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Georgios Vagenas 🫧 🌎 @gvagenas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

How do we predict life in water? 🌊 Freshwater systems are connected and hierarchically constrained, breaking standard SDM assumptions. My first PhD paper is out in Global Ecology & Biogeography: a hierarchical global-to-regional pipeline for aquatic SDMs. Open access 🐟📄 doi.org/10.1111/geb.70301

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Hierarchical Modelling of Aquatic Species Distributions

Aim Species Distribution Models (SDMs) have traditionally been developed in a terrestrial context, and their application to aquatic ecosystems presents unique challenges. These include predicting sp...

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Georgios Vagenas 🫧 🌎 @gvagenas.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

10 years of #COESSING! 🌍🌊 Bridging civilizations through science in #Africa. Science is a gift to be received and to be shared. Physical models, ecological dynamics and data analysis in the Gulf of Guinea for the development of sustainable fisheries and the protection of aquatic biodiversity.

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Georgios Vagenas 🫧 🌎 @gvagenas.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Just back from Aarhus 🇩🇰! 14 months into my doctoral endeavour, I had the privilege of presenting my first PhD results at @biogeography.bsky.social 2026. Huge thanks to the amazing community of biogeographers I met. Next stop: Beijing! 🇨🇳 #TIBS 2028

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Miguel Bastos Araújo, PhD @miguelbaraujo.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Members of Araújo Lab will participate in the tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social of @biogeography.bsky.social, which will take place at @au.dk, #Denmark, from 6 to 10 January 2026. Check who will go and what they will present here: www.maraujolab.eu/2025/12/10/a...

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Araújo Lab at International Biogeography Society Meeting 2026 -

Members of the Araújo Lab will participate in the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Biogeography Society (TIBS […]

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Georgios Vagenas 🫧 🌎 @gvagenas.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Come to see the first results of my PhD research at TIBS 2026 in Aarhus! I'll be presenting a new SDM framework for freshwater biodiversity—combining Mediterranean ideas with Danish air. Join me Jan 9 at 11:25 in Auditorium 5. Looking forward to warm chats over coffee in the chill. See u there! ☕❄️

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Georgios Vagenas 🫧 🌎 @gvagenas.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

A great week with young and senior scientists across the globe on the development and application of species niche models across realms, space and time. Until we meet again.

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Georgios Vagenas 🫧 🌎 @gvagenas.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Annual meeting of our department in the Global Change & Biogeography department of the National Museum of Natural Sciences, Madrid, Spain. Follow: @mncn-bgcg.bsky.social

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Georgios Vagenas 🫧 🌎 @gvagenas.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Just back from an intense week at the SSoQE in Marienbad (Czech Republic), diving deep into quantitative ecology. We bridged species dynamics & modern data science, from SDMs and paleo-data to nights filled with conversations. Grateful to the organizers and the international cohort of ecologists!

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Georgios Vagenas 🫧 🌎 @gvagenas.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Invited at the NASA's JPL Center for Climate Sciences Training. A masterclass in fusing satellite data, process models, and interdisciplinary science to forecast our planet's future. Huge thanks to the Keck Institute for Space Studies and Caltech for an incredible experience! 🌎🛰️ #ClimateChange #NASA

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Georgios Vagenas 🫧 🌎 @gvagenas.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Back for Year 3 with COESSING (@unoceandecade.bsky.social‬) at University of Accra, Ghana. Working with scientists, students & coastal communities in the Gulf of Guinea. In our group we link data and structures with local knowledge, bridging science and real-world needs. 🌊 #UNOceanDecade #COESSING

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Georgios Vagenas 🫧 🌎 @gvagenas.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Intense week at @tuwien.at mastering Predicting Ungauged Basins (PUB) methods—turning data gaps into solutions! Huge thanks to Prof. Blöschl and to an incredible team of renown hydrologists. These evidence-based approaches will advance aquatic systems research. #Hydrology #PUB #IAHR #PUB #TUWien

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Georgios Vagenas 🫧 🌎 @gvagenas.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

New opportunity for a 2-year postdoctoral contract at MNCN-CSIC. @miguelbaraujo.bsky.social lab is looking for a post doc with strong conceptual and analytical skills in Marine Ecology, Spatial Planning for Marine Protected Areas and Species Distributional Models. www.maraujolab.eu/2025/06/18/p...

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Postdoctoral Researcher in Spatial Planning for Marine Protected Areas -

Postdoctoral Researcher in Spatial Planning for Marine Protected Areas Candidate Profile: Educational and Research Expertise: Candidates should possess a PhD in ecology, marine biology, oceanography,...

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Georgios Vagenas 🫧 🌎 @gvagenas.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Big thanks to everyone who attended my talk at the Iberian Ecological Society Conference and shared your feedback—and to Pontevedra (Galicia) for the non-rainy days! ☀️ We presented our first results on aquatic species distribution models designed for freshwater systems! More soon #Ecology #SDMs

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Georgios Vagenas 🫧 🌎 @gvagenas.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Annual lab meeting, 2025. Collaborating across disciplines to model a more biodiverse future 🌍🧠🌿 Inspiring discussions and shared insights at our annual lab gathering on environmental modelling with special focus on spatiotemporal analysis, biodiversity and conservation ecology.

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Georgios Vagenas 🫧 🌎 @gvagenas.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

🌊🐟 Blast from the past! 🐟🌊 THALATTA, the first scientific documentary on marine exploitation in the Eastern Med Sea. I had the honor of being part of the research unit and serve as photographer and producer. 🎥✨ Free to watch on YouTube (Eng subs included). #Thalatta #Documentary #Science #Ecology

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ΘΑΛΑΤΤΑ (Thalatta) | Full Documentary

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Georgios Vagenas 🫧 🌎 @gvagenas.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Opportunity for MSc/PhD Ecological Modellers: Open call for a Macroecological modeller to join the GLOBIO team at PBL (Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management). www.werkenvoornederland.nl/vacatures/ma...

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De Rijksoverheid zoekt: Macroecological modeller

Macroecological modeller in Den Haag voor 32-36 uur bij Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management

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Georgios Vagenas 🫧 🌎 @gvagenas.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Open call for 11 PhD positions in CLIMARES: The mission is to investigate and address climate threats for at-risk populations in various governance and socioeconomic contexts in the DRC, Mozambique, Morocco, Senegal, and Uganda. For more information, visit : www.climares.nl

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Georgios Vagenas 🫧 🌎 @gvagenas.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

OpenSense workshop at BME 🇭🇺! Learned Python workflows to process data from CMLs & PWSs for environmental modeling. 💧📊 Training covered data pre-processing, analysis, & visualization, enabling us to build practical apps. 📈 Hands-on coding curriculum for innovative sensor data. #Python #OS #OpenSense

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Dr. Dominic Royé @drxeo.eu · 24/03/2025

Tantos días de lluvia este mes se reflejan en un gran aumento de la humedad superficial del suelo. 🌧️ Aquí la diferencia entre marzo del año pasado y los primeros 22 días de este mes 2025. 72% del territorio tiene más humedad con respecto a 2024. #clima #suelo #dataviz

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Georgios Vagenas 🫧 🌎 @gvagenas.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

PhD opportunity in our lab, check the link below:

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Anastasia Smith @anastasiasmith.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

A great starter pack to connect with people working on #ecology at a large scale 🌍🧪 Global Ecology Vol. 2 👉 go.bsky.app/L37W5uH DM @global-ecology.bsky.social to join the pack, there’s still room for more ! 😊

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Georgios Vagenas 🫧 🌎 @gvagenas.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Open call for a new postdoc position to be part of the amazing group of @lauraantao.bsky.social

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Georgios Vagenas 🫧 🌎 @gvagenas.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

IUCN Conservation Science position opening - location flexible to be based at any one of IUCN’s offices across Africa. Closing date 9 March. hrms.iucn.org/iresy/index....

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Conservation Scientist

Senegal Programme Office. West and Central Africa Regional Office, Dakar, Senegal

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Georgios Vagenas 🫧 🌎 @gvagenas.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Species Distribution Models (SDMs) extensive training course for the familiarisation of computational-based predictions and projections of organisms across time and space.

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Georgios Vagenas 🫧 🌎 @gvagenas.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Open call for five scientific positions in the Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Inland Waters (IMBRIW) of the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR) based in Anavyssos, Greece (Attica). calls.hcmr.gr/%cf%80%cf%81...

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Georgios Vagenas 🫧 🌎 @gvagenas.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Attending this symposium reinforced a Platonic truth: The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know. Proud to stand alongside those who are committed to expanding our understanding of an ever-changing planet.

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Simon J. Brandl @gobyone.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

New paper in GEB: coral reefs are changing, but the most common shift is not what you think it might be. Systems dominated by live corals and small fishes are disappearing, while those dominated by algae and large fishes are becoming more common. #ecology #science doi.org/10.1111/geb....

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Georgios Vagenas 🫧 🌎 @gvagenas.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Exploring the trophic patterns across time on the dominant fish community of a large Mediterranean Lake (Greece) 🐟💦 Trophic indicators reveal similar feeding behavior and narrow partitioning of food resources showcasing their tight inter-specific competition. Open access at: doi.org/10.1080/0270...

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Georgios Vagenas 🫧 🌎 @gvagenas.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

The Coastal Ocean Environment Summer School In Nigeria and Ghana: The Value of Long-Term, Sustained Capacity Sharing. Arbic, B., Adjetey, J., Agyekumhene, A.,.…Vagenas, G. (2025). In Oceanography. The Oceanography Society. doi.org/10.5670/ocea...

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Georgios Vagenas 🫧 🌎 @gvagenas.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

As a new member of the @miguelbaraujo.bsky.social lab based at @mncn-csic.bsky.social part of @csic.es I am introducing myself to our community:

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Georgios Vagenas 🫧 🌎 @gvagenas.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Ghanaians, Nigerians, USA and Greek scientists are developing the educational framework for the explorations of aquatic sciences (from rivers to oceans) in the coasts of West Africa. Proud to be a small part of this decade of efforts. #COESSING #UMich Open-access pub: doi.org/10.5670/ocea...

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Global Ecology 🌐 @global-ecology.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

24% of freshwater fauna threatened with extinction ! 👉 By Sayer et al. Jan 2025 in Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🔑 Multi-taxon global IUCN red list freshwater fauna (23,496 species) assessment shows that pollution, dams, water extraction, agriculture and invasion are the main threats. 🌐🌍

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Georgios Vagenas 🫧 🌎 @gvagenas.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

🚨 We developed a momentum scale analysis to track the dynamic movement of non-indigenous and invasive fish species in the Mediterranean Sea across space and time 🌍🐟. Dataset + Code available on GitHub! Over 50% of the species established in <10 years! Open-access pub: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Georgios Vagenas 🫧 🌎 @gvagenas.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

The first ecohydraulic research on e-flows and the tolerance of freshwater biota in the desert rivers of North Africa is published! Open-access, check it out: doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...

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