🎮 Come try SeaDefenders: Operation Fiasco at Play: Festival del Gioco! 📅 22–24 May 📍 BolognaFiere Padiglione 15 – Stand F25 ℹ️ tinyurl.com/mwmcf79e ​👾 Stop the invasion with us: raffinifrancescalab.weebly.com/game.html A huge thanks to Federico Plazzi - University of Bologna for hosting us! 🙏💙

Peer-reviewed by the pub crowd 🍺✅ Months of planning and late nights — but seeing that room full of curious people with a beer in hand makes it all worth it 🔬🍺 Thank you to everyone who showed up 💛 Pint of Science 2026 was a success — scientifically proven #pintofscience #scicomm #pint2026

🌍 Happy #EarthDay 2026! ⚡"Our Power, Our Planet" — a reminder that real change starts with us. 🧬 At GENOA COST Action, we champion genetic diversity as a cornerstone of resilient ecosystems in the face of ongoing environmental change. 🌱 What's one action you're taking today for Earth?

🐌🌊FIASCO: officially ended 😢. Science: very much alive🚀 Months of hard work → a treasure trove of data fuelling studies for years ahead🪙 The end of one chapter, the beginning of many📚. Huge thanks to the fantastic team that made FIASCO anything but 🙌🏅🫶🏆

🔮 Phylogeny magic ✨ @szndohrn.bsky.social The moment we stop seeing a diagram 📈 and start seeing history 📖 — billions of years of life, roots, branches, leaves🍃all connected 🛜 — unfolding in a phylogenetic tree 🌳 and we are all part of it 💕 #Phylogenetics #Teaching #Evolution #SciComm #ScienceMagic

🎉 No Party, No Science 🥂🧑‍🔬 has kicked off at @szndohrn.bsky.social 🇮🇹🧜 Bringing all staff together to strengthen the bonds that drive our scientific and social mission forward 🌊🚀 Great science🔬starts with great teams🤝 and drinks 🍷🥳

🐚 Decades of snail shells — and every one has a story to tell. We've been 🔬 📸 a rare catalogue of historical 🐌🌊 loaned by museums and private collectors, capturing how shell shapes and sizes have shifted over time and space. Secrets incoming 🔐

🔬🍺 We're gearing up for #PintOfScience! Join us for a night of oceans 🌅, seahorses 🌊🐴 & birds 🐦 with the @szndohrn.bsky.social scientists🧑‍🔬! 🗓️ 18-20/05/26 🕗 20:00 🗺️ Lord Up, Via Michelangelo, 29B 80026 Casoria, Napoli ℹ️ shorturl.at/rgNRm Good drinks, great science 🍻🧠

Two rivers meet in Kaunas 🇱🇹 — so does science 🔬 The #GENOA #COST Action met here to unite multidimensional data, scientists & policy to protect #biodiversity 🌿 Genetic diversity is key - GENOA is co-creating tools, building capacity and trust & turning knowledge into action 🧬 💪 #consgen #PopGen

Happy Lunar new year! 🧧 Happy (sea)horse year! 🌊🐴

🧦💙 Oggi è la Giornata dei Calzini Spaiati! 🧦💚 Una giornata speciale che ci ricorda che la diversità è un valore 🆒 Celebriamo le differenze, l'inclusione e l'accettazione❤️ Perché a volte sono proprio gli abbinamenti più inaspettati a creare i risultati più belli 🧦🌈🧦

Great Littorina Research Community meeting this week! 🐌🌊🐚 The Fiasco team crushed the presentations 🎯 and the feedback was amazing 💗 So many valuable inputs — we can't wait for the next steps! ! 💪✨

Happy holidays from the FIASCO team! 🎄🐌 Sending waves of festive cheers & shell-loads of joy your way 🌊🐚✨ Thanks for cruising with us this year ⛵️ — see you in the next tide! 🥂

✨ A powerful thought for the International #DisabilityDay ♿✨ The narrative isn't about being "different." It's about the difference we make 💪 A great thank you to Laila ©Vorrei prendere il Treno Onlus for this awesome graphic! #IDPWD #DisabilityInclusion #disabledinstem #disability

Bringing together incredible historical snails 🐚📜 from researchers, museums, and private collectors 🔬🏛️🔍 for the #FiascoProject. Overwhelmed by the generosity—thank you for trusting us with these precious #Mollusk specimens 💖 #Malacology #NaturalHistory #CitizenScience #ScienceTwitter #MolluskMonday

🤿 Dive into Sea Defenders: Operation FIASCO! This roll-and-write game lets you be a 🧑‍🔬🦸 battling 👾👾👾 to save the 🌊: 🎲📝 Grab dice & a pen! 🧠🤝 Solo or co-op fun! 📥 FREE Download: fiascoproject.odoo.com/game #BoardGames #Conservation #ScienceOutreach #FIASCOproject #SeaDefenders

Our Q&A article on inbreeding for conservation is out in BMC Biology! We discuss some important key concepts related to inbreeding in the light of new genomic tools and what it means for conservation when we want to improve species survival. #consgen bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Q&A: inbreeding and its implications for conservation - BMC Biology

Inbreeding depression plays a role in the decline, endangerment, and extinction of small populations, and thus inbreeding has received much attention in conservation biology. The term inbreeding is us...

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Here are all the interviews about Disability in E & E we have published so far - if you would like to say your piece in the November or December issues, please get in touch, tree@cell.com www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

🙏 Thank you, Museum of Natural History of Ferrara! Your historical 🐚 specimens are key for #consgen the #FiascoProject 🔑🐌🌊 Museums are not just archives of the past, but active libraries for future discovery 📚🔬💡. This is the power of these remarkable collections! 💪🦸 ℹ️ storianaturale.comune.fe.it

🎉 Welcome, @axelita.bsky.social! As a PhD 🧑‍🎓 @szndohrn.bsky.social & @openuniversity.bsky.social, she studies #evolution in the Anthropocene, using #genetics & #macroecology to design powerful #conservation initiatives that stand the test of time 🔬💪🌱🪸 Incredibly excited to have her on board! ⛵️

So excited to be at our first @cemeb.bsky.social Autumn Assembly! 🤩 Can't wait to connect with the community, dive deep into marine evolutionary biology, and get inspired! 🧠🌊🤝 #CeMEB2025 #evolution #adaptation #MarineScience

🧬The annual Center for Marine Evolutionary Biology (CeMEB) Assembly 2025 has officially started, for the 1st time in Uppsala!🧬 After a welcome by steering committee member Andreas Wallberg, we are kicking things off with the first keynote lecture by Leif Andersson, Atlantic herring in the Baltic!🐟

🪸🌲 From coral reefs to old-growth forests, ancient ecosystems hold profound wisdom. Learning from these living libraries of life, culture, and resilience📜 In our search for a sustainable future, perhaps the answers were here all along🌍🌀🧭 #consgen #ClimateSolution #Biodiversity ℹ️ shorturl.at/DqJ78

Just back from the inaugural meeting of the 🇮🇹 #conservationgenomic Group! The 🐚🌊🐌 team was thrilled to present how #Fiasco is leveraging the power of #PopGen 🧬 #evolution to protect #Biodiversity 🌱🪸 Inspired by the community and ready to drive action together! #Conservation #Genomics

The FIASCO🐌🐌 team's formula at @sibe_iseb's #SIBESummerSchool2025? Inspiring sessions on #genomics #bioinformatics #conservation 🖥️🧬 + Playtesting our #science game 🧑‍🔬🎲 = Ideas evolving through fun! 💡🧠🚀🃏 sites.google.com/view/sibesum...

How is the #omics revolution 🌊💻reshaping our understanding of evolution & conservation?🌍🧬🔍 ✨ Find out with us as the #SIBESummerSchool begins TODAY! Ready for a week of forging new connections and exploring the frontiers of #science 🎓🤝💡 Let's go!

Huge thank you @aeastephens.bsky.social‬ for initiating the TrendsTalk series 'Disability in ecology and evolution' in T.R.E.E. providing visibility for disabled researchers in #Ecology & #Evolution to make our field more #inclusive www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Disability in ecology and evolution

In this TrendsTalk series 'Disability in ecology and evolution' in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, we will be hearing from people about their experiences being disabled in ecology and evolution. We a...

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⛵️GENOA COST Action finally IRL! 💛 Met some of our brilliant young researchers & innovators @lperezsorribes.bsky.social & 🤿🔍 together into groundbreaking evolutionary conservation at #ESEB2025🇪🇸 Inspired + energized for science's future! ✨ #consgen #PopGen #evolution #NatureConservation

We came, we saw, we evolved! 🔝 #ESEB2025 🐚🧑‍🔬 colonization: SUCCESS✅ With two 📜, a symposium, many brilliant 💬🧠⚡️ with old & new colleagues 🫂, and 🍷🥘🍻, our mission in 🇪🇸 was not a fiasco! Huge thanks to everyone ❤️ #Evolution #PopGen #consgen #MarineBiology #InvasionScience

The SZN delegation at #ESEB2025 @xodroont.bsky.social @svepalla.bsky.social @francescaraffini.bsky.social @szndohrn.bsky.social