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David Bailey

@davemarinebio.glasgow.ac.uk

Marine biologist at the University of Glasgow

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈@whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 3w ago

It took social media by storm, but it didn’t work for all the reasons that ocean plastic pollution experts said it wouldn’t work all along. My latest for The Revelator tells this important story and asks what we can learn from it. Please enjoy. therevelator.org/why-ocean-cl...

Why The Ocean Cleanup Hasn’t Solved the Plastic Pollution Crisis • The Revelator

Global problems are rarely solved by one person or invention. The Ocean Cleanup didn’t work, for the reasons experts said it wouldn’t. What can we learn from this?

therevelator.org

John Rogers@johnrogers.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Bloody hell. Researchers invented a disease, published two fake papers to see if LLM’s would ingest them and kick them up as fact — and then it broke containment and all the major AI’s bought in. Information pollution. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real

Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?

nature.com

Alex Hall Hall@alexhh.bsky.social · 4mo ago

All countries MUST withdraw overflight, landing or refueling permission for US planes, with immediate effect. Too much is at stake to just wait and “hope” Trump will back down, or someone, somewhere in US system will intervene to stop him.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo ago

I feel sick to my stomach waiting around to see what atrocity Trump has in mind for the people of Iran this evening. It's hard to fathom our other elected leaders aren't able to check him in any meaningful way. It's an indictment not just of voters but of our whole system. We're ruled by a mad king.

The Naturally Speaking Podcast@naturally-speaking.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New Naturally Speaking Podcast! It's our 100th episode! Thank you to all who have contributed to allow us to reach this milestone! EPISODE 100 – A Field course on the Conservation of African Ecosystems Listen here: naturallyspeaking.blog/2026/02/01/e...

EPISODE 100 – A Field course on the Conservation of African Ecosystems

In this episode Dr. Oskar Brattstrom and undergraduate students Bridget Nielsen and Katie Mulholland speak with Naturally Speaking’s Anders Erlandson, Caroline Sharp and Taya Forde about some…

naturallyspeaking.blog

Felicity Hannah@felicityhannah.bsky.social · 7mo ago

My brother fought in the infantry and lost soldiers in Afghanistan. The press used to report deaths before families had been told and I would check my phone over and over, scared it would ring. I went to the inquest of one of his killed men. I saw his red-eyed parents, girlfriend and baby daughter.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo ago

Trump on NATO: "I've always said, will they be there if we ever needed them? That's really the ultimate test. I'm not sure of that. We've never needed them. They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan and this or that. And they did. They stayed a little back, off the front lines."

Tasha Milne@tashamilne.bsky.social · 11mo ago

New paper out in Royal Society Open Science: Biodiversity is the common factor for juvenile nursery habitat for 3 commercially important species. Marine protection should focus on whole-site health, not just individual features @davemarinebio.glasgow.ac.uk @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Seascape ecology of juvenile gadoid nursery areas | Royal Society Open Science

Availability of juvenile fish habitat provision can impact recruitment. This study focused on identifying which environmental variables characterize the juvenile habitats of three commercially important gadoid species: Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua), haddock ...

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Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme@strandings.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🐬🐳 Check out our new paper lead by our @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk PhD student @rachlenn.bsky.social which looks at trends in cetacean strandings over the past 30 years. 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41... All thanks to decades of reports from volunteers and the public!

An approach to using stranding data to monitor cetacean population trends and guide conservation strategies - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - An approach to using stranding data to monitor cetacean population trends and guide conservation strategies

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Rachel Lennon@rachlenn.bsky.social · 12mo ago

📢 New paper out! Cetacean strandings in Scotland have risen 125% over the past 30 years. Our study gives the first comprehensive picture of when, where, and which species strand, providing a baseline to guide conservation. 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk @strandings.bsky.social

David Bailey@davemarinebio.glasgow.ac.uk · last yr.

I found this article on neurodiversity in conservationists very moving and encouraging, for professional and personal reasons. www.theguardian.com/environment/... We've got more to do to do on ethnic diversity, and inclusion of people from more disadvantged backgrounds, but this is a good story

‘Intrinsically connected’: how human neurodiversity could help save nature

Biodiversity is linked to people’s diversity, and nature lends itself to people who are different, says author Joe Harkness

theguardian.com