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Blanca Figuerola @bfiguerola.bsky.social · 7d

Ready to take the next step in your research career at @icmcsic.bsky.social?We’re seeking enthusiastic candidates to join our team + apply for prestigious pre/postdoc fellowships. Learn more👇
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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 17d

Debating the aesthetics of #wind & #solar is a luxury. The real crisis is climate change—threatening billions with deadly heat & catastrophic ecosystem breakdowns ♨️🥵🔥 Green #energy is a necessity🍃 Challenges exist (noise, land use) but are manageable - biggest risk is inaction #dkpol #climatechange

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SeaAroundUs @seaaroundus.org · 22d

As the Sea Around Us PI, Dr. Daniel Pauly, "put it in a TED talk in 2010, 'we transform the world, but we don’t remember it' wildfish.org/latest-news/...

Shifting baselines: Have we forgotten what rivers used to be like? | Wildfish

Dr. Sam Green explores the generational tolerance for environmental decline and asks: Have we forgotten the rivers from before.

wildfish.org

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Dr. Suzette Flantua @suzetteflantua.bsky.social · 29d

Come to our amazing Bergen! Great work-life environment, 100s km of hiking around Bergen, and the project also looks pretty cool 😄

Pete Manning @peteecology.bsky.social · Sep 8

3 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in Landscape Multifunctionality here in beautiful Bergen jobbnorge.no/en/available... please repost

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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · Sep 8

“Rightwing populists all over Europe want to destroy the ability of the UK and the EU to regulate large tech platforms — a move that might threaten their disinformation campaigns with genuine political debate.”
www.ft.com/content/62b1...

Protecting Big Tech, not free speech

Trump and Farage are using censorship as a cloak for disinformation

www.ft.com

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Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · Sep 7

🌊 What climate change means for the Mediterranean Sea

July 2025 was the hottest on record, with sea surface temperatures hitting 28°C

Climate change is pushing marine life to the brink: seagrass dying, fish stocks shrinking, invasive species rising

Every 0.1°C matters

phis.org/news/2025-09...

What climate change means for the Mediterranean Sea

Temperatures in the Mediterranean are currently rising to record levels. Instead of a refreshing dip, holidaymakers in places like Greece, Italy, and Spain, among other places, are now facing water te...

phys.org

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Paolo G. Albano @pgalbano.bsky.social · Sep 8

Tax cuts will not reverse the #demographic crisis in #Greece nor in other countries facing similar "existential threats". Young people need jobs commensurate to their qualifications and conditions to realize their potential. Or they will just continue fleeing.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Greece announces €1.6bn relief package to tackle population decline

Government to use tax breaks and other financial incentives to encourage people to have more children

www.theguardian.com

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · Sep 7

Excellent thread on what is going on at academic journals, from the perspective of an editor.

Clearly highlights the strain (direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...) caused by quantitative incentives, and that publishers cannot be allies in solving the mess -- they are part of the problem & profit from it.

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Stelios Katsanevakis @skatsanevakis.bsky.social · Sep 6

The deadline for submitting an Abstract to the #GuardIAS Conference is close!
Conference Theme: “Prevention of Invasive Alien Species Introductions and Biosecurity Risk Assessment”

#bioinvasions #MarineEcology #AquaticEcology

GuardIAS @guardias.bsky.social · Sep 4

Present your research at the GuardIAS Conference!

Submit your abstract by Sept 12 for a chance to be published in Management of Biological Invasions with a full APC waiver.

Find out more & submit: guardias.eu/submitting-a...

#CallforAbstracts #InvasiveSpecies #GuardIAS

Submitting an Abstract & Presenting

guardias.eu

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Paolo G. Albano @pgalbano.bsky.social · Sep 5

but the main problem is the instability of the reply.

Paolo G. Albano @pgalbano.bsky.social · Sep 5

I tried Google Lens to identify a sea slug... The first reply was impressive: Aplysia parvula, correct! However, I refreshed the page by mistake and it re-identified it as Aplysia juliana... Then I refreshed the page on purpose and got genus Aplysia alone... Also Lens knows Aplysia is tricky...

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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · Sep 3

why we are doing this:

PRI is one of America's largest museum collections, and they need to raise the last 1/3 of funds (~$1mil) needed to pay off their mortgage by Dec (a donor backed out of a pledge) or it will be the largest orphaned collection in US history.

www.science.org/content/arti...

Financial peril could doom a famed New York paleontological institute

“Exceptional” fossil collections housed by the Paleontological Research Institute risk being orphaned

www.science.org

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Paolo G. Albano @pgalbano.bsky.social · Sep 3

I am pleased to advertise the publication of the first part of the catalogue of type specimens of the #molluscs (and a brachiopod...) in the Born collection in the @nhmwien.bsky.social. Many Born's names introduced in the late 18th c. are still valid today.
zse.pensoft.net/article/1618...

An illustrated type catalogue of Born’s collection at the Natural History Museum Vienna. Part 1: Mollusca (Bivalvia and Scaphopoda), Brachiopoda

The Natural History Museum Vienna houses a valuable and rich mollusc collection that traces back to the early days of the Linnaean system of nomenclature. Its foundation was laid by Emperor Franz I St...

zse.pensoft.net

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Paolo G. Albano @pgalbano.bsky.social · Sep 1

Interesting! It's the same behaviour of the usually rock-boring Mediterranean Rocellaria dubia when it settles on shells on soft substrates.

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Paolo G. Albano @pgalbano.bsky.social · Aug 31

I asked again "How can I estimate wave base from significant wave height?" to Perplexity AI and was impressed by the reply that correctly included "Significant wave height alone is not sufficient by itself; wave period or wavelength information is also generally needed" plus sources!

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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · Aug 25

BHL's #CallforSupport soft closes Aug 31. Even if your ideas aren’t fully formed, we want to hear from you.
🌱 Thinking about hosting?
🌱 Considering funding support?
🌱 Want to partner but unsure how?
Every possibility helps secure BHL’s future. about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup... #ILoveBHL

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Paolo G. Albano @pgalbano.bsky.social · Aug 6

First time I see the concept of shifting #baselines in a natural history #museum! Effective exhibit in the Naturhistorisk museum at the University of #Oslo.

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Nature @nature.com · Jul 31

This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered

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The Coral Reef Research Hub @coralreefresearch.bsky.social · Jul 31

AWESOME JOB OPPORTUNITY: Aldabra Science Coordinator (The Seychelles Islands Foundation)

www.sif.sc/node/679

#jobs #seychelles #coralreefs #jobopportunity #marinescience #coral #sciencecoordinator #marineecology #careers #marinebiology

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Dr. Sven N. Nielsen @snnielsen.bsky.social · Jul 5

Oh, bugger. This is serious. Funding cuts are hitting bad. Like many colleagues, I wouldn't be able to get my hands on a lot of necessary literature, if not for BHL.

Call for Support: – About BHL

about.biodiversitylibrary.org

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Paolo G. Albano @pgalbano.bsky.social · Jun 28

but I hope you collected also the cool gastropods that live on gorgonians!

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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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Fernando Blanco @fernandoblancos.bsky.social · Jun 13

🚨 I'm looking for #Postdoc opportunities starting this September! 🧑‍🔬🔍
I'm a highly motivated researcher with experience in R, network analysis, and multivariate statistics. My focus is on the evolution of ecosystems and biodiversity over deep time.

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Paolo G. Albano @pgalbano.bsky.social · Jun 11

Course on the taxonomy of marine molluscs ongoing at @szndohrn.bsky.social in Naples! 20 participants trained by Serge Gofas, Fabio Crocetta, Luigi Romani, Maria Vittoria Modica and myself, excellent organization by Paolo Fasciglione who leads the BENthos TAxonomy CourseS (BENTACS).

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Paolo G. Albano @pgalbano.bsky.social · May 16

A 'novel ecosystem' on a mountain in Hawaii:

Anthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social · May 15

www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/haw...

Scientists stunned by rare shift in state's 'unrestorable' mountains: 'It's what you don't want to have happen'

Scientists have observed an unusual shift in the native landscape of O'ahu, Hawai'i, where novel ecosystems are now dominating.

www.thecooldown.com

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