We're hiring an ecologist at UC Berkeley! The Dept. of Integrative Biology is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Ecology. Plants/algae, invertebrates, microbes, or marine systems a priority. Come join us!! Apply by Oct 5, 2026. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05489 PS: Please share!

Assistant Professor –Ecology- Integrative Biology

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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On the job, counting grasshoppers in the salt marsh. Sapelo Island GA.

Clues to an ocean voyage: bull #kelp (*Nereocystis luetkeana*) grows in shallow water, attached to the rocks w/ its light-capturing blades on the surface. But this kelp is covered w/ pelagic barnacles that only grow on floating debris in the open ocean. This #seaweed has been drifting out at sea! 🌊🦑

One day sale: My new book is available TODAY only for just 99p in ebook! It would be rude not to buy one ;)

Marine Environmental Research gave us 3 weeks to revise a paper. We asked for a 1-month extension because the first author is overseas. They said no, the most they can give is 2 weeks. Otherwise it's considered withdrawn.

New collaborative paper led by Takehiro Sasaki out @natecoevo.nature.com with plenty of contributors from our group & others @idiv-research.bsky.social Biodiversity enhances productivity under drought in more arid grasslands but has limited effects in more arid forests 🌱🌲 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Biodiversity effects under climate extremes intensify with aridity in grasslands but not forests - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning under climate extremes may depend on ecosystem type and baseline aridity. Here the authors show that the effects of plant diversity on productivity are st...

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I am #hiring! In my group 📍Universität Zürich | University of Zurich & Eawag I have #two open #Postdoc #Positions, with application deadlines in early August 2026. 🧬 🦐 🐠🌐🌍 Here a quick reminder & 🧵with all details, thanks for 🔄 redistributing to interested candidates.

Seaweed selfie! Collecting Alaskan *Alaria* for our global canopy-forming #seaweed traits network! @intertidaleco.bsky.social @jngriffy.bsky.social #PhycologyFriday #MarineLife🦑🌊

Mexico has already beaten England

Look at that: 2 #megalodon papers in 2 days! 🦈🚨 This paper re-assesses a hypothesis that Bergmann's rule affected Meg size; & provides multiple lines of statistical evidence to support widespread nursery use instead 🦈 Many congrats to the authors: doi.org/10.1002/spp2... 🦈

No evidence for Bergmann's rule in Otodus megalodon

It has been proposed that Otodus megalodon exhibits a Bergmann-like size pattern, with individuals growing larger in cooler waters, an interpretation used to challenge the existence of fossil nursery...

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Opening plenary of the 2026 World Biodiversity Forum with a plea by Becky Chaplin-Kramer to emphasize successes in restoring biodiversity and bending the curve @worldbioforum.bsky.social #wbf2026

Excited to be in Davos for #WBF2026! And *really* looking forward to this discussion of what to do about the lack of a biodiversity analogue of the World Climate Research Program. Please do come along and contribute - Wednesday, 12:00-13:00, in room Wisshorn! And please pass the word on 😀.

Great discussions yesterday at #EARSeL2026 on bridging the gap between 1D and 3D vegetation modelling. I presented SILVO, a lightweight 3D illumination model designed to explicitly represent canopy heterogeneity. Thanks to everyone for the insightful feedback. 🌳🛰️ @iascsic.bsky.social @uco.es

I’m really excited about this paper, which links #seaweed species’ nitrate uptake & photosynthesis rates w/ functional #traits, providing a predictive framework for understanding roles in nutrient cycling & productivity. 🌊🦑🧪📏🌐 @jngriffy.bsky.social @intertidaleco.bsky.social @mle425.bsky.social

Annals of Botany@annbot.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Seaweed functional traits predict species’ roles in nutrient cycling and primary productivity doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience

Temporal shifts in kelp forest structure and distribution largely reflect recent ocean warming trends vist.ly/55kj2 #KelpForests #OceanWarming #SpeciesDistribution

There was a time, not long ago, when peaceful protestors were never sent to jail in the UK But at least 286 people have been locked up for protesting climate breakdown and genocide in recent years It's a fucking scandal

New breed of political prisoner arises in Britain as anti-protest sentences rise

More people are being jailed in England and Wales as a result of acting to prevent climate breakdown and the war in Gaza, research reveals

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*JOB* We are seeking a marine ecologist to investigate how physical disturbance - bottom trawling - influence carbon, nutrient and greenhouse gases. The advert is now live until 08/06/2026. PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY. jobs.soton.ac.uk/3416326HN

Job Opportunity at the University of Southampton: Research Fellow in Marine Ecology

We are seeking a highly motivated Marine Ecologist to join our collaborative research group at the University of Southampton. This position is funded by the NERC C-FLOOR highlight topic and offers a u...

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1st chilly 🥶 day of fieldwork for the biogeographic #befscale fucoid resilience project. Bit short on fucoids even in our control plots 😬 Electric Blue envloggers are a go for hourly 🌡️ data. Lodonnec tomorrow! Good luck @rubygeorge.bsky.social with your last batch of PhD data 📉 💪🏻

Amazing first day yesterday in the field in Sao Paulo state for our @britishecologicalsociety.org funded working group on forest restoration! First, Pedro Brancalion led us on a tour of the nursery of re.green, which produces >2 million seedlings of >100 species per year for forest restoration (!)

Tom's first publication from his PhD and a great review of substrate-borne vibration on embryonic and newly hatched marine invertebrates file:///Users/novamieszkowska/Downloads/978-3-031-94229-7_220-2.pdf @livuniresearch.bsky.social @thembauk.bsky.social

Wrapping up the Easter holidays with a new paper in #EcologyLetters. Our latest study shows how ocean acidification reshapes temperate marine communities and their ecosystem functioning 🌐🌊🦑🧪👇🧵

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 @sorbonne-universite.fr @imev-mer.fr @icmcsic.bsky.social

So far, 47 participants from 25 countries signed up to take part in our global bioturbation experiment across freshwater, terrestrial and marine ecosystems. No prior experience needed and we’ll send you a bioturbation kit - to join in, sign up here: www.thermalecologyalliance.org/projects

Our new short communication is out in Aquatic Botany! 🌊 We show how the key canopy-former in the Atlantic, Fucus serratus, shifts its form and function along wave-exposure gradients. #seaweed #rockyshores #marine #ecology #intraspecific #traits doi.org/10.1016/j.aquabot.2026.104021

Sunrise #seaweed sampling. #PhycologyFriday #MarineLife 🦑🌊🌄

“Since March last year, it has affected 20,000 sq km of coast – an area twice the size of greater Sydney – and ranks among the worst for marine mass mortality globally, killing millions of sea creatures” “the most awful, tragic thing I’ve personally seen in the ocean in my 40-year career”.

Stripped of life: the deadly South Australian algal bloom is still spreading one year on

More than 20,000 sq km of coast has succumbed to Australia’s first ever bloom of toxic Karenia cristata algae – and scientists worry it could explode again

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The University of Tübingen seeks applications for a W3-Professorship in Experimental Biodiversity Research starting Oct 1, 2027. Apply by April 26, 2026. More info: https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/213700. #job

Our review of #trait - based approaches to ecological restoration is finally out in @esajournals.bsky.social *Ecological Applications*, highlighting the value of functional traits for creating system-general restoration strategies. 🌐 🧮➕📏 urldefense.com/v3/__http://...

📢 Save the date! The 59th European Marine Biology Symposium ( #EMBS59 ) will take place 7–10 July 2026 in Peniche, Portugal 🇵🇹 🌊 Hosted by ESTM (Polytechnic of Leiria) & MARE 📍 Coastal campus overlooking the Berlengas UNESCO Biosphere Reserve 🙌 More here👇 www.embs-symposium.com

El cambio climático está perdiendo la capacidad de sorprendernos: ya intuimos que se superará al año siguiente. Los gráficos de principios de 2026 se parecen tanto q casi da igual la localidad o el parámetro analizado. Izq. lluvias en Grazalema; derecha emisiones de carbono de incendios de Argentina

A summary of our recent #research exploring how #amphibian diversity and threats vary across elevational zones in the #Colombian #Andes 🧪🦤🐸🌐🌎

Geekcologist@geekcologist77.bsky.social · 7mo ago

#Ecology #Andes #Amphibians