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A fascinating paper investigating circumstantial evidence that suggests that one of the ways that some pelagic marine fish larvae avoid predation is by Batesian mimicry of noxious, unpalatable, and/or low- caloric-value invertebrates primarily cnidarians & ctenophores.🐟🧪 zenodo.org/records/1488...

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That’s how you write a headline, people.

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It's #wormwednesday! here's the Antarctic polychaete species Eulagisca corrientis, a scale worm we collected in East #Antarctica in 2023 (NBP23-03). Dorsal and ventral views shown. 🧪🦑🌎🇦🇶🐧

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THIS IS HUGE! Researchers have developed a nasal COVID-19 vaccine that BLOCKS transmission of the virus. This suggests vaccines delivered directly to the nose or mouth could play a CRITICAL role in containing the spread of respiratory infections. Phase I clinical trials HAVE BEEN APPROVED! 🧪🧵⬇️

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True for Australia, true for Sweden.

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Imagine you were the richest man in the world. You could have anything you wanted, go anywhere you wished, do whatever took you fancy. How would you spend your weekend? Depriving the poorest people in the world of food and healthcare and boasting about it?

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Last talk of first conference day #17DSBS. I’m very jetlagged, but the talks today have been amazing and have kept me awake.

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If you think slowing or stopping #climate change is too expensive, you have it backwards. Failing to slow or stop #climatechange is what's expensive. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Nice inventory of methane seeps fauna from Costa Rica 🇨🇷. This one with TWO! Costa Rican authors zookeys.pensoft.net/article/1343...

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🚨New postdoc positions available: we are looking for 2 postdoctoral researchers to join a large, collaborative effort to document, describe, and investigate the biodiversity of tiny, cryptobenthic fishes in the Indo-Pacific 🤏🐠🧪. More details: fishandfunctions.com/join%F0%9F%9... Please repost 🦑🧪

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#DeepSeaAdvent (19/25) Sirsoe methanicola - the "methane ice worm": polychaetes that live on outcrops of methane hydrate on the ocean floor (📷: NOAA)... ...and feature in deep-sea sci-fi "The Swarm". [🧵👇]

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What’s more festive than #Antarctic #worms? #marinebiology #MerryChristmas @hwiklund.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk #crustmas… ish

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Vänsterpartiet: - Inför Sverigepriser på el - Beskatta elbolagens övervinster - Ta tillbaka kontrollen över elnäten - Bygg ut förnybart SD-regeringen: - Höj elskatten - Stoppa ny vindkraft - Prata om ny svindyr kärnkraft som tar minst 15 år att bygga www.aftonbladet.se/minekonomi/a...

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Martin Hultman, docent på Chalmers och forskare om klimatförnekelse, gör ett debattinlägg på SMB. Han ifrågasätter det känslobetonade och mycket osakliga förhållningssätt regeringen och SD uppvisar när de försvarar sin starkt kritiserade kärnkraftsutredning.

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Tidöregeringen har en brant uppförsbacke och måste köra över en rejäl hop remissinstanser – företag, akademier, statliga verk och myndigheter – om man vill baxa fram ny kärnkraft enligt Mats Dilléns utredning. SMB har läst remissvaren.

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Switching things up today, I sometimes moonlight in the area of animal genomics😱. Here are pictures from a 2021 Schmidt Ocean Institute expedition where we tested new technology to image, capture, and sample gelatinous zooplankton (or "gelata", or maybe "goops" 😅?). Ethereal, beautiful, exotic.

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Exciting thesis defense at our department today, Adele Macuite is defending her work on ”Tiny titans: Impact of meiofauna diversity and activity on coastal sediment biogeochemistry”.

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When is low #biodiversity something we should protect? The harsh conditions of the intertidal ( #beach) of the polar regions can create unique low biodiversity ecosystems. New paper from #Arctic #Canada/#Nunavut ᓄᓇᕗᑦ (1/) www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...

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#Dragons! Face to face with some #Antarctic worms! Collected and photographed by @hwiklund.bsky.social on our @bas.ac.uk expedition to the marine protected area around the South Orkney Islands in Antarctica. 588 species of seafloor worms are currently known from the Southern Ocean!

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Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in 'remarkable' Scotland rewilding project - "Wildlife can recover, and quickly, if we just give it a little space and let nature work her magic" #RestoreNature www.scotsman.com/hays-way/bum...

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When tunicates attack! In the dark depths, predatory tunicates have abandoned passive filter-feeding to trap and digest prey ambush style! #marinelife

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FLIP has been saved.

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Well done @oceandude.bsky.social for turning your BSc project from two years ago into a great paper! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... New syllid worm described from abyssal Pacific, open access.

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Attending a 2-day conference on systematics and it’s a wonderful mix of presentations on everything from fungi to trees via cute lizards and pretty flowers. Here’s @mucofloris.bsky.social presenting the deep sea animals.

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There are no marine protected areas in Europe -- because all of the ones that exist today allow bottom trawling -- the most destructive form of fishing other than dynamite Greece could create the first European MPAs in two years www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Introducing 𝘗𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘪 gen. nov. sp. nov.! 🌊🐍🪱 A truly remarkable new species AND genus of deep-sea nereidid worm. The hunt for them is still my highlight from our #CostaRica cruise in 2018. 🛳🔍 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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Hur blev det såhär?

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Förslaget om att stoppa import av rysk gas röstades ned. Moderaterna meddelade nämligen att man inte ville "legitimera miljöpartistisk politik". Istället finansierar Sverige det ryska krigsmaskineriet. Regeringen väljer sina strider.

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At current prices ($0.15c/w), solar PV modules cost $US150 million/Gigawatt. New nuclear (Hinkley C) costs around $15 billion/Gigawatt, that is, 100 times more. Lots of adjustments to make, going both ways, but nothing is going to cancel out that kind of difference in capital costs

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Regeringens klimatpolitik = SD:s klimatpolitik = ingen klimatpolitik

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Ja, man kan ju tänka olika. I Tyskland tänker man tex att fler åker kollektivt om det inte är svindyrt!

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Vilket lustigt sammanträffande att regeringen vill tillåta mer ålfiske kort efter att statsministerns närmaste man olagligt har fiskat ål!

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Rimliga krav i förslaget från den myndighet som borde veta. Samtidigt är det ju fnissretande, att förslaget för folkets bästa, innebär att få ställa högre statliga krav på många privata apotek. Tänk om någon kunde ha förutspått att en privat apoteksmarknad riskerar att prioritera vinst över folk...

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Over the last 130,000 years, humans have caused the extinction of around 1,400 bird species - twice as many as previously thought - according to a study involving me, led by colleagues at UK CEH and the University of Gothenburg. Read the paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Haha grandet och bjälken osv. ”Hon [Bianca] skulle kunna visa vägen för resten av världen”. Tänk om Romina hade en position, typ en ministerpost, där hon kunde påverka miljön

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1) Agera: Riv befintligt klimatarbete och mål. 2) Ignorera: Avböj de flesta intervjuförfrågningar. 3) Avleda: Hacka på kändis och hävda att folk med makt borde visa vägen... Sådan är liberalismen, otack är den ansvariges lön!

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best package warning graphic i've ever seen 🪶

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Är inte klar med min genomläsning av danskarnas förslag till nya marina skyddsområden, men just det här uppskattar jag. Fiske med bottensläpande redskap förbjuds i alla de nya skyddsområdena. Så enkelt. Så självklart. En så extremt logisk grundprincip till alla områden som ska få kallas skyddade.

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An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Universal Basic Income is that ounce of prevention against the societal ills of no UBI. By investing in UBI now, we avoid paying a higher price later. It's time to vaccinate our society against poverty and insecurity and reap the economic benefits.

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A good overview (in Swedish) on the risks involved with allowing a continued high fishing pressure on weak herring stocks in the Baltic. The EU Council of Ministers neglected the suggestion for drastic decreases in quotas by the Commission.

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Forskare varnar för nästa års fiskekvoter: “Lokala strömmingsbestånd kan försvinna i ett tråldrag” https://www.svt.se/nyheter/vetenskap/forskare-varnar-for-nasta-ars-fiskekvoter-lokala-strommingsbestand-kan-forsvinna-i-ett-traldrag--wqk45l

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What is BBNJ and why does it matter? Together with Niels Krabbe I just gave a talk at the Centre for Sea & Society at University of Gothenburg. www.gu.se/en/event/con...

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We are announcing a PhD position in the Swedish research project VEKTOR. Please spread the word. 👇

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First PCR in the shiny new labs in Natrium, MSc student Mimmi is going to sequence DNA from deep-sea bivalves (CCZ, around 4000 m depth).

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PhD student position in sustainable antifouling strategies for invasive species control. Apply latest November 18th! www.chalmers.se/en/about-cha...

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