Vangelis Tzanatos

New paper titled ‘Functional novelties and behavioural flexibility underpin diversification of the surgeonfish feeding mechanism’. 🐟🐠
link: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Apply to be a BES Associate Editor - British Ecological Society Help advance outstanding ecological research by joining our Editorial Boards! Applications are now open across all seven BES journals.

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Two side-by-side spiral galaxies sprinkled with the knotted blue clumps of star-forming regions. They sit against a black background peppered with hundreds of galaxies of various shapes, sizes, and colors.

An edge-on, cigar-shaped galaxy, bright yellow toward the center and sprinkled with the knotted blue clumps of star-forming regions. The galaxy sits against a black background peppered with hundreds of galaxies of various shapes, sizes, and colors.

A spiral galaxy with bright yellow core sprinkled with the knotted blue clumps of star-forming regions. The galaxy sits against a black background peppered with hundreds of galaxies of various shapes, sizes, and colors.

We're blue-da-ba-dee-da-ba-di because blue is the color of cosmic creation! 💙

In these snapshots from NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory, brilliant blue galaxies are bursting with star formation, lighting up the Universe with newborn stars. 🌌✨

🔭🧪

Drawing of a researcher looking out thoughtfully at mountains, grasslands and intertidal study systems

New paper out today in Ecology Letters! In this synthesis we dive into the equilibrium assumption in ecology - why it's everywhere in ecological theory, the evidence for it in nature, when meeting the assumption is important, how to achieve it in empirical research, and more! tinyurl.com/yh6kyysm

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

Researcher in Ecosystem Structure, Dynamics, and Integrated Ecosystem Assessments (289008) | Institute of Marine Research Job title: Researcher in Ecosystem Structure, Dynamics, and Integrated Ecosystem Assessments (289008), Employer: Institute of Marine Research, Deadline: Monday, December 1, 2025

Opening Research Position at IMR in Tromsø in Ecosystem Structure, Dynamics, and Integrated Ecosystem Assessments. Deadline 1st December.
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Calling all marine conservation and fisheries scientist and practitioners!!

This is a great opportunity to serve on the board of the organization that hosts the International Marine Conservation Congress every other year. The next one (#IMCC7) is in Scotland in Nov 2026 - help put it on! 🦑🌏🌊🎣🪸🐟

Traveling for the holidays? Skip the airport—hitch a ride on these globetrotting currents!🌀✈️☺️

📲Get to know our amazing ocean planet through our new science interactive: http://go.whoi.edu/ocean-world

Fine‐scale reconstruction of pelagic fish migration by iso‐logging of eye lens Understanding lifetime space use by pelagic animals is pivotal for ecology and fisheries management, but electronic tags are costly, labour-intensive and rarely able to capture juvenile movement. ...

Fine‐scale reconstruction of pelagic fish migration by iso‐logging of eye lens - Matsubayashi - Methods in Ecology and Evolution #stableisotopes besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

What a privilege to be nominated, not only for 2025 GAME OF THE YEAR, but also TWELVE??!! TOTAL NOMINATIONS at #TheGameAwards

There are so many deserving, precious games from this year, and to be nominated among them makes us SO SO very whee 🥹

THANK YOU!!

PhD opportunity: MOVE
Details: blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/c...
Deadline: 12/01/26
Supervisors: @shoalgroup.bsky.social, @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social, @wlallen.bsky.social, @nhcooper123.bsky.social, @marinapapa.bsky.social
Apply: blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/p...

[completely ignoring the scales involved] this is where I will put the jacuzzi

source: https://pulse.climate.copernicus.eu/

source: https://pulse.climate.copernicus.eu/

La Nina is here and the global cool-down is well underway (global mean sea surface temps are lowest since March 2023).
Remember it's not the individual ups & downs that matter, it's the steady warming trend, which will continue until we reach zero carbon emissions.
#Urgency #StayFocused #COP30

Lighting the way to safer, smarter and sustainable roads A new European research initiative, SAFELUX – The Light We Need, is set to transform how we light our roads at night - improving safety while reducing energy use and environmental impacts.

If you are interested in helping us to mitigate the impacts of light pollution #ALAN on biodiversity, and work on street lighting mitigation and road safety, consider joining our Knowledge Network: www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl...

What if we kissed after we died and our bodies are returning nutrients to the earth? 💖

My nature journal Secrets of a Devon Wood is available to buy in @Waterstones if you're on the hunt for a gift for a nature lover. There's some signed copies in the Newton Abbot branch.

Ohio State news piece on our deep-sea fish body shape study:
news.osu.edu/how-fishes-o...

Looking for an internship in spring?

Do you like fish, lakes, cycling & cheese?

Our lab in Kastanienbaum might be the place for you!

Apply, it’s great!

apply.refline.ch/673277/1301/...

Natural history museum fans (and skeptics) - this is in 24 hours time: there's still time to book! 🎟️

well, no aurora visible here, but I think my drawings of how stars work in this chapter touch on part of why it happens... bsky.app/profile/nsou...

🗣️ It's not the fish that need managing but the people that make up the fishery.
This reflects the interdisciplinarity of marine science & the focus of our upcoming training course
‘Practical introduction to basic applied social science methods’
27–30 January 2026
Sign up www.ices.dk/events/Train...

XKCD meaning of auroras cartoon, showing "normal" at poles, "cool and exciting" in temperate zone, "someone should go check on our satellites" in subtropics, and "A bunch of open questions in Solar-Terrestrial physics are about to be answered" at the tropics

Tapping the XKCD sign again to explain that no, I won't be seeing an aurora tonight. Or at least I really hope not. That would be bad. :)

Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island. The Department of Biological Sciences in the College of the Environment and Life Sciences (CELS) at the University of Rhode Island (URI) invites applications for an academic year (9 month), tenure-track Assistant Professor position specializing in Marine Ecology. URI, the top public university in New England, is a land and sea grant research university located in Kingston, Rhode Island, a beautiful seaside community that is well connected by car, bus, and rail about 40 min from Providence, an hour from Boston and 3 hours from New York City.

Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island.

jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960

Woooow! So cool! Bluesky marine bio nerds, stop whatever you are doing and read this! 🤩😁😮

PhD position - Changing Ecological Role of Coral Reef Marine Protected Areas.

One of the new @exageo-dla.bsky.social advertised projects: www.exageo.org/phd-student-... - deadline for applications 9th January. International applications welcome.

Come and join us @lec-reefs.bsky.social

Fifty years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior after hitting a ferocious storm. None of the 29 crew members survived. Learn more about this wreck and others at wisconsinshipwrecks.org.

Photo: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

50 years gone, but the legend lives on: today marks the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, beautifully memorialised by Gordon Lightfoot in a song that we had to pay our own tribute to.
youtu.be/BuW3FKYOCDs

#TheLongestJohns #EdmundFitzgerald #FolkMusic #Shanty

@drkatfish.bsky.social

And I had thought #FishvsBirds could not be surpassed by any other critter beef!!!

The alt-text is the best thing I've read this autumn!