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Amelia Curd

@aec13.bsky.social
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Marine ecologist @Ifremer

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Amelia Curd @aec13.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Can the temperate reef building 🍯 🪱 #salveolata adapt locally to climate change 🌊 🌡️ 🧂 ?! The 🚨 new paper 🚨 out in @molecology.bsky.social gives the answer via seascape genomics 🧬 ! doi.org/10.1111/mec.... 🙌 well done @edwilson87.bsky.social & co-authors! Lovely @ifremer.bsky.social @ucc.ie collab’
Intertidal honeycomb worm reefs in tbe Baie d’Audierne, Brittany
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Oceana UK @oceanauk.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
🎶 British music icons have come out in force against Rosebank, urging the PM to reject the North Sea oilfield 👏 Brian Eno, David Gray, the Cure frontman & Radiohead's Thom Yorke are among the 200+ music artists to have signed the open letter 🔽 www.scotsman.com/news/brian-e...
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Brian Eno and Bobbie Gillespie urge Andy Burnham to reject Rosebank oil field
Veteran musician Brian Eno and 211 artists, including Robert Smith and Thom Yorke, call on Andy Burnham to oppose the UK's largest untapped oil field amid climate concerns.
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
🌊 Marine heatwaves need to be thought of as the ocean equivalent of wildfires: Acute climate-driven disturbances that can rapidly overwhelm ecosystems, cause mass mortality, and fundamentally reorganise habitats.
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Amelia Curd @aec13.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Congratulations @robingauff.bsky.social & co-authors for this global long-term study on negative sea level anomalies, aka Dry Tides! 👏👏👏 a quantified new disturbance category for the intertidal 🌊 ☀️ 🛘 @louisefirth.bsky.social @pippajmoore.bsky.social @marclim-uk.bsky.social @nessocon.bsky.social
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Shoshanah in Alaska @shanahstone.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
“If we switched to renewable energy, the number of ships crossing the ocean would fall almost in half. Because they’re carrying coal and oil and gas.” @billmckibben.bsky.social
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Amelia Curd @aec13.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
1st chilly 🥶 day of fieldwork for the biogeographic #befscale fucoid resilience project. Bit short on fucoids even in our control plots 😬 Electric Blue envloggers are a go for hourly 🌡️ data. Lodonnec tomorrow! Good luck @rubygeorge.bsky.social with your last batch of PhD data 📉 💪🏻
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Amelia Curd @aec13.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Would you like to know ALL the marine non-indigenous species in European seas 🌍 💡 🧪 ❔ Including those from countries outside the EU ?🐠 🏵️ 🦀 ? Would you like to know the native range of all these NIS 🌎 🌐 🌏 ? The freshly published ANIS-E and its Shiny App provide the answers! 👉 doi.org/10.1111/geb....
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ANIS‐E: An Atlas of Marine Non‐Indigenous Species in Europe
Motivation Non-Indigenous Species (NIS) pose a major threat to global biodiversity and incur substantial environmental, economic and health costs. Yet, in marine ecosystems, invasion biogeography re...
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Amelia Curd @aec13.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Glorious spring tide and weather ☀️ 🌊 5️⃣ days, 3️⃣ sites, 5️⃣ treatments & 8️⃣7️⃣RAS later 😮‍💨 all pools & plots from Robin’s article were re-surveyed 4️⃣ years on 🙌 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... lots of lovely fresh 📈 @robingauff.bsky.social @bastien-taormina.bsky.social @ifremer.bsky.social
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Amelia Curd @aec13.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
🌏new global study out led by Dr. Lorenzo Vilizzi 🙏🏼 We propose a culturally neutral framework validated in 7️⃣0️⃣ languages to clarify key terms on invasiveness, risk analysis & decision tools. 🌏🌐🧪🌊 doi.org/10.3391/mbi.... #bioinvasions #invasivespecies @jcanningclode.bsky.social
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Stelios Katsanevakis @skatsanevakis.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Marine functional #connectivity matters—from genes to energy flows. This synthesis clarifies concepts, unifies fragmented approaches, and proposes a global framework to better link science, #SpatialPlanning, and #policy in a changing ocean. doi.org/10.1002/brv.... #MarineEcology 🌐🌍🧪🌊
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Amelia Curd @aec13.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
1 of 2 days fieldwork (the ☀️ day!) in Brittany for the #befscale fucoid disturbance-resilience biogeographic study - aka Ruby’s PhD! More and more #sabellaria 🍯 🪱 + 100’s of by-the-wind sailors brought by hurricane Melissa @rubygeorge.bsky.social @jngriffy.bsky.social @pippajmoore.bsky.social
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Amelia Curd @aec13.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Fully funded PhD position in future proofing seagrass restoration 🌱in south Australia 🇦🇺 👇
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Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Honeycomb worms 🍯🐝🪱thriving at #Streedagh strand #Sligo. Reefs forming refuge for green algae 🌿 from #Limpet grazing 🐚. The stunning Ben Bulben as dramatic backdrop 🤩. @aec13.bsky.social @fplima.bsky.social @ucc.ie @benthicecol.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social @npwsireland.bsky.social
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Amelia Curd @aec13.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Very well done @robingauff.bsky.social 🙌 🙌 🙌 Proud to be a co-author on this paper doi.org/10.106/j.sci... sharing with #ITRS ocean sprawl community 🪨🌊🦀🪸🐚🌱@louisefirth.bsky.social @melaniejbishop.bsky.social @cariocamayer.bsky.social @anaellelemasson.bsky.social @ifremer.bsky.social
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Matt Bracken @brackenlab.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Just out in @jexpbiol.bsky.social: Great work by @racinerangel.bsky.social documenting effects of a 6-month factorial field manipulation of warming X CO2 on intertidal mussel shell thickness, strength, & corrosion. #SitkaNSF @cascadejbs.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
CO2 X warming treatment in a tide pool. Black boxes on the high ledge hold batteries & circuit boards, with tubes leading to heating elements in the pool. The smaller black box generates CO2, which bubbles into the pool.
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution @whoi.edu · 28/07/2025
As scientists warn that #AMOC may slow/collapse, experts are trying to improve research on this critical ocean conveyor system We need: - Better measurements - Global cooperation - Sustained funding - New tech for real-time data AMOC research=climate security. Let's keep it going! 🌍💙 @noc.ac.uk
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Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Correction to this post. The deadline for submissions is actually Nov 30th 2025! Still plenty of time to prepare your submissions. @dansmale1.bsky.social @marclim-uk.bsky.social @pippajmoore.bsky.social @thembauk.bsky.social @jebyrnes.bsky.social @aec13.bsky.social @noramare.bsky.social
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
🌿🌊Annals of Botany invites submissions to a new Special Issue on "Macroalgae and ecosystem services", edited by AoB editors Mick Hanley and Kira Krumhansl and guest editor Louise Firth. (1/3) @louisefirth.bsky.social
Flyer for the Annals of Botany Special Issue titled 'Macroalgae and Ecosystem Services'. It features the names of editors Mick Hanley, Kira Krumhansl, and guest editor Louise Firth. The submission deadline is July 31, 2025. The background is teal on the left, with a close-up image of golden-brown macroalgae on the right.
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Amelia Curd @aec13.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
That 🍺 sums it up nicely @gerardozardi.bsky.social Yecher’mad to the #ITRS family for such great science & bonhomie all through last week. The 15th ITRS in 🇳🇿 looks amazing: what a next venue video @chrisecornwall.bsky.social , & Chris Battershill wears the wig so well @waikatouniversity.bsky.social
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Amelia Curd @aec13.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Anne Salomon taking us on a marvelous deep dive through time, recontextualising people’s relationship with coastal ecosystems #ITRS2025 #marineecology 🧪🦪🌱🎣 @ifremer.bsky.social @ofbiodiversite.bsky.social @sbroscoff.bsky.social @thembauk.bsky.social
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Ifremer 🌊 @ifremer.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Le Symposium international sur les récifs tempérés #ITRS 2025 débute aujourd'hui, à Brest. Amélia Curd, chercheuse en écologie marine à l'Ifremer, vous en dit plus sur ces récifs tempérés 👇 youtu.be/eGqk0UdWRdI
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Que sont les récifs tempérés ?
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Amelia Curd @aec13.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Thank you Rodney 😊 a moment with a Eurovision feel to it 🎤🇪🇺 @ifremer.bsky.social
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Amelia Curd @aec13.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
At last! See you all tomorrow at 5pm @LaFabrik for the @ofbiodiversite.bsky.social sponsored #ITRS2025 🧊⛓️‍💥https://itrs-home.org/icebreaker.html @louisefirth.bsky.social @pippajmoore.bsky.social @nessocon.bsky.social @nelsonvaldivia.bsky.social @ifremer.bsky.social @sbroscoff.bsky.social
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Trine Bekkby @trinebekkby.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
We are some people travelling from www.niva.no/en to #ITRS2025. Let me present my colleague Eli, she is talking on Tuesday 1 July from 12:00 to 12:15 - «Effects of darkening and eutrophication in rockweed communities and photosynthetic performance»: itrs-home.org/effects-of-d...
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Effects of darkening and eutrophication on rockweed communities and photosynthetic performance: Results from a 4-month mesocosm study – ITRS 2025
Eli Rinde1, Camilla With Fagerli1, Hartvig Christie1, Kai Sørensen1 1Norwegian Institute for Water Research, Norway Diverse rocky shore macroalgal ecosystems, established in 12 large outdoor rocky…
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Lobster Nanny @lobsternanny.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Hiya, Matt Moretti! You were a lobster #aquaculture lab denizen, too! Congrats on the kelp/mussels endeavor! Many, many fruitful harvests ahead for you! From a fellow former lobster nanny at @newenglandaquarium.bsky.social! www.theguardian.com/environment/... #MarineLife! 🦑 #OceanAcidification
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Something in the water: how kelp is helping Maine’s mussels boom
When a US firm saw the seaweed was making their shellfish the ‘biggest and best’ scientists realised they’d hit upon a natural way to combat ocean acidification
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Francesca Raffini Lab @francescaraffini.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Time is running out! ⏳ Only few days left to apply to our PhD program—don’t miss your chance! 🚀 🔬Explore evolution in action in a cool 🐚 ℹ️ Details: tinyurl.com/fhzxr7ed 📆 Deadline: June 14th, 2025 #ScienceThatMatters #PhDlife #EvolutionaryBiology #MarineEcology #BiodiversityConservation
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Heliana Teixeira @helianateixeira.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Great initiative! Just subscrived!
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Amelia Curd @aec13.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
🥁 🥁 🥁 The #ITRS2025 scientific program is online 🙌 itrs-home.org/scientific-p... please share! 42 days until 🚀 #marineecology @nessocon.bsky.social @katynicastro.bsky.social @aurelien-boye.bsky.social @louisefirth.bsky.social @pippajmoore.bsky.social @dansmale1.bsky.social @ifremer.bsky.social
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Dr. Julia K. Baum @baumlab.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
We're Hiring for 8 Positions!! Interested in conducting research on nature based solutions in Canada's coastal ecosystems? Blue Carbon Canada is recruiting 3 PDFs & 5 PhD students for Sept. 2025 in partnership w @wwfcanada.org www.bluecarboncanada.ca/were-recruit... Open to int'l scholars Pls repost
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We're Recruiting! — Blue Carbon Canada
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Fernando P. Lima @fplima.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Our open-source Intertidal Environmental Chamber is out now in Methods in Ecology and Evolution! It’s a system to realistically simulate the complex tidal and thermal dynamics of intertidal habitats. Proud of our team at @electricblue.bsky.social! Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/2041...
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Intertidal Environmental Chamber: An automatic system to accurately simulate the thermal complexity of intertidal environments
Climate change is increasing the frequency of extreme temperature events, often causing sublethal stress or mass mortalities in organisms. This has raised the interest in assessing species' therma...
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Joachim Claudet @joachimclaudet.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
🚨Paper Alert! 🚨 🌊 #MPAs stage of establishment 🪜 + level of protection 🎚️ = good predictors of conservation #outcomes 🐟 : 1️⃣ Actively managed + strongly regulated MPAs -> fish recover 2️⃣ Implemented MPAs that are minimally protected -> detrimental outcomes for fish 📰 doi.org/10.1016/j.cr...
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Dr. Brooke Weigel @brookeweigel.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
✨ New paper alert! ✨ We found that the #kelp #microbiome is disrupted in a warming ocean! 🌊🌡️ #Temperature had a larger effect than #nitrogen. Thanks to lead author Nichos Molnar, Robin Fales @intertidaleco.bsky.social & Cathy Pfister! enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Warming Seawater Temperature and Nutrient Depletion Alters Microbial Community Composition on a Foundational Canopy Kelp Species
Microbiome composition on the canopy kelp Nereocystis luetkeana in the northeast Pacific Ocean is affected by warming temperatures and nitrogen limitation. Following experimental manipulation of temp...
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Siobhan Schenk @siobhanschenk.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
The full manuscript is available now! cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/...
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Monthly macroalgal surveys reveal a diverse and dynamic community in an urban intertidal zone
Baseline data are critical to measuring how communities shift in response to climate change and anthropogenic activity. However, baseline macroalgal biodiversity data are lacking for many areas of Bri...
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Lorna McKellar @lornamckellar.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
🚨 New research 🚨 (and the first paper from my PhD) How do we define good vs. degraded marine ecosystems? Our study evaluated four methods for setting ecological thresholds—and not all are equally reliable. 🌊🧵 (1/4)
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Global Ecology 🌐 @global-ecology.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
🚀 Global Ecology feed Digest #11, Feb 24-March 03 - 27 posts ! ✨For the lazy (yes we are) & friends who don't like social media (yes they can) but might benefit from Global Ecology feed, here’s a online DIGEST crafted with 💚 for you to share ! 🌈 👉 globalecologybs.github.io/feeddigest.g... 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁
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bluesky Global Ecology Feed Digest #11
Curated digest of the bluesky Global Ecology feed on biodiversity, ecosystems & conservation at large scales. Terrestrial, freswater & marine realms.
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Amelia Curd @aec13.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
🚨 📣 Happy to share this new paper on World Seagrass Day 🌱🌊🌱🌊 Community trajectory analyses sheds light on regional and local dynamics of 2️⃣ seagrass species along the 🇫🇷 coast #MarineEcology 🧪 peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10.... @aurelien-boye.bsky.social @ofbiodiversite.bsky.social
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Regional and local variability in the morphometric traits of two emblematic seagrass species (Zostera marina and Zostera noltei) along the French coast
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Jarrett Byrnes @jebyrnes.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Do #kelp forests really matter for fish? Check out our new meta-analysis w/ Ale Pérez-Matus in Ecology showing 1) multistipe kelps do more than single stipe, 2) all kelps enhance juveniles, 3) kelps help small herbivores & big predators. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Amelia Curd @aec13.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Document the beauty, not just the demise, of nature
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Society for the Study of Marine Bioinvasions @marinebioinvasions.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
⏳ Only 1 day left! ⏳ Abstract submissions close tomorrow! This is your last chance to submit your work and apply for travel awards. 📅 Deadline: February 16, 2025 🔗 Submit now: marinebioinvasions.info/participate/... #AbstractCall #ICMBXII #MarineScience
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Amelia Curd @aec13.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Great talk @clementviolet.bsky.social given during the #BIOcean5D general assembly @ICM-CSIC! So much work went into looking up all those marine NIS native origins and building the ✨ Shiny app.Can’t wait to see the future #Rpackage #marineecology #ultraviolet 🧪🦀🐚🌱🪸 @ifremer.bsky.social
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Amelia Curd @aec13.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Has it really come to this? 🤯🧪❤️‍🩹🇺🇸
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Brendan Godley @brendangodley.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Trump administration orders NOAA scientists to halt all international work. Staff were told to stop meetings, discussions, emails with foreign colleagues. Freeze affects travel, virtual meetings, and collaborations until political appointees review them. 🐢🌍🧪🦑 www.opb.org/article/2025...
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 08/02/2025
There is evidence that technologies like search engines and GPS maps can alter our ability to learn and remember. Nature reports how scientists are now working out what AI might do to our memories. 🧪
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Are the Internet and AI affecting our memory? What the science says
Search engines, GPS maps and other tech can alter our ability to learn and remember. Now scientists are working out what AI might do.
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Amelia Curd @aec13.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
#marineecology 🐙 #bioinspiration 🐙 #biomimetism 🧪
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Plymouth Marine Laboratory @pml.ac.uk · 04/02/2025
A #NewStudy, involving scientists from PML, warns of potentially harmful levels of metal being leached from #OffshoreWind turbines, from materials used to protect them from corrosion. The metals could pose risks to #ecosystems, #seafood safety & #HumanHealth: pml.ac.uk/news/offshor...
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Offshore wind farms could cause significant ecosystem, economic and human health risks
A new study, including scientists from Plymouth Marine Laboratory, warns potentially harmful levels of metal from turbine protection systems are on the horizon, because toxicity risks are poorly asses
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Amelia Curd @aec13.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Well done Elise! 🙌 🧪 🌱🇫🇷 a great #broadscale seagrass study & happy memories of lockdown winter 🤿 diving in the Morbihan gulf for sample collecting. Under the snow in 5 degree 💦 🥶 @aurelien-boye.bsky.social @ifremer.bsky.social #CTAanalysis
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Thomas Wernberg @twernberg.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
📣POSTDOC wanted: We are looking for a marine ecologist to join our #kelp forest team at IMR in Norway 🌊🌿. The position is focused on impacts of harvesting on kelp and kelp forest #biodiversity. Enthusiasm, strong cv and interest in #fieldwork is required. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Kelporama @kelporama.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
So excited to read this! The first paper is one of my favourites and I didn't know we were getting an update. Here's a dyed partial cross-section of a mature Pterygophora stipe to demonstrate the growth rings!
Photo of a slice of algae tissue held up to a light showing concentric growth circles on the dyed blue slice
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Society for the Study of Marine Bioinvasions @marinebioinvasions.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 — 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝟑 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐟𝐭 until #abstract submissions, including travel awards, close! Submit your abstract for #ICMB and apply for travel awards here: marinebioinvasions.info/participate/... 💡 Deadline: 𝐅𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟏𝟔𝐭𝐡, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓. #AbstractCall #MarineBioinvasions #ICMBXII #marinelife
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Amelia Curd @aec13.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
⏰ ⏰⏰Abstract submission to itrs-home.org/submit-abstr... ends Friday! Thank you to all who have submitted so far. 260 abstracts and counting 🙌 🌊🪨🌱🦪🦞🐟🐚🦀🙌 @nessocon.bsky.social @katynicastro.bsky.social @louisefirth.bsky.social @dansmale1.bsky.social @ifremer.bsky.social @sbroscoff.bsky.social
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Submit Abstracts – ITRS 2025
Session assignment During abstract submission, you will be asked to rank two themes to guide the grouping of your presentation into a session with similar presentations. Please consider the themes…
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