✨ OPPORTUNITY! SCOR's 2026 Visiting Scholar program is open for applications! This program supports the travel costs to conduct on-site education and mentorship at a developing-country institution. 📅 Apply by 15 December 2025 💻 More information at scor-int.org/work/capacit...

Read more about how you can turn your home into a wildlife refuge @aunz.theconversation.com @icon-science.bsky.social theconversation.com/from-frog-sa...

From frog saunas to butterfly puddles: 8 ways to turn your homes into a wildlife refuge

Urban sprawl has forced native animals and humans to live close together. Here are eight ways to make your home a refuge for wildlife.

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Are you a top US-based scientist wanting to relocate to Australia? We are now calling for formal applications from both Australian and non-Australian citizens based in the US whose work is internationally recognised as exceptional. 📅 Applications close: Aug 29, 2025 🔗 science.org.au/gtap/?utm_so...

If you can’t wait for the next ICCB - We are thrilled to announce that the next SCB Oceania conference will be held in Nov 2026 together with @newzealandecology.bsky.social in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa NZ! #NZES_SCBO2026 #ICCB2025 confer.eventsair.com/2026-nzes-sc...

Calling all early-career ecologists 🐨 Mentee registration is NOW OPEN for ESA’s July Speed Mentoring Week! 🔹 Book up to 3 one-on-one sessions with experienced ecologists 🔹 Get answers to your biggest career questions 🔹 Flexible, impactful, and designed for YOU 🔗 Register now tinyurl.com/bderjjxj

Just over a week to go until the deadline for conference abstracts for ESA2025 🪶 Don't miss the chance to present your work in front of peers and experts in Adelaide this November. Submit your abstracts online now: esa2025.org.au #ESA2025 #ESAus2025 #ecology

Everything you want to know about deep-sea mining in this interview with @divaamon.bsky.social. 🌊

Meet The Marine Biologist Trying to Prevent Deep-Sea Mining

"Using deep-sea mining to solve the climate crisis is like smoking to lower your stress," says Diva Amon.

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Sea Grant, a program of NOAA which funds coastal research, education, and community outreach - is unfortunately a target for the current administration's draconian reductions in science funding. Sign a letter of support for Sea Grant here: sga.seagrant.org/letters-of-s...

Mesophotic reef #coral reference genomes for Leptoseris and Montipora species! From my postdoc work in American Sāmoa. Thanks Revive & Restore Wild Genomes and @dtgenomics.bsky.social‬ for the support 🪸 @danbarshis.bsky.social | Data (see Files tab): osf.io/kdm8f/ | Paper:‬ doi.org/10.1093/jher...

The Centre for Biodiversity Genomics @uofguelph.bsky.social added its 15 millionth specimen to its archive, moving closer to its goal of sequencing 25 million specimens by 2029 — and then all life on Earth by 2045. news.uoguelph.ca/2025/04/worl... #DNAbarcoding #Milestone

World’s Largest DNA Library Collects 15 Millionth Specimen

A beetle from Costa Rica has become the 15 millionth specimen to enter a genetic reference library at the Centre for Biodiversity Genomics (CBG) at the University of Guelph

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The #GSB2025 Banner has been released, looking forward to seeing all your observations this year. Find your local project here, inaturalist.org/projects/gre... or organise your own just get in contact via our socials or email. #inaturalist #citizenscience #naturelovers

The Biodiversity Heritage Library has just surpassed 63 million pages! Spanning 1469–2025, BHL provides invaluable #OpenAccess to the foundation of our understanding of biodiversity. 🌎 📚 🌱 #ILoveBHL #BHLib ➡️ www.biodiversitylibrary.org

Just saw this on the other site. Not good. We must preserve, protect, and advocate for biological collections and the museums who care for them

Today's dive will take place on an unnamed seamount northwest of Holanikū (Kure Atoll) starting at 450m. #OkeanosExplorer EX2503 dive 11 #Papahānaumokuākea #MarineLife #saveNOAA www.youtube.com/live/rwq8v0c...

Camera 1: Beyond the Blue: Papahānaumokuākea ROV and Mapping

YouTube video by oceanexplorergov

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A press release is out about the Biodiversity Heritage Library. From 1 January 2026 the Smithsonian will no longer host the administrative functions of BHL. BHL is looking for a new home. For further information see blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-... #ILoveBHL #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary

A New Future for the Biodiversity Heritage Library

The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives. A global consortium of over 660 contributors, BHL has made more …

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Last year I had an absolute blast at the Field Museum (Chicago, USA), especially at the Unseen Oceans exhibit with an amazing plankton entrance hall followed by bioluminescence! #MuseumSelfieDay @sciencecenters.bsky.social

✅ Do you use R or Python? ✅ Are you an ecologist/biologist? Then you might find our website ALA Labs useful! ALA Labs is full of how-to articles to visualise or analyse biodiversity data. Some are for beginners, others are advanced/experimental 😀 labs.ala.org.au 🧪🌏 #rstats #python #quartopub

🚨 New paper!🚨 We explored, characterized and mapped shallow-water marine animal forests around Wellington, NZ. We found incredible sponge gardens, brachiopod beds, and polychaete fields.🧽🪸🪱🐟 In OA at: doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...

🪩 Excited to share our paper in #BiologyLetters about recent trends & biases in #mesophotic research! Huge effort by our volunteer community worldwide @pimbongaerts @AlelimonHA @perez-rosales-g.bsky.social & entire @mesophotic team! ▶️ doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... #ForCoral @rsocpublishing.bsky.social

Hi Bluesky, I’m Nicole, Manager of the Australian branch of the Biodiversity Heritage Library @bhl-au.bsky.social, the world’s largest online repository of biodiversity literature. I work with museums, herbaria & libraries to make their collections openly accessible, discoverable & connected. 1/3

I don’t quite yet have the same reach on here as I did on Twitter, so I’m going to start a new fish game called #EtymologyEpithet, where I explain the etymology (the meaning behind a name) for all of the fishes I’ve described, starting with Cirrhilabrus isosceles, the Pintail Fairywrasse.

Many of the (great) starter packs focus on faculty in different fields. In an effort to help #EarlyCareerResearchers in #marine biology, ecology, evolution, & related fields (re-)connect, here is a list of ECRs. Please give them a follow (and reply to be added or suggest people). go.bsky.app/KhWvT4u

Quite clear that this ^ one is going to fill up, so I’ve started a 2nd one. Please continue to follow for ocean scholars and let me know if you’d like to be added. 🌊 go.bsky.app/4wMsfX4

Ok, I’m loving the starter packs! This one is for women (inclusively defined) in Ocean Science. You need more ocean 🌊 in your feed! Follow these folks. If you would like to be added please just let me know 👋 … if I forgot you, please don’t be offended, it was an accident! go.bsky.app/7MdiLgo

Many coral 'species' may, in fact, be separate 'cryptic' species! We found that up to 68% of #popgen studies in corals had putative cryptic taxa!! Check out the ms in Peer Community Journal! @peercommunityin.bsky.social #corals #crypticspecies peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....

In the spirit of being new to bsky, I made a starter pack of stats/data folks in Australia If you want to be on the list or know others who should be on the list (or want to be taken off the list!) let me know :) #stats #data #rstats #episky go.bsky.app/3wERdAo

📦 galah 2.0.0 is on CRAN! This was months of work with @mjwestgate.bsky.social redesigning pretty much everything about how galah works under the hood Things you'll notice immediately: * dplyr verbs 😮 * galah_filter() is FAST 🐇 * Better messages 😎 galah.ala.org.au/R/ #rstats

I figured it would be fitting for my first post on this platform to be for #invertefest, featuring some of the commissioned work I have done for scientific conferences. Looking forward to drawing many more inverts this year!

Jazzed to announce this Davies Lab pub! "Integrating cryptic diversity into coral evolution, symbiosis and conservation" Led by @cgrupstra.bsky.social along with other people including Hannah Aichelman, James Fifer, Matias Gomez, and Carlos Prada rdcu.be/dywh2

Happy to share our latest research! Over nearly a decade, we monitored two species of coral in Kāne‘ohe Bay, Hawai‘i to reveal that repetitive exposure to heatwaves leads to divergent coral bleaching and recovery trajectories #coralsky 🪸🐠🧪👩🏻‍🔬 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...