“Sand eels eels make up the bulk of the diet of seabirds, but they are fished for commercial pig food” That short sentence exemplifies just how screwed up things are www.theguardian.com/environment/...

One week left to apply to this postdoc opportunity I'm offering in native oyster restoration in Ireland. Get your applications in before the 9th May 12 pm deadline! Any questions contact me. Details in the application documents, link below.

#jobalert 📢 Delighted to offer a 3-year postdoctoral position in my research group at ATU Galway, Ireland. This is an exciting role in the new and ambitious native oyster reef restoration #BRICONS Project funded by the Marine Institute. To apply www.atu.ie/connect/jobs.... Deadline: 9 May 2025 12pm

🧵Commercial fishing is the most damaging thing we do to the ocean. In addition to killing lots of fish and other organisms, it also kills >300k dauphins and whales annually. For a fishing company to oppose research on marine CO₂ removal because it might harm the environment is ironic. 1/n 🌊

We have a #PhD opportunity on #oyster restoration in modified water bodies as a potential #NatureBasedSolution with @nessocon.bsky.social as part of the new BRICONS project! See www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🌊🦪

We are looking for a #PhD student to work on the impacts of multiple stressors on native #oysters as part of the BRICONS Project co-supervised by @annikaclements.bsky.social - contact me for details on how to apply @tcddublin.bsky.social

Delighted to be playing a part on this rewilding project in the North Sea and to provide some of the imagery for the press releases www.trouw.nl/duurzaamheid...

In the biogenic habitats lab we also get to study Irish seagrass beds, from some of the deepest ones in Europe down in Kerry (1st), to rich mosaic seagrass-oyster-maerl biotopes in Conamara (2nd) to almost urban seagrass meadows near Galway city (3rd and 4th picture ). #worldseagrassday

Old habits are hard to break and I have defaulted to the old site for posting lately. I need to transition proper and will start posting more here. I'll start with news of two successful collaborative project proposals for shellfish reef restoration projects due to start in 2025. Cue these photos 👇

More BRUV footage with unexpected species. Following that Atlantic salmon, here we have a pair of common squid (Loligo vulgaris) gliding in front of the camera. The footage is part of our ongoing study of fish utilisation of seaweed farms but as it happens there is a #seagrass meadow nearby.

Nice to see this article by @mbaldwin.bsky.social surface again. Lots of academics aren't aware how recent and dynamic the peer-review system is. Entire thing worth a read, but this quote always floors me (page 8 of PDF ethos.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/19/g... ):

Are you interested in the #restoration of marine ecosystems? I'm co-chairing a @icesmarine.bsky.social Workshop on Nature Restoration (WKREST) in March, join if you're interested! www.ices.dk/community/gr...

It's not just shellfish reefs we study in my group, I have a lot of love for seagrass. A new found, serendipitous love as a result of a completely different project on seaweed farming. Some of the nicest dives I have ever done are on seagrass beds. Esp. summer, with all the juvenile fish thriving.

Sharing this photo of a native oyster bed in one of our survey sites here for the first time. This was my coelacanth moment, especially as many deny these oyster habitats even exist. Same as eels, Ostrea edulis (the species and the habitat) are threatened and yet we keep managing them as a fishery.

It shouldn't be allowed anywhere.

Jury's out if Atlantic salmon can be regarded as using kelp farms has habitat but this guy passed closed enough to one of our baited cameras to deserve being added to our fishy list. Wait until you see the next interloper, it has tentacles! Oh, and happy #PhycologyFriday (because it's sugar kelp).

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As a way of second intro, my #ScholarGoogler wordcloud taken from my Google Scholar profile scholargoggler.com. I wouldn't say this is what I do because what I mostly do these days is writing emails, raising purchase orders and marking. It comes with the job. It is what I love working on, I'd say.

I left the hellsite that is X in the wake of this summer's UK riots, and started a Threads account. Here I am again! I am interested in, and will follow or post about: Ecology Conservation Marine Biology Social Psychology Politics Science in general Would be great to connect 🙏💚

Large carnivore distribution maps and population updates 2017 – 2022/23 environment.ec.europa.eu/topics/natur...

Lines of fir trees or nesting Curlew? Poignant picture. How long will these birds nest here, once trees start to grow? Thread 1/5 #ornithology

Looking at some photos from an old Modiolus survey off Shetland I ended up in Jakobsen's Norn dictionary and I'm on a weird rabbit hole because I love this stuff. Then I remembered horse mussels were called 'Yaug' in Shetland but never found the reference, and it's here: øg or jog, old Norse Aða.

On way back from the Netherlands from a very stimulating workshop on rewilding the North Sea. What better airport read than 'Cod'. I'm excited for what can happen thanks to conservationists with vision. The difficulty is resisting the push for industry technofixes, we don't need more of the same.

About time I inaugurated my presence on this cielo azul. Feels like the old 🐦 many familiar faces. I'm a Spanish marine ecologist based in the west of Ireland, where I've spent half my life. My passion is nature conservation, and that is how I frame my group's research on biogenic habitats.Talk soon