A stressing week in the life of a whale, trying to feed and survive, dodging the heavy vessel traffic. This paper focuses on defining priority areas for blue whale conservation, investigating the overlap with vessel traffic [full text: buff.ly/3oCWeMu]

Generating the first Oxford Nanopore sequences of North Sea eukaryotic plankton metatranscriptomes, let's go! Jan Mees

Excited to share our layman's terms article on modern #plankton observation in Oceanography Society: tos.org/oceanography/a…. With Isabelle Rombouts, Nick Dillen, Rune Lagaisse, Jonas Mortelmans, Anouk Ollevier, Michiel Perneel and @klaasdeneudt. Jan Mees LifeWatch Belgium @EMBRCBelgium

After 3 years of tagging with #dataloggers, our publicatioin on #eel migration routes in the North Sea is finally out! I loved the collab with numerous people on this project! @INBOVlaanderen Jan Mees LifeWatch Belgium Cefas Cefas Technology Ltd SLU Aqua rdcu.be/cEGlC

🎂 Today the RV Simon Stevin celebrates its 10th birthday! 🎂 Thanks to all crew members, scientists and Agentschap voor Maritieme Dienstverlening en Kust for this decade full of excellent marine research! We are looking forward to the next 10 years! 🥳 #VLOOT #RVSimonStevin #PortofOstend

Get your summer reading! This Eos Wetenschap vzw Special shows what research in the Belgian Part of the North Sea can teach us. And of course, #LifeWatch is not lacking! LifeWatch VLIZ and Open science lab for biodiversity scientists explain their methods and techniques to study this fascinating life.

We put together a best practices guide for #ocean sampling, #transcriptomic sequencing, and bioinformatic processing of #protists. There is much to be learned from our single-celled friends🦠 Arianna Krinos @nekton4plankton Rob Lampe &SKH Frontiers - Marine Science frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

#RVBelgica 🇧🇪, RV Simon Stevin 🇧🇪 and RV Pelagia 🇳🇱 currently jointly investigate the impact of Belgian-Dutch offshore wind farms on water column particle dynamics. 📷 of activities on #RVBelgica Belspo Marine@UGent @RBINSmuseum Flanders Marine Institute - VLIZ @NIOZnieuws Nioz At Sea

𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞 𝐒𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐧 is aan de gang. Een week lang voeren wetenschappers aan boord van RV Simon Stevin onderzoek naar klimaat, plastic & biodiversiteit. Zondag meren we aan in Stad Antwerpen. Bezoek het schip en ontmoet de wetenschappers DagvandeWetenschap

Consider applying to our #ASLO23 session by Feb 23! Abstracts welcome on coastal microbial ecology, anthropogenic impacts, harmful algal blooms, among other areas! Hope to see you there 🦠🧪🌊🧬🐠🪝 aslo.org/palma-2023/sci…

Anybody have a recent paper where somebody used RNA-seq to discover something cool? Feeling uninspired by DE gene lists and GO terms :(

This image from today's IPCC synthesis report is brutal. The existing policy trajectory represents a profound failure of our governments, and of our international political system. We need much more aggressive mitigation and much stronger international cooperation.

Sampling a turbulent North Sea for plankton and climate research! #vrtweer Flanders Marine Institute - VLIZ ICOS RI LifeWatch Belgium

RV Simon Stevin welcomed the 1000th Flanders Marine Institute - VLIZ member and his partner aboard! During the cruise, they could witness the #LifeWatch sampling of plankton, among many other interesting activities! LifeWatch Belgium #samplingcampaign

Excited to share my first PhD manuscript describing the seasonal dance of marine plankton! 🦠🧬 Discover how dinoflagellates, Phaeocystis, and diatoms shape the North Sea‘s eukaryotic microbiome across seasons 🌊 biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Flanders Marine Institute - VLIZ Pascal Hablützel Steven Maere

Job alert! 🚨 Fully funded (4 years) PhD position in my research group at Flanders Marine Institute - VLIZ in the field of plankton metagenomics! This is a collaboration with @SVBelleghem from KU Leuven. Deadline for applications is approaching (16 June) vliz.be/en/jobs/vliz-r…

In an article just published in mBio, @vliznews and @viblifesciences joined forces to leverage metatranscriptomics to investigate the seasonal metabolic dynamics of marine plankton. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…. A 🧵 (1/8)

Discover the seasonal dance of marine plankton! 🦠🧬Find out how dinoflagellates, Phaeocystis, and diatoms shape the North Sea's eukaryotic microbiome across seasons🌊 #mBio Michiel Perneel Flanders Marine Institute - VLIZ Pascal Hablützel Steven Maere journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

New Flanders Marine Institute - VLIZ LifeWatch VLIZ paper: Temperature-induced copepod depletion and the associated wax of Bellerochea in Belgian coastal waters sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Learn about the Plankton Manifesto ! doi.org/10.1093/plankt…