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Martin Stevens @wildlifevision.bsky.social · Mar 31

Beautiful weather and #underwater conditions lately and lots of spring #wildlife and the kelp looking amazing again
#ukunderwater #marinelife #cornwallcoast #underwaterphotography

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Exeter Marine @exetermarine.bsky.social · Mar 14

Our monthly round-up of great UK-based marine job opportunities, hand-picked for our community. 🧵👇

🌐🌍🧪🌊🦑🐟

(Get in touch with the company advertising the role directly with any questions. We are just sharing these in the same way a job board would)

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Martin Stevens @wildlifevision.bsky.social · Mar 3

Fluorescent hermit #crabs - one of the species we get locally glows under ultraviolet light, like many marine animals. Whether there’s any function to this is mostly unknown still.
#marinelife #marinebiology #ukwildlife #ukunderwater #rockpools #tidepools

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Jade Roberts @jadeunderwater.bsky.social · Mar 2

Yesterday I spotted my first rainbow sea slug! They’ve been known in the southwest since 2022 - but so happy to have finally spotted my own!!

🩵🦑🤿🇬🇧🌊
#nudibranch #rockpooling #UKunderwater

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Exeter Marine @exetermarine.bsky.social · Feb 20

New sea turtle research!

This new study explores how individual green turtles adjust the timing of their nesting patterns in response to warming oceans.

Watch the video for more.

Full paper - doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

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#AcademicSky
@brendangodley.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social

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Exeter Marine @exetermarine.bsky.social · Feb 14

NEW RESEARCH: Seamounts are a HUB for sharks!

New research on seamounts off Ascension Island has found that there are 41 TIMES the amount of sharks there than in the open ocean, despite no increase in primary productivity.

Read the full paper here - doi.org/10.1371/jour...

🦑🌊🦤🌍🌐🧪
#AcademicSky

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Exeter Marine @exetermarine.bsky.social · Feb 11

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science!
We are so proud to have many incredible women working across disciplines as part of Exeter Marine. 🩵

🦑🦤🌎🌐🧪🤿🌊
#WomeninSTEM #PhDSky #AcademicSky

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Brendan Godley @brendangodley.bsky.social · Jan 28

SCHOLARSHIPS for international students seeking to join us in Sept 2025 for MSc in @exetergses.bsky.social .
The deadline to apply is 27 February 2025. 🧪🌎🦑🐟🦤
Scholarships:
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
Degrees:
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/gses/
@uniexecec.bsky.social @uniofexeteresi.bsky.social

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Jade Roberts @jadeunderwater.bsky.social · Jan 27

#UKunderwater !!!!

Martin Stevens @wildlifevision.bsky.social · Jan 16

So happy to have found this amazing rainbow #seaslug yesterday. They only started to appear in the UK in 2022 and this is the second time I’ve come across them - the colours are unreal.
#underwaterphotography #ukwildlife #marinebiology

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Jade Roberts @jadeunderwater.bsky.social · Jan 27

#UKunderwater

Martin Stevens @wildlifevision.bsky.social · Jan 23

Can you believe this tiny cushion star is just 1 cm in size? They are among the smallest and most colourful of all starfish and live in the upper shore #rockpools here in #Cornwall. The red spots on the very end of the arms are eyes!
#marinelife #seacreatures #underwaterphotography #britishnature

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Science Magazine @science.org · Dec 20

In the 20 years since the term “microplastics” was first coined, a growing body of research has consistently shown how pervasive and problematic the pollutants have become.

A recent #ScienceReview provides an overview and the progress made in understanding #microplastics.

Twenty years of microplastic pollution research—what have we learned?

Twenty years after the first publication that used the term microplastic, we review current understanding, refine definitions, and consider future prospects. Microplastics arise from multiple sources, including tires, textiles, cosmetics, paint, and the...

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Adrian Pinchbeck @adrianpinchbeck.bsky.social · Dec 20

Conger eels are something of a rarity off East Yorkshire, with only a handful of official recordings between the Wash and Middlesbrough (about 200km of coastline). Luck would have it then, when one photo-bombed a BRUV recording over an inshore wreck earlier this year. 🦑🌍 #ukunderwater

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Jade Roberts @jadeunderwater.bsky.social · Dec 19

Successful December rockpool, found a lovely broad-clawed porcelain crab, and many others this #crustmas

Falmouth, Cornwall 🦑 🇬🇧🤿

#UKunderwater

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Brendan Godley @brendangodley.bsky.social · Dec 17

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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Jade Roberts @jadeunderwater.bsky.social · Dec 13

Lovely colours! 💙🦑

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Jade Roberts @jadeunderwater.bsky.social · Dec 12

#UKunderwater 🦑 🇬🇧🤿

Scott Reid @scottinscilly.bsky.social · Nov 18

Still my favourite strand line discovery to date - a female Phronima sedentaria (‘monster in a barrel’) - Isles of Scilly, October 2023!

An amphipod crustacean, she parasitises salps, devouring them from the inside, forming a vessel to raise her young 👽

#MarineLife 🦑 #ukwildlife

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Jade Roberts @jadeunderwater.bsky.social · Dec 1

I’ve started a feed to try and pull together lots of lovely underwater images taken in the UK. Let’s champion our incredible British marine life! Just use 🇬🇧🤿 in your post to show in the feed, or #UKunderwater / #UKdiving 🦑
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Jade Roberts @jadeunderwater.bsky.social · Dec 10

Throwback to warmer, sunnier times with this lovely compass jellyfish met on a snorkel in Falmouth (as always) 🇬🇧🤿 🦑

#UKdiving #UKunderwater

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Kernow Conservation CIC @kernowconservation.bsky.social · Nov 1

A huge thank you to everyone that has donated or shared so far 🙏

Please KEEP SHARING and help us get the word out!

We're already at £2450 on day 2 of 42.

Full details of the project here: www.avivacommunityfund.co.uk/p/kernow-con

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Brendan Godley @brendangodley.bsky.social · Dec 8

To connect those working to minimize #bycatch in marine #fisheries a (preliminary) starter pack below. Please suggest others (partic early career folk) in comments, DM or email me [email protected]
🐢🌍🧪🦑 🌐🦤 🦈🐟🐠🐡 🌊 #seaturtles #sharks #rays #seabirds #whales #dolphins

go.bsky.app/VJJvGe6

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Hannah Rudd @hannahrudd.bsky.social · Dec 3

Woah! How cool is this? 😍 You never know what you will spot on the #FinVision cameras!

Take a look yourself 👇
www.zooniverse.org/projects/rya...

#FinVision is a Fisheries Industry Science Partnership led by the University of Plymouth. Learn more here: www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/mar...

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Jade Roberts @jadeunderwater.bsky.social · Dec 3

On the third day of #crustmas my true love gave to me… a spidercrab wearing a snakelocks anemone! 🇬🇧🤿 🦑

📍Falmouth, Cornwall

Underwater image of a spidercrab with a snakelocks anemone attached to the back of its carapace. Taken whilst snorkelling in Falmouth, Cornwall.

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Exeter Marine @exetermarine.bsky.social · Dec 3

Covering the global conservation status of sharks and their relatives, the report offers country-specific solutions to conversation action.

We're proud that Exeter Marine researchers are contributors, including @kristianmetcalfe.bsky.social and @phildoherty.bsky.social for the Congo chapter.

🦤🧪🌍🦑

IUCN SSC Shark Specialist Group @iucnshark.bsky.social · Dec 2

BREAKING: The IUCN Species Survival Commission Shark Specialist Group has released a new report on the global conservation status of sharks and their relatives.

portals.iucn.org/library/node...

Cover of the new "global status of sharks, rays, and chimaeras" report

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Jade Roberts @jadeunderwater.bsky.social · Dec 2

A hefty spidercrab from earlier in the year, because #crustmas 🦀

Falmouth, Cornwall 🇬🇧🤿 🦑

Large spidercrab facing the camera with legs and claws stretched out. Taken in Falmouth, Cornwall whilst snorkelling

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Jade Roberts @jadeunderwater.bsky.social · Dec 1

I’ve started a feed to try and pull together lots of lovely underwater images taken in the UK. Let’s champion our incredible British marine life! Just use 🇬🇧🤿 in your post to show in the feed, or #UKunderwater / #UKdiving 🦑
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bsky.app/profile/did:...

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