Sebastian Theis, PhD
@sebtheis.bsky.social
Post-doc | Freshwater ecologist💧| Conservation policy enthusiast🍃| Offsetting and mitigation banking♻️| Ecosystem service management🏞️| Favorite species - Percopsis omiscomaycus 🐟| Fantasy and SciFi connoisseur💍🧙♂️
Great time speaking at the #IBA2025 on nature-related financial disclosures.
For nature markets to be credible and avoid green-washing, we have to solve the Measurement, Reporting, and Verification problem and make reliable nature data a public good.
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
#NatureMarket #TNFD
For nature markets to be credible and avoid green-washing, we have to solve the Measurement, Reporting, and Verification problem and make reliable nature data a public good.
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
#NatureMarket #TNFD
November 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Great time speaking at the #IBA2025 on nature-related financial disclosures.
For nature markets to be credible and avoid green-washing, we have to solve the Measurement, Reporting, and Verification problem and make reliable nature data a public good.
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
#NatureMarket #TNFD
For nature markets to be credible and avoid green-washing, we have to solve the Measurement, Reporting, and Verification problem and make reliable nature data a public good.
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
#NatureMarket #TNFD
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The Toronto Blue Jays are going to the World Series
October 21, 2025 at 3:03 AM
The Toronto Blue Jays are going to the World Series
For anyone looking for an amazing PhD opportunity with Steph Green in marine global change ecology and conservation for 2026: greenlab.ca/opportunitie...
JOIN US
I am recruiting graduate students, analysts, and postdoctoral researchers for funded projects in a variety of research themes. See the links below for specific opportunities or contact [stephanie.g…
greenlab.ca
October 6, 2025 at 8:38 PM
For anyone looking for an amazing PhD opportunity with Steph Green in marine global change ecology and conservation for 2026: greenlab.ca/opportunitie...
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New paper introducing the term of SUPER HABITAT for sharks in which all critical activities (resting, feeding, mating & giving birth) occurs.
🦈🌴❤️🍽️ 👶
Access the paper here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@dr-yannis.bsky.social @charlie-huveneers.bsky.social
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Access the paper here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@dr-yannis.bsky.social @charlie-huveneers.bsky.social
August 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
New paper introducing the term of SUPER HABITAT for sharks in which all critical activities (resting, feeding, mating & giving birth) occurs.
🦈🌴❤️🍽️ 👶
Access the paper here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@dr-yannis.bsky.social @charlie-huveneers.bsky.social
🦈🌴❤️🍽️ 👶
Access the paper here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@dr-yannis.bsky.social @charlie-huveneers.bsky.social
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Content With Purpose (CWP) and @amfisheriessoc.bsky.social debuting “Tomorrow’s Catch: Securing our Future Fisheries” at #AFS155.
Through storytelling, this movie series connects data with emotion to educate audiences about issues for our freshwater and marine ecosystems across the US and Canada.
Through storytelling, this movie series connects data with emotion to educate audiences about issues for our freshwater and marine ecosystems across the US and Canada.
August 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Content With Purpose (CWP) and @amfisheriessoc.bsky.social debuting “Tomorrow’s Catch: Securing our Future Fisheries” at #AFS155.
Through storytelling, this movie series connects data with emotion to educate audiences about issues for our freshwater and marine ecosystems across the US and Canada.
Through storytelling, this movie series connects data with emotion to educate audiences about issues for our freshwater and marine ecosystems across the US and Canada.
Very excited to share our latest paper as part of ResNet and an amazing team of co-authors. We present a cross-disciplinary analysis of Essential Ecosystem Service Variables (EESVs).
doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...
#ecosystem #essential #economic #ecological #ResNet #monitoring #cultural
doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...
#ecosystem #essential #economic #ecological #ResNet #monitoring #cultural
Redirecting
doi.org
July 31, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Very excited to share our latest paper as part of ResNet and an amazing team of co-authors. We present a cross-disciplinary analysis of Essential Ecosystem Service Variables (EESVs).
doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...
#ecosystem #essential #economic #ecological #ResNet #monitoring #cultural
doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...
#ecosystem #essential #economic #ecological #ResNet #monitoring #cultural
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Blessed to find this beautiful electric blue Faxonius virilis while sampling the St. Lawrence for my doctoral work! This is a fairly rare phenotype for this native North American species!
July 29, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Blessed to find this beautiful electric blue Faxonius virilis while sampling the St. Lawrence for my doctoral work! This is a fairly rare phenotype for this native North American species!
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Our new forum piece is out now in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social 🥳
We argue that existing & expanding regulations to protect specific animal groups from light pollution 💡 (e.g. bats 🦇 marine turtles 🐢 insects 🦋) might co-protect many other organisms ...
doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... 🔓🧪
We argue that existing & expanding regulations to protect specific animal groups from light pollution 💡 (e.g. bats 🦇 marine turtles 🐢 insects 🦋) might co-protect many other organisms ...
doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... 🔓🧪
June 13, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Our new forum piece is out now in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social 🥳
We argue that existing & expanding regulations to protect specific animal groups from light pollution 💡 (e.g. bats 🦇 marine turtles 🐢 insects 🦋) might co-protect many other organisms ...
doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... 🔓🧪
We argue that existing & expanding regulations to protect specific animal groups from light pollution 💡 (e.g. bats 🦇 marine turtles 🐢 insects 🦋) might co-protect many other organisms ...
doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... 🔓🧪
The numbers are mind-boggling, and I honestly wasn't aware of the full extend of roadkill's doi.org/10.1038/s415... #biodiversity #species #vertebrates
Global Roadkill Data: a dataset on terrestrial vertebrate mortality caused by collision with vehicles - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Global Roadkill Data: a dataset on terrestrial vertebrate mortality caused by collision with vehicles
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June 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
The numbers are mind-boggling, and I honestly wasn't aware of the full extend of roadkill's doi.org/10.1038/s415... #biodiversity #species #vertebrates
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🧵 REVEALED: Community energy projects in Scotland are generating 100x more local wealth than privately-owned wind farms.
But just 0.5% of the renewable power is community-owned. Why this staggering imbalance?
But just 0.5% of the renewable power is community-owned. Why this staggering imbalance?
May 28, 2025 at 8:19 AM
🧵 REVEALED: Community energy projects in Scotland are generating 100x more local wealth than privately-owned wind farms.
But just 0.5% of the renewable power is community-owned. Why this staggering imbalance?
But just 0.5% of the renewable power is community-owned. Why this staggering imbalance?
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Online now: Evidence-based urban greening: a missing piece in biodiversity conservation
Evidence-based urban greening: a missing piece in biodiversity conservation
With calls for increased greenery in cities to safeguard biodiversity and its associated benefits to humans, urban vegetation must be managed carefully and efficiently. It is time to change paths from current spurious attempts to manufacture resilience and instead usher in evidence-based urban greening to secure ecosystems for the future.
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May 27, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Online now: Evidence-based urban greening: a missing piece in biodiversity conservation
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Out now! Our new curriculum for grades 6-12 helps educators across the #GreatLakes region engage their students to think critically about freshwater ecosystems through the lens of crayfish - read more about it here: iiseagrant.org/new-crayfish...
New crayfish curriculum engages students in Great Lakes and local invasive species issues - Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant
Crayfish can frequently be found in the role of classroom pet, but as with many school critters, they can pose a threat if they are released into local waters—non-native species can prove to be invasi...
iiseagrant.org
May 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Out now! Our new curriculum for grades 6-12 helps educators across the #GreatLakes region engage their students to think critically about freshwater ecosystems through the lens of crayfish - read more about it here: iiseagrant.org/new-crayfish...
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Come work with us on CO2 removal model comparisons and help us improve #CDR representations in Earth system models
Deadline: 27th May 2025
www.geomar.de/en/karriere/...
Deadline: 27th May 2025
www.geomar.de/en/karriere/...
Scientist (m/f/d) to build a repository of Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) model implementations and contribute to CDRMIP analysis
www.geomar.de
May 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Come work with us on CO2 removal model comparisons and help us improve #CDR representations in Earth system models
Deadline: 27th May 2025
www.geomar.de/en/karriere/...
Deadline: 27th May 2025
www.geomar.de/en/karriere/...
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Glad this post is finding an audience.
If you’re interested in #biodiversity, #ecology, #climate, #water, check out the archive here: open.substack.com/pub/predirec...
If you’re interested in #biodiversity, #ecology, #climate, #water, check out the archive here: open.substack.com/pub/predirec...
May 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Glad this post is finding an audience.
If you’re interested in #biodiversity, #ecology, #climate, #water, check out the archive here: open.substack.com/pub/predirec...
If you’re interested in #biodiversity, #ecology, #climate, #water, check out the archive here: open.substack.com/pub/predirec...
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Please repost! The Canadian Institute for Ecology and Evolution is looking for a new Director and host university: www.linkedin.com/posts/joe-be...
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The Canadian Institute of Ecology and Evolution - Institut canadien d’écologie et d'évolution (CIEE-ICEE) seeks a new Director and Host Univers...
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May 8, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Please repost! The Canadian Institute for Ecology and Evolution is looking for a new Director and host university: www.linkedin.com/posts/joe-be...
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Happy #DeepDay. The deep sea seems so far away and yet we are more connected to it than we think.
I consider myself very lucky that my work allows me to go to and study this amazing ecosystem.
ourworld.unu.edu/en/deep-sea-...
I consider myself very lucky that my work allows me to go to and study this amazing ecosystem.
ourworld.unu.edu/en/deep-sea-...
Deep Sea Crucial to Our Lives, Study Shows - Our World
A comprehensive new paper aims to explain to a broad audience the valuable functions and processes provided by the deep sea to humans, including carbon sequestration.
ourworld.unu.edu
May 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Happy #DeepDay. The deep sea seems so far away and yet we are more connected to it than we think.
I consider myself very lucky that my work allows me to go to and study this amazing ecosystem.
ourworld.unu.edu/en/deep-sea-...
I consider myself very lucky that my work allows me to go to and study this amazing ecosystem.
ourworld.unu.edu/en/deep-sea-...
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New research from ENSURE – a research partnership between the University of Exeter and The Chinese University of Hong Kong offers practical guidance for achieving balance between economic growth and long-term protection of marine biodiversity.
Links to full paper in original post ⬇️
🦑🌍🧪🌐🌊
Links to full paper in original post ⬇️
🦑🌍🧪🌐🌊
Coastal mega-cities expose ocean wildlife and habitats to “relentless” boat traffic, new research shows
Full paper 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Our press release 👇 @exeter.ac.uk @exetermarine.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social
Full paper 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Our press release 👇 @exeter.ac.uk @exetermarine.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social
Coastal mega-cities expose wildlife to ‘relentless’ boat traffic
Coastal mega-cities expose ocean wildlife and habitats to “relentless” boat traffic, new research shows. The study focussed on China’s Greater Bay Area, a coastal megalopolis encompassing Guangdong, H...
news.exeter.ac.uk
May 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM
New research from ENSURE – a research partnership between the University of Exeter and The Chinese University of Hong Kong offers practical guidance for achieving balance between economic growth and long-term protection of marine biodiversity.
Links to full paper in original post ⬇️
🦑🌍🧪🌐🌊
Links to full paper in original post ⬇️
🦑🌍🧪🌐🌊
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What if everyone had a biobank in a matchbox?
A distributed seedbank; shared by post, scattered with care.
Not stored in vaults like in Svalbard or Wakehurst Place but alive in our laneways, verges, windowsills.
Guerrilla rewilding.
Cheap. Communal. Powerful.
A future held in every pocket. 🌍
A distributed seedbank; shared by post, scattered with care.
Not stored in vaults like in Svalbard or Wakehurst Place but alive in our laneways, verges, windowsills.
Guerrilla rewilding.
Cheap. Communal. Powerful.
A future held in every pocket. 🌍
An ecosystem in a matchbox served as an ice-breaker at a meeting of a new Dublin biodiversity network on Saturday. It’s meant to be a forum for sharing ideas, and knowledge – and working together to push for change. www.dublininquirer.c...
An ecosystem in a matchbox serves as an ice-breaker for a new Dublin biodiversity network
It’s meant to be a forum for sharing ideas, and knowledge – and working together to push for change.
www.dublininquirer.com
May 4, 2025 at 11:03 AM
What if everyone had a biobank in a matchbox?
A distributed seedbank; shared by post, scattered with care.
Not stored in vaults like in Svalbard or Wakehurst Place but alive in our laneways, verges, windowsills.
Guerrilla rewilding.
Cheap. Communal. Powerful.
A future held in every pocket. 🌍
A distributed seedbank; shared by post, scattered with care.
Not stored in vaults like in Svalbard or Wakehurst Place but alive in our laneways, verges, windowsills.
Guerrilla rewilding.
Cheap. Communal. Powerful.
A future held in every pocket. 🌍
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🌍 Why doesn’t biodiversity increase evenly from garden to continent?
🐸 A new theory explains the 3-phase pattern of species growth with scale — key to predicting loss of biodiversity
700M records, global scope.
Study in Nature Communications.🧪
#Ecology #Biodiversity
phys.org/news/2025-04...
🐸 A new theory explains the 3-phase pattern of species growth with scale — key to predicting loss of biodiversity
700M records, global scope.
Study in Nature Communications.🧪
#Ecology #Biodiversity
phys.org/news/2025-04...
From the front garden to the continent, here's why biodiversity does not increase evenly from small to large
The number of species does not increase evenly when going from local ecosystems to continental scales—a phenomenon ecologists have recognized for decades. Now, an international team of scientists, inc...
phys.org
May 1, 2025 at 7:40 AM
🌍 Why doesn’t biodiversity increase evenly from garden to continent?
🐸 A new theory explains the 3-phase pattern of species growth with scale — key to predicting loss of biodiversity
700M records, global scope.
Study in Nature Communications.🧪
#Ecology #Biodiversity
phys.org/news/2025-04...
🐸 A new theory explains the 3-phase pattern of species growth with scale — key to predicting loss of biodiversity
700M records, global scope.
Study in Nature Communications.🧪
#Ecology #Biodiversity
phys.org/news/2025-04...
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For a quick way to act, @biologicaldiversity.org provides a customizable comment and submits it for you: act.biologicaldiversity.org/z0VvP2_CV0Cd...? The goal is to get a LOT of comments as this rule will likely end up in the courts, which will look for objections from the public. #wildlife #birds 🌎
Save the Endangered Species Act
By changing the meaning of a single word, the Trump administration could gut habitat protections for all endangered species. Speak up now to protect endangered species and their habitat — and the Enda...
act.biologicaldiversity.org
April 27, 2025 at 5:27 AM
For a quick way to act, @biologicaldiversity.org provides a customizable comment and submits it for you: act.biologicaldiversity.org/z0VvP2_CV0Cd...? The goal is to get a LOT of comments as this rule will likely end up in the courts, which will look for objections from the public. #wildlife #birds 🌎
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Turning @ipbes.net Insight into Action!
🌍🧪🌐🌿🐛🍄🐘🧑🤝🧑
#biodiversity #transformations @transformationscommunity.org
transformationscommunity.org/turning-insi...
🌍🧪🌐🌿🐛🍄🐘🧑🤝🧑
#biodiversity #transformations @transformationscommunity.org
transformationscommunity.org/turning-insi...
Turning Insight into Action: How the IPBES Transformative Change Assessment Can Drive Real Change | Transformations Community
Turning Insight into Action: How the IPBES Transformative Change Assessment Can Drive Real Change Co-Hosted by the Transformations Community, cCHANGE and So ...
transformationscommunity.org
April 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Turning @ipbes.net Insight into Action!
🌍🧪🌐🌿🐛🍄🐘🧑🤝🧑
#biodiversity #transformations @transformationscommunity.org
transformationscommunity.org/turning-insi...
🌍🧪🌐🌿🐛🍄🐘🧑🤝🧑
#biodiversity #transformations @transformationscommunity.org
transformationscommunity.org/turning-insi...
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A rare carnivorous caterpillar—previously unknown to biologists—stalks spiderwebs for food whilst dressed in the remains of its prey, a new Science study reports.
This new species, dubbed the “bone collector,” is found only on a single mountainside on the Hawai’ian island of Oa’hu. scim.ag/3GBDcV7
This new species, dubbed the “bone collector,” is found only on a single mountainside on the Hawai’ian island of Oa’hu. scim.ag/3GBDcV7
April 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
A rare carnivorous caterpillar—previously unknown to biologists—stalks spiderwebs for food whilst dressed in the remains of its prey, a new Science study reports.
This new species, dubbed the “bone collector,” is found only on a single mountainside on the Hawai’ian island of Oa’hu. scim.ag/3GBDcV7
This new species, dubbed the “bone collector,” is found only on a single mountainside on the Hawai’ian island of Oa’hu. scim.ag/3GBDcV7
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So happy to share our Review paper
A well-connected Earth: The science and conservation of organismal movement
@science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A well-connected Earth: The science and conservation of organismal movement
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www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A well-connected Earth: The science and conservation of organismal movement
Global biodiversity targets focus on landscape and seascape connectivity as a foundational component of biodiversity conservation, including networks of connected protected areas. Recent advances allo...
www.science.org
April 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
So happy to share our Review paper
A well-connected Earth: The science and conservation of organismal movement
@science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A well-connected Earth: The science and conservation of organismal movement
@science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...