Welcome to the CAMBRIAN FECAL REVOLUTION. We didn't name it the Cambrian fecal explosion for obvious reasons. I'm happy to share this paper on fecal matter and its role in Cambrian ecosystems. So if you want to read a really shitty paper (50 days free access): authors.elsevier.com/a/1nYg8cZ3X7...
Vincent Bouchet
@vincentbouchet.bsky.social
Marine ecologist - Living Foraminifera - Laboratoire d’Océanologie et de Géosciences - Station Marine de Wimereux -U Lille
Another blast! Great talks, great to catch up with old friends, great to meet with new ones! Amazing set up @umassamherst.bsky.social by @MarkLeckie and @AdrianneLam. Thank you @Forams2026
🤔👾 What if the first sign of an invader is not something we see, but something we sequence? Check out our new paper, proposing MODAS (Molecularly Detected Alien Species) as a warning flag for #eDNA detections 👻🧬🚩 👉 tinyurl.com/49vm3cfu #eDNA-LEV @skatsanevakis.bsky.social @iolr-il.bsky.social
Le plastique peut-il être un matériau plus respectueux de l'environnement ? Dans cet épisode de Bienvenue au labo, @fannybonnetumet.bsky.social et @philippezinck.bsky.social travaillent à la conception de plastiques biosourcés, conçus à partir de plantes 🌱
[Bienvenue au labo] - Le plastique de demain issu des plantes
Le réchauffement climatique est aujourd’hui une problématique d’imp...
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We got our first common paper out #theLifeOfRetaria with @sandinmm.bsky.social , @raphaelmorard.bsky.social, @nicolecoots.bsky.social, @mattgr3co.bsky.social, Nicolaas Glock and Natalia Llopis-Monferrer - first product of our seminar series! check it out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Unifying Retaria Research: A Common Framework for Studying Foraminifera and Radiolaria
Research on Foraminifera and Radiolaria has predominantly focused on their fossil remains. This synthesis identifies the “Big Five” disciplines of a unified Retaria research: diversity and evolution,...
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📣Harbor=polluted=low benthic diversity? Check out @pavardjeancharles last paper reporting high benthic diversity in Dunkirk harbor➡️research and conservation effort required to understand harbors ecosystem🚨 authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
Trois chercheur·euses de l’Université de Lille signent une tribune dans la revue scientifique @science.org pour la sauvegarde des pollinisateurs et contre la seconde version de la #LoiDuplomb 🐝 A lire ici (en anglais) 👇 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#ForamFriday @egu.eu preprint led by @univ-amu.fr PhD student Y. Lichterfeld, with @guillaume-leduc.bsky.social, @carbon8.bsky.social, @tdegaridel.bsky.social, and @clarab.bsky.social. @climatecerege.bsky.social egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20... 🧪 ⚒️ 🌊 Implications for #PaleoSky #FossilFriday
Assessing the potential of Individual Foraminifera Analyses (δ18O) to reconstruct variability, seasonality and extremes in the tropical Indian Ocean
Abstract. The Indian Ocean plays a critical role in the global climate system by regulating heat and moisture transport, influencing major fluxes that drive atmospheric circulation. Individual foramin...
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Small but dazzling, the limpet Patella pellucida has neon blue stripes created by a complex photonic structure with layers of calcium carbonate crystals that reflect blue light. Lovely to find on MarClim surveys @thembauk.bsky.social @livuniresearch.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/nco...
📣 @NehaJoshi spent 3 weeks @LOG in Wimereux working on the taxonomy of foraminifera from Canada…3 years after, here we are with a nice paper on the ecology of foraminifera from Quebec coasts. Well done! @cnrs-hautsdefrance.bsky.social @univlille.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
Read about the legacy of pioneering women in science at the MBA in the Latest Fish Focus issue - https://fishfocus.co.uk/women-in-seafood-issue-4/
Wow. Foraminifera! ROV pilots paused and carefully zoomed in to collect footage of these single-celled microorganisms, or protists, at 843 m during the #OBVI #LivingBioreactors expedition w/ @schmidtsciences.bsky.social offshore of Argentina. Read the full caption: youtube.com/shorts/Yv_ud...
📢 Save the date! The 59th European Marine Biology Symposium ( #EMBS59 ) will take place 7–10 July 2026 in Peniche, Portugal 🇵🇹 🌊 Hosted by ESTM (Polytechnic of Leiria) & MARE 📍 Coastal campus overlooking the Berlengas UNESCO Biosphere Reserve 🙌 More here👇 www.embs-symposium.com
🌊 Ready to share your marine science? 📢 Call for Abstracts #EMBS59 🗓 Deadline: 30 March 2026 Submit your work and join us in Peniche! Extended versions may be considered for a #ScientiaMarina proceedings issue. www.embs-symposium.com/call-for-abs...
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🗣️ wondering if Foraminifera enhance sediment erodibility and bentho-pelagic coupling? Any interaction with microphytobenthos? Amazing studies to be published by PhD student @ManonDoutrelant. 📣Stay tuned folks! @cnrs-hautsdefrance.bsky.social @cnrs.fr @univlille.bsky.social @regionhautsdefrance
Cool postdoc opportunity in Norway to evaluate global-change impacts on marine communities. Application info at euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/403197 🌊🦑
New in #PhilTransB - theme issue explores the #biosphere in the #Anthropocene. All #OA. Read: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...
📣🚨Proteomic insights in the response of photosymbiotic foraminifera to plastic leachates + improving our understanding of kleptoplasty (de novo protein synthesis in the plastid and horizontal gene transfer). @univlille.bsky.social @cnrs-hautsdefrance.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
🖥️ In 'Environmental Monitoring and Assessment', living and dead benthic foraminifera reveal environmental quality and anthropogenic impacts in the Cachoeira River estuary, providing a baseline for biomonitoring tropical mesotidal systems. bit.ly/4jUBRst @vincentbouchet.bsky.social
Living and dead benthic foraminiferal assemblages as proxies for the environmental characterization in the mesotidal tropical estuary: Cachoeira River (Bahia, Brazil) - Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
This study aimed to characterise the Cachoeira River Estuary (CRE) in Bahia, Brazil, using living (L) and dead (D) foraminiferal as bioindicators, focusing on the identification of environmental quality and anthropogenic impacts. Seventy-six species of foraminifera were identified, with the highest species richness and density found in the lower and middle estuary. Twenty species occurred only in the L assemblage and 26 species only in the D assemblage. The most abundant species in both assemblages were Paratrochammina clossi, Ammonia tepida morphospecies, and Elphidium excavatum. Four distinct regions were recognised based on the distribution of L and D foraminifera and sedimentological parameters. Region I represents the estuary mouth with the most active hydrodynamic conditions, represented mainly by Bolivina striatula (L and D); region II represents the confluence of the tributary rivers and is characterised by A. tepida and P. clossi (L and D); region III in the middle estuary area is represented by Quinqueloculina seminulum (L) and P. clossi (L and D); region IV represents the beginning of the upper estuary and is mainly represented by Trochammina inflata (L and D). Region IV receives more freshwater but is still influenced by the tides, which allow the significant presence of Q. seminulum (D) and P. clossi (D). The present study was efficient in the environmental characterisation and can be used as a baseline to understand natural or anthropogenic impacts in this ecosystem, as well as to improve sea level models in tropical mesotidal estuaries.
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Point of no return: academic #funding is at a tipping point. When the effort and money spent applying for grants equals or exceeds the funding awarded, the system stops serving science and starts draining it. Time to rethink how we fund #research. 🧪🌐🌍 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding
With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.
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🔔 what a nice way to start 2026, freshly published paper with my colleague @LazaroLaut, strengthening our growing French-Brazilian collaboration. Interesting study comparing ecological message of living and dead Foraminiferal community. rdcu.be/eXJC5
Happy New Year folks 🎆🎈🎊 2026 will see us celebrating the 200 year anniversary of the first ever publication on Foraminifera from the French naturalist Alcide d’Orbigny. Happy birthday Forams!!!!
Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!
What Scientists Found When a Deep Sea Mining Company Invited Them In www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/c...
What Scientists Found When a Deep Sea Mining Company Invited Them In
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Here is an excellent article on the issues with STOTEN journal, and with scientific publishing in general: english.elpais.com/science-tech...
The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing
One of the 15 publications that put out the most studies globally has been expelled from the indexing system for irregularities. Its publisher, Elsevier, has a 38% profit margin that reached $1.5 bill...
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🌊 Call for Abstracts! Join our ASLO–SIL 2026 session SS075: Aquatic Pollution in an Era of Climate Change & Anthropogenic Stress 🌍🏭🥵. Join us in bridging marine, freshwater, and estuarine research to better understand pollution–climate interactions. Submit 👉 www.aslo.org/aslo-sil-202...
@zoopel.bsky.social just presented our MODAS concept at the #GuardIAS Conference: a database flag for alien species detected solely through molecular tools. By integrating these “invisible invaders” into IAS systems, we can prioritise validation, boost early warning, and modernise biosecurity. #eDNA
I am presenting the #MarClim project tomorrow (Friday) at 12:30 GMT at #COP30 in #Brazil. Watch at the #VirtualOceanPavilion on the online platform cop30oceanpavilion.vfairs.com. COP30 supports global engagement at the UN Climate Conference @thembauk.bsky.social @livuniresearch.bsky.social
COP30 Virtual Ocean Pavilion 2025 (3-21 November)
The COP30 Virtual Ocean Pavilion is an online space to support global engagement around the UN Climate Conference 2025. The event is scheduled for 3-21 November 2025
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📣5th publication from your PhD, well done 💪🏼👏🏻 @FabioFrancescangeli. Tackling seasonal variability always provide key informations on benthic communities. @univlille.bsky.social @cnrs-hautsdefrance.bsky.social jm.copernicus.org/articles/44/...
📣breaking news: 1st paper for PhD student @Manon Doutrelant, congratulations Manon🥳🥳!!! First application of microtopography tracking to quantify Foraminiferal sediment reworking. jm.copernicus.org/articles/44/...