🌊 Advancing our strategy to tackle Climate Change! 💡 Today we held the 2nd ICM strategic workshop, bringing together researchers to explore how ocean science can help understand and mitigate climate impacts. 👏 A heartfelt thank you to all participants for their energy, insights, and commitment!

🌊 Thrilled to kick off our new scientific strategy for a thriving ocean! 🤝Yesterday, we hosted the 1st workshop of our 4-part series — focusing on marine biodiversity. 💡A day of reflection, ideas & collaboration to build a shared roadmap for future ocean research.

⚠️Florida’s reefs are collapsing under extreme ocean heat. When corals go, entire ecosystems follow. We can’t let “functional extinction” become the new normal. Protecting reefs means cutting emissions and supporting restoration🌡️🪸 #ClimateEmergency #SaveOurReefs www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Really bad news...

These iconic #corals are nearly extinct due to heatwaves: can they be saved? #marineecology #research www.nature.com/articles/d41...

It is also great to meet bryozoologist friends and colleagues 😊

New publication on zooid size changes of cyclostome bryozoans onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Benvinguda, Lena! 💙 Molt contents de tenir-te amb nosaltres al projecte HOLOCHANGE🪸🦠

Let us express our solidarity with US colleagues affected by the federal shutdown and firings. #shutdown fromtheprow.agu.org/agu-condemns...

🌊We’re hiring postdocs! 🐚Join the MedAcidWarm project with @bfiguerola.bsky.social to study how marine invertebrates & microbiomes respond to climate change with MicroCT, metabolomics & transcriptomics! 📧Apply by 20/10 🔗https://icm.csic.es/ca/oferta-treball/call-postdoctoral-fellowship-candidates

Seven new bryozoan species are described from various habitats across the Mediterranean. Find out more about them here: doi.org/10.3897/zook... #biodiversity #bryozoans #newspecies @bfiguerola.bsky.social

🌊🔬 We’re hiring predocs! 🐚 Join the MedAcidWarm project with @bfiguerola.bsky.social to study how marine invertebrates & microbiomes respond to climate change with metabolomics & transcriptomics! 📧 Apply by 20/10 🔗 https://icm.csic.es/ca/oferta-treball/call-predoctoral-fellowship-candidates

Ready to take the next step in your research career at @icmcsic.bsky.social?We’re seeking enthusiastic candidates to join our team + apply for prestigious pre/postdoc fellowships. Learn more👇 🔗 icm.csic.es/ca/oferta-tr... 🔗 icm.csic.es/ca/oferta-tr... @em-oyster.bsky.social @bryozoology.bsky.social

Happy to collaborate on this great work led by Antonietta Rosso, revising the bryozoan genus Fenestrulina with 77 species and describing seven new ones from the Mediterranean! @zookeys.pensoft.net 🔗 zookeys.pensoft.net/article/1579...

New publication on diversity of the cheilostome bryozoan genus Fenestrulina in the Mediterranean zookeys.pensoft.net/article/1579...

Lab meeting today at @icmcsic.bsky.social. Feeling so lucky to be surrounded by amazing people and researchers, both growing in their own paths:one finishing the PhD and another starting the 2nd year! @marinecalcifiers.bsky.social #SeveroOchoa @cienciagob.bsky.social #INPhINIT @lacaixa.bsky.social

Save the date! Next Larwood meeting (European bryozoan conference) in 2026 will be in Oslo from 1st-3rd of June! Hosted by @lhliow.bsky.social Hope to see you there.

#bryozoa bryozoologists! It’s official!! We are hosting Larwood 2026 in Oslo!! 1-3 June: mark and save on your calendars and spread the news!! @nhmbryozoa.bsky.social

🌊 Phylum Friday: Bryozoa! 🌊 These small colonial organisms are usually found encrusting rocks or blending in with algae. However, many of the species found in New England are invasive, and have become a concern for intertidal and subtidal ecosystems as they encrust and out-compete native species.

"Per primera vegada s'incompleix el llindar d'acidificació de l'oceà". naciodigital.cat/impacte/terr...

Allà estarem cada setmana. #Gaza #Palestine

Molt interessant! Sort amb la cerca!

Que un gobierno que dice luchar contra el cambio climático amplie 2 enormes aeropuertos dice mucho de su compromiso real. Además, !!no podemos más de turistas!! Ni en Madrid ni en Barcelona

#ArticleIRBio 🌊Microbiome Composition in a Common Mediterranean Bryozoan Following an Unprecedented Marine Heatwave🪸 Authors: Figuerola, B ; Linares, C ( #IRBio ) et al. Journal: ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY REPORTS doi.org/10.1111/1758... @medrecover.bsky.social @cristinalinares.bsky.social

Marine heatwaves are intensifying in the Mediterranean,driving mass die-offs in marine life.Our new study reveals how the bryozoan Myriapora truncata & its microbes are coping🧵 t.co/X6sQsdzOar @fonamental.bsky.social @cristinalinares.bsky.social @claudiaaparicio.bsky.social @medrecover.bsky.social

Un laboratori natural?🪸🤿 📕L'investigador de l'#IBE_Barcelona Javier del Campo participa en l'estudi de l'@ICMCSIC que documenta com l’acidificació i l’escalfament de l’oceà poden afectar els briozous, un invertebrat clau dels hàbitats submarins. 🧵 👉 https://shorturl.at/wMhEt

New paper out in Geology! Cheilostome bryozoans evolved aragonite skeletons dozens of times during the transition from calcite to aragonite seas, in contrast to other marine calcifiers. Fossil occurrence data corroborate the story and help nail down the timeline. doi.org/10.1130/G537...

The ocean's fragile fortresses are crumbling under climate pressure ->ScienceDaily | #Climate #Ocean | More info from EcoSearch

Today, @bfiguerola.bsky.social presented at the International Bryozoology Association conference in Tokyo on how an extreme marine heatwave reshaped the microbiome composition of a Mediterranean bryozoan. 🪸🦠 Stay tuned, the full study will be published soon! #Bryozoa

🌊 Ocean warming and acidification hit bryozoans hard A new study found that warming and acidification together weaken bryozoan skeletons, shift their microbiomes, and reduce their cover, threatening benthic ecosystems. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s42... #SciComm 🧪 #MarineBiology

Bryozoans, key habitat-forming marine invertebrates, face structural and microbiome changes under combined ocean acidification and warming, with potential long-term impacts on Mediterranean ecosystems. doi.org/g9wt3g

Ever heard of bryozoans? These tiny reef builders filter water and store carbon but they’re under threat. New post from our upcoming animation 🎥. Full version coming soon! 👇

We are so proud of our sea star wasting work that came out today. This interactive article is very complete and includes beautiful videos. Unmasking the Sea Star Killer www.biographic.com/unmasking-th...

Too many manuscripts and not enough reviewers! The reviewer fatigue issue compromises the #peer-review process. 🧪 🌍 🌐 #ScientificArticles www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New animation coming soon. Stay tuned! 👇

Ocean acidification and warming threaten bryozoan populations by altering skeletal properties, disrupting key microbial communities, and increasing mortality, with consequences for the benthic ecosystems they support. doi.org/10.1038/s420...

Press release of our recent study: "Ocean architects at risk from the combined impact of ocean acidification and warming" www.icm.csic.es/en/news/ocea... #bryozoans #microbiome @fonamental.bsky.social @elpiratavell.bsky.social @polcapdevila.bsky.social @bfiguerola.bsky.social @icmcsic.bsky.social

"Els arquitectes del mar, en risc per l’impacte combinat de l’acidificació i l’escalfament de l’oceà". #briozous 🔗 www.icm.csic.es/ca/noticia/e... @fonamental.bsky.social @elpiratavell.bsky.social @polcapdevila.bsky.social @commsbio.nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com

We are hiring a lab manager for our lab family at Naos Island in Panama. More information and position description here: odealab.com/opportunities/. Deadline is today, but if you need more time please just let me know

I realized the link of the paper in the thread doesn't work. I add it here: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Such crucial research. If marine biomes break down at this fundamental level through CO₂-induced ocean acidification, the knock-on consequences for other species (and fisheries) will be catastrophic. Some good news (acclimation), some bad news (decreased biodiversity).

‼️Check out our new paper on #climate change risks in the #Mediterranean Sea led by Abed El Rahman Hassoun. 🌊

This is a great way to put an end to this academic year and start my vacation 😬 Thanks, Blanca, for leading this effort! 💪 We are having a lot of fun working together, so more #bryozoan #microbiome collabs will be happening soon 😊

New podcast of the @OuestFrance! Sébastien Motreuil shares insights from our scientific diving expedition in the remote Kerguelen & Amsterdam Islands. @polarobs.bsky.social #benthos #globalchange www.ouest-france.fr/monde/antarc...

We are really happy to have you on board 🙌😊

1/ Our new paper is out today in @commsbio.nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com 🚨 🔗https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-08524-8 We studied how two Mediterranean bryozoan species respond to ocean acidification & warming using a natural underwater CO₂ vent as a climate change lab. 🌊🧫 🧵⬇️

🚨 Exciting news! Our national project MedAcidWarm has been funded by @AgEInves @CienciaGob 🎉 It's the next chapter after #MedCalRes, diving deeper into ocean warming, acidification & marine calcifiers. Stay tuned for updates! #microbiome #metabolomics #transcriptomics

🐠🦈 Just out: In this paper we ask "How has reef trophic structure changed since humans started removing predatory fishes from Caribbean coral reefs?". www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com

La setmana que ve la @janiresv.bsky.social i la @bfiguerola.bsky.social participen en un taller d'acidificació oceànica al Casal "Científiques marines" de #planctondiving en el marc del projecte #HOLOCHANGE. @medrecover.bsky.social @ageinves.bsky.social @cienciagob.bsky.social #educacióambiental

Nice experience and environment! I hope this fosters new collaborations and can influence policy decision-making. 🇦🇶 #Antarctica #Conservation #Acidification #MarineCalcifiers #ScienceForPolicy