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Anja Westram
@anjamwestram.bsky.social
🟢 Researcher (Nord University, Norway) & environmentalist
🟢 Evolution, biodiversity, genetics, conservation, science communication... (and snails)
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Help protect our waters! 🌊

The #GuardIAS project has just launched an online course on preventing invasive aquatic species.

Essential knowledge for anyone in ecology, conservation, or environmental management.

Get started 👉 www.ecmunipv.it/login/index....

#MOOC #InvasiveSpecies
October 14, 2025 at 7:49 AM
🧬 Interested in monitoring & reporting on genetic diversity?

🏞️ Our project GINAMO (Genetic Indicators for NAture MOnitoring) now has a blog & newsletter!

🐝 Please share! ginamo.org/2025/09/29/welcome-2

#Conservation #Genetics #Biodiversity #Nature #consgen #KMGBF #SciComm
Welcome!
Get to know GINAMO in 10 questions Welcome to the GINAMO (Genetic Indicators for NAture MOnitoring) blog! Whether you’ve already attended one of our workshops or are just discovering us, we&#…
ginamo.org
October 7, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Two of the most common climate misconceptions I see, even among knowledgeable folks, are that (1) most people aren't worried about climate change, and (2) if they were, they'd act.

Not true! Data show (1) most people are worried, but (2) they won’t act if they don’t know what to do-and most don’t.
October 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
🐚 New paper on the #speciation continuum in marine #snails!
🐚 Read it if you're interested in speciation, local #adaptation, #genomics, #inversions, parallel #evolution...
🐚 Congratulations to Francesca & Aurélien and everyone else involved!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
July 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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I expect that consumer-facing AI programs will continue to improve and they may become much more useful tools for everyday life in the future.

But I think it was a disastrous mistake that today’s models were taught to be convincing before they were taught to be right.
June 19, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Phasing out harmful subsidies is still on the priority list, at least on paper 📜

BUT

implementation will make or break this!🤔

🌿The environment & the economy need a smart industrial policy, and phasing out harmful subsidies is key 🔑
July 17, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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🚨No more LIFE! Chopping up the LIFE programme prioritises industry over climate and nature.

🌳EU’s nature conservation and restoration projects could lose vital support in the future.
July 17, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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🎯Instead of increasing spending targets for climate & biodiversity, critical in driving investments in Europe, the Commission proposes a new environmental target with a reduced ambition of 35%

🐝This means spreading out reduced public support over even more priorities, risking leaving nature behind.
July 17, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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👀We have eyes on the next EU budget, but the EU budget no longer has eyes for nature.

❌35% environment target risks leaving nature behind
❌LIFE programme chopped up
❓Yes to phasing out environmentally harmful subsidies, but with a caveat

👀 tinyurl.com/WWFMFF2
🧵👇
July 17, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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3-year #postdoc position at Centre de synthèse et d'analyse de la biodiversité (CESAB) in Montpellier to work on how taking intraspecific diversity and evolutionary processes into account in translocation-based programs. Please share widely #PopGen #NbS
July 10, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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📍Vienna, July 8, 2025
Today, Scientists For Future Austria handed over a scientific statement to the Ministry for Climate Action.
Their message:
👉 The EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) must not be weakened!

#EUDR #Deforestation #ClimateCrisis @s4fat.bsky.social @s4fwien.bsky.social
July 8, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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We've cracked 1.000 signatories❗
Every scientist caring about #Biodiversity and fighting #climatecrisis, please
🖋️sign and 🔁 share our 🌱 Call to Action 🌱!
📣 Call to Action for Biodiversity! 🌱
We urge the EU to boost biodiversity funding in the next Multiannual Financial Framework (2028+).
📉 80% of EU habitats are in poor condition — we need action now!
All scientists please ✅ sign and 🔁 share in your networks
fundnature.scientists4future.at
Closing the biodiversity funding gap
fundnature.scientists4future.at
June 18, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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⏰Noch bis zum 27. Juni könnt ihr Euch anmelden für die wichtigste Veranstaltung im Herbst:
🌍 Das erste österreichische Symposion4Future 🌎 am 10. Oktober in Sankt Pölten 🌏
Alle Infos www.scientists4future.at/mc-events/er...
June 20, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Please sign & share if you're a #scientist who cares about #biodiversity! 🪲
📣 Call to Action for Biodiversity! 🌱
We urge the EU to boost biodiversity funding in the next Multiannual Financial Framework (2028+).
📉 80% of EU habitats are in poor condition — we need action now!
All scientists please ✅ sign and 🔁 share in your networks
fundnature.scientists4future.at
Closing the biodiversity funding gap
fundnature.scientists4future.at
June 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Der Zweite Österreichische Sachstandsbericht zum Klimawandel liegt vor!
Heute wurde der Klimabericht #AAR2 - der Zweite Österreichische Sachstandsbericht zum Klimawandel - veröffentlicht!
In Kooperation & mit Begleitung des CCCA wurde der Bericht von rund 200 Wissenschaftler:innen erarbeitet.
Die Vollversion & die Zusammenfassungen findet ihr hier:
aar2.ccca.ac.at
Zweiter Österreichischer Sachstandsbericht zum Klimawandel | AAR2
Der AAR2 ist ein umfassender, interdisziplinärer Sachstandsbericht zum Klimawandel in Österreich.
aar2.ccca.ac.at
June 18, 2025 at 8:24 AM
‼️ Open letter calling for increased #EU #biodiversity funding:
If you're a scientist and care about #nature, please consider signing, and please share! 🪲🌳🍄🦢🦑🦎🌱🐝🌼🦇🌲🐚
📣 Call to Action for Biodiversity! 🌱
We urge the EU to boost biodiversity funding in the next Multiannual Financial Framework (2028+).
📉 80% of EU habitats are in poor condition — we need action now!
All scientists please ✅ sign and 🔁 share in your networks
fundnature.scientists4future.at
Closing the biodiversity funding gap
fundnature.scientists4future.at
June 13, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Time is running out! ⏳
Only few days left to apply to our PhD program—don’t miss your chance! 🚀

🔬Explore evolution in action in a cool 🐚
ℹ️ Details: tinyurl.com/fhzxr7ed
📆 Deadline: June 14th, 2025

#ScienceThatMatters #PhDlife #EvolutionaryBiology #MarineEcology #BiodiversityConservation
June 9, 2025 at 8:44 AM
🐚Why do Littorina snails come in so many colours?🐚
For example, 🔴🟡🟠🟢🟤⚫🟣?
Well, we don't know - but hopefully we'll find out in our #CommunityScience project #WinkleWatch ⬇️
Consider joining if you visit rocky shores - or just follow us here :)

#colours #adaptation #snails #shells #citizenscience
Love fun science?
Join the WinkleWatch Project! Launched last year, we’re solving the mystery of periwinkle snail colours—with your help.
📸 Snap a pic
📍 Tag your beach
💬 Share your snail finds
Scan the QR in the image to learn more.
Let’s spotlight the winkles! #winklewatch
June 3, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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📣 📣 Aufgepasst, es ist soweit!
Wir möchten Euch gerne zum Ersten österreichischen Symposion4Future am 10. Oktober einladen!
Wir haben ein hochkarätiges Podium gewinnen können, darunter @sigridstagl.bsky.social und @tbrudermann.bsky.social
Alle Infos 👇
www.scientists4future.at/mc-events/er...
Erstes österreichisches Symposion4Future - Celsius - der Blog von Scientists for Future Österreich
Erstes österreichisches Symposion4Future Termin und Ort: Freitag, 10. Oktober 2025 10-18 Uhr im Bildungshaus St. Hippolyt, St. Pölten (ca. 10 Gehminuten vom Hbf) Zielgruppe: Personen aus allen Gruppen...
www.scientists4future.at
June 2, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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🐌✨ Become a snail detective! 🕵️🐚🔍

Join our WinkleWatcher Luisa Kumpitsch on shore 🌊 and help scientists crack the case of snail shell colors 🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣 with WinkleWatchers.
Who knew science could be this fun?

ℹ️ www.gu.se/en/news/beco...

#CitizenScience #MarineBiology
Become a snail detective – help scientists solve the colour mystery
Why do periwinkles have such different colours? This is a mystery that scientists are now trying to solve, and to do so they are calling for help from the public in a citizen science project.
www.gu.se
May 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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#Klimawandel ist ein #Sicherheitsrisiko, sagt die „Interdisziplinäre #Klimarisiko Einschätzung“, die die Universität der #Bundeswehr gemeinsam mit dem Potsdam Institut für Klimafolgenforschung @pik-potsdam.bsky.social veröffentlicht hat.
at.scientists4future.org/2025/04/02/b...
#sicherheitspolitik
April 29, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Du denkst, nur du und ein paar andere sind bereit, sich für die Bekämpfung der #Klimakatastrophe einzusetzen? Stimmt nicht, du gehört zur Mehrheit!
°CELSIUS-Redakteur Martin Auer zu einer aktuellen Studie in "Nature".
at.scientists4future.org/2025/04/23/d...
#Aktivismus #klimawandelleugner
April 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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I'm looking forward to this seminar!
Tune in to hear a bit about our work uncovering the evolutionary dynamics of genomic erosion
www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/genomic...

#popgen #consgen
@hologenomics.bsky.social
April 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Wird #Klimakommunikation mit der Grazer Charta jetzt besser?
Das wollen wir mit Euch am 13.5. online diskutieren.
Als Impulsgeberinnen dabei sind @pinzler.bsky.social @tiefenbacherin.bsky.social und die Sozialpsychologin Isabella Uhl-Hädicke.
www.klimafakten.de/kommunikatio... @ccca.ac.at
April 16, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Ruth Turunen: Mate choice and reproductive barriers in two intertidal gastropod species Littorina arcana and Littorina saxatilis. #OikosNorway2025
April 12, 2025 at 5:19 AM