Sam Andrews
@oceanoculus.com
Science & stories from the sea (& occasionally the other 30% of the planet)
🌊 Marine science, tech, policy, sustainability writer
🤿 Founder Ocean Oculus, the ocean-focused communications microagency
📈 Researcher
☕ Tea drinker
🧀 Cheese eater
🐧 Bird admirer
🌊 Marine science, tech, policy, sustainability writer
🤿 Founder Ocean Oculus, the ocean-focused communications microagency
📈 Researcher
☕ Tea drinker
🧀 Cheese eater
🐧 Bird admirer
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Very pleased to see that @greens.org.au have won an inquiry into job cuts at CSIRO
Would be great to see attention brought to bear on restructuring (cuts?) at the Australian Research Council too
Why these attacks on science in the public interest in Australia❓ Who does this serve❓
Would be great to see attention brought to bear on restructuring (cuts?) at the Australian Research Council too
Why these attacks on science in the public interest in Australia❓ Who does this serve❓
November 26, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Very pleased to see that @greens.org.au have won an inquiry into job cuts at CSIRO
Would be great to see attention brought to bear on restructuring (cuts?) at the Australian Research Council too
Why these attacks on science in the public interest in Australia❓ Who does this serve❓
Would be great to see attention brought to bear on restructuring (cuts?) at the Australian Research Council too
Why these attacks on science in the public interest in Australia❓ Who does this serve❓
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Reminder: The application deadline for 'Ice Narratives: Antarctic Science for Policy Makers' is coming up soon!
Submit your application by 30 November to be considered for the scheme: scar.org/scar-news/ic...
Submit your application by 30 November to be considered for the scheme: scar.org/scar-news/ic...
Want to make Antarctic science heard?
Applications are now open for Ice Narratives, a fellowship translating Antarctic research into policy-relevant multimedia.
Three early career researchers will receive USD 750.
📝 Apply by 30 November 2025:
scar.org/scar-news/ic...
@polarsecco.bsky.social
Applications are now open for Ice Narratives, a fellowship translating Antarctic research into policy-relevant multimedia.
Three early career researchers will receive USD 750.
📝 Apply by 30 November 2025:
scar.org/scar-news/ic...
@polarsecco.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Reminder: The application deadline for 'Ice Narratives: Antarctic Science for Policy Makers' is coming up soon!
Submit your application by 30 November to be considered for the scheme: scar.org/scar-news/ic...
Submit your application by 30 November to be considered for the scheme: scar.org/scar-news/ic...
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Iceland has designated the potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) a national security concern and an existential threat.
Yet still fossil fuel usage continues to grow, and they barely agreed to *name* the problem at #COP30.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Yet still fossil fuel usage continues to grow, and they barely agreed to *name* the problem at #COP30.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Iceland deems possible Atlantic current collapse a security risk
Iceland has designated the potential collapse of a major Atlantic Ocean current system a national security concern and an existential threat, enabling its government to strategize for worst-case scenarios, the country's climate minister told Reuters.
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Iceland has designated the potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) a national security concern and an existential threat.
Yet still fossil fuel usage continues to grow, and they barely agreed to *name* the problem at #COP30.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Yet still fossil fuel usage continues to grow, and they barely agreed to *name* the problem at #COP30.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Did somebody say… cake?
Why the USA did, because today is National Cake Day!
Now, you may be looking at the photo and wondering…what is that and what does it have to do with cake.
This, my friends, is a chocolate chip sea cucumber.
📷 Credit: Laszly Iyles/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)
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Why the USA did, because today is National Cake Day!
Now, you may be looking at the photo and wondering…what is that and what does it have to do with cake.
This, my friends, is a chocolate chip sea cucumber.
📷 Credit: Laszly Iyles/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)
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November 26, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Did somebody say… cake?
Why the USA did, because today is National Cake Day!
Now, you may be looking at the photo and wondering…what is that and what does it have to do with cake.
This, my friends, is a chocolate chip sea cucumber.
📷 Credit: Laszly Iyles/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)
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Why the USA did, because today is National Cake Day!
Now, you may be looking at the photo and wondering…what is that and what does it have to do with cake.
This, my friends, is a chocolate chip sea cucumber.
📷 Credit: Laszly Iyles/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)
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@schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 870 is live. Today's dive is shallow focusing on pushcores. #asgardarchaea #MarineLife
www.youtube.com/live/SDxucKs...
www.youtube.com/live/SDxucKs...
Station 11 | SOI Divestream 870
YouTube video by Schmidt Ocean
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
@schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 870 is live. Today's dive is shallow focusing on pushcores. #asgardarchaea #MarineLife
www.youtube.com/live/SDxucKs...
www.youtube.com/live/SDxucKs...
November 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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*NEW* We’ve just released 337 harmonised layers from 35 sources capturing human pressures, heritage features, ecological assets and net-ocean conditions for UK waters.
Read the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Explore our interactive portal: storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/...
Read the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Explore our interactive portal: storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/...
November 21, 2025 at 10:22 AM
*NEW* We’ve just released 337 harmonised layers from 35 sources capturing human pressures, heritage features, ecological assets and net-ocean conditions for UK waters.
Read the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Explore our interactive portal: storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/...
Read the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Explore our interactive portal: storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/...
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New paper alert! We just published a massive meta-analysis in @EcologyLetters asking: How does crowding affect survival in reef fish populations?
The answer? It's way more complicated than we thought.
🧵 Thread on what 147 studies taught us (1/8) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The answer? It's way more complicated than we thought.
🧵 Thread on what 147 studies taught us (1/8) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 18, 2025 at 8:38 PM
New paper alert! We just published a massive meta-analysis in @EcologyLetters asking: How does crowding affect survival in reef fish populations?
The answer? It's way more complicated than we thought.
🧵 Thread on what 147 studies taught us (1/8) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The answer? It's way more complicated than we thought.
🧵 Thread on what 147 studies taught us (1/8) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Good news: Study shows France’s birds making tentative recovery after neonicotinoid pesticide ban
UK has only just closed loophole in neonics ban (‘derogations’) so may be too soon to see recovery here?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK has only just closed loophole in neonics ban (‘derogations’) so may be too soon to see recovery here?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
With neonicotinoid pesticide ban, France’s birds make a tentative recovery - study
Analysis shows small hike in populations of insect-eating species after 2018 ruling, but full recovery may take decades
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Good news: Study shows France’s birds making tentative recovery after neonicotinoid pesticide ban
UK has only just closed loophole in neonics ban (‘derogations’) so may be too soon to see recovery here?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK has only just closed loophole in neonics ban (‘derogations’) so may be too soon to see recovery here?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Huge congratulations to NASA, @esa.int, @eumetsat.int, and @noaa.gov for the successful launch of Sentinel-6B this morning!
November 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Huge congratulations to NASA, @esa.int, @eumetsat.int, and @noaa.gov for the successful launch of Sentinel-6B this morning!
This #NationalEngineeringDay, I’ve been thinking a lot about how marine engineers are helping to protect our ocean.
Let me give you an example...
📷 Credit: @baesystems.com (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) / @raeng.org.uk’s This is Engineering library
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Let me give you an example...
📷 Credit: @baesystems.com (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) / @raeng.org.uk’s This is Engineering library
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November 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This #NationalEngineeringDay, I’ve been thinking a lot about how marine engineers are helping to protect our ocean.
Let me give you an example...
📷 Credit: @baesystems.com (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) / @raeng.org.uk’s This is Engineering library
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Let me give you an example...
📷 Credit: @baesystems.com (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) / @raeng.org.uk’s This is Engineering library
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Spotted this beautiful trumpet vine peeping over someone's garden wall in Hérault, France.
Apparently some people find the leaves irritates their skin (didn't touch to find out)
#BloomScrolling #Nature
Apparently some people find the leaves irritates their skin (didn't touch to find out)
#BloomScrolling #Nature
November 5, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Spotted this beautiful trumpet vine peeping over someone's garden wall in Hérault, France.
Apparently some people find the leaves irritates their skin (didn't touch to find out)
#BloomScrolling #Nature
Apparently some people find the leaves irritates their skin (didn't touch to find out)
#BloomScrolling #Nature
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🌊 Oceanographers and people who care about our animal and microbial friends trying to take a deep breath in the ocean: Read @koelling.bsky.social's great thread/paper about how oxygen enters the surface of the subpolar North Atlantic. And, stay tuned... (1/3)
Our new 🌊 paper “Progressive oxygenation of the North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre” is out @jgroceans.bsky.social (open access): agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
We examined the breathing of one of the ocean’s lungs 🩺 and found some surprises
Paper summary in schematic, more info ⬇️
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We examined the breathing of one of the ocean’s lungs 🩺 and found some surprises
Paper summary in schematic, more info ⬇️
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November 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
🌊 Oceanographers and people who care about our animal and microbial friends trying to take a deep breath in the ocean: Read @koelling.bsky.social's great thread/paper about how oxygen enters the surface of the subpolar North Atlantic. And, stay tuned... (1/3)
This manatee awareness month, why not embrace your inner manatee
⛵ Travel!
Manatees migrate to escape cooling waters in winter.
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⛵ Travel!
Manatees migrate to escape cooling waters in winter.
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November 4, 2025 at 1:32 PM
This manatee awareness month, why not embrace your inner manatee
⛵ Travel!
Manatees migrate to escape cooling waters in winter.
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⛵ Travel!
Manatees migrate to escape cooling waters in winter.
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Wishing our blood-belly comb jellyfish a very happy World Jellyfish Day!
You can probably guess where this comb jelly species got its name from, but did you know that down in the depths of the ocean where it lives, it doesn’t look red at all? 🤔
📷 Ryan Schwark (CC0 1.0 Universal)
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You can probably guess where this comb jelly species got its name from, but did you know that down in the depths of the ocean where it lives, it doesn’t look red at all? 🤔
📷 Ryan Schwark (CC0 1.0 Universal)
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November 3, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Wishing our blood-belly comb jellyfish a very happy World Jellyfish Day!
You can probably guess where this comb jelly species got its name from, but did you know that down in the depths of the ocean where it lives, it doesn’t look red at all? 🤔
📷 Ryan Schwark (CC0 1.0 Universal)
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You can probably guess where this comb jelly species got its name from, but did you know that down in the depths of the ocean where it lives, it doesn’t look red at all? 🤔
📷 Ryan Schwark (CC0 1.0 Universal)
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November 2, 2025 at 2:13 PM
If anyone was ready for Halloween, it has to be this Halloween crab!
These absolute beauties live in coastal forests in Central America and Mexico, heading back to the ocean to make babies
📷 Halloween crab at Carillo beach in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Credit Thomas Splettstoesser (CC BY-SA 3.0)
These absolute beauties live in coastal forests in Central America and Mexico, heading back to the ocean to make babies
📷 Halloween crab at Carillo beach in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Credit Thomas Splettstoesser (CC BY-SA 3.0)
October 31, 2025 at 6:42 PM
If anyone was ready for Halloween, it has to be this Halloween crab!
These absolute beauties live in coastal forests in Central America and Mexico, heading back to the ocean to make babies
📷 Halloween crab at Carillo beach in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Credit Thomas Splettstoesser (CC BY-SA 3.0)
These absolute beauties live in coastal forests in Central America and Mexico, heading back to the ocean to make babies
📷 Halloween crab at Carillo beach in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Credit Thomas Splettstoesser (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Let’s get statistically sea-nificant 🧮
🐢 1437
The number of sea turtle hatchlings that made it to the waters of New South Wales, Australia, in the 2024-2025 season.
📷 Credit: Elise Peterson (CC BY 3.0)
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The number of sea turtle hatchlings that made it to the waters of New South Wales, Australia, in the 2024-2025 season.
📷 Credit: Elise Peterson (CC BY 3.0)
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October 30, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Let’s get statistically sea-nificant 🧮
🐢 1437
The number of sea turtle hatchlings that made it to the waters of New South Wales, Australia, in the 2024-2025 season.
📷 Credit: Elise Peterson (CC BY 3.0)
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🐢 1437
The number of sea turtle hatchlings that made it to the waters of New South Wales, Australia, in the 2024-2025 season.
📷 Credit: Elise Peterson (CC BY 3.0)
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Ok, so we need to talk about ghost sharks.
Why?
Because today is Ghost Shark Day. Also, I just learned something that’s kinda cool about one species of ghost shark - the spotted ratfish.
📷 Male spotted ratfish (Hydrolagus colliei). Credit: Gareth J. Fraser, @ufresearch.bsky.social
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Why?
Because today is Ghost Shark Day. Also, I just learned something that’s kinda cool about one species of ghost shark - the spotted ratfish.
📷 Male spotted ratfish (Hydrolagus colliei). Credit: Gareth J. Fraser, @ufresearch.bsky.social
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October 30, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Ok, so we need to talk about ghost sharks.
Why?
Because today is Ghost Shark Day. Also, I just learned something that’s kinda cool about one species of ghost shark - the spotted ratfish.
📷 Male spotted ratfish (Hydrolagus colliei). Credit: Gareth J. Fraser, @ufresearch.bsky.social
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Why?
Because today is Ghost Shark Day. Also, I just learned something that’s kinda cool about one species of ghost shark - the spotted ratfish.
📷 Male spotted ratfish (Hydrolagus colliei). Credit: Gareth J. Fraser, @ufresearch.bsky.social
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Everyone - it’s Sea Slug day, so you absolutely need to look at this gorgeous Goniobranchus kuniei 😍
October 29, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Everyone - it’s Sea Slug day, so you absolutely need to look at this gorgeous Goniobranchus kuniei 😍
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The #Ecosde2Cañones team is studying the intricate interplay of ocean features such as currents, wind, circulation, density, temperature, and salinity as they examine the exchange of energy between the atmosphere, the Ocean, and the Earth.
youtu.be/pf8cIYFeYJM?...
youtu.be/pf8cIYFeYJM?...
Studying the Invisible | A Tale of Two Canyons
YouTube video by Schmidt Ocean
youtu.be
October 21, 2025 at 5:07 PM
The #Ecosde2Cañones team is studying the intricate interplay of ocean features such as currents, wind, circulation, density, temperature, and salinity as they examine the exchange of energy between the atmosphere, the Ocean, and the Earth.
youtu.be/pf8cIYFeYJM?...
youtu.be/pf8cIYFeYJM?...
October 20, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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‘When I pass piles of fishing nets, I see piles of money’: a one man recycling revolution on the Cornish coast
‘When I pass piles of fishing nets, I see piles of money’: a one man recycling revolution on the Cornish coast
Determined to find a solution to the discarded plastic nets, Ian Falconer found a way to convert them into filament for 3D printing, for use in products from motorbikes to sunglasses
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 6:32 AM
‘When I pass piles of fishing nets, I see piles of money’: a one man recycling revolution on the Cornish coast
October 15, 2025 at 1:25 PM
October 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM