It is hard to understand why the EU has not suspended the association agreement with a country that uses sexual violence as a state-sanctioned tool.

🚨 BALSAM SEASON BEGINS 🚨

I was hoping for another week or two before life becomes yanking and slashing this crap but they’re already coming up at Warleigh Nature Reserve.

They’re small now but will be dominating waterways and banks all spring and summer. Seeds mid July, so yank/slash before then.

I would be very happy to host any applicants that are interested in impacts of fishing, anchoring and assessment and management of other pressures on the seabed @sosbangor.bsky.social. Get in touch if you're interested.

I think part of the consideration is also the use of preprints by AI LLMs, which can results 'pollution' of the evidence base when these LLMs are used to summarise.

'When a manuscript is publicly available as a preprint before or during review, multiple versions of the work may circulate and be commented on simultaneously, creating confusion about what aspects have been evaluated and modified and what has not.'

I'd say the role of editors and reviewers is very much to be gatekeepers

'Posting a manuscript on a preprint server constitutes prior public disclosure of the work. This reduces or eliminates its originality and novelty to the Journal, to our readers and to scientific journalists and news outlets.'

'Publishing work that has already been publicly available outside of the peer review process also complicates the establishment of a clear and authoritative scholarly record by creating multiple versions of nearly identical documents.'

ICES Journal of Marine Science’s policy on preprints ICES Journal of Marine Science (henceforth, the Journal) has changed its policy about preprints. The new policy, and the rationale behind it, is presented

Relevant for prospective authors in the ICES Journal of Marine Science’s. The Journal will not consider for publication manuscripts that have been posted on preprint platforms.
@icesmarine.bsky.social @hbrowman.bsky.social

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No More Beewashing! Why beekeeping doesn't help conserve bees. YouTube video by Dave Goulson

No more Beewashing please! Why beekeeping doesn't help conserve bees. Pls RT if you agree.
youtu.be/fiBYBmlKSYU

Our colleague needs your help keeping a 1,200-year dataset alive!

If you have botanical expertise or are based near Arashiyama, Kyoto — DM her or email tuna@ourworldindata.org.

Fishing for carbon: Margaret of Ladram supports SeaSTORE research - Fishing News New SeaSTORE research involving the Margaret of Ladram is investigating how bottom trawling affects seabed carbon, aiming to clarify its...

Article in Fishing News about our recent #SeaSTORE cruise on the RRS Discovery #DY206, where we have been working together with the fishing industry to quantify CO2 release in the sediment plume behind trawlers
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Mainstreaming Habitat Management Objectives in an Ecosystem-Based Approach to Management of Scallop Fisheries Scallops are a high-value resource and support major demersal fisheries, particularly in the UK where they are the third most valuable landed species (£60 million in 2024). This study contrasts reg...

This review highlights the need for a more explicit ecosystem-based management approach in scallop fisheries, emphasizing seabed habitat protection and recognizing their role as vital for key life history stages such as spat settlement.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

an outdoor billboard There will never be a bell loud enough, a helmet strong enough, or clothing bright enough to make up for poor infrastructure. Picture of child biking in a painted bike lane

Enough.

Billboard done with @visionzerovancouver.ca

Thrilled to see a leading journal run a special issue on null results — good practice for science, and especially important for conservation where what works should matter more than whether it makes a splashy and positive paper

📣 New paper alert ! 📣
Image-based bio-logging offers unique insights into marine predator behaviour 🦭 🦈 🐧 🐢 and ecosystem functioning, but demands advanced analytical tools. #MarineConservation #AI #ComputerVision #BioLogging

Grateful to the global inter-disciplinary collaborative effort! 🙏 😊

What does ecosystem #integrity mean in a rapidly changing #Anthropocene biosphere? I argue for a shift from static reference states toward 1) the ecological processes that sustain biodiversity & 2) evolutionary heritage➡️ doi.org/10.1111/rec....
#ecology #restoration #biodiversity #ecosystemintegrity

This is Apartheid.

It's morally disgusting - and comes at the same time as Israel is committing an ongoing genocide.

To see the Labour Government defend Israel repeatedly will horrify the British public - it cannot go on like this.

A colour photograph of showing a sand and gravel seabed, with a small fish and some coral species.

📢#JobOpportunity #WeAreSeeking a motivated Marine Ecosystems Scientist to contribute to an exciting & evolving area of work focused on operationalising benthic habitat indicators for a range of policy applications. bit.ly/JNCCjob202573 Closing date: Sunday 19 April 2026

New in JGR Biogeosciences Organic Carbon Burial Rates in Muddy Temperate Shelf Sea Sediments By Muir et al 2026

Understanding how much organic carbon is buried over time is important for estimating the role of shelf seas in climate regulation.🌊

In a new study, scientists analyze OC storage in the Western Irish Sea Mud Belt.

🔗Check out their results: doi.org/10.1029/2025...

#AGUPubs #CarbonStorage

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We pay you to quit your job and spend 7 months fighting the tobacco industry, transforming the food system, or making the superrich pay their fair share in taxes.

37 fellowships. US, Canada, Europe, Kenya. Applications close April 27th.

So far, 47 participants from 25 countries signed up to take part in our global bioturbation experiment across freshwater, terrestrial and marine ecosystems. No prior experience needed and we’ll send you a bioturbation kit - to join in, sign up here: www.thermalecologyalliance.org/projects

"Today I present the findings of my 8th report.. its findings highlight a hallmark of this genocide, Israels widespread and systematic use of torture"

At the UN Human Rights Council on Monday Francesca Albanese read out the testimonies of Palestinians describing how they were raped.

AFBI seek a skilled, forward thinking fisheries scientist with strong experience in marine data collection and stock assessment, and a passion for advancing ecosystem based management - closes Friday 27th March at 12:00 (UK Time)

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Average sediment organic carbon content (OC, %) and (b) the average sediment organic carbon density (SCD, gC cm−3) versus sediment depth (cm) for 19 sediment cores in the Western Irish Sea Mud Belt (WISMB). Error bars represent standard deviations. Dates indicate sediment deposition date estimates (average and range) at 0, 2, 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50 cm.

Depth-resolved OC content and sediment accumulation rates in the Western Irish Sea Mud Belt (WISMB): OC content (0.15%–1.62%), OC storage (1.30–15.15 gC cm−3), and sediment accumulation rates (0.26–0.37 cm yr−1) vary spatially and temporally
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Cloud of words in various colors and sizes on a white background, arranged in the shape of a rough circle. Some of the largest words include benthic bottom fishing marine seabed trawling impacts effect fisheries impact habitats fish communities disturbance ecosystem sea habitat management trawl production species status assessing biodiversity data assessment fauna abundance balthica bivalve

Overview of scholarly works by Jan Geert Hiddink, who writes a lot about benthic, bottom, fishing, marine, seabed, trawling
@jangeerthiddink.bsky.social

And we're done! It has been a very productive cruise, with almost all plans completed, working with a great and expert team. Now on to analysing the data we collected, and then we'll do it all again in summer on #DY213 to see how temperature and stratification affect C release.
#DY206 #SeaSTORE

Book cover - Creatures of Story and Song: Tracing Britain's Lost Species by Lee Raye. The cover is a dark turquoise or teal. At the top there is a picture of people and wolves walking together through a wood. They seem to be talking with each other. At the bottom there is a long spiky fish. This flier offers 20% off at www.reaktionbooks.co.uk - code is CSS26

Book announcement!! 🎉
CREATURES OF STORY AND SONG looks through Britain’s stories and poems to rediscover our lost species.
It’s time to remember what people thought about wolves, lynxes, great whales, great auks, sturgeon & more when they were all still here! 🐺🦫🐳💚 @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

I look forward to reading this @leafyhistory.bsky.social !
@projectfishistory.bsky.social

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