A morning glory, spotted on a morning that turned out to be quite glorious indeed #BloomScrolling

It's the last day of sea otter awareness week. While we may be heading off, this sea otter isn't going far. While other marine mammals, like whales and seals travel huge distances seasonally, sea otters stick close to home. Photo credit: Linda Tanner (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) 1/2

🚨📢 La direction de l'Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace s'associe pleinement à la tribune publiée par l'Institut CNRS Terre & Univers en réponse au discours de Donald Trump à l'ONU sur le changement climatique. tinyurl.com/3avmx2b6 @cnrs.fr

Time to celebrate sea otter awareness week with another otterly amazing fact! Sea otters spend up to 5 hours every single day cleaning their fur. This isn't vanity thing - it's survival. Clean fur traps air bubbles that keep the otters warm and buoyant. Photo credit: Mike Baird (CC BY 2.0)

Imagine needing to consume 25 - 30% of your bodyweight in food daily just to maintain your body temperature. Sea otter's spend up to eight hours a day foraging just to survive. Photo: This sea otter is eating a basket star! Credit Steve b (Flickr) (Public Domain)

Well, this isn’t great news… According to the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, the ocean has become 30-40% more acidic since the Industrial Revolution www.theguardian.com/... 1/3

Happy World Maritime Day ⚓ From tea to pineapples to TVs and cars, the shipping industry carries over 80% of global trade. With that great scale comes great responsibility. Photo: Tung Lam/Pixabay 1/5

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Truly impressive number of birds migrating tonight. More than 800 MILLION birds up in the air right now❗ #BirdMigration

Ready for another otterly amazing fact this sea otter awareness week? Sea otters are ecosystem engineers! By eating sea urchins, they protect kelp forests from being overgrazed. Photo credit: Mike Baird (CC BY 2.0) 1/2

Here's Abi, one of our Marines Futures interns, with our ✨5 top tips✨ for avoiding seal disturbance when watching them from out on the water ⛵ Whether you're observing from the land or the sea, our message remains the same – #DoNotDisturb #Cumbria #LakeDistrict

🍂 Just like autumn, the new issue of the GREEN Working Group newsletter has arrived! 🍁 This edition is packed with updates and insights! Whether you're deep into #greencriminology or just curious about the latest developments, this issue has something for you. 🔗 www.uu.nl/en/research/...

DYK.... Sea otters form "rafts" by linking paws to prevent drifting apart in ocean currents. Sometimes these rafts can include dozens of otters floating together. It's a practical survival strategy that happens to be absolutely adorable. Photo credit: Lilian Carswell/USFWS (CC BY 2.0)

Calling all nature enthusiasts! 🐦 Sign up to our newsletter for #Birds in Greenspaces, our exciting new project that launches next Spring and focuses on publicly accessible greenspaces! 😀 Sign up to our newsletter for the latest updates and resources ➡️ www.bto.org/get-involved... #Ornithology

1/ The Wild Bird Indicators, using BTO data, have been updated today by Defra! ⬇️ Sadly, the ‘all bird species’ index, comprising the population trends of 130 species, has been in a slow continuous decline in the UK since the 1970s, down by 18% and by 4% in the last five years. 📉 #Ornithology

🌊 🐟 Welcome back to Sea Spectacles! 🪼 🫧 This month’s star is the mauve stinger - a glowing jellyfish with long, stinging tentacles! 🪼 Its vibrant bell is covered in tiny cells that deliver a powerful sting. ✨ @thembauk.bsky.social #DASSH #SeaSpectacles #MauveStinger

Love this type of news. English may be the dominant language in scientific publishing, but that doesn't mean we don't need to publish in other languages too. For sure, dealing with papers in multiple languages is a challenge, but this move for the abstracts is a step in the right direction.

Let's talk a-bao-t data! 🥟 GBIF Head of Communications @kylecopas.bsky.social is presenting in at #ClimateWeekNYC alongside Lisett Luik and Peter Ward in a unique session hosted by Alex Logan called "Data and Dumplings" 🐙 in Lenapehoking (aka New York City). Register: luma.com/lt9ss2t6

Are you ready for an otterly amazing fact for Sea Otter Awareness Week? Sea otters are one of the few animals that use rocks as hammers, cracking open shellfish on their bellies while floating on their backs. Photo credit: Smithsonian's National Zoo (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) 1/2

Prepare yourselves for cuteness because sea otter awareness week has just kicked off! Adult sea otters are pretty amazing swimmers. Fast, nimble, able to hold their breath for five minutes at a time… Sea otter pups? Well, not so much. Photo credit: "Mike" Michael L. Baird (CC BY 2.0) 1/4

Clovers are so beautiful (and look at that fly!) #BloomScrolling #Nature in Savoie, France

Have you heard the whalely good news? The High Seas Treaty, a legally binding global agreement to protect marine life in the high seas, is officially entering into force! Is it perfect? No-but it’s an incredible milestone for the ocean I’ll dive deeper into this in my next Ocean Brief newsletter

New Jersey reached a settlement valued at over $2 billion with DuPont and two of its affiliates to remediate PFAS contamination in what it says is the largest environmental recovery ever by a single state. cen.acs.org/environment/... #chemsky 🧪

🔍 Has anyone come across transparent antifouling coatings for u/w camera lenses? We’re looking for something commercially available in the EU, safe for static u/w cameras that will keep lenses clear without frequent manual cleaning. Any leads, experiences, or suppliers would be very welcome! 🌊📷

Bill’s exactly right. 99.9% of climate denial is solution aversion. They don’t want to fix it, but they know that saying “it’s real and serious but I don’t want to fix it” isn’t a great message. So they go with the smoke screen of science denial instead.

🌊 Right now in Klaipėda, For and from the Baltic is starting alongside #ICESASC25. The side event brings together scientists, policymakers, and stakeholders to explore how #EBFM can support a sustainable future for the Baltic. 📽️ Watch the live stream: https://bit.ly/3K9S0wb

Deepseek’s R1 model has been peer reviewed. Others should follow the firm’s example go.nature.com/468GIko

Everyone - I have great news... It’s World Manta Day! Like many animals, manta rays are threatened by, well, us. But today we’re not going to dwell on what’s going wrong. Today we’re celebrating what’s going right! Photo Credit: Jeff Hester / Ocean Image Bank 1/5

In London, hate will never win.

The full version of Ocean Opportunities has gotten its mini-mid-month update! Subscribers - see the latest opportunities here 👇 www.oceanoculus.com/... Using Tiny Ocean Opportunities but want to access the full version? Choose from a monthly or yearly subscription 👇 www.oceanoculus.com/...

🚫 Full bottom trawling bans in marine protected areas are the ONLY way to ensure a healthy ocean 🌊 If you agree, the time to use your voice is now: only.one/act/uk-mpa-c... "We MUST seize this opportunity," our director @hugotagholm.bsky.social 🔽 The window to have your say is closing in ⌛

💧 Love your local river? Join the #BigRiverWatch from 19–25 Sept. 📱 Download the free app 🧪Apply for the test kit ⏱️ Spend 15 mins recording what you see 📊 Help build the UK’s river health map ⤵️ Details at the link #CitizenScience @eastangliabylines.co.uk @theriverstrust.bsky.social

Research reveals huge disparity between perceived and actual willingness of public to contribute to fixing climate - "[Politicians] have more public support than they may realise" #climatecrisis #89percent www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Looking for a dose of marine humour? How's this... Why are clams so hard to see on the bottom of the ocean? They’re clamouflaged 🤦‍♀️

Hi everyone! I am looking for any #scientists (including grad students, post docs) that’d be willing to be interviewed about their research by my #SciComm students in October. Here is the form to fill out if interested! Our time zone is Alaska, FYI. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The U.S.’s largest estuary is showing signs of revival. Once written off as a dead zone, water clarity in Chesapeake Bay has improved, underwater grasses are expanding, and crab populations are steadier thanks to decades of pollution controls. Nature buff.ly/morNFth #ShareGoodNewsToo

Squid squad! @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 835 #uruguaysub200 #MarineLife

Mediterranean Sea reached record temperatures triggering rapid topicalization.In an AFP article our very own Gil Rilov said "..now its getting warmer,and since 2015 the canal has been deepened and widened more and more species move in every year" Act now to protect biodiversity More in Full article:

#CitizenScientists worth their weight in gold! 💛💛💛 Not just about collecting, also knowledge learnt was expanded, shared, used in different ways: as #researchquestions, #dataanalysis, learning about and sharing #policy plus other stuff. Amazing! 🌍 bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

#Policy and related #regulations can support or impede #conservation initiatives. @moiradonovan.bsky.social‬ reports on #coastal #restoration work in Nova Scotia where @dalhousie.bsky.social‬ researcher Kristina Boerder says “the amount of red tape … has been astonishing” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Let’s get statistically sea-nificant 🧮 🦈 91 percent The amount of shark bycatch in the Alor Archipelago, Indonesia, has been reduced by thanks to conservation efforts. 📷Rafn Ingi Finnsson (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) 1/3

There’s just two weeks to go until the British Science Festival 2025 arrives in Liverpool! 🎉 From 10 - 14 September, the city will come alive with inspiring talks, activities, performances and cutting-edge research.🔬 Book your place now: britishsciencefestival.org #BritishScienceFestival #BSF2025

Bumper whale calving season a ‘sign of hope’ for South Australia’s oceans

Despite knowledge co-production becoming a “central ambition at the environmental science-policy interface,” experiential knowledge remains marginalized. Johner et al. offer 7 recommendations, particularly a key role for stories, as a way forward @chriscvitanovic.bsky.social‬ doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

📱🦀 Turn Your Beach Stroll into a Wildlife Discovery! 🌍🔍 ✨Download the free iNaturalist app and join a global community of nature lovers. Simply snap a photo of any plant or animal life and the app will help you identify it, log it, and contribute to real scientific research.🙌🔗https://buff.ly/hJa1XQk

🔔 Job Alert! The Falkland Islands Government is looking for a fisheries observer/senior fisheries observer! 📍 Stanley, Falkland Islands 📅 September 7, 2025 🔗 🔗ats-fig.jgp.co.uk/va... Here's what you need to know 👇 1/10

Do you like coastal/estuarine microbiology, time-series data, and/or metagenomics? Have we got a dataset for you #NSFfunded Metagenomes and 1,313 metagenome-assembled genomes from a northern Gulf of Mexico coastal time series www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Reporter: Here’s that article, chief! Editor: Great! We’re gonna slap a clickbait headline on this baby that is *insane.* People are gonna want to *kill* you! Reporter: (sigh) Well, I guess it’s worth it if they read it. Editor: Haha, don’t worry, they won’t. Here, let me throw that away for you.

After a four-year investigation, a breakthrough study reveals the cause of sea star wasting disease (SSWD). A strain of the bacterium Vibrio pectenicida is the culprit behind the marine epidemic that has killed billions of sea stars since 2013. Read the study: 🔗https://tinyurl.com/4rcb3xpf

It’s time to show oysters some love because it’s World Oyster Day! 🦪🦪🦪🦪🦪🦪 Did you know that the largest oyster ever found was a Pacific oyster that was 35.5 cm long? To put that in perspective, normally, Pacific oysters reach 15-20 centimetres. 📷 Wadden Sea Center 1/3