Abstract submissions for the MBA Postgraduate Conference close on Monday 16th March.
Field ecology, lab science, modelling, policy or interdisciplinary marine research, we would love to see your work represented.
https://www.ncl.ac.uk/nes/news/events/event-items/mba-postgraduate-conference/
⏳ Less than a week left to register!
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“Thinking like a non-human” with Prof. Brian Helmuth.
Discover how moving beyond human-centred perspectives can improve conservation strategies in coastal ecosystems.
🗓️ 17 March 2026
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Malgré le rejet des propositions de coupes budgétaires par le Congrès américains, le financement de la recherche fondamentale, y compris en géosciences, reste très inférieur aux années précédentes; la liberté académique est sous pression d'un autoritarisme croissant.
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It's absolutely bonkers that we learned with clarity that we can dramatically reduce or even possibly eliminate many respiratory viruses & we choose to embrace them instead.
The image shows two figures, a and b. Figure a shows a map of Europe with thermal positions indicated by color-coded hexagons, ranging from -1.0 to 1.0. Arrows point to "Reduced negative impacts" and "Increased negative impacts." Figure b shows a scatter plot of effect size vs thermal position with a fish illustration on top. "Biomass change estimates" indicated by circle size.
A study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution reports that long-term ocean warming reduces global fish biomass by up to 19.8% annually. Warmer years and marine heatwaves were linked to sharp biomass losses of up to 43.4%. go.nature.com/40b6AIB 🧪 🌍
I am still actively looking for postdoc positions — please lmk if you (or your friends and colleagues) need a hardworking postdoc with field, lab, and bioinformatic skills!
I am broadly interested in evolution in the ocean, conservation and population genetics, and rapid evolution.
🚨 Paper Alert!
In 2023, Mexican coral reefs experienced an unprecedented bleaching event.
But bleaching wasn’t the biggest issue.
Our study in Proceedings B @royalsociety.org shows a marine heatwave caused massive coral mortality and pushed reefs from production to net erosion
#Reefs
A thread 🧵
Orthographic map showing 2-m air temperature anomalies in January 2026 relative to a 1981-2010 baseline. This visualization shows North and South America. Most areas are warmer than average, except for parts of Canada and the eastern U.S.
Orthographic map showing 2-m air temperature anomalies in February 2026 relative to a 1981-2010 baseline using ERA5 data. This visualization shows Africa, Europe, and western Asia. Most areas are warmer than average, except parts of Eurasia.
Orthographic map showing 2-m air temperature anomalies in February 2026 relative to a 1981-2010 baseline using ERA5 data. This visualization shows Australia, Antarctica, and Asia. Most areas are warmer than average, except for Australia.
February 2026 was the 5th warmest February on record globally. It was also the 5th warmest December-January-February on record as well. The last 12 months are estimated to be about 1.44°C above the 1850-1900 level.
Summary by @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social at climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-... 🌊🧪⚒️
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I used to waste years preparing gourmet meals. It was creative, an expression of my humanity, and fostered zen.
Thanks to McDonalds, I don't have to do that!
#Satire
A screenshot of the Polymarket website showing a prediction market titled "Nuclear weapon detonation by...?" under the Geopolitics and Ukraine categories. The market displays three betting options with their current probabilities and "Buy Yes" or "Buy No" prices: "March 31" at 5%, "June 30" at 12%, and "Before 2027" at 22%. The total trading volume shown is over $843,000.
Polymarket has created a betting market on the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone involved in this should be put in prison for life.
Phosphate fertilizers are produced using sulfuric acid and that sulfur comes from oil distillation. In addition to direct exports of P fertilizer being disrupted by the regional war in the Middle East, supply chains will be adversely impacted by oil markets.
www.brownfieldagnews.com/news/global-...
I discovered something that just nauseated me to my core today - Polymarket has a huge number of bets running on climate impacts and disasters
An entirely new flavour of disaster capitalism
Measles cases in the US are surging to levels not seen in decades. By week 9 of 2026, the US has already reported around 1,200 cases, putting this year on pace to blow past 2025's alarming total of 2,200+ cases. A disease we nearly eliminated is making a comeback.
#ChartOfTheDay
Full answer at 13:15 -->>
"It's data centers and it's nothing but data centers. And the people who start trying to muddy the waters with EVs and electrification, that's not true. Absolutely not true. There's no data to support it. It's it's not true. Our data shows that it's data centers"
I built a free tool that shows how night-time lights have changed anywhere on Earth.
Here's how it works and why it's useful for monitoring conflict, disasters, development and growth. 👇
Best bar chart ever.
#dataviz #visualisation #infoviz
Screenshot of a part of the figure 1
Ah, thanks for the precision, I did not read the article ;-)
So if I understand correctly from this graph :
Below 0 = it did not improve as much as what was expected considering past trends = points are below the expectation line (+ grey shadow)
Below the 0 line = life expectancy is still lower than before 2020.
Here in the UK, February has been mild, wet and very dull. Overall the winter has been very wet except in West Scotland and mild except for a cold period at the start of January. Here is a #dataviz summary of the weather and climate for the past 12 months. #climatechange #globalwarming
Wishing this line a much better fate than the Paris-Vienna I did not even have time to try.
BREAKING: @EuropeanSlpr's new sleeper train from Brussels & Cologne to Zurich, Como & Milan will start 9 September. Tickets go on sale from 17 March with couchettes from €49.99, single/double/triple sleepers also available. 🥳 Press release: mcusercontent.com/5ffbd133c9ab...
[ #VeilleESR #LRU ] Ouverture de la campagne de recrutements des enseignants-chercheurs
- 1281 postes de MCF (1384 en 2025)
- 543 postes de PR (574 en 2025)
(chiffres temporaires)
Les indicateurs sont dans le rouge, mais le record 2019-2021 n'est pas battu.
#MolluscMonday Cut and polished specimen of the ammonite Hildoceras sublevisoni from the Lower Jurassic of Whitby, Yorkshire, preserving the early shell chambers infilled by several generations of cement.
Winter temperature in Austria 🇦🇹📈
1767 |2026
Via @manu_oberhuber
The public and commentators need to stop thinking about "wars for oil" as about securing oil for the U.S., it's been decades since that was a motivator. "Wars for oil" are instead about securing oil for oil companies, securing a fossil fueled global economy, and denying oil's wealth to "enemies."
We're at +3.4°C in France for this February, not a single day below the historical mean... :/
I hate the way normal historic NYC winter weather for late February is now rightly understood as a “cold snap.”
How has the planet changed THIS MUCH just in my lifetime?? I’m not *that* old. And this is geological. And there’s no end in sight.
It’s really fucking terrifying.
Glob-glob! Absolutely magical sea anemone larva (about 7 mm) from The Lombok Strait, Indonesia 🇮🇩
Has it occurred to anybody that Trumps Iranian war ploy greatly benefits his friends in the domestic US oil and gas production industry? Fracked oil and gas requires high prices to be economic, and at current prices it's barely profitable, if that.
