Bahamian 🇧🇸 & Brit 🇬🇧 marine biologist. Director of @CEIbahamas. Researcher in ecology, fisheries, deep sea, lobsters, #scicomm. Fellow of @challengersoc
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So proud of my team @CEIbahamas and all of the great work that we do! Living our mission: leadership effecting change. – at Bahamas
'The Bahamas may no longer exist in the future.'
The Bahamas is on the frontline of the climate crisis where the oceans and animals that call it home are being badly impacted.
Corals are dying at an alarming rate and sea turtles are under threat.
@Noel_Phillips reports.
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Really pleased to have visited @TheIslandSchool and seen this great project in partnership with the UK's National @PadstowLobster Hatchery🇬🇧 and @UniofExeter🇬🇧
It's a great partnership leveraging UK research & Bahamian expertise to increase lobster numbers in the Caribbean🦞
I'm mainly found in the other place now - see you there 🦋 The changes since X have seen interactions on this place tank -
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Please RT‼️I'm recruiting a PhD student for a fully funded 4 year position to study how ongoing biodiversity change alters disease risk in plant communities in the Åland archipelago meadow ecosystem. DL 28 Aug
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsink…
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📢#macroecological sensitivity in the #tropics despite stable short term #temperature ranges. Insightful new work led by @MemorialU Darren Li Shing Hiung & @AmandaEBates tinyurl.com/m6yc76yy
@PNASNexus
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The Brazilian oceanographer Letícia Carvalho was elected Secretary-General of the International Seabed Authority @isbahq,for the 2025-2028 term.The election was the result of an interministerial coordination between Itamaraty,@mmeioambiente, @gov_mcti,@Minas_Energia and @marmilbr
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The bad news is out: Hakai Magazine is shutting down at the end of 2024. We’re incredibly sad, but our team is proud of the great work we’ve done these past 10 years. We have 5 more months of beautiful and unique coastal stories to come. More info here: mailchi.mp/hakaimagazine/imp…
You heard it here first! (HT @PetraJLarsen for reminder). Congratulations to Andrew and team on these results. Paper: nature.com/articles/s41561-0…
"That's a stunning result" (comment from audience) as Prof Andrew Sweetman presents evidence of unexpected oxygen generation in abyssal sediments. How is it happening? Unsolved mystery here at @150_challenger #Challenger150
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Important study once again shows that electric shark deterrents can reduce shark bite probability by ~50%, this time for white, tiger and bull sharks, the three species most responsible for shark bites. They're the obvious way to reduce your bite risk!
nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
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The lack of comprehensive data on whale sharks in the Bahamas poses a significant concern, especially considering their importance for global tourism and the potential role of the Bahamas in their migratory routes.
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Research is now suggesting that the melting of polar ice is changing how the earth spins & making the days longer.
dawg
*Business* leaders were stressing the need for strong universities on @BBCr4today this am, but I’ve seen very little on how next gov will support them @bphillipsonMP. Seems like one area that will boost economy, education, R&D etc etc.
Visa rules, funding and evolving net-zero targets are among scientists’ concerns as UK citizens prepare to vote next week go.nature.com/3xCjaGb
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That tweet so triggering bey. Tipping culture is getting crazy and I blame the Americans, fully. They are the ones that started flipping the screen around to ask for a tip when you’re literally just ordering a coffee. It’s tip-shaming.😂
I’d like everyone to know that even though gratuity is included it is not mandatory. I have refused to pay it at restaurants in The Bahamas and elsewhere when the service was woefully inadequate.
When it comes to tipping, I don’t mind putting a little extra down especially if the service was beyond superlatives, but what I don’t be into is the wait staff saying things like “Aw, the gratuity don’t come to me so make sure you leave some for me” or things of that nature. I’m the worst customer to say that to because I am gonna ask you “how much do you think your service was worth?” and if you say something ridiculous you’ll find out exactly how well I’ve mastered passive sarcastic insults gtfohwtbs 😂
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Läs om hur djuphavsforskaren Thomas Dahlgren, @mucofloris , arbetar för att beskriva djuphavets biologiska mångfald:
Genomskinliga sjögurkor och rosa havsgrisar är några av de fascinerande djur som upptäcktes vid vårens #djuphavsexpedition till Stilla havet.
"Uppskattningsvis är endast 1 av 10 arter som lever här beskrivna" säger forskaren Thomas Dahlgren @goteborgsuni. t.ly/bJeDA
If you put me down as a reviewer for a paper that is closely related to this publication of mine I would be glad to provide you with my review upon proof of authorship: frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
You may not receive it from the @ScholarOneNews journal
I'm at the point where I can no longer justify the time taken to fix terrible #ManuscriptCentral issues. I am AE / reviwer for 3 journals under MC. I have to create reset passwords every time i try to move from one journal MC to another - ALSO
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‘Knight in spiny armor’: could lobsters help save Florida’s dying corals? theguardian.com/us-news/arti…
👀 Bahamas Embassy in Brussels - don’t even think about it
For #PinkFlamingoDay 🦩:
1. Henrik Immanuel Wigström (Finnish, 1862-1923) for Fabergé
#Flamingo, 1903-08
Agate, rose diamonds, gold
10.2 x 5.2 x 2.4 cm
2. Cartier
Flamingo, 1907
Rose quartz, quartz, diamond, gilt metal
18.0 x 9.5 x 6.1 cm
@RCT 40465, 13754:
rct.uk/collection/search#/6/…
rct.uk/collection/search#/3/…
#BirdsInArt
ALT “A flamingo, carved in pink agate with rose diamond eyes and chased dull red gold legs. Cartier, one of Fabergé’s competitors, chose to produce hardstone flamingos inspired by Fabergé’s work. The Royal Collection contains an example which appears stylised and unnaturalistic by comparison with this skilfully executed model.”
ALT “Flamingo, carved from rose quartz with gilt-metal legs and feet, the eyes inset with rose diamonds, supported on a rectangular green quartz base.”