Coming to the end of a great few weeks spent with the Sea Around Us | Bluesky: @seaaroundus.org group at UBC Oceans (also found at ubcoceans.bsky.social). V grateful for the many insights and productive chats🚢🎣, and the opportunity to meet new colleagues & catch up with old friends🍲🍻. 10/10.

Recent paper highlighting the decline of taxonomy - an overlooked but integral part of so many biol/ecol studies. Having spent a chunk of my PhD etc. at the microscope, think the authors make some good points⬇️ mdpi.com/1424-2818/15/1…

📢Our research on extracting #wetland symbols from 19th-century maps from Tailte Éireann using #deeplearning is published in Ecological Indicators Elsevier Link: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… @Rob0Hara Jesko Zimmermann 📯 Matt Saunders School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin Teagasc @PeatlandECR Irish peat ECR

Abstract submission and ICES ECR funding for the Oceans Past Initiative conference is extended to 2 Feb! Come join us for what promises to be an exciting meeting in beautiful Cornwall (with optional sea swims, garden lunches, boat and museum trips planned!) University of Exeter CEC @ExeterMarine

We start with Ciarán McLaverty Did you know that bottom trawling was first mentioned in the 1300s, was undertaken in earnest in the 1700s and catches were already decreasing in the 1800s! The human influence on #Seafloor habitat is global and overwhelmingly negative.

Amazing story of local ecological knowledge (held by First Nations communities) leading researchers to discover deep water corals and glass sponge reefs - now Canada's only (known) living coral reef. theguardian.com/environment/20…

New herring spawning grounds spotted from space bbc.in/49cunKd

Already done with two very successful days at the Oceans Past Initiative conference! Time flies! It’s great to be a part of the local organising team this year & present some of my PhD too. Looking forward to the next couple days of fascinating talks! #oceanspast #marinehistoricalecology

Fantastic talk by Ciarán McLaverty about his work on reconstructing historical trawling around the UK & Ireland as part of the Convex Seascape Survey Survey! Another day full of talks today at Oceans Past Initiative

Still buzzing after a fantastic Oceans Past Initiative conference last week. Many excellent and thought provoking presentations from our interdisciplinary research community, and wonderful company. Thank you to all delegates, presenters, sponsors ICES & host University of Exeter CEC @ExeterMarine

Brief Communication: Evidence of dark oxygen production at the abyssal seafloor AndrewKSweetman Danielle de Jonge Alycia (she/her) Jeffrey Marlow Alastair Lough @clarewoulds Dr Will Homoky Scottish Association for Marine Science JNCC Boston University nature.com/articles/s4156…

THREE EXCITING 4-year POSTDOCS in spatial ecology/conservation/applied ecology/ornithology. Thank you! drive.google.com/file/d/1aBV5Dj… IEA EcologyJobs postdoc #postdocs

Great example of how qualitative data can be used to describe big changes in marine ecosystems over historic time scales. Looking forward to reading in more detail!

Sampling seabed #BlueCarbon in the #NorthSea to assess #Seaweed farming carbon and #biodiversity potential. Fantastic opportunity to be part of this fab team 😁 Plymouth Marine Lab North Sea Farmers Nioz At Sea #Amazon Prof Ana M Queiros @SaskiaRuehl

In our new NatureSustainability paper led by Dr Philine zu Ermgassen and I University of Exeter CEC The University of Edinburgh, NORA_Europe members, we used 100s of sources published across 350 yrs to identify locations of likely past native oyster, Ostrea edulis, reef habitat rdcu.be/dVS55

New paper on Atlantic bluefin tuna migration and hotspot behavior with Dr. Camille P, Barbara Block et al. Royal Society Publishing Open access: doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2…

hrservices.plymouth.ac.uk/tlive_webrecru… Job Alert: Lecturer in Marine Biology particularly aligned to the BSc Marine Biology and Oceanography degree: deadline for applications 3rd November.

Just out in MBP: Eutrophication & bottom trawling strongly affect seabed species, traits, & communities across a range of coastal settings. But, when co-occurring, trawling can be ‘masked’ by organic impacts. Natural factors also interact & play key role authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S00…