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Jan Geert Hiddink
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Prof in marine ecology @sosbangor.bsky.social Ecosystem effects of fishing. I like sea kayaking in my #Klepper, wild camping, cycle touring, hanging out in my woodland. https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=XmYbaRYAAAAJ&hl=en&inst=20741569918851904
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Assessment of trawling impacts on 10 Vulnerable Marine Ecosystem indicator taxa (e.g. cold-water corals) across New Zealand waters show that 30 years of trawling reduced VME area by 20.8 %, with losses up to 40.7 % in some bioregions.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
In the thousands of locations sampled in this meta-analysis, the mean MP densities were high enough to expect fundamental biological processes, such as growth and reproduction, of marine fauna to be significantly negatively impacted.
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Global microplastic pollution at levels harmful to marine life - Environmental Science and Pollution Research
Poor waste management has resulted in marine plastic litter increasing worldwide, and microplastics (MP) are now detected in all marine habitats. To better understand the distribution and ecological i...
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November 26, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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We're currently visiting the Isle of Man and and hoping to speak with any active or retired herring fishers on the island 🐟Tomorrow we're diving into the @manxheritage.bsky.social archives! @georginahunt.bsky.social @emilyphilly.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Genocide is niet alleen het doden van mensen, zegt Beshara Doumani. „Israël is bezig systematisch alles te vernietigen dat Palestijns leven mogelijk maakt.”
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Hoogleraar Palestijnse Studies: ‘De genocide in Gaza gaat gewoon door’
Beshara Doumani | Palestijnse historicus: Genocide is niet alleen het doden van mensen, zegt Beshara Doumani. „Israël is bezig systematisch alles te vernietigen dat Palestijns leven mogelijk maakt.”
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November 24, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Balancing fisheries & seafloor health!

🪸 Our Working Group on Fisheries Benthic Impact & Trade-offs #WGFBIT met this week in Rome, hosted by ISPRA & chaired by @jangeerthiddink.bsky.social @marijasciberras.bsky.social & Tomasso Russo.

👀Find out more about the group
www.ices.dk/community/gr...
November 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Last day of @icesmarine.bsky.social #WGFBIT. We've been assessing Fisheries Benthic Impact and Trade-offs and made some great progress on assessing ecosystem functioning and completed a new analysis for Nova Scotia.

www.ices.dk/community/gr...
November 21, 2025 at 8:17 AM
• Typhoons can exacerbate plastics inputs from land to sea.
• Mangroves can trap these plastics and delay the release of plastics to the sea.
• Recovery of trapped plastics in mangroves can prevent eventual release to the sea.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 21, 2025 at 7:40 AM
At least 98 Palestinians have died in Israeli custody.
'Physicians for Human Rights – Israel (PHRI) tracked deaths from causes including physical violence, medical neglect and malnutrition'.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
At least 98 Palestinians have died in custody since October 2023, Israeli data shows
Exclusive: Real toll likely substantially higher as hundreds of detainees from Gaza are missing, says NGO Physicians for Human Rights - Israel
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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First year students from @bangoruniversity.bsky.social School of Ocean Sciences were gaining practical field work skills (and how to keep dry) at Aberffraw beach today.
October 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Experiment complete, or so the @sosbangor.bsky.social students have declared! We are heading back into Menai Bridge on this glorious day
October 22, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Heading out this morning on the Prince Madog with @sosbangor.bsky.social physical oceanography Masters students. On the hunt for SIPS in Conwy Bay!
October 22, 2025 at 7:42 AM
The @bangoruniversity.bsky.social research vessel #RVPrinceMadog steaming past Beaumaris with 2nd year @sosbangor.bsky.social students to undertake oceanographic observations.
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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📢Do you know an early-career scientist whose work should take centre stage?
Nominate them to be our early-career scientist keynote speaker at ICES ASC 2026.
Deadline for nominations: 2 November ⏰
ℹ️https://www.ices.dk/news-and-events/news-archive/news/Pages/ECSasc26Keynote.aspx

#SIIECS
October 29, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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📢 JOB VACANCY

Marine Ornithologist - Scottish Government

Application deadline: 7 Nov

shorturl.at/tXeHn

#ornithology
Marine Ornithologist
Do you want to use your scientific and research expertise to play an important role in decisions made on the sustainable delivery of marine renewables and the marine environment?
shorturl.at
October 29, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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#PhD Studentship - Marine Heat Waves & shellfish fisheries - informing future #marine policy. Join our team at the University of Essex, School of Life Sciences. All the details available here: www.essex.ac.uk/Postgraduate...

START JANUARY 2026 - APPLY BY 14 NOVEMBER 2025
October 29, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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New #PhD ad alert!
Interested in wild #bee #cognition and #brains in different #bumblebees? Want to live in #Newcastle and the beautiful north-east of England?

Check out this project with me, @lenariab.bsky.social and Sarah Scott. Contact me for further information.

iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
The cognitive ecology of wild bumblebees
iapetus.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Bear and wolf in Devon! Ok, circus bear probably...
October 28, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Found some purple jellydisc (I think), with a nice reflection, in the woods this weekend. Also managed to fix the access track after a fallen alder destroyed some of it.
October 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Assessment of trawling impacts on 10 Vulnerable Marine Ecosystem indicator taxa (e.g. cold-water corals) across New Zealand waters show that 30 years of trawling reduced VME area by 20.8 %, with losses up to 40.7 % in some bioregions.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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At least 135 Palestinian bodies mutilated by the Israeli army returned to Gaza.

Yet there is infinitely more outrage over racist Israeli football hooligans being barred from Birmingham's streets.

The world has been turned on its head.
At least 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians had been held at notorious Israeli jail, say Gaza officials
Documents indicate they came from Sde Teiman, which already faces allegations of torture and unlawful deaths
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The talk is about to start, please join if you're interested.
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"

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October 17, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Study after study, data proves again and again that bike infrastructure saves lives.
Another reminder that a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.

ALL ROAD USERS.

And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.

For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.

Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA
Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.
usa.streetsblog.org
October 16, 2025 at 4:59 AM
🌊 🎓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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October 16, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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...
October 16, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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🌍🐧 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
October 14, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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📢📢 The website of the Marine Top Predator group (School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University) is now live!

Discover our activities, know our study species, our papers, meet lab members and collaborate with us!
@alecbmmoore.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social @sosbangor.bsky.social
Marine Top Predator Ecology
www.bangor.ac.uk
March 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM