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Clio Hall @clio-bio.bsky.social · 6d

🌊 Excited to share the results of my work with @helcominfo.bsky.social & Heini Feodorow — a new Baltic Sea resource bank now online! 💙

Games, videos & lesson plans making Baltic Sea science fun and accessible. There's something for everyone! 🐚

#BalticSea #HELCOM #HOLAS

HELCOM - the Helsinki Commission @helcominfo.bsky.social · 12d

🔊 New resource bank on the Baltic Sea!

A comprehensive set of awareness-raising materials is now available. Drawing on key results from HOLAS 3, this resource bank offers tailor-made materials for different audiences to enhance ocean literacy.

Explore here: buff.ly/0qZct7u

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Jarno Vanhatalo @jarnovanhatalo.bsky.social · Sep 15

A reminder. You have still about a week to apply to these postdoc positions in
👉 biodiversity science
👉 genetic indicator assessment
👉 ecological statistics

jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

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Aleksandra Lewandowska @planktola.bsky.social · Sep 15

Check out Clio’s new paper on the effects of temperature and salinity change on plankton communities ☺️

Clio Hall @clio-bio.bsky.social · Sep 15

Are you interested in how eDNA can be used to study climate change impacts?🧬 Our new paper shows how eDNA tracks plankton community responses to experimental treatments, revealing taxonomic shifts and biodiversity changes 🏛️ @tvarminne.bsky.social
👉🏼 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#eDNA

DNA Metabarcoding as a Tool to Study Plankton Responses to Warming and Salinity Change in Mesocosms

To assess the impact of future climate change on Baltic Sea plankton communities, we conducted a mesocosm experiment manipulating temperature and salinity, using both microscopy-based and DNA metabar...

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Climate Watcher @pmagn.bsky.social · Sep 7

Coastal seaweed a major methane source, challenging current views

fuels oxygen-tolerant microorganisms that pump methane into the air, overturning a long-held scientific assumption about coastal ecosystems and their climate role

newatlas.com/environment/...

Coastal seaweed a major methane source, challenging current views

Seaweed washing onto sandy shores does more than rot. A new study found that it fuels oxygen-tolerant microorganisms that pump methane into the air, overturning a long-held scientific assumption about...

newatlas.com

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Tvärminne Zoological Station @tvarminne.bsky.social · Sep 4

OPEN CALL - Onni Talas Foundation PhD grants for 2026 for marine projects at @tvarminne.bsky.social at @helsinki.fi

Deadline 12.10.2025. For more information and to get a copy of the application form, please contact [email protected]

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Aleksandra Lewandowska @planktola.bsky.social · Aug 31

New generation of aquatic scientists getting inspired by Anna Villnäs on board of r/v Augusta ☺️ @helsinki.fi @coastclim.bsky.social

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Steph Henson @stephhenson.bsky.social · Aug 8

🌊 I’m hiring! Research Scientist in Marine Ecology & Machine Learning at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (UK). Got experience with machine learning techniques applied to marine ecology, biogeochemistry or climate change? Apply by 5 September! careers.noc.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

Careers | National Oceanography Centre

careers.noc.ac.uk

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Jussi T. Eronen @jussiteronen.bsky.social · Jul 27

Kuumaa riittää.

Mika Rantanen @mikarantane.bsky.social · Jul 27

The heatwave in Finland could last another week or so as the Omega pattern strengthens over northeast Europe.

The persistence of the heatwave will make it definitely one of the strongest on record in Finland, if not the strongest.

500 hPa geopotential height & anomaly forecast for Thu 31 July for Europe. The map is from wxcharts.com.

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Surface Ocean CO₂ Atlas @socatco2.bsky.social · Jul 28

Judith Hauck and 13 others come together to review the Southern Ocean carbon cycle over 20+ years.

doi.org/10.1029/2023...

#SouthernOcean #carbon

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Aleksandra Lewandowska @planktola.bsky.social · Jul 16

Are you wondering how #phytoplankton distribution along the coast links to carbon flow? Check out our new paper in Ecography 😊 led by a wonderful combo @catharinauth.bsky.social & @joriswiethase.bsky.social

nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Effects of phytoplankton species distribution on particulate organic carbon dynamics along a coastal gradient

Phytoplankton communities affect carbon dynamics worldwide, strongly influencing the quality and quantity of organic carbon in coastal ecosystems. Yet, we still know little about the impacts of chang...

nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Florian Altermatt @florianaltermatt.bsky.social · Jul 4

Apply now: #PhD #position “Advancing environmental DNA (#eDNA) approaches to future-proof #environmental #monitoring of #aquatic #ecosystems” 🧬 🔎 🦐 🧪 🐟 (4 years position)

➡️ apply.refline.ch/673277/1268/...

Thanks for sharing to suitable candidates! @eawag.bsky.social

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Institut de la Mer de Villefranche/Mer (IMEV) @imev-mer.fr · Jun 10

📌 Drifting architects: Plankton, climate, and the race to understand our changing ocean 🌊

Un article United Nations News

Avec nos marins Jean-Yves CARVAL, Capitaine de la Sagitta 3 Christophe KIEGER, chef-mécano, Lionel GUIDI chercheur #LOV & Anthéa BOUHRIS Tech #PIQ

news.un.org/en/story/202...

Drifting architects: Plankton, climate, and the race to understand our changing ocean

They drift unseen, but everything depends on them. Plankton – the ocean’s lifeblood – regulate the climate, feed the seas, and shape life on Earth. Scientists along the French Riviera are in a race ag...

news.un.org

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Aleksandra Lewandowska @planktola.bsky.social · May 8

The power of highly collaborative projects is enormous. Enjoy working together, and of course read the new paper by Viet, Orlane and others 😉

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Using Long‐Term Ecological Datasets to Unravel the Impacts of Short‐Term Meteorological Disturbances on Phytoplankton Communities

Extreme meteorological events such as storms are increasing in frequency and intensity, but our knowledge of their impacts on aquatic ecosystems and emergent system properties is limited. Underst...

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Aleksandra Lewandowska @planktola.bsky.social · May 6

academic.oup.com/plankt/artic...

Interspecific trait variability and plasticity of the Baltic Sea phytoplankton species along a salinity gradient

Abstract. In the face of changing climate and global water cycle, the plastic response of phytoplankton species to salinity fluctuations is increasingly im

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Helmut Hillebrand @hillebr1.bsky.social · Apr 15

We offer a 5-year research position in the #PlanktonEcology lab in Wilhelmshaven. Are you interested in empirically testing ecological concepts? We offer a stimulating scientific environment, experimental facilities & support to establish an independent research profile
uol.de/en/job/postd...

Postdoctoral researcher in Plankton Ecology // University of Oldenburg

uol.de

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Anna-Liisa Laine @annaliisalaine.bsky.social · Apr 4

Thrilled this massive effort is out! Using unique long-term Finnish data, we show a positive biodiversity–stability relationship with taxon-specific mechanistic underpinning. Huge congrats to Tuuli & Arthur for leading this 🥳
@rececochange.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Cross‐Taxa Analysis of Long‐Term Data Reveals a Positive Biodiversity‐Stability Relationship With Taxon‐Specific Mechanistic Underpinning

We investigate the relationship between biodiversity and stability in real-world communities, examining if this relationship and its underlying mechanisms differ among various taxa. We utilise six lo...

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Helmut Hillebrand @hillebr1.bsky.social · Apr 3

@icbm-uol.bsky.social offers a fully funded professorship in theoretical oceanography. Join a great team of physicists, chemists, and biologists working on the marine environment. Oldenburg is a truly livable city and connected to a range of marine institutes in NW Germany

uol.de/en/job/w2-pr...

Professorship in Theoretical Physical Oceanography // University of Oldenburg

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Norman @aquanorman.bsky.social · Mar 28

🚨New paper out!🚨We show that #MarineHeatwaves amplify benthic metabolism and solute fluxes utilizing new developed #Hotfloor system-an in situ heating experiment.
No major community shifts, but big functional changes! 🌊🔥

see here: doi.org/10.1111/1365...
and the method here: doi.org/10.1002/lom3...

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The Marine Biological Association @thembauk.bsky.social · Feb 24

Huge congratulations to @dansmale1.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow at the MBA, for being awarded the 2025 Hutchinson Award! 🥳🌊 @aslo.org

This prestigious award celebrates Dan’s groundbreaking research on #MarineHeatwaves & their impact on marine #Biodiversity & #Conservation.

➡️ buff.ly/3Qx9wu5

Dr Dan Smale © The Marine Biological Association.

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Sam Macaulay @samuelmacaulay.bsky.social · Feb 11

How can mesocosms help tackle grand ecological challenges in aquatic ecosystems? 🌊🌍

Check out our open-access Oikos Forum article, out today: 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/oik....

@oikosjournal.bsky.social

Addressing grand ecological challenges in aquatic ecosystems: how can mesocosms be used to advance solutions?

Rapid and drastic anthropogenic impacts are affecting global biogeochemical processes and driving biodiversity loss across Earth's ecosystems. In aquatic ecosystems, species distributions are shiftin...

doi.org

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