Valerio Mazzella
@valeriomazzella.bsky.social
Marine biologist, microbial ecologist, sponges' fanatic, mycologist and boxe addicted. Researcher in Marine Ecology @ Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
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Ocean acidification and warming threaten bryozoan populations by altering skeletal properties, disrupting key microbial communities, and increasing mortality, with consequences for the benthic ecosystems they support.
doi.org/10.1038/s420...
doi.org/10.1038/s420...
Interactive effects of ocean acidification and warming disrupt calcification and microbiome composition in bryozoans - Communications Biology
Ocean acidification and warming threaten bryozoan populations by altering skeletal properties, disrupting key microbial communities, and increasing mortality, with consequences for the benthic ecosyst...
doi.org
August 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Ocean acidification and warming threaten bryozoan populations by altering skeletal properties, disrupting key microbial communities, and increasing mortality, with consequences for the benthic ecosystems they support.
doi.org/10.1038/s420...
doi.org/10.1038/s420...
Creepy!
In the meantime, the Australian government is funding trials to shade the Great Barrier Reef with 800 ships shooting saltwater sprays into the sky.
And the media declares it’s a ‘solution’.
And the media declares it’s a ‘solution’.
EXCLUSIVE: A team of researchers in California drew notoriety last year with an aborted test of a cloud-making machine.
But behind the scenes, they were planning a larger and potentially riskier study of tech that could dim the sun's rays, internal documents show. www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
But behind the scenes, they were planning a larger and potentially riskier study of tech that could dim the sun's rays, internal documents show. www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
August 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Creepy!
Reposted by Valerio Mazzella
Today it was Wageningen demonstrating loud and clearly against higher education budget cuts.
Big support from Sjoukje Heimovaara and Carolien Kroeze @w-u-r.bsky.social and our mayor @floorvermeulen.bsky.social
#doehetniet 🟥
Big support from Sjoukje Heimovaara and Carolien Kroeze @w-u-r.bsky.social and our mayor @floorvermeulen.bsky.social
#doehetniet 🟥
April 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Today it was Wageningen demonstrating loud and clearly against higher education budget cuts.
Big support from Sjoukje Heimovaara and Carolien Kroeze @w-u-r.bsky.social and our mayor @floorvermeulen.bsky.social
#doehetniet 🟥
Big support from Sjoukje Heimovaara and Carolien Kroeze @w-u-r.bsky.social and our mayor @floorvermeulen.bsky.social
#doehetniet 🟥
Reposted by Valerio Mazzella
This was fun. Maybe sponges are a good way to monitor marine #fungi from the water column! Nature's nuclepore filters 😀
Congrats @valeriomazzella.bsky.social
Congrats @valeriomazzella.bsky.social
Our latest contribution regarding Mediterranean sponge associated mycobiomes is finally out!!!
Marine Mycobiomes Colonize Mediterranean Sponge Hosts in a Random Fashion - Microbial Ecology
Marine sponges are widespread, sessile, filter-feeding animals, known for living in association with complex prokaryotic communities structured by host species. Though marine fungi are ubiquitous acro...
link.springer.com
April 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
This was fun. Maybe sponges are a good way to monitor marine #fungi from the water column! Nature's nuclepore filters 😀
Congrats @valeriomazzella.bsky.social
Congrats @valeriomazzella.bsky.social
Our latest contribution regarding Mediterranean sponge associated mycobiomes is finally out!!!
Marine Mycobiomes Colonize Mediterranean Sponge Hosts in a Random Fashion - Microbial Ecology
Marine sponges are widespread, sessile, filter-feeding animals, known for living in association with complex prokaryotic communities structured by host species. Though marine fungi are ubiquitous acro...
link.springer.com
April 10, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Our latest contribution regarding Mediterranean sponge associated mycobiomes is finally out!!!
O tempora, o mores!!!
March 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
O tempora, o mores!!!
Reposted by Valerio Mazzella
Our last article on Vulnerability of benthic trait diversity across the Mediterranean Sea following mass mortality events is out in
@NatureComms
! 🪸🌱🐚🌡️🌊 A thread 👇🧵
nature.com/articles/s41...
@NatureComms
! 🪸🌱🐚🌡️🌊 A thread 👇🧵
nature.com/articles/s41...
February 13, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Our last article on Vulnerability of benthic trait diversity across the Mediterranean Sea following mass mortality events is out in
@NatureComms
! 🪸🌱🐚🌡️🌊 A thread 👇🧵
nature.com/articles/s41...
@NatureComms
! 🪸🌱🐚🌡️🌊 A thread 👇🧵
nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Valerio Mazzella
Ahir ens va deixar en Kike Ballesteros. 🖤
No tenim paraules per descriure el gran buit que deixa. Segurament la persona que millor coneixia la biodiversitat marina de Balears. Una pèrdua inestimable per la ciència i la conservació marina.
Que la mar li sigui lleu 💙
No tenim paraules per descriure el gran buit que deixa. Segurament la persona que millor coneixia la biodiversitat marina de Balears. Una pèrdua inestimable per la ciència i la conservació marina.
Que la mar li sigui lleu 💙
November 28, 2024 at 9:41 AM
Ahir ens va deixar en Kike Ballesteros. 🖤
No tenim paraules per descriure el gran buit que deixa. Segurament la persona que millor coneixia la biodiversitat marina de Balears. Una pèrdua inestimable per la ciència i la conservació marina.
Que la mar li sigui lleu 💙
No tenim paraules per descriure el gran buit que deixa. Segurament la persona que millor coneixia la biodiversitat marina de Balears. Una pèrdua inestimable per la ciència i la conservació marina.
Que la mar li sigui lleu 💙
Reposted by Valerio Mazzella
Tot l'equip del CEAB volem expresar el nostre més sincer condol per la pèrdua del Dr. Enric “Kike” Ballesteros.
Destacat biòleg i ecòleg, reconegut a nivell internacional per les seves aportacions a la ciència i per la ferma defensa de la conservació de la natura.
Et trobarem a faltar 🖤
Destacat biòleg i ecòleg, reconegut a nivell internacional per les seves aportacions a la ciència i per la ferma defensa de la conservació de la natura.
Et trobarem a faltar 🖤
November 28, 2024 at 10:59 AM
Tot l'equip del CEAB volem expresar el nostre més sincer condol per la pèrdua del Dr. Enric “Kike” Ballesteros.
Destacat biòleg i ecòleg, reconegut a nivell internacional per les seves aportacions a la ciència i per la ferma defensa de la conservació de la natura.
Et trobarem a faltar 🖤
Destacat biòleg i ecòleg, reconegut a nivell internacional per les seves aportacions a la ciència i per la ferma defensa de la conservació de la natura.
Et trobarem a faltar 🖤
Reposted by Valerio Mazzella
To many people, this photo captures a pretty tropical reef, with colourful corals and fishes.
But let’s take a closer look at the biology on display - a picture tells a 1000 words (thread 1/8)
But let’s take a closer look at the biology on display - a picture tells a 1000 words (thread 1/8)
November 19, 2024 at 4:53 AM
To many people, this photo captures a pretty tropical reef, with colourful corals and fishes.
But let’s take a closer look at the biology on display - a picture tells a 1000 words (thread 1/8)
But let’s take a closer look at the biology on display - a picture tells a 1000 words (thread 1/8)
Hi there, I am new too. Here to meet the scientific community i left on twitter. I am researcher in marine ecology, passionated with sponges, in the frame of holobiont concept. Outside of the job: building baskets, mycologist, boxing, cooking, fishing. #Marinecology #Marinelife #Science #biology
November 20, 2024 at 1:02 PM
Hi there, I am new too. Here to meet the scientific community i left on twitter. I am researcher in marine ecology, passionated with sponges, in the frame of holobiont concept. Outside of the job: building baskets, mycologist, boxing, cooking, fishing. #Marinecology #Marinelife #Science #biology