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Catch up on the latest from PLAN-B project!

🌿 Online workshop on noise pollution & biodiversity - 26 Nov, register now!

📝 Take part in the public survey on light & noise pollution, your insights will help shape future solutions!

Get involved 👉 aquaplan-project.eu/latest-updat...

Want to know more about #NatureBasedSolutions ⤵️

The #GuardIAS project has just launched an online course on preventing invasive aquatic species. Essential knowledge for anyone in ecology, conservation, or environmental management. Get started 👉 https://www.ecmunipv.it/login/index.php

Help protect our waters! 🌊

The #GuardIAS project has just launched an online course on preventing invasive aquatic species.

Essential knowledge for anyone in ecology, conservation, or environmental management.

Get started 👉 www.ecmunipv.it/login/index....

#MOOC #InvasiveSpecies

Europe’s waters are under pressure - from rivers to coasts to the deep sea💧

Join our campaign and help protect life in The Waters We Share! 💙

See what you can do: marcobolo-project.eu/the-waters-w...

#TheWatersWeShare #LifeBeneathTheWaves #KnowOurWatersBetter #AquaticPersonalityQuiz

Some AquaPLAN highlights from the 9th International Artificial Light at Night Conference #ALAN2025, @darkskyireland.bsky.social & @mayodarkskies.bsky.social hosted in Westport 🌃☘️

Researchers presenting their work on aquatic light pollution, mitigation & policy 👏
aquaplan-project.eu/alan-2025-ex...

Creatures released! Back into the Night!

Publication day is upon us and this very beautiful book is winging its way to those who pre-ordered it (thank you very much).

If you fancy learning about some weird and wonderful creatures that come out at night, please pick a copy up!

ALAN 2025 - Exploring all aspects of artificial light - AquaPLAN Funded by the EU Horizon Europe Programme (along with UKRI), AquaPLAN is a €2.6 million, 4-year project that aims to quantify the combined impacts of Light and Noise Pollution (LNP) on aquatic biodive...

As light pollution rises globally, the #ALAN2025 Conference offers hope & direction for a more sustainable, star-filled dark sky future!
More info 👉 aquaplan-project.eu/alan-2025-ex...

#ALAN #LightPollution #SustainableLighting #Ecology #MarineScience #Freshwater #DarkSkies #HorizonEurope

At #ALAN2025:

💡 Olivia Rendon @pml.ac.uk on community perspectives of light pollution in coastal areas

💡 Franz Hölker @igb-berlin.de bridging science & policy for sustainable lighting on freshwater

💡 Ashton Dickerson @igb-berlin.de explores ALAN effects on zooplankton diel vertical migration

On 29 October at #ALAN2025 AquaPLAN researchers are presenting work on coastal & freshwater light pollution:

💡 Elena Maggi on coastal light pollution a multi-stressor perspective

💡 Tim Smyth @pml.ac.uk introducing GOALANN & ecological risks from light & noise pollution

Hosted by @darkskyireland.bsky.social @mayodarkskies.bsky.social, AquaPLAN is well represented at #ALAN2025 in Wesport!

This year's invited speakers include AquaPLAN's coordinator Elena Maggi from @dipbiounipi.bsky.social & our sister project PLAN-B's Yana Yakushina from Ghent Univeristy 🙌

9th International Conference on Artificial Light at Night #ALAN2025 has commenced this week in Ireland ☘️!

Researchers, lighting pros, policymakers & activists are there, presenting new findings, exchanging experiences, ideas & discussing how to reduce ALAN impacts 🌃

🚨 Deadline Extended!

📅 New deadline:  November 10th, 2025.
📍 Novi Sad, Serbia OR online

👉 Register & submit abstracts:
🔗 enlightproject.rs/enlight-conference
📩 enlightproject@gmail.com
#lightpollution #ALAN #darknight

AquaPLAN coordinator Elena Maggi @dipbiounipi.bsky.social was an invited speaker at 9th International Artificial Light at Night Conference #ALAN2025 today, @darkskyireland.bsky.social & @mayodarkskies.bsky.social hosting in Ireland. Her talk: "Coastal light pollution: a multi-stressor perspective"

Artificial light at night (#ALAN) is a growing form of pollution that can disrupt ecosystems. In this study published in #BiologyLetters, researchers investigate how ALAN affects a parasitic interaction between flatworms and Daphnia waterfleas buff.ly/9QQPFRb | #Behaviour #Ecology

The big win: Biosecurity experts can stop the laborious data-digging and focus on making faster, more informed decisions to protect our ecosystems. 🛡️

A fantastic collaboration between GuardIAS, vicuniwgtn.bsky.social, and Nelson Artificial Intelligence.

#InvasiveSpecies #BioInvasions #IAS

Today we had our AquaPLAN Interim General Meeting
Recap:
✅ Next Steering Committee Meeting
📊 EC M18 Review Meeting Outcomes
✈️ Next Annual General Meeting – Lisbon in January!
🤝 Updated Consortium Agreement
⏱️ Upcoming Deliverables – Due end 2025
🌍 Updates from @allatlantico.bsky.social Forum

AquaPLAN at the 2025 All-Atlantic Forum - AquaPLAN Funded by the EU Horizon Europe Programme (along with UKRI), AquaPLAN is a €2.6 million, 4-year project that aims to quantify the combined impacts of Light and Noise Pollution (LNP) on aquatic biodive...

The @allatlantico.bsky.social Forum brings together stakeholders from both sides of the Atlantic, aiming to advance transatlantic scientific cooperation & innovation for ocean sustainability
👉 tinyurl.com/bpp2zpuu

#AAORIA2025 #EUResearch #Tour4EU #EUROGOOS #OurSharedOcean #GES4SEAS #BlueEconomy

Over the last week, AquaPLAN coordinator @dipbiounipi.bsky.social participated in the @allatlantico.bsky.social (#AAORIA) Forum in Brussels, organised by OKEANO CSA🌊

AquaPLAN was well represented by our coordinator Elena Maggi & Mascha Stroobant 👏

Foto 1: Elena Maggi, Colombe Warin e Stelios Katsanevakis (University of Aegean, Progetto Biodiversa + Bioboost+) Foto 2: Simona Costa (Tour4EU), Elena Maggi, Dina Eparkhina (EUROGOOS) Foto 3: Elena Maggi, Oliver Wilson and Emma Horgan (Marine Institute, Coordinatori del Progetto Horizon Europe OKEANO) e Alice Estrela (SCIENCE CRUNCHERS, Progetto Horizon Europe GES4SEAS) Foto 4: Isabel Sousa Pinto (CIIMAR and University of Porto) Peter Heffernan (Oceano Azul Foundation), Elena Maggi.

🇪🇺 Il Dipartimento di Biologia ha partecipato a Bruxelles all’All-Atlantic Ocean Research and Innovation Alliance Forum, @allatlantico.bsky.social organizzato dal Progetto HORIZON-CL6-2023-GOVERNANCE-02-1 Okeano.🌊

📸 Nelle foto, la rappresentante UNIPI Prof. Elena Maggi (AquaPLAN).👥

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Photo 1: Day 1 - The iconic façade of the Charlemagne Building, setting the stage for the first day of collaboration Photo 2: Day 2 - The infographic highlighting some messages related to the session focused on Aquaculture (“Action for Sustainable Blue Economy and Food from the Ocean”). Photo 3: Day 1 - A moment from the FAQ session, with a question on how light and noise pollution will be addressed in future AAORIA strategies featuring Steve Thur (NOAA)

🤝L'evento ha riunito stakeholder da entrambe le sponde dell’Atlantico, con l’obiettivo di far avanzare la cooperazione scientifica transatlantica e l’innovazione per la sostenibilità degli oceani, mostrando come tutto ciò sia cruciale per affrontare i cambiamenti globali. 🌐

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If you missed the #AAORIAForum25 livestream last week, you can watch it back here
Day 1 👉 lnkd.in/dpmvsiRT
Day 2 👉 lnkd.in/dPTCWCBx

Today is #WorldWaterMonitoringDay🌊💧🏞️💙

Let’s shine a light on an often overlooked threat to aquatic life: Light & Noise Pollution (LNP) 💡 🔊

AquaPLAN is leading the way in understanding how LNP affects biodiversity in European marine, freshwater & estuarine habitats

🔎 The #InvasiveAlienSpecies we focus on today is Cervus nippon, the Sika Deer.
🦌 Overgrazing by these deer can lead to substantial environmental and economic damage, particularly to crops.
🔴 They are quite aggressive, directly competing and sometimes even hybridising with native red deer.

📢 Our first policy brief is out!

This Policy Working Paper illustrates how water
restoration can be embedded in future agricultural policies to
enhance water resilience: project-merlin.eu/files/merlin... #river #wetlands #restoration #CAP #policy

Scalability of mass spectrometry-based metabolomics for natural extracts libraries exploration: current status, challenges, and opportunities Covering: up to 2025This review explores the potential of bioinformatics and chemoinformatics tools to advance the exploration of natural extracts libraries (NELs). Although metabolomics has become a ...

🚨 New Paper Alert 🚨 Great writing project with @adafede.bsky.social & Mehdi Bennidir and colleagues! @w-u-r.bsky.social
#metabolomics #CompMetabolomics #naturalproducts #discovery #libraries
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

SAVE THE DATE #Neobiota2026 is coming to Brussels Leave your contact details www.neobiota2026.org

New £644K Microbiome Innovation Network to drive UK Bioscience Research and impact health, food, and environments - Quadram Institute The Microbiome Innovation Centre at the University of Liverpool, the National Biofilms Innovation Centre, the Quadram Institute, Nottingham Trent University, and the University of Oxford have been…

🆕 New £644K Microbiome Innovation Network to drive UK Bioscience Research and impact health, food and environments.

📚 ECSA 61: Bridging Science & Policy for Coastal Biodiversity
🗓️ Dates: 24-27 August 2026
📍 Location: Square, Brussels, Belgium
📅 Deadline for Special Session proposals: 24 November 2025

Supported by the #GuardIAS project.

Register now: www.estuarinecoastalconference.com

“It is the honour of my career to be asked to serve as the Director of Science."

Please join us in congratulating Professor Tim Smyth on his new role as Director of Science at Plymouth Marine Laboratory.

Follow the thread to find out more about Tim 🧵👇

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