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Themes and sessions of @wcmb2026 - Part 23 Session 5.3: "The African Linnean shortfall: Overview, status and opportunities in capacity building and research in Marine Taxonomy" wcmb2026.org/5-challenges-a… Stay tuned for more! @UNOceanDecade @VLIZnews #WCMB2026 #marinebiodiversity

Themes and sessions of @wcmb2026 - Part 21 Session 5.1: "Today’s challenges and future opportunities for identifying the evolution, taxonomy, and systematics of invertebrates" wcmb2026.org/5-challenges-a… Stay tuned for more! @UNOceanDecade @VLIZnews #WCMB2026 #marinebiodiversity

Don't forget to nominate your favourites for the @WRMarineSpecies Top Ten Marine Species of 2025! Deadline = January 25th 2026 More information: marinespecies.org/news.php?p=sho… Nomination form: form.vliz.be/en/form/worms-… @oceancensus @UNOceanDecade @VLIZnews @LifeWatchERIC

New year, new job? #LifeWatchVLIZ is hiring a Fish Behavioral Ecology Researcher to work on fish tracking & Digital Twin Ocean tools in leading EU projects. 👉 Apply now: shorturl.at/5Mivt @VLIZnews @LifewatchBE @AquaticTracking

@WRMarineSpecies 👏👏

WoRMS/Aphia 2025 stats: 3,782 3️⃣7️⃣8️⃣2️⃣ #marinespecies added (1,869 validly published in 2025); 109 new editors; 113,829 taxonomic edits & additions; uptime 99.91% marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=st…

New tool just launched: A Taxon-Match tool for @AlgaeBase , based on the @WRMarineSpecies Taxon Match marinespecies.org/news.php?p=sho…

We are calling for your nominations for the @WRMarineSpecies Top Ten Marine Species of 2025! More information: marinespecies.org/news.php?p=sho… Nomination form: form.vliz.be/en/form/worms-… Deadline: Sunday January 25th 2026 @oceancensus @UNOceanDecade @VLIZnews @LifeWatchERIC

Tribute to Denise Bellan-Santini (1937-2025), one of the founding editors of #ERMS and Amphipoda editor in @WRMarineSpecies marinespecies.org/news.php?p=sho…

Call for Abstracts: 7th World Conference on Marine Biodiversity Submit your contribution to Session 1.4: 'Minimizing the Impact of Ocean Acidification' organized by the #OceanDecade #OARS Programme. 🗓️ Deadline: 17 March 2026 🔗 ow.ly/XGz750XAGYv (Select Session 1.4)

Wrapping up #30DayMapChallenge with a bonus map: a cartogram where countries are resized by their EEZs! 🎁 Shout-out to Clipperton Island, which has the largest EEZ/land ratio: its EEZ is over 200.000 its land area 🤯

#WCMB2026 #ScientificCommittee Frank Muller-Karger from @USFCMS studies coastal and marine ecosystems including water quality, biological production, biodiversity, climate change, and human activities. #Frank_Muller-Karger" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">wcmb2026.org/sccombio#Frank… @UNOceanDecade @VLIZnews #marinebiodiversity

#30DayMapChallenge - day 26: transport Since we began mapping the yearly tracks of our research vessel Simon Stevin, this is the furthest it has ever travelled thanks to the chase of a plankton bloom for the BERNARDO project! 😱 @vliznews @lifewatchvliz @icos_RI

Last night, the #LifeWatchVLIZ SeaWatch-B training took place at the InnovOcean Campus. Alongside an insightful talk on archaeological findings (@Idemerre), participants were given a first look at SeaWatch-B data collected over 11 years. @VLIZnews

Where do fish go when they cross borders? Through ETN @AquaticTracking, @LifeWatchVLIZ , @INBOVlaanderen and @VLIZnews follow them with 3,000+ receivers and open data across Europe. 👉Read more: lifewatch.be/news/fish-dont…

#30DayMapChallenge – Day 24: Places and their names A heat map of all 64.476 named places in the Marine Regions gazetteer 🔥 Darker areas mean fewer names ➡️ the gaps in our coverage. Spot a dark region you know well? We’d love tips on data sources for features there! 🔍

New year, new undersea features integration! 🤿 Our latest Marine Regions update adds 108 new undersea names from GEBCO (107) and ACUF (1), keeping our global gazetteer current and consistent. Dive in ➡️ marineregions.org @LifeWatchVLIZ @VLIZnews

Decoding the naming of decapods marinespecies.org/news.php?p=sho… #marinespecies @LifeWatchVLIZ @UNOceanDecade

Today is #DvdW (science day). Come to @VLIZnews and play our game “Schelp, wie ben ik?” (In Dutch), based on the @WRMarineSpecies Top 10.

#WCMB2026 #ScientificCommittee Aileen Tan from CEMACS at University Sains Malaysia specializes in mariculture and conservation of molluscs, thus promoting “green aquaculture”. #Aileen_Tan" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">wcmb2026.org/sccombio#Ailee… @UNOceanDecade @VLIZnews #marinebiodiversity