Magnus Johnson

The Kristineberg Underwater Observatory is now live!! 🐟🧪🦑
Similar to the @coralcitycamera.bsky.social.

Watch the eel grass meadow full of life live from your desk! Gobies, crabs, pipefish, several species of wrasses including some massive Ballan wrasse. Enjoy!
www.youtube.com/live/goB60IJ...

Thank you.

Interesting! Do you have the source please?

I've given over 75 scientific conference talks. The only time I've ever heard an audible gasp from the audience was when I presented this stat:

In the United States, more large sharks (non-dogfish) are killed by recreational anglers than by commercial fisheries every year.

The Yorkshire mega-rat: a 22-inch rodent and the great global rat crisis of 2025 This latest specimen is even bigger than the Dorset mega-rat of 2018 – and just one sign of a problem that keeps growing ...

The Yorkshire mega-rat: a 22-inch rodent and the great global rat crisis of 2025

https://heritage.humanists.uk/percy-bysshe-shelley

The Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was born on this day 1792. In addition to his prowess as a lyric poet, Shelley had strong humanist convictions which informed his life, his work, and his moral choices. heritage.humanists.uk/percy-bysshe...

a man with long black hair is wearing a hooded jacket and gloves . ALT: a man with long black hair is wearing a hooded jacket and gloves .

Teaching timetable for next semester just dropped….

Same Goal, Different Path: A Scientific Look at Ocean with David Attenborough - Sustainable Fisheries UW A marine scientist reviews Oceans with David Attenborough, examining the science behind MPAs, bottom trawling, and ocean sustainability.

As @korimakoecology.bsky.social said recently, “yes… but” is the curse of those that work in ecology (& fisheries biology). I have “yes, but” to the movie and this article. Is not out of being arrogant, but is what critical thinking in science teaches you sustainablefisheries-uw.org/scientific-l...

‘He has trouble completing a thought’: bizarre public appearances again cast doubt on Trump’s mental acuity Joe Biden was hounded for his age-related gaffes, but Trump’s increasingly strange behavior has largely been ignored

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

How senior academics can EMPOWER early-to-mid-career researchers - Nature Human Behaviour Nature Human Behaviour - How senior academics can EMPOWER early-to-mid-career researchers

🎓 How to Support early-career researchers

This excellent @nathumbehav.nature.com article offers practical tips for senior academics to better support post-PhD researchers facing high stress, career uncertainty, and life transitions.

🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

#HigherEd #SciComm 🧪

Scottish newspaper welcome for the US president.

University sidelines scientist who exposed toxic metals in Lake Maurepas The SELU scientist who discovered alarming levels of toxic chemicals in Lake Maurepas was abruptly removed from her research position without explanation.

A university scientist who discovered alarming levels of toxic chemicals in a lake in southeastern Louisiana was abruptly removed from her research position this week without explanation

Devon campaigners call for ‘right to riverbank’ after finding Dart has 108 owners Research shows difficulties ahead for ministers if they are to keep manifesto pledge to extend riverside public access

Excellent to hear @lewis-winks.bsky.social on the Today programme this morning discussing his research on 'Who owns the River Dart' - and why this shows we need a right of responsible access

Listen here (45mins in): www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Guardian story: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

He got out ahead of the story.

Pyrethroid insecticides implicated in mass mortality of monarch butterflies at an overwintering site in California Abstract. Since the 1980s, monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus plexippus) populations across North America have declined by 80%–95%. Although several studi

🦋 Mass monarch die-off linked to pesticides

New research confirms that a 2024 monarch butterfly die-off in California was likely caused by pesticide exposure, as each butterfly tested carried an average of seven pesticides.

🔗 academic.oup.com/etc/advance-...

#Pesticides #SciComm 🧪

Another day, another reminder...

Sign the Petition Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training

Right now, tech billionaires are stealing the work of authors to create AI programs so they can become richer.

Storytelling is part of us, from when we first gathered by a campfire to books, films and TV today. This will go

If you object please sign this petition

#AI #Copywritetheft

China hits back at FBI director's 'groundless assertions' in Wellington K ash Patel said the new office would counter China's influence in the Pacific, a claim Winston Peters says never came up in talks.

Collins (and Peter’s) have totally being played. We have now a US domestic agency working at domestic level at NZ…
We had a similar setup in Latin America pre and during the military dictatorships. interference in domestic politics… already started
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Nothing ‘complicated’ about starving an ethnic minority in your own country.

Whether an act of revenge, oppression, or ethnic cleansing, it’s a deliberate, tactical move, & typically the preserve of desperate dictators throughout time #wato

WOW! There’s thousands of people marching in Edinburgh, Scotland, to protest Donald Trump.

More of this please! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen Trump confronted on Epstein by Scottish press, INSTANTLY humiliates himself

Pedo-Potus runs to Scotland (on the taxpayer's dime) to play golf, promote his business and escape the Epstein scandal.

But "the smell of shite is hard to shake especially when you are the shite".

#USdemocracy

youtu.be/trV_7Zn39BI?...

Police explained to me today that it doesn't matter what other words are on a placard if the words Palestine & Action appear it will be seen as support for a proscribed group & arrests under terrorism legislation will be made. A man in Leeds holding info from the magazine Private Eye was arrested

Ep 65. Beyond Blanket Bans: Smarter Ocean Protection Seafood Matters Podcast · Episode

I had another opportunity to talk about fishing v eNGO perspectives with Jim Cowie on his Seafood Matters podcast open.spotify.com/episode/2FQo...

Tomorrow's front page 📰

Convicted US felon to arrive in Scotland

Y email to Scarborough and Whitby MZ, Alison Hume (Lab)

The way that I was raised, being Jewish meant believing that every human life was sacred; to save a single human life meant saving all of humanity. That no law or ritual was more important than saving a single human life.

It's unfathomable that any Jew can accept what Israel is doing in Gaza.

Volunteers map 10,000 routes in Great Britain to help make walking accessible Campaign group Slow Ways launches app for disabled people, parents with children, older people and others Volunteers have mapped 10,000 walking routes across Great Britain in an attempt to make rural walking more accessible. The routes provide accessible and scenic walks for disabled people, parents with children, and older people, according to Slow Ways, the campaign group behind the project. Continue reading...

Volunteers map 10,000 routes in Great Britain to help make walking accessible

Was this U.K. police or the IDF?