Mark Hamilton

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🐾 Want to help explore community perspectives on lynx reintroduction to Scotland?

Our #LynxtoScotland project partner @treesforlife.bsky.social is looking for two Engagement Officers to consult communities on the potential reintroduction of lynx.

Apply here: https://bit.pulse.ly/hs9hbj24rc

We often forget how far we have come:

➡️ Today almost 50% of EU electricity generation is from renewable energy sources.

➡️ It is not long ago that fossil fuels dominated the EU's electricity mix. This year their share is approaching 1/4 of EU electricity generation.

Source: @ember-energy.org

Renewable energy produces more electricity than coal for the first time, experts say Solar and wind are now growing fast enough to not only meet the world's growing appetite for electricity, but to outstrip it.

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Renewable energy produces more electricity than coal for the first time, experts say | Science, Climate & Tech News | Sky News

Find out more: news.sky.com/story/renewabl...

#ClimateAction

We want to hear from UK #PrimarySchoolTeachers about how the #Ocean is taught in the #classroom 🐠 Your voice can shape how future generations engage with #MarineScience. Survey takes just 10 mins 👉 plymouthlab.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

#PrimaryEducation #STEMeducation #Teachers #Teaching

For a long time renewable energy uptake in Africa was lacklustre at best.

But that is changing: Solar panel imports to Africa have surged over the past year—a shift poised to touch nearly every country on the continent as new Ember analysis shows.

"Threatening a glut of cheap power..."

How to Get AI Out of Your Google Search Results • The Revelator Three simple keystrokes will deliver search results that consume less energy and water — and probably contain better information.

A simple way to cut your carbon footprint: Use this tip to get AI out of your search results. therevelator.org/how-to-get-a...

‘Explosive increase’ of ticks that cause meat allergy in US due to climate crisis Unusually aggressive lone star ticks, common in the south-east, are spreading to areas previously too cold for them

When it comes to climate change, the number of amplifying feedback cycles far outweigh the dampening ones. But here's one in the latter category!

Eating more meat -> higher GHG emissions -> more climate change -> more meat allergies -> lower GHG emissions

More by @olliemilman.bsky.social here:

#fisheries

The hidden cost of your supermarket sea bass Revealed: an investigation shows how consumers buying fish in the UK are playing a role in food insecurity and unemployment in Senegal

Consumers buying #fish in the UK are playing a role in #foodinsecurity and #unemployment in #Senegal
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🪸 Announcing RCUK 2025! 🪸

📅 Saturday December 6th 2025
(With workshops Friday 5th @ 1 pm)

📍 Bangor University’s main campus
Main Arts Lecture Theatre & Prichard-Jones Hall

Call for abstracts opens in July – further details over the coming months.

More info: www.reefconservationuk.org
#RCUK2025

Rucha and Ruth on the research vessel after a day of SCUBA diving and carrying SCUBA tanks backwards and forwards (hence some damp patches on their clothes)

Javier, Laura-Li, Ruth, and Casey in the sea in their snorkelling kit during their last day of fieldwork.

Out now in Coral Reefs: 'Active and passive pathways of nutrient transfer in coral reef ecosystems'

doi.org/10.1007/s003... 🐚

Thank you to my co-authors and field friends from @lec-reefs.bsky.social and beyond for all their help bringing this piece of work together 🌊

Want to know what it was like behind the scenes of 'Ocean with David Attenborough'? I was interviewed by @bbc5live.bsky.social about that and more yesterday. You can listen here at 1:50:00 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #OceanFilm #davidattenborough @thembauk.bsky.social @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social 🐙

#fisheries 🎣

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**2 weeks** left to apply - come join me and @lec-reefs.bsky.social at Lancaster University.

🧪🦑🌍🪸 #EcoECRcareer #fisheries

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Emergent patterns of reef fish diversity correlate with coral assemblage shifts along the Great Barrier Reef - Nature Communications Coral reefs have been severely affected by anthropogenic stress. Using long term data from the Great Barrier Reef, this study found temporal changes in the latitudinal diversity gradient, and stronger...

Great Barrier Reef fish reveal that large-scale macroecological patterns have changed significantly 🐟🐠

We found that changes in latitudinal diversity gradient & rising species turnover were strongly correlated with shifts in coral composition

Out now in Nature Comms www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#PhD opportunity on "Decoding biological colour: leveraging AI to analyse big data on animal images in a changing world" with me, @chris-nemeth.bsky.social Chris Cooney (U Sheff) & David Roy (UKCEH) thru new @exageo-dla.bsky.social based at Lancaster Uni www.exageo.org/phd-student-...

Bill to jail bosses of major polluters set to be introduced in Scotland The Ecocide Prevention Bill would impose harsh penalties on executives responsible for major environmental damage.

Bosses of major polluters could face jail time under Scotland's new Ecocide Prevention Bill. Making Scotland the first part of the UK able to properly sanction executives responsible for major environmental harm, like oil spills. #BigOil polluters, we're coming for you 🛢️🫵
www.bbc.com/news/article...

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📢New Paper Alert📢 (and first chapter of my PhD!)

We show that scale matters when quantifying motile cryptofauna on tropical coral reefs 🦀

Paper in MEPS: www.int-res.com/abstracts/me...

The amazing @ruchakarkarey.bsky.social presents her work on squaretail grouper in Lakshadweep archipelago.

🐟First recorded aggregation in India
🐟Highest densities in the world
🐟 Emerging fisheries & fish trade
🐟 80% population decline
🐟 Less aggression, more fear

#RCUK2024

Climate Change Affects Multiple Coral Reef Fisheries Ecosystem Services Coral reef fisheries support livelihoods and provide an affordable source of essential dietary nutrients to coastal people. However, climate-driven coral bleaching is dramatically altering reef habit....

Climate Change Affects Multiple Coral Reef Fisheries Ecosystem Services: doi.org/10.1111/fme....

We examined catch rates, affordability & nutritional content on bleached coral reefs. Led by Dr Sarah Martin, w @james-robinson.bsky.social @nickajgraham.bsky.social Seychelles Fishing Authority