Merry Christmas from down under! Wishing you all a lovely break over the festive season #merrychristmas 🎅🎄🏄‍♂️🏏🥂

New PhD opportunity - which I'm delighted to be co-supervising! 'From Catch to Kitchen: Learning from Recreational Anglers to Diversify UK Seafood Choices' www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #phd #seafood #angling #fisheries #recreationalfishing #sustainability @thembauk.bsky.social Please share!

I am delighted to be speaking at the APPG on Fisheries #FishingForTrust event on Monday, outlining the current state-of-play across UK #fisheries and the two-way nature of #trust. Join the online event here: loom.ly/c944EqQ @thembauk.bsky.social 🐟

Fascinating @thembauk.bsky.social annual science lecture by @peterhox.bsky.social today: "Why sequence the genome of every species?" based on his thought provoking recent review in our journal www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

PhD opportunity! "Benefits & impacts of use of light in UK #fisheries & their wider effect on the marine environment" (aka #scallopdiscos!) Supervision by me @thembauk.bsky.social Tom Davies @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social Tim Smyth @pml.ac.uk @fishtekmarine.bsky.social www.plymouth.ac.uk/study/resear...

PhD opportunity! "Deep-Sea Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems: Ecology, Function and Management". Do cutting edge research on the deep sea under supervision from Prof Kerry Howell @pml.ac.uk, Dr Angela Stevenson @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social & me @thembauk.bsky.social www.plymouth.ac.uk/study/resear...

2️⃣Christmas is getting closer... sonar so good! Lovely piece by Rebecca Dennison #FestiveOceanArt

Presenting our Festive Ocean Art Advent Calendar!✨🎄 Each day, we’ll unveil a new artwork - 👀 Keep an eye on the calendar… your artwork might be opening a window very soon! Thank you to everyone who entered the Festive Ocean Art Competition.

🦑 🧵 A fascinating find at the Ythan Estuary! Last night a friend contacted me with videos of large cephalopod appendages found here in Newburgh, today I went to go and take a closer look. #cephalopod #marinelife #marinebiology #beachfinds #ythanestuary #scotland #scicomm 🌊 🤿

Why sequence every genome? Don't miss this special talk - TOMORROW Tuesday December 2nd based on the article of the same name which was recently published in our journal www.cambridge.org/core/journal... It's not too late to register and tune in online @thembauk.bsky.social

Bipartisan laws for fisheries resulted in greater sustainability and profits in the US. Successes due to fishers, NGOs, and of course the many dedicated NOAA and state scientists collecting data, assessing status, and setting catch levels. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

So happy to have this FISH INTEL paper published! Thank you to everyone who contributed- great to see it out there published for everyone to read and use! 🐟🎉 Read it here: doi.org/10.1002/2688... @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social #AcousticTelemetry #LEK #FishIntel

Wonderful to have played a small part in this new paper showing minimal effects of catch & release angling on three key species of #sharks in UK waters. Huge thanks and well done to @garzonfrancesco.bsky.social & the team @exetermarine.bsky.social for leading this work #sharkscience 👏 🦈

For the past 4 years I have worked with a wonderful team of scientists and anglers to track sharks in recreational fisheries. With close to 70 tags deployed, we found that good angling practice can result in pretty high survival for sharks! 🦈🎣🌊

Another excellent and important paper in our journal. Why not consider publishing your next piece of research with us 🐟 🪸🦈🐚

New report reveals Earth’s carbon safety net is faltering “The ocean has been our greatest ally in buffering climate change - but that buffer is weakening,” says Dr Katie Smith. www.youtube.com/shorts/vhR01...

It's #SeaSlugDay! To celebrate we have selected these beautiful illustrations from 'A Monograph of the British Nudibranchiate Mollusca' volume 1, published by @raysocietybooks.bsky.social. You can find two copies in the rare books room @thembauk.bsky.social 📖 BL.48/A

Hello Everyone! We're super excited to be here. @thembauk.bsky.social was established 140 years ago, and there has been a library on site at the Citadel Hill laboratory ever since it opened in 1888! We're looking forward to sharing our stories with you #library #books

Found! This #TrickyTaxonThursday an illustration of Scorpaena scrofa from 'A History of the Fishes of Madeira' by Richard Thomas Lowe, 1843-1860 📖BL.70/L

A new JMBA paper offers the most detailed look yet at the Asian date mussel in UK waters. Researchers found that while densities remain low in the Solent, the species is growing fast (≈1.8 mm/month) and living longer (up to 23 months) than in many parts of its range.

If AI & intertidal ecology tick your boxes, apply for the PhD with myself, Baihua Li & Jonathan Millet at Loughborough University and the Marine Biological Association. A transdiscipinary opportunity combining fieldwork & AI. @thembauk.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

They’ve only gone & done it! 🎉 PML team 'Kraken the Code' has been named one of the 3 winners of the Blue-Cloud 2026 #Hackathon, winning €25k. Their project 'OctoPulse' forecasts future #Octopus booms to support fishers by helping them anticipate changes to their catches: pml.ac.uk/news/pml-tea...

An interesting A-Z of fishy art, stories, poems and insights into #Ocean life is now live! This online overview will head to a gallery in Pier street in Hull and then into print in the coming months Www.thecriticalfishtrail.co.uk @bd-stew.bsky.social @uoyenvironment.bsky.social

"Why sequence the #genome of every species? A view from evolutionary biology" Did you catch this amazing new review in our journal by @peterhox.bsky.social? REad it for FREE here now: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @thembauk.bsky.social #dnasequencing #chromosome #mutation #evolution

How good is this? #bemorescallop

LAST CHANCE to fill out our #octopus surveys! Fishermen & divers of the UK, have your say if you haven't already, surveys close at midnight tonight, Sunday 21st September! @thembauk.bsky.social @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social @pml.ac.uk @plymuni.bsky.social Please share 🐙

🔬 We’re Hiring! Become the next MBA Postdoctoral Career Development Fellow Are you ready to take the next step in your research career and lead the way in marine biology? Find out more 👉 mymba.mba.ac.uk/job/postdoct... 📅 Apply by 15 October 2025 #MarineBiology #MarineScience #AcademicJobs

The Octopus Survey 🚨 Fishermen across the Southwest are reporting more and more octopus turning up in pots, traps, and on deck this year. We need your insight before the survey closes! 👉 Take the survey now before it closes - survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90884550/...

👀 Spotted an #octopus off the #SouthWest coast? #Fishermen & #divers, we want to hear from you! 🐙 Take part in this survey (closing Sun 21 Sept) & help us study this year’s unusual #CommonOctopus bloom: 🎣 Fishers: survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90884550/... 🤿 Divers: survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90886025/...

Fishermen & divers of the UK we need YOU! Our #octopus bloom surveys have been extended to Sept 21st. If you haven't already done so, please fill out the fishermen's survey survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90884550/... or divers survey survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90886025/... Thank you! Please share widely! 🐙

New paper out in Royal Society Open Science: Biodiversity is the common factor for juvenile nursery habitat for 3 commercially important species. Marine protection should focus on whole-site health, not just individual features @davemarinebio.glasgow.ac.uk @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Our new paper on marine mapping and biodiversity, using a combination of underwater imaging techniques: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... @davemarinebio.glasgow.ac.uk @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk @plosone.org

A pleasure as always to drop in to @3rrrfm.bsky.social Radio Marinara in Melbourne this morning to share the latest marine news from the UK. This time, it was all about the #octopus bloom 🐙 The whole show is great. You can hear my interview at about 13 minutes in: www.rrr.org.au/explore/prog...

UK experienced its hottest summer on record in 2025, Met Office says "a summer as hot or hotter than 2025 is now 70 times more likely than it would be in a ‘natural’ climate" with no emissions from fossil fuel burning #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

This is where it's at! "Science research gets more engagement on Bluesky than X, study finds" www.theguardian.com/technology/2... @whysharksmatter.bsky.social #bluesky #blueskyvstwitter #scicomm

A fantastic thread on this fascinating new paper ‘Underwater Video Reveals Novel Behavioural Interactions: A Case Study of a Repeated Ongoing Association Between a Sharksucker Echeneis naucrates and a Yellowtail Parrotfish Sparisoma rubripinne’ just published in our journal. Check it out!

Great blog on a new paper in our journal: Underwater Video Reveals Novel Behavioural Interactions: A Case Study of Repeated Ongoing Association Between a Sharksucker Echeneis naucrates and a Yellowtail Parrotfish Sparisoma rubripinne coralmorphologic.com/b/2025/08/26... @whysharksmatter.bsky.social

Delighted to share this interview on the @incomingtide.bsky.social. Huge thanks to Don MacNeish for saving a tree for me & @howardlwood.bsky.social for chatting with me about my involvement with @arrancoast.bsky.social over the past 20 years youtu.be/NgpmERb10D0?... #mpaswork #bemorescallop 🪸 🐟🐙🌱🦀🦞

Maldives revokes shark fishing ban after decades | The Peninsula Qatar| For the first time, a “shark sanctuary” will revoke those protections

Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low likelihood, study finds - Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic impacts #climatecrisis #AMOC www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Our latest Podcast is out. Don & Howard chat to an old friend and @arrancoast.bsky.social research collaborator @bd-stew.bsky.social @reviveourocean.bsky.social @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social @thembauk.bsky.social 1st Bryce has to plant a tree. youtu.be/NgpmERb10D0

Interested in #Marine ( & economic) recovery? Listen to @bd-stew.bsky.social explain the research over the last 15 years that he has supervised around #Arran @naturescot.bsky.social @gillianamartin.bsky.social @mairigougeon.bsky.social

Antarctica’s undergoing abrupt, potentially irreversible change including sea ice melting 2x as fast as the Arctic, ice shelves collapsing, and ocean currents slowing. And it’s already affecting global climate systems. theconversation.com/from-sea-ice...

🐙Have you spotted a Common Octopus in South West England? We’d love to hear from you - share your sightings by completing our short survey: survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90886025/... #CitizenScience #Octopus #OctopusBoom #SouthWest #Diver #Snorkeling #MarineLife #AnimalBehaviour 🧪🌍

#Octopus are cool, and I am loving working on them. But I'd feel better if they took their tentacles off my #scallops! Share your observations of the 2025 UK #octopusbloom through our newly launched public surveys. Links in the story below www.mba.ac.uk/public-surve... @thembauk.bsky.social 🐙

An alarming jump in 2025 🙄

The July issue of #TheMarineBiologist is out now! We explore the 'octopus bloom''; a rare habitat of glass sponges; inshore fishing regulation as well as the latest developments in marine biology research and news from the MBA. Become a member and get exclusive access bit.ly/4onqdb4 #MarineBiology

marinescience.blog.gov.uk/2025/08/14/s... #CefasScience

Happy 30th birthday @arrancoast.bsky.social!! Sorry I missed the party, but I made you a little something. I look forward to the next 30 years! #BeMoreCOAST #marineconservation #fisheries #peoplepower #mpaswork 🥳🦞🐙🐟🦈🦭🦀🥳

Thanks to Oceanographic mag for this article on our new project on the UK #octopus bloom & to Plymouth City Council, Devon County Council & Defra for their financial support oceanographicmagazine.com/news/extraor... @thembauk.bsky.social @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social @pml.ac.uk 🐙