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HIFMB colleague @thejupiterfour.bsky.social is chairing the session on "Trait-Based Approaches to Biodiversity-Ecosystem Function and Biogeographic Patterns" at the Ocean Sciences Meeting #OSM2026 in Glasgow next year.
Want to contribute? Submit your abstract until August 20.

Buying time for threatened coral reefs A new paper published in Science by a team including ecologist Iliana Baums urges regulatory reform to accelerate coral restoration using assisted gene flow – an essential step to safeguard the econom...

An international team of scientists including @ibaums.bsky.social urges regulatory reform to accelerate global coral restoration using assisted gene flow – an essential step to safeguard the economic value and coastal protection services that reefs provide.

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Hallo artist community, this one is for you! Together with @hanse-ias.bsky.social we are looking for an artist in residence in early 2026. Please share!
#artscience #artistinresidence #marinebiodiversity

Tune in and listen to Joseane Marques talking about coral reefs and how to protect them. Thursday, 8.30 pm CET, link below

The call for our 2026 Postdoc Cohort is now open. We offer 4 full-time positions. Apply until August 24th. hifmb.de/jobs
Please spread the word.
#postdoc #jobsinscience #marinebiodiversity #antarctica
@awi.de @hillebr1.bsky.social @ibaums.bsky.social @thilogross.bsky.social @merenbey.bsky.social 🦑

Some impressions of the 5th HIFMB symposium, day 1: talks, discussions, insights, coffee and art. More tomorrow. HIFMB.de/symp25

To make it complete, here are our speakers from Session 4: Constructing data driven approaches to governance and conservation of trans-national oceans.
We hope to see many of you next week at the Symposium on Functional Marine Biodiversity.
Registration is still open: hifmb.de/symp25

Meet our group members! Next one up is Fabian Moye:

"Hi, I am Fabian, a postdoc in the Biodiversity Theory group at HIFMB and the Eco-Evolutionary Genomics group at AWI, Bremerhaven. I am interested in the formation, fate and function of diversity from chemistry (chemodiversity) ...

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We have a new 3-year postdoc position in our group at the @hifmb.de to study plasmids and plasmids systems of the marine environment to survey their utility in microbial responses to environmental change.

Please see the official job ad here, and spread the word:

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Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈

At AWI, we are committed to diversity and equality. Pride Month in June reminds us how important it is to strengthen an open and respectful society, both in science and in everyday life. We embrace diversity every day.

Photo: Laura Oldenburg

Today the One Ocean Science Conference #OOSC kicks off, followed by the UN Ocean Conference #UNOC3 next week. We asked some of the HIFMB scientists who will be attending the summits about their activities at the conference and their expectations.
#OceanDecade #marinebiodiversity

Session 3 at the HIFMB Symposium on Functional #MarineBiodiversity is about North Sea in transition, with speakers from the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany.
🌊 🇳🇱 🇩🇰 🇩🇪 🌊

📆 June 17 + 18
📌 Oldenburg, GER
🖱️ Registration is free: hifmb.de/symp25

@davidwthieltges.bsky.social

Proud and happy to be part of this.
Congratulations @marumunibremen.bsky.social !

Session 2 at the HIFMB Symposium on Functional Marine Biodiversity will be about advancing our understanding of coevolution for conservation.
📆 June 17 + 18
📌 Oldenburg, GER
🖱️ Registration is free: hifmb.de/symp25

Microbial ecosystems may have tipping points where even small changes can cause a collapse, say @thilo.gross & Tom Clegg @hifmb.bsky.social @UniOldenburg@wisskomm.social. This may explain why microbial diversity is hard to maintain in the lab....
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Cross-feeding creates tipping points in microbiome diversity | PNAS A key unresolved question in microbial ecology is how the extraordinary diversity of microbiomes emerges from the interactions among their many fun...

Hey, new paper by @cleggtom.bsky.social and me is just out in @pnas.org. This combines a lot of things that start with B: Biodiversity, Bipartite Networks, Bifurcations, Bacteria, ...

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

And yes, I know, Fig 1 looks like one of 'those' papers but please read on ...

The planning for the HIFMB Symposium on Functional Marine Biodiversity (June 17+18) is entering the busy phase. Today we would like to introduce our speakers from Session 1 “Framing global biodiversity for policy”.
More information and free registration at hifmb.de/symp25

Thrilled to have guests @susanneferwerda.bsky.social and @giuliachampion.bsky.social coming to Bremen for the discussion panel Anna Pasco Bolta and I have been putting together on ‘Seabed Imaginaries’ 🪸 We’re also very lucky to have the wonderful Kim Peters as moderator 🙏

A maximum of six centimeters long and weighing two grams: Antarctic krill

New paper out in @elife.bsky.social! Antarctic krill not only reacts to external environmental influences such as light or food. It also uses its internal clock to adapt to the conditions of the polar environment. @lhueppe.bsky.social @awi.de @hifmb.de ➡️ go.uniwue.de/antarctic-kr... 📷 Lukas Hüppe

One of our take-home messages is that we should link debates on protection with debates on justice. Because knowledge about the crisis is present both in science & in society as a whole.

Thank you for a great program, fantastic moderation and valuable impulses.
@bmuv.de @allianz-meer.bsky.social

After all, we can only develop sustainable solutions for our oceans - locally, nationally and internationally - if scientific findings are effectively incorporated into decisions and applications.

Two inspiring days at the #NationaleMeereskonferenz

The exchange motivates us to continue to strongly promote and expand our transfer activities.

Tomorrow, Jan-Claas Dajka from the HIFMB Transfer Office for Marine Biodiversity Change will speak about the protection and sustainable use of biodiversity in internationals waters.
#meereskonferenz2025
#lebendigeMeere #bbnj @ruthkrause.bsky.social @bmuv.de @allianz-meer.bsky.social

Jan-Claas Dajka, Dorothee Hodapp, Ruth Krause bei der ersten Nationalen Meereskonferenz in Berlin 2025

An inspiring day full of exchange and commitment to ocean protection: On May 6–7 2025, national and international actors are gathering in Berlin for the first National Ocean Conference. Together with policymakers, scientists, stakeholders and society, we’re working to protect our oceans.

Die Faszination von Blau Als Kind war es die Farbe, die Iliana Baums am Meer begeisterte. Heute hat die Molekularökologin sich einen Namen in der Untersuchung von

"As a child, it was the color that fascinated Iliana Baums about the sea. Today, the molecular ecologist has built up a reputation in the study of coral reefs."

Insightful portrait about @ibaums.bsky.social, HIFMB Co-Director and Head of the Marine Conservation Group.
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We offer a 5-year research position in the #PlanktonEcology lab in Wilhelmshaven. Are you interested in empirically testing ecological concepts? We offer a stimulating scientific environment, experimental facilities & support to establish an independent research profile
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Dr. Eckart von Hirschhausen – Gesunde Erde – Gesunde Menschen Gesundheit beginnt nicht mit einer Tablette, einer Operation oder einem MRT. Gesundheit beginnt mit fünf Lebensgrundlagen: sauberer Luft zum Atmen, sauberem Wasser zum Trinken, leckeren Pflanzen zum E...

Diese Woche feiert "Wissenschaft fürs Wohnzimmer" sein 5-jähriges Jubiläum 🥳

Für diesen besonderen Anlass besucht uns diesen Donnerstag Dr. Eckart von Hirschhausen mit seinen Vortrag "Gesunde Erde – Gesunde Menschen".

Seid am 08.05. um 20:30 Uhr live dabei!
www.youtube.com/live/9mpcQJ7...

Glückwunsch zu eurem tollen Format, 5 spannenden und lehhreichen Jahren und zu diesem fantastischen Jubiläumsgast!

A picture of our group member Jordan Gault, taken in the caste in Copenhagen. You can see a bearded man with glasses standing in a grand, ornately decorated hallway with a checkered marble floor. He has dark brown hair and is smiling. He is wearing a flat cap, blue vest over a shirt, dark trousers, and a dark jacket with one hand in his pocket. Behind him, the hallway is lined with large, colorful tapestries and elegant furniture, leading to a distant area with a red throne-like seat. The lighting is warm and soft, giving the scene a historic and majestic ambiance. And yes, he looks like a mixture of an oldtimey academic and a wizard (in a good way).

Meet our group members! Let's continue with the brilliant @jagault.bsky.social:

"Hi, I'm Jordan, a postdoc in the Biodiversity Theory group. I'm an ecologist interested in understanding mutualism across a variety of scales. Specifically, I focus on the nutritional mutualism, ...

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Assemblies of long-read metagenomes suffer from diverse errors Genomes from metagenomes have revolutionised our understanding of microbial diversity, ecology, and evolution, propelling advances in basic science, biomedicine, and biotechnology. Assembly algorithms...

I am very happy (and anxious) to share with you our most recent work in which we evaluated four of the most popular long-read assemblers,

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

and tell you just a little bit about it in the following 🧵