My friend has an unhealthy obsession with ocean life I told her to sea kelp #TerribleJokes

🪸 Announcing RCUK 2025 events! 🪸 📅Fri December 5th 2025 - workshops @ 1pm 📅Sat December 6th 2025 - main conference 📅Sun December 7th 2025 - optional Sunday excursion (details coming soon). 🎟️ Tickets go live early October! 🖊️ Join our mailing list to keep posted with updates: lnkd.in/egznKHVt

🚨 Abstract submissions for Reef Conservation UK 2025 are now OPEN! 🚨 We’re inviting abstracts for: 📊 Presentations (12 minutes) ⚡ Speed Talks (5 minutes) 📜 Posters 🗓️ Deadline for submissions: 12th September 2025 🔗 lnkd.in/e3maGC3q 💙 Stay connected with us here or on LinkedIn shorturl.at/gfWW9

Successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis this morning so after a few minor edits (corrections) you can all call me Dr. Taylor 😁

Took my new camera lens out for a play. Definitely need to work on my focus of the sky flap flaps!! Did get a very good picture of my little munchkin though 🥰

It was cold. It was early. But it was beautiful. #scotland #wintersunrise #frostymorning

It’s a slug hug! #nudibranch #philippines #uwphoto

Don’t worry. Be happy. #smileystarfish

Saw my first ever pygmy seahorse this morning. It’s been 12 hours and I’m still buzzing! 😁 They are so incredibly tiny. I can totally understand how it took so long to discover they exist!

Day 1 diving in the #philippines and I have already seen a flamboyant #cuttlefish, #seasnake, #Nemo and all his friends, #mantisshrimp, mimic #octopus, and an ornate ghost #pipefish!!!! Bring on days 2-10! 😁

Let’s go #diving! #travel #philippines #holidaytime #photography

Puppies decided that it was time to get up so a sunrise walk in a frosty forest it is for a Wednesday morning. #sunrise #nature #scotland #wintersunrise

Does anyone else really like looking up at falling snow? #winter #snow #scotland

REMINDER: 2025 AMLC Scientific Meeting - ABSTRACT SUBMISSION OPEN amlc-carib.org/2025-meeting... #coralreefs #caribbean #coralreefecology #abstractsubmission #coralecology #coralscience #scientificmeeting #tropicalmarineecology #marinebiology

He already had half my bed. Now he wants all of it 🤣

Some days I need to remind myself that I really do love my boys! Today was one of those days. #StormEowyn #winterstorm #windy

Just your standard morning dog walk! #sunrise #wintersunrise #beautiful #nature #scotland

Hello all Coral Enthusiasts! 🪸 Here is to a productive 2025 ahead! 🎉 We are thrilled to now be on Bluesky 💙 Stay tuned for exciting news! 🌊

The snow has now melted but the gorgeous #sunrises have remained! I have said it before and I will say it again…I live in an absolutely beautiful place. We are so lucky in #Scotland that access to our wildness is free to everyone 😁 #winter #snow #wintermornings #wintersunrise

Planning my #PhDone celebration trip. I am heading the The #Galapagos and #Ecuador in August/September. Doing a liveaboard up to Wolf and Darwin islands for the #sharks, #whalesharks, #rays. I want to spend a few days over in the Ecuadorean Amazon. What else is a must do? Picture of snow just cause!

I admit I am biased. But holy moly I live in an absolutely gorgeous place! #Scotland #Aberdeenshire #winter #snow #sunrise

It might be cold but it is beautiful up here in #Scotland just now! But the littlest puppy needs a #snowplough attachment so he can make it through 🤣 #winter #scotlandsnow #snow #scotlandwinter

Only 2025 New Year’s resolution. #PhD #PhDone #schoolisalmostfinished

Christmas 2024. Spent in Michigan in the snow.

I think the universe is trying to tell me something! My #duolingo sentence telling me I need to write more. #phdthesis #phdwriting

I don’t mind the cold mornings when our walks look like this! #scotland #winter #sunrise #redsky

Tell me you are visiting family abroad who haven’t been to the U.K. in years for Christmas, without telling me 🤣 It’s a good thing I don’t have many clothes to pack 🧳

Yes I am in my 30s. Yes my mum sent me an advent calendar! #nevertoooldforchocolate #december #christmasiscoming

Another fantastic year at #RCUK2024 talking all things reef! Already looking forward to next year. If you wanna help organise it by joining the committee, let us know! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

And we are off… #RCUK2024

Off we go. #RCUK2024

I really want to see one of these!

If anyone has some spare time and wants to help ID the ~1400 specimens I collected for my #PhD... www.inaturalist.org/projects/bio... Any help greatly appreciated! #speciesID #crustaceans #polychaetes #mollusca #echinoderms #iNaturalist

Following the current Bsky trend: Advertise your account with just one image. 🦀 🐠 🦑 🐟 🦈 🪼🐙 🦐 🐡 🧬 🪸 Coral rubble. Is it just a pile of dead coral skeletons?

Body: we are too old for the top bunk in a youth hostel. Wallet: it’s this or the bench outside in the rain! #studentlife #phdlife #savemoneyfordiving

Here's a juvenile whale shark--just a 17-foot-long baby--shaking off some pesky fishies. #MarineLife

Still time to get your #RCUK2024 tickets! 🐠

Using a public count down to keep me accountable. #PhD #phdone #marinebioligy #phdthesis #almostadoctor

Hey 👋🏼 everyone. I’m Michelle, a Ph.D. researcher studying coral rubble, underwater photographer, and dog mum of 2. Currently based in Scotland, but with plenty fieldwork in the Caribbean. 🐠 🪸 🐡