We had a flying start to Oceans Past XI! 🐟 Carmen Dick from the Songhees First Nation generously welcomed all Oceans Past XI attendees to Victoria 🇨🇦 We also heard from our first two keynotes, Professor Daniel Pauly and Professor Cristina Brito.

ICES is committed to supporting early-career scientists. Meet some of the individuals we have supported at Oceans Past XI this week @oceanspast.bsky.social 🔷Madison Bowden-Parry 🔷Arlin Rodriguez 🔷Meaghan Efford 🔷Anna Guasco 🔷Hannah Kobluk

@oceanspast.bsky.social OPI conference is under way at Victoria University. Check all the talks and topics in #historicalecology and #marenvhist at oceanspast.org and project's mew results such as @erc4oceans.bsky.social

We are proud to support early-career scientists attending Oceans Past XI this week at the University of Victoria in Canada, hosted by the Oceans Past Initiative @oceanspast.bsky.social Meet our ECS here! 🔷@gwynchil.bsky.social 🔷Jannick Scheepstra 🔷Leah D. Rubin 🔷Jaime Ojeda

Attending Oceans Past XI with us at the University of Victoria this month? Find the draft programme here: oceanspast.org/conferences/... 📸 Throwback to a sunny Oceans Past X Conference in Cornwall, UK

We are looking forward to meeting you all next month at Oceans Past XI! Not registered for in-person attendance yet? You only have a few days left! 📣 The deadline for in-person full conference registration is Sunday, May 31st, at midnight British Summer Time.

Early bird rates to join us for OPXI in June end tomorrow! @icesmarine.bsky.social @unoceandecade.bsky.social @uvic.ca

What questions were marine scientists asking in 1926? Are they still asking the same questions? A new paper has the answers! 📄One hundred years of topics and citations in ICES Journal of Marine Science doi.org/10.1093/ices... ✍️ Szymon Smoliński, Natalie Isaksson, Silvana Birchenough, Howard Browman

Early bird registration deadline coming up 🎟️🐦 Interested in documenting and understanding changes in marine systems and human-ocean interactions❓ Join Oceans Past XI Conference on 15-19 June in Victoria, Canada. Deadline for early bird registration is 15 May: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/oceans-pas...

Joining us for Oceans Past XI this June? We'll be reducing the availability of discounted room rates at the University of Victoria from April 15. Book via our conference website 🔗 sway.cloud.microsoft/KADEy01cx1zB... Looking to split costs & share accommodation? Email us as [email protected].

Registration for the Oceans Past XI Conference is now OPEN! Early bird rates available until May 15! 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/oceans-pas... For more details and information on OPI XI registration, see the link above. We look forward to seeing you at the conference! 🐟

Fish folk - have you ever heard of old (18thC) name Mylwell or Melvell?🐟 @oceanspast.bsky.social @thefsbi.bsky.social @projectfishistory.bsky.social @leafyhistory.bsky.social Apparently sometimes applied to cod, but not in this context (as named alongside, along with ling, conger, hake and bream)

Want to keep up to date with #MarineHistoricalEcology research news and more? Join our mailing list 👉 [email protected] Missed our January newsletter? Catch up here: oceanspast.org/newsletter/

⏰ Last call! Abstracts for Oceans Past XI close tomorrow ⏰ If you're interested in past human–ocean interactions and changing marine systems, don't miss the deadline! Submit today 📩 oceanspast.org/2026-opi-xi/ Early career researcher? ✨ ✅ Don’t forget to request travel support in your submission

Don’t miss out! Abstract & ECR funding submissions for the OPI XI conference are still open.. for now! The deadline is approaching! Closing date: 15th January 2026 Visit oceanspast.org/2026-opi-xi/ to submit 🐟 📍University of Victoria, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada 📅 15-19 June, 2026

Want to share your work at Oceans Past XI? Want some funding to get to the conference as an early-career researcher? The abstract submission and ECR funding application deadlines have been extended! Visit oceanspast.org/2026-opi-xi/ for all the information!

Our deadline for Abstracts & ECR Funding Award submissions for the OPI XI Conference has been EXTENDED! New closing date: 15th January 2026 Visit oceanspast.org/2026-opi-xi/ to submit! 📍 OPI XI University of Victoria, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada 📅 15-19 June, 2026

📅 Reminder: 19th of December is the deadline for the Oceans Past conference abstract and ECR funding submissions! 🐟 Conference dates: 15-19 June 2026 Location: University of Victoria on Vancouver Island, Canada Further information at: oceanspast.org/2026-opi-xi/

Webinar alert! Join us for a project introduction, some early findings & find out how you can get involved. When: Fri 5th Dec, 10am (GMT) Where: Online (Teams) Schedule: 20-30 minute presentation + Q&A Interested? DM for a link to join!

Early December and I am now 4 months into my project, FINS! It’s been a busy and AMAZING start to this project which is so dear to me! August included what would be my first of many visits up to @nhmdk.bsky.social to look at the elasmobranchs in their collections and attending @isba11.bsky.social !

Our call for Abstracts & ECR Funding Award submissions are OPEN for the OPI XI Conference! 📍 University of Victoria, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada 📅 15-19 June, 2026 Closing date for abstracts: 19 December 2025 See our website oceanspast.org/2026-opi-xi/ to explore conference sub-themes & submit!

Very excited to share that I've been given a ECR Spotlight in Volume 34 of the @oceanspast.bsky.social Quarterly Newsletter to discuss my "Beyond Stockfish" project and research journey (so far 😊!) bsky.app/profile/ocea...

Our latest newsletter is here 🐟 This month we're celebrating two decades of OPI, with special features & reflections from Prof. Cristina Brito and Prof. Daniel Pauly, plus lots more! Keep up to date with current research in the field by joining our mailing list 👉 [email protected].

Exciting news! We’re thrilled to announce the Call for Abstracts and ECR Funding Award submissions are now open for the OPI XI Conference. Join us & our hosts at the University of Victoria, Vancouver Island, Canada 🇨🇦, 15–19 June 2026! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #marinehistoricalecology

Cooperation between ecologists and historians has allowed a robust reconstruction of the historical introduction of the Italian crayfish, Austropotamobius fulcisianus, to Spain in the late-16th century @ebdonana.bsky.social @um.es New OA paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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

We'll be visiting ports in Mid-South Wales e.g., Fishguard and Aberystwyth next week (2nd-4th September). If you're from the area and know anything about the Irish Sea herring fishery (past or present), or know someone who does, please get in touch here or at [email protected]🐟

More than a century of data reveals how the UK has gone from supplying domestic seafood needs from productive home waters to importing seafood from almost 90 countries Read more here 👇 @exeter.ac.uk @exetermarine.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social @profcallum.bsky.social @ruththurstan.bsky.social

We have a couple of spots for our SAAs symposium on Marine resources exploitation in the preindustrial Americas. We welcome papers that builds long-term baselines of human–marine interactions, blending methodological approaches, zooarchaeology, GMM, geochemistry, ZooMS, and aDNA!

Our latest newsletter is here! This month features new projects, special research issues, OPI conference information and more 🐟 If you'd like to keep up to date with current research in the field, join our mailing list by emailing [email protected]. #marinehistoricalecology #oceanspast

We are pleased to invite you to the Oceans Past XI Conference! Taking place between 15-19 June 2026 at the University of Victoria, Vancouver Island, Canada (www.uvic.ca) Abstract submissions open early Autumn 2025; stay tuned for updates! More info: oceanspast.org/conferences/... (1/2)

Newspaper archives for marine biology research Amongst crossword puzzles & sports news are fragments of evidence we can piece together to understand change b4 scientific surveys started Species, date, location, size-all data points for analysis In this case, on marine megafauna we have lost

Have you visited our new website yet?! Follow the link below to meet our Governing Board, read the latest research, news & projects in #MarineHistoricalEcology, browse our resources & more! 🔗 oceanspast.org

A new paper by @rachelwinter.bsky.social used stable isotope data derived from fish bones from Middle to Late Holocene Levantine archaeological sites to explore trophodynamics and foraging ecologies prior to Lessepsian invasions and the overfishing seen in more recent times. doi.org/10.12681/mms...

📢 Calling all members of the fishing and seafood industry, historians, government and local experts! 🐟 Know where herring were caught, when they arrived, where they spawned, or how they were used? 🗣️ We want to hear from you! 📩 Contact [email protected]

Fascinating demonstration of the application of alternative data sources - poetry - in marine historical ecology - to inform conservation & management @oceanspast.bsky.social @projectfishistory.bsky.social @leafyhistory.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...

New paper out now in @natcomms.nature.com! Multiproxy analysis reveals the earliest evidence of whale bone working and broadens the range of taxa known to have been used in the Bay of Biscay during the Late Paleolithic 🐋 Paper 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The identification of flatfish remains in archaeozoological studies has often been limited to higher taxonomic levels or species groups. Here a new paper provides excellent drawings and descriptions of selected skeletons elements! Check the paper here: doi.org/10.26028/cyb... 🐟

Our latest newsletter has just dropped! This month features new research, interviews with researchers and lots more 🐟 If you'd like to keep up to date with current research in the field, join our mailing list by emailing [email protected]. #marinehistoricalecology #oceanspast

New paper out this week 📣 Authors detail 120 years of the UK's reach for seafood, revealing a rapid growth of dependence on global fisheries. By the 21st century, imports tripled 20th-century levels, with seafood travelling over 30% farther. 🐟 🔗 Link to read: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New study on archaeological New Zealand sea lion and New Zealand fur seals from Māori settlement, middle European expansion and modern time periods, reconstruct resource niche positions of these taxa, using stable isotope analysis 🦭 www.int-res.com/articles/mep...

New #opeanaccess paper 📣 Ancient Atlantic bluefin tuna DNA up to 5000 years old revealed that the frequency of haplotypes has remained similar through time and highlights the utility of aDNA for temporal insights. Link to read: buff.ly/LxREtOQ

International day of women & girls in science While studying local languages & providing medical assistance in Yemen in 1901/2, Marie Hein (1853-1943) collected numerous biological specimens - including a shark & a stingray which turned out to be undescribed ("new") species

#Moonfish, caught by a dutch fisherman in 1560 and drawn by Adriaen #Coenen, fishmonger and author of three 'fish books' Moonfish/ #Sunfish are rare in the North Sea. Three(!) are recorded 1560-83 1/6 🖼️https://galerij.kb.nl/kb.html#/nl/visboek/page/154/zoom/2/lat/-59.355596110016315/lng/20.7421875

In a world of powerful science & big data, how can historical documents usefully inform sustainable management of our oceans? Looking forward to giving this talk tonight @sosbangor.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social @ystadaucymru.bsky.social

You don't want to miss it 🙌 Our Jan 2025 newsletter has just landed. Keep up to date with current research in #MarineHistoricalEcology by joining us! Get in touch at [email protected].

New article out in @uk.theconversation.com covering new research on Europe's forgotten oyster reefs! Link to article: theconversation.com/oysters-once... Read the #OpenAccess paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper in @plosone.org 📣 New review confirms cetaceans presence in Portuguese waters since the Middle Palaeolithic. Authors confirm the presence of the North Atlantic right whale & support whale product trading during the Roman Republican period. Link to read: https://buff.ly/3BXUpGD