Marie C. Nordström
@marienordstrom.bsky.social
Associate professor in coastal ecology at the University of Helsinki • Marine ecology • Food webs • Biodiversity • Traits • Worm person • #InterEarth • #MARBEFES
ORCID: 0000-0001-5763-1813
ORCID: 0000-0001-5763-1813
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Call for abstracts!
We are excited to invite contributions to the Ocean Sciences Meeting #OSM26 session ME008: Food Webs in Changing Oceans and Seas
Abstract submission is open until 20 August 2025. Read more and submit here: www.agu.org/ocean-scienc...
Hope to see you in Glasgow!
We are excited to invite contributions to the Ocean Sciences Meeting #OSM26 session ME008: Food Webs in Changing Oceans and Seas
Abstract submission is open until 20 August 2025. Read more and submit here: www.agu.org/ocean-scienc...
Hope to see you in Glasgow!
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#ICESASC2025 starts tomorrow, with strong MARBEFES representation.
🌐Session Q will be dedicated to marine biodiversity and #ecosystemservices.
🌐Session Q will be dedicated to marine biodiversity and #ecosystemservices.
En route to Klaipeda no flying. 6 countries, 11 trains, 1 bus & 1 ferry. Come join us on Monday for the #ICESASC25 session on marine biodiversity and ecosystem services. How can we co-exist successfully with nature?
September 14, 2025 at 8:49 AM
#ICESASC2025 starts tomorrow, with strong MARBEFES representation.
🌐Session Q will be dedicated to marine biodiversity and #ecosystemservices.
🌐Session Q will be dedicated to marine biodiversity and #ecosystemservices.
Call for abstracts!
We are excited to invite contributions to the Ocean Sciences Meeting #OSM26 session ME008: Food Webs in Changing Oceans and Seas
Abstract submission is open until 20 August 2025. Read more and submit here: www.agu.org/ocean-scienc...
Hope to see you in Glasgow!
We are excited to invite contributions to the Ocean Sciences Meeting #OSM26 session ME008: Food Webs in Changing Oceans and Seas
Abstract submission is open until 20 August 2025. Read more and submit here: www.agu.org/ocean-scienc...
Hope to see you in Glasgow!
August 11, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Call for abstracts!
We are excited to invite contributions to the Ocean Sciences Meeting #OSM26 session ME008: Food Webs in Changing Oceans and Seas
Abstract submission is open until 20 August 2025. Read more and submit here: www.agu.org/ocean-scienc...
Hope to see you in Glasgow!
We are excited to invite contributions to the Ocean Sciences Meeting #OSM26 session ME008: Food Webs in Changing Oceans and Seas
Abstract submission is open until 20 August 2025. Read more and submit here: www.agu.org/ocean-scienc...
Hope to see you in Glasgow!
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☀️August Issue Out Now!☀️
📙South-west Finnish Archipelago, the study site in the article ‘Marine heatwaves amplify benthic community metabolism and solute flux in a seafloor heating experiment’, which features in this issue. Credit: Alf Norkko🌊
💡Read it here:
👉 buff.ly/JTXdj1C
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📙South-west Finnish Archipelago, the study site in the article ‘Marine heatwaves amplify benthic community metabolism and solute flux in a seafloor heating experiment’, which features in this issue. Credit: Alf Norkko🌊
💡Read it here:
👉 buff.ly/JTXdj1C
🧪🌍
August 6, 2025 at 8:15 AM
☀️August Issue Out Now!☀️
📙South-west Finnish Archipelago, the study site in the article ‘Marine heatwaves amplify benthic community metabolism and solute flux in a seafloor heating experiment’, which features in this issue. Credit: Alf Norkko🌊
💡Read it here:
👉 buff.ly/JTXdj1C
🧪🌍
📙South-west Finnish Archipelago, the study site in the article ‘Marine heatwaves amplify benthic community metabolism and solute flux in a seafloor heating experiment’, which features in this issue. Credit: Alf Norkko🌊
💡Read it here:
👉 buff.ly/JTXdj1C
🧪🌍
What an amazing discovery!
A newly identified group of deep-sea spiders carries methane-eating microbes on their legs, revealing a unique symbiosis and a surprising new lineage in the ocean depths
#DeepSea
#NewSpecies
#MarineBiology
#OceanExploration
#biology
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Paper
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#DeepSea
#NewSpecies
#MarineBiology
#OceanExploration
#biology
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Paper
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
New Discovery of Deep Sea 'Spiders' Is Unlike Anything We've Seen Before
Three newly-discovered species of deep sea 'spiders' farm methane-eating bacteria on their own bodies in a symbiosis quite unlike anything seen before.
www.sciencealert.com
June 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
What an amazing discovery!
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Saw this work presented at the Cefas student conference. I love it - great example of how to make the absolute best out of what initially looks like a fieldwork disaster (study organism gets eaten…)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Loving this paper on recent collaboration between Cefas and partners, including @universityofexeter.bsky.social
...in essence, tagging of a tuna that got eaten by a whale 🍣
Loving this paper on recent collaboration between Cefas and partners, including @universityofexeter.bsky.social
...in essence, tagging of a tuna that got eaten by a whale 🍣
High-resolution biologging of an Atlantic bluefin tuna captured and eaten by a supposed orca - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - High-resolution biologging of an Atlantic bluefin tuna captured and eaten by a supposed orca
www.nature.com
May 30, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Saw this work presented at the Cefas student conference. I love it - great example of how to make the absolute best out of what initially looks like a fieldwork disaster (study organism gets eaten…)
Today is #WorldOceansDay and I have traveled to Nice to join the 3rd UN Ocean Conference. Exciting that so many have come together to work for a healthy ocean environment and thriving marine life! Happy to be part of the Finnish delegation.
#UNOC3 #UNOCNice #ScienceForTheOcean
@helsinki.fi
#UNOC3 #UNOCNice #ScienceForTheOcean
@helsinki.fi
June 8, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Today is #WorldOceansDay and I have traveled to Nice to join the 3rd UN Ocean Conference. Exciting that so many have come together to work for a healthy ocean environment and thriving marine life! Happy to be part of the Finnish delegation.
#UNOC3 #UNOCNice #ScienceForTheOcean
@helsinki.fi
#UNOC3 #UNOCNice #ScienceForTheOcean
@helsinki.fi
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📣Post-doc opportunity in thermal ecology & species interactions with Arnaud Sentis at INRAE Aix-en-Provence, France.
🌡️Explore how antagonistic interactions shape thermal tolerance in freshwater organisms.
📆 Start: Nov. 2025 | Duration: 2 years
📩 Sept. 8, 2025
Info 👉 www.inrae.fr/en/news/erc-...
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🌡️Explore how antagonistic interactions shape thermal tolerance in freshwater organisms.
📆 Start: Nov. 2025 | Duration: 2 years
📩 Sept. 8, 2025
Info 👉 www.inrae.fr/en/news/erc-...
🌐🧪🌍
May 30, 2025 at 11:49 AM
📣Post-doc opportunity in thermal ecology & species interactions with Arnaud Sentis at INRAE Aix-en-Provence, France.
🌡️Explore how antagonistic interactions shape thermal tolerance in freshwater organisms.
📆 Start: Nov. 2025 | Duration: 2 years
📩 Sept. 8, 2025
Info 👉 www.inrae.fr/en/news/erc-...
🌐🧪🌍
🌡️Explore how antagonistic interactions shape thermal tolerance in freshwater organisms.
📆 Start: Nov. 2025 | Duration: 2 years
📩 Sept. 8, 2025
Info 👉 www.inrae.fr/en/news/erc-...
🌐🧪🌍
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Restoration cannot be scaled up globally to save reefs from loss and degradation
Our new paper just out in @natureecoevo.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our new paper just out in @natureecoevo.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Restoration cannot be scaled up globally to save reefs from loss and degradation - Nature Ecology & Evolution
An assessment of existing coral restoration projects finds that accessibility drives the choice of restoration sites more than environmental and ecological factors, and most restored reefs have been o...
www.nature.com
April 8, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Restoration cannot be scaled up globally to save reefs from loss and degradation
Our new paper just out in @natureecoevo.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our new paper just out in @natureecoevo.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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NEW PhD thesis! Roel Lammerant will defend the doctoral dissertation entitled "Functional perspective on the role of macrophytes in the coastal carbon cycle across different temporal and spatial scales" on Friday 4.4 at 13:00 at Tvärminne Zoological Station.
Stream: helsinki.zoom.us/j/68659327422
Stream: helsinki.zoom.us/j/68659327422
March 31, 2025 at 1:22 PM
NEW PhD thesis! Roel Lammerant will defend the doctoral dissertation entitled "Functional perspective on the role of macrophytes in the coastal carbon cycle across different temporal and spatial scales" on Friday 4.4 at 13:00 at Tvärminne Zoological Station.
Stream: helsinki.zoom.us/j/68659327422
Stream: helsinki.zoom.us/j/68659327422
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⭐️Shortlisted for the 2024 Haldane Prize!
🌊Jahangir Vajedsamiei investigates how #heatwaves impact marine species. By improving predictive models with real-world data, we can better anticipate the effects of #climatechange on #marine #ecosystems
🌎🧪 functionalecologists.com/2025/03/28/j...
🌊Jahangir Vajedsamiei investigates how #heatwaves impact marine species. By improving predictive models with real-world data, we can better anticipate the effects of #climatechange on #marine #ecosystems
🌎🧪 functionalecologists.com/2025/03/28/j...
Jahangir Vajedsamiei: Predicting key ectotherm population mortality in response to dynamic marine heatwaves
2024 HALDANE PRIZE SHORTLIST: Jahangir Vajedsamiei discusses his paper “Predicting key ectotherm population mortality in response to dynamic marine heatwaves: A Bayesian-enhanced thermal tolerance …
functionalecologists.com
March 28, 2025 at 11:43 AM
⭐️Shortlisted for the 2024 Haldane Prize!
🌊Jahangir Vajedsamiei investigates how #heatwaves impact marine species. By improving predictive models with real-world data, we can better anticipate the effects of #climatechange on #marine #ecosystems
🌎🧪 functionalecologists.com/2025/03/28/j...
🌊Jahangir Vajedsamiei investigates how #heatwaves impact marine species. By improving predictive models with real-world data, we can better anticipate the effects of #climatechange on #marine #ecosystems
🌎🧪 functionalecologists.com/2025/03/28/j...
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The COINS conference is kicking off with very strong and inspiring talks by @marienordstrom.bsky.social about ecology and food webs and @kellykrause.bsky.social about scientific visualizations
March 17, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The COINS conference is kicking off with very strong and inspiring talks by @marienordstrom.bsky.social about ecology and food webs and @kellykrause.bsky.social about scientific visualizations
Thoroughly enjoying the COINS 2025 in Vilnius. Today’s speakers include Dr Eugene Koonin and Creative Director Kelly Krause (Nature) as well as yours truly. Thank you and congratulations to the organizers and Domas Sakalauskas in particular!
March 17, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Thoroughly enjoying the COINS 2025 in Vilnius. Today’s speakers include Dr Eugene Koonin and Creative Director Kelly Krause (Nature) as well as yours truly. Thank you and congratulations to the organizers and Domas Sakalauskas in particular!
Reposted by Marie C. Nordström
🌊 Ocean Census scientists have identified 800+ new marine species using AI imaging & DNA analysis. From deep-sea crustaceans to jellyfish, the findings highlight how little we know about #ocean biodiversity. What else might the deep sea be hiding? 🌏🧪
oceancensus.org/publications... #Biodiversity
oceancensus.org/publications... #Biodiversity
The Ocean Census Discovers Over 800 New Marine Species
The Ocean Census, the largest global mission to discover ocean life reveals over 800 newly discovered marine species.
oceancensus.org
March 14, 2025 at 10:33 AM
🌊 Ocean Census scientists have identified 800+ new marine species using AI imaging & DNA analysis. From deep-sea crustaceans to jellyfish, the findings highlight how little we know about #ocean biodiversity. What else might the deep sea be hiding? 🌏🧪
oceancensus.org/publications... #Biodiversity
oceancensus.org/publications... #Biodiversity
Patrik Ståhl at #OIKOSFin2025 @oikosfinland.bsky.social presenting his paper on how food web robustness depends on the network type and threshold for extinction. Read more here: doi.org/10.1111/oik....
March 12, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Patrik Ståhl at #OIKOSFin2025 @oikosfinland.bsky.social presenting his paper on how food web robustness depends on the network type and threshold for extinction. Read more here: doi.org/10.1111/oik....
Happy to be here together with participants from 27 different countries!
New attendance record at Oikos Finland conference this year. We've got a full house! #OIKOSFin2025
March 12, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Happy to be here together with participants from 27 different countries!
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44,000 #biological #interactions extracted from 84,000 publications—in just a few hours using GPT4o
Preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... by @francoiskeck.bsky.social et al #ecology🌍🌐🐟🌳🦋🪰🌿🪲 #predation #parasitism #mutualism
🚀 Potential applications seem endless & will change how we do #ecology
Preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... by @francoiskeck.bsky.social et al #ecology🌍🌐🐟🌳🦋🪰🌿🪲 #predation #parasitism #mutualism
🚀 Potential applications seem endless & will change how we do #ecology
January 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM
44,000 #biological #interactions extracted from 84,000 publications—in just a few hours using GPT4o
Preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... by @francoiskeck.bsky.social et al #ecology🌍🌐🐟🌳🦋🪰🌿🪲 #predation #parasitism #mutualism
🚀 Potential applications seem endless & will change how we do #ecology
Preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... by @francoiskeck.bsky.social et al #ecology🌍🌐🐟🌳🦋🪰🌿🪲 #predation #parasitism #mutualism
🚀 Potential applications seem endless & will change how we do #ecology
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"We need a fundamental shift in how we produce food—one that recognizes that food production efficiency comes at the cost of ecosystem robustness and the loss of #biodiversity. By mimicking nature's complex mosaic of habitats, we can strengthen the resilience of food webs." 🌐🧪🌎
Global food production has resulted in significant biodiversity loss, research shows
As the world grapples with the challenges of climate change and food insecurity, the need for sustainable food production has taken on a new urgency.
phys.org
January 25, 2025 at 12:47 PM
"We need a fundamental shift in how we produce food—one that recognizes that food production efficiency comes at the cost of ecosystem robustness and the loss of #biodiversity. By mimicking nature's complex mosaic of habitats, we can strengthen the resilience of food webs." 🌐🧪🌎
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JOB ALERT!
Associate Professor position in Animal Biology available at Linköping University, Sweden.
Areas of interest include ecology, physiology, evo-devo and genetics.
🧪 🌍 🦊 🐟 🦉 #AcademicSky #WomenInSTEM #HigherED #ScienceJobs
liu.se/en/work-at-l...
Associate Professor position in Animal Biology available at Linköping University, Sweden.
Areas of interest include ecology, physiology, evo-devo and genetics.
🧪 🌍 🦊 🐟 🦉 #AcademicSky #WomenInSTEM #HigherED #ScienceJobs
liu.se/en/work-at-l...
Associate professor in animal biology
liu.se
January 26, 2025 at 8:30 AM
JOB ALERT!
Associate Professor position in Animal Biology available at Linköping University, Sweden.
Areas of interest include ecology, physiology, evo-devo and genetics.
🧪 🌍 🦊 🐟 🦉 #AcademicSky #WomenInSTEM #HigherED #ScienceJobs
liu.se/en/work-at-l...
Associate Professor position in Animal Biology available at Linköping University, Sweden.
Areas of interest include ecology, physiology, evo-devo and genetics.
🧪 🌍 🦊 🐟 🦉 #AcademicSky #WomenInSTEM #HigherED #ScienceJobs
liu.se/en/work-at-l...
Enjoyed two days discussing exciting projects. I really appreciate my positive and supportive colleagues and the bright PhD students I am privileged to work with.
January 24, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Enjoyed two days discussing exciting projects. I really appreciate my positive and supportive colleagues and the bright PhD students I am privileged to work with.
”Through this cross-feeding interaction, Prochlorococcus could be helping many microbial communities to grow sustainably, simply by giving away what it doesn’t need. And they’re doing so in a way that could set the daily rhythms of microbes around the world.”
news.mit.edu/2025/abundan...
news.mit.edu/2025/abundan...
An abundant phytoplankton feeds a global network of marine microbes
The abundant phytoplankton Prochlorococcus shed extra compounds into their surroundings, which are then taken up by other organisms, MIT researchers have found. This “cross-feeding” may play a large r...
news.mit.edu
January 4, 2025 at 8:48 PM
”Through this cross-feeding interaction, Prochlorococcus could be helping many microbial communities to grow sustainably, simply by giving away what it doesn’t need. And they’re doing so in a way that could set the daily rhythms of microbes around the world.”
news.mit.edu/2025/abundan...
news.mit.edu/2025/abundan...
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#BES2024 FOMO. That is all.
a man in a black jacket and white pants is walking through a dirt field
Alt: a man in a black jacket and white pants is walking through a dirt field
media.tenor.com
December 11, 2024 at 4:19 PM
#BES2024 FOMO. That is all.
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Well this wasn't on my agenda 🫣
www.bangor.ac.uk/news/2024-12...
www.bangor.ac.uk/news/2024-12...
Conservationist and Arctic researcher to be honoured at Bangor University’s winter graduation ceremonies
Bangor University will honour two exceptional individuals at its Winter Graduation ceremonies on 19 and 20 December: conservationist Nigel Brown and Arctic researcher Professor David N Thomas. Both re...
www.bangor.ac.uk
December 9, 2024 at 5:28 PM
Well this wasn't on my agenda 🫣
www.bangor.ac.uk/news/2024-12...
www.bangor.ac.uk/news/2024-12...
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📢#WeAreHiring! I am looking for a #postdoc (2yr position) either in ecological modelling or experimental trait-based ecology to join us in Northern Biodiversity and Ecosystem functioning group at @helsinkiuni.bsky.social
Thanks for reposting!
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
Thanks for reposting!
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
Postdoctoral Researcher in Ecological Modelling or Trait-based Ecology
Postdoctoral Researcher in Ecological Modelling or Trait-based Ecology
jobs.helsinki.fi
December 5, 2024 at 6:26 AM
📢#WeAreHiring! I am looking for a #postdoc (2yr position) either in ecological modelling or experimental trait-based ecology to join us in Northern Biodiversity and Ecosystem functioning group at @helsinkiuni.bsky.social
Thanks for reposting!
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
Thanks for reposting!
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
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Just published in @asn-amnat.bsky.social:
#Resource flow #network structure drives #Metaecosystem function. 🌍 🌐 🟦↔️🟩
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
We investigate how spatial structure of larger resource flow networks influences #ecosystem function at metaecosystem scales.
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#Resource flow #network structure drives #Metaecosystem function. 🌍 🌐 🟦↔️🟩
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
We investigate how spatial structure of larger resource flow networks influences #ecosystem function at metaecosystem scales.
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December 2, 2024 at 3:24 PM
Just published in @asn-amnat.bsky.social:
#Resource flow #network structure drives #Metaecosystem function. 🌍 🌐 🟦↔️🟩
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
We investigate how spatial structure of larger resource flow networks influences #ecosystem function at metaecosystem scales.
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#Resource flow #network structure drives #Metaecosystem function. 🌍 🌐 🟦↔️🟩
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
We investigate how spatial structure of larger resource flow networks influences #ecosystem function at metaecosystem scales.
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