Deep-sea mining discharge can disrupt midwater food webs www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#VLIZ is hosting a North Seas Energy Cooperation meeting @InnovOcean Campus. We’re honoured to contribute to the grow of renewable energy. Mathieu Bihet: ‘Holding this meeting in Ostend, Belgium’s main offshore hub, shows our country’s central role in the NSEC’ @fodeconomie.bsky.social @ec.europa.eu

New paper: National implementation of the European Union policy framework for monitoring introduced non-indigenous species in marine and brackish waters: a Belgian case study based on an updated species inventory neobiota.pensoft.net/articles.php...

Brazil Strengthens Coastal Monitoring Network with 18 Stations by 2026. “Real-time monitoring and metadata are managed through the Sea Level Station Monitoring Facility, hosted by the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)” unes.co/9hxbth

🌊🏺The 8th International Congress for Underwater Archaeology #IKUWA8 takes place in Ostend this week. With 400+ participants from all over the world (>50 countries from 6 continents), it's the largest congress in the history of IKUWA. A week full exciting tales telling our past! 🤝

🎓 Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Schmidlin (#VLIZ #ugent) on the successful defence of her PhD on oyster larval settlement. 🦪 Her research reveals how larvae use different cues to select the best location for settlement & metamorphosis. 📘 Read more 🔗 www.vliz.be/en/news/PhD-... @wurmarine.bsky.social

Today, VLIZ has the honor of welcoming the Australian Ambassador and his delegation to Ostend. Together we look forward to stronger Flemish–Australian ties in marine research, innovation, biodiversity & tackling climate change. 🌊 @unoceandecade.bsky.social @janmees.bsky.social

VLIZ is hiring: Team Lead and Project Manager to head the Geospatial and Data Products (GD&P) team of the VLIZ Marine Data Centre. 🗺️ Apply no later than Sunday, November 2nd. #JobsatVLIZ #VLIZrecruits www.vliz.be/en/jobs/vliz...

VLIZ recruits: a PhD researcher "Sports and Human Health in Belgian Seaside Resorts". Apply no later than Sunday, November 9th 👇 www.vliz.be/en/jobs/vliz... #jobasatvliz #VLIZrecruits #ugent

This was a wonderful 2-week experiment in our Marine Station #Oostende. With VLIZ' Thanos Gkritzalis, Steve Jones, Peter Landschützer and Hannelore Theetaert as co-authors.

New WoRMS Steering Committee (SC) Sep 2025: welcome Jan Mees @janmees.bsky.social and thanks Lauren Hughes for all the time and efforts! Shane Ahyong & Chris Boyko unanimously re-elected as chair & co-chair! marinespecies.org/about.php#go... @lifewatchvliz.bsky.social #marinespecies

New @vliz.be @WRMarineSpecies paper. Marine biodiversity discovery: the metrics of new species descriptions. Figure: country of institutional affiliation of first authors: Belgium in the top 10 www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...

Delighted to see @VLIZnews @WRMarineSpecies mentioned in Jason Roberts' 2025 Pulitzer Prize winning biography on Linnaeus and Buffon 'Every Living Thing': "When he can spare the time, Jan Mees is an exorcist of scientific ghosts". Full excerpt in Nautilus: nautil.us/the-end-of-s...

👑 Royal visit today at VLIZ! King Filip & Queen Mathilde discovered our work on marine sensors, ocean sound, robotics & vessels🌊🤖🚤 Learn more: vliz.be/en/news/king... #RoyalVisit #NorthSea #OceanScience #MarineScience

VLIZ partners with @seabed2030.bsky.social to map the entire ocean floor by 2030. Read more 👉 www.vliz.be/en/news/reve... #Seabed2030 #OceanDecade

New paper in Nature Climate Change, with Peter Landschützer of VLIZ. The ocean carbon sink is ailing: during the record 2023 marine heatwave, the ocean absorbed ~1 Gt less CO₂ ≈ half of the EU’s annual emissions www.vliz.be/en/news/ocea...

Deep-sea worms fight poison with poison to survive in hydrothermal vents | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Unmasking the Sea Star Killer www.biographic.com/unmasking-th...

Octopuses fall for the ‘rubber arm’ illusion, just like us | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

🌊 🏆 Congratulations to VLIZ climate researcher @roobaertalizee.bsky.social who was one of the finalists of the 2024 Chen Institute & Science AI Prize for developing an innovative AI solution to monitor oceanic climate dynamics. 🔗 vliz.be/en/news/dr-a... @cheninstitute.bsky.social @aaas.org

Humpback Whale Bubble Rings May Be an Attempt to Communicate With Us www.sciencealert.com/humpback-wha...

Na de VN-oceaanconferentie: 'Je voelt dat er een momentum is om onze oceanen beter te beschermen' www.tijd.be/politiek-eco...

We co-organised a successful side-event at #UNOC3 on the clearing house mechanism for the #BBNJ treaty. @IocUnesco’s Vidar Helgesen delivered an inspiring keynote. I was on the panel stressing we don’t start from scratch: data systems and communities supporting them are in place.

België tekent straks VN-Oceaanverdrag en wil graag nieuw secretariaat naar Brussel halen. Ik heb een interview gegeven hiervoor www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...

Why we should protect the high seas from all extraction, forever www.nature.com/articles/d41...

'The Unknown Sea' (De Onbekende Zee) by @janmees.bsky.social and Colin Janssen is now available in English! A book about the importance of the ocean for people and planet. Officially endorsed as a @unoceandecade.bsky.social activity. #AcademiaPress #Lannoo

Today in #Oostende: Peter Pissierssens’ last day in the @IocUnesco Project Office for @IODEocean. Thanks for the many years of service, Peter, and enjoy well-deserved retirement.

Dit is een regelrechte schande, ernstige reputatieschade voor België, groot probleem voor Vlaamse mariene wetenschap vrtnws.be/p.YbOm6WQLn

📘 The VLIZ Annual Report 2024 is out! From an award for the InnovOcean Campus to an elevated observation capacity & the graduation of the first PhD cohort — dive into a year of impact, innovation & collaboration in marine science. 🔗 www.vliz.be/en/publications/annual-report/annual-report-2024

Our book "The Unknown Sea" is now officially endorsed as a UN Ocean Decade Activity @unoceandecade.bsky.social, and available in English. Order and preview at Academia Press Lannoo www.lannoo.be/nl/unknown-sea or Amazon www.amazon.com/Sea-importan...

Last week in @UNESCO HQ Paris for the meeting of the Editorial Board of the third @IocUnesco Global Ocean Science Report #GOSR

Systemic failure of European fisheries management | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Minister-president Matthias Diependaele visited VLIZ today 🌊 A day of open exchange on marine science, with a demo trip aboard RV Abbé Mann 🚤 and a meeting with Vidar Helgesen (IOC/UNESCO) 🌐🤝 #VLIZ #IOC #UNESCO #MarineScience #OceanResearch

VLIZ is strongly committed to climate research and plays a key role in advancing polar science in Flanders/Belgium. In this overview, we look back at VLIZ’s journey in polar research and highlight its main achievements. A story shaped by passion, innovation, and impact. 🔗 www.vliz.be/en/news/pola...

This week is annual 'Meetweek' at VLIZ' Marien Station Ostend. 31 students from #UGent & #AntwerpMaritimeAcademy master topographic & hydrographic techniques: e.g. GPS corrections, drone & bathymetric surveys. Thanks to #DEME #JanDeNul #GEOxyz #geodirect_bv #FlemishHydrography #agentschapMDK & #VLIZ

How little we’ve seen: A visual coverage estimate of the deep seafloor | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

ISMER-UQAR & VLIZ looking for a #PhD Examining 👀 carbon sequestration during extreme events in the North Atlantic Ocean 🌊 Team leads 💪 Mathilde Jutras (ISMER-UQAR) and 💪 Peter Landschützer (VLIZ). ⏳ Apply by 5th of May Details 👉 buff.ly/fxfY20A

Coraline Leseurre from VLIZ presenting how different types of #ICOSBelgium Ocean stations can be used to assess seasonality of carbon dynamics in the North Sea. Neat preliminary results highlighting the importance of continuous ocean carbon observations! #EGU25

Het VLIZ blaast dit jaar 25 kaarsjes uit. 🎂 Het uitgelezen moment om samen met algemeen directeur @janmees.bsky.social stil te staan bij het afgelegde traject en vooruit te kijken naar de toekomst. 👉 🔗 www.vliz.be/testerep/nl/...

So, there they are, the @marinespecies.bsky.social top-ten marine species of 2024! Do you have a favorite? marinespecies.org/worms-top-te... #toptenmarinespecies #taxonomistappreciationday #OceanDecade #GenOcean #marinespecies

Proud partner of #INSPIRE, tackling plastic pollution in rivers with pioneering technology. Today, VLIZ, #VITO & #RiverCleanup presented the 1st results on the Scheldt. 🔗 www.vliz.be/en/news/vito-river-cleanup-and-vliz-tackle-pollution-scheldt-together-european-innovation-project

The last session of this #VMSD25 is all about 25 years VLIZ. General Director of VLIZ, Prof. dr. Jan Mees @janmees.bsky.social, talks about the importance of the ocean and the role of science, and marine institutes such as VLIZ, in reaching goals.

De slimme keuzes van oesterlarven: overleven in een drukke onderwaterwereld www.vliz.be/testerep/nl/...

De zee als bron van gezondheid: winnaars van de Delcroix-prijzen www.vliz.be/nl/news/winn...

A beautiful day in #Oostende. The @VLIZnews Uncrewed Surface Vehicle Gobelijn doing current measurements in the harbour mouth for the Flemish Hydrographic Service

🎉 Congratulations Dr. Yunmeng Li! 🌊 In her PhD (VLIZ, Ghent University, University of Antwerp), she discovered how sea spray aerosols—tiny particles from breaking waves—can influence our immune system. 🦠 Read more 👉 www.vliz.be/en/news/how-... #seaair #immunehealth #oceanresearch #marinebiology

Another successful PhD defence at @vliznews.bsky.social. Congratulations Dr Yunmeng Li who studied marine bacteria in sea spray aerosols and their potential immunological effects on human health

🎉 Congratulations Dr. Stan Pannier! 📜 Yesterday, he successfully defended his PhD (VLIZ & KU Leuven), shedding light on an overlooked chapter of Belgian history: the involvement of the Austrian Netherlands (1775-1795) in the transatlantic slave trade. 🌍⛵ Read more (Dutch) 👉 vliz.be/testerep/nl/...

🌍🔬 Today, we celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science! At VLIZ, we’re proud that 48% of our team are women, driving marine research forward. 👩‍🔬🌊 Diversity isn’t just important, it’s essential for innovation. Let’s build a future of equal opportunities. 💙 #GenderEquality

#Fishweir traditions of the #European #coastline and #rivers have been documented from as early as the #Mesolithic period. Fish weirs have been part of the subsistence methods of humans along the coast of the #NorthAtlantic. 1/6 #coastalhistory #archaeology #fishweirs #oceandecadeheritage