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

What Can the Public Humanities Learn about Impact from the Environmental Humanities? Open access paper presenting the UNESCO Bridges Consortium and the Oceans Past Initiative @oceanspast.bsky.social @erc4oceans.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Nice to see our new marine historical ecology FisHistory project featured in The Bridge - looking forward to cross-disciplinary research in 2025 @jangeerthiddink.bsky.social @ystadaucymru.bsky.social @leafyhistory.bsky.social @oceanspast.bsky.social

📣 New #openaccess paper 📣 In this new @naturesustain.bsky.social paper, authors explored hundreds of written records and descriptions of native oyster (Ostrea edulis) habitat and fisheries published since the 1700s, revealing #oyster reefs spanning >17,000 km2! Link to read: go.nature.com/3ZK3nij

🚨 Registration & abstract submission are NOW OPEN for the CPEG Meeting & Conservation Paleobiology Symposium! 🚨 📅 Summer 2025 📍 University of Zurich, Switzerland Visit our website for keynote speakers, deadlines, fees, workshops & more: cpeg-cpb25.uzh.ch/en.html #CPEGCPB25

New paper out TODAY in @consletters.bsky.social led by Dr Philine zu Ermgassen. Applying the IUCN #Ecosystem #RedListing criteria to historical & recent data, we find that European native oysters (O. edulis) are #Collapsed. Open access paper at lnkd.in/dJbbkzEa. Image: Maria Eggertsen

🏢✨ In case you missed it: December 6th is the deadline to submit expressions of interest to host the 2026 Oceans Past Initiative conference. Contact [email protected] for more information or if you wish to be added to our mailing list!