in #marine #science interested in learning more about scientific publishing and editing? Apply to be mentored with ICES JMS! www.ices.dk/news-and-eve... #ECS @icesmarine.bsky.social

🌊 Calling all researchers! We’re inviting abstract submissions for our #EGU25 session: "Blue Carbon Accumulation & Storage in Continental Shelf Sediments (BG4.11)." meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio... #ClimateScience #BlueCarbon #MarineResearch

Herring - the “king of fishes” - was once a hugely abundant species across the North Atlantic. Nice article by @whittledaway.bsky.social depicting its decline in Irish waters www.irishtimes.com/science/2024...

About 5 years in the making: (there really is) limited evidence on the impacts of #windfarms on #fisheries species. Wind is a solution to the climate crisis, but we also need food security. These are tough, complex choices and we need evidence to support them. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14672979...

🚨We are HIRING! 🧪 Please repost! Lecturer/Senior lecturer in @bristolbiosci.bsky.social Priority areas: ‘Responding to anthropogenic change’ ‘Reversing the biodiversity crisis’ www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

💡Thinking of sharing your science at our Annual Science Conference 2025? 🌊 We are excited to host #ICESASC25 at Klaipeda University in Lithuania from 15-18 September 2025. 👀 The Call for abstracts opens in January but you can take a sneak peek at the theme sessions now www.ices.dk/events/asc/2...

Postdoc opportunity to study tropical seabird connectivity & population genetics in the Indian Ocean! With @malcnicoll.bsky.social & collaborators as part of the @iomarinescience.bsky.social seabird project 📍University of La Reunion Apply by Jan 15th #jobopportunity #seabird #ornithology

Our "Nostradamus of Conservation" @billsutherland.bsky.social and his people have spoken! 16th Horizon scan of issues novel or a considerable step-change and have the potential to substantially affect #conservation of biological diversity in coming decade. 🌍🧪🦑 🌐 www.cell.com/action/showP...

📢#WeAreHiring! I am looking for a #postdoc (2yr position) either in ecological modelling or experimental trait-based ecology to join us in Northern Biodiversity and Ecosystem functioning group at @helsinkiuni.bsky.social Thanks for reposting! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

📣New paper by @ruththurstan.bsky.social & colleagues showing that European native oyster reefs have collapsed (as per IUCN Red List criteria + historical data) This leads on from important recent paper describing the vast extent of historical European oyster reefs ▶️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#jobfairy Come work at Marine Institute in Galway & join the CIBBRiNA project. 4 year post-doc. The role will include developing a modelling framework to design monitoring programmes, estimating bycatch probability, bycatch rates, and total bycatch. Deadline 17th Dec www.marine.ie/site-area/wo...

Are you interested in the #restoration of marine ecosystems? I'm co-chairing a @icesmarine.bsky.social Workshop on Nature Restoration (WKREST) in March, join if you're interested! www.ices.dk/community/gr...

📢 Our new paper maps the first probable location and change in suitability of #aquaculture freshwater finfish in the United States under downscaled climate change. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Fact-check: “Virtually all offshore areas identified as upwelling zones and area with sub-surface intrusion of cooler water have already bleached severely multiple times since 1998”. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Small-scale fisheries in ecologically sensitive areas in Latin America and the Caribbean: Do marine protected areas benefit fisheries governance? Open access link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Our new paper outlines methods to ID albatross and petrel species using DNA from feathers. This provides tools to determine which #seabirds species are threatened by fisheries bycatch #ConservationGenetics 🧬🧪🌏🦑 Here's a news story on our research: www.antarctica.gov.au/news/2024/us...

Our new paper on marine biodiversity data is out! 20 years of inventory work: dives, videos, and benthic sampling from over 194,000 sites across Finnish marine areas, openly available! 🪱🪼🦀🐟 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sharing this photo of a native oyster bed in one of our survey sites here for the first time. This was my coelacanth moment, especially as many deny these oyster habitats even exist. Same as eels, Ostrea edulis (the species and the habitat) are threatened and yet we keep managing them as a fishery.

Shifting baselines illustrated : Horseshoe crabs were harvested and used as fertilizer up until the 1970s. How did this impacted our conception of "healthy population" ? (also, can you imagine the smell ?) 🦑 🌍

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) ! 🧪🌐🌍🦤🦑

Come and do a PhD with me! ACCE+ Funded studentship in association with Cefas on Global patterns of fish feeding behaviour in a changing world: implications for food webs and fisheries www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Yes, I love scallops, but I also love #sharks. Check out these movements of 'Tasha', the blue #shark whom we SPOT tagged off Cornwall in July. Huge thanks to Skipper Chippy, NOAA Fisheries, @exetermarine.bsky.social @bluedogfishing.bsky.social @hannahrudd.bsky.social @thembauk.bsky.social 🦈

Nice to see that you latest #popgen paper is getting attention. We demonstrated a clear mismatch between #genetic #population of #herring and their #fisheries management units 🦑🧪 #MarineEcology weareaquaculture.com/news/fisheri...

Science takes time - a lot of time. Time that is more and more difficult to make available because of increased workloads. Time that exceeds the temporary contracts of postdocs and PhDs. I'll illustrate this using our paper published in Nature yesterday. 🧵 (1/x) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌊 Hello, Bluesky! 🌍 For over a century, we’ve been connecting marine science & policy to tackle some of the biggest challenges facing our oceans. From sustainable fisheries management to protecting marine biodiversity, our work supports global efforts to ensure healthy seas. Stay up-to-date here!

Re-posting here a @uk.theconversation.com article on recently published marine historical ecology research theconversation.com/we-gathered-...

Global Fishing Watch is hiring a newly created Senior Scientist leadership role to help expand our impact with all the new work we are doing under our 2023 award from The Audacious Project to map all human activity at sea. #hiring #techjob #sciencejob #jobs #careers

Are you interested in #SeaweedFarming or #RegenerativeOceanFarming? We have a short term (5 month) postdoctoral research position available at Trinity College Dublin supporting the award winning C-FAARER project. Please get in touch for details.

How many local #extinctions have occurred in our oceans? 🌊 What is causing these losses? And do we have sufficient data to track changes in marine #biodiversity? @skatsanevakis.bsky.social Here’s what our review on marine extinctions revealed👇

Two PhD vacancies with us @universityofessex.bsky.social for interdisciplinary research on #biodiversity conservation, fully funded by The Leverhulme Trust. Apply by 7 February for an October 2025 start. tinyurl.com/3cym57tn tinyurl.com/2kt3xptt #biodiversitynetgain #protection vs #restoration