Happy World Ocean Day! I'm proud to announce that my incredible wife, Emily Cunningham MBE, has a new book being launched today. Our Ocean to Save is for anyone who cares for our ocean and wants to help in its protection. It is available for pre-order now: www.panmacmillan.com/authors/emil...

Congratulations @oliviaevetts.bsky.social , it was such a pleasure to work with you on this project.

Two members of the Deep Shark Research Group will be presenting their work at Sharks International this week. Look out for posters by @mollymcnamara-lang.bsky.social and Ava Graham. #SI2026 #ExeterMarine

The #MarineBiologyLife Christmas Tree is up and decorated with 19 marine species + 1 River dolphin and a mermaid. Yes, we are that nerdy.

A wet and wild day along the Cornish coast today, but that didn't hold back our second year undergraduates from collecting some great biodiversity data! #marinebiologylife #exetermarine @exetermarine.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social

Happy #AntarcticaDay everyone. Sending best wishes to all my colleagues and friends currently down South.

University of Exeter researchers gave scientific advice for Ocean – the new film and book by Sir David Attenborough Read more here 👇 @exeter.ac.uk @exetermarine.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social

Ocean with David Attenborough hits cinemas from May 8th! 🌊 The film takes us on a journey of discovery through our oceans as you’ve never seen them before. Here's a sneak peek. 👀 #OceanFilm

Pleased to represent @exeter.ac.uk whilst commenting on the potential environmental impacts of the tragic North Sea ship collision on BBC Breakfast this morning. @uniexecec.bsky.social @exetermarine.bsky.social #ExeterMarine

I am deeply concerned to hear of the #NorthSea collision between an oil tanker and a cargo vessel. My first thoughts are with the vessels crews and their families but as a marine biologist from #Lincolnshire I am also very worried about the impact on vulnerable marine species.

It’s #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience! Let’s celebrate these 22 trailblazing scientists from our #ChampionsCommunity who are driving meaningful change for the planet. Read 🪸🌿👇👩‍🔬🦠 lewispughfoundation.org/women-shapin...

Happy #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience! 🌊 At the MBA, we’re proud of our diverse team of female scientists whose groundbreaking research is shaping the future of our ocean. Dive into our latest update to explore the journeys & career advice of our female Research Fellows ➡️ buff.ly/3WYFjYK

I have some of the most awesome colleagues! Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 👩🏼‍🔬🐋 #ExeterMarine

I'm pleased to see some of my research, in collaboration with @emilygcunningham.bsky.social , Gemma Halstead and Kate O'Neil featured in this great piece in the Telegraph by @joeshute.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/environment/... #ExeterMarine @exetermarine.bsky.social

A fantastic few days on the water with my marine biology students @exetermarine.bsky.social thanks to Cornwall IFCA. I'm so grateful to have such a great class of students, all so passionate about our ocean. #exetermarine #marinebiology @uniexecec.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk

How Scuba Divers Are Helping to Save the Critically Endangered Angel Shark | Scuba Diving https://buff.ly/45GXLYf This group just celebrated ten years! 🦈🦑🌎🧪

I'm so proud of @emilygcunningham.bsky.social on being awarded an MBE for services to Marine Conservation. I'm really looking forward to co-supervising student projects with Emily, an Hon. Research Fellow @exetermarine.bsky.social, in 2025. #ExeterMarine #MBE #NewYear @uniexecec.bsky.social

I’m honoured (!) to have been awarded an MBE in the King’s New Year Honours List 🎖️ “For services to Marine Conservation and Coastal Communities” 🌊 Marine conservation has been my life, passion and mission for over 20 years and to be recognised in this way means the world! 🥰

Beautiful paper about the global danger of ship strikes for large #whales and the value of slowing down shipping. @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social focussed on more local #SalishSea dangers for whales and shipping. kudos anna nisi, @trevorabranch.bsky.social, team. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A wonderful start to #Christmas morning, watching #dolphins in Falmouth Bay with @emilygcunningham.bsky.social #ExeterMarine #Xmas #Wildlife #Cornwall

What does a #Christmas tree look like in a marine biologist household? Full of sea creatures of course! With @emilygcunningham.bsky.social #ExeterMarine #Fish #Dolphin #Manatee #Penguin #Crab #Seal

Sharks eating dinosaurs! At the charming National Museum in Prague. Totally morbid paleoart. But based on one of the few Czech dinosaur fossils, an ornithopod bone crisscrossed with the razor blade bites of sharks.

A wonderful bioblitz with The Rock Pool Project this morning in Falmouth with @danielmmoore.bsky.social Here are some of my favourite finds and your regular reminder that UK seas are AMAZING 😁🌊

Nice write up including our recent bluefin #tuna #otolith metabolic rate and climate work on the BBC (thanks Isabelle Gerretson) www.bbc.com/future/artic... LInk to paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🦑 @sotonoceanearth.bsky.social

Dusky dolphins (Lagenorhynchus obscurus) can make significant energy savings by bow-riding according to a new study. Read the paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Video shows dolphins I filmed bow-riding the RV Tangaroa earlier this year. #dolphins #marinescience #NewZealand #ExeterMarine

Could this be the longest recorded Humpback #Whale migration ever recorded? A male whale has been resighted off #Tanzania in 2019 after first being seen off #Colombia in 2013. Read the study here: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #Cetaceans #ClimateChange #Ocean

Three new tagged pups were released early last week. Happy to report that they are doing fine after the storm ⛈️💨🌊

A thread with some really beautiful examples of why midwater is my favorite place to explore. From #SchmidtOcean dive 556 during their #VentUnderworld expedition. The midwater above vent sites have never failed to have amazing animals like this stunning Vitreledonella (glass octopus)! #MarineLife

New #GlobalSharkTrends study published in @science.org reveals #overfishing has more than halved shark & ray populations over the past 50-years causing widespread erosion of ecological function and exceptionally high extinction risk 👉Full article bit.ly/GlobalSharkTrends 🧵1/20

As we hide from #StormDarragh safely in our homes, spare a thought for our marine wildlife. Studies have shown that seabird survival is negatively correlated with #storm frequency and duration. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Hello #Bluesky! I'm a marine biologist and Lecturer @uniofexeter.bsky.social . My research looks at #ecology and #evolution of deep-sea #shark species (mainly Apristurus spp.) and bottlenose #dolphin and humpback #whale populations. Interested in all things marine? Please say hello and connect 🙂

I love that my job enables me to experience incredible #wildlife. Like this leopard seal in #Antarctica, who checked us out whilst we were deploying seabed cameras. Later, this same seal punctured another boat and we had to rescue the occupants! #ExeterMarine #MarineMammals #Polar #FieldworkFails

I was a coauthor on a paper with @dalyengellab.bsky.social and others that showed the Atlantic sixgill shark (aka the Cutest Shark) is a genetically distinct species. Previously the bigeye sixgill shark was thought to have a world-wide distribution. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The deep sea is critical to our planet’s health, yet vastly understudied. As #ClimateChange and resource extraction ramp up, key policy decisions are being made with huge gaps in knowledge. It's time to dive deeper—our future depends on it. www.frontiersin.org/journals/cli...

Have you seen the Deep Rising documentary yet? This powerful documentary, narrated by Jason Momoa, explores the issue of deep-sea mining and its impact on our oceans. Find out more here: deeprising.com/documentary/ #Deepsea #ExeterMarine #DeepSeaMining #DeepRising

Happy #AntarcticaDay everyone. Sending best wishes to all my colleagues and friends currently down South.

Now over 6 months at @uniofexeternews.bsky.social and it has been the best job I've ever had. I am lucky to have incredible students and amazing colleagues. #ExeterMarine @exetermarine.bsky.social

A fantastic day at the NHM in London yesterday, examining their collection of deep-sea sharks (Apristurus spp.) in preparation for some exciting student projects projects. Thanks to Curator of Fishes Diego Vaz for all your support. #exetermarine #deepsea #sharks #nhm

Feeling really good having just spent two days at the NOC as part of the Royal Society Ocean and Marine Science Policy Primer, learning great ways to integrate policy influencing skills into my lectures to allow my students to make their science matter! @exetermarine.bsky.social

Proud to represent @uniofexeter.bsky.social at the Houses of Parliament for a drinks reception hosted by the National Oceanography Centre this evening. A fantastic evening of ocean #science and conservation discussions. @exetermarine.bsky.social

Next week I'll be at the UN Ocean Decade Conference in #Barcelona on behalf of Ocean Census. I'll be available all week to meet and talk about ocean exploration, expeditions and why discovering marine life matters. If you want to meet up, message me! #OceanDecade24 #OceanDecade

#Sharks have been leaving calling cards (their teeth) in our ocean for over 400 million years. Like this modern White Shark tooth which we just trawled up from over 3000m deep during our Ocean Census Bounty Trough expedition. Incrdible! 🦈

As ocean explorers we are lucky to be able to see areas of our planet that no human has ever seen before. The excitement is palpable as we dropped our towed cameras below 4000m deep today.

Mornings at sea are the best kind of mornings.

I can now reveal we are setting sail on an exciting expedition to explore the deep-sea environment of the Bounty Trough to the east of New Zealand! This incredible @oceancensus expedition is in partnership with NIWA and Te Papa and sailing aboard the RV Tangaroa.

It was fantastic to join Hector Toledo from the Angel Shark Project today for a great Encounter Edu Live Lesson all about #sharks!

Today I was lucky enough to visit the #deepsea in the #PiscesVI submersible as part of the #OceanCensus mission to discover new species in Macaronesia.

We've been working hard on the logistics for our Ocean Census mobile laboratories - they should be arriving in the next 24 hours and we are so excited! www.ecomagazine.com/news/researc...

Our submersible is exploring the reefs of Radazul, in Tenerife as part of the Ocean Census Macaronesia expedition - can’t wait to see what samples they bring back! #OceanCensus