Jan Geert Hiddink

Discussing this paper: www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Very excited to have been given this award for my PhD work on setting thresholds for good status in marine ecosystem management. Thank you to The Drapers, and a special thank you to Jan, my lead supervisor, who's guidance, encouragement, and support has been invaluable throughout this process.

International women's day on the RRS Discovery with our great team of scientist and crew. #DY206 #SeaSTORE

[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.] From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes: NEWSREADER: Extraordinary images here of an expat in Dubai [The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly] …Having their first ever geopolitical thought. [CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. CLIVE MYRIE: To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent DAVID JONES: Clive, this is momentous It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’. [Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same] You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self. It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts. CLIVE MYRIE: Which are…? DAVID JONES: You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa. CLIVE MYRIE: And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days? DAVID JONES: I think we can expect to see: “I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To” CLIVE MYRIE: Mmm. [Ends]

SPI image of a Virgularia seapen & Megacorer sample

Sampling on the more sandy sediment SW of the Isle of Man is off to a good start. We managed to get good cores despite the coarser sediment. And we spotted lots of seapens.

Success! Those two turbidity spike are the plumes behind the two trawl doors.

At least you get enough formatting options. Triple bold!

Our second trawling experiment is in progress in the Western Irish Sea Mud Belt. We're quantifying the size of the plume and sampling the suspended sediment. Preliminary results from the experiment in the Clyde are looking promising! #DY206 #SeaSTORE

Congrats to @lornamckellar.bsky.social on the award of the Drapers' company medal for an outstanding research student! It has been a pleasure working with Lorna and she's made a lot of progress in defining 'good environmental state'.

www.bangor.ac.uk/news/2026-03...

Most Reform members believe non-white UK citizens born abroad should be forced or encouraged to leave, poll finds Nigel Farage’s recent efforts to woo centre-ground voters may cause tension in party’s right flank, says Hope Not Hate

Research and polling reveals (unsupisingly) that a majority of Reform members are openly racist.
Yet the media gives Reform a free pass instead of condemning them as they should.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

We picked our lander up again today, seems the weight sank quite some way into the mud. #DY206 #SeaSTORE

We had to stop work on the RRS Discovery for a few hours in the night when the wind got to 40 knots. Calm again now. #DY206 #SeaSTORE

Check out this film in @pontiobangor.bsky.social. The film takes audiences into the depths of the Pacific Ocean, following scientists exploring one of the least understood ecosystems on Earth.

Friday 20 March at 5pm
www.wowfilmfestival.com/howdeepisyou...

We have been doing a 24hr intensive timeseries of profiles of turbulence using the VMP, with a CTD every 6h, to be able to quantify any movement of CO2 from the seabed to the surface. It's been a long day for the people on deck...
#SeaSTORE #DY206

Seabed Carbon Risks: What Our Evidence Shows A new technical briefing reviews the latest evidence on how trawling, other human activities and climate change affect seabed carbon.

A new review brings together over 30 UK & international scientists to assess the latest evidence on how human activities, including bottom trawling and climate pressures affect seabed organic carbon stores.

Read the blog to see what the evidence shows👇🌊

marinescience.blog.gov.uk/2026/02/25/s...

Excited to share some work on spatial variability in localized upwelling regimes on coral reefs at #OSM26 today!

@sosbangor.bsky.social @eco-oce-lab.bsky.social

We've been coring through the night on the gloopy mud to quantify carbon, nutrients and macrofauna over a gradient of trawling intensity #SeaSTORE #DY206

Even if it doesn't harm wildlife, producing the sodium hydroxide is most likely generating way more than 10 tons of CO2.

Today we quantified the magnitude of the sediment plume behind a trawler in the Clyde #SeaSTORE, in collaboration with a fishing vessel. The difference in size with the RRS Discovery was quite striking.

The first samples are on board! #SeaSTORE #DY206. Now continuing with the multi-corer to do detailed measurements and incubations to study carbon biogeochemistry.

We're working in 4 areas in the Irish Sea with different sediments and stratification.

Last day @sosbangor.bsky.social before our 23 day cruise on the RRS Discovery for the SeaSTORE project. We'll be studying the impact of bottom trawling on seabed carbon stocks. We'll study the chronic and immediate impacts.

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Are you joining us for #ICESASC26 in Brest this September?
The call for abstracts is open, but only until Wednesday 25 February! Which theme sessions are you interested in?
Make sure you get your abstract in!
👀 www.ices.dk/events/asc/2...

Short-term effects of Danish seining on seabed fauna in a shallow coastal ecosystem Danish seining is a fishing method in which long ropes are hauled over the seabed from an anchored vessel. In Denmark, it has been used widely for cat…

Danish seining has lower impact on seabed ecosystems
than conventional bottom trawls.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Artificial light reduces elasmobranch bycatch in gillnets across multiple wavelengths and taxonomic groups | "net illumination can reduce catch rates of a diverse array of elasmobranchs while revealing taxonomic-specific responses between bony and cartilaginous fishes" doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

Bycatch in Irish tangle netting for crayfish: "Casualties recorded over a four-year period included 1,161 grey seals, 81 angel sharks, 532 tope, 1,712 flapper skate".

@alecbmmoore.bsky.social

www.irishtimes.com/environment/...