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Sebastian Neun @sebastianneun.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Very much enjoyed this year's joint #nsogfö2026 conference hosted by @nordicoikos.bsky.social and @gfoesoc.bsky.social in beautiful Odense, Denmark! Loved coming together to talk about #phytoplankton and #bacteria in a multifactorial and variable world!

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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It’s really starting to grind me down

The Barney/Moe’s Tavern meme

“Default AI features” Barney being kicked out
“Finding how to turn it all off in the settings” -satisfied Moe

Third panel Barney coming in behind “software update”

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

New baby hippo born at Berlin Zoo. Named Brötchen. Which means "little bread roll." You're welcome

A very cute baby hippo swimming in a pond, with algae on him

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Sabhrina Aninta @sagitaninta.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

"Drawing on an analysis of over 100000 articles in ecology-related disciplines [...], we show that the shift to pay-to-publish OA has already reduced participation by researchers from many middle-income countries." nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Payment‐based open access is biasing scientific participation from the Global South in ecology

Opening access to the products of scientific research is widely considered a key step toward both fairness and better science worldwide. Since the 1990s, different forms of open access (OA) to journa...

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Yesterday afternoon 14:09 in Lacanau Océan in France. A pale red sun through the smoke tinged everything in Mars style orange. Welcome in the climate emergency! Despite all denial of the fossil fuel lobby, it’s scientific fact: CO2 emissions heat up Earth & make fires worse. 🔥🔥🔥

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Leibniz_IOW @ostseeforschung.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Ausschreibung: #Briese-Preis für #Meeresforschung 2026🚢 Mit dem Preis werden herausragende Promotionen ausgezeichnet, deren zugrundeliegende Daten im Rahmen von Ausfahrten oder Expeditionen auf einem #Forschungsschiff gewonnen wurden. Bewerbungsfrist: 30. Oktober 2026 Details: tinyurl.com/4jf547yy

Bild: Briese-Preis (Foto: Briese Schiffahrt GmbH & Co. KG)

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Eric Budd @ericmbudd.com · 12/07/2026

RIP Stack Overflow

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Sebastian Neun @sebastianneun.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Never seen such a massive bloom of *Noctiluca scintillans* in the North Sea! Impressive dinoflagellates which probably liked the recent hot days. And, of course, the waves were flashing at night... Plankton is sooooo cool! #phytoplankton #marineplankton #seasparkle @icbm-uol.bsky.social

Bloom of Noctiluca, marine dinoflagellate

Layer of Noctiluca in the upper centimeter of a flask filled with sea water

Sea sparkle/flashing waves due to Noctiluca

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Sebastian Neun @sebastianneun.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

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Martijn Slot @martijnslot.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

If you sign a publishing agreement with Wiley, you agree that your work can be used for AI models. Other publishers probably do the same. As a federal employee, I can't sign that, so our ms is stuck. Publishers won't buckle for a few of us, so can't I publish anymore? What do universities say?

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Plant Science Spotlight @plant-sci.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Don’t reach for ChatGPT Images or Nano Banana as your first option when creating scientific images There are multiple free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations. #plantscience @stephenturner.us blog.stephenturner.us/p/free-open-...

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Free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations

Phylopic, NIH Bioart, Bioicons, Scidraw, Open Science Art, Health Icons, Servier Medical Art, Biodiversity Heritage Library, the Noun Project, Segment Anything, Excalidraw, draw.io, Biographics

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Biodiversity Exploratories @bexplo.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

🌿 BE20 Keynote Speaker Line-up 🌍🎤 We are thrilled to welcome an outstanding group of international scientists and researchers to the BE20 Conference as our keynote speakers. ✨ #BE20conference

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Matthew Kling @matthewkling.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Announcing #RStats package ggcube, now on CRAN -- make 3D #ggplot2 figures using `coord_3d()` matthewkling.github.io/ggcube/

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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 08/05/2026

The European Commission (@ec.europa.eu) has updated the top follow buttons on its web page. Mastodon and Bluesky are in, X is out. commission.europa.eu/index_en

Follow buttons on the European Commission's web page: Mastodon, LinkedIn, Bluesky, Facebook, Youtube, link to other channels.

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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

In a sea of opinions about the role of LLMs in academics I offer my own. Apart from being harmful, exploitive plagiarism machines, LLMs rob us of the opportunity to experience the gift of friction in writing, which changes how we think. We must not give away that gift. doi.org/10.1002/fee....

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Thinking like a mountain in the age of AI

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QuitGPT @quitgpt.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Today, an Atlantic reporter punctured Pete Hegseth and Sam Altman's lies. The Pentagon wants AI for mass surveillance of Americans. Anthropic refused. ChatGPT complied. BOYCOTT NOW.

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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 25/02/2026

What conservatives did to Bud Light in 2023, that's what progressives should do to ChatGPT in 2026. OpenAI is so vulnerable right now. With enough pressure, I think it's actually possible to take the whole company down. quitgpt.org

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 24/02/2026

”once misinformation from AI-generated summaries remains uncorrected and seeps into published theses, research papers, and other outputs, it could contribute to a loop of misinformation.”

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Maarten Paulusse @maartenp.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Tired of AI hype posts? You might like my sober assessment of whether AI-generated summaries are suitable for studying and research. Spoiler alert, they are not. The text is primarily aimed at students and researchers, but has much broader relevance. So share freely!: www.tue.nl/en/our-unive...

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Are AI-generated summaries suitable for studying and research?

Despite didactic, ethical, and environmental concerns, the use of GenAI is on the rise in academia. For most applications, the jury is still out on whether and how they will benefit education and rese...

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Freshwater Biological Association @freshwaterbio.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

This Microscope Monday 🔬 we present an adorable Daphnia. Did you know that pioneering Dutch microscopist Jan Swammerdam (1637–1680) is credited as the first scientist to identify & describe #waterfleas? Referring to them as Pulex aquaticus arborescens: "the water flea with the branching arms". Fab!

This Microscope Monday 🔬 we invite you to marvel at a beautiful ventral view of a Daphnia (aka water flea).

Here at FBA we absolutely love these amazing freshwater micro-crustaceans! Did you know that the Dutch naturalist and pioneering microscopist Jan Swammerdam (1637–1680) is credited as the first scientist to identify and describe water fleas?

He also produced the earliest known detailed illustrations of the Daphnia water flea, which were published in his 1669 work Historia Insectorum Generalis (General History of Insects)... referring to the organism as Pulex aquaticus arborescens – "the water flea with the branching arms" – or according to Google translate... "water flea tree". How fabulous is that!?

If you are intrigued by wee freshwater organisms, then you may like to check out our courses for 2026 and find out more about the wonderful world of freshwater biology.

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 08/02/2026

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

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Bluesky Map

Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

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Lívia Oliveira @thejupiterfour.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Anyone here who's joining #OSM2026 in Glasgow and has interest in reviewing some student posters? I've some posters in my session who will need feedback (but many others will too!). Might be a great way to create a schedule for your conference! Lemme know 👩‍💻

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Roland Gromes @gromesroland.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

LLMs can spit out a terrifying volume of junk/pseudo-science to feed predatory journals and fuel a full ecosystem of science-mimicking slop. And some players will use this consciously to undermine trust in science! We can't ignore that!

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

The German Research Foundation, possibly the most important funding body for academic research in Germany, is now not only allowing the use of AI to write applications, they‘ll also allow it to evaluate said applications. Only prerequisite is that one makes this transparent. It‘s a farce.

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Gabby Palomo, PhD @gabspalomo.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I just heard that Stackoverflow has seen a decrease in activity since AI started. That makes me so sad because I still use it and I think is a great way to teach/show others how to code (among other things).

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

All travelers from ESTA countries (yes the ones on visa waiver programs) will have to disclose 5 years of social media + huge amounts of personal data to enter the US now. All US academic associations should now meet outside the US if we want to meet our international colleagues.

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Helmut Hillebrand @hillebr1.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

More than a year ago researchers from @hifmb.de and @icbm-uol.bsky.social started to write about different perspectives on marine biodiversity change from natural and social science perspectives. This morphed into a review paper that was published online today link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧪

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Towards a broader perspective on marine biodiversity change - Marine Biodiversity

Biodiversity decline jeopardizes the foundation of natural ecosystems and human well-being, a concern that prompted major global agreements aiming to bend the curve towards a net positive biodiversity...

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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Should ecologists be worried about the carbon footprint of their own use of “AI” and LLMs? esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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The role of AI in ecology’s computational carbon footprint

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

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Anna Lena Heinrichs @alheinrichs.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Our new study is out, in which we used a gradient design to show how light and nutrients interactively shape the thermal traits of phytoplankton.🌊🌞🌡️🥗 Long story short: Interactions do matter - and #thermaltraits differ in their #resource-dependency. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Study after study shows that using LLMs is bad for cognition, bad for learning, bad for understanding, bad for mental health. So why are our schools and universities still relentlessly pushing them?

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Fredrik Jutfelt 🐠 @jutfelt.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

STOTEN is now dead. It has been completely removed from Web of Science mjl.clarivate.com/search-results

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 11/11/2025

The number of low-quality or fraudulent publications is rising to hundreds of thousands per year. It is time to reevaluate current publishing models and outline a global plan. Read the 'Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration': royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #RSOS 🧪

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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 06/11/2025

Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.

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GitHub - hadley/genzplyr: dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap

dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap. Contribute to hadley/genzplyr development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Eawag Aquatic Research @eawag.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Our Department of Aquatic Ecology (Eco) is offering a Postdoctoral position in Aquatic Ecology (m/f/d) 80-100% 👉 More about the position: apply.refline.ch/673277/1300/...

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Journal of Ecology @journalofecology.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

🌈 The life of plankton in a rainbow – The spectral quality of light has a significant impact on phytoplankton community dynamics and seston biochemistry with propagating effects to herbivores🔆 buff.ly/tCBYpG7 @sebastianneun.bsky.social @marenstriebel.bsky.social @icbm-uol.bsky.social

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Universität Greifswald @unigreifswald.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

🌈🌊Ein Leben im Regenbogen: Phytoplankton ist die Nahrungsgrundlage für zahlreiche Lebewesen. Die Lichtfarbe ist für die Mikroalgen & das Ökosystem See entscheidender als angenommen, wie eine neue Studie der Uni Oldenburg & Greifswald zeigt: ugreif.de/bjhn9 @sebastianneun.bsky.social

Ein Wasserfloh unter dem Mikroskop. Die Lichtfarben im See beeinflussen seine Nahrungsgrundlage: Mikroalgen.

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Helmut Hillebrand @hillebr1.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Happy to announce that #PlanktonEcologyLab researcher @marenstriebel.bsky.social received the university-wide recognition as best PhD advisor - already a second time. Congratulations and so well deserved @icbm-uol.bsky.social @hifmb.de

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Monica G. Turner @monicagturner.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Please, please, please-submit to good journals (society + reputed publishers), respect peer review, and do your reviews with integrity. So important. Thanks to all of you who do. @steve-carpenter.bsky.social @esajournals.bsky.social #Ecosystems

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Helmut Hillebrand @hillebr1.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

The excellence cluster Ocean floor @marumunibremen.bsky.social @icbm-uol.bsky.social @hifmb.de opens two strategic positions at the University of Oldenburg. Please distribute widely Scientific Coordinator: uol.de/job723en Data Steward: uol.de/job724en

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Data Steward within the Excellence Cluster OCEAN FLOOR – Earth´s Uncharted Interface // University of Oldenburg

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RiffReporter @riffreporter.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

30 Jahre #Naturschutz in #Brandenburg stehen auf der Kippe: Ein neues #SPD/#BSW-Gesetz soll Beteiligungsrechte kürzen, Schutzstandards senken & Bauprojekte erleichtern – ausgerechnet in Deutschlands Naturschutz-Vorzeigeregion. Doch der Widerstand wächst. @thomaskrumenacker.bsky.social

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Brandenburgs Naturschutz: Geplantes Gesetz bedroht Schutzgebiete

Die SPD/BSW-Koalition plant ein Gesetz zur „Entbürokratisierung“, das nach Expertenansicht den Naturschutz in Brandenburg massiv schwächen und Schutzgebiete gefährden könnte.

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

The Company of Biologists Workshop: Why Are Cells the Size They Are? Thank you to Workshop organisers Dustin Marshall and Craig White. #Workshop #Biology #CellBiology #Cells #Community #Collaboration #Research #Researchers #Academia #Academics

Workshop attendees standing on the steps in front of the event venue. The individuals are dressed in casual to semi-formal attire.

Image text: Why Are Cells the Size They Are?
Buxted Park, East Sussex, UK
13-16 July 2025

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Anika Happe @anikahappe.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

In a synthesis of over 3000 population trends in the Wadden Sea, we show a substantial reorganization of biodiversity with over 38% of populations undergoing significant change (i.e., increases or decreases), identify winners and losers and critical time points of change! dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

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