Hopes and wishes for ever more world-saving science, fishes, sequences, and a sea change of environmental and social justice wherever is most needed!

Historian here if you want to read one piece that will explain neo colonialism in post independence Africa read this review by @hofrench.bsky.social in @thenation.com of Professor Mamdanis brilliant book Slow Poison. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Dr Dominique Walker, senior lecturer in forensics, policing and investigations at LJMU along with Dr Leon Moosavi and Dr Leona Vaughn of UoL and independent scholar Dr Khalil West will seek to better understand the long-term impact of racism on Liverpool’s communities. www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/new...

We are hiring! If you like the #sea and its #fish and are motivated to apply #eDNA methods to make #fisheries more sustainable, then this #postdoc position might be perfect for you: jobs.ljmu.ac.uk/vacancy/post... @thefsbi.bsky.social @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social

📢 #PhD opportunity! Interested in #eDNA and protecting our #rivers? We are recruiting a PhD researcher to tackle a very topical challenge: Empowering citizen scientists with an eDNA toolbox to safeguard #freshwater fishes. Deadline: January 16th 2026. #PhDPosition #CardiffUniversity bit.ly/49bl4gO

Well done Ethan! Great performance! Very enjoyable discussions… All the best for your next adventure!

A quick reminder of the Trust's current open funding rounds and schemes opening in January! Read more and apply: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/schemes-at-a...

2025! The traditional end-of-year collage! Available as a 1000 piece jigsaw, limited edition art prints and tea towels! 👇👇👇👇👇 www.coldwarsteve.com/2025/11/18/u...

Britain’s Prime Minister: “hey guys, can we please relinquish human rights and act more callously, because i am unable (or can’t be bothered) to produce any decent/moral political action to counteract extreme fascism?”

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The latest MEE LIVE! has dropped! If you missed the event, you can all learn about #DNADivers here! #eDNA #CitizenScience #fish #biodiversity @ljmuimpact.bsky.social @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social youtu.be/jfNZtINiF4Y

#veilleESR « Le CNRS s’émancipe du Web of Science » www.cnrs.fr/fr/actualite... #WoS #CNRS @cnrs.fr

Silence is Complicity

Overnight, an Israeli strike turned my family's home in Gaza into a graveyard - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/overnight-israeli-strike-turned-my-familys-home-gaza-graveyard

Israeli strikes on Syria kill at least nine, including two children - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-strikes-syria-kill-least-nine-including-two-children

West Bank: Israeli forces execute two Palestinians at point-blank range - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/west-bank-israeli-forces-execute-two-palestinians-point-blank-range

What Israel is doing, relentlessly, is a stain on humanity as a whole. Wherever we are, whatever we do, we must speak out against it and do anything in our power to distance ourselves from and hinder that unthinkable horror.

This is such a shame. I have several papers there and it served a niche. Ugh. Between STOTEN and ESPR, the contaminants space is decreasing in publishing options

The Greens are winning the support of around half of 18 to 24 year olds. Reform are on 5%. So much for young people's turn to the right! And the Young Greens now have 40,000 members - the biggest youth and students wing in British politics

So, what we used to say, jokingly, when we were kids, is true? “Scottish people are nicer than English people”?

This is horrid from @royalsociety.org Why???

Cool study coming out @naiarare.bsky.social ‘s lab - shedding light on the feeding of leviathans! #metabarcoding #whale onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

🦑 On Dec 3 at 3pm ET/12pm PT come learn our new Ocean Biodiversity portfolio. This is an invitation to the start of a conversation - with communities - about how ocean biodiversity shows up in your life. Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

In the past, I worked a lot on the seafood safety side of fisheries. When a fish is on deck, it is no longer just a fish; it has turned into food, and as such, there is a whole universe of rules, compliance, and operations that go along with it. www.franciscoblaha.info/blog/2025/11...

We keep promises! Our #metaprobe #DNADivers event is open for registration: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/mee-... @britishecologicalsociety.org @ljmuimpact.bsky.social @ljmubiocon.bsky.social @nhm.org

AI is literally destroying tiktok. Or, should I say, tiktok is AI-suiciding itself.

If there is anything that you always wanted to know about the #metaprobe but were afraid to ask, Mark your diary: THURSDAY 27 NOVEMBER! More news soon… #eDNA @britishecologicalsociety.org

Never lower the attention. Never forget the gross infamy that our taxes are funding, relentlessly.

Looking for a #PhD? Interested in #SocialBehaviour #BiologicalMarkets #Fieldwork? Want to be based in #Bristol? Check out this project with me, @ljnbrent.bsky.social & #PatrickKennedy: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6 For UK-domiciled Black-heritage applicants Get in touch for more information Please #share

As if they’ll take heed…

He's a pro-Israel propagandist. He's not Jewish. He works for a right-wing pro-Israel organisation. He's posted vile things about Palestinian kids shot by Israeli soldiers. But Sky News presented him as an ordinary Jewish football fan subjected to online hatred.

Everyone with a shred of intellectual honesty left in them knows full well that any preposterous excuse is good for these maniacs to continue their atrocities… www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Wonderful infographic on my paper showing that "flight" species of baleen whales generally call too deeply and quietly to be heard by hunting killer whales, unlike the "fight" club. By A Haddock & C.A. Gallagher, SMM Education Committee Paper here: doi.org/10.1111/mms....

Oral exams - or call them “conversations” - are the only real way to assess a student’s knowledge/understanding of a subject nowadays. Arrangements for differently able/neurodiverse students can be made. Everything else will increasingly become a GenAI mess.

Israel 'beat, tied up and tortured' Gaza flotilla activists in prison - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-beat-up-tied-tortured-gaza-flotilla-activists-prison

Thank you #Orbetello #Mediterranean #Lagoon #Fish #Flamingo @webdnaproject.bsky.social

#VERGOGNA #SHAME #FreePalestine www.instagram.com/reel/DPXPR8R...

Israeli quadcopters shooting children. And our government continues to materially supporting Israel every day. Even as Israel rejects a two state solution, votes to fully annex the West Bank, and murders more doctors, nurses, journalists, children. And our government continues to assist it.

Let that sink in "Despite its extreme population density, Gaza was mostly self-sufficient in vegetables and poultry, and met much of the population’s demand for olives, fruit and milk. But last month the UN reported that just 1.5% of its agricultural land now remains both accessible and undamaged."

R.I.P.

SHAME on European governments!

Night thought: I really don’t understand how they never banned the use of two hands as soon as people started striking the backhand in that fashion. #tennis

So powerful… Thank you, Ta-Nehisi Coates, for this stunning book. #TheMessage #FreePalestine

3rd deadly US strike on a boat in the Caribbean. As with the others: -in area US military operates freely -where arrest has relatively low risk, and greater strategic value -no US legal rationale, or even attempt to offer one -blatant violation of international law -no evidence US knew who they hit

Show me your shape and i’ll tell you where you live! #marine #fish #ecology #Puglia #Mediterranean

It was HUNGRY!!! #scorpaena #fish #marine #ecology

"You're not lying in the right way," lamented the liar. "Lie the way I want you to lie as an excuse to do awful things I want to do, don't lie in a way I don't like that can't be used in ways I want!"

Show me your fish and I’ll tell you where you are