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BRIDGES Research Program @bridges-wio.bsky.social · Jun 10

📣 Call for Applications!
BRIDGES x WIOMSA 2025 School
📍 Mombasa, Kenya | 🗓️ Sept 22–26, 2025

Explore tools & case studies to boost WIO marine SES resilience 🌊
Right before WIOMSA 2025 — combine both events!
🔗 Apply by July 6: survey.cnrs-dir.fr/index.php/19...

#BRIDGESResearch #WIOMSA2025

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BRIDGES Research Program @bridges-wio.bsky.social · Mar 25

[Series] Understanding BRIDGES – New Video Now Available! 🎬
We're excited to share another video in our "Understanding BRIDGES – Targeted Projects" series!
In less than 3 minutes, discover BRIDGES RESILIENCE, one of the targeted scientific projects.
@stephaniedagata.bsky.social

Understand BRIDGES - BRIDGES RESILIENCE

YouTube video by BRIDGES Research Program

youtu.be

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BRIDGES Research Program @bridges-wio.bsky.social · Mar 28

🌟 [Series] Understanding BRIDGES - New article available! 📖
Mapping socio-ecological risks and coming up with proposals for more resilient public policies: that's one of the missions of BRIDGES RESILIENCE. 🐟 🎣 🌱

@stephaniedagata.bsky.social | @ifremer.bsky.social | @ird-fr.bsky.social

Risk and resilience in the face of climate change: understanding in order to act - PEPR BRIDGES

Assessing risk and maximising resilience The resilience of a social-ecological system is ‘its capacity to absorb disturbances of natural or human origin and to reorganise itself so as to maintain its ...

www.bridges-wio.com

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Jessica Blythe, PhD @jessicablythe.bsky.social · Mar 7

⚠️Attention all ocean scientists! 🌊 A group of us just wrote a piece in Nature explaining why the 2025 United Nations Ocean Conference declaration (#UNOC3) needs a “Supporting thriving ocean societies” section: rdcu.be/eakuB

A sustainable ocean needs thriving ocean societies | Nature

Letter to the Editor

rdcu.be

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Fred Bertucci @fredbertucci.bsky.social · Jan 30

FR--
Les concours de chercheurs/chercheuses 2025 de l'IRD ouvriront très bientôt... 🧠 🐾 🐠 🦟 🌾 🌽 🌋 🥼 💻 🔬 📊
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www.ird.fr/concours-che...

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · Jan 29

Science under threats !

A call to action addressing global threats to academic research. From public mistrust to barriers in collaboration, this paper outlines solutions to safeguard science and advance progress.

👉 G. Piret et al. in @theinnovation.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.xi...

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Stéphanie D'Agata @stephaniedagata.bsky.social · Jan 21

Great project, great team!

FRB｜Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversité @frbiodiv.bsky.social · Jan 16

[🌐 Webinar] #CESABINARs are open to the entire scientific community, providing a unique opportunity to explore the latest advancements and research from FRB - #CESAB.

Learn more about the upcoming SCORE-REEF presentation and access the Zoom details here: bit.ly/40zrT7v

@ofbiodiversite.bsky.social

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Stéphanie D'Agata @stephaniedagata.bsky.social · Jan 21

How to quit X without losing all your archives and informations? Use @helloquittex.bsky.social developped by @cnrs.bsky.social. And it's available in several languages!🙏

Escape-X FR @fr.escape-x.org · Jan 20

❓ Le saviez-vous ? vous n'avez pas à fermer votre compte X pour quitter X le #20Janvier ?
Il y a >18 manières de quitter X➡️ helloquittex.com/Quitter-X-es...
Notre recommandation : geler son compte ou pour les plus audacieux le supprimer. Mais tout est #HelloQuitteX ! helloquitx.com

Stéphanie D'Agata @stephaniedagata.bsky.social · Jan 20

On this symbolic day, I let go of my X account. Feeling lighter, freer, and more aligned with my values 🙌🌟

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Stéphanie D'Agata @stephaniedagata.bsky.social · Jan 17

10 days left to apply! 🐠

Stéphanie D'Agata @stephaniedagata.bsky.social · Jan 7

Come and join the BRIDGES program!
🔬 Postdoc opportunity: Evaluate modeling tools adapted to the challenges of coastal sites in the SWIO
📍 Sète/La Réunion
⏳ 18 months from April 2025
🎯 Focus: Coastal ecosystem modeling tools analysis
👉 Details and application: www.bridges-wio.com/recruitment/

PEPR BRIDGES : Fisheries and biodiversity

The South-West Indian Ocean region is under severe pressure caused by climate and demographic changes coupled with ever-increasing demands for fishing resources.

www.bridges-wio.com

Stéphanie D'Agata @stephaniedagata.bsky.social · Jan 14

Nice introduction to the BRIDGES program in the SWIO!🐟

BRIDGES Research Program @bridges-wio.bsky.social · Jan 14

[Series] 🔍We are pleased to launch a series of publications entitled ‘Understanding BRIDGES’, to take you to the heart of our research program and help you better understand its foundations and ambitions. 🌍
In this first carousel you will find :
👉 Our main research question
👉 Our objects of study

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BRIDGES Research Program @bridges-wio.bsky.social · Jan 14

[Series] 🔍We are pleased to launch a series of publications entitled ‘Understanding BRIDGES’, to take you to the heart of our research program and help you better understand its foundations and ambitions. 🌍
In this first carousel you will find :
👉 Our main research question
👉 Our objects of study

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BRIDGES Research Program @bridges-wio.bsky.social · Jan 7

🌍Welcome to the BRIDGES Research Program account!🌊

This €28M, 10-year program explores global changes impacts on marine/coastal socio-ecosystems in the SW Indian Ocean. Led by CNRS, Ifremer & IRD, it fosters collaboration to improve fisheries governance, biodiversity conservation & resilience.

BRIDGES Research Program - Fisheries and Biodiversity in the Western Indian Ocean

YouTube video by BRIDGES Research Program

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Stéphanie D'Agata @stephaniedagata.bsky.social · Jan 7

Come and join the BRIDGES program!
🔬 Postdoc opportunity: Evaluate modeling tools adapted to the challenges of coastal sites in the SWIO
📍 Sète/La Réunion
⏳ 18 months from April 2025
🎯 Focus: Coastal ecosystem modeling tools analysis
👉 Details and application: www.bridges-wio.com/recruitment/

PEPR BRIDGES : Fisheries and biodiversity

The South-West Indian Ocean region is under severe pressure caused by climate and demographic changes coupled with ever-increasing demands for fishing resources.

www.bridges-wio.com

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Gareth J. Williams @remotereefs.bsky.social · Dec 13

An important commentary from @nancyknowlton.bsky.social in @pnas.org about the fact that some coral reefs may persist in new degraded forms, but that this must not make us complacent. We need both local and global action now. Well worth a read....inspiring as ever: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

www.pnas.org

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Joachim Claudet @joachimclaudet.bsky.social · Dec 10

🚨Paper Alert 🚨

🎣 🚢 🌊 Regulations of activities and #protection #levels in marine protected areas (#MPAs) of the European Union (#EU): A dataset compiled from multiple data sources.

📰 doi.org/10.1016/j.di...

@cnrs.bsky.social @ocean-climate.bsky.social

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Corey Bradshaw @conservbytes.bsky.social · Dec 2

Yay! @bsky.app now counted in @altmetric.com!

Now we just have to get the academic publishers to add Bluesky share buttons

(looking at you, @royalsociety.org, @science.org, @pnas.org, Wiley, @elsevierconnect.bsky.social, @cellpress.bsky.social, Frontiers, @plos.bsky.social ...)

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Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez @frodsan.bsky.social · Nov 29

1/ Important read for anyone using, contributing, or building large databases by aggregating data sources. Discusses issues with data quality, duplication, credit attribution, etc, and includes recommendations for improvement

doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... #ecopubs

Improper data practices erode the quality of global ecological databases and impede the progress of ecological research

The scientific community has entered an era of big data. However, with big data comes big responsibilities, and best practices for how data are contributed to databases have not kept pace with the collection, aggregation, and analysis of big data. Here, we rigorously assess the quantity of data for specific leaf area (SLA) available within the largest and most frequently used global plant trait database, the TRY Plant Trait Database, exploring how much of the data were applicable (i.e., original, representative, logical, and comparable) and traceable (i.e., published, cited, and consistent). Over three-quarters of the SLA data in TRY either lacked applicability or traceability, leaving only 22.9% of the original data usable compared with the 64.9% typically deemed usable by standard data cleaning protocols. The remaining usable data differed markedly from the original for many species, which led to altered interpretation of ecological analyses. Though the data we consider here make up only 4.5% of SLA data within TRY, similar issues of applicability and traceability likely apply to SLA data for other species as well as other commonly measured, uploaded, and downloaded plant traits. We end with suggested steps forward for global ecological databases, including suggestions for both uploaders to and curators of databases with the hope that, through addressing the issues raised here, we can increase data quality and integrity within the ecological community.

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Laura Pereira @laurap18.bsky.social · Nov 27

Really excited to kickstart our ASCEND BAOBAB synthesis team looking at Blue Africa: valuating Africa’s Marine Biodiversity, Carbon Sequestration Potential and Expected Livelihood Outcomes
Conservation International, UNESCO-IOC, BRIDGES @stephaniedagata.bsky.social
ascendclimate.org/blue-africa/

Blue Africa - Ascend

The Blue Africa team seeks to ensure carbon storage efforts in African coastal and marine ecosystems are aligned with the needs of African people. By addressing key data gaps and empowering decision-m...

ascendclimate.org

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Graeme Cumming @gscumming.bsky.social · Nov 19

Re-upping this recent paper after so many recent follows. We looked at evidence for dependence of birds on coral reefs. Not much direct dietary dependence, but many indirect relationships in both directions (reef <-> birds). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

A framework and review of evidence of the importance of coral reefs for marine birds in tropical ecosystems

We reviewed the dependence of marine birds on coral reefs, with a focus on trophic relationships. We found evidence for only a few avian species, particularly the Eastern Reef Egret, depending direct...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Stéphanie D'Agata @stephaniedagata.bsky.social · Nov 19

Can you add me : scholar.google.fr/citations?us... Thanks!

Stephanie D'Agata

‪IRD‬ - ‪‪Cité(e) 2 376 fois‬‬

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Stéphanie D'Agata @stephaniedagata.bsky.social · Nov 19

A feel good read 💌

Joachim Claudet @joachimclaudet.bsky.social · Nov 18

"Success [...] and self-respect involve multiple [...] dimensions that continuously develop and consolidate throughout our entire lives; we should never gage ourselves on the basis of unidimensional and simplistic comparisons to others."

aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Upon Comparing Oneself to Others

Click on the article title to read more.

aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Denis Karcher @deniskarcher.bsky.social · Nov 15

🪝New paper! We reviewed recent advances in marine science-policy knowledge exchange ⚓️

🌊More diverse strategies are used
🌊Progress in outcomes & enablers
🌊Critical research needs: marinstreaming, choice of strategy, value addition, use of AI

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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georgia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @blahttodea.bsky.social · Nov 11

hey everyone! i made a list of some useful starter packs (primarily biology/earth sciences with a few bonus things thrown in) to share with friends who have joined bsky in the last week and thought it may be useful for some people here too! 🌍🧪 #SciSky #BioSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Starter packs

BIOLOGY Ecology Macroecology https://go.bsky.app/GBn9pNZ Global ecology https://go.bsky.app/V6tN4cv Trait based ecology and evolution https://go.bsky.app/PThMXeX Invasion biology https://go.b...

docs.google.com

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