When staying with birders it's only natural you join them for a night of owl ringing. This beautiful young male barn owl behaved very nicely whilst we ringed, weighed and measured him.

🧬 We are so back 🧬 Let's see what these Sound of Barra samples are saying 🫧 Some residents mentioned seeing some seahorses in the seagrass so fingers crossed we pick some up! #naeseahorseemoji #eDNA #Eìrisgeidh

A wee peek at some of the members of the #ScottishSeagrassCollaboration group. Nice to put faces to names. I look forward to working with you all! 🌱🧬🐟

Myusy, a festive sea slug, is a mascot for the coastal town of Hayama, in Kanagawa Prefecture. Myusy supports beach cleanups and activities to protect the marine environment.

Went to a #squidgoals themed 21st birthday party. Subsequently, went on to do a squid-related internship to keep the joke going. Got REALLY into cephalopods and did my MSc thesis with @autsquidsquad.bsky.social. Got REALLY into molecular ecology and then into eDNA. 🧬🦑

A wee peek at some of the members of the #ScottishSeagrassCollaboration group. Nice to put faces to names. I look forward to working with you all! 🌱🧬🐟

"Hold on. Are you sure the recipe called for a teaspoon of octopus?" 🥄🐙📷Sarah K. Grossman (inaturalist.ca/observations...)

Stopped by @projectseagrass.bsky.social nursery hearing about the success and failures of restoration. I also got to indulge in a bit of culture visiting Dylan Thomas's boathouse. I feel the poem "Do not go gentle into that good night..." feels apt in my feelings against apathy in conservation.

A very successful #SeagrassSymposium25 last week rounding off the conference with some insights from future #marine scientists who talked about class and financial issues as ecology students. Howard Wood gave an inspiring talk on his work building #COAST in Arran and the power of being stubborn!

Day 1 of the UK Seagrass Symposium done ✅ Great talks and a great chance to catch up with the seagrass crew across the country. Inspiring messages from J Brooke Landry showing us the Chesapeake playbook. #seagrasssymposium #seagrass

A well written engaging article, an end of the week reminder that humans are capable of acting for the greater good, but also of what's at stake when we don't... www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

From fieldwork to festival with one day turnaround. #whatascientistlookslike

After an ∞ number of litres filtered and an ∞ number of podcast hours listened to, it's time to say tìoraidh to Èirisgeidh and tìoraidh to this years field season! Really lucky I got the good weather and a stellar crew to help me out with my sample collecting. Now it's time to rest 😌

Again I ask: how did we go from half of parliament and all of the press up in arms denouncing racism as a weapon to hound out the left, to the PM giving Enoch Powell speeches and fascists running riot in the street without a word of criticism from the main parties, and active support in some cases.

🏝 Sound of Barrabados 🏝 #Èirisgeigh #Hebrides #Alba

How it feels to be the only person in the monitoring team to get seasick.

Sunburnt and questionable fashion can be forgiven for doing seagrass/mileanach surveying in such a gorgeous location. Also an excellent place to practice my gàidhlig. Tha latha math ann! #gàidhlig #hebrides #hebrideanislands #alba #seagrass #fieldwork #mileanach

10pm at night and we're still up filtering water samples by hand for eDNA analysis. The grind never stops 😩 #neverstopneverstopping

Listening to silly music whilst doing silly stats 😝

Introducing our 2nd newborn bottlenose calf of the 2025 season with her proud mum "Barbi" (ID#253)! 🐬 This new youngster (5th known calf for Barbi), was probably only hours old when we met her yesterday, as evidenced from its bent-over dorsal fin and uncoordinated surfacing behaviour. 🧪

Fascism? Simply too much trouble to do anything about it. We’ve got lefties to scold and arrest

I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.

We’re officially halfway through 2025… Here’s what went right in every month so far. What impact will you have in the second half of the year?

I don’t think enough of us talked about the footage of the Norwegian Orcas makin’ out yesterday. www.livescience.com/animals/orca...

Is there a saint or goddess you can pray to for successful eDNA extractions? Asking for ME. 💁🏼‍♀️

Super cute Monterey pride parade today! The Monterey Gay Aqueerium float was amazing 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Squidney Sweeney 🦑

Got to hang out with a bunch of cool people from Biota Trace testing out an automated sampler (lovingly known as my wee robot pal) to collect water samples from Loch Craignish. @seawilding.bsky.social were also kind enough to let us use their shed and kept us company 😁 🐟 🤖

tinyurl.com/UoATransphobia ☝️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 im sure many of you are aware of hostility towards #trans staff & students in my department myself & other ECRs have published a desperate call for action on #transphobia from departmental and university management please read, share and SIGN IN SOLIDARITY ❤️

My friend's so talented 😍

Absolutely amazing!

Here to share some propaganda about doing fieldwork in Scotland. It's definitely always this sunny and dry all the time. No sideways rain, EVER. The rainbow was NOT a paid actor. All in all, it was a successful first mini PhD project collecting samples for eDNA. Big love to my wonderful helpers 💛💙💜

V. jealous of the #SAMS students that get to see this view from their campus everyday ✨️ North west Scotland always delivers with the scenery.

Everybody drop what you're listening to whilst working. I have this on repeat all day ✨️💅

Everything comes back in fashion, so stop throwing away your dead salmon fish hats!

Who's that girl lalalalalalalalala. It's me, I'm that girl and I'm presenting some preliminary ideas for my PhD project.

Incredible @tillysscott.bsky.social what a talent! Thank you for the wee baby fish drawing 😭🐟

For my first Blue Sky post, I'm going to shamelessly plug my first author and first ever paper! A collaborative effort between the amazing team at ALCES at Auckland Univeristy of Technology, NIWA, and Rijksuniversiteit Groningen 🦑🦑🦑 #deathtotwitter #cephalopods www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....