Four postdoc positions - Evolutionary Dynamics and Genomic Ecology (BCI EDGE)integrating population & evolutionary genomics, community ecology, metabolomics, & long-term forest dynamics to investigate the evolutionary processes maintaining tropical forest diversity stri.si.edu/story/bci-ev... 🧪 🌐 🌾

BCI Evolutionary Dynamics and Genomic Ecology project

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A world full of colour is a world full of life. 🌈 This Pride Month, we're celebrating the many colours that make our world richer, both in nature and in our communities. 🐦 💫 Together, we can create a future where birds, nature and people all have the chance to thrive. 🌿

In link.springer.com/article/10.1... we used Sicily (the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea) as a case study to demonstrate a complementary approach on how to map the footprint of small-scale fisheries when tracking data are unavailable

#INSPIREProject gave us a unique opportunity to develop integrated biodiversity-inclusive spatial planning aproaches across realms, sectors, and countries. Check out this video to learn about solutions to complicated spatial planning problems @biodiversa.eu @ec.europa.eu @society4conbio.bsky.social

Biodiversa+ INSPIRE Project@inspire-biodiv.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Europe's landscapes and seascapes are under increasing pressure. Renewable energy, food production, urban development, infrastructure, and biodiversity conservation all compete for the same limited space. How can we balance these demands while safeguarding nature? 🌍 #INSPIREProject #Biodiversity

#CitizenScience with #scuba diving! 🌊🤿 Over two days in #Lesvos, 18 divers surveyed 3 dive sites, in 2 locations, collecting valuable data on rocky reefs, macroalgae, sea urchins, and fish as part of the Marine Forest Days Event, organised within the @cambiomed-biodiversa.com project.

Join our team! 🔹 Membership Officer - Applications close: 20th May 2026 🔹 HR Manager - Applications close: 31st May 2026 📍 Plymouth, UK Find out more and apply - mba.ac.uk/careers

🌍 New paper just published! We reviewed 20 years of #marine #SystematicConservationPlanning worldwide and found a striking gap between theory and real-world implementation. We also identify context-specific good practices to close it. 🐟🌊🌐🌍🧪 doi.org/10.7717/peer...

New review article on best practices for marine conservation planning published in @PeerJSTM peerj.com/articles/21085 #ConservationBiology #Ecology #EcosystemScience #MarineBiology #NaturalResourceManagement

A great set of practical suggestions on how to overcome language barriers in science, from our project member/collaborator @henryarenas.bsky.social and @vramirezc.bsky.social, also highlighting some of our work. #languagebarriers www.nature.com/articles/d41...

My English skills are hurting my chances in academic publishing — how can I improve?

A non-fluent English speaker struggles to navigate language barriers in academic publishing.

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🪸 We're hiring a PhD student in microbial ecology of crustose coralline algae! Fully funded 3-year position jointly hosted at SZN Genova & MPI-MM Bremen, with fieldwork in Belize, Seychelles & Fiji. ⏰ Deadline: May 21, 2026 #PhD #MarineScience #Microbiology #OpenPosition

Open position: PhD scholarship in microbial ecology of coralline algae - Marine Symbiomes Research Group

We invite applications for a PhD student to work on the microbiomes of crustose coralline algae (CCA) across tropical mangrove–seagrass–reef corridors.

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Hey #fish and #ocean friends! The #IMCC8 call for abstracts is open! My favorite international collection of practitioners and researchers all in once place. Though always room to do better, @scbmarine.bsky.social does *standout* work to gather disciplines, geographies, ages, job types, etc. 🌏🦑🌊🧪

Society for Conservation Biology@society4conbio.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The call for abstracts is open for #IMCC8! We welcome global, interdisciplinary, and student-led contributions. Help shape the future of ocean conservation. 🔗 Submit your abstract: conbio.org/mini-sites/i... ⏰ Deadline: 15 May #OceanConservation #MarineScience #SCBMarine @scbmarine.bsky.social

Who will save us? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Longer summers are not just more time to spend eating watermelon. No! It’s far more sinister! | First Dog on the Moon

We have done so much climate change research, if they made a big pile of it you could climb up to the afternoon sun and tape a sheet over it to cool things down

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Rethinking the role of introduced species in a warming, highly invaded eastern Mediterranean to support the achievement of Global Biodiversity Framework targets #Biodiversity #Conservation #MarineEcology #ClimateChange ▶️ doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

New paper using #Marxan to design networks of conservation areas across freshwater and marine ecosystems dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Designing networks of freshwater and marine conservation areas accounting for cross‐realm connectivity and threat propagation

This study highlights the importance of integrating cross-realm connectivity and threat propagation when designing new or expanding existing networks of conservation areas, such as the Natura 2000 Eu...

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Stelios Katsanevakis@skatsanevakis.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Rivers and seas are connected—so #conservation should be too. 🌍 Our just published research shows that protecting nature works best when we account for how species move and how pollution spreads across ecosystems. 👉 doi.org/10.1111/1365... #Biodiversity #Ocean #Freshwater #ConservationPlanning 🌐🌍🧪

Producing local time-series with non-standarised methods and tools, creates biases limiting our ability to detect biodiversity changes across broader scales. Our datasets from 5 Mediterrenean regions showed that data resolution must be compromised to enable meaningful comparisons.

@cambiomed-biodiversa.com · 5mo ago

Just completed a productive annual meeting in Pisa hosted by @dipbiounipi.bsky.social. Main conclusion: harmonize monitoring of reefs across the Mediterranean, otherwise time series collected locally will not be comperable and able to detect basin wide changes across time and space @biodiversa.eu

There is no virtual replacement for synergies created during in person project meetings. Our annual @cambiomed-biodiversa.com meeting hosted in Pisa is a perfect example of it. A productive and bonding experience.

New paper on "invasive species in a changing climate: evaluating nine measures for adaptive fisheries management" doi.org/10.3391/mbi.... sythesizing the results of a @fao.org report

Some lovely images in this - 2026 Underwater Photographer of the Year www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Seals, shipwrecks and a screaming swallower: Underwater Photographer of the Year 2026 – in pictures

The annual competition draws thousands of entries from across the world and brings together images from below the water’s surface that show the diversity and challenges of subaquatic life

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Are warmer oceans good or bad for #fish? 🐟 The answer is a dangerous paradox. Our new paper in @natecoevo.nature.com shows how marine heatwaves may create “fake” fish gains that mask a large-scale crash. Read our findings here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @mncn-csic.bsky.social #ClimateChange

Recovery of marine #TopPredators is achievable. Our global review identified 481 success stories. The commonest management measure was bycatch reduction (57%), followed by the establishment of #MPAs (15%) and #InvasiveSpecies management (6%) 👉 www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar... 🌍🌐🧪 #OceanOptimism

GES4SEAS MOOCs@ges4seas-mooc.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 6mo ago

After the examples shown past 3 weeks, show yours with success #restoring, #recovering or achieving good sea health They can be based on good #management practices, societal engagement or any other measure allowing good news #GES4SEAS #MOOC #oceanoptimism #MarineEcology #Research […]

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

Median amount of time spent under review is 7.4–14.6% longer for female-authored articles than for male-authored articles and the differences remain significant after controlling for several factors - analysis of >36.5 million articles in >36,000 journals doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Biomedical and life science articles by female researchers spend longer under review

Women are underrepresented in academia, especially in STEMM fields, at top institutions, and in senior positions. This study analyzes millions of biomedical and life science articles, revealing that f...

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Analysis of 87,577,942 articles in Dimensions showed an increase in % of non-English-language publications from 6.14% in 1990 to 14.48% in 2023, likely indicating an increase in non-English-language publications (esp Indonesian) and their growing visibility. doi.org/10.1002/asi.... #languagebarriers

<em>Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology</em> | Wiley Online Library

Language is a major source of systemic inequities in science, particularly among scholars whose first language is not English. Studies have examined scientists' linguistic practices in specific conte...

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New paper out examining fish food web degradation in the Anthropocene. We show the structure of aquatic food webs are changing-- even when species richness doesn’t. These signals are strongly associated with decreases in body size within fish communities. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🌐🐠🐡🦈🐟

Degradation of fish food webs in the Anthropocene

The decrease in body size driven by the selective species turnover is widely altering fish food web topology and function.

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We are happy to share our latest blog post "Unlocking the potential of OECMs for achieving conservation targets: what the global evidence shows" summarising a recent publication from our @biodiversa.eu INSPIRE project Aegean team: www.inspire-biodiversa.com/post/unlocki...

Unlocking the potential of OECMs for achieving conservation targets: what the global evidence shows

How can we scale up biodiversity conservation to meet the “30×30” target without relying only on formal protected areas? Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures (OECMs) are increasingly highl...

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Register now for #ECCB2026 in Leiden!

ECCB 2026@eccb26leiden.bsky.social · 7mo ago

A great start to the new year: registration for the European Congress of Conservation Biology (ECCB 2026) is now officially open! Participants can take advantage of a special Early Bird discount, available until 31 March 2026. More on: eccb26leiden.eu/registration/

New review on OECMs by @dpetza.bsky.social et al, emphasising the need for standardised assessment methods, improved decision-support tools, and socio-cultural integration to enhance OECM recognition under the 30 × 30 conservation target link.springer.com/article/10.1... @skatsanevakis.bsky.social

Check out our news article in la Repubblica www.repubblica.it/green-and-bl...

Nel Mediterraneo l'invasione silenziosa del pesce lucertola diamante

Favorita dal surriscaldamento del mare, la specie di origine subtropicale è più diffusa di quanto si immaginasse. Ma perché è sin qui stata “invisibile”? E qua…

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The diamond lizardfish Synodus synodus, a subtropical Atlantic taxon, is more widespread in the Mediterranean Sea than previously assumed as demonstrated by our observations during the field campaigns of the Biodiversa project @cambiomed-biodiversa.com

@cambiomed-biodiversa.com · 7mo ago

Hidden in plain sight: the overlooked establishment of the diamond lizardfish Synodus synodus in the Mediterranean Sea ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/hc... In this paper, we discuss the ecological relevance of neo-native fishes and the challenges of detecting novel populations

PhD opportunity: MOVE Details: blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/c... Deadline: 12/01/26 Supervisors: @shoalgroup.bsky.social, @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social, @wlallen.bsky.social, @nhcooper123.bsky.social, @marinapapa.bsky.social Apply: blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/p...