Sofia Castelló y Tickell
@sofiaatsea.bsky.social
Marine conservation & creative communication
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2025 @conservoptimism.bsky.social Film Festival takes place tonight @morethanadodo.bsky.social. Sofia Castelló y Tickell (@sofiaatsea.bsky.social) from @rhulbiology.bsky.social, a co-founder of the festival, welcomes everyone. The festival is livestreamed here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=urvW...
October 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
2025 @conservoptimism.bsky.social Film Festival takes place tonight @morethanadodo.bsky.social. Sofia Castelló y Tickell (@sofiaatsea.bsky.social) from @rhulbiology.bsky.social, a co-founder of the festival, welcomes everyone. The festival is livestreamed here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=urvW...
Please share Alec’s picture, especially with anyone who might have been around Folgefonna National Park in the last week
Our friend @alecluhn.bsky.social is missing in Norway's Folgefonna National Park after a backpacking trip to the glacier there. Please share if you're in the area or know people who might be. Come home safe, buddy
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August 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Please share Alec’s picture, especially with anyone who might have been around Folgefonna National Park in the last week
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Our friend @alecluhn.bsky.social is missing in Norway's Folgefonna National Park after a backpacking trip to the glacier there. Please share if you're in the area or know people who might be. Come home safe, buddy
www.facebook.com/share/p/18xA...
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August 5, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Our friend @alecluhn.bsky.social is missing in Norway's Folgefonna National Park after a backpacking trip to the glacier there. Please share if you're in the area or know people who might be. Come home safe, buddy
www.facebook.com/share/p/18xA...
www.facebook.com/share/p/18xA...
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Yes. My documentary out and I am very tired. 🥱
Please watch! 👇
Please watch! 👇
It's finally out! 18 months in the making, @fieseler.bsky.social's outstanding documentary on deep-sea mining and an exploration of why some stories capture the public imagination while others don't.
Nodules: Deep-Sea Life Giver or Key to Our Energy Future?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jcm...
Nodules: Deep-Sea Life Giver or Key to Our Energy Future?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jcm...
Nodules: Deep-Sea Life Giver or Key to Our Energy Future?
YouTube video by Scientific American
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July 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Yes. My documentary out and I am very tired. 🥱
Please watch! 👇
Please watch! 👇
Thank you so much to @scicommexcellence.nationalacademies.org for making this lovely video! ❤️
2024 award winner Dr. Sofia Castelló y Tickell (@sofiaatsea.bsky.social) is a British-Mexican marine conservation scientist and artist working across comedy, creative writing, film, and theater. 🪸🎭
Watch here: youtu.be/BCmU_SAy0lo #scicomm #comedy #WorldOceansDay
Watch here: youtu.be/BCmU_SAy0lo #scicomm #comedy #WorldOceansDay
Science with a Splash of Humor: Dr. Sofia Castelló y Tickell Uses Comedy for Marine Conservation
YouTube video by SciComm Excellence
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June 7, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Thank you so much to @scicommexcellence.nationalacademies.org for making this lovely video! ❤️
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I keep seeing the same questions asked in marine biology career advice groups. So along with some colleagues, I'm trying to compile a bunch of common questions and answer them all at once. Please share widely with anyone who might have questions!
Submit ?s here: forms.gle/LEd4egJgvfGf...
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Submit ?s here: forms.gle/LEd4egJgvfGf...
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April 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I keep seeing the same questions asked in marine biology career advice groups. So along with some colleagues, I'm trying to compile a bunch of common questions and answer them all at once. Please share widely with anyone who might have questions!
Submit ?s here: forms.gle/LEd4egJgvfGf...
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Submit ?s here: forms.gle/LEd4egJgvfGf...
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Optimistic ocean stories needed for this textbook! 🌊🐠🐙🦀🪸🐋🦭
Cc: @conservoptimism.bsky.social #oceanoptimism
Cc: @conservoptimism.bsky.social #oceanoptimism
We ( @drcatmac.bsky.social and I) are writing a marine conservation science and policy textbook!
We'd love to include case studies of ocean conservation success stories, and we welcome submissions of ideas here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please be clear and detailed!
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We'd love to include case studies of ocean conservation success stories, and we welcome submissions of ideas here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please be clear and detailed!
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March 14, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Optimistic ocean stories needed for this textbook! 🌊🐠🐙🦀🪸🐋🦭
Cc: @conservoptimism.bsky.social #oceanoptimism
Cc: @conservoptimism.bsky.social #oceanoptimism
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Big eel news! Recently uncovered frescoes at Pompeii contain eels. Because of course they do. Eels are everywhere in European history. You just have to look.
This is a pair of lovely morays. To paraphrase Garth Brooks, sometimes folks wonder what happens if two morays never come. But here they are.
This is a pair of lovely morays. To paraphrase Garth Brooks, sometimes folks wonder what happens if two morays never come. But here they are.
February 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Big eel news! Recently uncovered frescoes at Pompeii contain eels. Because of course they do. Eels are everywhere in European history. You just have to look.
This is a pair of lovely morays. To paraphrase Garth Brooks, sometimes folks wonder what happens if two morays never come. But here they are.
This is a pair of lovely morays. To paraphrase Garth Brooks, sometimes folks wonder what happens if two morays never come. But here they are.
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We're having our Zoom town halls about the ocean conservation science and policy textbook we're writing tomorrow and Thursday. If you want to join, there's still time to sign up! We'd love to hear what features would make this textbook more useful to you!
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We’re making a new marine conservation science and policy textbook. What do you want to be in it?
The leading textbook in Marine Conservation Biology (Norse and Crowder) is 20 years old. It’s great and it shaped the field for a generation, but a lot has happened since it came out. There are new…
www.southernfriedscience.com
February 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
We're having our Zoom town halls about the ocean conservation science and policy textbook we're writing tomorrow and Thursday. If you want to join, there's still time to sign up! We'd love to hear what features would make this textbook more useful to you!
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Two weeks to go until the application deadline for ILESLA. If you or anyone you know would benefit from full funding to carry out a PhD in Life and/or Environmental Science please visit/refer to our website page iles.web.ox.ac.uk/how-apply where you can see open day videos and get full guidance.
How to Apply and Funding
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January 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Two weeks to go until the application deadline for ILESLA. If you or anyone you know would benefit from full funding to carry out a PhD in Life and/or Environmental Science please visit/refer to our website page iles.web.ox.ac.uk/how-apply where you can see open day videos and get full guidance.
I’m teaching an undergrad class this term where the final assignment is a scientific poster and I’d love cool examples to show the students. What’s the best scientific poster you’ve seen or made? Please share, comment or DM w examples!
#scicomm #conservation #marinebiology (but any field really)
#scicomm #conservation #marinebiology (but any field really)
January 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I’m teaching an undergrad class this term where the final assignment is a scientific poster and I’d love cool examples to show the students. What’s the best scientific poster you’ve seen or made? Please share, comment or DM w examples!
#scicomm #conservation #marinebiology (but any field really)
#scicomm #conservation #marinebiology (but any field really)
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To inaugurate my new profile on this app, I'd love to share some of my favorite stories I worked on in the past couple of years and some of the cool things I've been up to🧵
January 16, 2025 at 10:33 AM
To inaugurate my new profile on this app, I'd love to share some of my favorite stories I worked on in the past couple of years and some of the cool things I've been up to🧵
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Fascinating piece. The research and the writing are gems.
Latest labor of editing love: the amazing @giulianaviglione.bsky.social with a gripping tale about how the stress of industrial whaling wrote itself into whales' very bodies, for @biographic.bsky.social: www.biographic.com/how-whales-f...
How Whales Found Peace in War - bioGraphic
A forgotten museum collection reveals how a pause in industrial whaling during World War II changed whales at the molecular level.
www.biographic.com
January 15, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Fascinating piece. The research and the writing are gems.
Reposting as the deadline for filling this survey out is approaching! If you have the time we’d really appreciate your thoughts
If you are over 18 and resident in the UK, please fill out this short survey (~10 mins) for a 3rd year project by Abigail King I am supervising at @royalholloway.bsky.social on perceptions of #endangered species! forms.office.com/e/aYSQuZnhNS
Microsoft Forms
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January 5, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Reposting as the deadline for filling this survey out is approaching! If you have the time we’d really appreciate your thoughts
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I really recommend looking at the full results, especially if you are someone who creates or directs in the arts. www.theclimaterealitycheck.com
The Climate Reality Check
A Bechdel-Wallace Test for a World on Fire. Published by Good Energy and Buck Lab for Climate & Environment, Colby College
www.theclimaterealitycheck.com
December 29, 2024 at 10:24 AM
I really recommend looking at the full results, especially if you are someone who creates or directs in the arts. www.theclimaterealitycheck.com
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🚨Tour Stage Manager vacancy 🚨 Please share widely!
Seeking a stage manager for schools tour of our climate theatre show Chrissie and the Skiddle Witch. Tour dates in Feb/Mar/April 2025. Pay £700 per week. More info & apply here: www.geologisetheatre.com/vacancies
Seeking a stage manager for schools tour of our climate theatre show Chrissie and the Skiddle Witch. Tour dates in Feb/Mar/April 2025. Pay £700 per week. More info & apply here: www.geologisetheatre.com/vacancies
Vacancies | Geologise Theatre
www.geologisetheatre.com
December 23, 2024 at 4:00 PM
🚨Tour Stage Manager vacancy 🚨 Please share widely!
Seeking a stage manager for schools tour of our climate theatre show Chrissie and the Skiddle Witch. Tour dates in Feb/Mar/April 2025. Pay £700 per week. More info & apply here: www.geologisetheatre.com/vacancies
Seeking a stage manager for schools tour of our climate theatre show Chrissie and the Skiddle Witch. Tour dates in Feb/Mar/April 2025. Pay £700 per week. More info & apply here: www.geologisetheatre.com/vacancies
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I like to say I respect despair as an emotion but not an analysis. As an analysis it assumes we know what can and can't happen, and the future is both uncertain and at least to some extent what we make of it. Plus why would I give them what they want, as premature surrender? Thanks Senator Schatz.
Be furious be angry but despondency is what they want from us. And be very suspicious of people on the left who say “we are cooked” or whatever. Imagine the civil rights movement, or suffrage, or any movement for change, hitting a roadblock and just “saying well we are well and truly fucked now.”
December 21, 2024 at 6:02 PM
I like to say I respect despair as an emotion but not an analysis. As an analysis it assumes we know what can and can't happen, and the future is both uncertain and at least to some extent what we make of it. Plus why would I give them what they want, as premature surrender? Thanks Senator Schatz.
Deadline for ScienceWrite apps is getting closer, having participated last year I highly recommend!
ScienceWrite, a UK scheme for aspiring STEM writers from minoritised backgrounds, is open for 2025 applications!
The 3rd year @romatheengineer.bsky.social & I are running this, with support from @royalsociety.bsky.social & I am SO EXCITED
Deadline 3rd Jan #SciComm 🧪
www.sciencewrite.co.uk
The 3rd year @romatheengineer.bsky.social & I are running this, with support from @royalsociety.bsky.social & I am SO EXCITED
Deadline 3rd Jan #SciComm 🧪
www.sciencewrite.co.uk
December 21, 2024 at 8:53 AM
Deadline for ScienceWrite apps is getting closer, having participated last year I highly recommend!
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great starter pack to bring all kinds of science to your feed in all sorts of formats, from writing to podcasting to videos, from award-winning science communicators and journalists!
go.bsky.app/R3WZmxy
go.bsky.app/R3WZmxy
December 20, 2024 at 9:32 PM
great starter pack to bring all kinds of science to your feed in all sorts of formats, from writing to podcasting to videos, from award-winning science communicators and journalists!
go.bsky.app/R3WZmxy
go.bsky.app/R3WZmxy
Learned so much from stepping in to lead this wonderful organisation and its brilliant volunteers for a while, and it’s exciting to see everything @africanhorses.bsky.social is doing to grow it in this new chapter! Here’s to an optimistic 2025 for all conservationists 🎉
#CO2024Rewind: A Year of New Beginnings!
This year marked a transformative chapter for Conservation Optimism as we bid farewell to our Interim Director,
@sofiaatsea.bsky.social. We are endlessly grateful to Sofia for her visionary and dedicated leadership.
#ConservationOptimism #CO2024
This year marked a transformative chapter for Conservation Optimism as we bid farewell to our Interim Director,
@sofiaatsea.bsky.social. We are endlessly grateful to Sofia for her visionary and dedicated leadership.
#ConservationOptimism #CO2024
December 20, 2024 at 12:49 PM
Learned so much from stepping in to lead this wonderful organisation and its brilliant volunteers for a while, and it’s exciting to see everything @africanhorses.bsky.social is doing to grow it in this new chapter! Here’s to an optimistic 2025 for all conservationists 🎉
If you are over 18 and resident in the UK, please fill out this short survey (~10 mins) for a 3rd year project by Abigail King I am supervising at @royalholloway.bsky.social on perceptions of #endangered species! forms.office.com/e/aYSQuZnhNS
Microsoft Forms
forms.office.com
December 19, 2024 at 12:15 PM
If you are over 18 and resident in the UK, please fill out this short survey (~10 mins) for a 3rd year project by Abigail King I am supervising at @royalholloway.bsky.social on perceptions of #endangered species! forms.office.com/e/aYSQuZnhNS
Had the best time in California last week, meeting incredible science communicators & celebrating the @nationalacademies.org / Schmidt Sciences awards for Excellence in #sciencecommunication!
December 13, 2024 at 1:42 PM
Had the best time in California last week, meeting incredible science communicators & celebrating the @nationalacademies.org / Schmidt Sciences awards for Excellence in #sciencecommunication!
Thinking of my grandmother Chloë today, on what would have been her 94th birthday! Such a creative and intelligent human being, whose example I followed in attending @somervillecollege.bsky.social. Sculptor, world traveller, beloved friend and family member, WW2 evacuee and a million things more.
Chloë Blackburn obituary | Sculpture | The Guardian
<strong>Other lives</strong>: Perfect diplomat’s wife in a series of foreign postings
amp.theguardian.com
December 11, 2024 at 12:53 PM
Thinking of my grandmother Chloë today, on what would have been her 94th birthday! Such a creative and intelligent human being, whose example I followed in attending @somervillecollege.bsky.social. Sculptor, world traveller, beloved friend and family member, WW2 evacuee and a million things more.
Frosty week on the Royal Holloway campus! Quick pics snapped between lectures
November 30, 2024 at 3:39 PM
Frosty week on the Royal Holloway campus! Quick pics snapped between lectures
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Do you know anyone who is an early career journalist with a passion for environmental issues? We here @sierramagazine.bsky.social are looking for our next cohort of Editorial Fellows. Details to apply here -->
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Sierra Club - Editorial Fellow
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November 26, 2024 at 11:05 PM
Do you know anyone who is an early career journalist with a passion for environmental issues? We here @sierramagazine.bsky.social are looking for our next cohort of Editorial Fellows. Details to apply here -->
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