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Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · 14h

📣Just a few DAYS to go until the application deadline for our exciting advanced courses!! See 👇 for full details #R and #Arctic marine biology, ecology & biogeochemistry courses in #Sweden! Deadline: 15th October 2025

Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · Jul 28

** Join us! **

In February 2026 we will offer two residential advanced short courses:

💻 #R course for marine scientists
❄️ #Arctic marine biology, ecology & biogeochemistry

🗓️ Starting 8 & 15 February 2026
📍 Umeå Marine Sciences Centre, Sweden
🔗 umfcourses.github.io

▶️ Apply by 15 Sept 2025!

🦑🧪🌍

Image of the Northern Lights near Umeå, Sweden. Glowing green night sky with a small cottage and snow covered forest trees in the foreground. Photo credit: Fredrik Larsson / Visit Umeå Content Bank

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Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · 16h

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Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · 17h

Ok, we just have to share this 🤓
Our research colleagues are developing a #microorganism card game — teaching kids (and parents!) all about the tiny creatures living in our waters!
So nerdy. So cool.🌊🧪🦑

www.umu.se/en/news/rese...

@umeauniversitet.bsky.social #Micromates #ScienceEducation

Researchers' card game teaches children about microorganisms

Hope to spark curiosity about life beneath the water’s surface – with playful game cards.

www.umu.se

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Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · 1d

The #IRISCC 2nd Open Call for Access is open! Apply for sponsored access to Europe’s top #research infrastructures tackling climate-related risks. 🦑🧪🌊

🗓️ Deadline: 28 November 2025
🔗 Our facility: catalog.isia.cnrs.fr/catalog/20/i...
🔗 Open Access Call: www.iriscc.eu/open-calls

Sampling sediment from research vessel Botnica.

Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · 2d

Excited to welcome our new intern Avery Wilson from #UniversityofNewHampshire! 🌊🧪🦑
Together with Prof. @nickkamenos.bsky.social, she’ll be studying coral reef responses to marine heatwaves. 🪸

Welcome aboard, Avery!

@umeauniversitet.bsky.social #CoralReef #MarineScience

Avery Wilson at Umeå Marine Sciences Centre.

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IceLab @icelabumu.bsky.social · 7d

No party like a spikning party 🔨
IceLab theoretical ecologist and modeler of lake algae extraordinaire Hugo Harlin nailed his PhD thesis to a board today! Next week he will defend. He joins a long tradition of PhD candidates nailing their work in @umeauniversitet.bsky.social library 👏 #phdsky

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Lina Polvi Sjöberg @fluvialsweden.bsky.social · 8d

New article alert!
Is there always longitudinal connectivity in rivers? What about those fragmented by lakes and semi-alluvial reaches? We found extremely low connectivity in paraglacial regions based on continuity of channel width changes and in riparian vegetation.

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Disrupted geomorphic and biotic stream connectivity in paraglacial regions - Communications Earth & Environment

Natural disconnectivity in paraglacial river networks disrupts downstream trends in channel width and riparian plant richness, as revealed by two catchments with local controls on channel width and species dispersal.

www.nature.com

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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 7d

Sept issue of #AquaticConservation
📸Cetacean conservation, Ghana; photo credit: Everlove Asante
Also: Arctic, eDNA, Himalyan rivers, tilapia invasion, sturgeon, birds, turtles, urbanisation, wildfire, seagrass, trout, ostracods, seaweed
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10990755...
🦑🧪🌎
#AQC

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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 8d

New paper in @plos.org Sus Trans: mangrove restoration increases C storage, but where that C comes from is different... likely because restored mangroves have altered ecological functioning. And old-forests are stable C stores
journals.plos.org/sustainabili...
🦑🧪🌎
@umeaunimarine.bsky.social

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Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · 9d

We welcome thesis students Sara Brännström and Linnea Sonehag! They will investigate #biodiversity in areas where the invasive Elodea #waterweed has taken over vs where #aquatic vegetation is more mixed. 🦑🧪🌊
Exciting collaborative project with County Adm. Board in Norrbotten!

Students in laboratory at Umeå Marine Sciences Centre.

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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 14d

Inspiring to listen to Emmanuelle Charpentier (2020 #NobelPrize in Chemistry) today at @umeauniversitet.bsky.social!

Wonderful to share #Umeå with it's newest Honorary citizen!
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5 people at a podium with a screen behind with dna double helix and the text (in Swedish) Honorary citizen

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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 12d

It was a pleasure to lead the Umeå Marine Sciences Centre (#UMF) Autumn Writing Retreat last week!

With participants from several departments and all career stages, we tackled a range of topics, including #Sami culture, #plasmonics, #seaweed, #carbon & more. Can't wait for the next in March!
🧪🦑🌍

Upper image of a group of people standing in front of a red building, and below a view overlooking the ocean with clear skies

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Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · 14d

🚨New paper out!!
Restore #mangroves to capture carbon? Yes!🌱
100% positive? Maybe. Study shows that restored mangroves may not regain the ‘normal’ function of older forests. 🧪🦑🌊

Read more here: www.umu.se/en/news/land...

#BlueCarbon
@umeauniversitet.bsky.social @plos.org @hlburdett.bsky.social

Sediment coring in old-forest mangrove within an intermediate-intensity shrimp farm pond in the Red River delta, northern Vietnam. Photo: Heidi Burdett (CC-BY 4.0)

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Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · 15d

Life onboard R/V KBV181! 🌬️ Our Gulf of Bothnia sampling expedition started with some rough seas, but a few days in and the weather’s treating us much better ☀️🧪🦑

@umeauniversitet.bsky.social #ResearchVessel
#MarineResearch #EnvironmentalMonitoring

UMF-laboratory placed in the bow of the ship.

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European Environment Agency @eea.europa.eu · 22d

Europe’s environment 2025 is on its way 🚨

At the end of September, the EEA will release its most comprehensive assessment yet of Europe’s #environment, #climate & #sustainability.

📅 Save the date: 29–30 September

👉 Watch this space: www.eea.europa.eu/en/europes-e...

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Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · 18d

Huge welcome to Gabriela Perna, from University of Edinburgh! Together with Prof. Sinéad Collins, she examines how light levels affect the survival and growth of #diatoms in artificial sea-ice vs. water, using small ice #mesocosms. 🧪🦑🌊❄️

@umeauniversitet.bsky.social @edinburghuni.bsky.social #UMF

Sinéad Collins and Gabriela Perna in laboratory at Umeå Marine Sciences Centre.

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IRISCC @iriscc.bsky.social · 25d

The IRISCC 2nd Open Call for Access opens Sept 28, 2025!
Researchers, policymakers & industry pros can apply for sponsored access to European Research Infrastructures' facilities, tools & services on climate risks.
🎥 Watch the video & apply soon!
Visit www.iriscc.eu for more info

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Umeå University @umeauniversitet.bsky.social · 23d

Hooray for Umeå University, which turns 60 today! 🥳🎈

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Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · 22d

📢 New research!
Warming Arctic lakes may lead to higher methane production and increased greenhouse gas emissions! 🌍❄️💧

🔗More here: www.umu.se/en/news/meth...

#ClimateChange #Arctic #Methane @umeauniversitet.bsky.social

More methane as Arctic lakes warm

A warmer and wetter climate leads to more methane being released from sediments.

www.umu.se

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Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · 24d

Ashish Verma on board R/V Botnica, performing oxygen consumption rates of #plankton.
The consumption rates indicate planktonic respiration through organic matter degradation and #CarbonDioxide release.🦑🧪🌊

@umeauniversitet.bsky.social #ClimateChange #MarineResearch #GulfOfBothnia #UMF

Researcher sampling water onboard research R/V Botnica.

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Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · Sep 10

Up for a swim today? Don't think so! 🏊‍♂️😒
Right outside @umeaunimarine.bsky.social it’s algae bloom-soup. Gorgeous under the scope, but includes the toxin-producing Nodularia! 🦑🧪🌊

#GulfOfBothnia #AlgaeBloom

Algae blooming outside Umeå Marine Sciences Centre.

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Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · Sep 9

🌊 #EcoChange meeting at @umeaunimarine.bsky.social provided an excellent opportunity to catch up on the latest research! Thanks! 🧪🦑

Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · Sep 9

A wonderful morning spent at @umeaunimarine.bsky.social #EcoChange annual meeting 🌊
Special bravo to my postdoc Luis González Guerrero, who presented his research on Baltic macrophyte photophysiology - initial data from his busy summer of #fieldwork. More data to come! 🤩
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presentation slide of seaweed and a title "how will the primary benthic producers in the Baltic Sea respond to their light environment?". inset image with the presenter facing his slides.

3 panel image - man in the dark with illuminated chambers; walz diving pam ii; landscape image with rocky foreground, coastal sea and forested background

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IceLab @icelabumu.bsky.social · Sep 8

10 days left to apply to join IceLab as a #multidisciplinary #postdoc! Are you interested in using your computational skills to address important life science questions? There is a project for you here! 👇
#complexity #complexsystems

IceLab @icelabumu.bsky.social · Aug 6

NOW SEEKING POSTDOCS - the 6th call for IceLab Multidisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellows funded by Kempestiftelserna is open! Apply now for 3 fellowships with six exciting research projects to choose from: www.umu.se/en/work-with...
@umeauniversitet.bsky.social #postdoc #scisky #postdocfellows

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Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · Sep 5

🐟 🌊 Great to have TV4 on board our R/V Botnica while Alexandra Rouillard and our staff sample #Baltic sediment cores for TWO of our #BalticWaters #Research projects on #salmon and #OrganicCarbon!! 🦑🧪

See the TV4 report here @ 10:33:
www.tv4play.se/video/522cf9...

@umeauniversitet.bsky.social

Alexandra Rouillard in interview with TV4. Photo: Nick Kamenos

Alexandra Rouillard collecting a sediment core. Photo: Nick Kamenos

Alexandra Rouillard is splitting a sediment core. Photo: Nick Kamenos

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Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · Sep 3

📣Just two weeks to go until the application deadline for our excting advanced courses!! See 👇 for full details on our #R and #Arctic marine biology, ecology & biogeochemistry courses in #Sweden!

Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · Jul 28

** Join us! **

In February 2026 we will offer two residential advanced short courses:

💻 #R course for marine scientists
❄️ #Arctic marine biology, ecology & biogeochemistry

🗓️ Starting 8 & 15 February 2026
📍 Umeå Marine Sciences Centre, Sweden
🔗 umfcourses.github.io

▶️ Apply by 15 Sept 2025!

🦑🧪🌍

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