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Pterocoma pennata, a comatulid ("feather star") from the Jurassic of Germany

Ginkgoites huttoni, a ginkgo from the Jurassic of England.

Cymatophlebia longialata, a dragonfly from the Jurassic of Germany

Pterodactylus antiquus, a pterosaur from the Jurassic of Germany.

Look at all these beautiful flattened Jurassic friends! ⛏️🤓 All from the Paläontologisches Museum München public exhibit -names in alt-text #fossil #paleontology #paleobotany

Hoe komt een graag geziene tuingast in het verdomhoekje terecht? Norbert Peeters kijkt met andere ogen naar invasieve exoten Norbert Peeters | botanisch filosoof: ‘Kolonisten’, ‘invasievelingen.’ Zo worden planten genoemd als ze zich vestigen in een nieuw gebied. De opvattingen van biologen daarover zijn in de loop der jare...

"Hoe komt een graag geziene tuingast in het verdomhoekje terecht? Norbert Peeters kijkt met andere ogen naar invasieve exoten": www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

#SchorrenEnSlikken | Docu over de #Verzilting van Schouwen-Duiveland en het tekort aan zoet water: www.omroepzeeland.nl/tv/afleverin... @omroepzeeland.nl 💧Mede door klimaatverandering en zeespiegelstijging. Met o.a. estuarien ecoloog @jimvanbelzen.bsky.social. Terug te zien tot 4 mrt.

The workflow illustrates a step-by-step process for conducting causal analyses. Arrows indicate the typical flow of an analysis. Two possible pathways are shown: causal discovery approaches (blue), which aim to identify the existence of causal relationships when pre-existing knowledge is low, and causal inference approaches (yellow), which aim to quantify the direction and magnitude of causal effects when pre-existing knowledge is high. The gray feedback loop on the right highlights the iterative refinement of causal analyses based on assessments of the plausibility of causal assumptions.

So, y'all have heard me going on about #causalinference in #ecology a lot. Now our big synthetic guide "Best practices for moving from correlation to causation in ecological research" is out! Led by Hannah Correia & Paul Ferraro, it's a great walk-through for all! 🌍🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Rare study showing that #microplastics in #benthic sediments affect the relationship with 🦪Macomona liliana & impair the deep-burrowing behaviour of 🪱Macroclymenella stewartensis, likely influencing key ecosystem functions such as benthic O2 fluxes & nitrogen cycling.
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Why the Shape of Continents Mattered Across 500 Million Years of Climate Change New fossil evidence shows how geography influenced who survived Earth’s climate shifts

Extinction isn’t random.

Range size matters. Temperature tolerance matters. Climate change matters.

But there’s another piece we’ve long suspected: geography.

For 500 million years, the shape of continents helped shape survival.
🧪 #SciComm
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The American Naturalist classic cover

Banerjee et al. propose that the underlying structure of positive feedbacks in an ecosystem may determine the tipping-evasion mechanism relevant to that particular system.

Available now ahead of print!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Locations with nutrient data around Greenland 1920-2020

Nutrient data and key water mass endmembers for Greenland's coastal seas (1920-2020)

RV Sanna sailing in Disko Bay

Icebergs in Disko Bay

Xin noted that when probing ice-ocean interactions around #Greenland, we usually focus on 1 cruise or 1 region. He took the initiative to analyze all available data. Two years later, he presents a comprehensive synthesis of nutrients in time and space🌊
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its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

Figure 2: Three-dimensional model rendering from CT data for MOR 1627. (A) Left lateral view of entire skull with close-up (D) of the embedded tooth. (B) Dorsal view of entire skull with close-up (E) of the embedded tooth. (C) Anterior view of entire skull with close-up (F) of the embedded tooth. Dashed lines indicate the specimen midline. (Wyenberg-Henzler & Scannella, 2026)

New behavioral #paleontology paper out today about tyrannosaur predation! The authors (Wyenberg-Henzler & Scannella) contend that the find is "consistent with a bite inflicted during an attempt to control the struggling Edmontosaurus or deliver a killing blow followed by carcass consumption". Nice!

Mapping tipping risks from Antarctic ice basins under global warming - Nature Climate Change Climate change threatens the future of the Antarctic Ice Sheet. Here the authors show that individual drainage basins have different thresholds and loss patterns, suggesting the need to consider the d...

Antarctica isn’t one big tipping point.

New research maps 18 separate ice basins, each with its own threshold. Some in West Antarctica may tip at just ~1–2C warming (i.e close to today’s levels).

Cross the line, and you commit to m’s of sea-level rise over centuries

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Porpoises ‘buzz’ less when boats are nearby Harbour porpoises “buzz” less when boats and ships and nearby – suggesting a drop in feeding and socialising, new research shows. Scientists used underwater microphones in a narrow strait called the L...

Porpoises 'buzz' less when boats and ships are nearby.

Researchers studying a narrow strait called the Little Belt in Denmark found buzzes reduced by up to 45% during the busiest vessel traffic periods.

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Hydrostatic pressure induces strong leakage of dissolved organic matter from “marine snow” particles Particles sinking into the deep ocean come under pressure and leak dissolved organic matter, which affects marine carbon cycling.

Not all marine snow—oceanic dandruff made of fecal flakes, dead phytoplankton, and more—makes it to the seafloor.

Researchers in #ScienceAdvances describe the deep-sea squeeze that causes carbon from these particles to leak into seawater before reaching the ocean’s bottom. https://scim.ag/3Zh1kCU

📢 Save the date!

The 59th European Marine Biology Symposium ( #EMBS59 ) will take place 7–10 July 2026 in Peniche, Portugal 🇵🇹

🌊 Hosted by ESTM (Polytechnic of Leiria) & MARE
📍 Coastal campus overlooking the Berlengas UNESCO Biosphere Reserve 🙌

More here👇
www.embs-symposium.com

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We are seeking a 3+ year postdoc in ocean modelling, to work on an exciting project investigating underwater tsunamis in Antarctica.

More about the project here: www.polomints.ac.uk
Read more about the post here: lnkd.in/eBjndZPv

Please share and help connect us with the best candidates!

We are proud to unveil the world’s longest underwater timelapse, starting May 1st 2023 and running 1,000 days through January 28, 2026. This 10fps period covers summer 2023’s coral bleaching mortality event, but then recovering and growing through ‘24 & ‘25 into ‘26 #coralcitycamera

New genera, species and occurrences of Goniasteridae (Valvatida, Asteroidea) from New Caledonia | Megataxa

CRAZY diversity of sea stars fr NEW CALEDONIA! I describe 28 NEW SPECIES,3 NEW GENERA! #echinoday #goniasteridae #openaccess. My thanks to colleagues at the @MNHN.fr in Paris! for my many visits in order to complete this research! Will share some of my favorites herein! mapress.com/mt/article/v...

Smart people have already written about the many problems of generative AI better than I could, but I’ll tell you this about the thing I know: writing is about writing. It’s an action. A verb. It’s what we do. I write, you write, they write. Skip that and you’re not a writer.

Delayed Anthropocene in the deep-sea biosphere: a last paradise soon lost? Abstract. The deep sea remains a last paradise and the place of minimal human impacts compared with other ecosystems. However, this pristine status is rapi

Deep sea folks. Hope you like! doi.org/10.1098/rstb... @deepstewardship.bsky.social @dsbsoc.bsky.social

Someone holding a slab of Staithes sandstone (grey colour) slightly larger than a hand with many fossils including oysters, scallops and crinoid ossicle.

A lovely find today with @geologyjohnson.bsky.social at Robin Hoods Bay.

Lots going on here in this Staithes sandstone including: scallop, oyster, and a cute little crinoid ossicle 🤩

#FossilFriday #Paleontology #Geology #Fossil

This great animated map shows how daylight hours vary across the globe throughout the year. Source:

#ICESASC26 call for abstracts open🔔deadline 25 February
Which theme sessions are you interested in?
🟠Single-species fisheries management? Session A
🟣Bycatch reduction tech? Session D
🟡"Restoration" in fished waters? Session I
🟢Tracking gelatinous zooplankton? Session P
👀 www.ices.dk/events/asc/2...

Almost 4000 people have done this quiz so far, although younger groups still under-represented in case you know anyone who'd like to give it a go and see how they compare to others! probability.kucharski.io

Deep-sea mining isn’t just extraction—it’s permanent change.
Habitat destruction, biodiversity loss, and toxic sediment plumes put the deep ocean at risk. Learn more here! www.nature.com/articles/s44...
#DeepSea #OceanHealth #Biodiversity #ProtectTheDeep #NoDeepSeaMining

🔄Marine trophic architecture and hidden ecological connections in the Strait of Magellan: keystone species and ecosystem resilience

🖌️Claudia D. Andrade 📷 © Cristóbal Rivera

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#Biodiversity #FoodWeb #PelagicAndBenthicCommunities #SpeciesRole #SubAntarctic

Increasing bottom marine heatwaves pose a critical risk to Mediterranean benthic species Konsta et al. assess the exposure of Mediterranean benthic species to projected marine heatwaves occurring at the seafloor. Their analysis reveals that current and future habitats of these species will experience long-lasting, intensifying bottom marine heatwaves. This reflects a basin-wide pattern where, by the end of the century, extreme bottom marine heatwaves are expected year-round. Their findings underscore the necessity for targeted conservation strategies to mitigate heatwave impacts on Mediterranean benthic species.

Increasing bottom marine heatwaves pose a critical risk to Mediterranean benthic species

Morgen spreek ik in het Scheldetheater op een kennisbijeenkomst over kernenergie en ecologie georganiseerd door de gemeente @terneuzen.nl

Mijn favoriete onderwerp staat op het programma: de estuariene ecologie van de Westerschelde

www.terneuzen.nl/nieuws/gemee...

Linking Community‐Climate Disequilibrium to Ecosystem Function When turnover in species composition lags behind the pace of climate change, community-climate disequilibrium increases. We, for the first time, explicitly link this disequilibrium to ecosystem funct...

Species shift their ranges in response to climate change, but many can't keep up. The resulting "community-climate disequilibrium" can impair ecosystem function and cause counterintuitive dynamics, like short-term gain but long-term loss onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Join us at the 9th International Symposium on Deep-Sea Corals
2-5 November 2026 in Barcelona, Spain

Abstract submission and registration are now open!

Each day will be dedicated to a main theme:
Diversity and distribution
Environmental settings
Biology and ecology
Conservation
www.9isdsc.csic.es