Registration is open for the Marine User Days! 🌐🌊 📅 5-6 Nov 📍 Lisbon, Portugal Join us to network, explore #marine data, and showcase your use cases! Open to all marine data users. 🔗 Register now: bit.ly/3wt9oWn

#MissionOcean project EDITO - European Digital Twin Ocean is supporting the creation of the European Digital Twin Ocean (EU DTO) 🙌. It’s a #digital replica of the ocean helping to predict the impacts of human actions and climate change on our ocean 🌊. Learn more 👉 edito-infra.eu

Biologist Leen Vandepitte talks in @time about the Ocean Census, the search for 100,000 new species in the sea, the importance of taxonomy, and WoRMS WoRMS, the encyclopedia of marine species managed by LifeWatch VLIZ .

Apia - Global Cyperaceae "Sedges" Database now online marinespecies.org/news.php?p=sho… LifeWatch VLIZ TETTRIs

Through the #iSedge project, the Cyperaceae now have their dedicated online portal on the Aphia platform. Read the news post here 👇 marinespecies.org/news.php?p=sho… cyperaceae.org Pedro Jiménez Mejías Dr Isabel Larridon International Sedge Society TETTRIs

Very happy that the second chapter of my PhD has just been published #OpenAccess : introducing two #NewSpecies of scavenging amphipod from the abyssal Pacific Ocean! shorturl.at/PPCw5

スイカを摂餌する海外産のサンショウウニ属の1種 Temnopleurus alexandri (Bell, 1884)。美しい！

Strange and wondrous creatures: plankton and the origins of life on Earth theguardian.com/news/article/2…

#NewSpeciesAlert - 𝑀𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑢𝑙𝑢𝑠 𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑢𝑠. A new restricted-range #𝑀𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑢𝑙𝑢𝑠 (Cyprinodontiformes: #Rivulidae) from the upper #rioGuaporé, Chapada dos Parecis, Brazil. #Killifish #Killifishes 🔒 bit.ly/4fRrQcL

Colorful hues of crayfish evolved not for a specific purpose—such as to attract mates or warn predators—but instead purely by chance, finds a new study. scim.ag/85Y

🔬🌊 Standardizing marine microbiome & #eDNA sampling is key for reliable results. These guidelines cover environmental considerations, sample processing, storage, & extraction. Emphasize decontamination, pilot studies, & freezing samples. 👉bit.ly/4aWKLiM #Science

The Tube Eye (Stylephorus chordatus) photographed on the Gulf of Mexico during the DEEPEND-RESTORE Project.

New Steering Commitee (SC) members: nicole de voogd & Sancia van der Meij. Thanks to rotating out members: Rüdiger Bieler & Nicolas Bailly for all the time and efforts you have invested in WoRMS, it was a pleasure to work with you! LifeWatch VLIZ UN Ocean Decade marinespecies.org/about.php#gove…

Belgian Queen visits VLIZ www-monarchie-be.translate.goog/nl/agenda/de-k… #marinespecies

Ocean Census' search for 100,000 new species will boost WoRMS! 👉lifewatch.be/news/ocean-cen… Ocean Census LifeWatch VLIZ WoRMS UN Ocean Decade #LifeWatch

🚨New species alert!🚨 #OceanDecade actors @OceanCensus and Schmidt Ocean identify 20 potentially new marine species in their latest #NazcaHighSeas expedition. This brings the number of species documented in this region to 1,300, and continues to grow. ow.ly/Viqu50T9uBf

This crazy glider is a 1 mm planktonic larva of a starfish (Asterias rubens). This larval stage (brachiolaria) is in a metamorphosis already, and you can clearly sea the emerging disk of a future starfish at the rear end. #brachiolaria #starfish #asterias #ateriasrubens #northsea

Just published: WoRMS through the looking glass: insights from the data management team in light of the crystal anniversary of WoRMS doi.org/10.1007/s10750… by DiscoveryCollections Jan Mees and more... #marinespecies

📣Save the date!!📣 Join us for the 7th World Conference on Marine Biodiversity 7th World Conference on Marine Biodiversity, from 17-20 November 2026 in Bruges, Belgium. wcmb2026.org Sign up for our newsletter if you want to stay up to date: wcmb2026.org/newsletter Flanders Marine Institute - VLIZ UN Ocean Decade

Closing the WoRMS 15th anniversary celebrations with an opinion paper marinespecies.org/news.php?p=sho… #marinespecies LifeWatch VLIZ UN Ocean Decade