Norge er verdensledende på hav. Hvorfor er da havet nesten borte fra bistands-debatten ? 🌊 Hvis regjeringen vil ha mer effekt av hver av bistandskronene, må den se til havet. Det er der Norge har mest å bidra med. les alt i kronikken vår i @dagensnaeringsliv.bsky.social www.dn.no/innlegg/fisk...

Havnasjonen glemmer havet i bistanden

Få bistandskroner vil gi mer igjen for innsatsen enn de som blir brukt på havet.

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Why you should still treat AI with some caution... Prompt to ChatGPT: "make an image with 100 animals on a white background with their names underneath each animal" Result: 🫣🤪😵‍💫

Are you a fisheries assessment scientist looking for new opportunities? Come join our team at the Institute of Marine Research in Bergen, Norway, working on exciting developments projects in the global south. 🦑🧪🐟 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Research scientists in research and advice for fisheries stock assessment in a development context  (294225) | Institute of Marine Research

Job title: Research scientists in research and advice for fisheries stock assessment in a development context  (294225), Employer: Institute of Marine Research, Deadline: Sunday, March 1, 2026

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Not my field, but just had to share … new paper on probabilistic computing by out on Arxiv arxiv.org/abs/2510.23419 (Proud dad)

Probabilistic Computing Optimization of Complex Spin-Glass Topologies

Spin glass systems as lattices of disordered magnets with random interactions have important implications within the theory of magnetization and applications to a wide-range of hard combinatorial opti...

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Norway's biggest newspaper VG picked up our turtle rescue story! 🤩 Great coverage of the EAF Nansen programme, marine sustainability challenges & R/V Dr. Fridtjof Nansen alongside the main rescue story. Thrilled with how it turned out! 🦑🧪 www.vg.no/nyheter/i/KM...

Redda havskjelpadder i fiskegarn: - Eit globalt problem

På oppdrag i Bengalbukta, redda forskarane to havskjelpadder.

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Two videos showing the release of one of the sea-turtles 🐢 we rescued from the ghost net we encountered yesterday in the Bay of Bengal . Very impressed by the skill and efficiency of the R/V Dr. Fridtjof Nansen Crew! 😊 🧪🦑

🐢 SEA TURTLE RESCUE! 🐢 450km from land in Bay of Bengal, we found 2 sea turtles trapped in a ghost net. Our crew quickly freed both turtles & retrieved the dangerous net. Two lives saved, one less threat in our oceans! #SeaTurtles #GhostFishing #OceanRescue

📣 New paper out! Ecosystem approach to capelin fisheries #marsocsci link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Small fish, big implications: considerations for an ecosystem approach to capelin fisheries management - Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries

Climate-driven changes in the Subarctic will directly impact capelin populations and the ecosystem they inhabit, including their predators, prey, and physical habitats. Consequently, incorporating eco...

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🐍 Snake-news is apparently very popular The IMR facebook post has been picked up by a Norwegian online news media. A bit sensational headline, "Horror-catch" 😂, but the article itself is true to what I sent to the journalist. 🦑 sol.no/nyheter/skre...

Skrekkfangst: - Kan dø av et bitt

- Vi ønsker ikke å ta livet av dyr med mindre vi må, sier Havforskningsinstituttet.

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Relieved that the Labour party continues to lead the 🇳🇴 government for the next four years. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Norway’s Labour party wins election after seeing off populist surge

Success for party of the prime minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, despite increased support for rightwing Progress party

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Lots of fishing boats around us this morning in the Bay of Bengal. They're fishing for hilsa (Tenualosa ilisha), the national fish of Bangladesh, a high-price, fast-swimming schooling pelagic fish species. 🦑🧪

🌊 After the gale passe, Bangladesh's waters come alive! Off-shore shelf: modern trawlers meet traditional wooden boats. Nearshore: 30,000+ small artisanal vessels create livelihoods for coastal communities 🎣 #Bangladesh #Fishing 🦑

Venomous seasnakes are common here in the Bay of Bengal, and we have to be very careful sorting our trawl catches, handling any snakes we catch safely and with care. Our team is trained & we follow a strict protocal. After being weighed and photographed the snakes are released back to sea 🧪🦑🐍

We're using a camera system mounted in the trawl to see what passes through the trawl at different depths (DeepVision). A great tool to see what is actually in the different layers we see on the echosounder. (see this paper by my colleagues for more details: academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...)

So, Bird-bluesky: What species of bird is this? It has been hanging around our research vessel all day in the middle of the Bay of Bengal. nyckel.com thinks it is a 'Short Billed Dowitcher', but only with a 48% confidence. 🧪🦑🐦🦆

🇧🇩 MILESTONE MOMENT! Just crossed into Bangladesh EEZ in the Bay of Bengal and got a call from the Minister of Fisheries herself! First time EVER a minister has personally reached out to learn about our research. Talk about validation for the science! The team is absolutely buzzing right now 🙌 🦑🧪

After 3 days sailing from Colombo 🇱🇰 we arrived at our first station in international waters in the Bay of Bengal. We measured water chemistry, temperature, salinity ++ to 2750m depth. The trawl sampled fish and plankton in the upper 150m, and surprisingly caught a lot of swimming crabs. 🧪🦑

A potential game-changer for feeding bees 🐝: A new nutritionally tailored food supplement which is cost-effective and can provide a sustainable solution to help tackle the devastating decline in honeybees. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Engineered yeast provides rare but essential pollen sterols for honeybees - Nature

Genetic engineering of a yeast strain provides rare but essential pollen sterols for honeybee colonies.

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Blue whales 🐋 ahead!! Passed a pod of three blue whales south of Sri Lanka (~20km offshore). These ocean giants aggregate in this area, so we hope for more sightings😅 🦑🧪

Off to adventures in the Bay of Bengal😀 Starting a 32-day #EAFNansen fisheries & ecosystem survey in Bangladesh tomorrow. Colombo 🇱🇰 is our start and end port, & today we were visited by the 🇱🇰 minister of fisheries who got a tour of the vessel 🧪🦑

New article published today by my colleague @bjornsamset.bsky.social in Nature Comms: Earth and Environment. Evidence from eight Earth System Models that the reduction in East Asia's (primarily China's) air pollution is consistent with the sharper growth in warming.

East Asian aerosol cleanup has likely contributed to the recent acceleration in global warming - Communications Earth & Environment

Restrictions of atmospheric aerosol and precursor emissions in East Asia have contributed to the observed global surface warming acceleration since 2010, according to Earth System Model simulations is...

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Sustainable ocean planning & management is key if we are to solve ocean sustainability challenges & the triple-planetary crisis. www.khrono.no/havets-framt... 🦑🐟

Havets framtid på den røde løper i Nice

Som i filmfestivalen vanker det både ris og ros når den store havkonferansen går av stabelen på Frankrikes sørlige kyst. Godt da at Norge stiller med et sterkt lag.

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What an Ocean-day in Nice!😀 Very successful India - Norway event on the tall ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl today co-hosted by the Indian minister for Earth Sciences and the Norwegian Minister for Development & with HRH Crown-Prince Haakon as guest of honour.🤩 🦑

Local newspaper @bergenstidende.bsky.social published an article on the #MEGAMOVE paper on area-use by marine mega-fauna www.bt.no/innenriks/i/... 🤩 @anammsequeira.bsky.social 🦑

Ny studie: Havets kjemper i fare

Selv ikke et fullt vern av 30 prosent av verdens havområder vil være nok til å beskytte de største dyrene i havet, viser en ny internasjonal studie.

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UN-Backed Study Highlights How Tracking Ocean Giants Advances Marine Conservation A groundbreaking global initiative, known as MegaMove, has brought together nearly 400 scientists from over 50 countries in an unprecedented effort to map the space use of more than 110 species of marine megafauna.…

UN-Backed Study Highlights How Tracking Ocean Giants Advances Marine Conservation

A groundbreaking global initiative, known as MegaMove, has brought together nearly 400 scientists from over 50 countries in an unprecedented effort to map the space use of more than 110 species of marine megafauna. This collective endeavor, harnessing decades of sophisticated animal tracking data, represents the most extensive attempt to date to identify critical habitats and migratory corridors that these iconic ocean giants depend upon.

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📢A MegaMove milestone has just been published in @ScienceMagazine! With ~380 collaborators from 50 countries, we mapped the movements of 12k+ marine megafauna to identify key habitats 🌊🐋🦈 @pewenvironment.bsky.social @uwaoceans.bsky.social www.sequeiralab.com/news/megamov...

MegaMove uncovers where protection is needed for marine megafauna

A new Science paper maps global hotspots for marine megafauna & finds that planned increased protection will be insufficient to cover most areas

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New mega-paper on mega-fauna movement and area use out in Science: 6.8million locations, 111 species spanning all oceans. Great job by @anammsequeira.bsky.social & team. Honored to be among the >400 authors she pulled together: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Global tracking of marine megafauna space use reveals how to achieve conservation targets

The recent Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) sets ambitious goals but no clear pathway for how zero loss of important biodiversity areas and halting human-induced extinction of thre...

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The EAF Nansen programme which is developing & promoting more sustainable fisheries management, celebrates it's 50th anniversary in 2025!🥳🎉 The animation below shows where we've carried out surveys since 1975. Read about our achievements in this (translated) article: tinyurl.com/bdf65t38

Trump loves Norway! But I wonder what he likes the most about my country. There’s a lot to love!

The Nansen Programme Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries (EAF) Transformative Research Challenge Price for 2025 has been launched. youth.world-food-forum.org/innovation-l... Application deadline May 9th!