🌍🧊 New paper out in Ambio! We brought together Arctic freshwater experts to identify 77 priority research questions to guide biodiversity science under rapid climate change. 🔓 Open Access: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #ArcticScience #FreshwaterBiodiversity

Freshwater biodiversity in a rapidly changing Arctic: An expert horizon scan of key research questions - Ambio

Arctic freshwater biodiversity is rapidly changing due to climate warming, resource extraction, infrastructure development, and landscape transformation. To improve understanding, predict future respo...

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Looking back at a great #PAM26 conference 🦠🧫🧪🔬 Huge thanks to the organisers, and proud of our #GEUS research group for contributing 2 talks and 2 posters!

Fabulous start to 2026 - it’s been great fun to share some surprises from our sampling of Arctic glaciers as well as meet old friends and new at polar & alpine microbiology. Haribo served in whirlpaks is definitely on-brand if you’re a veteran fieldworker... #PAM26

"Today, Svalbard is the warmest place in the country!" Norwegian meteorologists reported on January 8

Today, Svalbard is the warmest place in Norway

On January 8, the only place in Norway that recorded temperatures above zero °C was the far northern archipelago of Svalbard.

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A message much better stated than I could say it, but which I try to give to ECRs I work with. There are seasons in research and sometimes it is harvest time, but sometimes the seeds are just sitting in the ground resting and waiting for Spring. www.joanwestenberg.com/the-harvest-...

The Harvest Will Come

I spent most of my twenties believing that purpose was something you found once and then held onto. A winning lottery ticket you kept in your wallet forever. The self-help industry reinforced this: find your passion. Discover your why. Land on the thing that makes you leap out of bed

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So exciting to see these results. Hard to believe it’s been over a decade since I did my first short research project with Casper!

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Nature is brimming with colour in almost every season. While the majority of colours are matte, some are shiny. Evolutionary biologist Casper van der Kooi (FSE/@sciencenewsroom-ug.bsky.social) researched why shiny colours are so rare ✨ The results are fascinating 👇 www.rug.nl/fse/news/hig...

Night frost and a slow sunrise.

Autumn in Longyearbyen, Svalbard.

#CFP: "Cold altitudes: knowledge, imagination, and experiences of mountain ice" (May 11-12, 2026, Switzerland). Deadline: 31.10.2025 Info: networks.h-net.org/group/announ... #envhist #envhum #hstm #ecolit

Did you know tiny algae can "skate" within Arctic sea ice? ⛸️ Our new study in @pnas.org reveals the secret life of ice diatoms: they are actively gliding to navigate the ice! This adds a new dimension to the sea ice ecosystem, revealing an active, dynamic ecological niche. @prakashlab.bsky.social

Publication alert 🚨 doi.org/10.1111/mec.... Our new study in Molecular Ecology shows dwarf birch genetic diversity has been shaped by shifting ice sheets and climate transitions over the last 2.6 million years. This history may hold clues to how tundra shrubs face today’s rapid climate change ❄️🌱🧬🌡️

How do microbes become permanent partners? 🌊🔬🦠 Check out our new study published in Current Biology showing how cyanobacterial genomes evolve step-by-step into endosymbionts of diatoms. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @currentbiology.bsky.social @mehrshmali.bsky.social

Happy to share our new paper in L&O about autotrophic biofilms in subarctic lakes and streams 🦠 🏔️ @aslo.org aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Environmental controls of autotrophic biofilm biomass and community composition in subarctic lakes and streams in Greenland

Photosynthetic biofilms are key components of Arctic freshwater ecosystems, supporting primary production and forming the base of aquatic food webs. While several environmental factors regulating bio...

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Mer de Glace, Chamonix, earlier this week. The sad tarpaulin over the visitor glacier grotto shows how desperate it is to save this glacier. It also shows how hopeless it is. The only way to save the glaciers is to urgently cut carbon emissions.

Stromatolites! In 3D! Paleoproterozoic Nash Fork Formation in the Snowy Range, WY skfb.ly/pzFB8

Out Now: Humanimalia 15.2! Featuring timely essays on human–animal entanglements, including 🐴 a taxidermied horse in London, 🐗 a feral pig in Australia, 🐐 “happy” goats in Italy, 🐾 robot dogs in Gaza, 🐦 pheasants in NL, and 🐑 sheepdogs in the UK. 🔓 OA here: humanimalia.org/issue/view/1...

Melting over 80.6% of the area of the Greenland Ice Sheet. This is the highest value in our data set, which starts in 1981. @polarportal.bsky.social

🌊 “We may be witnessing a fundamental reorganisation of life around Antarctica. Tiny algae at the base of the Antarctic food web are changing in ways that could ... alter how the ocean helps regulate our climate.” — Dr Alex Hayward ▶️ aappartnership.org.au/shifting-fou...

Shifting foundations of the Antarctic food web - AAPP

“We may be witnessing a fundamental reorganisation of life around Antarctica": study tracks change in polar phytoplankton

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Amid plastic waste and migrant slums, we meet Jan, an infectiously passionate Dutch biologist working for Coexphal, representing most fruit and veg producers. He’s spent his life promoting biological pest control— with success. Change is possible— when the industry demands it. www.theeuropeans.org

Life in a puddle: birds and photosynthetic microbial biofilms 🦆 🦠

In northern Norway, a significant ecological transformation is underway. Crowberry, a native evergreen plant, is spreading throughout the region, significantly altering the landscape and the ecosystem services it provides. Partner story by the Fram Centre

The rise of crowberry in northern Norway: an ecological challenge

In northern Norway, a significant ecological transformation is underway, drawing attention from scientists and local communities alike. Crowberry, a native evergreen plant, is spreading throughout the...

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➡️ Check out our new data paper in GEUS Bulletin.

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#NewResearch: A chemistry and microbiology data set for meltwater rivers in south-western Greenland (2017–2021). Read the full article #openaccess at GEUS Bulletin: #Greenland #Climate #Environment #Chemistry #Microbiology #OpenData

Earth system models are plagued by uncertainties in the response of microbes to climate change. We leveraged metabolic insights from genome scale models when coupled to an ocean model in this new exciting work 🌊 www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Unveiling the link between phytoplankton molecular physiology and biogeochemical cycling via genome-scale modeling

A genome-enabled ESM built on genomic data assesses physiological acclimation and biogeochemical effects through nutrient stress.

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New data set out! 🧊🌊 Biogeochemistry from 28 meltwater rivers in SW Greenland (2017–2021) — nutrients, metals, sediments, microbes & more. Key for understanding climate-driven meltwater impacts. 🔗 geusbulletin.org/index.php/ge... #Arctic #ClimateScience #Biogeoche

Are you in Longyearbyen this weekend? Come and visit the Artica studio! www.articasvalbard.no/2025/open-st...

Open Studio: Shadowing Without a Sunset — Artica Svalbard

Join us for a drop-in event with artist Floortje Zonneveld and ecologist Sanne Moedt, showcasing their project  Shadowing Without a Sunset  at Artica Svalbard. The exhibition features a...

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Back on Svalbard with Floortje Zonneveld for our project ‘Shadowing Without a Sunset’, hosted by Artica Svalbard ❄️

Understanding and adapting to environments that are now changing within a single lifetime requires more than natural scientific methods. The SVALUR and Catchment 2 Coast projects take advantage of the rich local knowledge of residents at Svalbard. Partner story by the Fram Centre

Using community science to gain holistic understanding of climate change

Understanding and adapting to environments that are now changing within a single lifetime requires more than natural scientific methods, because traditional scientific monitoring often misses the nuan...

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“Grief, like an apple tree, grows crooked not straight.” Each year I mark the day when this little apple tree first flowers, & remember my friend the writer Roger Deakin, who brought it back as a pip from Kazakhstan, then died soon after. Full story here: emergencemagazine.org/essay/east-t...

Just back from a trip to Tromsø with Polar Biology students! We explored Arctic resource management, went fishing in icy waters, snowshoed through snow-covered landscapes searching for animal tracks, and visited the Fram Centre to learn about polar research. So much more packed into this great trip.

Unesco World day of Glaciers. Currently this amazing project is recording sounds and music in glacier landscapes and caves in Svalbard. Svalbard is witnessing amplified climate warming and record losses in both Glacier Mass Balance and Sea ice. vimeo.com/1068032392?s...

Video greeting for UNESCO World Day of Glacier 21 March 2025

GLACIER LAMENTATION video greeting for the World Day of Glacier 21 March 2025.

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