Jan Geert Hiddink

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/...

After solving some issues with the university Wiley subscription, now available #OpenAccess

Settler-only IDF units functioning as ‘vigilante militias’ in West Bank Exclusive: ‘Regional defence’ settler units are escalating violent displacement of Palestinians, Israeli reservists and activists say

“Israel has taken some of the most extreme settlers, in some cases people who are even convicted of assault against Palestinians, and made them the IDF.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Achieving Full Representativity of Seafloor Biodiversity With Minimal Expansion: Exploring a Strategy for New Zealand Marine Conservation Aim A key element of the Global Biodiversity Framework Target 3 is ‘representativity’, which refers to the inclusion of the full range of existing ecosystems, ecological processes and regions within.....

We use the New Zealand Seafloor Community Classification to explore how representativity of benthic communities could be enhanced in MPAs. We found that a small increase in spatial protection (1.5%) can result in large increases in the representativity.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Healthy and sustainable fisheries have lower carbon emissions and fuel use, because fish are more abundant and easier to catch with less effort. Rebuilding fisheries and ensuring that fleet sizes are appropriate for catch level, are keys for CO2 reduction
By Hilborn et al.
doi.org/10.1111/faf....

Also useful if you're into cycling up steep bumpy roads, because the front wheel is less likely to jump up.

🚨 Calling all marine science enthusiasts! 🚨

ICES's Annual Science Conference, cutting-edge research with a global community 15–18 September! 🌊✨

📅 Deadline to submit abstracts: 17 March.
🌟 Don’t miss out— it’s going to be inspiring, interactive, and yes, always fun!

www.ices.dk/events/asc/2...

📊 Explore updated data on greenhouse gas emissions and their climate impacts—

To limit and stop climate change, we need to greatly reduce global emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs).

This paper is a product of the @icesmarine.bsky.social working group on Fisheries Benthic Impact and Trade-offs (WGFBIT) ices.dk/community/gr...

Correlations between the state of the seabed and the intensity of bottom trawling. For (a) and (b) data points are the mean RBStot and RBSsen per ecoregion and MSFD Benthic Broad Habitat Type, (c) RBStotGES0.75 is the fraction of the area of each MSFD Benthic Broad Habitat Type for each ecoregion that is assumed to be in Good Environmental State (GES) and has a RBStot > 0.75 and hence can be considered in a good state. (d) RBSsenGES0.75 is the fraction of each Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) Benthic Broad Habitat Type for each ecoregion that has a RBSsen > 0.75 and hence can be considered in a good state. Orange = epifauna, blue infauna.

Mean trawling intensity was strongly correlated with both RBStot and RBSsen, enabling swept area ratio (SAR) to be used as a proxy for seabed ecosystem status and to estimate trawling reductions needed to achieve good environmental condition.