Mostly tweeting about the activities of the LifeWatch team at the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), one of the LifeWatch Belgium partners.
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LifeWatch VLIZ retweeted
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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LifeWatch VLIZ retweeted
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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LifeWatch VLIZ retweeted
Jan 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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LifeWatch VLIZ retweeted
Jan 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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LifeWatch VLIZ retweeted
10 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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LifeWatch VLIZ retweeted
11 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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LifeWatch VLIZ retweeted
3 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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LifeWatch VLIZ retweeted
3 Dec 2025
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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LifeWatch VLIZ retweeted
1 Dec 2025
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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LifeWatch VLIZ retweeted
#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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LifeWatch VLIZ retweeted
26 Nov 2025
#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
10 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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26 Nov 2025
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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LifeWatch VLIZ retweeted
25 Nov 2025
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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LifeWatch VLIZ retweeted
24 Nov 2025
#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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LifeWatch VLIZ retweeted
30 Oct 2025
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
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LifeWatch VLIZ retweeted
19 Nov 2025
Decoding the naming of decapods marinespecies.org/news.php?p… #marinespecies @LifeWatchVLIZ @UNOceanDecade
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LifeWatch VLIZ retweeted
23 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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LifeWatch VLIZ retweeted
#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
20 Oct 2025
Edaphobase adopts Nemys as taxonomic backbone for nematodes (via @WRMarineSpecies) marinespecies.org/news.php?p…
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