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Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab @duke-mgel.bsky.social · May 17

🌊Mapping the Highways of the Sea🌍
New study featuring contributions from MGEL + global partners presents the first cross-taxa global map of marine megafauna migration.
Whales, turtles, seabirds & fish connect ocean regions—now, we can map those links.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Marine megavertebrate migrations connect the global ocean - Nature Communications

Animal migrations are extensive and crucial for ecosystem health but are in decline. This study identifies 1,787 sites and links among them for 109 marine species, highlighting the need for internatio...

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Daniel Dunn @marinebiogeo.bsky.social · May 10

Thanks, @gobisecretariat.bsky.social !!!MiCO would not exist without your support!

Global Ocean Biodiversity Initiative @gobisecretariat.bsky.social · May 8

Congrats to @lilybentley.bsky.social, @marinebiogeo.bsky.social and co-authors on this important new paper. MiCO continues to go from strength to strength - very proud to be a supporter!

Lily Bentley @lilybentley.bsky.social · May 8

Stoked to be able to share my first postdoc paper: 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘢𝘯, published today in Nature Communications! 🎉

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Global Ocean Biodiversity Initiative @gobisecretariat.bsky.social · May 8

Congrats to @lilybentley.bsky.social, @marinebiogeo.bsky.social and co-authors on this important new paper. MiCO continues to go from strength to strength - very proud to be a supporter!

Lily Bentley @lilybentley.bsky.social · May 8

Stoked to be able to share my first postdoc paper: 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘢𝘯, published today in Nature Communications! 🎉

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Marine megavertebrate migrations connect the global ocean - Nature Communications

Animal migrations are extensive and crucial for ecosystem health but are in decline. This study identifies 1,787 sites and links among them for 109 marine species, highlighting the need for internatio...

www.nature.com

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Lily Bentley @lilybentley.bsky.social · May 8

Stoked to be able to share my first postdoc paper: 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘢𝘯, published today in Nature Communications! 🎉

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Marine megavertebrate migrations connect the global ocean - Nature Communications

Animal migrations are extensive and crucial for ecosystem health but are in decline. This study identifies 1,787 sites and links among them for 109 marine species, highlighting the need for internatio...

www.nature.com

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Stu Butchart @stubutchart.bsky.social · Apr 9

After 2 years' development, today we have launched @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social new DataZone! For information on each of the world's 11,000 bird species, 13,000 important sites for their conservation and profiles for 250 countries/territories and 16 global flyways, see datazone.birdlife.org

BirdLife DataZone | BirdLife DataZone

BirdLife International is a world-leader in conservation science. The BirdLife DataZone provides decision-makers and conservation practitioners with biodiversity data, knowledge and tools.

datazone.birdlife.org

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Adriana Guatame-García @adrianaguatame.bsky.social · Mar 6

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
🧪👩‍🔬

There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience.
No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent.
And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted.
... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Mar 5

Hi - I'd like to share this story of what is happening at NOAA GFDL, where some of my colleagues and I worked until the mass firings at NOAA last week.

"...the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting"

NOAA firings hit the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting

Dismissed researchers were improving severe weather predictions

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AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · Feb 28

🚨 #NOAA is essential for weather forecasting, climate research, and public safety.

AGU stands with the scientific community in urging Congress to protect and strengthen NOAA, not dismantle it.

Our economy, environment, and safety depend on it.

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Colin Simpfendorfer @sharkcolin.bsky.social · Jan 29

New #sharkscience from @dr-yannis.bsky.social and colleagues. Movements of oceanic whitetip sharks in French Polynesia. They move a long way, but given the size of FP they rarely moved to the waters of other nations.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Horizontal and vertical movement ecology of the oceanic whitetip shark (Carcharhinus Longimanus) in French Polynesia - Marine Biology

The oceanic whitetip shark (Carcharhinus longimanus) is globally understudied with major data deficits despite its global distribution. We present horizontal and vertical movement data by investigatin...

link.springer.com

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Sylvaine Giakoumi @sylvainegiakoumi.bsky.social · Jan 28

New publication in TREE @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social
Given the political momentum for greater nature protection and restoration articulated in the targets of the Global Biodiversity Framework, we assessed the state-of-the-art of Systematic Conservation Planning. www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

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SharkScience @sharkscience.bsky.social · Dec 7

Ecological erosion and expanding extinction risk of sharks and rays 🦑🌎🐟🧪🦈 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Ecological erosion and expanding extinction risk of sharks and rays

The true state of ocean biodiversity is difficult to assess, and there are few global indicators to track the primary threat of overfishing. We calculated a 50-year Red List Index of extinction risk a...

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · Oct 28

Achieving net-zero climate targets requires substantial land for carbon dioxide removal. A paper in Nature Communications quantifies the land area in countries’ climate pledges at approximately 1 billion hectares, often involving the conversion of existing land uses to forests. 🧪

Over-reliance on land for carbon dioxide removal in net-zero climate pledges - Nature Communications

Achieving net-zero climate targets requires substantial land for carbon dioxide removal. This paper quantifies the land area in countries’ climate pledges at approximately 1 billion hectares, often in...

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Prof. Anna Metaxas @annamet.bsky.social · Nov 29

New policy brief on Climate Change and Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction, ready for #COP28 by the Deep Ocean Stewardship Initiative.
bit.ly/3GjQF0q

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