Last week to have your say!! 🔥 Our trait-based ecology survey closes Sat 31 Oct. All welcome, but we'd especially love to hear from bird, mammal, microbe/fungi and fish folk 🐦🦊🍄🐟🐙🦑🦠 12–15 min, anonymous: link.webropol.com/s/BeyondSpeciesMeans With @jagodbold.bsky.social

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Tom Williams@tjw97.bsky.social · 3w ago

When do trait-based approaches actually predict ecosystem functioning, and when are we kidding ourselves? We’re running an expert survey to find out. All systems, all taxa, all career stages. Sceptics also welcome 🔥 🔗 link.webropol.com/s/BeyondSpeciesMeans

When do trait-based approaches actually predict ecosystem functioning, and when are we kidding ourselves? We’re running an expert survey to find out. All systems, all taxa, all career stages. Sceptics also welcome 🔥 🔗 link.webropol.com/s/BeyondSpeciesMeans

Expert Assessment of Trait-Based Prediction Reliability in Ecology

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What would adverse effects on seafloor organisms look like? 🤔 🌊

New Scientist@newscientist.com · 6mo ago

Adding olivine to the ocean could remove CO2 from the atmosphere, and a pilot project in New York state found no signs of adverse effects on seafloor organisms

*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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Last week was my first General Assembly of SEAQuester, an EU project on blue carbon sequestration in polar systems. We at ÅAU hosted at Husö Biological Research Station on the Åland Islands, in some great spring weather! ☀️

Missed the deadline? We’ve got good news! The abstract submission deadline for this year’s NSO-GfÖ Conference has been extended until 30th April! Join us at one of Europe’s largest ecology conferences—submit your abstract by 30 April 2026 here: 👉 vist.ly/4z76b #NSO2026 #gfoe2026

PSA: Do not end your presentations this way. Leave your conclusion slide up instead of wiping their memories with this platitide.

After four months, the journal has not found a single reviewer for my PhD student's manuscript. The academic peer review system is broken. I think we all should: 1. Review three papers for every one that we submit. 2. Promptly declined to review a paper when the request arrives. #AcademicChatter

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I'm also just an advisor, standing in front of a bunch of scientists, asking them to review his student's manuscript. 🥹

Big news: the final chapter of my PhD is now published in Global Change Biology! 🌍 We study biodiversity loss and changes in ecosystem functioning not just through species disappearing sequentially, but also co-extinction — when multiple species are lost together.

Fork lifting in the first few of our intact macrofaunal sediment communities ! Thanks team, great day, and plenty of exciting data to come for our NERC funded Ecowind project (ecological effects of offshore wind).

Prof. Martin Solan@profbenthos.bsky.social · last yr.

Great to make observations throughout an entire offshore wind farm to investigate the ecological effects of offshore wind expansion in our shelf seas. Fieldwork led by @krysiamazik.bsky.social and looking forward to receiving intact communities for follow-up lab experiments.