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Sylvaine Giakoumi
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Marine Ecology, Conservation Science
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shoalgroup.bsky.social
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...
November 20, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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tatsuya-amano.bsky.social
How English-centric metrics distort global scientific productivity - a nice coverage of our recent paper (doi.org/10.1371/jour...) in @plosbiology.org
www.the-scientist.com/how-english-...
#languagebarriers
How English-Centric Metrics Distort Global Scientific Productivity
New research shows how language and income shape who gets credited for scientific output—and why women and non-native English speakers face persistent gaps.
www.the-scientist.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Reposted by Sylvaine Giakoumi
idiv-research.bsky.social
A new Nature Climate Change study shows our understanding of species range shifts is biased: we detect northward shifts more easily than east–west movements driven by nitrogen pollution or land use. The new Latitudinal Bias Index helps reveal this blind spot: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Global bias towards recording latitudinal range shifts - Nature Climate Change
The authors consider studies reporting species range shifts and demonstrate a geometric bias in sampling along latitudinal, rather than longitudinal, gradients. This bias may favour the corroboration ...
doi.org
November 21, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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mgs-cielo-azul.bsky.social
Funded PhD opportunity!!🧪🌎

Wanna improve how biodiversity is monitored & protected?
Keen to work with large datasets & quantitative methods?

This PhD could be for you!

Fully-funded PhD at University of Reading with IoZ & UKCEH
(UK or settled status applicants)
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
CR2026_23: Monitoring and protecting biodiversity across all its dimensions – taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic at University of Reading on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - CR2026_23: Monitoring and protecting biodiversity across all its dimensions – taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic at University of Reading, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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pml.ac.uk
... just look at these 👀 Just a handful of the incredible new #PhD opportunities at the lab.

Visit our website to see them all, and apply!
🔗 pml.ac.uk/Working-with...

#PhDs #PhDopportunities #hiring #Plymouth #PhDlife
November 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
sylvainegiakoumi.bsky.social
Come and work with us in beautiful and affordable Palermo :-)
The picture shows a coastline in Sicily and mountains in the background
November 16, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Reposted by Sylvaine Giakoumi
cambiomed-biodiversa.com
We are advertising a 12month scholarship for analyzing pictures of macroalgae using an AI tool. The candidate should have a bachelor degree in Biological Sciences or similar. For applications see Borsa di Ricerca n. 44/2025 on www.szn.it/index.php/it...
DEADLINE 30 November!!!
Bandi attivi - Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
SZN
www.szn.it
November 16, 2025 at 9:37 AM
sylvainegiakoumi.bsky.social
A 11month postdoc at the Center for Marine Research Rovinj, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Croatia supervised by the amazing Dr Ljiljana Ivesa. The position focuses on the conservation and restoration of fucalean marine forests in the northern Adriatic euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/381267 Deadline 17 Nov!!!
Contest point 3 – Postdoctoral Fellow
Associate position as senior assistant at the Marine Research Center in Rovinj, Laboratory for Benthic Ecology, for work in the field of natural sciences, interdisciplinary natural sciences, marine sc...
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
November 14, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Reposted by Sylvaine Giakoumi
pnas.org
Rivers transport significantly more dissolved organic matter to the ocean than previously thought, with up to 25% of marine dissolved organic matter originating from land—1.7 to 2.5 times higher than prior estimates. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/5gcG50Xq2MJ
The Yangtze River estuary exporting terrestrial material to the ocean. CREDIT: Yuanbi Yi
November 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Reposted by Sylvaine Giakoumi
society4conbio.bsky.social
The deadline for the call for symposia, roundtables, panel discussions, workshops, and training courses has been extended until November 15th!
Call for abstracts will open Dec 1st.
Visit: eccb26Leiden.eu to learn more.
@eccb26leiden.bsky.social @scbeurope.bsky.social
#conservation #networking
November 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Reposted by Sylvaine Giakoumi
jtroscianko.bsky.social
BehaveAI is live!

Our biologically inspired video analysis tool sees motion as colour. Track animals or objects, classify their behaviour, and handle complex natural scenes with ease.

Semi-supervised annotation, no GPUs required, user-friendly, free & open source.

Pre-print tinyurl.com/BehaveAI
November 6, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Reposted by Sylvaine Giakoumi
martysyposz.bsky.social
Do you have hours of videos📹with animals? Speed up your watching by using BEHAVE - a user-friendly, open-source, free, zero-install tool for coding animal behaviour in video recordings!
Try BEHAVE here: behave.claude-apps.com

Read more: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
April 9, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Reposted by Sylvaine Giakoumi
inspire-biodiv.bsky.social
Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) aims to protect and restore biodiversity whilst ensuring coastal communities remain economically viable. Read our latest post from the @biodiversa.eu INSPIRE Greece-Aegean Sea case study to find out more about our approach. 🐟🌊

www.inspire-biodiversa.com/post/marine-...
Marine Spatial Planning in the Aegean Sea
Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) needs to answer a fundamental question: where should protection and restoration happen so that biodiversity goals are met while coastal communities remain economically vi...
www.inspire-biodiversa.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Reposted by Sylvaine Giakoumi
steffopp.bsky.social
NEW JOB in #ornithology and #conservation to track #seabirds from Rathlin Island and analyse data to identify foraging areas (deadline 10 Nov): buff.ly/K0zcdH8
November 4, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Reposted by Sylvaine Giakoumi
luketdunning.bsky.social
Two PhD positions available to come and work with us - please share!

[1] Detecting rapid evolutionary responses to climate change in UK plants

tinyurl.com/ye262pk2

[2] Natural GM: The role of horizontal gene transfer in crop adaptation and evolution

tinyurl.com/32tkce2w
November 4, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Reposted by Sylvaine Giakoumi
inspire-biodiv.bsky.social
Why is modelling land-cover changes over time so important and challenging? Read our latest blog post from our #Tagus case study to learn more: www.inspire-biodiversa.com/post/why-is-...
Why is modelling land-cover changes over time so important and challenging?
It is now widely known that climate is expected to change over the coming decades causing dramatic impacts on biodiversity and modifying...
www.inspire-biodiversa.com
October 15, 2025 at 7:00 AM
sylvainegiakoumi.bsky.social
Our study investigated the functional diversity of coastal fish communities across habitats in the Mediterranean Sea. It demonstrates that sandy habitats contribute disproportionately to functional beta diversity in Mediterranean infralittoral ecosystems authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
This graphical abstract shows three marine Mediterranean habitats (sandy bottoms, rocky reefs and Posidonia oceanica seagrass meadows. Each of them has a different fish community. We also mention the functional trait metrics we used to assess the functional diversity of the fish community in the 3 different habitats; these metrics are: Functional Richness, Rao's quadratic entropy, functional divergence, functional b-diversity
October 15, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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tbrresearch.bsky.social
ICMB XIII goes to Cape Town, South Africa!

The next International Conference on Marine Bioinvasions is now confirmed for 2027! Follow for more updates.

Hope to see you there!

@marinebioinvasions.bsky.social #bioinvasions #NIS #marinebioinvasions #ICMB2027 #capetown #southafrica
October 9, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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bjenquist.bsky.social
Postdoc Opportunity - Interested in plant scaling, quantitative botany, or theoretical plant biology? join our group to explore how plant form, function & scaling principles connect across levels of organization
www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-postdoctoral-fellowships-in-plant-biology🧪🌾🌐
Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology
Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology on Simons Foundation
www.simonsfoundation.org
October 14, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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marspidermonkey.bsky.social
As a primatologist, Jane Goodall was a huge inspiration to me. I admired the way she describes chimpanzee behavior with such detail and empathy, and she’s inspired so many people and advocated for chimpanzee conservation and welfare.

However, I'm dismayed at what her narrative leaves out (1/10)
Photo of Jane Goodall in the center, signing a book, with three women standing slightly hunched behind her. A very young Michelle is to the right, smiling.
October 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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marspidermonkey.bsky.social
Several years ago, I watched the National Geographic "Jane" documentary, and wrote a Twitter thread about it, then rewrote it in blog form for the @peopleprimate.bsky.social. And I'm dismayed to see so much of her memorials repeating this narrative (2/10)

human-primate-interactions.org/blog/
Blog
Neocolonial Narratives of Primate Conservation 25th May 2020 Michelle A. Rodrigues, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Twitter: @MARspidermonkey Website: Recently, I watched the Jane Goodall…
human-primate-interactions.org
October 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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billsutherland.bsky.social
Excellent advice from Hugh Possingham on monitoring conservation projects and why most Monitoring and Evaluation is flawed. youtu.be/qa6Ewt-W5mU?...
Why most conservation projects fail to learn
YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts
youtu.be
September 29, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Reposted by Sylvaine Giakoumi
cambiomed-biodiversa.com
Does anyone know what is wrong with this scorpionfish?
Does anyone know what is wrong with this scorpionfish?
October 2, 2025 at 3:32 PM
sylvainegiakoumi.bsky.social
To boldly go where no woman has gone before...
euanritchie.bsky.social Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · Oct 2
A lovely story about Dr Jane Goodall's career & legacy, from Rachel Fieldhouse & Mohana Basu, in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41.... Includes some comments from me about how researchers _can also_ be advocates and science communicators, and still be taken seriously (I hope)!

Vale, Jane.
Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science
The primatologist challenged what it meant to be a scientist.
www.nature.com
October 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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inspire-biodiv.bsky.social
Take a look at our latest blog article on 'The ecological value of the Tajo River basin'. Born in the Sierra de Albarracín (Teruel, Spain), the Tajo flows westwards meeting the Atlantic in the Portuguese capital of Lisboa. #Spain #Portugal #Tajo
www.inspire-biodiversa.com/post/the-eco...
The ecological value of the Tajo River basin
“The Tajo River received its name from a king of all the Spain’s; it is born in that place and dies in the Ocean Sea, kissing the walls of the famous city of Lisbon, and it is thought that its sands a...
www.inspire-biodiversa.com
October 1, 2025 at 9:23 AM