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MARBEFES @marbefes.bsky.social · 24d

#ICESASC2025 starts tomorrow, with strong MARBEFES representation.

🌐Session Q will be dedicated to marine biodiversity and #ecosystemservices.

Julie Bremner @wormbotherer.bsky.social · 26d

En route to Klaipeda no flying. 6 countries, 11 trains, 1 bus & 1 ferry. Come join us on Monday for the #ICESASC25 session on marine biodiversity and ecosystem services. How can we co-exist successfully with nature?

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Marie C. Nordström @marienordstrom.bsky.social · Aug 11

Call for abstracts!

We are excited to invite contributions to the Ocean Sciences Meeting #OSM26 session ME008: Food Webs in Changing Oceans and Seas

Abstract submission is open until 20 August 2025. Read more and submit here: www.agu.org/ocean-scienc...

Hope to see you in Glasgow!

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Functional Ecology @funecology.bsky.social · Aug 6

☀️August Issue Out Now!☀️

📙South-west Finnish Archipelago, the study site in the article ‘Marine heatwaves amplify benthic community metabolism and solute flux in a seafloor heating experiment’, which features in this issue. Credit: Alf Norkko🌊

💡Read it here:
👉 buff.ly/JTXdj1C

🧪🌍

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Marie C. Nordström @marienordstrom.bsky.social · Jul 31

Job! Apply!

Jussi T. Eronen @jussiteronen.bsky.social · Jul 4

Come to work with us!

jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Assistant Professor/Associate Professor or Professor in Ecological Restoration of Urban Environments

jobs.helsinki.fi

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Marie C. Nordström @marienordstrom.bsky.social · Jun 23

What an amazing discovery!

Kenneth Becker @geophotographer.org · Jun 23

A newly identified group of deep-sea spiders carries methane-eating microbes on their legs, revealing a unique symbiosis and a surprising new lineage in the ocean depths
#DeepSea
#NewSpecies
#MarineBiology
#OceanExploration
#biology
🧪🕷️🌊

Paper
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New Discovery of Deep Sea 'Spiders' Is Unlike Anything We've Seen Before

Three newly-discovered species of deep sea 'spiders' farm methane-eating bacteria on their own bodies in a symbiosis quite unlike anything seen before.

www.sciencealert.com

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tomjwebb @tomjwebb.bsky.social · May 30

Saw this work presented at the Cefas student conference. I love it - great example of how to make the absolute best out of what initially looks like a fieldwork disaster (study organism gets eaten…)

Prof Grant Stentiford @cefaschiefsci.bsky.social · Jan 22

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

Loving this paper on recent collaboration between Cefas and partners, including @universityofexeter.bsky.social

...in essence, tagging of a tuna that got eaten by a whale 🍣

High-resolution biologging of an Atlantic bluefin tuna captured and eaten by a supposed orca - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - High-resolution biologging of an Atlantic bluefin tuna captured and eaten by a supposed orca

www.nature.com

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Marie C. Nordström @marienordstrom.bsky.social · Jun 8

Today is #WorldOceansDay and I have traveled to Nice to join the 3rd UN Ocean Conference. Exciting that so many have come together to work for a healthy ocean environment and thriving marine life! Happy to be part of the Finnish delegation.

#UNOC3 #UNOCNice #ScienceForTheOcean

@helsinki.fi

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Institut Natura e Teoria ※ Pireneus (INTP) @intp-science.bsky.social · May 30

📣Post-doc opportunity in thermal ecology & species interactions with Arnaud Sentis at INRAE Aix-en-Provence, France.
🌡️Explore how antagonistic interactions shape thermal tolerance in freshwater organisms.
📆 Start: Nov. 2025 | Duration: 2 years
📩 Sept. 8, 2025
Info 👉 www.inrae.fr/en/news/erc-...
🌐🧪🌍

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Corey Bradshaw @conservbytes.bsky.social · Apr 8

Restoration cannot be scaled up globally to save reefs from loss and degradation

Our new paper just out in @natureecoevo.bsky.social

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

Restoration cannot be scaled up globally to save reefs from loss and degradation - Nature Ecology & Evolution

An assessment of existing coral restoration projects finds that accessibility drives the choice of restoration sites more than environmental and ecological factors, and most restored reefs have been o...

www.nature.com

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Tvärminne Zoological Station @tvarminne.bsky.social · Mar 31

NEW PhD thesis! Roel Lammerant will defend the doctoral dissertation entitled "Functional perspective on the role of macrophytes in the coastal carbon cycle across different temporal and spatial scales" on Friday 4.4 at 13:00 at Tvärminne Zoological Station.
Stream: helsinki.zoom.us/j/68659327422

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Functional Ecology @funecology.bsky.social · Mar 28

⭐️Shortlisted for the 2024 Haldane Prize!

🌊Jahangir Vajedsamiei investigates how #heatwaves impact marine species. By improving predictive models with real-world data, we can better anticipate the effects of #climatechange on #marine #ecosystems
🌎🧪 functionalecologists.com/2025/03/28/j...

Jahangir Vajedsamiei: Predicting key ectotherm population mortality in response to dynamic marine heatwaves

2024 HALDANE PRIZE SHORTLIST: Jahangir Vajedsamiei discusses his paper “Predicting key ectotherm population mortality in response to dynamic marine heatwaves: A Bayesian-enhanced thermal tolerance …

functionalecologists.com

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Migle Gabrielaite @mgabrielaite.bsky.social · Mar 17

The COINS conference is kicking off with very strong and inspiring talks by @marienordstrom.bsky.social about ecology and food webs and @kellykrause.bsky.social about scientific visualizations

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Marie C. Nordström @marienordstrom.bsky.social · Mar 17

Thoroughly enjoying the COINS 2025 in Vilnius. Today’s speakers include Dr Eugene Koonin and Creative Director Kelly Krause (Nature) as well as yours truly. Thank you and congratulations to the organizers and Domas Sakalauskas in particular!

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Roman Goergen @romangoergen.bsky.social · Mar 14

🌊 Ocean Census scientists have identified 800+ new marine species using AI imaging & DNA analysis. From deep-sea crustaceans to jellyfish, the findings highlight how little we know about #ocean biodiversity. What else might the deep sea be hiding? 🌏🧪
oceancensus.org/publications... #Biodiversity

The Ocean Census Discovers Over 800 New Marine Species

The Ocean Census, the largest global mission to discover ocean life reveals over 800 newly discovered marine species.

oceancensus.org

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Marie C. Nordström @marienordstrom.bsky.social · Mar 12

Patrik Ståhl at #OIKOSFin2025 @oikosfinland.bsky.social presenting his paper on how food web robustness depends on the network type and threshold for extinction. Read more here: doi.org/10.1111/oik....

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Marie C. Nordström @marienordstrom.bsky.social · Mar 12

Happy to be here together with participants from 27 different countries!

oikosfinland.bsky.social @oikosfinland.bsky.social · Mar 12

New attendance record at Oikos Finland conference this year. We've got a full house! #OIKOSFin2025

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Florian Altermatt @florianaltermatt.bsky.social · Jan 28

44,000 #biological #interactions extracted from 84,000 publications—in just a few hours using GPT4o

Preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... by @francoiskeck.bsky.social et al #ecology🌍🌐🐟🌳🦋🪰🌿🪲 #predation #parasitism #mutualism

🚀 Potential applications seem endless & will change how we do #ecology

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Nicolas Mainville @carbonick.bsky.social · Jan 25

"We need a fundamental shift in how we produce food—one that recognizes that food production efficiency comes at the cost of ecosystem robustness and the loss of #biodiversity. By mimicking nature's complex mosaic of habitats, we can strengthen the resilience of food webs." 🌐🧪🌎

Global food production has resulted in significant biodiversity loss, research shows

As the world grapples with the challenges of climate change and food insecurity, the need for sustainable food production has taken on a new urgency.

phys.org

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Marie C. Nordström @marienordstrom.bsky.social · Jan 27

Me, please!

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · Jan 26

JOB ALERT!

Associate Professor position in Animal Biology available at Linköping University, Sweden.

Areas of interest include ecology, physiology, evo-devo and genetics.

🧪 🌍 🦊 🐟 🦉 #AcademicSky #WomenInSTEM #HigherED #ScienceJobs

liu.se/en/work-at-l...

Associate professor in animal biology

liu.se

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Marie C. Nordström @marienordstrom.bsky.social · Jan 24

Enjoyed two days discussing exciting projects. I really appreciate my positive and supportive colleagues and the bright PhD students I am privileged to work with.

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Marie C. Nordström @marienordstrom.bsky.social · Jan 15

Id like to be added, please

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Marie C. Nordström @marienordstrom.bsky.social · Jan 8

Awful deadline… 🫥

Marie C. Nordström @marienordstrom.bsky.social · Jan 4

Global niche partitioning of purine and pyrimidine cross-feeding among ocean microbes

doi.org/10.1126/scia...

Global niche partitioning of purine and pyrimidine cross-feeding among ocean microbes

Global marine microbial marketplace for DNA building blocks drives biogeochemical cycling and ecological signaling in the ocean.

doi.org

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Marie C. Nordström @marienordstrom.bsky.social · Jan 4

”Through this cross-feeding interaction, Prochlorococcus could be helping many microbial communities to grow sustainably, simply by giving away what it doesn’t need. And they’re doing so in a way that could set the daily rhythms of microbes around the world.”

news.mit.edu/2025/abundan...

An abundant phytoplankton feeds a global network of marine microbes

The abundant phytoplankton Prochlorococcus shed extra compounds into their surroundings, which are then taken up by other organisms, MIT researchers have found. This “cross-feeding” may play a large r...

news.mit.edu

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