@LifeWatchVLIZ

Mostly tweeting about the activities of the LifeWatch team at the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), one of the LifeWatch Belgium partners.

 Oostende, Belgium
lifewatch.be/
Joined September 2014
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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-an… Stay tuned for more! @UNOceanDecade @VLIZnews #WCMB2026 #marinebiodiversity
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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-an… Stay tuned for more! @UNOceanDecade @VLIZnews #WCMB2026 #marinebiodiversity
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WoRMS@WRMarineSpeciesJan 12
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… Nomination form: form.vliz.be/en/form/worms-t… @oceancensus @UNOceanDecade @VLIZnews @LifeWatchERIC
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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
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WoRMS@WRMarineSpeciesJan 2
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?…
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WoRMS@WRMarineSpecies10 Dec 2025
New tool just launched: A Taxon-Match tool for @AlgaeBase , based on the @WRMarineSpecies Taxon Match marinespecies.org/news.php?p…
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WoRMS@WRMarineSpecies11 Dec 2025
We are calling for your nominations for the @WRMarineSpecies Top Ten Marine Species of 2025! More information: marinespecies.org/news.php?p… Nomination form: form.vliz.be/en/form/worms-t… Deadline: Sunday January 25th 2026 @oceancensus @UNOceanDecade @VLIZnews @LifeWatchERIC
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WoRMS@WRMarineSpecies3 Dec 2025
Tribute to Denise Bellan-Santini (1937-2025), one of the founding editors of #ERMS and Amphipoda editor in @WRMarineSpecies marinespecies.org/news.php?p…
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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)
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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 🤯
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#WCMB2026 #ScientificCommittee Frank Muller-Karger from @USFCMS studies coastal and marine ecosystems including water quality, biological production, biodiversity, climate change, and human activities. wcmb2026.org/sccombio#Frank_… @UNOceanDecade @VLIZnews #marinebiodiversity
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#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
Flanders Marine Institute - VLIZ@VLIZnews10 Jun 2025
Last week, researchers from @ugent & #VLIZ chased a coccolithophore bloom in the central North Sea aboard the RV Simon Stevin. Find out why coccolithophores are a unique piece of the ocean’s carbon cycle puzzle. 👉 marsens-ugent.be/post/chasin… Part of the BERNARDO project funded by @VLAIO_be @BlauweCluster.
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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
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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-…
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#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! 🔍
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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
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LifeWatch VLIZ retweeted
WoRMS@WRMarineSpecies19 Nov 2025
Decoding the naming of decapods marinespecies.org/news.php?p… #marinespecies @LifeWatchVLIZ @UNOceanDecade
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WoRMS@WRMarineSpecies23 Nov 2025
Today is #DvdW (science day). Come to @VLIZnews and play our game “Schelp, wie ben ik?” (In Dutch), based on the @WRMarineSpecies Top 10.
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#WCMB2026 #ScientificCommittee Aileen Tan from CEMACS at University Sains Malaysia specializes in mariculture and conservation of molluscs, thus promoting “green aquaculture”. wcmb2026.org/sccombio#Aileen… @UNOceanDecade @VLIZnews #marinebiodiversity
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LifeWatch VLIZ retweeted
WoRMS@WRMarineSpecies20 Oct 2025
Edaphobase adopts Nemys as taxonomic backbone for nematodes (via @WRMarineSpecies) marinespecies.org/news.php?p…

Edaphobase adopts Nemys as taxonomic backbone for nematodes

As part of a collaboration between WoRMS and Edaphobase, the World Database of Nematodes (Nemys) has been integrated as the official taxonomic backbone for Nematoda in Edaphobase.

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