Alexandre Marcucci

✨ I'm glad to announce a new chapter in my life: I’ve arrived in Chile to conduct part of my PhD research on eco-engineering interventions over the next 9 months. Here, I’ll be supervised by Professor Moisés Aguilera. I’m very excited about what comes next! 🇧🇷🤝🏻🇨🇱

Plasticity in climate change responses Recent research has shown that climate change can both induce and modulate the expression of plastic traits but our understanding of the role of phenotypic plasticity as an adaptive response to clima...

Plasticity in climate change responses - just published in Biological Reviews

What in the role of phenotypic plasticity as an adaptive response to climate change?

Looking at mechanisms from the subcellular to the community and ecosystem levels.

With Stollewerk, @davidboukal.bsky.social, et al.

❗️Job Alert: Deep-Sea Benthic Biologist (Assistant Professor) at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA 🌊 Apply by Dec 1, 2025: apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04175

📷 Auckland Museum Collections (CC) #MarineBiology

*The beautiful and exotic mussel Perna viridis is spreading quickly througout the brazilian coast.

After 13 months, I’ve finished the first experiment of my PhD! It’s a bittersweet feeling: on one hand, the relief of having the samples; on the other, I already miss the pier monitoring. This has been my biggest academic challenge so far. Excited for what’s next! 💙 #urbanecology #brasil #PhDlife

🌡️ A new Science paper reports 2023 saw record‐breaking #ΜarineΗeatwaves — 96% of the oceans were affected, heatwaves lasted 4× longer than average, and some regions stayed hot for over 500 days. It may mark a climate #TippingPoint.

#MarineEcology #Conservation 🌍🌐🧪🌊
www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Seeking Data Editors!

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Ecological effects of habitat complexity vary with intertidal elevation: Implications for seawall eco-engineering 🌊🌏🧪

Suggests interventions must be applied with a knowledge of
👉key limiting factors to target taxa
👉spatial variation in these limiting factors

🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

New paper out reflecting both past & future 25 years of impacts & status of #RockyShores. #Climatechange #Urbanisation #Microplastic #OilSpill #Invasive #ExtremeWeather #Heatwave #OA #OceanAcidification #ALAN www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @benthicecol.bsky.social @marclim-uk.bsky.social

The first photo is very special — 10 years ago, during my undergraduate studies, I took a course on "biology, ecology, and rehabilitation of sea turtles". It was my first field experience and the moment I understood where I wanted to be.

💙🌊🐳🐋🐬🦭🐟🐠🐡🦈🐙🐚🪸🪼🦀🦞🦐🦑🦪

Today is World Oceans Day,

The ones that feed, protect, shelter, transport, entertain — and are pure life. Life that surrounds us and, today more than ever, needs so much care. For me, they represent peace, research, and passion. +

The ocean… 🌊💙

sustains life,
regulates climate,
hosts biodiversity,
buffers storms,
produces oxygen,
holds untold wonder.

Yet, we’ve polluted its depths and pushed it to the brink.

On #WorldOceanDay and every day, let’s act to #SaveOurOcean.

We are advertising a 28-mo postdoc on hybrid #ecoengineering in #saltmarshes @ University College Cork, @ucc.ie 🇮🇪🇪🇺. Ref no 087274.
EU & @marineinst.bsky.social funded BLUESHORES Project. State date: 1st Sept 2025. Salary: €45,847–€52,339. 🌱🌊🦀🐌
See link: universityvacancies.com/university-c...

Propaganda we're not falling for:

🦈Sharks are scary (amazing creatures, important for the ecosystem)
🌊Benthic invertebrates aren’t cute (they are precious)
🪨Geology is boring (rocks ROCK)
📈Long-term data sets aren't important (they are SO important!)
🔬Science isn’t cool (science rules, obviously)

"Thinking time —the time needed to concentrate without interruptions has always been central to scholarly work. It is essential to designing experiments, compiling data, assessing results, reviewing literature and, of course, writing. Yet, [it] is often undervalued."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“It’s happening so fast”: plankton can’t acclimatise to the current rate of ocean warming

#Plankton can’t acclimatise to the current rate of #OceanWarming: PML's Prof Angus Atkinson features in this article by @economist.com which explores how #ClimateChange is threatening the foundational organisms fundamental to marine life - and life on land too.
impact.economist.com/ocean/biodiv...

Frontiers | Distribution of native and non-indigenous bivalves and their settlers along an urban gradient Marine coastal habitats are often characterized by strong gradients of anthropogenic disturbance such as pollution, typically most severe at urban waterfront...

A native mussel distributed along a gradient with lower abundance in the inner parts, while the invasive more resistant one did the opposite. Recruits matched this pattern for the native, but the invasive species recruits settled everywhere indicating post recruitment effects
doi.org/10.3389/fmar...

I've had some great days conducting experiments (about functional ecology) in situ last week! 90 samples colected from 3 artifical and 3 natural sites! Now it's time to process the material (both water and biological samples) #PhDlife #urbanecology #brasil 🐚💙🐌🦪🦀🌊