🔬 We’re Hiring! Become the next MBA Postdoctoral Career Development Fellow Are you ready to take the next step in your research career and lead the way in marine biology? Find out more 👉 mymba.mba.ac.uk/job/postdoct... 📅 Apply by 15 October 2025 #MarineBiology #MarineScience #AcademicJobs

The Octopus Survey 🚨 Fishermen across the Southwest are reporting more and more octopus turning up in pots, traps, and on deck this year. We need your insight before the survey closes! 👉 Take the survey now before it closes - survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90884550/...

Three Associate Professor (or Professor) positions available at Oxford Biology. Come be my colleague! www.biology.ox.ac.uk/article/we-a...

🍄Working in fungal conservation? Call for papers for our upcoming special issue in Fungal Ecology 'Fungal conservation: from knowledge to actions' ! Deadline 31 January 2026 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Box-tree Moth (Cydalima perspectalis) in the bathroom. Non-native from south-east Asia.

Want to help us image and understand those incredible samples Felix just collected at UBC - and many more? 2 more days to apply! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j... #ExM #PlanetaryCellBiology 🧪🧬🔬🌍🌱🦠

We wanted to take a moment to share some positive news this week - some recent promotions for some of our amazing Exeter Marine academics. 🎉 Please join us in giving a huge congratulations to them all! @uniexecec.bsky.social @exetergses.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk @uniofexeternews.bsky.social 🌍🦑🧪

Cnidarian-Microbe Interactions Fully-funded postdoctoral position is available in the Gibson Lab at the Stowers Institute to investigate any aspect of cnidarian-microbe interactions. Strong background in coral symbiosis or eukaryotic microbiology preferred. Contact Matt Gibson: [email protected]

Just over one month left to apply for the MBA Anne Warner Research Fellowship @thembauk.bsky.social to develop an independent research group in the area of cell and molecular biology of marine organisms. Closing date 17 Sept. mymba.mba.ac.uk/job/mba-anne...

Opportunities for visiting researchers to collaborate with scientists @thembauk.bsky.social next year. Ray Lankester Investigatorship for established researchers, Peter Baker Investigatorship for early career researchers (<10 years post PhD). Deadlines in October www.mba.ac.uk/our-membersh...

Some don't like it hot - the Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) survey @thembauk.bsky.social shows how marine heatwaves are reshaping phytoplankton communities in the Northeast Pacific 🌊🔬 Open Access Read @aslo.org 👉 aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Today is Rosalind Franklin’s Birthday - thanks for making it all possible 🧬 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalin...

Study - how marine heatwaves are reshaping the shape & carbon content of #phytoplankton in NE Pacific. Elongated cells dominate during warming, likely altering the carbon pump. Long-term #CPRsurvey data is critical to understanding #climatechange impacts at microbial scales. doi.org/10.1002/lno....

We are looking for a new @thembauk.bsky.social Anne Warner Research Fellow (5 year post) to develop an independent research group in the area of cell and molecular biology of marine organisms here in #Plymouth 🔬🦠🧫🧬 mymba.mba.ac.uk/job-listing....

Excellent figure! Fungi are more than 🍄!

📢 Call for Abstracts – Ocean Sciences Meeting 2026 🔬 "Patterns and Drivers of Marine Plankton Community Variability: Time-Series Insights" 📝 Submit your abstract by 20th August 2025 agu.confex.com/agu/osm26/pr...

Our Annual Scientific Meeting kicks off this afternoon - looking forward to the latest fungal biology research at #BMS2025! John Taylor, University of California, will give the BMS’s John Webster Award Lecture. See who else is speaking: www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/asm.html

Thanks so much to Oceanographic Magazine for this excellent article on the pink sea fan reef we discovered during the filming of Ocean with David Attenborough oceanographicmagazine.com/news/flouris... @thembauk.bsky.social @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social #oceanfilm #attenborough 🪸

Marine fungi culture collections (such as the one we have at @thembauk.bsky.social) are helping unlock the possibility for finding new solutions to many of the world’s biggest challenges 🌊🍄=💊🥓🪲 @uk.theconversation.com @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu 👉 theconversation.com/marine-fungi...

Thanks to @funaction.bsky.social Partner Leho Tedersoo @tedersoo.bsky.social we can look forward to incredible advances in the fungal tree of life! Congratulations Leho! 🥳

🚨 We’re hiring! Join a cutting-edge marine conservation project using #ComputerVision + #AI to monitor marine mammals. Work with @plymuni.bsky.social + MSeis, funded by @ukri.org 🗓️ Apply by 29 June 2025 🔗 lnkd.in/eHBNYEH7 #MarineMonitoring #Jobs

Marine Fungi are found everywhere in the ocean. They are recyclers, a goldmine of compounds and symbiotic with other marine life. I chat about Marine Fungi in the BBC programme 'Secrets of the Sea'. Follow the link 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p... @thembauk.bsky.social @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social

📢 Job Alert! We're hiring a Project Officer to lead stakeholder engagement, fostering science-policy-society interaction & co-produced knowledge on biodiversity. 📍 Paris-based @frbiodiv.bsky.social‬ 🗓️ Start ASAP, apply by 11 July 2025 Details: www.fondationbiodiversite.fr/wp-content/u...

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

Today is #WorldOceansDay2025 A day to think about the amazing biodiversity in our oceans 🦠🍄‍🟫🪸🦀🐟🐋 from the smallest microbes to the largest animals @thembauk.bsky.social @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social

OCEAN DARKENING ON CNN: PML's Prof Tim Smyth speaking to @cnn.com this morning about his new study with Dr Thomas Davies of @plymuni.bsky.social / @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social that revealed a 21% reduction in sunlight zones vital for life in the sea. More: pml.ac.uk/news/new-stu...

Our latest discovery science on chytrid fungi is just out in @royalsociety.org Proceedings B. Using a range of tools we explore how chitin-degrading specialists are adapted and evolved. @thembauk.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social 👉 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

One more week to apply! if you are a few years past your PhD and interested in advancing marine genomics and population genetics, come to Kiel, Northern Germany, to join a thriving, collaborative research and teaching environment.

No plans for #BiodiversityDay? Join us to celebrate aquatic fungi diversity in this free webinar with talks on marine arenicolus fungi, freshwater lichens, fungi as bioindicators, & driftwood fungi. 💧🍄 🗓️ 22 May, 2pm UTC 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/aquaticfungi... #AquaticFungi

Read more about MBA RV Sepia's IT upgrade. www.mba.ac.uk/mba-rv-sepia...

Junior faculty job alert in Germany - Marine Evolutionary Genomics @geomarkiel.bsky.social / University of Kiel www.geomar.de/en/karriere/... Marine study system of your choice (no microbes, sorry…), excellent infrastructure and ship access, moderate teaching requirements, closing date 6 June

Mason bees are out and active in this late April sun. Second year for this colony in our garden ❤️🐝🐝🐝

#Event2025 I 👉 AtlantECO #hackathon The Marine Training Unit (Embrc Belgium) is organising the One Ocean, One Health: Multi-Omics Hackathon to address questions using Mission Microbiomes AtlantECO data 📍 Azores 📅 Sept 8-12 ⌛ Register by 10 Apr 🔗 www.marinetraining.eu/node/6150

RP PLS! Iʻm hiring 3 postdocs at U Hawaiʻi to study yeast diversity and evolution, marine fungi, and the genomics of microbiomes in experimental foodwebs. All of these projects have existing datasets and LATITUDE to pursue individual interests and "blue sky" ideas www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/5d7u4...

Two amazing opportunities to come work will the outstanding Katherine Helliwell on her @erc.europa.eu project #DIACIDAL 🧫🔬🧬🧪 @thembauk.bsky.social

New Junior Professor Chair (CPJ) in the Biological Station in Roscoff. "The position is focused on the ecological, evolutionary, and functional roles of marine fungi, crucial to understanding our oceans" www.sb-roscoff.fr/fr/2025/02/2...

Could extreme ocean environments unlock the mystery of #shark birthing grounds? 🦈🌊 New MBA research links baby #WhaleSharks to #OxygenMinimumZones. These areas may provide safety from predators & a rich food supply, crucial for the survival of neonates. ➡️ buff.ly/4hIdSdN @thesimslab.bsky.social

NEW PAPER: Temperature influences on shell growth & microstructural variations in Bay #scallops: Insights from multiscale #microscopy pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... Contrary to predictions, higher #temperature did not affect relative shell strength. Important implications for #climatechange

New research from @thesimslab.bsky.social in @ecol-evol.bsky.social - 🦈🌊 Unlocking the mystery of baby #whaleshark birthing grounds - Extreme environments like #OMZs provide safety from predators & a rich food supply, crucial for neonate survival. doi.org/10.1002/ece3... @thembauk.bsky.social

New paper hot of the press for #phycologyfriday !!!! 🌱🌊🌞We conducted a warming experiment in the field to test stress responses of the intertidal habitat forming seaweed Fucus serratus: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Huge congratulations to @dansmale1.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow at the MBA, for being awarded the 2025 Hutchinson Award! 🥳🌊 @aslo.org This prestigious award celebrates Dan’s groundbreaking research on #MarineHeatwaves & their impact on marine #Biodiversity & #Conservation. ➡️ buff.ly/3Qx9wu5

The rising intensity of #MarineHeatwaves is putting our ocean at risk 🌊🔥 A groundbreaking new study led by Dr Katie Smith, Postdoc Researcher at the MBA, reveals the summers of 2023-24 saw 3.5 times more marine heatwave days than ever recorded before. ➡️ buff.ly/3Qy8dLJ 📷 The Ocean Agency