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Moriaki Yasuhara @moriakiyasuhara.bsky.social · 22d

New! Huang et al. Benthic ostracod diversity and biogeography in an urban semi-enclosed eutrophic riverine bay bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/...

Benthic ostracod diversity and biogeography in an urban semi-enclosed eutrophic riverine bay

Abstract. The benthic ecosystem has been greatly altered by environmental pressure over the past several decades. Compared to some well-studied large bays, the situation in populated small bay areas i...

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Lee Hsiang Liow （廖珕庠） @lhliow.bsky.social · Sep 3

What a great bunch of paleobiologists and soooo international!! the annual @paleosynth.bsky.social summer school. Such a pleasure to share methods with u all. Thanks @devapriya-chat.bsky.social @dralexdunhill.bsky.social @moriakiyasuhara.bsky.social & others for sending ur grad students over!

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Moriaki Yasuhara @moriakiyasuhara.bsky.social · 29d

Thanks a lot Lee Hsiang! Lalita enjoyed the summer school very much!

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Dean Napolitano @dinonapolitano.bsky.social · Sep 7

“These vast, seemingly timeless seascapes have become some of the world’s most vulnerable marine habitats, according to a new study published on Thursday in the journal Science that adds up and maps the ways human activity is profoundly reshaping oceans and coastlines around the world.”

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Humans Are Altering the Seas. Here’s What the Future Ocean Might Look Like. (Gift Article)

Some marine ecosystems could soon be unrecognizable, according to new research. We mapped the possibilities.

www.nytimes.com

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The Swire Institute of Marine Science (SWIMS) @swimshku.bsky.social · Sep 1

SWIMS will be a very busy place from tomorrow because Integrative Marine Ecology & Conservation (IMEC) MSc has launched! Tomorrow, forty-four students will start their journey at SWIMS and HKU. Their first class – Ocean Biodiversity, is at 9am. Welcome to SWIMS, everyone!
@jonscibulski.bsky.social

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C. Chen @ Jamsteeeec @squamiferum.bsky.social · Aug 27

[New Paper] We found a SECOND SNAIL with HARD SCALES on the foot -- Ifremeria nautilei lives in deep-sea hot vents and makes chitinous scales not by secretion but by cell differentiation, like our own skin!

@royalsocietypublishing.org Proceedings B, OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

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Konstantina Agiadi @kagiadi.bsky.social · Aug 25

www.cell.com/current-biol...

Macroevolutionary coupling of marine biomass and biodiversity across the Phanerozoic

Singh et al. reconstruct ocean biomass over the past 540 million years, finding a long-term rise from the Cambrian to the present, with dips during three of the five major mass extinctions. The biomas...

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Dr. Tripti Bhattacharya @triptychphrases.bsky.social · Jul 4

In the interest of celebrating good things, former lab postdoc David Fastovich (and new Assistant Prof at University of Georgia!) has a new paper looking at rates of ecosystem change in response to past climate change: press release: phys.org/news/2025-07...

Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Climate change outpaces trees: Forests face centuries-long lag in adaptation

Ecologists are concerned that forest ecosystems will not keep pace with a rapidly changing climate, failing to remain healthy and productive. Before the rapid climate change of the past century, tree ...

phys.org

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Peter Wagner (a Real Dr., not a surgeon-barber/body-tech/golfer) @peterjwagner3.bsky.social · Jun 25

This makes me really sad: Richard was a great guy. Some of my best memories from my Smithsonian are from interacting with him.

Gwen M. Daley @paleontologygwen.bsky.social · Jun 25

www.regerfuneralhome.com/obituaries/r...

Richard Karl Bambach Obituary June 20, 2025 - Reger Funeral Home

View Richard Karl Bambach's obituary, send flowers, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.

www.regerfuneralhome.com

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Lee Hsiang Liow （廖珕庠） @lhliow.bsky.social · Jul 6

Vegetation might not be able to keep up with current rates of environmental change, given data from the pollen fossil record. Fun doing this work with David Fastovich in the lead, but sobering www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Coupled, decoupled, and abrupt responses of vegetation to climate across timescales

Climate and ecosystem dynamics vary across timescales, but research into climate-driven vegetation dynamics usually focuses on singular timescales. We developed a spectral analysis–based approach that...

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Moriaki Yasuhara @moriakiyasuhara.bsky.social · Jul 8

Forests Can’t Keep Up: Adaptation Will Lag Behind Climate Change www.scifac.hku.hk/news/forests...

Forests Can’t Keep Up: Adaptation Will Lag Behind Climate Change - News - Faculty of Science, HKU

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Moriaki Yasuhara @moriakiyasuhara.bsky.social · Jul 8

Led by David Fastovich! Coupled, decoupled, and abrupt responses of vegetation to climate across timescales www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Coupled, decoupled, and abrupt responses of vegetation to climate across timescales

Climate and ecosystem dynamics vary across timescales, but research into climate-driven vegetation dynamics usually focuses on singular timescales. We developed a spectral analysis–based approach that...

www.science.org

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Tom Ezard @tomezard.bsky.social · Jul 3

New paper led by @aniekebrombacher.bsky.social using x-ray CT and laser ablation to detect plastic environmental responses in fossil individuals www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2421549122 featuring @jamesmulqueeney.bsky.social @clivetrue.bsky.social @thefosterlab.bsky.social

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · Jun 23

A study confirms what we have long argued: the spectacular Atlantic 'cold blob' is the result of a slowing of the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC, which transports warm waters into that region. That's the only part of Earth that resisted #globalwarming. 🌊
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

The Atlantic's chilling secret: A century of data reveals ocean current collapse

A century-old mystery of a stubborn cold patch in the North Atlantic is finally being unraveled. A new study links this anomaly to a long-term weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulat...

www.sciencedaily.com

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Wolfgang Kiessling @kiessl.bsky.social · Jun 23

Senior postdoc position in Paleontology @nat.fau.de. Starting date negotiable between 1st of Octorber and 15th of December 2025.
www.gzn.nat.fau.eu/2025/06/16/s...

Job Advertisement: Akademischer Rat / Akademische Rätin (A13) in Paleontology (f/m/d)

Section Paleontology, GeoZentrum Nordbayern, Department of Geography and Geosciences, Friedrich-Alexander Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg, We invite applications for an Akademischer Rat auf Zeit…

www.gzn.nat.fau.eu

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Wolfgang Kiessling @kiessl.bsky.social · Jun 6

Wow!

Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · Jun 5

🧵New paper + open database drop!
The Marine Organismal Body Size ( #MOBS ) Database is now live—85,000+ marine species, from plankton to whales, with standardized size data.
A huge leap for biodiversity, conservation, and climate science. #science #marinelife onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

MOBS 1.0: A Database of Interspecific Variation in Marine Organismal Body Sizes

Motivation Body size is a fundamental trait influencing an organism's life history, ecology, physiology and evolutionary dynamics. While extensive body-size databases exist for terrestrial vertebrat...

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Moriaki Yasuhara @moriakiyasuhara.bsky.social · Jun 5

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Moriaki Yasuhara @moriakiyasuhara.bsky.social · Jun 5

New DOSI Climate collaboration just out! Gallo et al. Illuminating deep-sea considerations and experimental approaches for mCDR proposals iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Illuminating deep-sea considerations and experimental approaches for mCDR proposals - IOPscienceSearch

Illuminating deep-sea considerations and experimental approaches for mCDR proposals, Gallo, Natalya D, Metaxas, Anna, Lidström, Susanna, Hetherington, Elizabeth, Alfaro-Lucas, Joan M, Amon, Diva, Barr...

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Moriaki Yasuhara @moriakiyasuhara.bsky.social · Jun 5

New DOSI Climate collaboration just out! Gallo et al. Illuminating deep-sea considerations and experimental approaches for mCDR proposals iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Illuminating deep-sea considerations and experimental approaches for mCDR proposals - IOPscienceSearch

Illuminating deep-sea considerations and experimental approaches for mCDR proposals, Gallo, Natalya D, Metaxas, Anna, Lidström, Susanna, Hetherington, Elizabeth, Alfaro-Lucas, Joan M, Amon, Diva, Barr...

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University of Texas Institute for Geophysics @utgeophysics.bsky.social · May 30

It's #ForamFriday! They're bizarre and beautiful, and their fossilized shells are a window into the past!

UTIG's @chrislowery.bsky.social talked with @knowablemag.bsky.social about what forams can tell us about mass extinctions and climate change.

Read more: knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

The history of the ocean, as told by tiny beautiful fossils

Bountiful remains of foraminifera reveal how organisms responded to climate disturbances of the past. They can help predict the future, too.

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Moriaki Yasuhara @moriakiyasuhara.bsky.social · May 31

Important! Jonkers et al Community guidelines to increase the reusability of marine microfossil assemblage data jm.copernicus.org/articles/44/...

Community guidelines to increase the reusability of marine microfossil assemblage data

Abstract. Data on marine microfossil assemblage composition have multiple applications. Initially, they were primarily used for (chrono)stratigraphy and palaeoecology, but these data are now also wide...

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The Palaeoverse Community @palaeoverse.bsky.social · May 23

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨
🗓️29th May 2025, 16:00 UTC🗓️

Join us for next week’s talk given by Dr Allison Hsiang from Stockholm University, on “Automating large-scale morphometric data generation using AutoMorph and deep learning”

Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

A flyer for the next lecture in the Palaeoverse Lecture Series, featuring a cartoon laptop with a picture of Dr Hsiang smiling, wearing glasses with a checked top and white collar

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Lee Hsiang Liow （廖珕庠） @lhliow.bsky.social · May 20

Come postdoc in Oslo! 3 years. You design the project! Get in touch with me or others at our museum! Deadline 23 june www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... share and repost !

Postdoctoral Fellow: Self-Developed Project (280531) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow: Self-Developed Project (280531), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, June 23, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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Thomas Hegna @thomashegna.bsky.social · May 9

New paper out! Open Access!
doi.org/10.1017/jpa....

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Sofía Barragán-Montilla @sofigerina.bsky.social · Apr 26

🥳 My 1st PhD paper was fun & challenging to write, that is why I'm grateful it received the #TopViewedArticle recognition from @wiley.com!

📖 🤓 give it a read to learn what happened to ocean heat uptake as Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) slowed down a while ago bit.ly/3EELCuq 🧵👇

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Sofía Barragán-Montilla @sofigerina.bsky.social · Apr 25

I saw this cool #starterpack trend all over insta & wanted to join in 🤓 here is my #noiastarterpack version to become a cool #Micropaleontologist & look for really small fossils in earth's rocks to unravel earth's deepst secrets 🔎🔬🐚👩🏻‍🔬🌊

#geolatinas #latinasinstem #forams #mamasinscience #notai

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