Hvalur að bjóða okkur velkomin að Melrakkasléttu. @mfri.bsky.social

Sæfluga (Clione limacina) - skel laus sæsnigill, sem kom í háf rétt norðan við Reykjafjarðarál. Þessir sniglar fljúga um í sjónum og nota sérstök stöðuskynfæri sem innihalda stöðusteina til þess að vita í hvaða átt þau snúa, dálítið eins og innra eyra okkar. @mfri.bsky.social

Sampling in Ísafjarðardjúp, North West Iceland. In addition to oceanographic measurements and plankton surveys, we're isolating environmental DNA at key location near and far from aquaculture pens.

Gullfallegur dagur til að hefja leiðangur. Sem partur af "Ástand Sjávar" vorleiðangri sem stendur yfir næstu tvær vikur, munum við taka sýni til að meta sviðþörungsblóma, þróa umhverfis DNA vöktunaraðferðir í kringum sjókvíar, og auðvitað safna aragrúa af haffræðilegum mælingum @mfri.bsky.social

Beautiful day for the start of an expedition. As part of the "State of the Sea" (Ástand Sjávar) survey over the next two weeks, we'll be sampling to predict algal blooms, develop eDNA monitoring around aquaculture pens, and take oceanographic measurements all around Iceland @mfri.bsky.social

📦 My new R package {spatialData} is on CRAN! 🎉 Ecological datasets as sf data frames and their companion raster data ready for analysis and modeling. Built as example data for R packages, but great for teaching too! 🔗 blasbenito.github.io/spatialData/ ❗check the Articles section!

spatialData: Cool Spatial Datasets

Provides spatial datasets ready to use for ecological modelling and raster companion data for prediction: Neanderthal presence during the Last Interglacial (Benito et al. 2017 <doi:10.1111/jbi.12845>)...

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U.S. President Donald Trump has fired all 24 members of the National Science Board, the body that oversees the National Science Foundation. https://scim.ag/4cxQWhl

Trump fires NSF's oversight board

Dismissal of the National Science Board is widely seen as latest move to erase NSF’s independence

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Our new article on sugar kelp genomics across western Iceland is now out. We find substructure across a North-South and inner- to outer-bay gradient. SNP association with key environmental variables suggest local adaptation and/or density dependent selection is having an effect. rdcu.be/ffacn

Ný grein um beltisþara á vestur Íslandi var að koma út. Við sýnum fram á stofna sem liggja frá norðri til suðurs, og frá innri til ytri Faxaflóa. Ákveðin erfðatengsl við lykil umhverfisbreytur benda til þess að staðbundin aðlögun og þéttleikaháð val gæti verið að eiga sér stað. rdcu.be/ffacn

Nýjasta grein úr Norður-Íshafs leiðangrinum sem ég tók þátt í sumarið 2024 er loksins komin út! Þar er sagt frá uppgötvun af áður óþekktri metan sytru (e. methane seep) rétt vestan af Svalbarða. Sytran fær nafnið Hænir, eftir goðinu úr Völuspá sem gaf mönnum Óð. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Thing I learned today: Seal Lice vector seal heart worms! I don't know of another louse species that vectors a nematode. Do any other entofriends? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What is biodiversity? What is genomics? How do they work together to support species monitoring & conservation? 🌍🧬 The #Connections series explores these questions: biodiversitygenomics.eu/category/con... @unbiodiversity.bsky.social @biogeneurope.bsky.social @iboleurope.bsky.social

As the #Biodiversity #Genomics #Europe @biogeneurope.bsky.social project concludes today it is fantastic to see zenodo.org/records/1878... the 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐥𝐞𝐭 out! A joint effort of the @ergabiodiv.bsky.social and @iboleurope.bsky.social Communities!

Gleðileg jól og þakkir fyrir viðburðaríkt ár! Við hlökkum til alls þess sem 2026 ber í skauti sér. Mynd tekin af Svanhildi Egilsdóttur.

No molecular evidence for Muller's ratchet in mitochondrial genomes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.16.694700v1

Þetta er búinn að vera svakalegur veikinda vetur hjá mörgum. Var að skoða gögnin frá landlækni í gærkvöld og þetta er sýnileg stigmögnun á inflúensu sýkingum síðasta rúman mánuð. app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrI...

Ingibjörg G. Jónsdóttir at @mfri.bsky.social along with her co-authors Jón Sólmundsson, Peter J. Wright, William Butler and Pamela Woods published a paper in the ICES Journal of Marine Science. The study explores the roles of total egg production and the survival of young fish in their first year.

MFRI is taking part in a large-scale international project on harmful algae > Marine phycotoxins in the Arctic: an emerging climate change risk (PHATE) which is a collaborative project on sustainable development and food security in the Arctic. See more here: www.hafogvatn.is/en/about/new...

Fate of biotoxin domoic acid in the Arctic marine food web

MFRI is taking part in a large-scale international project on harmful algae: Marine phycotoxins in the Arctic: an emerging climate change risk (working

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🧬 Last Friday we held our first Taxon Sampling SOP “Hackathon”! Researchers collaborated in real time to develop 17 taxon-specific SOPs that will be shared openly 🍄🌱🐟🪸 Learn more about the Sampling Committee & stay tuned: www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/samplin... #sampling @ebpgenome.bsky.social

SSP - Sampling & Sample Processing

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@icefishresearch.bsky.scial Did you know that the farts of herring almost started a war? 🐟💣 #icefishresearch #didyouknowfacts #herring

Ef þú ert vanur/vön að taka sýni í felti þá hvet ég þig að taka þátt í lausnamóti (hackathon) fyrir sýnatöku leiðbeiningar @ergabiodiv.bsky.social. Mótið fer af stað núna á föstudaginn og stendur yfir frá kl. 9-11 UTC. Skráningar skilafrestur er kl. 16 í dag. www.cognitoforms.com/ERGAEuropean...

The final salmon fry samples of the year were just collected in western Iceland. One year old fry are being sampled for signatures of genetic introgression of aquaculture salmon following an escape event in Patreksfjörður in 2023. Video is from Kjallakstaðaá by Fellsströnd. @mfri.bsky.social

Síðustu erfðasýnatökur ársins úr laxseiðum eru nú í gangi á Vesturlandi. Verið er að safna eins árs seiðum til að skoða umfang erfðablöndunar í kjölfar stroksins í Kvígindisdal í Patreksfirði 2023. Myndskeið frá Kjallakstaðaá og Tunguá (Galtardalsá) við Fellsströnd. @mfri.bsky.social

Two new studies led by the University of Iceland in collaboration with the Marine and Freshwater Research Institute uncover hidden stock structure in Northeast Atlantic blue whiting, a key species for ecosystems and fisheries. More here: hafogvatn.is/en/about/new... #bluewhiting #marinebiology

Hidden Complexity in Blue Whiting Stock Structure

Two new studies led by the University of Iceland in collaboration with the Marine and Freshwater Research Institute uncover hidden stock structure in

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Themes and sessions of @wcmb2026.bsky.social - Part 6 Session 1.6: "From Local to Global: scaling national marine biodiversity best practices" www.wcmb2026.org/1-challenges... Stay tuned for more! @unoceandecade.bsky.social @vliz.be #WCMB2026 #marinebiodiversity

🎙️ We're excited to welcome Dr. Christina Hvilsom as a keynote speaker at the Genomics for Biodiversity Conference! Don’t miss her talk “Genomes in Action for Conservation” 🌍 💻 Online & free | 29–31 Oct 🔗 www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/genomic... @biogeneurope.bsky.social @ebpgenome.bsky.social

The first article from last year's expedition on the famous Polarstern that I participated in has been published. The amphipod species Amathillopsis spinigera was found for the first time during this expedition in the 25 year sampling history of the Fram Strait. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Fyrsta grein frá leiðangrinum í fyrra á Þýska ísbrjótnum Polarstern sem ég tók þátt í er komin út. Marflóategundin Amathillopsis spinigera fannst í fyrsta sinn í þessum leiðangri á 25 ára sýnistökuferli um Fram sundið. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A new paper ‘Key drivers and spatio-temporal variation in the reproductive potential of Icelandic cod’ was published recently in the ICES Journal of Marine Science. More here: hafogvatn.is/en/about/new... #codresearch #marinebiology #codjuviniles #icelandiccod

New article on egg production and survival of cod juveniles

A new paper titled ‘Key drivers and spatio-temporal variation in the reproductive potential of Icelandic cod’ was published recently in the ICES Journal of

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Mosquitoes have been found in Iceland. The mosquito species Culiseta annulata has been confirmed in Iceland. It might survive the cold weather in Iceland, at least in Reykjavík. www.ruv.is/frettir/innl...

Moskítóflugur komnar til Íslands - RÚV.is

Þrjár moskítóflugur fundust í Kjós á dögunum. Þetta staðfestir Náttúrufræðistofnun Íslands. Það er í fyrsta sinn sem flugurnar finnast á íslenskri grundu.

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