Went last night to see the preview of @sofiaatsea.bsky.social show about oceans, and it was brilliant - honest, wity, moving, thought-provoking, with some unexpected twists and so cleverly put together. Congratulations, Sofia!

Royal Holloway Biology@rhulbiology.bsky.social · 7mo ago

If you are in London next weekend, check out a free preview of a one-woman show "Inexhaustible" by our very own @sofiaatsea.bsky.social about navigating marine conservation and early career academia in the midst of a biodiversity crisis www.theatredeli.co.uk/Event/enddat...

If you know of any underwater #marine #artistic or religious #sculptures (or have a friend who might)… please fill out and/or share this survey! tinyurl.com/marine-sculptures I’m supervising this student research project by Louise Biles at @rhulbiology.bsky.social and we would LOVE your input 🙏

2025 @conservoptimism.bsky.social Film Festival takes place tonight @morethanadodo.bsky.social. Sofia Castelló y Tickell (@sofiaatsea.bsky.social) from @rhulbiology.bsky.social, a co-founder of the festival, welcomes everyone. The festival is livestreamed here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=urvW...

Please share Alec’s picture, especially with anyone who might have been around Folgefonna National Park in the last week

Scott Rose@rprose.bsky.social · last yr.

Our friend @alecluhn.bsky.social is missing in Norway's Folgefonna National Park after a backpacking trip to the glacier there. Please share if you're in the area or know people who might be. Come home safe, buddy www.facebook.com/share/p/18xA...

Our friend @alecluhn.bsky.social is missing in Norway's Folgefonna National Park after a backpacking trip to the glacier there. Please share if you're in the area or know people who might be. Come home safe, buddy www.facebook.com/share/p/18xA...

Yes. My documentary out and I am very tired. 🥱 Please watch! 👇

Andrew D Thaler@drandrewthaler.bsky.social · last yr.

It's finally out! 18 months in the making, @fieseler.bsky.social's outstanding documentary on deep-sea mining and an exploration of why some stories capture the public imagination while others don't. Nodules: Deep-Sea Life Giver or Key to Our Energy Future? www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jcm...

Thank you so much to @scicommexcellence.nationalacademies.org for making this lovely video! ❤️

SciComm Excellence@scicommexcellence.nationalacademies.org · last yr.

2024 award winner Dr. Sofia Castelló y Tickell (@sofiaatsea.bsky.social) is a British-Mexican marine conservation scientist and artist working across comedy, creative writing, film, and theater. 🪸🎭 Watch here: youtu.be/BCmU_SAy0lo #scicomm #comedy #WorldOceansDay

I keep seeing the same questions asked in marine biology career advice groups. So along with some colleagues, I'm trying to compile a bunch of common questions and answer them all at once. Please share widely with anyone who might have questions! Submit ?s here: forms.gle/LEd4egJgvfGf... 🦑🧪🌎🐟

Optimistic ocean stories needed for this textbook! 🌊🐠🐙🦀🪸🐋🦭 Cc: @conservoptimism.bsky.social #oceanoptimism

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈@whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 2y ago

We ( @drcatmac.bsky.social and I) are writing a marine conservation science and policy textbook! We'd love to include case studies of ocean conservation success stories, and we welcome submissions of ideas here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Please be clear and detailed! 🧪🦑🌎🐟

Big eel news! Recently uncovered frescoes at Pompeii contain eels. Because of course they do. Eels are everywhere in European history. You just have to look. This is a pair of lovely morays. To paraphrase Garth Brooks, sometimes folks wonder what happens if two morays never come. But here they are.

We're having our Zoom town halls about the ocean conservation science and policy textbook we're writing tomorrow and Thursday. If you want to join, there's still time to sign up! We'd love to hear what features would make this textbook more useful to you! 🧪🦑🌎🦈🐟

We’re making a new marine conservation science and policy textbook. What do you want to be in it?

The leading textbook in Marine Conservation Biology (Norse and Crowder) is 20 years old. It’s great and it shaped the field for a generation, but a lot has happened since it came out. There are new…

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Two weeks to go until the application deadline for ILESLA. If you or anyone you know would benefit from full funding to carry out a PhD in Life and/or Environmental Science please visit/refer to our website page iles.web.ox.ac.uk/how-apply where you can see open day videos and get full guidance.

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I’m teaching an undergrad class this term where the final assignment is a scientific poster and I’d love cool examples to show the students. What’s the best scientific poster you’ve seen or made? Please share, comment or DM w examples! #scicomm #conservation #marinebiology (but any field really)

To inaugurate my new profile on this app, I'd love to share some of my favorite stories I worked on in the past couple of years and some of the cool things I've been up to🧵

Fascinating piece. The research and the writing are gems.

Sarah Gilman@sarahmgilman.bsky.social · 2y ago

Latest labor of editing love: the amazing @giulianaviglione.bsky.social with a gripping tale about how the stress of industrial whaling wrote itself into whales' very bodies, for @biographic.bsky.social: www.biographic.com/how-whales-f...

Reposting as the deadline for filling this survey out is approaching! If you have the time we’d really appreciate your thoughts

Sofia Castelló y Tickell@sofiaatsea.bsky.social · 2y ago

If you are over 18 and resident in the UK, please fill out this short survey (~10 mins) for a 3rd year project by Abigail King I am supervising at @royalholloway.bsky.social on perceptions of #endangered species! forms.office.com/e/aYSQuZnhNS

I really recommend looking at the full results, especially if you are someone who creates or directs in the arts. www.theclimaterealitycheck.com

I like to say I respect despair as an emotion but not an analysis. As an analysis it assumes we know what can and can't happen, and the future is both uncertain and at least to some extent what we make of it. Plus why would I give them what they want, as premature surrender? Thanks Senator Schatz.

Brian Schatz@schatz.bsky.social · 2y ago

Be furious be angry but despondency is what they want from us. And be very suspicious of people on the left who say “we are cooked” or whatever. Imagine the civil rights movement, or suffrage, or any movement for change, hitting a roadblock and just “saying well we are well and truly fucked now.”

Deadline for ScienceWrite apps is getting closer, having participated last year I highly recommend!

Hana Ayoob@hanaayoob.co.uk · 2y ago

ScienceWrite, a UK scheme for aspiring STEM writers from minoritised backgrounds, is open for 2025 applications! The 3rd year @romatheengineer.bsky.social & I are running this, with support from @royalsociety.bsky.social & I am SO EXCITED Deadline 3rd Jan #SciComm 🧪 www.sciencewrite.co.uk

great starter pack to bring all kinds of science to your feed in all sorts of formats, from writing to podcasting to videos, from award-winning science communicators and journalists! go.bsky.app/R3WZmxy

Learned so much from stepping in to lead this wonderful organisation and its brilliant volunteers for a while, and it’s exciting to see everything @africanhorses.bsky.social is doing to grow it in this new chapter! Here’s to an optimistic 2025 for all conservationists 🎉

Conservation Optimism@conservoptimism.bsky.social · 2y ago

#CO2024Rewind: A Year of New Beginnings! This year marked a transformative chapter for Conservation Optimism as we bid farewell to our Interim Director, @sofiaatsea.bsky.social. We are endlessly grateful to Sofia for her visionary and dedicated leadership. #ConservationOptimism #CO2024

If you are over 18 and resident in the UK, please fill out this short survey (~10 mins) for a 3rd year project by Abigail King I am supervising at @royalholloway.bsky.social on perceptions of #endangered species! forms.office.com/e/aYSQuZnhNS

Had the best time in California last week, meeting incredible science communicators & celebrating the @nationalacademies.org / Schmidt Sciences awards for Excellence in #sciencecommunication!

Thinking of my grandmother Chloë today, on what would have been her 94th birthday! Such a creative and intelligent human being, whose example I followed in attending @somervillecollege.bsky.social. Sculptor, world traveller, beloved friend and family member, WW2 evacuee and a million things more.

Frosty week on the Royal Holloway campus! Quick pics snapped between lectures

Do you know anyone who is an early career journalist with a passion for environmental issues? We here @sierramagazine.bsky.social are looking for our next cohort of Editorial Fellows. Details to apply here --> jobs.lever.co/sierraclub/f...

Reef fishes most threatened by extinction (worldwide) receive less scientific and public attention! see our publication in Science Advances : www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Let’s (re)balance our focus to protect all marine life !! and beyond ... 🧪🌍🦤🦑🌐

We are seeking a Level 3 Apprentice Laboratory Technician! 🌊 Gain hands-on experience & training across a range of cutting-edge laboratory environments, including our research aquarium. If you're passionate about the ocean - this is the role for you! 🐠 Apply here: https://buff.ly/3V9GFib

The first output from our @leverhulme.bsky.social Extinction Studies project on #shadowextinction - known-unknown and unknown-unknown extinctions - and implications for science and policy is out. Led by Serena Turton Hughes, with @katatrepsis.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...