π’Last call for Brest!!
If you would like to present your work at our Annual Science Conference in Brest, France, this September, tomorrow is the deadline for all abstract submissions!
π18 theme sessions to choose from www.ices.dk/events/asc/2...
And submit your abstractπ whova.com/call_for_spe...
Check out my recent #JFB Editor's Choice: "Put it in reverse! Captivating deep-sea footage reveals the mysterious movements of abyssal fish", featuring some amazing footage: doi.org/10.1111/jfb....
It highlights a paper by Priede and Jamieson doi.org/10.1111/jfb....
"This is Europeβs new reality: under water in winter, withered in summer. Yet even as the weather extremes worsen, the voices of denial have grown louder and more influential."
Excellent piece on the distance between lived realities and ideological denial.
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Have you heard about our new report on the UK #octopus bloom? This article in @theconversation.com aims to bring the situation to life and links to the full report theconversation.com/octopus-numb... @thembauk.bsky.social @pml.ac.uk @plymuni.bsky.social #climatechange #fisheriesπ
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
Cannibalism should be included when managing fisheries
academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...
Happy birthday to Charles Darwin,
patron saint of tired scientists, grumpy fieldworkers, and hating your own manuscript.
"The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary." URSULA K. LE GUIN "A WAR WITHOUT END"
Affirmation Coyote hopes you'll keep imagining a better world.
It's easy if you try.
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. Itβs dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
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New paper titled βFunctional novelties and behavioural flexibility underpin diversification of the surgeonfish feeding mechanismβ. ππ
link: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
π£Applications are now open!
Find out more about how to apply π
Two side-by-side spiral galaxies sprinkled with the knotted blue clumps of star-forming regions. They sit against a black background peppered with hundreds of galaxies of various shapes, sizes, and colors.
An edge-on, cigar-shaped galaxy, bright yellow toward the center and sprinkled with the knotted blue clumps of star-forming regions. The galaxy sits against a black background peppered with hundreds of galaxies of various shapes, sizes, and colors.
A spiral galaxy with bright yellow core sprinkled with the knotted blue clumps of star-forming regions. The galaxy sits against a black background peppered with hundreds of galaxies of various shapes, sizes, and colors.
We're blue-da-ba-dee-da-ba-di because blue is the color of cosmic creation! π
In these snapshots from NSFβDOE Rubin Observatory, brilliant blue galaxies are bursting with star formation, lighting up the Universe with newborn stars. πβ¨
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Drawing of a researcher looking out thoughtfully at mountains, grasslands and intertidal study systems
New paper out today in Ecology Letters! In this synthesis we dive into the equilibrium assumption in ecology - why it's everywhere in ecological theory, the evidence for it in nature, when meeting the assumption is important, how to achieve it in empirical research, and more! tinyurl.com/yh6kyysm
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to βyou didnβt want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinationsβ in a few years was the right idea
Opening Research Position at IMR in TromsΓΈ in Ecosystem Structure, Dynamics, and Integrated Ecosystem Assessments. Deadline 1st December.
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Calling all marine conservation and fisheries scientist and practitioners!!
This is a great opportunity to serve on the board of the organization that hosts the International Marine Conservation Congress every other year. The next one (#IMCC7) is in Scotland in Nov 2026 - help put it on! π¦πππ£πͺΈπ
Traveling for the holidays? Skip the airportβhitch a ride on these globetrotting currents!πβοΈβΊοΈ
π²Get to know our amazing ocean planet through our new science interactive: http://go.whoi.edu/ocean-world
Fineβscale reconstruction of pelagic fish migration by isoβlogging of eye lens - Matsubayashi - Methods in Ecology and Evolution #stableisotopes besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
What a privilege to be nominated, not only for 2025 GAME OF THE YEAR, but also TWELVE??!! TOTAL NOMINATIONS at #TheGameAwards
There are so many deserving, precious games from this year, and to be nominated among them makes us SO SO very whee π₯Ή
THANK YOU!!
PhD opportunity: MOVE
Details: blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/c...
Deadline: 12/01/26
Supervisors: @shoalgroup.bsky.social, @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social, @wlallen.bsky.social, @nhcooper123.bsky.social, @marinapapa.bsky.social
Apply: blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/p...
[completely ignoring the scales involved] this is where I will put the jacuzzi
source: https://pulse.climate.copernicus.eu/
source: https://pulse.climate.copernicus.eu/
La Nina is here and the global cool-down is well underway (global mean sea surface temps are lowest since March 2023).
Remember it's not the individual ups & downs that matter, it's the steady warming trend, which will continue until we reach zero carbon emissions.
#Urgency #StayFocused #COP30
If you are interested in helping us to mitigate the impacts of light pollution #ALAN on biodiversity, and work on street lighting mitigation and road safety, consider joining our Knowledge Network: www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl...
What if we kissed after we died and our bodies are returning nutrients to the earth? π
My nature journal Secrets of a Devon Wood is available to buy in @Waterstones if you're on the hunt for a gift for a nature lover. There's some signed copies in the Newton Abbot branch.
Ohio State news piece on our deep-sea fish body shape study:
news.osu.edu/how-fishes-o...
Looking for an internship in spring?
Do you like fish, lakes, cycling & cheese?
Our lab in Kastanienbaum might be the place for you!
Apply, itβs great!
apply.refline.ch/673277/1301/...
Natural history museum fans (and skeptics) - this is in 24 hours time: there's still time to book! ποΈ
