Paolo G. Albano
@pgalbano.bsky.social
Exploration and conservation of marine biodiversity in space and time, malacology | Senior scientist at Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Italy | he/his
I am giving an online presentation "Biodiversity collapses and future invasions in the Mediterranean Sea" in the "Tipping points in Earth's history" webinar series (Prof William Foster) @uni-hamburg.de on Tuesday 4 November 16:15 CET. You can register here: www.geo.uni-hamburg.de/en/geologie/...
upcoming seminars
www.geo.uni-hamburg.de
November 2, 2025 at 8:08 AM
I am giving an online presentation "Biodiversity collapses and future invasions in the Mediterranean Sea" in the "Tipping points in Earth's history" webinar series (Prof William Foster) @uni-hamburg.de on Tuesday 4 November 16:15 CET. You can register here: www.geo.uni-hamburg.de/en/geologie/...
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Ready to take the next step in your research career at @icmcsic.bsky.social?We’re seeking enthusiastic candidates to join our team + apply for prestigious pre/postdoc fellowships. Learn more👇
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October 1, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Ready to take the next step in your research career at @icmcsic.bsky.social?We’re seeking enthusiastic candidates to join our team + apply for prestigious pre/postdoc fellowships. Learn more👇
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Debating the aesthetics of #wind & #solar is a luxury. The real crisis is climate change—threatening billions with deadly heat & catastrophic ecosystem breakdowns ♨️🥵🔥 Green #energy is a necessity🍃 Challenges exist (noise, land use) but are manageable - biggest risk is inaction #dkpol #climatechange
September 21, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Debating the aesthetics of #wind & #solar is a luxury. The real crisis is climate change—threatening billions with deadly heat & catastrophic ecosystem breakdowns ♨️🥵🔥 Green #energy is a necessity🍃 Challenges exist (noise, land use) but are manageable - biggest risk is inaction #dkpol #climatechange
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As the Sea Around Us PI, Dr. Daniel Pauly, "put it in a TED talk in 2010, 'we transform the world, but we don’t remember it' wildfish.org/latest-news/...
Shifting baselines: Have we forgotten what rivers used to be like? | Wildfish
Dr. Sam Green explores the generational tolerance for environmental decline and asks: Have we forgotten the rivers from before.
wildfish.org
September 16, 2025 at 11:03 PM
As the Sea Around Us PI, Dr. Daniel Pauly, "put it in a TED talk in 2010, 'we transform the world, but we don’t remember it' wildfish.org/latest-news/...
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Come to our amazing Bergen! Great work-life environment, 100s km of hiking around Bergen, and the project also looks pretty cool 😄
3 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in Landscape Multifunctionality here in beautiful Bergen jobbnorge.no/en/available... please repost
September 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Come to our amazing Bergen! Great work-life environment, 100s km of hiking around Bergen, and the project also looks pretty cool 😄
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“Rightwing populists all over Europe want to destroy the ability of the UK and the EU to regulate large tech platforms — a move that might threaten their disinformation campaigns with genuine political debate.”
www.ft.com/content/62b1...
www.ft.com/content/62b1...
Protecting Big Tech, not free speech
Trump and Farage are using censorship as a cloak for disinformation
www.ft.com
September 8, 2025 at 9:03 AM
“Rightwing populists all over Europe want to destroy the ability of the UK and the EU to regulate large tech platforms — a move that might threaten their disinformation campaigns with genuine political debate.”
www.ft.com/content/62b1...
www.ft.com/content/62b1...
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🌊 What climate change means for the Mediterranean Sea
July 2025 was the hottest on record, with sea surface temperatures hitting 28°C
Climate change is pushing marine life to the brink: seagrass dying, fish stocks shrinking, invasive species rising
Every 0.1°C matters
phis.org/news/2025-09...
July 2025 was the hottest on record, with sea surface temperatures hitting 28°C
Climate change is pushing marine life to the brink: seagrass dying, fish stocks shrinking, invasive species rising
Every 0.1°C matters
phis.org/news/2025-09...
What climate change means for the Mediterranean Sea
Temperatures in the Mediterranean are currently rising to record levels. Instead of a refreshing dip, holidaymakers in places like Greece, Italy, and Spain, among other places, are now facing water te...
phys.org
September 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
🌊 What climate change means for the Mediterranean Sea
July 2025 was the hottest on record, with sea surface temperatures hitting 28°C
Climate change is pushing marine life to the brink: seagrass dying, fish stocks shrinking, invasive species rising
Every 0.1°C matters
phis.org/news/2025-09...
July 2025 was the hottest on record, with sea surface temperatures hitting 28°C
Climate change is pushing marine life to the brink: seagrass dying, fish stocks shrinking, invasive species rising
Every 0.1°C matters
phis.org/news/2025-09...
Tax cuts will not reverse the #demographic crisis in #Greece nor in other countries facing similar "existential threats". Young people need jobs commensurate to their qualifications and conditions to realize their potential. Or they will just continue fleeing.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Greece announces €1.6bn relief package to tackle population decline
Government to use tax breaks and other financial incentives to encourage people to have more children
www.theguardian.com
September 8, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Tax cuts will not reverse the #demographic crisis in #Greece nor in other countries facing similar "existential threats". Young people need jobs commensurate to their qualifications and conditions to realize their potential. Or they will just continue fleeing.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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Excellent thread on what is going on at academic journals, from the perspective of an editor.
Clearly highlights the strain (direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...) caused by quantitative incentives, and that publishers cannot be allies in solving the mess -- they are part of the problem & profit from it.
Clearly highlights the strain (direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...) caused by quantitative incentives, and that publishers cannot be allies in solving the mess -- they are part of the problem & profit from it.
September 7, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Excellent thread on what is going on at academic journals, from the perspective of an editor.
Clearly highlights the strain (direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...) caused by quantitative incentives, and that publishers cannot be allies in solving the mess -- they are part of the problem & profit from it.
Clearly highlights the strain (direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...) caused by quantitative incentives, and that publishers cannot be allies in solving the mess -- they are part of the problem & profit from it.
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The deadline for submitting an Abstract to the #GuardIAS Conference is close!
Conference Theme: “Prevention of Invasive Alien Species Introductions and Biosecurity Risk Assessment”
#bioinvasions #MarineEcology #AquaticEcology
Conference Theme: “Prevention of Invasive Alien Species Introductions and Biosecurity Risk Assessment”
#bioinvasions #MarineEcology #AquaticEcology
Present your research at the GuardIAS Conference!
Submit your abstract by Sept 12 for a chance to be published in Management of Biological Invasions with a full APC waiver.
Find out more & submit: guardias.eu/submitting-a...
#CallforAbstracts #InvasiveSpecies #GuardIAS
Submit your abstract by Sept 12 for a chance to be published in Management of Biological Invasions with a full APC waiver.
Find out more & submit: guardias.eu/submitting-a...
#CallforAbstracts #InvasiveSpecies #GuardIAS
Submitting an Abstract & Presenting
guardias.eu
September 6, 2025 at 2:19 PM
The deadline for submitting an Abstract to the #GuardIAS Conference is close!
Conference Theme: “Prevention of Invasive Alien Species Introductions and Biosecurity Risk Assessment”
#bioinvasions #MarineEcology #AquaticEcology
Conference Theme: “Prevention of Invasive Alien Species Introductions and Biosecurity Risk Assessment”
#bioinvasions #MarineEcology #AquaticEcology
I tried Google Lens to identify a sea slug... The first reply was impressive: Aplysia parvula, correct! However, I refreshed the page by mistake and it re-identified it as Aplysia juliana... Then I refreshed the page on purpose and got genus Aplysia alone... Also Lens knows Aplysia is tricky...
September 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I tried Google Lens to identify a sea slug... The first reply was impressive: Aplysia parvula, correct! However, I refreshed the page by mistake and it re-identified it as Aplysia juliana... Then I refreshed the page on purpose and got genus Aplysia alone... Also Lens knows Aplysia is tricky...
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why we are doing this:
PRI is one of America's largest museum collections, and they need to raise the last 1/3 of funds (~$1mil) needed to pay off their mortgage by Dec (a donor backed out of a pledge) or it will be the largest orphaned collection in US history.
www.science.org/content/arti...
PRI is one of America's largest museum collections, and they need to raise the last 1/3 of funds (~$1mil) needed to pay off their mortgage by Dec (a donor backed out of a pledge) or it will be the largest orphaned collection in US history.
www.science.org/content/arti...
Financial peril could doom a famed New York paleontological institute
“Exceptional” fossil collections housed by the Paleontological Research Institute risk being orphaned
www.science.org
September 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
why we are doing this:
PRI is one of America's largest museum collections, and they need to raise the last 1/3 of funds (~$1mil) needed to pay off their mortgage by Dec (a donor backed out of a pledge) or it will be the largest orphaned collection in US history.
www.science.org/content/arti...
PRI is one of America's largest museum collections, and they need to raise the last 1/3 of funds (~$1mil) needed to pay off their mortgage by Dec (a donor backed out of a pledge) or it will be the largest orphaned collection in US history.
www.science.org/content/arti...
I am pleased to advertise the publication of the first part of the catalogue of type specimens of the #molluscs (and a brachiopod...) in the Born collection in the @nhmwien.bsky.social. Many Born's names introduced in the late 18th c. are still valid today.
zse.pensoft.net/article/1618...
zse.pensoft.net/article/1618...
An illustrated type catalogue of Born’s collection at the Natural History Museum Vienna. Part 1: Mollusca (Bivalvia and Scaphopoda), Brachiopoda
The Natural History Museum Vienna houses a valuable and rich mollusc collection that traces back to the early days of the Linnaean system of nomenclature. Its foundation was laid by Emperor Franz I St...
zse.pensoft.net
September 3, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I am pleased to advertise the publication of the first part of the catalogue of type specimens of the #molluscs (and a brachiopod...) in the Born collection in the @nhmwien.bsky.social. Many Born's names introduced in the late 18th c. are still valid today.
zse.pensoft.net/article/1618...
zse.pensoft.net/article/1618...
I asked again "How can I estimate wave base from significant wave height?" to Perplexity AI and was impressed by the reply that correctly included "Significant wave height alone is not sufficient by itself; wave period or wavelength information is also generally needed" plus sources!
August 31, 2025 at 4:49 AM
I asked again "How can I estimate wave base from significant wave height?" to Perplexity AI and was impressed by the reply that correctly included "Significant wave height alone is not sufficient by itself; wave period or wavelength information is also generally needed" plus sources!
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BHL's #CallforSupport soft closes Aug 31. Even if your ideas aren’t fully formed, we want to hear from you.
🌱 Thinking about hosting?
🌱 Considering funding support?
🌱 Want to partner but unsure how?
Every possibility helps secure BHL’s future. about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup... #ILoveBHL
🌱 Thinking about hosting?
🌱 Considering funding support?
🌱 Want to partner but unsure how?
Every possibility helps secure BHL’s future. about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup... #ILoveBHL
August 25, 2025 at 1:24 AM
BHL's #CallforSupport soft closes Aug 31. Even if your ideas aren’t fully formed, we want to hear from you.
🌱 Thinking about hosting?
🌱 Considering funding support?
🌱 Want to partner but unsure how?
Every possibility helps secure BHL’s future. about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup... #ILoveBHL
🌱 Thinking about hosting?
🌱 Considering funding support?
🌱 Want to partner but unsure how?
Every possibility helps secure BHL’s future. about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup... #ILoveBHL
First time I see the concept of shifting #baselines in a natural history #museum! Effective exhibit in the Naturhistorisk museum at the University of #Oslo.
August 6, 2025 at 8:35 PM
First time I see the concept of shifting #baselines in a natural history #museum! Effective exhibit in the Naturhistorisk museum at the University of #Oslo.
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This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered
July 31, 2025 at 3:38 PM
This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered
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AWESOME JOB OPPORTUNITY: Aldabra Science Coordinator (The Seychelles Islands Foundation)
www.sif.sc/node/679
#jobs #seychelles #coralreefs #jobopportunity #marinescience #coral #sciencecoordinator #marineecology #careers #marinebiology
www.sif.sc/node/679
#jobs #seychelles #coralreefs #jobopportunity #marinescience #coral #sciencecoordinator #marineecology #careers #marinebiology
July 31, 2025 at 7:11 AM
AWESOME JOB OPPORTUNITY: Aldabra Science Coordinator (The Seychelles Islands Foundation)
www.sif.sc/node/679
#jobs #seychelles #coralreefs #jobopportunity #marinescience #coral #sciencecoordinator #marineecology #careers #marinebiology
www.sif.sc/node/679
#jobs #seychelles #coralreefs #jobopportunity #marinescience #coral #sciencecoordinator #marineecology #careers #marinebiology
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Oh, bugger. This is serious. Funding cuts are hitting bad. Like many colleagues, I wouldn't be able to get my hands on a lot of necessary literature, if not for BHL.
Call for Support: – About BHL
about.biodiversitylibrary.org
July 5, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Oh, bugger. This is serious. Funding cuts are hitting bad. Like many colleagues, I wouldn't be able to get my hands on a lot of necessary literature, if not for BHL.
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Senior postdoc position in Paleontology @nat.fau.de. Starting date negotiable between 1st of Octorber and 15th of December 2025.
www.gzn.nat.fau.eu/2025/06/16/s...
www.gzn.nat.fau.eu/2025/06/16/s...
Job Advertisement: Akademischer Rat / Akademische Rätin (A13) in Paleontology (f/m/d)
Section Paleontology, GeoZentrum Nordbayern, Department of Geography and Geosciences, Friedrich-Alexander Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg, We invite applications for an Akademischer Rat auf Zeit…
www.gzn.nat.fau.eu
June 23, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Senior postdoc position in Paleontology @nat.fau.de. Starting date negotiable between 1st of Octorber and 15th of December 2025.
www.gzn.nat.fau.eu/2025/06/16/s...
www.gzn.nat.fau.eu/2025/06/16/s...
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🚨 I'm looking for #Postdoc opportunities starting this September! 🧑🔬🔍
I'm a highly motivated researcher with experience in R, network analysis, and multivariate statistics. My focus is on the evolution of ecosystems and biodiversity over deep time.
I'm a highly motivated researcher with experience in R, network analysis, and multivariate statistics. My focus is on the evolution of ecosystems and biodiversity over deep time.
June 13, 2025 at 8:24 AM
🚨 I'm looking for #Postdoc opportunities starting this September! 🧑🔬🔍
I'm a highly motivated researcher with experience in R, network analysis, and multivariate statistics. My focus is on the evolution of ecosystems and biodiversity over deep time.
I'm a highly motivated researcher with experience in R, network analysis, and multivariate statistics. My focus is on the evolution of ecosystems and biodiversity over deep time.
Course on the taxonomy of marine molluscs ongoing at @szndohrn.bsky.social in Naples! 20 participants trained by Serge Gofas, Fabio Crocetta, Luigi Romani, Maria Vittoria Modica and myself, excellent organization by Paolo Fasciglione who leads the BENthos TAxonomy CourseS (BENTACS).
June 11, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Course on the taxonomy of marine molluscs ongoing at @szndohrn.bsky.social in Naples! 20 participants trained by Serge Gofas, Fabio Crocetta, Luigi Romani, Maria Vittoria Modica and myself, excellent organization by Paolo Fasciglione who leads the BENthos TAxonomy CourseS (BENTACS).
A 'novel ecosystem' on a mountain in Hawaii:
May 16, 2025 at 11:46 AM
A 'novel ecosystem' on a mountain in Hawaii:
Different search engine AIs, different results, to the question "how to estimate wave base from significant wave height". Don't trust search engine AIs! (the right answer is we can't, as wave base is approximately half of wave length not of significant wave height)
May 15, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Different search engine AIs, different results, to the question "how to estimate wave base from significant wave height". Don't trust search engine AIs! (the right answer is we can't, as wave base is approximately half of wave length not of significant wave height)
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📣 Euromarine Summer school in Ischia next September. Deadline for applications 26th may.
🎓 Are you a marine MSc or PhD student passionate about climate change and biodiversity? Join our Summer School in Ischia, Italy!
📅 Sept 14–20, 2025
📝 Apply by May 26 → bit.ly/42VRjfL
🔬 Explore seawater chemistry, R & GitHub, blue carbon, drone surveys, and photogrammetry — right in the field
🌊🌐🧪🦤
📅 Sept 14–20, 2025
📝 Apply by May 26 → bit.ly/42VRjfL
🔬 Explore seawater chemistry, R & GitHub, blue carbon, drone surveys, and photogrammetry — right in the field
🌊🌐🧪🦤
May 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
📣 Euromarine Summer school in Ischia next September. Deadline for applications 26th may.