Rodney Forster
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Professor, Marine Science at the University of Hull.
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Ian Hall
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Trump administration dismantles critical ocean-floor observation network “By dismantling such a system, we push the United States back yet again into a rear seat in global scientific leadership”
oceanographicmagazine.com/news/trump-a...
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Trump dismantles critical ocean-floor observation network
In line with Project 2025, over 900 deep-sea sensors are being removed from the ocean floor, cutting off data used to track climate change
https://oceanographicmagazine.com/news/trump-administration-dismantles-critical-ocean-floor-observation-network/
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Lovely 70km Dales loop with some heavy rain but mostly good and we raised our bird count for the weekend to 69.
3 days ago
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Big Dales day. Part of the reason I moved to Yorkshire, watching TdF 2014. We did Buttertubs, Fleet Moss and Cote de Park Rash. Bird life incredible with curlew, lapwing, oiks, SEO, ring ouzel, dipper.
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The Marine Biological Association
7 days ago
Kelp forests: understanding one of the UK's most important coastal habitats | Dr Dan Smale
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JINu...
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Kelp forests: understanding one of the UK's most important coastal habitats | Dr Dan Smale
YouTube video by The Marine Biological Association
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JINuRljX6IY
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Met Office - weather and climate
10 days ago
Today has been the hottest day in May on record with Kew Gardens provisionally reaching 34.8°C - exceeding the previous highest May temperature in the UK by a full 2 degrees Celsius🌡️ This heat would be exceptional in the UK even in mid summer, let alone in May📈
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Tracking Alister and Ben who have dodged the bank holiday traffic chaos and are out at sea collecting samples on the Scarborough line. Will they break last year's Secchi disc record at Station 1? I'll go into the lab later to work up the productivity samples when they arrive.
10 days ago
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End of another middling
#FPL
season with 2,216 points for 736,501 place. Social media influence comes in around 2015 with algorithms and
@bencrellin.bsky.social
planners making it easier to stay in the top 10% and ending my up and down swings. Same tools make it very hard to break into the top 1%.
10 days ago
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this paper is getting some traction. It's a kind of BACI design without the B and arguable without the C. And the photo in the media article below was not taken at the study site in Arran.
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17 days ago
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Yellow laces in his Docs. Trademark SHARP. Got to have a chance.
19 days ago
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Remarkable that an article can be published on the breton green tides without mentioning the women who has done most to publicise the issue, Ines Leraud - numerous articles, a book and an award-winning documentary 'Alges vertes' that had the audience in tears when I saw it a couple of years ago.
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22 days ago
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fascinating image of the Shetlands today with the little island of Ham leaving a wake in the large-scale internal wave field.
about 1 month ago
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Cheeps coming through the office window this morning means a successful hatch.
@ecoevoenviro.bsky.social
13 ducklings.
about 1 month ago
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I would be the one who forgot to pack the key thing with the yellow fob for opening the door.
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about 2 months ago
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Elizabeth Beston
about 2 months ago
A holy Harpacticoida with a diatom halo. 😇
#marineplankton
#plankton
#copepod
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Elizabeth Beston
about 2 months ago
The new Plankton Project website it LIVE! At the very least, just check out the adorable animation on the home page 🥹. Link in our bio. Thanks to @big-pixel.com for all your hard work!
#citizenscience
#marineplankton
#scicomm
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First cuckoo of the spring heard on this morning’s run. 47.5N 2.6W. Serin finch, black redstart, chiff-chaffs and thrushes everywhere.
about 2 months ago
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Sryan Bruen
about 2 months ago
Red fiery sky over the Statsraad Lehmkuhl in Dublin City this morning.
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Dr. Serge Zaka
about 2 months ago
La France va de nouveau vivre des journées exceptionnelles avec des 30°C entrant dans le cercle très restreint des plus précoces jamais observés. 1/3
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Easter Sunday tradition observed of watching Flanders, then a couple of hours fishing at the Lifeboat Quay. Nice bass came along at sunset.
about 2 months ago
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Hannah Booth
2 months ago
North Sea Friday Folk #8 — lives shaped by the shallow sea on our doorstep Today it's the turn of scientist & illustrator Dorothy Thursby-Pelham (1884–1972), who in the early 20th century made extensive surveys of the plaice population in the southern North Sea 📷At work in Lowestoft, Cefas (OGL 3)
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Hannah Booth
2 months ago
This month's North Sea dispatches looks back at the UK's very first offshore wind farm at Blyth, in my home patch of Northumberland
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Ditches, canal-diggers and marching wind turbines
North Sea Dispatches #07
https://open.substack.com/pub/northseanexus/p/ditches-canal-diggers-and-marching?r=ykb9u&selection=51b09c14-e650-43b3-ba41-03b060669a43&utm_campaign=post-share-selection&utm_medium=web&aspectRatio=square&textColor=%23ffffff&bgImage=true
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Cetacean experts - eyes on these two videos for an ID please.
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2 months ago
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Sighting of a young whale on our final station in the Humber today, but was not in the best of health. Would not be surprised if a stranding is reported in coming days. Hard to tell if a minke or beaked whale.
2 months ago
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Humber sampling day with a clear blue sky. Following the salinity gradient from Hull to Grimsby.
2 months ago
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First day of this year's Humber oceanography course with a shake-down station inside Spurn then a run out to the windfarm, taking samples and doing CTDs along the way.
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First day of this year's Humber oceanography course with a shake-down station inside Spurn then a run out to the windfarm, taking samples and doing CTDs along the way.
2 months ago
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Nigella Lawson
3 months ago
🍀Chocolate Guinness Cake is
#RecipeOfTheDay
! Sure, what else could it be on St Patrick’s Day?
www.nigella.com/recipes/choc...
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Chocolate Guinness Cake
This cake is magnificent in its damp blackness. I can't say that you can absolutely taste the stout in it, but there is certainly a resonant, ferrous tang which I happen to love. The best way of descr...
https://www.nigella.com/recipes/chocolate-guinness-cake
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A good demonstration of how small the past few days of neap tides have been. Tidal calculators show this set to have the smallest tidal range of the 21st century!
3 months ago
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Simon Waldman
3 months ago
Have you wondered "If all of the North Sea nations built as much offshore wind as their govs have announced, what would the Sea look like"? Do you need a plausible scenario for farm and turbine locations in 2050, based on that premise? If so, read this new paper!
www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/19...
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here is today's
#crapbirdpic
. The mystery bird was singing merrily at the top of a bush on the bank of the Humber estuary.
3 months ago
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the focus is on environmental impacts of offshore wind here at
#osm26
this afternoon. Please come along to Ben Whitcombe's poster at 16:00 to hear about measurements around the world's largest offshore windfarm.
3 months ago
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Speeding northwards towards
#OSM26
in Glasgow. Poster session tomorrow @16:00 CB14C 0701 showing progress with low cost CO2 sensors for intertidal productivity. Click on online poster for a demo video.
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David Ho
3 months ago
For those attending
#OSM26
in Glasgow, the five days unlimited rail travel on all ScotRail services within the Conference Zone for just £5 looks like a super deal. 🌊
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Glasgow Conference Rover
Attending a conference in Glasgow's Conference Zone? Travel by rail for five days for just £5 with a Conference Rover.
https://www.scotrail.co.uk/tickets/conference-rover
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Repost with a photo of yours that would make a good album cover.
4 months ago
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ICES - International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
4 months ago
ICES Secretariat is hiring an Information Officer. Join ICES as an Information Officer and play a key role in supporting editorial excellence in marine science, preserving our legacy & administrating our publications database. 🔔Submit your application by 22 February 2026
www.ices.dk/about-ICES/J...
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Elizabeth Beston
4 months ago
One from the archives. A sea urchin larva moving very gracefully across my slide. Did you know sea urchins started life like this?
#marineplankton
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The brackish water boddens of north-eastern Germany are frozen in this Sentinel-2 image from last week. Ice break-up in the Spring was often followed by a short and intense bloom of crytophyte cells. Had some fun trying to sample water from under a metre of ice, back in the day.
4 months ago
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What is at about these non-existent giant Chinese offshore windfarms? So well hidden that Trump's intelligence sources can't spot them, yet I can find them with two mouse clicks.
4 months ago
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Zoology building at Liverpool closed down. First year practicals in the lab on the left mainly doing repeated dissections of dogfish. No wonder I turned vegetarian.
4 months ago
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anyone doing the January 100 push-ups a day challenge for
@cancerresearchuk.org
? I'm on track so far.
5 months ago
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Magic of the FA Cup not working at the MKM. There’s only about 5,000 here.
5 months ago
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Saturday shopping and a million other things on hold until the end of Macc v Palace.
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The Seabird Group
5 months ago
2026 Training Grants are now open! 📢🕊️ Are you: 📏 Hoping to gain experience with
#seabirds
via unpaid work? 🧑 From a BAME background? (though others may apply too) 💸 A grant of up to £250 could help! (to cover travel, accommodation or food) Info:
www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/grant
Apply by 28 Feb 💌
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looking at a loop on netweather of the 15 minute radar data for this extraordinary storm. Savage beauty. The remaining clifftop homes in Norfolk will get absolutely battered again when the wind and waves go north-easterly during the night and through tomorrow.
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Dr Craig R McClain
5 months ago
Newish paper (i.e. it was out last summer and just now seeing it) out on Alicella gigantea, the world’s largest amphipod. Long thought to be rare because we almost never see it. Turns out it may occupy ~59% of the global ocean.
royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...
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29 years and a day since the last Elfstedentocht. Will the Dutch ever see another one?
5 months ago
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Clare Fieseler, PhD
5 months ago
All signs point to Trump’s second term creating a hotter and less affordable future for Americans. Without new offshore turbines going up, millions of households across the Northeast will soon pay more money for dirtier and less reliable electricity. My latest 👇
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How Trump dismantled a promising energy industry — and what America…
The demolition of the offshore wind sector in 2025 will reverberate for decades, resulting in lost jobs, higher utility bills, and less reliable power…
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/offshore-wind/how-trump-dismantled-a-promising-energy-industry-and-what-america-lost
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Michael E. Mann
5 months ago
Tried and true tactic of fossil fuel disinformation machine. An excerpt from
#ScienceUnderSiege
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Dr Abigail McQuatters-Gollop
5 months ago
🌊 Funded PhD: Advancing Plankton Imaging & Machine Learning to Transform Marine Biodiversity Monitoring 🔬🌍
@plymuni.bsky.social
Bring together AI-powered image analysis, innovative sensors, and real-world policy frameworks. Two funding options: 1.
lnkd.in/e566f8RR
2.
lnkd.in/eKPRGhsP
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Dr. Jonathan Foley
6 months ago
If people could just intuitively understand the difference between a million, a billion, and a trillion, we’d all be better off. That applies to dollars. To tons of carbon. And so on. Math. It matters.
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