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Mollusc of the Year 2026 Click here to see previous Mollusc of the Year winners.

The competition is now open for the #Mollusc of the Year! The winner's #genome will be sequenced by Senckenberg. Please vote for the Mediterranean vampire snail that sucks blood from fish! Just access this website: www.unitasmalacologica.org/mollusc-of-t... and vote for Cumia intertexta! Thanks!

Mollusc of the Year 2026 Click here to see previous Mollusc of the Year winners.

Folks, Unitas Malacologica is running their 'mollusk of the year' contest and they've got some real bangers in there, check it out and vote! www.unitasmalacologica.org/mollusc-of-t...

Philosophy of Biology - Closer To Truth Philosophy of Biology has two sides: the process of science and the content of biology. We address key questions. What is the nature of life? How does evolution work and what…video Why Philosophy of B...

I've really enjoyed this series on Philosophy of Biology from @closertotruth.bsky.social: closertotruth.com/project/phil...
Videos are 25min each, consist mainly of interviews with experts, and cover topics ranging from units of selection to biological information to evolution of cognition

Boxes filled with various shells are shown above a banner. The banner displays the logo of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, featuring a skeletal image. Below, text reads: "WE'RE HIRING! Malacology Curatorial Assistant."

Are you a biologist with a focus on malacology or invertebrate zoology? The MCZ is looking to hire a Curatorial Assistant in our malacology department! Apply at https://bit.ly/4sbHCnL

I'm not a big fan of Conidae, but this subgenus is gorgeous indeed!

Call out to all early-career scientists interested in

Impacts on open ocean bentho-pelagic coupling processes

apply to join the 2026 Ramon Margalef Colloquium
@icmcsic.bsky.social @csic.es
13-18 September 2026

ramonmargalefcolloquia.com

‼️🚨 Job Alert ‼️ 🚨
Two Post Doc Opportunities:

PDRA in Macroecology / Paleobiology
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PDRA in Extinction & Conservation / Paleobiology
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Any questions, please get in touch! Closing date May 1st.

A specimen of Conus lugubris, a cone snail from Cape Verde, characterized by its smooth surface and brown colour with a central white band and some smaller white, mostly triangular, spots.

Compared to continental ones, only a few #marine species are considered #extinct. Now we have one more, the #snail Conus lugubris from São Vicente Island (Cape Verde Archipelago). This species had a very restricted range now lost to "development".
www.iucnredlist.org/species/1922...

Underwater photo of a scuba diver swimming in front of an extremely large coral

This colossal coral in the Mariana Islands is the largest of its kind! @noaa.gov scientists recently took the first approximate measurements of the coral during the 2025 National Coral Reef Monitoring Program surveys. It measured a whopping 14,500 square feet!

oceanservice.noaa.gov/news/mar26/c...

Reckoning with my ‘ghost years’: why a low publication rate doesn’t always reflect failure I have a five-year gap in my publication record. Last year, I published seven academic articles as either the first or corresponding author. Here’s why one level of output isn’t better than any other.

Lack of publications does not equal lack of production. A nice story about slow productivity which ended well. But how many end well?
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

PhD position in integrative evolutionary biology at Lille University to study mollusks from Lake Tanganyika. Funding available for 3 years. Apply by April 5. Info: https://eep.univ-lille.fr/en/presentation-english/ #phd

Researcher position on marine #hydroacoustics. Work on passive acoustic datasets: extracting underwater #noise metrics, detecting #cetacean and other marine fauna sounds, and characterizing marine #soundscapes using acoustic and video data.
Deadline: 21 March
👉 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/416394

Open MSc-level researcher / scientific diver position for the LIFE #PINNACARE project. Focus: conservation and recovery of #Pinna nobilis in Greece through field monitoring, transplantations, larval collectors, repopulation, and more.
Deadline: 12 March
👉 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/node/413319

Science is a strong-link problem OR: How to eat fewer asparagus beetles

Thought-provoking post on how we can promote better science. I was not familiar with what a strong- vs weak-link problem is, but it is well explained!
www.experimental-history.com/p/science-is...

A #mollusc of spectacular beauty!

...and eventually the most long awaited starter pack: the one to connect all those interested in molluscs! Please message me if you prefer to opt out or if you wish to suggest new members (just briefly add the reason) go.bsky.app/Eh4qpKr

...that made quitting X an easy decision 1.5 years ago. No users, no social media.

Congratulations @odealab.bsky.social @erinmdillon.bsky.social & colleagues!

Shifted baselines in the Indian Ocean...!

He/She glows.

Un’oasi climatica nel Mediterraneo orientale: qui la biodiversità resiste alla crisi climatica Lungo la costa sud-occidentale di Cipro un fenomeno di risalita delle acque difende in modo naturale gli ecosistemi dalla tropicalizzazione del mare: “Protegge…

Italian newspapers featuring our work on the climate refugium for marine biodiversity in the eastern Mediterranean: www.repubblica.it/green-and-bl...

November 01 2024 The strain on scientific publishing Open Access Mark A. HansonCorresponding Author ORCID logo , Pablo Gómez Barreiro ORCID logo , Paolo Crosetto ORCID logo , Dan Brockington ORCID logo Crossmark: Check for Updates Author and Article Information Quantitative Science Studies (2024) 5 (4): 823–843. https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00327 Article history Cite Icon Cite Open the PDFfor in another window Permissions Share Icon Share Views Icon Views Open Menu

The Drain of Scientific Publishing Fernanda Beigel, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto, Gemma Derrick, Aileen Fyfe, Pablo Gomez Barreiro, Mark A. Hanson, Stefanie Haustein, Vincent Larivière, Christine Noe, Stephen Pinfield, James Wilsdon The domination of scientific publishing in the Global North by major commercial publishers is harmful to science. We need the most powerful members of the research community, funders, governments and Universities, to lead the drive to re-communalise publishing to serve science not the market. Comments: 1 Figure, 1 Table, 1 Supplementary Table Subjects: Digital Libraries (cs.DL) Cite as: arXiv:2511.04820 [cs.DL] (or arXiv:2511.04820v2 [cs.DL] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2511.04820 Focus to learn more Submission history From: Dan Brockington [view email] [v1] Thu, 6 Nov 2025 21:20:22 UTC (2,101 KB) [v2] Mon, 17 Nov 2025 20:05:17 UTC (2,113 KB)

The Issue with Special Issues: when Guest Editors Publish in Support of Self Paolo Crosetto1*, Pablo Gómez Barreiro2 , Mark Austin Hanson3* 1. Univ. Grenoble Alpes, INRAE, CNRS, Grenoble INP, GAEL; Grenoble, France 2. Department of Science Operations, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Wakehurst, UK 3. Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter; Penryn, Cornwall, UK * corresponding authors – PC: paolo.crosetto@inrae.fr, MAH: m.hanson@exeter.ac.uk Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) PC: 0000-0002-9153-0159 PGB: 0000-0002-3140-3326 MAH: 0000-0002-6125-3672

All set for New Horizons 💎 #OpenAccess in Nijmegen! Thank you to the organisers for the opportunity to speak on the Strain, Stain, & Drain of scientific publishing.

Looking forward to great conversations on moving #ScientificPublishing forward!

bit.ly/StrainQSS
www.horizondiamond.nl#schedule

Will there be written records of the meeting?

The most beautiful #snail ever to exist!
Many #marine snails go through an early life stage called #veliger, wherein they drift along with the #plankton before settling onto the sea floor as an adult. We call this, #sparkles

#blackwater #blackwaterdiving #mollusk #gug

Hydatina is elegantly beautiful!

Writing is thinking

Outsourcing the entire task of writing to LLMs will deprive us of the essential creative task of interpreting our findings and generating a deeper theoretical understanding of the world.

Upwelling generates a unique refugium from climate change in the fast warming Eastern Mediterranean Sea - Biodiversity and Conservation The identification of areas resistant to climate change is a strategy to support biodiversity conservation on a warming planet. Such ‘refugia’ are often detected by modeling future climate and species...

Southwestern #Cyprus hosts the only refugium against #climate warming in the easternmost #Mediterranean Sea! Great collaboration with many colleagues hoping to contribute to the protection of this area! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#AI is transforming #ecology — but at what cost? A new #Nature piece warns that as models, drones & remote sensing boom, many scientists are spending less time outdoors (“I rarely get outside”). Are we losing essential natural-history insight? 🌿🤖
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Ready to attend #TIBS2026 in Denmark presenting my viewpoint on the future #biogeography of the Mediterranean Sea, with @roellammerant.bsky.social showing how altered seasonality in the eastern #Mediterranean connects warming to #biodiversity collapses. conferences.au.dk/tibs-aarhus-...