#CIMARLA researchers were received on Monday by the Minister for the Environment and Energy, Maria da Graça Carvalho, with the aim of presenting the open letter “For a national restoration plan that does not leave the sea behind”. www.ciimar.up.pt/pt-pt/cimar-... @ccmar.bsky.social #CIIMARnews

Fourth: play our funny guessing game #DiscoverOrMDPI. Can you outguess marketing operatives from publishers by telling apart MDPI from Discover journals? We wrote the game and the blog, and cannot win. pagoba.shinyapps.io/publi_guess/

CIIMAR is organizing the 3rd workshop of the INDIMAR project. 📅May 29, 2025 📍Luiz Saldanha Room, IPMA 🔗 More information: www.ciimar.up.pt/events/3rd-i... #CIIMARevents

O plano nacional de restauro não pode descurar o mar e deve ser eficaz, transparente, aberto, inclusivo e permitir a participação pública informada e atempada. www.publico.pt/2024/11/15/a...

🌊 O Mar não pode ser deixado para trás Neste Dia Nacional do Mar, investigadores de todo o país unem-se num apelo urgente ao Governo: é necessário um plano nacional de restauro atento ao Mar. 📢 Faz a tua parte. Subscreve a carta: carta-restauro-mar.weebly.com

Com a entrada em vigor da Lei do Restauro da Natureza, 🇵🇹 tem 2 anos para preparar o seu Plano Nacional e demonstrar como atingirá as metas da Lei. Ninguém compreenderia que o meio marinho fosse o parente pobre deste plano. Afinal, 97% do país é mar. www.publico.pt/2024/08/16/a...

Our new paper in Ecology & Society “Exploring perceptions to improve the outcomes of a marine protected” ecologyandsociety.org/vol29/iss3/a... We’ve used a mixed methods approach to examine the perceptions of key stakeholder groups about Litoral Norte, an MPA in the north of 🇵🇹

Austria just became the 32nd member state of the 170-member International Seabed Authority to call for a precautionary pause or moratorium on deep sea mining until its environmental impacts on biodiverse ocean ecosystems can be better understood. #ISA29

In this new paper we calculate the unequal exchange of labour between the global North and global South. The results are quite staggering. You'll want to look at this... 🧵

These science-policy priorities extend to the EU. We need stronger bridges between the life sciences, social sciences and humanities to tackle the intertwined threats of biodiversity loss, climate change and inequality. This must be at the core of EU funding programs. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Breaking: Secretary General of International Seabed Authority accused for misusing agency funds (Opposing candidate Carvalho should be dissuaded from standing as the next Secretary General by job favours.) 🇩🇪 asks for investigation... NYT article 👇 (behind paywall) www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/u...

In Galicia, shellfish harvesting is traditionally women’s work But the shellfish they depend on are increasingly harder to find Extreme weather events -- made more frequent by climate change & including heat waves and torrential rain -- threaten the shellfish, and with them, the tradition:

What a great book, @helenczerski.bsky.social. Enjoying every single word of it.

Just as our parents & ancestors made the decisions that caused the global warming we see today, the decisions society makes today will have profound impacts for our children & grandchildren. kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

A new paper led by Martin et al. based on the @ipbes.bsky.social #ValuesAssessment explores how diverse values of nature drive different sustainability pathways, such as Green Economy, Nature Protection and Earth Stewardship. 🧪🌎 ‌ 📖 One Earth www.cell.com/one-earth/fu... ‌

Congratulations! It's well deserved.

Great insight in the new article by @ejmilnergulland.bsky.social: 'We must collaborate to develop biodiversity monitoring frameworks that embed social justice and enable robust design and evaluation of interventions to learn.' journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

A ciência é de qualidade, mas o subfinanciamento dos centros de investigação irá continuar até ao final da década. Valham-nos os "brilharetes orçamentais" e as "contas certas" do Governo. t.co/HPtcXORDqO

Temperatura mensal mundial, entre 1940 e 2023. Cada linha representa uma década; cada círculo um ano.

Ano novo, nova rede. A ver se o ar por aqui é mais respirável.