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Bundesamt für Naturschutz @bfn-de.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

ANK-Projekt des Monats: Seegraswiesen als BlueCarbon-Kohlenstoffspeicher in der Ostsee Das Projekt ZOBLUC erforscht, welchen Beitrag Seegras als natürlicher Kohlenstoffspeicher leisten kann. Mehr zum Projekt: www.geomar.de/forschen/akt... Foto: Uli Kunz #Seegras #ANK #NatürlicherKlimaschutz

Zu sehen ist ein Querschnitt von Seegraswiesen unter Wasser mit ihrem Wurzelgeflecht. Am oberen Bildrand sieht man die Wasseroberfläche. Am unteren Rand ist etwas Sand im Bild.

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Frau Büüsker @uedio.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

NEWS! Und zwar gute. Meeresflächen des Bundes dürfen kostenlos für die Pflanzung von Seegras genutzt werden. Das teilt das Verkehrsministerium mit. Vorausgegangen war der Entscheidung ein absurder Streit darüber, ob für die Pflanzung Nutzungsgebühren fällig werden. @tomma.bsky.social hatte berichtet

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Bürokratie stoppt Meeresschutz: Seegraswiesen ausgebremst

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Thomas Mock @thomasmock.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

W3 Professorship (tenured) @geomarkiel.bsky.social (GEOMAR, Germany) in Marine Experimental Benthic Ecology www.berufungen.uni-kiel.de/de/dateien/o...

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Thorsten Reusch @thorstenreusch.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Fantastic work, congrats to the Baums team and in particular Trinity. Our past HFSP grant Adaptasex continues to yield spectacular results

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Martin Enserink @martinenserink.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Timmy, the humpback whale stranded in Germany for 6 weeks, was released on Saturday after a chaotic rescue operation that shocked marine biologists. It's unclear where Timmy is now; he may already be dead. Here's my story about the case: www.science.org/content/arti...

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Chaotic whale rescue shocks marine biologists

Timmy, a humpback whale stranded in Germany 6 weeks ago, was ailing and may already be dead

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Michael Borg @borglab.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Our work on chromatin evolution in brown algae is now published in @natecoevo.nature.com! We show that developmentally complex brown algae evolved without epigenetic silencing pathways long thought universal, underscoring why non-model lineages are important to study. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 31/03/2026

Accelerating coral assisted evolution to keep pace with climate change www.nature.com/articles/s44... (🔓 rdcu.be/faJsm)

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Frank Melzner @frankmelzner.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Want to study connectivity of brownalgal populations & carbon budgets in the Baltic Sea? Join our #ROVKA team within the new algal adaptation group led by @lies-nerd.bsky.social at @geomarkiel.bsky.social in collaboration with @bfn-de.bsky.social and @univie.ac.at, www.geomar.de/en/karriere/...

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Scientist (m/f/d) “Productivity and genetic connectivity of Baltic brown algae meadows”

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GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel @geomarkiel.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

#GEOMARJobs 🌊Postdoctoral scientist position (m/f/d) in the movement ecology of non commercial fish 🌊Postdoctoral position (m/f/d) in movement ecology and digital twins 🌊Zwei Ausbildungsplätze zum:zur Chemielaborant:in (m/w/d) 🔗 www.geomar.de/karriere-cam...

Blick durch ein Schiffs-Bullauge auf Wasser, im Vordergrund blauer Kasten mit drei Stellenanzeigen: Postdoctoral scientist position “Movement Ecology of Non-Commercial Fish”; Postdoctoral position “Movement Ecology and Digital Twins”; Zwei Ausbildungsplätze zum:zur Chemielaborant:in

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Iliana Baums @ibaums.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

The marine conservation group @hifmb.de is looking for a postdoc and a Phd student to study coral genomics and conservation genetics. Join us to develop solutions for coral conservation and dive into the world of early branching metazoans: Deadlines coming up fast. jobs.awi.de/Vacancies/21...

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Postdoktorand:in im Bereich Genomik von Korallenpopulationen und Naturschutzgenetik (x/d/w/m) - Bewerbung | Alfred-Wegener-Institut Bewerberportal

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Frank Melzner @frankmelzner.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Busy week Fucus sampling with our colleagues @gloriareithmaier.bsky.social @lies-nerd.bsky.social @karikaphegyi.bsky.social and lots of others for #Fubluc and getting ready for outreach with kids for #TheOceanRaceEurope @geomarkiel.bsky.social

Researchers in front of KOB facility in Kiel

Taxonomist Renate Schütt in front of tables with outreach materials

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David Needham @animalkewls.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

🚨 In case you missed it… our 4-year time-series analysis of Arctic Ocean viruses is out now! Near-monthly samples — including through the dark, cold, polar winter ❄️ — using long-read metagenomics. Short thread 🧵👇

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Hakai Institute @hakai.org · 04/08/2025

After a four-year investigation, a breakthrough study reveals the cause of sea star wasting disease (SSWD). A strain of the bacterium Vibrio pectenicida is the culprit behind the marine epidemic that has killed billions of sea stars since 2013. Read the study: 🔗https://tinyurl.com/4rcb3xpf

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Sissel Jentoft @jentoft.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Finally is this story out public!! With an amazing historical dataset from IMR (@havforskningsinstituttet) we demonstrate how human perturbations impact the genomic signal in one of the largest cod stocks in the world: the northeast arctic cod | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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A century of anthropogenic perturbations impact genomic signatures of the iconic migratory Atlantic cod

Retrospective assessment of the iconic migratory Atlantic cod uncovers human-induced genome-wide changes during the last century.

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Mia M. Bengtsson @miamynta.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

PhD opportunity in my group as part of the #CONCENTRATE TRR. Marine algae-glycan-bacterial interactions. Please apply or share! www.uni-greifswald.de/en/universit...

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Research Assistant - Institute of Microbiology 25/Wi21

Stellenausschreibung Institut für Mikrobiologie, AG „Küstenmikrobiome“,

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Thorsten Reusch @thorstenreusch.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

There might be more seagrass species than you think - happy to share this fantastic collaboration with Xiaomei Zhang, @lei-yu.bsky.social and many others nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Zostera seedling in situ dug out and in the hand of a diver in the Baltic Sea, credit Thorsten Reusch

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Thorsten Reusch @thorstenreusch.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

One more week to apply! if you are a few years past your PhD and interested in advancing marine genomics and population genetics, come to Kiel, Northern Germany, to join a thriving, collaborative research and teaching environment.

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Thorsten Reusch @thorstenreusch.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Ever heard about “phantom recoveries” and “overfishing ratchets” ? These explain why still so many fish stocks are in a bad shape in European waters despite binding goals of the EU fisheries policy. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Systemic failure of European fisheries management

Overcoming shortsighted interests with politically independent ecosystem-based catch limits may end overfishing in EU waters

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Thorsten Reusch @thorstenreusch.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Keep on going, Marine Molecular Ecology part is next!

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E. Yağmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

My knees tell me I’m aging—but do you also wonder what we can learn about aging by looking beyond humans? If you study aging in corals, duckweed, or other "unusual" systems, join us at @eseb2025.bsky.social to talk about aging outside the box! Abstract deadline: 5 May. eseb2025.com/call-for-abs...

The poster for the symposium titled: "Ageing outside of the box: insights from unusual and non-model species" within the ESEB 2025 conference. The symposium is organised by Margaux Bieuville from the University of Mainz and Yagmur Erten from the University of Groningen. The invited speakers are Thorsten Reusch from GEOMAR and Robert Laird from the University of Lethbridge. The conference takes place on 17-22 August 2025 in Barcelona, Spain. The abstract submission deadline is 5 May 2025.

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Thorsten Reusch @thorstenreusch.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Fantastic team effort, a big thanks to the GEOMAR seagrass group

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Thorsten Reusch @thorstenreusch.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Junior faculty job alert in Germany - Marine Evolutionary Genomics @geomarkiel.bsky.social / University of Kiel www.geomar.de/en/karriere/... Marine study system of your choice (no microbes, sorry…), excellent infrastructure and ship access, moderate teaching requirements, closing date 6 June

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Thorsten Reusch @thorstenreusch.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

very much looking forward to watch!

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Giulia Faucher @giuliafaucher.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Here’s the press release about what we’re up to these days. What isn’t mentioned in the text is how amazing it is to work with people as enthusiastic as I am, how incredible it is to see students so engaged in this project, and how teamwork truly feels like teamwork 🌊 www.geomar.de/en/news/arti...

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Global Comparative Study on Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement Begins in Kiel

13.03.2025/Kiel. How do plankton communities respond to increased alkalinity in different oceanic regions? This question is at the heart of the international research project "Ocean Alkalinity Enhance...

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Einstein Foundation Berlin @einsteinberlin.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

🏆 Research integrity consultant and image forensics expert @elisabethbik.bsky.social has uncovered fraudulent data in over 7,600 scientific papers and exposed the practices of ‘paper mills’ that produce counterfeit scientific articles. She is honoured with the €200K Individual Award. Congrats!

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Thorsten Reusch @thorstenreusch.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

If you are looking for a postdoc and interested in 2nd generation restoration considering genetic factors in seagrass ecosystem, targeting our pet species Zostera marina, still 10 days left to apply!

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Thorsten Reusch @thorstenreusch.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Looking for a PhD position, and interested in in 2nd generation restoration considering genetic factors in seagrasses (aka assisted evolution)? - still 10 days left to apply!

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E. Yağmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

What can we learn about ageing by looking beyond sexually reproducing unitary organisms? Very excited that our symposium (w/ Dr. Margaux Bieuville, not on bsky) "Ageing outside of the box: insights from unusual and non-model species" was accepted @eseb2025.bsky.social! eseb2025.com/list-of-symp...

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List of Symposia – ESEB 2025. Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology. Barcelona. Spain

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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

This looks quite cool, latest paper from Frank Johannes on somatic mutations in trees: Branching architecture limits the rate of somatic mutation accumulation in trees doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel @geomarkiel.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

🏙️ Animal populations from urban areas show significantly higher resilience to stressful environmental conditions. 💡This was found by international researchers led by Dr Elizabeta Briski (GEOMAR). The study is published today in the journal Ecology Letters. 🔗 www.geomar.de/en/news/arti...

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Urban environments promote adaptation to multiple stressors

19 February 2025/Kiel. Animal populations from urban areas show significantly higher resilience to stressful environmental conditions. This was found by an international team of researchers led by Dr ...

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Thorsten Reusch @thorstenreusch.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

The GEOMAR seagrass team is hiring. Time to make coastal restoration long-term sustainable. A fully funded 4-yr PhD position on eelgrass seascape genomics in the Baltic Sea, further details see here www.geomar.de/en/karriere/... @geomarkiel.bsky.social DM me for inquiries

Seagrass Zostera marina in Baltic Sea showing blue carbon, photo credit Pekka Tuuri

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DaganLab @daganlab.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Imagine that you are a low-copy extra-chromosomal genetic elements invading a host cell. What’s your best strategy to survive? Check our new study of prokaryotic #plasmid for the answer! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... led by Johannes Effe with @iwangtoknow.bsky.social and more! (not on bsky)

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Persistence of large conjugative plasmids relies on the combination of active partitioning and addiction mechanisms

Extrachromosomal and mobile genetic elements, including transposable elements, plasmids, and accessory chromosomes, are found across all domains of life. The replication and segregation of elements in...

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Nicolas Bierne @couplingdmi.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Do you think marine evolution #MarEvol is cool? Maybe you were at the 2018 Marine Evolution meeting in Strömstad, Sweden? And surely you'd like us to do it again and organise MarEvol2? Why not in the South of France? Then fill in this questionnaire and spread the word: framaforms.org/my-interest-...

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Thorsten Reusch @thorstenreusch.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Fantastic PhD programme in Northern Germany, integrating groundbreaking evolutionary research and societal relevance

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Christian R Voolstra @reefgenomics.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

speaking truth to 'power' -> after all the recent bad press that restoration got, a more nuanced view was in order: let's not get lost in absolutes and mind the detail! rdcu.be/d1S5K @natureportfolio.bsky.social @unikonstanz.bsky.social cheers & hugs to my "partners in crime"

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The critical role of coral reef restoration in a changing world

Nature Climate Change - Recent discussions have raised concerns about the long-term effectiveness of coral reef restoration efforts, questioning whether current interventions can effectively...

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Thorsten Reusch @thorstenreusch.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

My good news of this week- finally some marine Natura 2000 MPAs are no longer just paper parks oceans-and-fisheries.ec.europa.eu/news/increas...

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Miguel A Gómez Serrano @gomezserrano-ma.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

We are removing the largest and longest-lived animals, which can be detrimental to those species dependent on migration, sociality, and cultural transmission to survive. Paper in Science by @kellerfish.bsky.social et al.: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Nearly Wild @nearlywild.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

One of the unseen consequences of megafauna extinctions and severe decline in wildlife abundance is the drastic reduction in global nutrient cycling. This diagram shows nutrient transport as a mere fraction of late Quaternary pre-extinction values. We need wildlife. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A diagram cross section showing sea to mountain, values show reduction in nutrient cycling: by marine mammals 77% reduced, anadromous fish 96%, terrestrial herbivores 92%

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Thorsten Reusch @thorstenreusch.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Interested in blue carbon habitats? - then check out this new preprint on a comprehensive assessment for German coastal waters /ecosystems papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... great team effort led by Corina Peter

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Thorsten Reusch @thorstenreusch.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

My good news of the week. Kiel Fjord directly located within a medium sized German city at the Baltic Sea is regreening itself. Eelgrass now found at 3.6 m and expanding after it had been completely absent in the 1990s. Thanks GEOMAR Seagrass team for scouting in the chilly Baltic Sea.

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Thorsten Reusch @thorstenreusch.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

GEOMAR research division Marine Ecology is hiring. www.geomar.de/en/karriere/.... Seeking a creative, integrative pelagic ecologist working beyond competition and predation. Located at the Baltic Sea, Kiel is offering a vibrant academic research environment, directly at the seashore

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GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel @geomarkiel.bsky.social · 26/01/2024

Gene analyses revealing the capacity of #seagrasses to exist under changing conditions provide clues for their conservation and sustainable use. Media info 👉 www.geomar.de/en/news/arti... Publication 👉 doi.org/10.1038/s414... @thorstenreusch.bsky.social

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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🇬🇧🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

Your annual reminder that some things are NOT bad for you:

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