Conor Ryan
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Here for whale/fungi/sea kayaking/queer 🏳️🌈/marine science chat. 🇮🇪living in🏴
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Graham Appleton
5 months ago
Newly arrived Black-tailed Godwits at Caldy (thanks Richard Smith). Check out the sites these birds might also visit ⤵️ Blog about connectivity contains link to Shiny App, where you can make a Black-tailed Godwit map for your site:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/01/09/h...
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New Scientist
5 months ago
Meteorologists say that in the next decade, summer daytime temperatures above 28°C could persist for more than a month in the UK, with spikes as high as 46.6°C possible under today’s climate conditions.
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UK should expect summers above 40°C in next decade, warns Met Office
Meteorologists say that in the next decade, summer daytime temperatures above 28°C could persist for more than a month, with spikes as high as 46.6°C possible under today’s climate conditions
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2484638-uk-should-expect-summers-above-40c-in-next-decade-warns-met-office/?utm_medium=SOC&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1750233915-3
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Bubble-trail encounters from
#krill
#fishing
vessels show that
#Antarctic
Voluntary Restriction Zones for the
#krillfishing
industry has displaced fishing into areas where the penguin encounter rate is higher/the same
#CCAMLR
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Harbour seal population on the west coast of Scotland was thought to have been stable, but fell by 20% between 2018 and 2023
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Significant decline among seals on Scotland's west coast
The population fell by 20% over five years, in a region considered a stronghold for the marine mammal.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg6wy36vvno
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Adam Markham
5 months ago
From the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center. Apart from the overwhelmingly largest cause of population declines - habitat loss and destruction - what are the other big killers of birds? A reason to consider keeping cats inside.🪶🌎
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Some critters found while gardening today: European common frog, palmate newt, wood mouse
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Random Memes
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Ted Pavlic (he/him/his)
5 months ago
Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time.
#science
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www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...
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How a discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR - Richmond Scientific
A discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR, the gold-standard COVID-19 tests used to fight the global pandemic.
https://www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discovery-in-yellowstone-national-park-led-to-the-renowned-technique-of-dna-amplification-pcr
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Willow gloves fungus news
#fungi
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Endangered willow gloves fungus not yet growing in new Cumbria site
Scientists hope to save the critically endangered willow gloves fungus which is extinct in the UK.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx271w91yn5o
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Based on interviews and archive work (Bergen/Oslo, April 2024), Peter Wilson,
@sbenjamins.bsky.social
and I reviewed minke
#whaling
around Ireland in
@injournal.bsky.social
Vol 41. Funded by Percey Sladen Memorial Fund & Society for Nautical Research
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Al Jazeera English
5 months ago
BREAKING: At least 21 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza this morning, sources at local hospitals tell our team. 🔴 LIVE updates:
aje.io/m4ewkf
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New Scientist
5 months ago
If your dog will jump in the nearest river, pond or lake given half a chance, don't use spot-on treatments for fleas and ticks, say researchers.
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Dogs pollute water with pesticides even weeks after flea treatment
When dogs given spot treatments for fleas go swimming, they release levels of pesticides dangerous to aquatic life for at least a month after the treatment
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2482650-dogs-pollute-water-with-pesticides-even-weeks-after-flea-treatment/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=SOC&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1749366596
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Noam Vogt-Vincent
5 months ago
Can tropical corals find refuge at higher latitudes under future warming? In our new paper in Science Advances, we argue that coral range expansion will be *far too slow* for most coral species to outpace climate change. 🪸🌊
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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In the latest Irish Naturalists Journal issue,
@andyfoote.bsky.social
and I reported that "#DopeyDick" the killer whale that swam into
#Derry
City (Nov 1977) was a West Coast Community whale; probably "Comet". Minimum age 53y, but last documented 10y ago.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Wonderful example of non-invasive research from land, showing that harbour porpoises have a strong preference for coastal waters (<500m from the shore) in parts of Northern Ireland
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Spatial Dynamics of Harbour Porpoise Phocoena phocoena Relative to Local Hydrodynamics and Environmental Conditions
This study uses a multidisciplinary approach to model the habitat use and site occurrence of harbour porpoises, identifying areas where they were seen spending most time in the Skerries and Causeway ...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.71334
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Al Jazeera English
5 months ago
BREAKING: At least 34 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli attacks since the early hours of this morning, medical sources tell our team on the ground. 🔴 LIVE updates:
aje.io/pe4duy
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Met4Cast
6 months ago
This is phenomenal. Sea surface temperatures are >5C above average to the west of the UK and around Iceland. It's the strongest area of anomalous warmth on the planet at the moment. It's the warmest in recorded history for northwest Europe.
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Margaret Cahill
6 months ago
MEP Lynn Boylan has been speaking out about Gaza from the start, including about the lack of Irish government and EU actions and what was needed of both. She gave this powerful speech today in the European Parliament. 💔
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Departing Aberdeen Harbour is always fun for the bottlenose dolphin action. This afternoon we saw them eating salmon. A grey seal also had a fine lunch of salmon!
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It has been such an honour to sail around Ireland with U.N. Elder, Mary Robinson. Quoting Archbishop Desmund Tutu, she said she is "Not an optimist, but a prisoner of hope"
#ClimateEmergency
#BiodiversityCrisis
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Here are some macaroni penguins (and a lone gentoo) with a humpback whale bearing down on them off Cooper Island, South Georgia... for
#SuperSeabirdSunday
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www.echo.net.au/2025/04/hump...
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Humpback whale killed in krill supertrawler net
A criminal complaint has been filed regarding a humpback whale being killed by a krill supertrawler, the Chilean-flagged Antarctic Endeavour, in the pristine waters of the Antarctic.
https://www.echo.net.au/2025/04/humpback-whale-killed-in-krill-supertrawler-net/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJ3PFBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETE3eGRwalJxcTNoVDZFajZkAR5b-8OR4bpUkJhF5cbw0CvOdt3DkRoiSLGu8aeZvSLzHJ_ooHbv6sJ7sxoA2g_aem_eTsmPp2-YKQUfgZSXIJVvQ
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Graham Appleton
7 months ago
Whimbrel watchers in Ireland and UK ... Recent paper by Icelandic researchers show that breeding numbers in the South Iceland heartland are falling. Not as rapidly as Dunlin but still a worry. More here:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/02/20/i...
Paper by Aldís Pálsdóttir et al
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I had no idea that we have water shrews in
#Mull
. Neighbour's cat killed two in under an hour.
#shrew
#watershrew
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ALOK
7 months ago
plot twist 😂 watch my comedy special BIOLOGY! at the link in bio
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Meet the Scientist: Fishing Gear Entanglement - The Research and Solutions
Ellie MacLennan talks about current research and how the Scottish Entanglement Alliance are supporting fishing communities to reduce the risk of entanglement.
https://www.seabird.org/events/meet-the-scientist-fishing-gear-entanglement?fbclid=IwY2xjawJqII5leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHvswkXBnCWVFsq18heYQ56vhTL5NT6NTLe6TfBtOAoTpn_a2I9PkyAALp0e0_aem_XKdmCdbBMio2mQngkiCN_g
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On Compost. "...what matters is not the individual ingredients but the fertile new thing they can become." A beautiful article on why we should cherish our 'waste'
@frasermacdonald.bsky.social
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Fraser MacDonald · On Compost
I sometimes wonder whether my love of compost is a response to the dispiriting cleanness of modern life – the spray’...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n07/fraser-macdonald/on-compost
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New
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paper by
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et al. finds "...discrete areas of co-occurring prey consumption by seabirds and fishing effort..."
academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...
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Spatial distribution of seabird biomass removal and overlap with fisheries in a large marine ecosystem
Abstract. Globally, seabirds remove a prey biomass equivalent to commercial fishery landings, suggesting likely competition for resources that will vary sp
https://academic.oup.com/icesjms/article/82/4/fsaf045/8110168?login=false
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10 years ago today, my work was cited by an expert IWC panel to demonstrate that Japan's proposed new scientific whaling program was not scientifically justified because non-lethal alternatives had been proven to work. Proud moment (which I'd forgotten about until FB reminded me)
#whaling
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Finally found a reference for the population control attempts on killer whales by the US military, at the request of the Icelandic Government in the 1950s (Naval Aviation News, 1956).
#whaling
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These beautiful and honest essay was published recently by my dear friend Rose Skelton.
#queerfamily
#spermdonation
#mushrooms
#love
&
#friendship
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newohioreview.org/2025/03/04/f...
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Barnacle geese or pink-footed? I am leaning towards the former, as i think pink footed have more of a flutes or whistling call? Migrating north over Mull today with a nice tail wind
#migration
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Endless
8 months ago
Schizophyllum commune 🍄📷
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Antarctic minke whale drive-by in Lazarev Bay
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Faine Greenwood
8 months ago
I may have to get into underwater photography simply for Posting - for example, I legit saw a real Penis Starfish today while diving in Sulawesi:
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Natalie Alana Ashton
8 months ago
if you're in the US and despairing about people being pulled off the street, you need to find your nearest immigrant defence/deportation defence group and learn how to do stuff like this
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021...
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‘A special day’: how a Glasgow community halted immigration raid
Activists and local people tell how they forced the release of two men detained in an enforcement van
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/may/14/a-special-day-how-glasgow-community-halted-immigration-raid
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Commerson's dolphins: contender for the smallest marine dolphin in the world. These spent hours swimming into our prop-wash while the ship held position off Saunders Island, Falkland
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Stephanie L King
8 months ago
🐳 UPCOMING BOOK ALERT 🐬 The Evolution of Cetacean Societies Edited by
@darrencroft.bsky.social
@andrewfoote.bsky.social
@ellengarland.bsky.social
and myself Preorder available now
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
#whale
#dolphin
#animalbehaviour
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SPRING NEWS. I saw my first sand martin over the Mishnish Lochs, Mull the day after the Equinox (last Friday).
#birds
#wildlife
#seasons
#theresagrandstretch
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I found the beautiful yellow specklebelly in Mull today (Pseudocyphellaria citrina). Like a sheet of hammered copper, studded with golden stars. A rare treasure.
#fungifriends
#lichen
#temperaterainforest
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Excited to report that
@andrewfoote.bsky.social
and I have a new note in the next issue of Irish Naturalists Journal
irishnaturalistsjournal.org
(please subscribe!). We believe that Dopey Dick (Derry 1977) was Comet (Hebrides & Ireland 1992-2014), now presumed dead
#WestCoastCommunity
#killerwhale
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The genocide continues. It is so utterly heart-breaking
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Breeding Bird Surveys (BBS)
8 months ago
(1/) If you are looking for an adventure, why not consider signing up for an Upland Rovers square? You can sign up for a single visit, and there are vacant squares in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and England. Scan the QR code or click here for more details:
www.bto.org/our-science/...
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Rahul Rao
8 months ago
London friends, I'm doing two events in your city this week and would love to see some of you at them if you can make it.
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Rahul Rao
8 months ago
book talks 📢📢📢 19/03 Housmans London:
tinyurl.com/tta5dmur
21/03 SOAS London:
tinyurl.com/y7bkzy36
24/03 Topping St Andrews:
tinyurl.com/48szxjxf
28/03 Tigre de Papel Lisbon:
tinyurl.com/mrx3kpuu
03/04 Lighthouse Edinburgh:
tinyurl.com/mrxbsnaj
24/06 Rhodes House Oxford:
tinyurl.com/ycx93naj
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Keeping animals in unnaturally high densities is putting us all at risk.
#eatplants
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Colleagues have told me that cloudy eyes is a suspected symptom of HPAI in Antarctic fur seals. I saw several adults and pups with both or single cloudy eyes in South Georgia last week. This one was at Maiviken
@southgeorgiaht.bsky.social
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