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Bryce Stewart @bd-stew.bsky.social · 2d

Splendid news!

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Bryce Stewart @bd-stew.bsky.social · 2d

Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you hear me, Major Tom?

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Plymouth Marine Laboratory @pml.ac.uk · 5d

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...

PML team celebrates win at Blue-Cloud Hackathon 2025!

We’re delighted to announce that, yesterday, a multidisciplinary team of researchers from Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) were selected as one of three winning teams of the Blue-Cloud Hackathon 202

pml.ac.uk

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Bryce Stewart @bd-stew.bsky.social · 3d

Amazing result! Congratulations team 'Kraken the Code'! 🐙

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Bryce Stewart @bd-stew.bsky.social · 5d

Looks very cool! I'll have to pop up 😁 🐟

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Rob Marchant @rob-marchant.bsky.social · 5d

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

The Critical Fish Trail

Www.thecriticalfishtrail.co.uk

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association @journalofthemba.bsky.social · 12d

"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

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Bryce Stewart @bd-stew.bsky.social · 13d

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Bryce Stewart @bd-stew.bsky.social · 13d

How good is this? #bemorescallop

Matt Bracken @brackenlab.bsky.social · 13d

These are amazing! 😍 #MarineLife 🌊

www.sturgisantiques.com/items/victor...

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Bryce Stewart @bd-stew.bsky.social · 13d

Nice! Would it surprise you to learn I already have something similar? 😁

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Bryce Stewart @bd-stew.bsky.social · 17d

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 🐙

Bryce Stewart @bd-stew.bsky.social · 24d

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! 🐙

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The Marine Biological Association @thembauk.bsky.social · 19d

🔬 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

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The Marine Biological Association @thembauk.bsky.social · 19d

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/...

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Bryce Stewart @bd-stew.bsky.social · 19d

A pleasure working with you! Many thanks for sharing the surveys! 🙏 🐙

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Plymouth Marine Laboratory @pml.ac.uk · 19d

👀 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/...

We've joined forces with The Marine Biological Association, the University of Plymouth and partners in a new project to investigate the unusual surge in #CommonOctopus (#OctopusVulgaris) numbers reported in the waters off the south coast of #Devon and #Cornwall this year.

We want to understand the history and potential environmental causes of such blooms, the effects they are having on the #FishingIndustry, and the potential for such blooms to happen again in the future.

It's the last chance to take part in the survey and share your experiences - closing this Sunday 21 September 2025. Thank you to all those who take part!

This work is funded by Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Plymouth City Council and Devon Council.

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Bryce Stewart @bd-stew.bsky.social · 24d

Thanks Travis!

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Bryce Stewart @bd-stew.bsky.social · 24d

FYI @thembauk.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social @pml.ac.uk @plymouthcc.bsky.social

Bryce Stewart @bd-stew.bsky.social · 24d

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! 🐙

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Tasha Milne @tashamilne.bsky.social · 26d

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...

Seascape ecology of juvenile gadoid nursery areas | Royal Society Open Science

Availability of juvenile fish habitat provision can impact recruitment. This study focused on identifying which environmental variables characterize the juvenile habitats of three commercially important gadoid species: Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua), haddock ...

doi.org

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Tasha Milne @tashamilne.bsky.social · Apr 4

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 novel use of Stereo Baited Remote Underwater Video and Drop-Down Video for biodiversity and marine landscape mapping and prediction

To make the best-informed decisions on managing marine resources whilst also restoring biodiversity, the creation and analysis of benthic maps is highly valuable. This study focuses on benthic mapping...

journals.plos.org

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Bryce Stewart @bd-stew.bsky.social · 29d

😁 🐙👏

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Bryce Stewart @bd-stew.bsky.social · 29d

Congratulations!! Time to buy yourself a couple of these I reckon 🐙

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Bryce Stewart @bd-stew.bsky.social · Sep 7

FYI @thembauk.bsky.social @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social

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Bryce Stewart @bd-stew.bsky.social · Sep 7

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...

Programs: Radio Marinara — Triple R 102.7FM, Melbourne Independent Radio

The team continues the great Marinara tradition of bringing you a quirky but informative look at all that is marine.

www.rrr.org.au

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · Sep 1

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...

UK experienced its hottest summer on record in 2025, Met Office says

Mean temperature over June, July and August was 16.1C as country endured four heatwaves

www.theguardian.com

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