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Jan Geert Hiddink @jangeerthiddink.bsky.social · 2h

🌊 🎓Apply for a PhD to assess spatial and temporal approaches to managing scallop fisheries to achieve good environmental status with a viable commercial fishery. 🪸🐙
@sosbangor.bsky.social @em-oyster.bsky.social

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

PhD to assess spatial and temporal approaches to managing scallop fisheries to achieve good environmental status with a viable commercial fishery. at Bangor University on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - PhD to assess spatial and temporal approaches to managing scallop fisheries to achieve good environmental status with a viable commercial fishery. at Bangor University, listed on FindAPh...

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Jan Geert Hiddink @jangeerthiddink.bsky.social · 2h

Join the @sosbangor.bsky.social seminar on Friday 17 October at noon by Prof Lloyd Peck from @bas.ac.uk, for a talk about "Life in Antarctic seas: unique adaptions and vulnerability to change"

teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...

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Jan Geert Hiddink @jangeerthiddink.bsky.social · 1d

What mushroom is that??

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Jan Geert Hiddink @jangeerthiddink.bsky.social · 1d

who needs to put her full name in her bio, because otherwise nobody can find her 😆

Jan Geert Hiddink @jangeerthiddink.bsky.social · 1d

Supervised by
@marikimient.bsky.social

Jan Geert Hiddink @jangeerthiddink.bsky.social · 1d

🌍🐧 Fully-funded PhD Opportunity joined between La Rochelle University (France) & @sosbangor.bsky.social (UK): Understanding Antarctic Ecosystem Resilience through Penguin Energetics ❄️🎓

euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380114

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Jan Geert Hiddink @jangeerthiddink.bsky.social · 1d

🌍🐧 Fully-funded PhD Opportunity joined between La Rochelle University (France) & @sosbangor.bsky.social (UK): Understanding Antarctic Ecosystem Resilience through Penguin Energetics ❄️🎓

euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380114

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

Has Israel stopped starving & murdering Palestinians? Have all the Palestinian hostages been released? Are the settlements being dismantled? Is the occupation over? Do Palestinians have the right to return to their homes? Do we have accountability &justice for Israels war crimes?

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marikimient.bsky.social @marikimient.bsky.social · 1d

🌍🐧 PhD: Study how Adélie penguins reveal Antarctic ecosystem resilience. (based in FR+UK)

Use AI + bio-logging (GPS, video, sensors) to link climate change, fisheries & conservation.

👉 Apply: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380114

#PhD #Antarctica #Ecology #AI #ClimateChange
@sosbangor.bsky.social

COFUND PhD position - Marine Ecology / Conservation

La Rochelle Université is recruiting a PhD candidate on a 3-year fixed-term contract. Title of the thesis project: Disentangling the influence of natural and man-made threats on prey-predator interact...

euraxess.ec.europa.eu

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Jan Geert Hiddink @jangeerthiddink.bsky.social · 2d

It was nice to see the progress of the participants during the @icesmarine.bsky.social training course on assessment of the seabed impacts of bottom trawling. Some participants even completed a first draft assessment for their own region using new data!

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ICES - International Council for the Exploration of the Sea @icesmarine.bsky.social · 3d

📢Putting the spotlight on early-career scientists!
Do you know an ECS whose work should take centre stage?
Nominate them to be our early-career scientist keynote speaker at ICES ASC 2026.

ℹ️https://www.ices.dk/news-and-events/news-archive/news/Pages/ECSasc26Keynote.aspx

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20's Plenty for Us @20splenty.bsky.social · 11d

It would be great if we could take a whole country and change the default speed limit to 20mph and then compare it to one left at 30mph. What if it reduced casualties by 25% and with lower risk reduced insurance premiums by £45 a year? Well it did! bit.ly/4gIBPlJ

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Jan Geert Hiddink @jangeerthiddink.bsky.social · 12d

Started my travels to teach an @icesmarine.bsky.social training course on the bottom trawling risk assessment method that we have been applying in WGFBIT. Currently cruising through Belgium on the Eurostar, continuing tomorrow to Copenhagen after a night at my parents.

www.ices.dk/events/Train...

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Jan Geert Hiddink @jangeerthiddink.bsky.social · 14d

In @projectfishistory.bsky.social we're after any historical records of herring fishing and spawning, so hearing about these kind of traps is very useful.

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Jan Geert Hiddink @jangeerthiddink.bsky.social · 14d

@projectfishistory.bsky.social

Paul Montgomery @stonefishweirs.bsky.social · 14d

Images of wood #fishweir wicker fence 2 meter tall on the shore #RhosonSea #ConwyCounty Borough, #Wales. Historical sources indicted used for seasonal fisheries for herring and mackerel late 19th century.
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#maritimeheritage #oceandecadeheritage
#coastalhistory

“Big Mackerel Catch at Rhos” Postcard https://www.rhosfynach.co.uk/history.htm

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Paul Montgomery @stonefishweirs.bsky.social · 14d

Images of wood #fishweir wicker fence 2 meter tall on the shore #RhosonSea #ConwyCounty Borough, #Wales. Historical sources indicted used for seasonal fisheries for herring and mackerel late 19th century.
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#maritimeheritage #oceandecadeheritage
#coastalhistory

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 14d

The “E-Bike Effect:” Those who bought e-bikes increased their average daily bicycle use from 2.1km (1.3 miles) to 9.2km (5.7 miles), a 340% increase. The e-bike share of all their transportation increased dramatically too; from 17% to 49%.

E-bikes support fewer car trips.

V @lloydalter.bsky.social

E-Bikers Ride Much Farther and More Frequently Than Regular Bikers

They are not 'cheating,' but are serious transportation.

www.treehugger.com

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Jan Geert Hiddink @jangeerthiddink.bsky.social · 15d

Cool PhD on Arctic benthos with @nadescha.bsky.social

Nadescha Zwerschke @nadescha.bsky.social · 15d

Super excited to be advertising a #PhD position on how #marine #biodiversity affects #ecosystem functioning in the #Arctic at Aarhus uni . Pls apply and repost. I am looking forward to working with you.🧪🦑🦀🌍
phd.nat.au.dk/for-applican...

Linking marine biodiversity to ecosystem function across scales in the Arctic

phd.nat.au.dk

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Nadescha Zwerschke @nadescha.bsky.social · 15d

Super excited to be advertising a #PhD position on how #marine #biodiversity affects #ecosystem functioning in the #Arctic at Aarhus uni . Pls apply and repost. I am looking forward to working with you.🧪🦑🦀🌍
phd.nat.au.dk/for-applican...

Linking marine biodiversity to ecosystem function across scales in the Arctic

phd.nat.au.dk

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Jan Geert Hiddink @jangeerthiddink.bsky.social · 15d

Is it not just a smoothhound with a unusual skin pattern? www.sharktrust.org/faqs/common-... @alecbmmoore.bsky.social

Common Smoothhound ID Guide

► Common Smoothhound ID Guide (pdf)

www.sharktrust.org

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 15d

Israeli quadcopters shooting children.

And our government continues to materially supporting Israel every day.

Even as Israel rejects a two state solution, votes to fully annex the West Bank, and murders more doctors, nurses, journalists, children.

And our government continues to assist it.

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Ocean Sciences @ Bangor University @sosbangor.bsky.social · 17d

As Welcome Week, in great weather (the sun always shines in north Wales!), is drawing to a close we thank the SOS peer guides for their efforts. They are the friendly faces behind Welcome Week and put a lot of work in to make the freshers (aka The Peerlings) feel at home.

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Oxford Academic @oxfordacademic.bsky.social · 20d

@icesmarine.bsky.social's journal, ICES Journal of Marine Science, is turning 100!

After an inspiring week at #ICESASC25, and to celebrate this milestone, submit your paper to an upcoming themed set highlighting the evolution and future of marine science.

academic.oup.com/icesjms/page...

100 Years of ICES Journal of Marine Science. OUP.

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Deep-Sea Biology Society @dsbsoc.bsky.social · 23d

Hey, members! Are you currently a #DeepSea student or ECR researcher without permanent employment?

We can help provide up to £750 for your participation in an in-person or remote conference. Deadline Oct. 4th, apply here: dsbsoc.org/conferences-....

Questions? Contact [email protected]. Good luck!

Image of a stuffed isopod facing a semi-frozen ocean. Text: Got places to be? We can help you get there. Application deadline for the 2025 DSBSoc Conference Support Awards is October 4th. Photograph credit: Johanna Weston, PhD.

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Ocean Sciences @ Bangor University @sosbangor.bsky.social · 23d

A great day for the annual SOS beach trip with the new undergraduate students @bangoruniversity.bsky.social. Sandcastles were built, beach pictionary played, and much fun had by students new and old, and staff.

A picture of sandy beach flanked by rocky outcrops on both sides. The sun is shining, the sky is blue with a few clouds, and the sea is calm.

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Ocean Sciences @ Bangor University @sosbangor.bsky.social · 24d

Chloe Macleavy and Jasmine Scott-Dickins are both studying Marine Biology at SOS and are currently doing their placement year as research officers with Trashfree Trails (TFT). At the moment they are planning a litter research fieldwork day which will take place in Newborough Nature reserve.

Trashfree trails staff standing at the edge of a wooded area with a sign explaing what TFT is about: reconnect people with nature through the simple yet meaningful act of removing single use pollution from wild places.

Happy TFT staff member Jasmine in their gazebo promoting the work of the foundation.

A TFT staff member holding used energy gel packs above a sign saying "Don't be a gel end!"

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Ocean Sciences @ Bangor University @sosbangor.bsky.social · 24d

SOS 3rd year marine biology students enjoyed their fieldwork at the Virginia Institute for Marine Science earlier this month. The weather was almost as good as in North Wales at the time...

People wearing life jackets are sitting in an open boat looking at samples taken from the sea. The sea is calm and teh sky is blue behind them.

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Jan Geert Hiddink @jangeerthiddink.bsky.social · 24d

Another critique showing that the Sala et al. 2021 estimate of carbon release by bottom trawling is ridiculous.

It estimates an increase in NW European shelf OC mineralization of 0.27 Mt C yr−1, which is an order of magnitude smaller the previous estimates.

academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...

Reconciling the impact of mobile bottom-contact fishing on marine organic carbon sequestration

Abstract. Anthropogenic activities that disturb the seafloor inadvertently affect the organic carbon cycle. Mobile bottom-contacting fishing (MBCF) is a wi

academic.oup.com

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Jan Geert Hiddink @jangeerthiddink.bsky.social · 25d

Starting the last day of my travel back from the #ICESASC25 in Lithuania (train ferry combo). The travel was fairly cheap with interrail with the ferry was only £126 return. But it does take 3 days 🙂 @sosbangor.bsky.social @icesmarine.bsky.social

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Ocean Sciences @ Bangor University @sosbangor.bsky.social · 26d

Ruth Clarke, a third year Marine Biology and Oceanography student at SOS, is currently doing a placement year with @seatrustwales.bsky.social in Pembrokeshire to gain wider skills in conservation related topics.

A woman in water proofs is looking out over the ocean using a camera with a very large telescope lens.

Two people are standing behind a table with exhibition material from Sea Trust Wales.

Ruth is standing at the top of cliff looking out over the ocean and helping release tagged sea birds.

A crab is looking angrily into the camera.

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Georgina Hunt @georginahunt.bsky.social · 27d

It was great to present about our @projectfishistory.bsky.social research at #ICESASC25 and an honour to be on the shortlist for the best presentation! What a great week! @sosbangor.bsky.social @icesmarine.bsky.social

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