Caitlin Taylor-Robinson

Experimental winter warming increases activity with signs of potential DNA damage in common wall lizards Highlighted Article: Winter warming makes hibernating wall lizards more active, with signs of DNA damage after emergence, but no change in body condition, revealing subtle costs of milder winters.

Folks, the first paper of my PhD is now officially out! 🦎🔥 (👇🏼comments)

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A group photo of the participants in the 2025 UK Seagrass symposium.

School of Ocean Sciences @bangoruniversity.bsky.social was very well represented at the UK seagrass symposium this year! These wonderful people have done - and are doing - everything from internships to PhDs and everything in between on these crucial habitats. Keep up the good work, everyone!

The Marine Biological Association is now accepting applications for the Molly Spooner Studentship, a paid summer research opportunity for undergraduate students interested in hands-on marine biology.

New from me and wonderful collabs!

Super excited to be advertising a #PhD position on how #marine #biodiversity affects #ecosystem functioning in the #Arctic at Aarhus uni . Pls apply and repost. I am looking forward to working with you.🧪🦑🦀🌍
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We are hiring - PDRA position exploring how information access shapes social dynamics in killer whales. Collaboration with @samellisq.bsky.social @drwhale.bsky.social Prof Dan Franks (York) start 1st Nov (or ASAP) end 31st Oct 2028. Apps close on 19th Oct.

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Come join us as a #Postdoc on BLUESHORES 🇪🇺 project at the NIOZ to test novel #NaturebasedSolutions to coastal defence 🌊 on saltmarshes 🌱.
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PhD opportunity @sosbangor.bsky.social on managing scallop fisheries to find the balance between conservation and fisheries yield. Get in touch if you're interested and I will email you the project description.

Another day, another meadow 😍🌊🌱

Want to do a PhD on White Sharks using high-powered imaging to analyse form and function of their teeth and jaws?

You will work with me and the dream team @charlie-huveneers.bsky.social @meyer-sci.bsky.social @weisbeckerbblab.bsky.social & #SARDI at Flinders Uni

🦈🦷🦴 Interested? Get in touch!

Out today! ‘Quantifying coral reef–ocean interactions is critical for predicting reef futures under climate change’ in @natecoevo.nature.com
#EcologicalOceanography #InterdisciplinaryResearch #CoralReefs #OceanicSubsidies

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@sosbangor.bsky.social

❗️Job Alert: Deep-Sea Benthic Biologist (Assistant Professor) at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA 🌊 Apply by Dec 1, 2025: apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04175

📷 Auckland Museum Collections (CC) #MarineBiology

Officially started my main data collection, and what a place to start it off 😍🌊🌱 @sosbangor.bsky.social

Yesterday’s drone surveys with the amazing technicians at @sosbangor.bsky.social were a success! A different point of view of the Traeth Melynog meadow 🌊🌱

Great field day yesterday helping Natural Resources Wales map Zostera noltei beds at Traeth Melynog on their yearly survey 🌊🌱

Thread of Starter Packs to network for PhD and postdoc positions in Biology (or adjacent fields)! 🧵

First up: Starter Pack for students looking for PhD positions! go.bsky.app/EFj87fi

A close up of hands using pinning forceps to transfer an Emperor moth specimen to the main drawer which can be seen in the background.

Very excited to say that we are seeking an Assistant Curator to join our entomology team! 😁🪲

For full details on this 2 year fixed-term post, head to our website:
➡️ careers.nms.ac.uk/job/727783

#Entomology #InsectCollection #EntoJobs #MuseumJobs

Linocut portrait of Isabella Aiona Abbott in indigo on cream coloured paper. She’s facing forward at a table in a shirt and sweater vest with a sheet with algae samples on the table. In my print, she is surrounded by algae of the Pacific, all of which appeared in Abbott's research publications, including several species she discovered, or based on images of specimen she personally collected or whose traditional use as food she documented. The algae are in pinks, khaki green and rust.

Happy birthday to #botanist Isabella Aiona Abbott (1919-2010), 🧪🐡👩🏻‍🔬 #histsci renown algae expert, celebrated seaweed cook, devoted teacher & mentor, expert on Hawaiian ethnobotany, 1st Indigenous Hawaiian woman to earn a PhD in science & 1st woman or person of colour to become a full professor on 🧵

Made in Manchester and Leigh: Kathleen Drew-Baker (1901-57), a star botanist at the University of Manchester, made breakthroughs in cultivation of seaweed that saved Japan’s multi-billion pound sushi industry, for which she is commemorated there as ‘Mother of the Sea’. 1/6

Beautiful day, beautiful meadow 🌊🌱

Cannot wait to use this knowledge in my rockpooling, I’ve definitely found a new appreciation for Red algae

Day 4 ending on #phycologyfriday with more sample ID, and lectures on green algae cladophorales, coralline algae and maerl!

Day 3 included great talks on brown algae and red algae by Dr Juliet Brodie, and a trip to the marina to collect a variety of other samples! And ending with a lovely group BBQ!

Day 2 involved sorting through our field samples, a trip out into the sound to look at Kelp forests with an ROV, and lectures on non-natives! (And a little nosey at some mangroves!)

Day 1 was an introduction to seaweeds, pressing seaweeds and a trip to Renney rocks to collect some samples!

Homebound after an amazing few days in Plymouth on the Seaweed ID course ran by @bps-algae.bsky.social and @plymouthuniccc.bsky.social. Ending #phycologyfriday on a very high note!

This is a new image from #JWST.

The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.

Everything else is a galaxy.

Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.

Functional traits are moderate predictors of above‐ and below‐ground biomass in multispecies seagrass habitats Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

🚨 NEW paper alert!
#Seagrass #functional #traits act as predictors of #biomass, albeit moderately. Study conducted across 1500 km coastline.
Main #biodiversity mechanism driving seagrass #biomass stock is through dominance.

@tvarminne.bsky.social @uwaoceans.bsky.social

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Signs of a good weekend include lizards, anemone, nudibranchs and sunshine 🦎🌊