#ICESASC2025 starts tomorrow, with strong MARBEFES representation. 🌐Session Q will be dedicated to marine biodiversity and #ecosystemservices.

Call for abstracts! We are excited to invite contributions to the Ocean Sciences Meeting #OSM26 session ME008: Food Webs in Changing Oceans and Seas Abstract submission is open until 20 August 2025. Read more and submit here: www.agu.org/ocean-scienc... Hope to see you in Glasgow!

☀️August Issue Out Now!☀️ 📙South-west Finnish Archipelago, the study site in the article ‘Marine heatwaves amplify benthic community metabolism and solute flux in a seafloor heating experiment’, which features in this issue. Credit: Alf Norkko🌊 💡Read it here: 👉 buff.ly/JTXdj1C 🧪🌍

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What an amazing discovery!

Saw this work presented at the Cefas student conference. I love it - great example of how to make the absolute best out of what initially looks like a fieldwork disaster (study organism gets eaten…)

Today is #WorldOceansDay and I have traveled to Nice to join the 3rd UN Ocean Conference. Exciting that so many have come together to work for a healthy ocean environment and thriving marine life! Happy to be part of the Finnish delegation. #UNOC3 #UNOCNice #ScienceForTheOcean @helsinki.fi

📣Post-doc opportunity in thermal ecology & species interactions with Arnaud Sentis at INRAE Aix-en-Provence, France. 🌡️Explore how antagonistic interactions shape thermal tolerance in freshwater organisms. 📆 Start: Nov. 2025 | Duration: 2 years 📩 Sept. 8, 2025 Info 👉 www.inrae.fr/en/news/erc-... 🌐🧪🌍

Restoration cannot be scaled up globally to save reefs from loss and degradation Our new paper just out in @natureecoevo.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NEW PhD thesis! Roel Lammerant will defend the doctoral dissertation entitled "Functional perspective on the role of macrophytes in the coastal carbon cycle across different temporal and spatial scales" on Friday 4.4 at 13:00 at Tvärminne Zoological Station. Stream: helsinki.zoom.us/j/68659327422

⭐️Shortlisted for the 2024 Haldane Prize! 🌊Jahangir Vajedsamiei investigates how #heatwaves impact marine species. By improving predictive models with real-world data, we can better anticipate the effects of #climatechange on #marine #ecosystems 🌎🧪 functionalecologists.com/2025/03/28/j...

The COINS conference is kicking off with very strong and inspiring talks by @marienordstrom.bsky.social about ecology and food webs and @kellykrause.bsky.social about scientific visualizations

Thoroughly enjoying the COINS 2025 in Vilnius. Today’s speakers include Dr Eugene Koonin and Creative Director Kelly Krause (Nature) as well as yours truly. Thank you and congratulations to the organizers and Domas Sakalauskas in particular!

🌊 Ocean Census scientists have identified 800+ new marine species using AI imaging & DNA analysis. From deep-sea crustaceans to jellyfish, the findings highlight how little we know about #ocean biodiversity. What else might the deep sea be hiding? 🌏🧪 oceancensus.org/publications... #Biodiversity

Patrik Ståhl at #OIKOSFin2025 @oikosfinland.bsky.social presenting his paper on how food web robustness depends on the network type and threshold for extinction. Read more here: doi.org/10.1111/oik....

Happy to be here together with participants from 27 different countries!

44,000 #biological #interactions extracted from 84,000 publications—in just a few hours using GPT4o Preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... by @francoiskeck.bsky.social et al #ecology🌍🌐🐟🌳🦋🪰🌿🪲 #predation #parasitism #mutualism 🚀 Potential applications seem endless & will change how we do #ecology

"We need a fundamental shift in how we produce food—one that recognizes that food production efficiency comes at the cost of ecosystem robustness and the loss of #biodiversity. By mimicking nature's complex mosaic of habitats, we can strengthen the resilience of food webs." 🌐🧪🌎

JOB ALERT! Associate Professor position in Animal Biology available at Linköping University, Sweden. Areas of interest include ecology, physiology, evo-devo and genetics. 🧪 🌍 🦊 🐟 🦉 #AcademicSky #WomenInSTEM #HigherED #ScienceJobs liu.se/en/work-at-l...

Enjoyed two days discussing exciting projects. I really appreciate my positive and supportive colleagues and the bright PhD students I am privileged to work with.

”Through this cross-feeding interaction, Prochlorococcus could be helping many microbial communities to grow sustainably, simply by giving away what it doesn’t need. And they’re doing so in a way that could set the daily rhythms of microbes around the world.” news.mit.edu/2025/abundan...

#BES2024 FOMO. That is all.

Well this wasn't on my agenda 🫣 www.bangor.ac.uk/news/2024-12...

📢#WeAreHiring! I am looking for a #postdoc (2yr position) either in ecological modelling or experimental trait-based ecology to join us in Northern Biodiversity and Ecosystem functioning group at @helsinkiuni.bsky.social Thanks for reposting! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Just published in @asn-amnat.bsky.social: #Resource flow #network structure drives #Metaecosystem function. 🌍 🌐 🟦↔️🟩 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1... We investigate how spatial structure of larger resource flow networks influences #ecosystem function at metaecosystem scales. 🧵1/3

More studies documenting shifts in marine mammal communities in the Arctic. See also doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

A permanent molecular ecology lab coordinator position in Helsinki! Come and work with a bunch of groups (including mine) working on various topics in ecology and evolution. English is the working language of the lab. Finland is the happiest country in the world 😀 jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

#Dragons! Face to face with some #Antarctic worms! Collected and photographed by @hwiklund.bsky.social on our @bas.ac.uk expedition to the marine protected area around the South Orkney Islands in Antarctica. 588 species of seafloor worms are currently known from the Southern Ocean!

Three days ago, the Baltic Sea main basin reached the climatological annual maximum of surface temperatures. From now on, temperatures starts to fall towards the autumn. Since 11 May, every day has been warmer than the recent 21-year median.

High human Impact on benthic ecosystems 🧪 www.abo.fi/en/news/new-...

Extremely excited to introduce Climate Pulse - the latest application from #CopernicusClimate to start #climate conversations giving users global temperature data two days behind real time. 
👉 Check it out: pulse.climate.copernicus.eu
 *beta release - constructive feedback welcome:) 🧪⚒️🛰️🌍

Just out in Nature Climate Change, our study on how 'Flexible foraging behaviour increases predator vulnerability to climate change' led by Benoit Gauzens 🧪🐟🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The IPCC should hire the BBC’s graphics team for AR7.

A reminder for ECRs who are looking for an opportunity to form their own group to study contemporary questions in marine sciences in Germany with 5-years of support: hifmb.de/focus-group-...

“In our universe, platform foods compress and expand space-time.”

I don't know who needs to hear this, but most marine biology research careers do not involve SCUBA diving- which means that, among other things, if you have a medical condition that means you can't SCUBA dive, you don't need to abandon your dream of becoming a marine biologist.

🌊 New report out now! State of the Baltic Sea 2023 is the most comprehensive assessment of the #BalticSea ecosystem health to date. This synthesis report integrates results from various #HOLAS3 assessment products, covering the period 2026-2021. 🌐 stateofthebalticsea.helcom.fi