Caitlin Taylor-Robinson
@cattayrob.bsky.social
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Marine Ecology PhD student
@sosbangor.bsky.social
. Seagrass and seaweed enthusiast 🌱🌊
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Officially made the plunge… Hi Bluesky… I’m Cait. 1st year PhD student at
@sosbangor.bsky.social
researching retention rates of microplastics and particulate carbon in Welsh seagrass meadows 🌱 I’ve missed the old “Twitter” community vibes so I’m looking forward to finding likeminded people here!
12 months ago
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Kirsty MacLeod
about 1 month ago
New from me and wonderful collabs!
add a skeleton here at some point
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Nadescha Zwerschke
about 1 month ago
Super excited to be advertising a
#PhD
position on how
#marine
#biodiversity
affects
#ecosystem
functioning in the
#Arctic
at Aarhus uni . Pls apply and repost. I am looking forward to working with you.🧪🦑🦀🌍
phd.nat.au.dk/for-applican...
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Linking marine biodiversity to ecosystem function across scales in the Arctic
https://phd.nat.au.dk/for-applicants/open-calls/november-2025/linking-marine-biodiversity-to-ecosystem-function-across-scales-in-the-arctic
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Darren Croft
about 2 months ago
We are hiring - PDRA position exploring how information access shapes social dynamics in killer whales. Collaboration with
@samellisq.bsky.social
@drwhale.bsky.social
Prof Dan Franks (York) start 1st Nov (or ASAP) end 31st Oct 2028. Apps close on 19th Oct.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT336/p...
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Jim van Belzen
2 months ago
Come join us as a
#Postdoc
on BLUESHORES 🇪🇺 project at the NIOZ to test novel
#NaturebasedSolutions
to coastal defence 🌊 on saltmarshes 🌱.
workingat.nioz.nl/o/postdoc-po...
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Jan Geert Hiddink
2 months ago
PhD opportunity
@sosbangor.bsky.social
on managing scallop fisheries to find the balance between conservation and fisheries yield. Get in touch if you're interested and I will email you the project description.
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Another day, another meadow 😍🌊🌱
3 months ago
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Dr Alice Clement
3 months ago
Want to do a PhD on White Sharks using high-powered imaging to analyse form and function of their teeth and jaws? You will work with me and the dream team
@charlie-huveneers.bsky.social
@meyer-sci.bsky.social
@weisbeckerbblab.bsky.social
&
#SARDI
at Flinders Uni 🦈🦷🦴 Interested? Get in touch!
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Laura E. Richardson PhD
3 months ago
Out today! ‘Quantifying coral reef–ocean interactions is critical for predicting reef futures under climate change’ in
@natecoevo.nature.com
#EcologicalOceanography
#InterdisciplinaryResearch
#CoralReefs
#OceanicSubsidies
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
@sosbangor.bsky.social
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The Crustacean Society
3 months ago
❗️Job Alert: Deep-Sea Benthic Biologist (Assistant Professor) at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA 🌊 Apply by Dec 1, 2025:
apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04175
📷 Auckland Museum Collections (CC)
#MarineBiology
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Officially started my main data collection, and what a place to start it off 😍🌊🌱
@sosbangor.bsky.social
4 months ago
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Yesterday’s drone surveys with the amazing technicians at
@sosbangor.bsky.social
were a success! A different point of view of the Traeth Melynog meadow 🌊🌱
4 months ago
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Great field day yesterday helping Natural Resources Wales map Zostera noltei beds at Traeth Melynog on their yearly survey 🌊🌱
4 months ago
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Brooke Fitzwater, PhD (she/her) 🐟🪱🏳️🌈♾️
4 months ago
Thread of Starter Packs to network for PhD and postdoc positions in Biology (or adjacent fields)! 🧵 First up: Starter Pack for students looking for PhD positions!
go.bsky.app/EFj87fi
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Ash Whiffin
4 months ago
Very excited to say that we are seeking an Assistant Curator to join our entomology team! 😁🪲 For full details on this 2 year fixed-term post, head to our website: ➡️
careers.nms.ac.uk/job/727783
#Entomology
#InsectCollection
#EntoJobs
#MuseumJobs
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Ele Willoughby
5 months ago
Happy birthday to
#botanist
Isabella Aiona Abbott (1919-2010), 🧪🐡👩🏻🔬
#histsci
renown algae expert, celebrated seaweed cook, devoted teacher & mentor, expert on Hawaiian ethnobotany, 1st Indigenous Hawaiian woman to earn a PhD in science & 1st woman or person of colour to become a full professor on 🧵
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Brian Groom
5 months ago
Made in Manchester and Leigh: Kathleen Drew-Baker (1901-57), a star botanist at the University of Manchester, made breakthroughs in cultivation of seaweed that saved Japan’s multi-billion pound sushi industry, for which she is commemorated there as ‘Mother of the Sea’. 1/6
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Beautiful day, beautiful meadow 🌊🌱
6 months ago
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Homebound after an amazing few days in Plymouth on the Seaweed ID course ran by
@bps-algae.bsky.social
and
@plymouthuniccc.bsky.social
. Ending
#phycologyfriday
on a very high note!
6 months ago
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Paul Byrne
7 months ago
This is a new image from
#JWST
. The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way. Everything else is a galaxy. Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.
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Camilla Gustafsson
7 months ago
🚨 NEW paper alert!
#Seagrass
#functional
#traits
act as predictors of
#biomass
, albeit moderately. Study conducted across 1500 km coastline. Main
#biodiversity
mechanism driving seagrass
#biomass
stock is through dominance.
@tvarminne.bsky.social
@uwaoceans.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
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Functional traits are moderate predictors of above‐ and below‐ground biomass in multispecies seagrass habitats
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.70058
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Signs of a good weekend include lizards, anemone, nudibranchs and sunshine 🦎🌊
7 months ago
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Dr. Brooke Weigel
8 months ago
✨ New paper alert! ✨ We found that the
#kelp
#microbiome
is disrupted in a warming ocean! 🌊🌡️
#Temperature
had a larger effect than
#nitrogen
. Thanks to lead author Nichos Molnar, Robin Fales
@intertidaleco.bsky.social
& Cathy Pfister!
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Warming Seawater Temperature and Nutrient Depletion Alters Microbial Community Composition on a Foundational Canopy Kelp Species
Microbiome composition on the canopy kelp Nereocystis luetkeana in the northeast Pacific Ocean is affected by warming temperatures and nitrogen limitation. Following experimental manipulation of temp...
https://enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1462-2920.70077?af=R
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Adi Khen
8 months ago
Closeups of historical seaweed pressings from the University Herbarium in Berkeley for
#PhycologyFriday
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Also found a tiny blue rayed limpet, my first time finding one in North Wales 🥰
8 months ago
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Beautiful day for fieldwork with the 1st year undergraduates looking for dog whelks
@sosbangor.bsky.social
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8 months ago
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Siobhan Schenk
8 months ago
The full manuscript is available now!
cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/...
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Monthly macroalgal surveys reveal a diverse and dynamic community in an urban intertidal zone
Baseline data are critical to measuring how communities shift in response to climate change and anthropogenic activity. However, baseline macroalgal biodiversity data are lacking for many areas of Bri...
https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/cjb-2024-0109
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Lina Mtwana Nordlund
8 months ago
🌊Open PhD student position in Natural Resources and Sustainable Development with a focus on marine biodiversity Deadline 4 April 2025🫧🐟🌱
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
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PhD student in Natural Resources and Sustainable Development, focus on marine biodiversity - Uppsala University
PhD student in Natural Resources and Sustainable Development, focus on marine biodiversity, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University
https://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us/jobs-and-vacancies/job-details?query=804081
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Thorsten Reusch
9 months ago
The GEOMAR seagrass team is hiring. Time to make coastal restoration long-term sustainable. A fully funded 4-yr PhD position on eelgrass seascape genomics in the Baltic Sea, further details see here
www.geomar.de/en/karriere/...
@geomarkiel.bsky.social
DM me for inquiries
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Lorna McKellar
8 months ago
🚨 New research 🚨 (and the first paper from my PhD) How do we define good vs. degraded marine ecosystems? Our study evaluated four methods for setting ecological thresholds—and not all are equally reliable. 🌊🧵 (1/4)
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Dan Smale
9 months ago
New paper hot of the press for
#phycologyfriday
!!!! 🌱🌊🌞We conducted a warming experiment in the field to test stress responses of the intertidal habitat forming seaweed Fucus serratus:
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Benjamin Jones
9 months ago
#Seaweed
farming has many potential benefits, but scaling these farms cannot be at the expense of other habitats (e.g.
#seagrass
) that support people! In our short letter, me,
@eklof.bsky.social
,
@zosterar.bsky.social
& others discuss why caution is needed.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Risks of habitat loss from seaweed cultivation within seagrass | PNAS
Risks of habitat loss from seaweed cultivation within seagrass
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2426971122
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Alison Young
9 months ago
Okay but hear me out: intertidal snails have the cutest faces.
#tidepools
#snails
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Jan Geert Hiddink
9 months ago
Our next
@sosbangor.bsky.social
seminar will be by Matthew Garratt on ‘Investigating methods to assess stock status in common whelk fisheries’. He has just submitted his PhD thesis which he will be defending the day before the talk! Friday 21 February at noon:
teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...
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Lewis Pugh Foundation
9 months ago
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...
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Women Shaping Science - Lewis Pugh Foundation
February 11th marked the International Day of Women and Girls in Science – a day to celebrate and support gender equality in science, first adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015. Our...
https://lewispughfoundation.org/women-shaping-science/
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Alec BM Moore
9 months ago
International day of women & girls in science While studying local languages & providing medical assistance in Yemen in 1901/2, Marie Hein (1853-1943) collected numerous biological specimens - including a shark & a stingray which turned out to be undescribed ("new") species
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Kai The Fish Guy
10 months ago
PhD opportunity: I am looking for a PhD student to study taxonomy and systematics of labrid fishes and other coral reef taxa. Successful applicants will be jointly based at the University of Sydney and the Australian Museum Research Institute.
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Ocean Sciences @ Bangor University
10 months ago
Over 2 decades of
#microplastic
pollution research. What have we learnt? What are the solutions? Our plastic expert
@winniecj.bsky.social
shares her insights in this FREE
@britishecolsoc.bsky.social
talk. 🗓️ 25 Feb 2025 🔗 Book now:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/microplast...
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Microplastic Pollution and Solutions
Twenty years after the term “microplastics” was first used, what do we know about their presence in the environment?
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/microplastic-pollution-and-solutions-tickets-1111897548499
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Dan Smale
10 months ago
We conducted a 'classic' kelp canopy removal exp in mixed Laminaria forests in southwest UK. Results show that loss of canopy increases 5-fold the light reaching the reef which leads to 7-fold increase in understorey algae & 9-fold increase in kelp recruits; ms:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Snowdonia living up to its name ❄️
10 months ago
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Ocean Sciences @ Bangor University
10 months ago
Exciting internship opportunity with Prosiect Siarc:
careers.zsl.org/vacancies/35...
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New Phytologist
11 months ago
Virtual Issue: Marine macrophytes in a changing world Key papers that have shed light on the responses of
#seagrasses
and habitat-forming
#macroalgae
to environmental change.
https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1111/(ISSN)1469-8137.marine-macrophytes
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Brendan Godley
11 months ago
European winter walkers keep 👀 out. A dead Kemp's Ridley turtle was reported on 13th December at Talacre, North Wales, UK. There will be more. Reporting guidelines here:
www.ukturtles.online/Graphics%20a...
🐢🌍🧪🦑 🦤
#seaturte
#marineturtle
@whysharksmatter.bsky.social
@exetermarine.bsky.social
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My masters research from my time at the
@thembauk.bsky.social
is finally out- and my first paper! Quantifying the population structure of Laminaria ochroleuca at its leading range edge in the SW UK. The many hours of fieldwork and lab work finally feeling worth it! 🌊🧪🦑
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Spatiotemporal variability in the population demography of the golden kelp, Laminaria ochroleuca (Phaeophyceae), at its leading range edge
Ocean warming is driving poleward range shifts for many marine species. For foundation organisms that underpin the wider ecosystem, such as canopy-forming seaweeds, shifts in distributions or popul...
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SKCW7B7Y2TM2QYP5NCVR/full?target=10.1080/09670262.2024.2433471
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Dr Winnie Courtene-Jones (Plastic pollution scientist)
11 months ago
Bio-based fibres could pose greater threat to the environment than conventional plastics ➡️New study highlights the importance of testing materials advocated as alternatives to plastic
#microfibre
#microplastic
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Are Biobased Microfibers Less Harmful than Conventional Plastic Microfibers: Evidence from Earthworms
Biobased plastics are sometimes promoted as “environmentally friendly” compared to their conventional petrochemical-based counterparts, but their ecotoxicity is only partially understood. Biobased fibers are widely used in clothing and wet wipes and can accumulate in soils through the application of biosolid fertilizers. This study examined the lethal thresholds and sublethal toxicity of chemically characterized, additive-free, biobased (viscose and lyocell) compared to petrochemical-based (polyester) fibers on the key ecosystem engineer, Esenia fetida. Viscose and lyocell had LC20 values of 14.00 and 22.66 mg·L–1, respectively, and no observed effect concentrations (NOEC) of 0–2.8 mg·L–1 (72 h, OECD TG207 filter paper method), while for polyester these were LC20 15.6–31.3 mg·L–1 and NOEC 0–15.6 mg·L–1. Following 28 days of exposure to soils (OECD TG222) contaminated with environmentally relevant concentrations (100 mg kg–1), viscose significantly reduced the mass of progeny compared to polyester. Earthworms exposed to lyocell had a marginal growth reduction (−18%; compared to −11% to −13% in other treatments) linked to increased bioturbation activity. The biobased fibers examined here have greater acute toxicity at high concentrations and broadly similar sublethal effects on E. fetida compared to polyester. Our study highlights the importance of detailed testing before advocating specific materials as plastic alternatives/substitutes to conventional plastics.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.4c05856
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Kasper Elgetti Brodersen
11 months ago
Only 3 more weeks to apply for the open postdoc position in my lab! Project work focuses on greenhouse gas dynamics in seagrass meadows. Read more about our research here:
elgetti.wordpress.com
Link to apply and read about the project:
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
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Rory Cooper
11 months ago
This is the face of a shark! I've stained the mineralised tissues to show that their teeth and scales are both made of the same enamel-like material 🦈 🦷 🧪
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Dr Winnie Courtene-Jones (Plastic pollution scientist)
11 months ago
📢Effect of
#microplastics
in combination with
#seawaterflooding
on coastal plant species We showed: > Differing effects between conventional & biodegradable plastics > Potential for elevated risk of microplastics when in combination with SW flooding 🔗
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Power cuts on Ynys Mon thanks to storm Darragh have left me feeling creative to pass the time 🦀😂
11 months ago
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Lisa Goberdhan
11 months ago
📢New Paper Alert📢 (and first chapter of my PhD!) We show that scale matters when quantifying motile cryptofauna on tropical coral reefs 🦀 Paper in MEPS:
www.int-res.com/abstracts/me...
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