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Sylvaine Giakoumi

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The Marine Biological Association @thembauk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Join our team! We are looking for an enthusiastic IT Support professional to join our small, dynamic team. For more information on the role and to apply head to our website - mymba.mba.ac.uk/job/it-support-tech…
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cambiomed-biodiversa.com @cambiomed-biodiversa.com · 02/09/2026
On August 30th, another CAMBioMed Marine Forest day brought citizens and scientists together to monitor algal forests and fish assemblages in the Adriatic Sea (Croatia) using the protocols developed by @obsdelmar.bsky.social & CAMBioMed partners @marineforests.bsky.social @szndohrn.bsky.social
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Sylvaine Giakoumi @sylvainegiakoumi.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Congratulations to HAFU restaurant @ www.hafu.gr in Athens for replacing the native scorpionfish Scorpaena scrofa with the invasive lionfish Pterois miles in the traditional recipe from Corfu "bourdeto"! So delicious!
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Four postdoc positions - Evolutionary Dynamics and Genomic Ecology (BCI EDGE)integrating population & evolutionary genomics, community ecology, metabolomics, & long-term forest dynamics to investigate the evolutionary processes maintaining tropical forest diversity stri.si.edu/story/bci-ev... 🧪 🌐 🌾
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BCI Evolutionary Dynamics and Genomic Ecology project
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BirdLife International @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
A world full of colour is a world full of life. 🌈 This Pride Month, we're celebrating the many colours that make our world richer, both in nature and in our communities. 🐦 💫 Together, we can create a future where birds, nature and people all have the chance to thrive. 🌿
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Sylvaine Giakoumi @sylvainegiakoumi.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
In link.springer.com/article/10.1... we used Sicily (the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea) as a case study to demonstrate a complementary approach on how to map the footprint of small-scale fisheries when tracking data are unavailable
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Sylvaine Giakoumi @sylvainegiakoumi.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
#INSPIREProject gave us a unique opportunity to develop integrated biodiversity-inclusive spatial planning aproaches across realms, sectors, and countries. Check out this video to learn about solutions to complicated spatial planning problems @biodiversa.eu @ec.europa.eu @society4conbio.bsky.social
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Stelios Katsanevakis @skatsanevakis.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
#CitizenScience with #scuba diving! 🌊🤿 Over two days in #Lesvos, 18 divers surveyed 3 dive sites, in 2 locations, collecting valuable data on rocky reefs, macroalgae, sea urchins, and fish as part of the Marine Forest Days Event, organised within the @cambiomed-biodiversa.com project.
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The Marine Biological Association @thembauk.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Join our team! 🔹 Membership Officer - Applications close: 20th May 2026 🔹 HR Manager - Applications close: 31st May 2026 📍 Plymouth, UK Find out more and apply - mba.ac.uk/careers
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Stelios Katsanevakis @skatsanevakis.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
🌍 New paper just published! We reviewed 20 years of #marine #SystematicConservationPlanning worldwide and found a striking gap between theory and real-world implementation. We also identify context-specific good practices to close it. 🐟🌊🌐🌍🧪 doi.org/10.7717/peer...
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Sylvaine Giakoumi @sylvainegiakoumi.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
New review article on best practices for marine conservation planning published in @PeerJSTM peerj.com/articles/21085 #ConservationBiology #Ecology #EcosystemScience #MarineBiology #NaturalResourceManagement
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Tatsuya Amano @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
A great set of practical suggestions on how to overcome language barriers in science, from our project member/collaborator @henryarenas.bsky.social and @vramirezc.bsky.social, also highlighting some of our work. #languagebarriers www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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My English skills are hurting my chances in academic publishing — how can I improve?
A non-fluent English speaker struggles to navigate language barriers in academic publishing.
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Ulisse Cardini @symbiostoic.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
🪸 We're hiring a PhD student in microbial ecology of crustose coralline algae! Fully funded 3-year position jointly hosted at SZN Genova & MPI-MM Bremen, with fieldwork in Belize, Seychelles & Fiji. ⏰ Deadline: May 21, 2026 #PhD #MarineScience #Microbiology #OpenPosition
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Open position: PhD scholarship in microbial ecology of coralline algae - Marine Symbiomes Research Group
We invite applications for a PhD student to work on the microbiomes of crustose coralline algae (CCA) across tropical mangrove–seagrass–reef corridors.
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Katie Matthews, PhD @katieocean.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Hey #fish and #ocean friends! The #IMCC8 call for abstracts is open! My favorite international collection of practitioners and researchers all in once place. Though always room to do better, @scbmarine.bsky.social does *standout* work to gather disciplines, geographies, ages, job types, etc. 🌏🦑🌊🧪
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mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Who will save us? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Longer summers are not just more time to spend eating watermelon. No! It’s far more sinister! | First Dog on the Moon
We have done so much climate change research, if they made a big pile of it you could climb up to the afternoon sun and tape a sheet over it to cool things down
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Sylvaine Giakoumi @sylvainegiakoumi.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Rethinking the role of introduced species in a warming, highly invaded eastern Mediterranean to support the achievement of Global Biodiversity Framework targets #Biodiversity #Conservation #MarineEcology #ClimateChange ▶️ doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
AI produced figure showing some negative and positive impacts of introduced species which should be considered when balancing trade-offs between targets of the Global Biodiversity Framework, e.g., targets 1 and 3 (30% protection of the sea) versus targets 10 and 11 (sustain fisheries and food security).
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Sylvaine Giakoumi @sylvainegiakoumi.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
New paper using #Marxan to design networks of conservation areas across freshwater and marine ecosystems dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365...
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Designing networks of freshwater and marine conservation areas accounting for cross‐realm connectivity and threat propagation
This study highlights the importance of integrating cross-realm connectivity and threat propagation when designing new or expanding existing networks of conservation areas, such as the Natura 2000 Eu...
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Sylvaine Giakoumi @sylvainegiakoumi.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Producing local time-series with non-standarised methods and tools, creates biases limiting our ability to detect biodiversity changes across broader scales. Our datasets from 5 Mediterrenean regions showed that data resolution must be compromised to enable meaningful comparisons.
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Sylvaine Giakoumi @sylvainegiakoumi.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
There is no virtual replacement for synergies created during in person project meetings. Our annual @cambiomed-biodiversa.com meeting hosted in Pisa is a perfect example of it. A productive and bonding experience.
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Sylvaine Giakoumi @sylvainegiakoumi.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
New paper on "invasive species in a changing climate: evaluating nine measures for adaptive fisheries management" doi.org/10.3391/mbi.... sythesizing the results of a @fao.org report
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tomjwebb @tomjwebb.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Some lovely images in this - 2026 Underwater Photographer of the Year www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Seals, shipwrecks and a screaming swallower: Underwater Photographer of the Year 2026 – in pictures
The annual competition draws thousands of entries from across the world and brings together images from below the water’s surface that show the diversity and challenges of subaquatic life
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Shahar Chaikin @shaharchaikin.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Are warmer oceans good or bad for #fish? 🐟 The answer is a dangerous paradox. Our new paper in @natecoevo.nature.com shows how marine heatwaves may create “fake” fish gains that mask a large-scale crash. Read our findings here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @mncn-csic.bsky.social #ClimateChange
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Stelios Katsanevakis @skatsanevakis.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Recovery of marine #TopPredators is achievable. Our global review identified 481 success stories. The commonest management measure was bycatch reduction (57%), followed by the establishment of #MPAs (15%) and #InvasiveSpecies management (6%) 👉 www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar... 🌍🌐🧪 #OceanOptimism
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.
The political effects of X's feed algorithm
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2
Received: 16 December 2024
Accepted: 4 January 2026
Published online: 18 February 2026
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Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m
Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects.
Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.
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Tatsuya Amano @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Median amount of time spent under review is 7.4–14.6% longer for female-authored articles than for male-authored articles and the differences remain significant after controlling for several factors - analysis of >36.5 million articles in >36,000 journals doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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Biomedical and life science articles by female researchers spend longer under review
Women are underrepresented in academia, especially in STEMM fields, at top institutions, and in senior positions. This study analyzes millions of biomedical and life science articles, revealing that f...
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Tatsuya Amano @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Analysis of 87,577,942 articles in Dimensions showed an increase in % of non-English-language publications from 6.14% in 1990 to 14.48% in 2023, likely indicating an increase in non-English-language publications (esp Indonesian) and their growing visibility. doi.org/10.1002/asi.... #languagebarriers
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<em>Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology</em> | Wiley Online Library
Language is a major source of systemic inequities in science, particularly among scholars whose first language is not English. Studies have examined scientists' linguistic practices in specific conte...
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Juan Carvajal-Quintero @juancarvq.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
New paper out examining fish food web degradation in the Anthropocene. We show the structure of aquatic food webs are changing-- even when species richness doesn’t. These signals are strongly associated with decreases in body size within fish communities. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🌐🐠🐡🦈🐟
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Degradation of fish food webs in the Anthropocene
The decrease in body size driven by the selective species turnover is widely altering fish food web topology and function.
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Biodiversa+ INSPIRE Project @inspire-biodiv.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
We are happy to share our latest blog post "Unlocking the potential of OECMs for achieving conservation targets: what the global evidence shows" summarising a recent publication from our @biodiversa.eu INSPIRE project Aegean team: www.inspire-biodiversa.com/post/unlocki...
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Unlocking the potential of OECMs for achieving conservation targets: what the global evidence shows
How can we scale up biodiversity conservation to meet the “30×30” target without relying only on formal protected areas? Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures (OECMs) are increasingly highl...
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Society for Conservation Biology @society4conbio.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Register now for #ECCB2026 in Leiden!
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Sylvaine Giakoumi @sylvainegiakoumi.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
New review on OECMs by @dpetza.bsky.social et al, emphasising the need for standardised assessment methods, improved decision-support tools, and socio-cultural integration to enhance OECM recognition under the 30 × 30 conservation target link.springer.com/article/10.1... @skatsanevakis.bsky.social
Diagram representing the frequency in the combination of i) conservation objectives of the potential OECMs, ii) the OECMs sector and iii) the realm. We see that most  potential OECMs have conservation as a primary objective and come from the environmental sector. More than half of the potential OECMs refer to terrestrial ecosystems.
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cambiomed-biodiversa.com @cambiomed-biodiversa.com · 26/01/2026
Check out our news article in la Repubblica www.repubblica.it/green-and-bl...
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Nel Mediterraneo l'invasione silenziosa del pesce lucertola diamante
Favorita dal surriscaldamento del mare, la specie di origine subtropicale è più diffusa di quanto si immaginasse. Ma perché è sin qui stata “invisibile”? E qua…
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Sylvaine Giakoumi @sylvainegiakoumi.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
The diamond lizardfish Synodus synodus, a subtropical Atlantic taxon, is more widespread in the Mediterranean Sea than previously assumed as demonstrated by our observations during the field campaigns of the Biodiversa project @cambiomed-biodiversa.com
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Andrew King @shoalgroup.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
PhD opportunity: MOVE Details: blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/c... Deadline: 12/01/26 Supervisors: @shoalgroup.bsky.social, @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social, @wlallen.bsky.social, @nhcooper123.bsky.social, @marinapapa.bsky.social Apply: blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/p...
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Tatsuya Amano @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
How English-centric metrics distort global scientific productivity - a nice coverage of our recent paper (doi.org/10.1371/jour...) in @plosbiology.org www.the-scientist.com/how-english-... #languagebarriers
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How English-Centric Metrics Distort Global Scientific Productivity
New research shows how language and income shape who gets credited for scientific output—and why women and non-native English speakers face persistent gaps.
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iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
A new Nature Climate Change study shows our understanding of species range shifts is biased: we detect northward shifts more easily than east–west movements driven by nitrogen pollution or land use. The new Latitudinal Bias Index helps reveal this blind spot: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Global bias towards recording latitudinal range shifts - Nature Climate Change
The authors consider studies reporting species range shifts and demonstrate a geometric bias in sampling along latitudinal, rather than longitudinal, gradients. This bias may favour the corroboration ...
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Manuela Gonzalez Suarez @mgs-cielo-azul.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Funded PhD opportunity!!🧪🌎 Wanna improve how biodiversity is monitored & protected? Keen to work with large datasets & quantitative methods? This PhD could be for you! Fully-funded PhD at University of Reading with IoZ & UKCEH (UK or settled status applicants) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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CR2026_23: Monitoring and protecting biodiversity across all its dimensions – taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic at University of Reading on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - CR2026_23: Monitoring and protecting biodiversity across all its dimensions &#8211; taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic at University of Reading, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Plymouth Marine Laboratory @pml.ac.uk · 21/11/2025
... just look at these 👀 Just a handful of the incredible new #PhD opportunities at the lab. Visit our website to see them all, and apply! 🔗 pml.ac.uk/Working-with... #PhDs #PhDopportunities #hiring #Plymouth #PhDlife
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Sylvaine Giakoumi @sylvainegiakoumi.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Come and work with us in beautiful and affordable Palermo :-)
The picture shows a coastline in Sicily and mountains in the background
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cambiomed-biodiversa.com @cambiomed-biodiversa.com · 16/11/2025
We are advertising a 12month scholarship for analyzing pictures of macroalgae using an AI tool. The candidate should have a bachelor degree in Biological Sciences or similar. For applications see Borsa di Ricerca n. 44/2025 on www.szn.it/index.php/it... DEADLINE 30 November!!!
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Bandi attivi - Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
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Sylvaine Giakoumi @sylvainegiakoumi.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
A 11month postdoc at the Center for Marine Research Rovinj, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Croatia supervised by the amazing Dr Ljiljana Ivesa. The position focuses on the conservation and restoration of fucalean marine forests in the northern Adriatic euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/381267 Deadline 17 Nov!!!
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Contest point 3 – Postdoctoral Fellow
Associate position as senior assistant at the Marine Research Center in Rovinj, Laboratory for Benthic Ecology, for work in the field of natural sciences, interdisciplinary natural sciences, marine sc...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 11/11/2025
Rivers transport significantly more dissolved organic matter to the ocean than previously thought, with up to 25% of marine dissolved organic matter originating from land—1.7 to 2.5 times higher than prior estimates. In PNAS: ow.ly/5gcG50Xq2MJ
The Yangtze River estuary exporting terrestrial material to the ocean. 
CREDIT: Yuanbi Yi
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Society for Conservation Biology @society4conbio.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
The deadline for the call for symposia, roundtables, panel discussions, workshops, and training courses has been extended until November 15th! Call for abstracts will open Dec 1st. Visit: eccb26Leiden.eu to learn more. @eccb26leiden.bsky.social @scbeurope.bsky.social #conservation #networking
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Jolyon Troscianko @jtroscianko.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
BehaveAI is live! Our biologically inspired video analysis tool sees motion as colour. Track animals or objects, classify their behaviour, and handle complex natural scenes with ease. Semi-supervised annotation, no GPUs required, user-friendly, free & open source. Pre-print tinyurl.com/BehaveAI
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Dr Martyna Syposz @martysyposz.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Do you have hours of videos📹with animals? Speed up your watching by using BEHAVE - a user-friendly, open-source, free, zero-install tool for coding animal behaviour in video recordings! Try BEHAVE here: behave.claude-apps.com Read more: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Biodiversa+ INSPIRE Project @inspire-biodiv.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) aims to protect and restore biodiversity whilst ensuring coastal communities remain economically viable. Read our latest post from the @biodiversa.eu INSPIRE Greece-Aegean Sea case study to find out more about our approach. 🐟🌊 www.inspire-biodiversa.com/post/marine-...
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Marine Spatial Planning in the Aegean Sea
Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) needs to answer a fundamental question: where should protection and restoration happen so that biodiversity goals are met while coastal communities remain economically vi...
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Steffen Oppel @steffopp.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
NEW JOB in #ornithology and #conservation to track #seabirds from Rathlin Island and analyse data to identify foraging areas (deadline 10 Nov): buff.ly/K0zcdH8
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Luke Dunning @luketdunning.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Two PhD positions available to come and work with us - please share! [1] Detecting rapid evolutionary responses to climate change in UK plants tinyurl.com/ye262pk2 [2] Natural GM: The role of horizontal gene transfer in crop adaptation and evolution tinyurl.com/32tkce2w
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Biodiversa+ INSPIRE Project @inspire-biodiv.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Why is modelling land-cover changes over time so important and challenging? Read our latest blog post from our #Tagus case study to learn more: www.inspire-biodiversa.com/post/why-is-...
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Why is modelling land-cover changes over time so important and challenging?
It is now widely known that climate is expected to change over the coming decades causing dramatic impacts on biodiversity and modifying...
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Sylvaine Giakoumi @sylvainegiakoumi.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Our study investigated the functional diversity of coastal fish communities across habitats in the Mediterranean Sea. It demonstrates that sandy habitats contribute disproportionately to functional beta diversity in Mediterranean infralittoral ecosystems authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
This graphical abstract shows three marine Mediterranean habitats (sandy bottoms, rocky reefs and Posidonia oceanica seagrass meadows. Each of them has a different fish community. We also mention the functional trait metrics we used to assess the functional diversity of the fish community in the 3 different habitats; these metrics are: Functional Richness, Rao's quadratic entropy, functional divergence, functional b-diversity
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Tammy Robinson @tbrresearch.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
ICMB XIII goes to Cape Town, South Africa! The next International Conference on Marine Bioinvasions is now confirmed for 2027! Follow for more updates. Hope to see you there! @marinebioinvasions.bsky.social #bioinvasions #NIS #marinebioinvasions #ICMB2027 #capetown #southafrica
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