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iMARES_group @imares-group.bsky.social · Jun 30

Last week we sampled in Cap de Creus to test #eDNA on fish and invertebrate communities 🧬🐟.This technique detects species from their genetic traces in the water,no need to capture them.The work is part of the EU projects #GES4SEAS and #PETRIFY

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Jeroen Steenbeek @jeroensteenbeek.bsky.social · Jun 10

Jan Geert, that is brilliant. This is a missing link in the marine carbon accounting capabilities. I see loads of synergies...

Jeroen Steenbeek @jeroensteenbeek.bsky.social · Apr 25

And D.T. is a really angry slug

Jeroen Steenbeek @jeroensteenbeek.bsky.social · Apr 24

I don't post often, but the US slaughterhouse is getting beyond ridiculous. NOAA forced to decommission essential monitoring and historical climate data!? Good grief. Mango Mussolini is insane. www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume...

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Jeroen Steenbeek @jeroensteenbeek.bsky.social · Mar 7

OceanViz on Unity is coming!! First devised to include any audience into marine ecosystem modelling, OceanViz will soon be available as an public and open-source toolkit for visualizing marine ecosystems and how they change over time. This endeavour is funded by EU project MarinePlan.

Stay tuned!

MarinePlan OceanViz teaser - March 2025

YouTube video by Ecopath with Ecosim

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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · Feb 7

🚨 BREAKING: Illinois Governor JB Pritzker says he’s going to rename Lake Michigan to “Lake Illinois.”

EPIC TRUMP TROLL!!! 🤣

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Jeroen Steenbeek @jeroensteenbeek.bsky.social · Feb 6

Is all of this DOGE madness legal?

WIRED @wired.com · Feb 6

Our latest scoop: An internal email obtained by WIRED shows that NOAA workers received orders to pause all work with 'foreign nationals.'

NOAA Employees Told to Pause Work With ‘Foreign Nationals’

An internal email obtained by WIRED shows that NOAA workers received orders to pause all “ALL INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENTS.”

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Jeroen Steenbeek @jeroensteenbeek.bsky.social · Jan 20

The Statue of Liberty walking away with a few suitcases

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Jeroen Steenbeek @jeroensteenbeek.bsky.social · Jan 18

The Ecoscope project blogged about my thesis. A neat summary of what kept me up at night for the past 4 years: ecoscopium.eu/news/article...
#Ecoscopium

EcoScope partner calls for making marine ecosystem modelling more accessible to society, policy and the collaboration with other sciences

Jeroen Steenbeek of EU-funded EcoScope project partner Ecopath International Initiative has published his PhD thesis, entitled Ecosystem modelling for the ocean decade – facing the challenge (Cum Laud...

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Jeroen Steenbeek @jeroensteenbeek.bsky.social · Jan 18

DDG has been my default search engine for over a decade. It pulls data from multiple sources and maintains no user data whatsoever. I can only support @martinattrill.bsky.social

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iMARES_group @imares-group.bsky.social · Jan 7

Today, we are excited to participate in the kickoff of the MOIRAI project 🌊, marking the beginning of this exciting initiative. @martacoll.bsky.social and @jeroensteenbeek.bsky.social have successfully presented their key roles and contributions to the project.
#MOIRAI

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Jeroen Steenbeek @jeroensteenbeek.bsky.social · Jan 10

I concur.

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · Jan 10

The data is in. 2024 was the warmest year on record, and probably in the whole of human history – about 1.6°C warmer than the pre-industrial period.

More than 1 billion individual thermometer measurements, made by thousands of people over many decades, have been condensed into a single number.

Warming stripes for 1850-2024, changing from blues to reds as the world rapidly warms up

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Sam Burgess @oceanterra.org · Jan 10

2024 @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social #climate data out today:

📈 2024 - first year more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial; for ERA5 it was 1.6ºC
🌡️ the past 10 years were the 10 warmest years on record
📈 2024 was warmest year for all continental regions, except Antarctica and Australasia

🌍🌡️🧪⚒️🌊

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Jeroen Steenbeek @jeroensteenbeek.bsky.social · Jan 10

Original URL: www.volkskrant.nl/cartoons/pau...

A cartoon showing variants on D. Trump's "MAGA" hats, except for the original. Texts read: Making Greenland Great Again", Make Canada Great Again, Make Annexation Great Again, Make Europe Independent Again, Make Freedom of Speech Great Again, Make Exclusion Great Again, Make Disinfo Great Again, Make Zuck Great Again, and Make Kissing Trump's Ass Great Again and Again

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David Kroodsma @davidkroodsma.bsky.social · Dec 28

Yeah -- I looked into this recently. There isn't a projection ready-to-go from cartopy/proj, but I did find this repo: github.com/rtlemos/spil...

GitHub - rtlemos/spilhaus: Project your maritime dataset onto the World Ocean.

Project your maritime dataset onto the World Ocean. - rtlemos/spilhaus

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Jeroen Steenbeek @jeroensteenbeek.bsky.social · Dec 20

I closed my former Twitter account today. Feels good.

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Jeroen Steenbeek @jeroensteenbeek.bsky.social · Dec 10

Interesting read about the deplorable state of the Western Mediterranean fish stocks and decades of systematic fisheries mismanagement (in Spanish): miquelortega.blog/2024/12/05/l...

La pesca de arrastre Mediterránea en llamas

El próximo 9 y 10 de diciembre, al tiempo que se negociará en Bruselas cuántos días pueden pescar los arrastreros del Mediterráneo Occidental (entre ellos los españoles) asistiremos a una huelga de…

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · Dec 4

"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."

- Carl Sagan

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Dr Angel Borja @drangelborja.bsky.social · Dec 4

This whale species is so rare it's never been seen alive. A dissection may decode its mysteries

#marineecology

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This whale species is so rare it's never been seen alive. A dissection may decode its mysteries

Scientists and culture experts in New Zealand have begun the first-ever dissection of a spade-toothed whale, the world's rarest whale species.

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iMARES_group @imares-group.bsky.social · Nov 25

🎉 The Ecopath with Ecosim course kicks off today at @ICMCSIC, organized by the Ecopath International Research Association! 🌊 We're thrilled with the interest shown and wish all participants a week full of learning and enriching experiences! 💻

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Jeroen Steenbeek @jeroensteenbeek.bsky.social · Nov 24

Amen

Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · Nov 23

"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."

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IPBES @ipbes.net · Nov 24

“Experts and scientists are migrating to Bluesky in record numbers.” Welcome if you’re new (and if you’re not, please help by reposting) - here’s a starter pack for the #biodiversity science-policy community:

go.bsky.app/LjV86zg

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Jeroen Steenbeek @jeroensteenbeek.bsky.social · Nov 18

And Subnautica, ofc! Can't wait for the public beta of SN 2...

Jeroen Steenbeek @jeroensteenbeek.bsky.social · Nov 18

My main development machine dated from 2014, finally replaced it last summer. Even though I had a new laptop ready for over a year, the complexities of transferring over were the main reason it took so long. Where to find three free days?

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