New Naturally Speaking Podcast! Episode 102 – A Field Course on Tropical Marine Biology Listen here: naturallyspeaking.blog/2026/04/18/e...

Bloody hell. Researchers invented a disease, published two fake papers to see if LLM’s would ingest them and kick them up as fact — and then it broke containment and all the major AI’s bought in. Information pollution. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Brutal.

All countries MUST withdraw overflight, landing or refueling permission for US planes, with immediate effect. Too much is at stake to just wait and “hope” Trump will back down, or someone, somewhere in US system will intervene to stop him.

Scientists are calling on UN Member States to fully implement UNGA Resolution 61/105 and protect vulnerable marine ecosystems, including seamounts, from destructive bottom-contact fishing. Eligible scientists may sign in their personal capacity: stateoftheocean.org/seamoun...

Our latest paper showing how fish use the underwater seascape, showing the importance of a diverse mixture of substrata in nursery areas. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... Graeme Cullen @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk Dr Charlotte Hopkins @uniofhull.bsky.social and Dr Neil Burns (UofG SES)

New Naturally Speaking Podcast! It's our 100th episode! Thank you to all who have contributed to allow us to reach this milestone! EPISODE 100 – A Field course on the Conservation of African Ecosystems Listen here: naturallyspeaking.blog/2026/02/01/e...

My brother fought in the infantry and lost soldiers in Afghanistan. The press used to report deaths before families had been told and I would check my phone over and over, scared it would ring. I went to the inquest of one of his killed men. I saw his red-eyed parents, girlfriend and baby daughter.

might watch this video 100 times before the day is over

New PhD opportunity - which I'm delighted to be co-supervising! 'From Catch to Kitchen: Learning from Recreational Anglers to Diversify UK Seafood Choices' www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #phd #seafood #angling #fisheries #recreationalfishing #sustainability @thembauk.bsky.social Please share!

PhDs being offered across the Iapetus DTP for an October 2026 start: www.findaphd.com/phds/program... Please broadcast details of our Diversifying Talent Scholarship scheme too: www.findaphd.com/phds/program... @ukri.org #BlackAFinSTEM #firstgen

Scot Gov delays marine protection (again) until AFTER May 2026 election Lines on a map are NOT protection! Destructive bottom trawling continues in our protected areas, devastating vital habitats. The costs of this delay are severe. Read more: www.scotlink.org/environment-... #savescottishseas

We have a great PhD project in partnership with British Antarctic Survey and Viking Cruises to study the underwater seascape of Antarctica. Full training and additional pay for time at sea @bas.ac.uk @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk Closing Jan 5th 2026 iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

We're almost at the end of the training week of the @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk Tropical Marine Biology field course in the beautiful Red Sea. More updates and pictures to follow. @uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofglifesci.bsky.social

A big thank you to all the staff and 3rd year Zoology and Marine & Freshwater Biology students who took part in the marine biology field course at FSC Millport! @dommccafferty.bsky.social @tashamilne.bsky.social @uofgmvls.bsky.social

Victoria Paterson and I are abseiling off a building here at the University of Glasgow to raise money for student expeds. This is to help disadvanaged students take up these amazing, life changing opportunities @uofglasgow.bsky.social www.justgiving.com/page/paterso... We'd appreciate you support

Glasgow university’s Zoology degree retains its top position in the Guardian university 2026 rankings, for the 4th year in a row! @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk @uofgmvls.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/theg...

New paper out in Royal Society Open Science: Biodiversity is the common factor for juvenile nursery habitat for 3 commercially important species. Marine protection should focus on whole-site health, not just individual features @davemarinebio.glasgow.ac.uk @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

🐬🐳 Check out our new paper lead by our @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk PhD student @rachlenn.bsky.social which looks at trends in cetacean strandings over the past 30 years. 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41... All thanks to decades of reports from volunteers and the public!

This is a masterpiece. Simply excellent www.instagram.com/reel/DMVGMIC...

I found this article on neurodiversity in conservationists very moving and encouraging, for professional and personal reasons. www.theguardian.com/environment/... We've got more to do to do on ethnic diversity, and inclusion of people from more disadvantged backgrounds, but this is a good story

We have a 12 month Marine and Freshwater teaching position in our School. www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer... Closing date 11th August. Interest in teaching on our Tropical Marine Biology course, would be great, but not essential. @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk Questions to @jlindstrom.bsky.social

Some good conservation news. The Scottish Government has closed >20 MPAs to wrasse fishing. This is a direct result of our team’s research and the tireless efforts of @siftscotland.bsky.social

Bottom trawling continues to destroy vulnerable marine ecosystems. 95+ scientists have signed a letter calling on States & @UN to fully implement existing commitments to protect seamounts from destructive fishing practices. Are you a scientist? Add your name ⬇️ @oceanipso.bsky.social

I don't know how many times I've registered for Elsevier's Editorial Manager system, or linked my Orcid to it, it has never worked properly. Maybe they could spend part of their billion dollars of profit on fixing it. I know, not the biggest problem in the world today

🌿Last week, MASTS held a 2day workshop with @scotlandbnz.bsky.social‬ on Coastal and Marine Natural Capital Markets. Participants explored how Scotland’s coastal and marine science community can provide evidence to assess the feasibility, risks, and opportunities of natural capital markets.

New paper alert! Worldwide Soundscapes: metadata from 12,343 PAM sites across land, sea, freshwater & even underground. This is the first global synthesis of acoustic biodiversity monitoring. 🔗https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.70021 #AcousticEcology #PAM #BiodiversityMonitoring #Ecology

New paper! We estimated the reproductive timing of the critically endangered #flapperskate by making use of a pre-existing #citizenscience photo ID database 📸 with @davemarinebio.glasgow.ac.uk @jathorburn.bsky.social Paper ⏩ doi.org/10.1111/jfb.... & summary below ⏬

Our new paper on marine mapping and biodiversity, using a combination of underwater imaging techniques: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... @davemarinebio.glasgow.ac.uk @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk @plosone.org

Some amazing pictures to cheer up your timeline www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Charles Darwin the barnacle taxonomist, a story in two parts

In a shock development* when asked whether whole MPAs should be closed to fishing, or just zones within them "The consultation revealed a fundamental divide between advocates of conservation and industry stakeholders when it came to zonal or full site measures." www.gov.scot/publications... */s

New job opening for a Professor/Reader/Senior Lecturer of Applied Animal Nutrition/Metabolomics/Microbiome within the School of Biodiversity, One Health and Veterinary Medicine at the University of Glasgow. Closing date 4th March 2025. More information here: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/professo...

@uofglasgow.bsky.social Maths&Stats / GES / @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social have several funded PhD studentships in Exascale Computing for Earth, Environmental, and Sustainability Solutions for UK and international students starting in October - www.exageo.org - deadline Monday 17th February.

Great to see our research on wrasse used to inform this investigation. Our work with @naturescot.bsky.social found that wrasse are "typical species" of protected reef features, and as such needed to be monitored and safeguarded environmentalstandards.scot/our-work/our...

#PhD opportunity: Last chance - applications close on Monday 13th January! @benciotti.bsky.social 🏖️🐟

Another fully-funded PhD via @netgain.bsky.social: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Led by Flurina Wartmann, @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social Deadline 31 Jan

New paper led by Eric Schneider at Cape Eleuthera Institute on acoustic methods of pelagic fish tracking around a scientific FAD link.springer.com/article/10.1... @innovasea.bsky.social @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social @shaunkillen.bsky.social #openaccess

Some more PhD opportunities here, this time on Biodiversity Net Gain policies in the marine environment. Part of the Netgain doctoral programme @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social netgain.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk

Curled octopus (Eledone cirrhosa) One of my favourite species, sat in the Lamlash No Take Zone watching Juvenile Cod shoals. It's my perfect type of dive. #Arran #IsleofArran #MarineReservesWork

Well done @privateeyenews.bsky.social for covering the Scottish Government’s ongoing failure to protect the marine environment. Many more stories like this, unfortunately, so I hope to see more in your pages.

🎓🐟 PhD Opportunity! 🐟🎓 Explore how coastal habitats support fisheries using #bioacoustics & #MachineLearning! 🌊 Study marine ecosystems 🌐 Develop AI tools 💡 Drive sustainability 📍 University of Glasgow 📆 Apply by 3 January 🔗 shorturl.at/4qt5K @davemarinebio.bsky.social @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social

Back home after the @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social Tropical Marine Biology field course. Scientific and teamwork skills taught, developed, and tested. Big thanks to my amazing instructors, hard-working and inspiring students and our hosts at Roots Red Sea. @uofglasgow.bsky.social

We are advertising a PhD studentship on extinction risk to sharks and rays, with colleagues at University of Newcastle and IUCN. Would suit a candidate interested in species distribution models and conservation. iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships... @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social

Some images from the @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social Tropical Marine Biology field course, here in the Red Sea

New paper by Neil Burns, Charlotte Hopkins and me on making seascape maps from BRUV camera data doi.org/10.1016/j.ec... All in support of better understanding of essential fish habitat, taking into account all the different types of seabed and their relationships with each other. More to come.

Great video of our Egypt expedition on the new University of Glasgow, School of Biodiversity, One Health and Vet Medicine channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4nu... Investigating the effects of urchin die-off on reef health as part of a long-term study. By @olivier_leger (instagram) olivier.leger.com

Another amazing but knackering day on the Tropical Marine Biology field course in Egypt. We've run this course at University of Glasgow for more than 30 years, and there's always something new to see. Today we explored a seagrass bed and the remote reef on the other side, beautiful

We're offering a great #PhD studentship on the effects of MPAs on people. It'll be led by environmental economist Kat Simpson with partners at Newcastle and York. A really important topic with lots to find out, bringing together natural and social science. iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships...