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...

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!

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.

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).

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)

Interdisciplinary science at work: predicting the future of a warmer #Mediterranean comparing the fossil record of the Last Interglacial with modern communities in #Cyprus!

I had seen many such images from multiple places around the world, but this is 200 m away from my flat in #Bologna, Italy, after 24 hours of rain on Saturday. There is no record of anything like this ever happened to the city. The #ClimateCrisis is getting dangerously close.

We have just dived into the past by analyzing samples from the Last Interglacial of the #Mediterranean Sea for our project to predict the future consequences of the incoming tropical Atlantic invasion. Thank you Silvia Danise for hosting us at the University of Florence and to the great team!

Great fieldwork in northern Cyprus to sample benthic biodiversity! More than 15 participants from 9 countries joined this effort hosted by the University of Kyrenia. Thanks to Fatih Huseyinoglu for great organization and to the many local students for their invaluable help!

Teaching how to study marine #biodiversity in a planet that is changing fast at the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane in Maputo, #Mozambique. Great discussion with insightful and even philosophical questions from students! Thanks Prof. De Abreu for invitation. #Corebiom

Our study "The dawn of the tropical Atlantic invasion into the Mediterranean Sea" got the cover of PNAS issue 121 (15)! Thank you Michele Solca for donating the image! Link to paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...