⚠️ New study reveals: 62% of EU MPAs offer low protection impacting #marinebiodiversity conservation. 📉Only 1.5% are strongly protected. Urgent changes needed to enhance MPA effectiveness across Europe. Read the full article👉t.ly/2GKAW

🧬eDNA collected by sponges recapitulates the composition and structure of metazoan communities of the North Atlantic deep sea and can be used for monitoring of Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems🌊 doi.org/10.1038/s42003…

The #DeepSea keeps revealing new discoveries! At 3,500-5,500m deep, Göteborgs universitet / University of Gothenburg & @mucofloris found transparent sea cucumbers 🥒 bowl-shaped sponges 🧽 and pink sea pigs 🐷 in an expedition in the Clarion Clipperton Zone. We must #DefendTheDeep! gu.se/en/news/unknow…

Fisheries stocks that are most overfished and in need of management safeguards also suffer from the largest assessment biases. Our new study indicates that nearly twice as many fishery stocks have collapsed as currently recognized. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Finally the call for ship time is open! A great opportunity for research projects on board one of six Swedish vessels at #SWERVE. Deadline October 13. swerve.se/ship-time-fund…

📢To all potential #BiodivTransform applicants: Don't forget to register for our info session on the call! 📅 24 Sept. 2024, 13:00-15:00 CEST 👉 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

🙌 Celebrating 3 years of Biodiversa+ (European Biodiversity Partnership)! Thanks to our team, partners, supporters, and funded researchers for 3 years of impactful projects and collaborations. Here’s to (at least 😉) 4 more years!

Our latest paper is out Current Biology ! About #ctenophore fusion!! Fused ctenos synchronized muscle contractions and shared their digestive canal! Tommi Anttonen @maruca221 Oscar Arenas The Grass Foundation Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL)

It is finally out! Our Nature Review paper on the 15 year journey of advancing Planetary Boundary science. Progress, impacts, uptake (in science, policy, cities, countries and business) and future challenges nature.com/articles/s4301…

The GEO BON genetic composition working group virtual symposium will be starting in 16.5 hours. Click this link for the list of speakers, times, abstracts, and links to register if you have not already registered for the zoom! Please RT! dropbox.com/scl/fi/8qpwtiv…

Offshore Wind Power and Marine Environmental Protection: Friends or Foes? Join us for our next lunch webinar with Gabriela Argüello, researcher at the Department of Law Göteborgs universitet / University of Gothenburg. 📅 December 17 ⏰ 12:05-13:00 CET 🔗 t.ly/XtkHj #MPA #OffshoreWind

The latest paper from Coralassist Lab led by PhD student Rubén de la Torre shows how periods of darkness post-sunset regulate the date of spawning in an Acropora coral. Palau International Coral Reef Center (PICRC) Ecology Group, Newcastle University ONE Planet DTP

A big applause to the organizers of #BIOSPACE25 for providing free online streaming to the conference. There is no excuse today for big international conferences focusing on a sustainable future not to provide online access. Congrats again! biospace25.esa.int

Still time for applying for the #postdoc position in the #GuardIAS project! Deadline 12 March. Info and applications: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/317579 #bioinvasions #InvasiveSpecies #MarineEcology #AquaticEcology

Our AZTI #GES4SEAS awarded summer school is having a successful registration, but remind that is just one month for early bird registration and benefit from discounts. Using #AI and citizen science in monitoring marine #biodiversity and aliens azti.es/en/event/summe…

.ClimateInvasives is attending the mid-term reporting meeting for all the 36 Biodiversa+ (European Biodiversity Partnership) projects from the #BiodivProtect call today. Many interesting updates from the various projects! #biodiversity

Introducing Climate 101, an interactive dictionary about climate change! UN Development’s Climate Dictionary has now become an online course, thanks to @UNCCLearn. Test your knowledge on climate terms, see concepts in action and learn through play: ow.ly/u1pR50Vhseo

Sverige Radio discusses the loss of species knowledge in the education system sverigesradio.se/artikel/artkun…

We’re excited to share that the 2024 GGBC Annual Report, is available 🔎 Read the report here: gu.se/en/ggbc-global… Thank you to all our partners, researchers, & supporters for making this work possible.🌿 Göteborgs universitet / University of Gothenburg AKVARIET Nordens Ark IVL @bcc_sweden

Have you registered for our first webinar yet? 👇 🗓️ May 28 | 🕐 1 PM BST | 8 AM EDT | 10 PM AEST 🎙️ Dr. Lorenzo Vilizzi on the evolution & future of non-native species risk analysis. 🔗 Register: buff.ly/gceUlbw 🌍 Hosted by INVASIVESNET & #GuardIAS