Mara Fischer

Did you know @thefsbi.bsky.social fund up to 2 PhD studentships each year?

These include:
🐟 4 years of PhD funding.
🦈 A stipend higher than UKRI (on average).
🐠 Annual research budget of £3500.
🎣 +other benefits.

See fsbi.org.uk/phd-students... for full details or grab Melanie or me at #FSBI2025

09.07.2025 06:30 — 👍 19    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 1

Absolutely brilliant #FSBI2025 banquet. I'm so grateful to Sarah and her team for organising such an amazing meeting, and to our past and current presidents & ian winfield for their incredible stewardship of this v special society...And all the young 'uns for bringing their fresh ideas/dance moves!

11.07.2025 00:54 — 👍 17    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 0

And that’s a wrap! Leaving Belfast after a fin-tastic week at the #FSBI2025 symposium with not one but two awards 😯 - the Green Travel and Best Poster Award! ✨ Wonderful meeting so many new fellow fish nerds 🐠🤓 and to hear about all the amazing research going on in this field 🦈
@thefsbi.bsky.social

12.07.2025 07:11 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Fantastic keynote on #FSBI2025 Day 4 by @nickdulvy.bsky.social - highlighting how equitable and collaborative big data approaches can help advance management and conservation of threatened fish species 🦈

10.07.2025 09:50 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Great way to start day 3 of #FSBI2025! 🏃‍♀️🐠

09.07.2025 08:12 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Had a great time presenting my work on fish bioturbation in the #FSBI25 poster session today! Lots of great chats and new connections! 🦈🐠
@thefsbi.bsky.social @exetermarine.bsky.social

08.07.2025 20:32 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Multiple trains, an overnight ferry and many steps later, I’ve made it from Cornwall to Belfast for the #FSBI2025 symposium! #FSBIGreenTravel Excited for this week! 🐟🐡🐠🦈

07.07.2025 17:26 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

En route to Belfast ⛴️ for a week of all things fish at the FSBI symposium 🐟🐡🐠🦈 @thefsbi.bsky.social
#FSBIGreenTravel

07.07.2025 11:54 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Last chance to come and see our poster tonight! We’ll be in the Green Zone (La Baleine) at board 349 from 6-8 pm 🌊🌊🌊
#oosc @exetermarine.bsky.social @profcallum.bsky.social @tarracuda.bsky.social

05.06.2025 13:14 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Great talk by @ciaranmc.bsky.social at #OOSC about his ongoing Convex Seascape Survey work on mapping the expansion of trawling and associated sediment disturbance 🌊🌊 @exetermarine.bsky.social @ruththurstan.bsky.social @profcallum.bsky.social

05.06.2025 09:08 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Why we should protect the high seas from all extraction, forever Exploitation of the high seas risks doing irreversible damage to biodiversity, climate stability and ocean equity. A consensus must be built now to save them.

Why we should protect the high seas from all extraction, forever. Great piece by Callum and team! @exetermarine.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41....

05.06.2025 06:52 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Day 1 of the #UN One Ocean Science Congress in beautiful Nice! ☀️ We’ll be presenting some of our findings from our work on the Convex Seascape Survey in the poster sessions over the next three days, so come find us at board 337! 🌊
@exetermarine.bsky.social @profcallum.bsky.social #oosc #unoc

03.06.2025 12:51 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Mapping the Ocean Floor with Ancient Tides - Eos A new study uses a paleotidal model to trace the formation of carbon-rich mud deposits over thousands of years.

Cool new study from Sophie Ward on the Convex Seascape Survey Project - the team used a paleotidal model to trace the formation of carbon-rich seabed sediment deposits over thousands of years.

eos.org/research-spo...

12.05.2025 14:08 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

My first paper is out! 🥳🐠🐟

30.04.2025 10:27 — 👍 21    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 0