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⏰ Last call! Abstracts for Oceans Past XI close tomorrow ⏰

If you're interested in past human–ocean interactions and changing marine systems, don't miss the deadline!

Submit today
📩 oceanspast.org/2026-opi-xi/

Early career researcher? ✨
✅ Don’t forget to request travel support in your submission

Awesome work! 🐟

@icesmarine.bsky.social @uvic.ca

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Don’t miss out! Abstract & ECR funding submissions for the OPI XI conference are still open.. for now!

The deadline is approaching!

Closing date: 15th January 2026

Visit oceanspast.org/2026-opi-xi/ to submit 🐟

📍University of Victoria, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada
📅 15-19 June, 2026

Want to share your work at Oceans Past XI?
Want some funding to get to the conference as an early-career researcher?
The abstract submission and ECR funding application
deadlines have been extended!
Visit oceanspast.org/2026-opi-xi/ for all the information!

@icesmarine.bsky.social @uvic.ca @unoceandecade.bsky.social

Our deadline for Abstracts & ECR Funding Award submissions for the OPI XI Conference has been EXTENDED!

New closing date: 15th January 2026

Visit oceanspast.org/2026-opi-xi/ to submit!

📍 OPI XI University of Victoria, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada
📅 15-19 June, 2026

📅 Reminder: 19th of December is the deadline for the Oceans Past conference abstract and ECR funding submissions! 🐟

Conference dates: 15-19 June 2026
Location: University of Victoria on Vancouver Island, Canada
Further information at: oceanspast.org/2026-opi-xi/

Webinar alert!
Join us for a project introduction, some early findings & find out how you can get involved.

When: Fri 5th Dec, 10am (GMT)
Where: Online (Teams)
Schedule: 20-30 minute presentation + Q&A

Interested? DM for a link to join!

Early December and I am now 4 months into my project, FINS! It’s been a busy and AMAZING start to this project which is so dear to me! August included what would be my first of many visits up to @nhmdk.bsky.social to look at the elasmobranchs in their collections and attending @isba11.bsky.social !

Fantastic!

We acknowledge and respect the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Songhees and Xʷsepsəm/Esquimalt) Peoples on whose territory the university stands, and the Lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.

@icesmarine.bsky.social @uvic.ca

Our call for Abstracts & ECR Funding Award submissions are OPEN for the OPI XI Conference!

📍 University of Victoria, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada
📅 15-19 June, 2026

Closing date for abstracts: 19 December 2025

See our website oceanspast.org/2026-opi-xi/ to explore conference sub-themes & submit!

Thank you, Cristina!

Oceans Past Initiative (@oceanspast.bsky.social) Our latest newsletter is here 🐟 This month we're celebrating two decades of OPI, with special features & reflections from Prof. Cristina Brito and Prof. Daniel Pauly, plus lots more! Keep up to date…

Very excited to share that I've been given a ECR Spotlight in Volume 34 of the @oceanspast.bsky.social Quarterly Newsletter to discuss my "Beyond Stockfish" project and research journey (so far 😊!) bsky.app/profile/ocea...

Newsletter - Oceans Past Initiative

Read it here 👉 oceanspast.org/newsletter/

Our latest newsletter is here 🐟

This month we're celebrating two decades of OPI, with special features & reflections from Prof. Cristina Brito and Prof. Daniel Pauly, plus lots more!

Keep up to date with current research in the field by joining our mailing list 👉 info@oceanspast.org.

@icesmarine.bsky.social

Oceans Past XI: Abstract and Funding Award Submission The Oceans Past Initiative connects scholars and practitioners interested in documenting and understanding changes in marine systems and human-ocean interactions in past decades, centuries and millenn...

Exciting news!

We’re thrilled to announce the Call for Abstracts and ECR Funding Award submissions are now open for the OPI XI Conference.

Join us & our hosts at the University of Victoria, Vancouver Island, Canada 🇨🇦, 15–19 June 2026!

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#marinehistoricalecology

Cooperation between ecologists and historians has allowed a robust reconstruction of the historical introduction of the Italian crayfish, Austropotamobius fulcisianus, to Spain in the late-16th century
@ebdonana.bsky.social @um.es
New OA paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Fresh off the press! Our perspective in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com discusses the wealth of information on biodiversity contained in historical sources, and its integration for long-term ecological knowledge and biodiversity conservation. A thread on the paper and what led to it:
rdcu.be/eEcIt

We'll be visiting ports in Mid-South Wales e.g., Fishguard and Aberystwyth next week (2nd-4th September). If you're from the area and know anything about the Irish Sea herring fishery (past or present), or know someone who does, please get in touch here or at fishistory@bangor.ac.uk🐟

Study tracks UK’s journey from seafood self-sufficiency to dependence on imports More than a century of data reveals how the UK has gone from supplying domestic seafood needs from productive home waters to importing seafood from almost 90 countries. University of Exeter researcher...

More than a century of data reveals how the UK has gone from supplying domestic seafood needs from productive home waters to importing seafood from almost 90 countries

Read more here 👇 @exeter.ac.uk @exetermarine.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social @profcallum.bsky.social @ruththurstan.bsky.social

Contac. njimenezcano@ucsd.edu

We have a couple of spots for our SAAs symposium on Marine resources exploitation in the preindustrial Americas.

We welcome papers that builds long-term baselines of human–marine interactions, blending methodological approaches, zooarchaeology, GMM, geochemistry, ZooMS, and aDNA!

Congratulations, Rachel!

@royalsociety.org @projectfishistory.bsky.social

Our latest newsletter is here! This month features new projects, special research issues, OPI conference information and more 🐟

If you'd like to keep up to date with current research in the field, join our mailing list by emailing info@oceanspast.org.

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