MPAs only partly offset decades of human impacts on tropical reefs
Protecting more while continuing business as usual will just slow the decline 🐟📉 !
Check our latest paper in @natecoevo.nature.com with @uflandrin.bsky.social on 2800+ reefs & ~1700 🐠 species
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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This is worth reposting on #InternationalWomensDay
Lovely story on the BBC about iceberg a23a, which has given us decades of fun but is now nearing its end…
Really enjoyed talking with Mark Poynting about this one-time behemoth.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
Zeeland ligt dwars: provincie wil geen staalslakken, ministerie wel.
‘Vanaf 2027 heeft Rijkswaterstaat op zeven plaatsen in de Ooster- en Westerschelde stortingen gepland waarvoor mogelijk staalslakken gebruikt kunnen worden.’
www.omroepzeeland.nl/nieuws/18249...
#seabirds
If you work on restoration, this is an opportunity to shape future approaches to restoring our oceans.
🔵ICES Workshop to Identify Indicators to Track Nature Restoration Across the Greater North Sea Basin
🗓️20-22 April
📍Copenhagen & online
🔔Register by 31 March www.ices.dk/community/gr...
Pterocoma pennata, a comatulid ("feather star") from the Jurassic of Germany
Ginkgoites huttoni, a ginkgo from the Jurassic of England.
Cymatophlebia longialata, a dragonfly from the Jurassic of Germany
Pterodactylus antiquus, a pterosaur from the Jurassic of Germany.
Look at all these beautiful flattened Jurassic friends! ⛏️🤓 All from the Paläontologisches Museum München public exhibit -names in alt-text #fossil #paleontology #paleobotany
"Hoe komt een graag geziene tuingast in het verdomhoekje terecht? Norbert Peeters kijkt met andere ogen naar invasieve exoten": www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
#SchorrenEnSlikken | Docu over de #Verzilting van Schouwen-Duiveland en het tekort aan zoet water: www.omroepzeeland.nl/tv/afleverin... @omroepzeeland.nl 💧Mede door klimaatverandering en zeespiegelstijging. Met o.a. estuarien ecoloog @jimvanbelzen.bsky.social. Terug te zien tot 4 mrt.
The workflow illustrates a step-by-step process for conducting causal analyses. Arrows indicate the typical flow of an analysis. Two possible pathways are shown: causal discovery approaches (blue), which aim to identify the existence of causal relationships when pre-existing knowledge is low, and causal inference approaches (yellow), which aim to quantify the direction and magnitude of causal effects when pre-existing knowledge is high. The gray feedback loop on the right highlights the iterative refinement of causal analyses based on assessments of the plausibility of causal assumptions.
So, y'all have heard me going on about #causalinference in #ecology a lot. Now our big synthetic guide "Best practices for moving from correlation to causation in ecological research" is out! Led by Hannah Correia & Paul Ferraro, it's a great walk-through for all! 🌍🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Rare study showing that #microplastics in #benthic sediments affect the relationship with 🦪Macomona liliana & impair the deep-burrowing behaviour of 🪱Macroclymenella stewartensis, likely influencing key ecosystem functions such as benthic O2 fluxes & nitrogen cycling.
www.int-res.com/abstracts/me...
Extinction isn’t random.
Range size matters. Temperature tolerance matters. Climate change matters.
But there’s another piece we’ve long suspected: geography.
For 500 million years, the shape of continents helped shape survival.
🧪 #SciComm
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The American Naturalist classic cover
Banerjee et al. propose that the underlying structure of positive feedbacks in an ecosystem may determine the tipping-evasion mechanism relevant to that particular system.
Available now ahead of print!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Locations with nutrient data around Greenland 1920-2020
Nutrient data and key water mass endmembers for Greenland's coastal seas (1920-2020)
RV Sanna sailing in Disko Bay
Icebergs in Disko Bay
Xin noted that when probing ice-ocean interactions around #Greenland, we usually focus on 1 cruise or 1 region. He took the initiative to analyze all available data. Two years later, he presents a comprehensive synthesis of nutrients in time and space🌊
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further
Figure 2: Three-dimensional model rendering from CT data for MOR 1627. (A) Left lateral view of entire skull with close-up (D) of the embedded tooth. (B) Dorsal view of entire skull with close-up (E) of the embedded tooth. (C) Anterior view of entire skull with close-up (F) of the embedded tooth. Dashed lines indicate the specimen midline. (Wyenberg-Henzler & Scannella, 2026)
New behavioral #paleontology paper out today about tyrannosaur predation! The authors (Wyenberg-Henzler & Scannella) contend that the find is "consistent with a bite inflicted during an attempt to control the struggling Edmontosaurus or deliver a killing blow followed by carcass consumption". Nice!
Antarctica isn’t one big tipping point.
New research maps 18 separate ice basins, each with its own threshold. Some in West Antarctica may tip at just ~1–2C warming (i.e close to today’s levels).
Cross the line, and you commit to m’s of sea-level rise over centuries
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Porpoises 'buzz' less when boats and ships are nearby.
Researchers studying a narrow strait called the Little Belt in Denmark found buzzes reduced by up to 45% during the busiest vessel traffic periods.
@uniexecec.bsky.social @exetergses.bsky.social @exetermarine.bsky.social
Not all marine snow—oceanic dandruff made of fecal flakes, dead phytoplankton, and more—makes it to the seafloor.
Researchers in #ScienceAdvances describe the deep-sea squeeze that causes carbon from these particles to leak into seawater before reaching the ocean’s bottom. https://scim.ag/3Zh1kCU
📢 Save the date!
The 59th European Marine Biology Symposium ( #EMBS59 ) will take place 7–10 July 2026 in Peniche, Portugal 🇵🇹
🌊 Hosted by ESTM (Polytechnic of Leiria) & MARE
📍 Coastal campus overlooking the Berlengas UNESCO Biosphere Reserve 🙌
More here👇
www.embs-symposium.com
🤔Looking to make your #code more #reproducible? Check out our new and improved guide to Reproducible Code! 🧪🌍️
Find it here👇️
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We are seeking a 3+ year postdoc in ocean modelling, to work on an exciting project investigating underwater tsunamis in Antarctica.
More about the project here: www.polomints.ac.uk
Read more about the post here: lnkd.in/eBjndZPv
Please share and help connect us with the best candidates!
We are proud to unveil the world’s longest underwater timelapse, starting May 1st 2023 and running 1,000 days through January 28, 2026. This 10fps period covers summer 2023’s coral bleaching mortality event, but then recovering and growing through ‘24 & ‘25 into ‘26 #coralcitycamera
CRAZY diversity of sea stars fr NEW CALEDONIA! I describe 28 NEW SPECIES,3 NEW GENERA! #echinoday #goniasteridae #openaccess. My thanks to colleagues at the @MNHN.fr in Paris! for my many visits in order to complete this research! Will share some of my favorites herein! mapress.com/mt/article/v...
Smart people have already written about the many problems of generative AI better than I could, but I’ll tell you this about the thing I know: writing is about writing. It’s an action. A verb. It’s what we do. I write, you write, they write. Skip that and you’re not a writer.
Deep sea folks. Hope you like! doi.org/10.1098/rstb... @deepstewardship.bsky.social @dsbsoc.bsky.social
Someone holding a slab of Staithes sandstone (grey colour) slightly larger than a hand with many fossils including oysters, scallops and crinoid ossicle.
A lovely find today with @geologyjohnson.bsky.social at Robin Hoods Bay.
Lots going on here in this Staithes sandstone including: scallop, oyster, and a cute little crinoid ossicle 🤩
#FossilFriday #Paleontology #Geology #Fossil
This great animated map shows how daylight hours vary across the globe throughout the year. Source:
#ICESASC26 call for abstracts open🔔deadline 25 February
Which theme sessions are you interested in?
🟠Single-species fisheries management? Session A
🟣Bycatch reduction tech? Session D
🟡"Restoration" in fished waters? Session I
🟢Tracking gelatinous zooplankton? Session P
👀 www.ices.dk/events/asc/2...
Almost 4000 people have done this quiz so far, although younger groups still under-represented in case you know anyone who'd like to give it a go and see how they compare to others! probability.kucharski.io
