Daniel Cressey
@dpcressey.bsky.social
Ocean Editor at @dialogueearth.bsky.social, previously of
@resprofnews.bsky.social and Nature.
@resprofnews.bsky.social and Nature.
Reposted by Daniel Cressey
Want to understand how the world’s first carbon credits for ocean alkalinity enhancement were issued? Anna Madlener — one of the new colleagues I’m extremely excited to work with at the Carbon to Sea Initiative — has you covered:
www.carbontosea.org/2025/11/25/a...
www.carbontosea.org/2025/11/25/a...
The First OAE Credits: An Independent MRV Review - Carbon to Sea Initiative
Carbon to Sea’s MRV Blog Series: This is the second installment in Carbon to Sea’s monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) blog series. I’m Anna Madlener, Senior Manager for MRV at Carbon to Sea...
www.carbontosea.org
November 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Want to understand how the world’s first carbon credits for ocean alkalinity enhancement were issued? Anna Madlener — one of the new colleagues I’m extremely excited to work with at the Carbon to Sea Initiative — has you covered:
www.carbontosea.org/2025/11/25/a...
www.carbontosea.org/2025/11/25/a...
I actually laughed out loud at this intro:
Is Haldane dead? The short answer is “yes”. Richard Burdon Haldane died in 1928.
Great feature on an important topic.
Is Haldane dead? The short answer is “yes”. Richard Burdon Haldane died in 1928.
Great feature on an important topic.
Liz Kendall talked about Haldane principle this week as she set out (broadly) how UKRI would spend 4-year, £38.6bn budget.
@chrisjparr.bsky.social looks at whether Haldane under threat from more interventionist govt - or whether it is misunderstood.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
@chrisjparr.bsky.social looks at whether Haldane under threat from more interventionist govt - or whether it is misunderstood.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
Is the Haldane principle under threat? - Research Professional News
Increasing political direction in the allocation of research funding is alarming some policy experts
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:48 AM
I actually laughed out loud at this intro:
Is Haldane dead? The short answer is “yes”. Richard Burdon Haldane died in 1928.
Great feature on an important topic.
Is Haldane dead? The short answer is “yes”. Richard Burdon Haldane died in 1928.
Great feature on an important topic.
Reposted by Daniel Cressey
Liz Kendall talked about Haldane principle this week as she set out (broadly) how UKRI would spend 4-year, £38.6bn budget.
@chrisjparr.bsky.social looks at whether Haldane under threat from more interventionist govt - or whether it is misunderstood.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
@chrisjparr.bsky.social looks at whether Haldane under threat from more interventionist govt - or whether it is misunderstood.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
Is the Haldane principle under threat? - Research Professional News
Increasing political direction in the allocation of research funding is alarming some policy experts
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Liz Kendall talked about Haldane principle this week as she set out (broadly) how UKRI would spend 4-year, £38.6bn budget.
@chrisjparr.bsky.social looks at whether Haldane under threat from more interventionist govt - or whether it is misunderstood.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
@chrisjparr.bsky.social looks at whether Haldane under threat from more interventionist govt - or whether it is misunderstood.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
Reposted by Daniel Cressey
Hammerheads in rivers? In Cape York’s mangrove-lined waterways, great hammerheads push more than 20 km upstream, surprising Nicolas Lubitz and team, and upending assumptions about where these endangered predators live.
What drives them into these rivers?
saveourseas.com/update/hamme...
What drives them into these rivers?
saveourseas.com/update/hamme...
Hammerheads as river monsters?
Throughout the first year of our journey to uncover the secret lives of hammerheads and what habitats are crucial to their survival, we have made many interesting discoveries; one of which surprised a...
saveourseas.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Hammerheads in rivers? In Cape York’s mangrove-lined waterways, great hammerheads push more than 20 km upstream, surprising Nicolas Lubitz and team, and upending assumptions about where these endangered predators live.
What drives them into these rivers?
saveourseas.com/update/hamme...
What drives them into these rivers?
saveourseas.com/update/hamme...
Reposted by Daniel Cressey
Our most recent publication in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social illustrates how cost-effective deep-sea imaging tools, such as the Azor drift-cam, can effectively build local capacity, promote equity in deep-sea science and generate essential data for the conservation of marine benthic habitats.
Online now: Democratizing deep-sea research for biodiversity conservation
Democratizing deep-sea research for biodiversity conservation
Conservation of deep-sea ecosystems is often hindered by insufficient data on biodiversity composition, distribution, and ecological status. As global efforts to expand deep-sea exploration continue, we illustrate how cost-effective deep-sea research can build local capacity; promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in deep-sea science; and generate essential data for conservation initiatives.
dlvr.it
November 13, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Our most recent publication in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social illustrates how cost-effective deep-sea imaging tools, such as the Azor drift-cam, can effectively build local capacity, promote equity in deep-sea science and generate essential data for the conservation of marine benthic habitats.
How many times do journalists get told "meta analyses are the gold standard for evidence"? (Often accompanied by "you shouldn't write about science until it's peer-reviewed and published.)
Hmmmm....
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Hmmmm....
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 20, 2025 at 9:29 AM
How many times do journalists get told "meta analyses are the gold standard for evidence"? (Often accompanied by "you shouldn't write about science until it's peer-reviewed and published.)
Hmmmm....
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Hmmmm....
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This has to be a record - proposing two new metrics in two days in two different publications.
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/lets...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/lets...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Let’s personalise productivity with the weightiest metric yet: academic BMI
Measuring researchers’ output mass against their body mass will incentivise even harder running on the academic treadmill, says Dariusz Jemielniak
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
This has to be a record - proposing two new metrics in two days in two different publications.
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/lets...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/lets...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Reposted by Daniel Cressey
When getting your money back is a bad thing: UK expecting a rebate on £2bn paid to EU to join its research programme in 2024, @resprofnews.bsky.social reveals.
UK fared worse than expected in winning Horizon Europe grants.
By @annamckie.bsky.social
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
UK fared worse than expected in winning Horizon Europe grants.
By @annamckie.bsky.social
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
UK expects Horizon Europe rebate after limited winnings - Research Professional News
Clawback in prospect after UK’s sluggish EU research programme start, with losses capped at £330m
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:27 AM
When getting your money back is a bad thing: UK expecting a rebate on £2bn paid to EU to join its research programme in 2024, @resprofnews.bsky.social reveals.
UK fared worse than expected in winning Horizon Europe grants.
By @annamckie.bsky.social
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
UK fared worse than expected in winning Horizon Europe grants.
By @annamckie.bsky.social
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
November 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Reposted by Daniel Cressey
November 11, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Interesting - a Reverse Aaron A. Aardvark effect.
Economics does the same, but they have established quite wide-ranging evidence that doing so creates "alphabetic discrimination" in which there are career and publication advantages to those with names at the start of the alphabet. See, eg: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
The Effects of Listing Authors in Alphabetical Order: A Review of the Empirical Evidence
Each time researchers jointly write an article, a decision must be made about the order in which the authors are listed. There are two main norms for doing so.
dx.doi.org
October 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Interesting - a Reverse Aaron A. Aardvark effect.
Really interesting paper, despite the outrageous labelling of crabs as 'non-charismatic'.
October 20, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Really interesting paper, despite the outrageous labelling of crabs as 'non-charismatic'.
Reposted by Daniel Cressey
🦒Biologists are often drawn to charismatic species but they do not always have the opportunity to study them. This study reveals some fierce competition in certain academic fields, and illustrates unequal social distribution of research opportunities➡️https://buff.ly/kjYUIBg
October 17, 2025 at 11:04 AM
🦒Biologists are often drawn to charismatic species but they do not always have the opportunity to study them. This study reveals some fierce competition in certain academic fields, and illustrates unequal social distribution of research opportunities➡️https://buff.ly/kjYUIBg
Reposted by Daniel Cressey
NGOs Slam UN Shipping Body @imohq.bsky.social Deferral of Plan to Cut Climate Pollution
bit.ly/MEPC_ES2end
bit.ly/MEPC_ES2end
NGOs Slam UN Shipping Body Deferral of Plan to Cut Climate Pollution
As a special meeting of the International Maritime Organization’s Marine Environment Protection Committee (IMO, MEPC/ES.2) closes in London, the Clean Shipping Coalition (CSC) expressed its huge disap...
bit.ly
October 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM
NGOs Slam UN Shipping Body @imohq.bsky.social Deferral of Plan to Cut Climate Pollution
bit.ly/MEPC_ES2end
bit.ly/MEPC_ES2end
UCU could learn some lessons from their comrades in Nigeria. Last academic strike there was 8 months! (via @internationalintrigue.io ).
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
ASUU strike: Nigerian university lecturers boycott classes
Lecturers at public universities in Nigeria begin a two-week strike over pay and funding.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 11:19 AM
UCU could learn some lessons from their comrades in Nigeria. Last academic strike there was 8 months! (via @internationalintrigue.io ).
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK's Marine Accident Investigation Branch is looking into a collision between a ship transferring crew at an offshore wind farm and an "uncrewed surface vessel" called X-18.
Possibly its first investigation involving a drone ship?
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Possibly its first investigation involving a drone ship?
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Marine Accident Investigation Branch: current investigations
www.gov.uk
October 15, 2025 at 9:23 AM
UK's Marine Accident Investigation Branch is looking into a collision between a ship transferring crew at an offshore wind farm and an "uncrewed surface vessel" called X-18.
Possibly its first investigation involving a drone ship?
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Possibly its first investigation involving a drone ship?
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Without fuel subsidies UK fishing fleet is basically unprofitable?!?
"The UK fleet generated approximately £1020 million in income in 2022, therefore without [Fuel Tax Concessions],the fleets’ collective profits would have been around £ 1 million, effectively breaking even,all else remaining equal."
"The UK fleet generated approximately £1020 million in income in 2022, therefore without [Fuel Tax Concessions],the fleets’ collective profits would have been around £ 1 million, effectively breaking even,all else remaining equal."
NEW PAPER: Updated & expanded analysis of fuel tax concessions for UK fishing fleet
⛽ In 2022 FTCs=£121m in foregone revenue
🐟 Supporting our industry is vital—but must align w/ environmental goals & be equitable
🌍 FTCs sustain profitability but raise sustainability questions
🔗 tinyurl.com/mzy8wd39
⛽ In 2022 FTCs=£121m in foregone revenue
🐟 Supporting our industry is vital—but must align w/ environmental goals & be equitable
🌍 FTCs sustain profitability but raise sustainability questions
🔗 tinyurl.com/mzy8wd39
Updated and expanded analysis of fuel tax concessions for the commercial fishing fleet of the United Kingdom
Fuel represents one of the most substantial cost items for commercial fishing enterprises. Despite growing government commitments to reducing carbon e…
tinyurl.com
October 1, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Without fuel subsidies UK fishing fleet is basically unprofitable?!?
"The UK fleet generated approximately £1020 million in income in 2022, therefore without [Fuel Tax Concessions],the fleets’ collective profits would have been around £ 1 million, effectively breaking even,all else remaining equal."
"The UK fleet generated approximately £1020 million in income in 2022, therefore without [Fuel Tax Concessions],the fleets’ collective profits would have been around £ 1 million, effectively breaking even,all else remaining equal."
What a great job title.
Does anyone on Bluesky know of another Lecturer/Professor/etc of Scientific Diving position anywhere? A quick search isn't showing any for me.
Does anyone on Bluesky know of another Lecturer/Professor/etc of Scientific Diving position anywhere? A quick search isn't showing any for me.
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
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOS637/l...
#jobs #lecturer #scientificdiving #plymouth #coralreefs #university #marinescience #marinebiology #marineecology #jobopportunity
September 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM
What a great job title.
Does anyone on Bluesky know of another Lecturer/Professor/etc of Scientific Diving position anywhere? A quick search isn't showing any for me.
Does anyone on Bluesky know of another Lecturer/Professor/etc of Scientific Diving position anywhere? A quick search isn't showing any for me.
Reposted by Daniel Cressey
When you are able to publish bullshit in a #predatory journal: look at the title, author and affiliation, which the editor was unable (?) to identify....
The test was done by Thomas Schlacher
#Research
#Integrity
The test was done by Thomas Schlacher
#Research
#Integrity
September 27, 2025 at 8:24 AM
When you are able to publish bullshit in a #predatory journal: look at the title, author and affiliation, which the editor was unable (?) to identify....
The test was done by Thomas Schlacher
#Research
#Integrity
The test was done by Thomas Schlacher
#Research
#Integrity
Reposted by Daniel Cressey
Reposted by Daniel Cressey
Reposted by Daniel Cressey
Really interesting piece on a water sharing dispute in Goa, and the ethics of who bears the burden when the ‘common good’ is invoked.
A lovely excerpt below on how our approach to funding this research made a critical approach possible
theprint.in/opinion/shou...
A lovely excerpt below on how our approach to funding this research made a critical approach possible
theprint.in/opinion/shou...
September 23, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Really interesting piece on a water sharing dispute in Goa, and the ethics of who bears the burden when the ‘common good’ is invoked.
A lovely excerpt below on how our approach to funding this research made a critical approach possible
theprint.in/opinion/shou...
A lovely excerpt below on how our approach to funding this research made a critical approach possible
theprint.in/opinion/shou...
What's going on with the high seas treaty, you say?
We've updated this explainer to answer all your questions (hopefully).
dialogue.earth/en/ocean/wha...
We've updated this explainer to answer all your questions (hopefully).
dialogue.earth/en/ocean/wha...
dialogue.earth
September 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
What's going on with the high seas treaty, you say?
We've updated this explainer to answer all your questions (hopefully).
dialogue.earth/en/ocean/wha...
We've updated this explainer to answer all your questions (hopefully).
dialogue.earth/en/ocean/wha...
"possible serious failures to comply with environmental law"
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England's environmental watchdog has found the government may have failed to comply with the law on a target to ensure the good health of the country's seas
www.theoep.org.uk/news/oep-ide...
www.theoep.org.uk/news/oep-ide...
OEP identifies possible failures to comply with environmental law over marine target | Office for Environmental Protection
www.theoep.org.uk
September 19, 2025 at 9:17 AM
"possible serious failures to comply with environmental law"
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