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🚨 Two funded PhDs (one int'l, one UK) - study coral restoration & corporate sustainability with us in Lancaster! Enquiries welcome, January 30, please share widely! 🚨 🪸🐠 Coral restoration (int'l): www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🌴📊 Corporate sustainability (UK): www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

EXCL: An agreement to rejoin Erasmus – the EU’s student exchange programme – set to be announced on Wednesday as part of UK government’s drive towards closer relations with Brussels. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Sadly I feel we have been seeing this trend at universities for a little while now 😣. From @privateeyenews.bsky.social

Extraordinary…wait till it gets to about 2012.

🚨 "Half of the UK’s top 10 fish stocks are in peril; either critically low, overfished, or both" 🎣 Decades of ignoring the science have pushed cod and mackerel towards collapse. Our Policy & Research Director Alec lays it out here👇 greenbusinessjournal.co.uk/overfishing-...

An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

This is some very welcome good conservation news! Huge congratulations to the @mantatrust.bsky.social team, reward for all your hard work and passion. Having all international trade banned will give real hope that manta and Devil ray populations may have a chance 👏👏

I really can’t fathom why COP30 didn’t deliver what was needed 🤔 (from @privateeyenews.bsky.social)

🦀🌱 BioBlitz Day: 10 Dec 2025! Join researchers from the @plymuni.bsky.social and the Ocean Conservation Trust at the University of Plymouth Marine Station to explore the incredible invertebrates living in Plymouth Sound’s seagrass restoration sites. FREE event. Registration essential.

It looks to me that Balvinder just doesn’t want to be there any more 😐 #strictly

Blackpool… 😬😬 #strictly www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

Fantastic new bit of beach art at Bovisand Beach (Devon UK)

Dr Keiron Fraser, Associate Professor in Marine Conservation at @plymuni and Member of the Marine Biological Association, explains how decades of protection, reduced bycatch, and collaboration with coastal communities have helped green turtles move from endangered to a species of least concern.

🌱 How does biodiversity fuel wellbeing? A Finnish kindergarten experiment shows that kids playing in mud, moss & wild plants see striking results: stronger immune systems, happier moods, and a real-life lesson in nature’s power. 🌿 More info ⬇️ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Since 1990, the emissions share of the richest 1% has increased by 13%, and the richest 0.1% has grown by 32%, while the poorest 50% has decreased by 3%. policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/cl...

. A new study finds rooftop solar could generate nearly two-thirds of the world's electricity! 🌞 Imagine the impact if we tapped into this potential. Read more: pv-magazine.com/2025/03/13/... #ClimateAction 🌎🌍🌏

At last a positive article on immigration in the newspapers 🙄.

Ah ha that’s one the best costumes 👏👏

NEW: Biofuels globally emit more than the fossil fuels they replace, our latest study shows. The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets. 🧵⤵️

Let me excerpt the concluding paragraph:

At this time of year the South Devon gamble is will you make it home along the coast path before the next Atlantic squall rolls in! Wild and invigorating tho…

Renewables are powering a better future. 🍃 Wind power has saved the UK a staggering £104 billion in energy costs since 2010. Cheaper, cleaner and helping us reach our #NetZero targets. We need to keep this momentum going. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#PhD Studentship - Marine Heat Waves & shellfish fisheries - informing future #marine policy. Join our team at the University of Essex, School of Life Sciences. All the details available here: www.essex.ac.uk/Postgraduate... START JANUARY 2026 - APPLY BY 14 NOVEMBER 2025

When @zackpolanski.bsky.social was elected leader of the Green Party, he said: "We’re not here just to be disappointed by Labour. We’re here to replace you." Among voters under 50, its already happening! 🥳💚

Met a birder today while walking on S Devon coast path. Watching a small copse with 2 goldcrest, a firecrest, a willow warbler and a blackcap. In late October. We had 2 blackcaps in late Jan UK bird watch - think more are staying around over winter?

Lovely autumn walk in Plymouth woods with an array of funky fungi!

Global sea surface temperatures continue to cool off as we head into La Nina. 2025 (for the 1st time in 3 years) will not set a new global temperature record. It's the steady longer-term warming that is cause for concern. It will continue until human carbon emissions cease. Truth is bad enough.

📣 Calling UK scientists 📣 Please would you sign an open letter urging all MPs to attend the National Emergency Briefing with the science on the threats from ongoing damage to #climate & #nature - alongside positive actions. See reply for how to sign 👇👇 Please share with colleagues 🙏

JOB OPPORTUNITY: Lecturer in Marine Biology and Scientific Diving (University of Plymouth) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOS637/l... #jobs #lecturer #scientificdiving #plymouth #coralreefs #university #marinescience #marinebiology #marineecology #jobopportunity

Right now, the MMO is consulting on banning bottom trawling in offshore Marine Protected Areas. If adopted, protection here could rise from just 3% to over 20% – a huge win for marine life! 🗓️ Have your say before 29 Sept 2025: Take action now! action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/171084/...

Curious about how to study forage fishes (in Canada)? 🐟 Our new paper reviews current approaches, identifies key knowledge gaps, and offers advice on methods to address them. Read it here 👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🪸 Our seas have been scraped & scarred by bottom trawlers for centuries, making it difficult to establish a baseline of ocean health 🌊 There are, however, clues...🦪 Professors Emma Sheehan & Martin Attrill delve into this in Oceanographic Magazine 🔽 oceanographicmagazine.com/features/beh...

These are just incredible

There is enough lithium in one year of U.S. mine waste, for example, to power 10 million electric vehicles. For manganese, it’s enough for 99 million. Those figures far surpass both U.S. import levels of those elements and current demand for them.

When she was just 26 Florence Merriam wrote the first guide to birding with binoculars in 1889. And she slipped in this incredible feminist gem:

Disgusted to see this beautiful landscape ruined by wind turbines.

Britain has saddled itself - or more accurately, UK govt has saddled Britain's consumers - with paying for the most expensive nuclear plant ever And I'm bored of saying it, but that means other more cost-effective & faster action on climate change will not happen www.ft.com/content/e1e1...

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Minister O Sullivan has confirmed a phased ban on large trawlers within Irelands inshore, with a full ban coming into effect in September 2026. This is great news for our marine environment & fishing sector. A long road walked to get to this historic decision 🙌

Good grief Warwick. And I thought some of our past Uni “rebrands” were bad. Top colour too 👍🙄 warwick.ac.uk

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

Just love the to the point title of this event 👍

Once again it’s amazing that the government intervenes about 1,300 jobs at risk at Lotus cars who sold a piffling 12k cars to rich people last year but is happy to let the Higher Education sector with 400,000 employees die on its arse. Labour intervene when MANLY jobs are at risk you see

After media reports & experts warned for months that drastic & sudden cuts at the Nat Weather Service by Trump could impair their forecasting ability & endanger lives during the storm season, TX officials blame an inaccurate forecast by NWS for the deadly results of the flood.

NEW – Chart: UK misses tree-planting targets by forest the ‘size of Isle of Wight’ | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/ksxZIvW

The Daily Telegraph: here’s Britain’s answer to Rage Against The Machine 9 months later: We regret to inform you that Britain’s answer to Rage Against The Machine are political

As the iconic film #Jaws marks its 50th anniversary, MBA Senior Research Fellow Professor David Sims has published a compelling article in The Conversation that examines the film’s lasting impact on #sharks & how science is helping them recover 🦈 🔗 bit.ly/45PkQec @thesimslab.bsky.social

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