John Griffin
@jngriffy.bsky.social
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Associate Prof. in Coastal Ecology & Biodiversity @Swansea University. Topics: Biodiversity change; Ecosystem functions & services; Trait-based ecology. Systems: Rocky shores, Salt marshes, Coastal dunes.
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louisefirth.bsky.social
Still plenty of time to submit papers to the Annals of Botany special issue on #Macroalgae and #EcosystemServices. Deadline for submissions is Nov 30th! #Kelp #Fucoid #seaweed #CCA @annbot.bsky.social @pippajmoore.bsky.social @jebyrnes.bsky.social @twernberg.bsky.social @chrisecornwall.bsky.social
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maxvonthun.bsky.social
“We studied more than 70 different elections that took place in 12 western European countries over several decades, and found that when mainstream parties take more anti-immigration positions, it leads to more support for the radical right, not less.”
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wlallen.bsky.social
📢🦋 Our paper ‘Global selection on insect antipredator coloration’ is out and featured on the cover of @science.org

We ran a huge experiment to find out how ecological context favours camouflage and warning colouration as antipredator strategies. 1/6

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A white-fronted bee-eater (Merops bullockoides) decides whether to consume a warningly colored white-barred acraea butterfly (Telchinia encedon). Photo (c) Mike Rowe
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louisefirth.bsky.social
Still time to apply! Deadline tomorrow for postdoc on #NbS in salt marshes with fantastic Jim van Belzen & Tjeerd Bouma. Going to be fun project & team! 🤩 @jimvanbelzen.bsky.social @jngriffy.bsky.social @melaniejbishop.bsky.social @jebyrnes.bsky.social @aec13.bsky.social @stonelivinglab.bsky.social
jimvanbelzen.bsky.social
Come join us as a #Postdoc on BLUESHORES 🇪🇺 project at the NIOZ to test novel #NaturebasedSolutions to coastal defence 🌊 on saltmarshes 🌱.
workingat.nioz.nl/o/postdoc-po...
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peteecology.bsky.social
Just 1 week left to apply to a 3yr Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in Landscape Multifunctionality here in beautiful Bergen (deadline Oct 1st) www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... The postion is part of the Agroecology Partnership project SAFER www.agroecologypartnership.eu/safer Please repost!
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rcamaraleret.bsky.social
We continue with the process of #participatoryresearch in the #Amazon, #Colombia, in all its stages from beginning to dissemination. Seeking to create bridges between #knowledgesystems. Big 🙏 to @snsf.ch for support and to the Isaza Lab 🇨🇴 and the Cacua Indigenous People 🍃
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rob-marchant.bsky.social
Five trains and 1200 km later it is the final leg of journeying from Innsbruck to York - lots of work done, seats sat on, sandwiches eaten and 44 kg of #carbon emitted vs the 72kg of carbon by coach or 175 kg by air @uoyenvironment.bsky.social
@rolandgehrels.bsky.social
jngriffy.bsky.social
There was likely a simpler time before caging became the rage and removal did the job - thinking of Bob Paine’s classic experiment with Pisaster. Our lab certainly couldn’t get by without those plastic rawl plugs though…
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louisefirth.bsky.social
Postdoc opportunity at University College Cork Ireland 🇮🇪. Interdisciplinary approaches to urban coastlines & multispecies relations. 🚶‍♀️🐚👨‍⚕️🦀👩‍🔬🪸👤🐟 Open to EU & non-EU applicants 🌎 Deadline 3rd Oct. Interviews 9th & 10th Oct. #LivingSeawall #EcoEngineering #Sustainability my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru...
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drjeffshima.bsky.social
We’re hiring (again)! 🌊🐟
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (≈ US Assistant Prof) in marine biology/marine ecology @ Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington, NZ.
NZ lifestyle, fantastic temperate reefs, a marine lab by the sea, & great colleagues 🌊
Apply here 👉 tinyurl.com/366jnm5d
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louisefirth.bsky.social
Well done to Franz Bauer for collecting the 2 year dataset on the biodiversity colonising the Living Seawalls in Plymouth. Fucoid algae continues to dominate. 🤎 Many new species moving in..🦀🐌🪸
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wslbiodiversity.bsky.social
What are the interconnections between livelihoods, biodiversity, and the services that connect the two?
Maria J. Santos (University of Zurich) will address this question at our Biodiversity Seminar today.
Join us in-person or online!
10 Sep at 11 am CEST
biodiversitycenter.wsl.ch/en/events/de...
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jsola.bsky.social
📢 New in Ecology Letters: heterogeneity ≠ stability.
🌊🪨 3-yr rocky-shore experiment: 4 cascades canceled the classic heterogeneity–stability link.
📄 doi.org/10.1111/ele.70158

With @thefairchild.bsky.social , @MatthewPerkins, @JamesBull & @jngriffy.bsky.social — thanks to @NERC & @SwanseaUniversity.
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
The Israeli government has adopted the double-strike tactic used by Bashar al-Assad in Syria: target a hospital or heavily populated area, then hit it again when rescue workers, reporters and medics turn up, to kill or maim them too. Hideous war crimes piled one upon another.
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aec13.bsky.social
Very well done @robingauff.bsky.social 🙌 🙌 🙌
Proud to be a co-author on this paper doi.org/10.106/j.sci... sharing with #ITRS ocean sprawl community 🪨🌊🦀🪸🐚🌱@louisefirth.bsky.social @melaniejbishop.bsky.social @cariocamayer.bsky.social @anaellelemasson.bsky.social @ifremer.bsky.social
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nessocon.bsky.social
This review clearly shows that macroalgal decomposition rates vary significantly between experimental approaches and are severely underestimated when a refractory pool is not considered, impacting scaled-up estimates of macroalgal carbon export to the deep ocean 🌊🌱
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diannewoodward.bsky.social
No explanation needed. The Met police and Yvette Cooper MP should be ashamed.
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gnomeicide.bsky.social
No, seriously, any Labour MP who doesn't resign the whip is complicit in suppression of the exercise of free and fair speech criticising an ongoing genocide. Parliament must be recalled, this is a crisis.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Palestine Action protesters arrested by police at London demo
The Metropolitan Police said the number of arrests was the largest made by the force on a single day in the last decade.
www.bbc.com
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jdtonkin.bsky.social
When everything feels urgent, joy can seem indulgent.
But maybe it’s essential — for resilience, connection, even good ideas.
A short reflection on why joy matters, even in a world on fire.
Joy, despite everything
Finding lightness when the work feels heavy
predirections.substack.com
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frankmelzner.bsky.social
Doctoral position on genomic basis of Fucus (brown algal) local adaptation - join our exciting #Fubluc team! Fully funded for 3.5 years & we also consider candidates with strong molecular or bioinformatic skillls but no marine / algal experience, see www.geomar.de/en/karriere/...
Fucus algal meadow in the Baltic Sea