Mona Khalil, Lebanon’s most well-known sea turtle conservationist, died of her wounds today after being injured by an Israeli strike I feel sick

Megaphone News@megaphone.news · 3mo ago

Mona Khalil spent over 20 years protecting sea turtles on Mansouri Beach. After she was injured in an Israeli attack, activists continued her initiative at Rmeileh Beach, where they protected the first loggerhead nest of 73 eggs on Thursday. youtu.be/fbBKzK4JNRc

Last week we sampled in Cap de Creus to test #eDNA on fish and invertebrate communities 🧬🐟.This technique detects species from their genetic traces in the water,no need to capture them.The work is part of the EU projects #GES4SEAS and #PETRIFY @icmcsic.bsky.social @jeroensteenbeek.bsky.social

I don't post often, but the US slaughterhouse is getting beyond ridiculous. NOAA forced to decommission essential monitoring and historical climate data!? Good grief. Mango Mussolini is insane. www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume...

OceanViz on Unity is coming!! First devised to include any audience into marine ecosystem modelling, OceanViz will soon be available as an public and open-source toolkit for visualizing marine ecosystems and how they change over time. This endeavour is funded by EU project MarinePlan. Stay tuned!

MarinePlan OceanViz teaser - March 2025

YouTube video by Ecopath with Ecosim

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🚨 BREAKING: Illinois Governor JB Pritzker says he’s going to rename Lake Michigan to “Lake Illinois.” EPIC TRUMP TROLL!!! 🤣

Is all of this DOGE madness legal?

WIRED@wired.com · 2y ago

Our latest scoop: An internal email obtained by WIRED shows that NOAA workers received orders to pause all work with 'foreign nationals.'

The Ecoscope project blogged about my thesis. A neat summary of what kept me up at night for the past 4 years: ecoscopium.eu/news/article... #Ecoscopium

EcoScope partner calls for making marine ecosystem modelling more accessible to society, policy and the collaboration with other sciences

Jeroen Steenbeek of EU-funded EcoScope project partner Ecopath International Initiative has published his PhD thesis, entitled Ecosystem modelling for the ocean decade – facing the challenge (Cum Laud...

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Today, we are excited to participate in the kickoff of the MOIRAI project 🌊, marking the beginning of this exciting initiative. @martacoll.bsky.social and @jeroensteenbeek.bsky.social have successfully presented their key roles and contributions to the project. #MOIRAI @ICMCSIC

The data is in. 2024 was the warmest year on record, and probably in the whole of human history – about 1.6°C warmer than the pre-industrial period. More than 1 billion individual thermometer measurements, made by thousands of people over many decades, have been condensed into a single number.

2024 @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social #climate data out today: 📈 2024 - first year more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial; for ERA5 it was 1.6ºC 🌡️ the past 10 years were the 10 warmest years on record 📈 2024 was warmest year for all continental regions, except Antarctica and Australasia 🌍🌡️🧪⚒️🌊

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Yeah -- I looked into this recently. There isn't a projection ready-to-go from cartopy/proj, but I did find this repo: github.com/rtlemos/spil...

GitHub - rtlemos/spilhaus: Project your maritime dataset onto the World Ocean.

Project your maritime dataset onto the World Ocean. - rtlemos/spilhaus

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I closed my former Twitter account today. Feels good.

Interesting read about the deplorable state of the Western Mediterranean fish stocks and decades of systematic fisheries mismanagement (in Spanish): miquelortega.blog/2024/12/05/l...

La pesca de arrastre Mediterránea en llamas

El próximo 9 y 10 de diciembre, al tiempo que se negociará en Bruselas cuántos días pueden pescar los arrastreros del Mediterráneo Occidental (entre ellos los españoles) asistiremos a una huelga de…

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"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." - Carl Sagan

This whale species is so rare it's never been seen alive. A dissection may decode its mysteries #marineecology apnews.com/article/rare...

This whale species is so rare it's never been seen alive. A dissection may decode its mysteries

Scientists and culture experts in New Zealand have begun the first-ever dissection of a spade-toothed whale, the world's rarest whale species.

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🎉 The Ecopath with Ecosim course kicks off today at @ICMCSIC, organized by the Ecopath International Research Association! 🌊 We're thrilled with the interest shown and wish all participants a week full of learning and enriching experiences! 💻 @martacoll.bsky.social @jeroensteenbeek.bsky.social

Amen

Saganism@sagan.bsky.social · 2y ago

"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."

“Experts and scientists are migrating to Bluesky in record numbers.” Welcome if you’re new (and if you’re not, please help by reposting) - here’s a starter pack for the #biodiversity science-policy community: go.bsky.app/LjV86zg