We are hiring a technical coordinator to join the OBIS Secretariat in Oostende (Belgium). This is a UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 fixed term position. More information about this vacancy, and how to apply see careers.unesco.org/job/Ostend-OBI….
Deadline for applying is 22 Feb 2024.

Started the week in Antwerp getting Chinese mitten crabs to breathe heavy for fitness exp with Jonas Schoelynck GlobalChangeEcology UAntwerpen #InvasiveAlienSpecies

📢 DEADLINE APPROACHING 📢

Are you involved in an initiative focused on marine #pollution 🧃 or #ecosystem restoration and management🍃?

Learn how you can become part of the #OceanDecade movement via Call for Decade Actions No. 05/2023! ℹ️ ow.ly/Re4250PAfWU

Found a strange comb yelly 🪼 in the #balticsea … dried it to get DNA out of it. Will it work? Stay tuned 😅 #Science

New paper WoRMS Flanders Marine Institute - VLIZ 'Marine biodiversity discovery: the metrics of new species descriptions' frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Just a couple of decades ago, this seemed impossible... excited to expand the gold rush across the animal kingdom. ‘Truly gobsmacked’: Ancient-human genome count surpasses 10,000 nature.com/articles/d4158…

📢We're hiring! 🇪🇺 The JRC is looking for a researcher to reinforce the team investigating technological enablers that can facilitate the sharing and reuse of #data 💻
👉Full list of requirements and tasks: europa.eu/!npCHM4
👉Applications open until 20/04
#EuCareers

>> MARINE INVASIVE SPECIES <<
Apply here: shoalsmarinelaboratory.org/marine-invasiv…
Course Dates: June 5, 2023 to June 19, 2023.

Please RT! Take a summer class on a beautiful island! Need & merit-based scholarships make taking SML courses affordable, with excellent hands-on learning experiences unlike any other. Below are 2 classes I will co-lead w/ fantastic & caring instructors ! Amy E. Fowler Carrie Keogh

Sampling day in the cool Baltic Sea on a brisk spring day

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📢A brand new #Rstats package for population genetics called 'demografr' has appeared on the horizon, just in time for #probgen23 ! 📢 It's designed to make Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) as simple and efficient as possible. Links to our poster and GitHub repo below. [1/5]

#NewProfilePic a personalized dog tag from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum museum #oysterExpert 😂

I am happy to share the outcome of my previous postdoc position at Ifremer 🌊! Our study investigated the effects of fishery strategies on food webs. We used a multi-model approach and calculated ecological network indicators. 🧵
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Pierre Cresson Ghassen Halouani

Yes, we need good crab phylogenies! But the authors concatenated all genes? Last I looked into phylogenies this wasn’t such a good approach. Maybe the opinions have shifted? Excited to hear more about this!

Wow, 2 MILLION YEAR OLD DNA 🤯- Oldest-ever DNA shows mastodons roamed Greenland nature.com/articles/d4158…

How I love the treasures that hide in museums... Lost remains of last-known Tasmanian tiger found at museum, solving 'zoological mystery' abc.net.au/news/2022-12-0…

On this week's show Jack Ashby tells us about the endling - the last-known animal in a species. In this case, the endling thylacine.THE ENDLING 😢 newscientist.com/podcasts/152-a…

The UN Biodiversity #COP15 starts today in Montreal 🇨🇦

From 7-19 December, countries will aim to reach a 🌍 deal #ForNature , with long-term goals by 2050 & milestones for 2030

The 🇪🇺 is ready to aim high to turn this into a ‘Paris moment’ #ForOurPlanet 👉europa.eu/!Q47tjr

How does habitat loss impact biodiversity across a latitudinal gradient? In our new study, we were surprised to find that high cryptobenthic fish biodiversity does not translate to higher stability after disturbance. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ge…