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⏰ You have until 15 August to apply for this 5-month consultancy mission assessing the feasibility of the future UNESCO BiOES project!

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Also, lots of running from dogs / cats / foxes / pole cats, but if I was <20cm tall the things I'd be petrified of would be raptors, corvids, gulls - none of them get a mention.

Followed by this. Not sure what I made of it. Interesting idea (everyone shrinks to 1/10 size, due (of course) to sentient coccolithophores). Shonky science, but I can forgive that in a novel. Feel like Terry Pratchett did the little people in big world thing better though…

Broke my book thread with the Tim Key diversion bsky.app/profile/tomj...

Didn’t enjoy Woakes stirring unwanted memories of shoulder surgery 20 years ago though…

Agreed. I really wanted a tie so England still sneaked the series though!

Bloody sport.

Ah bollocks.

The tie's still on…

Yorkshire tunny

Act 2

Old folks night out. Tremendous.

Conservation Scientist (Fixed-Term) | RSPB We are seeking a Conservation Scientist to join the RSPB’s UK Marine Science team in an exciting fixed-term role for 12 months. The role provides a great opportunity to work at the cutting edge of res...

Want to join our friendly and supportive #marine #science team @rspbscience.bsky.social? #conservationjobs for a scientist to provide scientific advice and contribute to applied #research affecting real world decisions about marine development and #seabird #conservation. shorturl.at/kdthM

Job Opportunity at Lancaster University: Senior Research Associate - Decolonising the Deep Seabed: Countermapping Territory, Heritage and Knowledge Lancaster Environment Centre (LEC) is pleased to announce a Senior Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) position as part of a Leverhulme Trust-funded project ‘Decolonising the Deep Seabed: Counterma...

3-year postdoc @lancasteruni.bsky.social w/ Dr's John Childs & Nicola Firth

Decolonising the Deep Seabed: Countermapping Territory, Heritage & Knowledge

Offering an alternative t0 mainstream approaches to understanding the political geography of the deep seabed

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'Whale poop loop' keeps ocean and humans alive and well Whales of all shapes and sizes play a significant role in the health of marine ecosystems. About 50% of the air humans breathe is produced by the ocean, thanks to phytoplankton and whale waste. The Wh...

This piece starts with a false assertion (i.e., the ocean produces 50% of the oxygen we breathe), and then goes on to make the misleading claim that whales sequesters a lot of carbon.

Can’t we just want whales because they’re fucking awesome?

Enjoyed Miles Jupp’s suggestion for the Uxbridge English Dictionary on I’m sorry I haven’t a clue this week: ‘vending - the sound made when two circles overlap’

Did a quick check yesterday and confirmed that I had plenty of holiday reading lined up. So have obviously just ordered three more books.

We are doing a Hackathon! 💻 Together with senior editor @nhcooper123.bsky.social , we'll be discussing and testing a protocol to check whether published data/code is actually reproducible... (1/2)

More seriously: do you know of a good general ref or clear explanation for why adding an arbitrary constant (1, 0.01, 2.001) to values before log-transforming may not be a good idea?

I'm just a slow reader…

How had I not seen this method for determining author order before? From @bobohara.bsky.social‬'s 'Do not log-transform count data' besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Great news!
The Call for Applications is now open: hurry up, there are only 20 seats! 👉 bit.ly/3U6oLMt
The Marbefes project Autumn School 2025 takes place in Seville from 8 to 10 October 2025.

I feel the same about digging holes, bodging together garden structures out of old bits of timber, etc. The challenge is finding someone - a reclusive billionaire eccentric? - prepared to match my current salary to do it…

Really happy to have had a detailed answer to my fishbase habitats Q from @q-quatics.bsky.social, including the reminder that documentation is available via the glossary on the main fishbase page.

Fantastic - thanks again for your detailed response. The glossary is exactly what I was looking for too - I don't know how I failed to notice that on the homepage!

This is really helpful, thanks so much for finding and responding to my query! This all makes sense based on usual definitions. Do you have similar descriptions for demersal? And is it safe to assume that 'bathy-' (before pelagic or demersal) indicates 'deeper than 200m'?

So let me get this right - we should not move or breathe, and we should offer them whatever they want to eat? Was this… was this written by a wasp??

Yep. And we've still got 'end of August' to sort September out properly. Can't see this being a problem.

I'm acutely aware that I'm already asking a lot of September…

Right, important fisheries question: I'm considering buying my first ever fishing rod with a view to catching a mackerel or two on holiday this year. Any recommendations for a minimal but complete kit that is reasonably compact for travel, reasonably idiot-proof for, well, idiots?