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GES4SEAS MOOCs @ges4seas-mooc.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/02/2026

Marine #megafauna is at risk in many seas Sea otters are iconic predators in the north Pacific, but they were heavily hunted for their fur in the 18th and 19th centuries, as @nancyknowlton.bsky.social comments in this post #GES4SEAS #MOOC #oceanoptimism

photo showing the skin of sea otters, in 1892, by @NOAA archives

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Alejandro Bernal-Ibáñez @bernalocean.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

My first paper as last author 🎉 We show how marine heatwaves and biological invasions interact to weaken top-down control in coastal ecosystems. Rising temperatures strongly reduce grazing by Paracentrotus lividus and potential control over invasive spp onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Marine Heatwaves and Reduced Dietary Diversity Weaken Herbivory Control Over the Invasive Seaweed Rugulopteryx okamurae

The brown macroalga Rugulopteryx okamurae, identified as invasive in the Strait of Gibraltar a decade ago, is rapidly expanding across the NE Atlantic and the NW Mediterranean, displacing native asse....

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Alejandro Bernal-Ibáñez @bernalocean.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Evaluating respiration rates of #Paracentrotus lividus fed with different proportions of the invasive alga #Rugulopteryx okamurae

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KelpIT @kelpit.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

The sea urchin Paracentrotus seems to not like to graze on the invasive macroalga Rugulopteryx okamurae. @bernalocean.bsky.social #ITRS2025 🧪🦑

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Alejandro Bernal-Ibáñez @bernalocean.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

My first #ITRS! Very happy to have spent a fantistic week with colleagues and many friends full of macroalgae, sea urchins, and much more!!

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Met4Cast @met4cast.net · 25/05/2025

This is phenomenal. Sea surface temperatures are >5C above average to the west of the UK and around Iceland. It's the strongest area of anomalous warmth on the planet at the moment. It's the warmest in recorded history for northwest Europe.

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Science Magazine @science.org · 22/05/2025

Kelp forests on the coast of Maine are in decline owing to rapid ocean warming and are being replaced by turf algae, which alter the ecosystem’s chemistry, hindering the recovery of kelp forests. Learn more in this week's issue of Science: scim.ag/4dwzl8j

A small cunner (Tautogolabrus adspersus) peers through strands of sugar kelp (Saccharina latissima) in a lush kelp forest ecosystem on Cashes Ledge in the Gulf of Maine.

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PR Stats @prstats.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Once we hit 500 followers, we'll randomly select a winner from our followers list. Credit can be used on any course-online or in person! #WinCourses #SocialMediaGiveaway #500Followers #FollowToWin #FreeLearning #CourseCredit #UpskillNow #LifelongLearning #ProfessionalDevelopment

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cambiomed-biodiversa.com @cambiomed-biodiversa.com · 16/05/2025

During our first week of sampling, we have already noticed a remarkable change in the percentage cover of macroalgae in several sites of the Cyclades Islands. Once macroalgal forests, now turf... @skatsanevakis.bsky.social @rilovlab.bsky.social @ceabcsic.bsky.social

During our first week of sampling, we have already noticed a remarkable difference between the percentage cover of macroalgae in the same spots in the Cyclades Islands. Once macroalgal forests, now turf...

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Alejandro Bernal-Ibáñez @bernalocean.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Another experiment started! How fishes are interacting with the invasive macroalgae #Rugulopteryx okamurae?

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Last week, President Trump removed key protections from a marine protected area that's home to coral reefs, whales, sea turtles, and countless fish. My op-ed for @us.theconversation.com explains why that's bad and we should not do that. theconversation.com/trump-is-str... 🧪🦑🌎🐟

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Trump is stripping protections from marine protected areas – why that’s a problem for fishing’s future, and for whales, corals and other ocean life

America’s marine protected areas help fish populations thrive. Trump’s plan to open them to industrial fishing may ultimately harm the fishing industry itself.

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Rachel A.S. Forbes @rachelasforbes.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

For my graduate research, I'm using Baited Remote Underwater Video (BRUV) surveys to study the elusive Greenland shark. Check out our video below to learn more about this unique species! #ArcticScience #SharkResearch youtu.be/UxjJOKBlsE4?...

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Filming Greenland Sharks for Science!

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jordiocean.bsky.social @jordiocean.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

If you are attending the next #ITRS25 in Brest and are interested in sea urchin barrens and their impacts on temperate reefs join our pre-conference workshop! @ceabcsic.bsky.social @uwaoceans.bsky.social @adriatix.bsky.social @bernalocean.bsky.social itrs-home.org/sea-urchin-b...

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Alejandro Bernal-Ibáñez @bernalocean.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

This work was supported by the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund. projects #BIOKAMURAE I [PP.FEM.PPA202200.002] and #BIOKAMURAE II [PR.FEMPA.DIP2023B.001.04.]

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Alejandro Bernal-Ibáñez @bernalocean.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

My first PostDoc first publication! Our study shows long-term negative effects of the invasive macroalga #Rugulopteryx #okamurae on the common sea urchin #Paracentrotus #lividus. Invasion context matters! sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Alejandro Bernal-Ibáñez @bernalocean.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

My number of followers here is already higher than in the older-toxic platform. Time to full adopt Blue Sky.

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Alejandro Bernal-Ibáñez @bernalocean.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

“The growing threat of invasive alien species in Europe”. What are we doing to understand the invasion by #Rugulopteryx #okamurae? Thanks @euronews.com for spreading part of our work at IFAPA - Junta de Andalucía www.euronews.com/green/2024/1...

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Alejandro Bernal-Ibáñez @bernalocean.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Hi Lauren! Impressive work, congrats!! We want to explore it for macroalgae benthic systems. Do you have a publication about it or could you provide info about the method so we try to replicate it here? Thanks in advance!

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Alejandro Bernal-Ibáñez @bernalocean.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Yesterday filming for @euronews.com to show how we are describing the invasion by #Rugulopteryx #okamurae in S Iberian Peninsula within #BiokamuraeII project

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Dr. Lauren Olinger @reefecologist.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Would love to see this network evolve to be better than the bird site! please connect with me if you’re interested in any of the following: coral reef ecology, scuba diving, photogrammetry / 3d modeling, statistics/ statistical modeling, AI, robotics/automation, or academia 💙

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Streamline Media @streamlinemedia.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Giant kelp forests are being restored in Tasmania. This kelp forest is one of the healthiest I’ve seen for many years.

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Alejandro Bernal-Ibáñez @bernalocean.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Hi John, can I be added? Thanks in advance!!

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Alejandro Bernal-Ibáñez @bernalocean.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

We also tested that the position of the recruits within the patch may influence their survival. Recruits located directly under the adults have lower survival rates than those at the edge or outside the canopy, likely due to adult-recruit intraspecific competition

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Alejandro Bernal-Ibáñez @bernalocean.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Through an herbivory exclusion experiment, we observed the low potential of natural recovery of marine forest species in barren areas and the main effect of grazers (less than 48h!!)

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Alejandro Bernal-Ibáñez @bernalocean.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

This work includes 4 different experiments (3 in the field, 1 in the lab). In the field, we analyzed how the natural context influences the survival of recruits. Highlight: we detected a #MHW which caused a massive mortality of adults and recruits of #Cystoseira foeniculacea

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Alejandro Bernal-Ibáñez @bernalocean.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

The last chapter of my #PhD is now published in @JPhycology! We explored biotic and abiotic interactions around the initial crucial stages of development of a #marineforest former species in Madeira with implications for future restoration actions. OA link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Alejandro Bernal-Ibáñez @bernalocean.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Thank you David. Great initiative! Lets build a #marinesciences community here

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David N. Thomas @dnthomas01.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Great to see so many marine scientists already on Bluesky - to help get you find some of them here is a starting list list of a few marine biologists If you want to be added (or deleted), or know other I have missed (many for sure) - just contact me and I'll sort it go.bsky.app/RS5zQHv

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John Griffin @jngriffy.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Physical heterogeneity or complexity is well-known to affect biodiversity, but what about ecosystem functioning? Our study (now published) shows heterogeneity drives cascades that boost foundation species, biodiversity, and multifunctionality esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Conceptual figure suggesting that substrate heterogeneity can enhance multifunctionality BOTH by supporting biodiversity directly AND by supporting foundation species establishment.

Flow diagram summarising the study results, showing how heterogeneity effects cascades through the system. Artwork by Dr Rebecca Atkins.

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ElectricBlue @electricbluecrl.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

First post on Bluesky! This map shows some of the institutions/researchers/labs that were already using our #EnvLoggers as of June 2023. They're more than 130 institutions from 33 countries!

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Laura Silver @lauraruthsilver.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

Changing your clocks in the next few weeks? Around a third of the world's countries will be. But, around half of the countries of the world once celebrated daylight saving time, with many abandoning it, including over the past decade. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

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Stacks Journal @stacksjournal.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

More research showing that single-blind peer review creates biased outcomes for higher-income and English-speaking countries. If we know that double-blind peer review decreases bias, then shouldn’t it be used at all journals? #PeerReview

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Alejandro Bernal-Ibáñez @bernalocean.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

#PhycologyFriday with these #Cystoseira foeniculacea recruits that we transplanted seven months ago from our lab to an intertidal rockpool in Garajau’s Marine Reserve (#Madeira Island). They survived to a very extreme hot summer!

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Matt Bracken @brackenlab.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

#PhycologyFriday 🌊🌿💙

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Alejandro Bernal-Ibáñez @bernalocean.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

First post in BlueSky! Hopefully this can be a good tool for connecting and sharing #science. This is what I missed in the other ones!

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