Is it too optimistic to see some hope in the fact that the EU is keeping climate and biodiversity research ties with China open, even while shutting down other bits of Horizon cooperation?
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Is it too optimistic to see some hope in the fact that the EU is keeping climate and biodiversity research ties with China open, even while shutting down other bits of Horizon cooperation?
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Hey you! Did you know that #fishing is one of the deadliest professions in the world? But labor laws are extremely shitty when it comes to stuff happening far away and under unclear jurisdiction. Something good just happened, though. 👇
#Fisheries #CapeTownAgreement
Nottingham move to cut academics' protected research time to 25%, as staff-student ratios rise, brings strong warning from the UCU branch - this "threatens Nottingham's status as a research-intensive institution".
26.02.2026 11:27 — 👍 25 🔁 17 💬 5 📌 3
Fish fraud! Do you know all nine types?
dialogue.earth/en/food/seaf...
Job losses at UK research-intensive universities double in two years.
Exclusive: Scale of redundancies branded a “disaster”.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
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The implications of overshooting 1.5 °C on Earth system tipping elements - a review
"Global warming must peak below 2°C, return to below 1.5°C as quickly as possible (i.e. within this century), and to around 1°C thereafter to limit tipping point risks".
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Latest on the consequences of the UK's decision to scrap two international physics projects.
The "UK would not anymore be considered a reliable partner in the field of fundamental physics—and that is a big change," an Italian physicist tells me.
Love this paper title:
A roadmap towards monitoring walruses from space
academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...
From @bas.ac.uk / @ptfretwell.bsky.social / and others
Killer whales eating other killer whales? Is there any animal with a more appropriate name?
"we present direct evidence of conspecific predation on resident killer whales"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Nature journal headline: Marine protection in the Azores: a triumph for conservation and sustainability
Science journal headline: Ineffective marine protected areas in Azores
Good to see the Nature vs Science rivalry is still going strong.
On a serious note - I'm hoping to visit the Azores later this year. Hoping to get to the bottom of how good the protection there really is. Who should I talk too?
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Belated post - new (last week) on @dialogueearth.bsky.social
dialogue.earth/en/climate/t...
We will be following up, so if you think any of the agencies being abandoned deserve more attention than they are currently getting, please drop me a line.
It's the 3rd of January 1939, your name is professor James Smith and you are staring at a drawing of a fish. It's not a regular fish. It is a completely impossible fish.
06.01.2026 22:27 — 👍 1158 🔁 525 💬 10 📌 110
Upside-down jellyfish "slept at night and napped at midday in both the laboratory and the natural habitat".
I need to be more cnidarian in 2026.
Does anyone know where the claim that plastic fishing gear / monofilament could potentially survive 600 years in the ocean originated?
Have been trying to find an original source and only come up with grey literature statement and unreferenced comments in papers.
In 2026, Türkiye will be host and president of COP31, while Australia takes on the role of “president of negotiations”. If executed well, next year’s co-presidency could provide the creative diplomacy and bridge-building climate negotiations need.
🔗: https://loom.ly/lHMqW6Y
The committee overseeing the 2022 WTO Fisheries Subsidies Agreement held its inaugural meeting today. Ana Laura Lizano, Costa Rica, is its first chair
It comprises all 166 WTO members but the disciplines and notifying obligations only apply to 116 ratifying members
www.wto.org/english/news...
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There were warnings about this 2.5 years ago. (See www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...)
This is 60+ staff at one MRC unit in Cambridge
Cambridge has 6 MRC units
Anyone know if you can eat seven-arm octopi? Asking for a friend.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Continued use of 'Moonshot' as denoting risky but high ambition shows a paucity of both imagination and technological progress.
Humanity should be at least on 'Marsshot' (Marshot?) by now. Ideally 'Saturnshot' or 'Plutoshot'.
Going to trademark "ProximaCentauriShot", just to be on the safe side.
PhD opportunity! "Benefits & impacts of use of light in UK #fisheries & their wider effect on the marine environment" (aka #scallopdiscos!) Supervision by me @thembauk.bsky.social Tom Davies @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social Tim Smyth @pml.ac.uk @fishtekmarine.bsky.social www.plymouth.ac.uk/study/resear...
02.12.2025 18:02 — 👍 22 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 1“The [Royal S]ociety has a strong track record in setting out the science around climate change and when the president of the United States says the science is a ‘con-job’, we will call him out. If UK politicians start to copy such ridiculous statements, we will also hold them to account.”
03.12.2025 09:27 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"There is still a job to be done in making sure that association works in the best interests of UK science—and that the UK community fully exploits all the potential funding routes available" - Adrian Smith's valedictory RS address
UK due a rebate after not winning enough Horizon funding in 2024
Decision at first #highseastreaty COP in NY
01.12.2025 20:14 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0But, on a personal level, I was somewhat surprised by how many ocean positives COP30 attendees were able to list about at the meeting, and about how hopeful many people are that this bodes well for the future.
01.12.2025 14:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Climate finance is still in very short supply for the ocean, even as discussion of the ocean shifts from it being a problem that needs solving to a solution that needs funding.
01.12.2025 14:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
But talk about offshore fossil fuel phase out is largely absent in NDCs, as it was in the final COP30 text.
“The number one thing we can do to protect the ocean is phase out fossil fuels.”
- Anna-Marie Laura, @oceanconservancy.org
There's more talk about the ocean in general at COP.
“If we look back to 2015, the word ‘ocean’ does not exist in the Paris agreement. 5 years ago, you would have said ‘ecosystem’ or ‘forest’ or ‘land’. But now, the ocean has entered the conversation.”
- Kerstin Bergentz, @scrippsocean.bsky.social
More recognition of the importance of the ocean in NDCs that set out nations' climate plans.
“There is an increasing awareness of the importance of the ocean to climate actions.”
- UNSW Eliza Northrop.
What happened for the ocean for COP30? My colleague @reginalam.bsky.social has been diving deep into NDCs, and I've been talking to people who were in Belem for @dialogueearth.bsky.social
Here are some takeaways...
dialogue.earth/en/ocean/con...