Very happy that our big paper on regional drivers of Nordic salt marsh carbon stocks from the NordSalt project is now published. Great work by former postdoc Anais Richard: bg.copernicus.org/articles/23/...

Livestock grazing, plant community and abiotic factors shape blue carbon stocks in Nordic coastal marshes

Abstract. Coastal marshes are key habitats contributing to organic carbon (OC) storage but remain understudied in Nordic regions regarding Blue Carbon processes. This study quantified OC stocks in abo...

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#PhDjob looking for marine ECRs to promote for Swedish Science Council call for assistant professor TT positions @stockholm-uni.bsky.social Needs: PhD >2019, experience+interest in marine field teaching, strong CV, marine stress ecology/ecophysiology/biodiversity/ research. Email asap! Plz spread!

Enjoying Kinlan Jan’s PhD defense at DEEP @stockholm-uni.bsky.social. Great work, impressed opponent!

Lucia campus!

It was great to come and visit!

Umeå Marine Sciences Centre@umeaunimarine.bsky.social · 12mo ago

A real pleasure to host Johan Eklöf of Stockholm University! A fantastic seminar covering the complex top-down and bottom-up controls on #BalticSea coastal food webs! 🌿➡️🦐➡️🐟➡️🎣 Thanks, Johan! 🧪🦑🌊 Semianar abstract: www.umu.se/en/events/ca... @eklof.bsky.social @stockholm-uni.bsky.social

@umeaunimarine.bsky.social Thanks for hosting me - great seeing your impressive field station and happy to share my research with you!

#mycampus. Let’s see yours!

Blir gäddor i fredningsområden mindre skygga, och hur påverkar detta isf ekosystemet i grunda havsvikar? Detta studerar doktorand Emil Kraft och masterstudent Alexander nu i sommar, vilket uppmärksammades av @svtnyheter.bsky.social : www.svt.se/nyheter/loka...

Se gäddan skrämma andra fiskar – kan öppna upp igenväxta vikar

”Skräckekologi” kan bromsa övergödningens effekter • Forskare undersöker fiskefredade vikar

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I wish more highly successful researchers would do what @lovedalen.bsky.social did here: reveal how much effort, and repeated rejection, that typically precedes each success in science. Never give up.

Flo Débarre@flodebarre.eurosky.social · last yr.

At the end of his #ESEB2025 plenary on deep-time palaeogenomes, Love Dalén shared his history of trying to obtain a big grant for his work. It eventually worked out!

Vad händer med upptag och utsläpp av växthusgaser när havens ekosystem störs? Detta är en fråga vi i sommar studerat på Askölaboratoriet, vilket nu uppmärksammats i bl.a. i Rapport: @svtnyheter.bsky.social : www.svt.se/nyheter/loka... @ostersjocentrum.bsky.social @stockholm-uni.bsky.social

Varmare klimat kan göra Östersjön till utsläppskälla

Forskare: ”Kan bidra till ökad uppvärmning”

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Modelbased for Quick and Beautiful Model Visualization in #rstats imachordata.com/2025/07/25/m... Thanks, @easystats.github.io!

New paper alert; we, led by @tiinasalo.bsky.social show experimentally that warming strengthens the cascading effects of predator phenotypic variation: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec....

Fascinating paper on something I never thought of: When we remove big old animals from wild populations (like fish) we might be losing important cultural transmission in species that learn from elders - Essentially culling transmission of collective knowledge onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Overfishing Social Fish

Social learning is common among vertebrates, including fish. Learning from others reduces the risk and costs of adaptation. In some longer-lived species, social learning can lead to the formation of ...

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Pushing the research front forward… What happens with GHG fluxes in shallow-bay benthic communities with infauna vs grazers - plus warming? @coastclim.bsky.social @balticseacentre.bsky.social with @nascimentofj.bsky.social

Heard of "Darwin's paradox"? It refers to Charles Darwin's observation that coral reefs are wildly productive despite occurring in nutrient-poor tropical oceans. Reefs are, so the story goes, oases in marine deserts 🏝️... Turns out that 2/3 of these assertions are very wrong... 🌐 🦑🧪 🧵⬇️

home after some very fun, inspiring days at @hifmb.de symposium. Chatted with amazing peers like @jillianmpetersen.bsky.social, @ibaums.bsky.social, Martin Lindegren etc, and also presented our ongoing work in the Baltic Sea. Thank you so much @hillebr1.bsky.social for the invititation!

🚀 New paper led by Dr Becks Spake! We make the case for precision ecology—using big data & predictive tools to tailor conservation actions to local contexts. Can ecology learn from medicine & marketing to boost impact? We think so. Read it here: rdcu.be/eoaR4 #Conservation #Ecology #BigData

Precision ecology for targeted conservation action

Nature Ecology & Evolution - The fields of medicine and marketing use large data volumes and computational power to target individuals. This Perspective argues that applied ecologists should...

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Starting here in the best way: presenting a new paper. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Have a look at our new proposed way of calculating response diversity when multiple environmental drivers change simultaneously.

Measuring the Response Diversity of Ecological Communities Experiencing Multifarious Environmental Change

This study explores how response diversity—variability in species' responses to environmental changes—relates ecological stability under complex, multifactorial environmental shifts. The authors intr...

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Was just asked to review a non-political research grant proposal to a call funded by 2 countries whose politics I don’t support. Tricky to decide whether to accept the task or not. Thoughts?

Easter campus in spring colors

Uni Oldenburg is starting a genomics facility, and we are looking for a bioinformatician. uol.de/en/job/bioin... The position is initially for 3 years, but there are chances of permanency after the 3 years. Please share!

#Seaweed farming has many potential benefits, but scaling these farms cannot be at the expense of other habitats (e.g. #seagrass) that support people! In our short letter, me, @eklof.bsky.social, @zosterar.bsky.social & others discuss why caution is needed. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Risks of habitat loss from seaweed cultivation within seagrass | PNAS

Risks of habitat loss from seaweed cultivation within seagrass

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revising a lecture on disturbances in tropical seagrasses, and recall having read a quote where early European explorers found hundreds of manatees grazing on seagrass somewhere in tropical western Atlantic, and that the seagrass looked like a golf lawn. Ring any bells? @boardshortsben.bsky.social

One of the most important things you can do today is your science. Knowing calculus/physics/genetics/chemistry etc. makes you rare and the world will need you to rebuild tomorrow. Practice your skills and pass them on. Keep the flame alive. 💚🌱🧪

Our new Nature paper on the multi-dimensional contributions of small scale fisheries just dropped www.nature.com/articles/s41.... We find that SSF supply ~40% of global fish catch worth >$77billion, with knock on benefits that support numerous sustainable development goals. A truly monumental effort

Illuminating the multidimensional contributions of small-scale fisheries - Nature

A study aimed at revealing the role of small-scale fisheries in sustainable development shows they provide at least 40% of the global fishing catch and affect the livelihoods of 1 in 12 people in the ...

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Just finished reading this fab new paper by @andypurvisnhm.bsky.social Bending the curve of #biodiversity loss requires a 'satnav' for nature royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.... The satnav analogy helps to focus on forward-looking course corrections to our conservation policy + actions

Bending the curve of biodiversity loss requires a ‘satnav’ for nature | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Georgina Mace proposed bending the curve of biodiversity loss as a fitting ambition for the Convention on Biological Diversity. The new Global Biodiversity Monitoring Framework (GBMF) may increase the...

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In a new study in @icesmarine.bsky.social journal led by Serena Donadi, we show that herring is an underestimated piscivore and that the herring decline in the Baltic Sea may have contributed to the increase in three-spined stickleback: academic.oup.com/icesjms/adva...

Reduced predation and competition from herring may have contributed to the increase of three-spined stickleback in the Baltic Sea

Abstract. In many areas of the Baltic Sea, three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) has increased several fold since the early 2000s. Two major pl

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Atlantic herring is one of the most abundant fishes in the world. In two new studies, we show that some herring in the Baltic Sea have become fish eaters. These piscivorous herring are genetically unique, grow fast, and play an important role in regulating stickleback populations.

Piscivorous herring – a unique fish in the Baltic Sea ecosystem | slu.se

In the coastal areas of the Baltic Sea, unusually large herring are sometimes caught, which has long raised questions. Are these large herring a separate population, or are they individuals that ha...

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I stare at numbers of fish counts, wishing I could myself count more fish.

samuel mehr@mehr.nz · 2y ago

I convert tax dollars to pdfs

The curious case of piscivorous herring in the Baltic Sea

Baltic Herring Turn Predators: A Stunning Evolutionary Shift

A new study reveals a genetically distinct type of Baltic herring that thrives on a fish diet, unlike its Atlantic counterpart. This adaptation has likely occurred due to the unique conditions of the ...

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