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Welcome Amanda Hsiung! Starting your new postdoc scoping out #saltmarsh sites for #Blueshores project. Amazing day! Castles 🏰, sunshine ☀️ and even a rainbow 🌈 that ended in the beautiful marsh 🌱…. No sign of crock of gold though… 😔 @jimvanbelzen.bsky.social @benthicecol.bsky.social

MSc Marine Biology students getting the tour of the Living Seawalls in Cork. 🐚🦀🪸🐠. The resident pigeon kept a watchful eye at all times. 🐦‍⬛👀 @livingseawalls.bsky.social @ucc.ie

Always a pleasure to come across an #EcoEngineering info board! Nice work #Ecostructure team 🙌. Looks like your panels are functioning similarly to #LivingSeawalls in Plymouth - fucoid city! 🤎 @anaellelemasson.bsky.social @livingseawalls.bsky.social @jebyrnes.bsky.social @pippajmoore.bsky.social

Gerardo Zardi@gerardozardi.bsky.social · last yr.

You’ll like this! @limpetsovertime.bsky.social

Sometimes the smallest details steal the show 🦦🔍🐚 #limpets #biodiversity @katynicastro.bsky.social @bionept.bsky.social #art #intertidal

Possibly the most beautiful Sabellaria alveolata 🪱 reefs I have seen in Ireland 🇮🇪 Cullenstown beach, Co. Wexford. Just stunning 🤩. Duncannon - you have some competition! 💪 #Prograding @aec13.bsky.social @fplima.bsky.social @npwsireland.bsky.social

Whale skull washed up on beach at #Bastardstown, Co. Wexford. 🐋💀🌊. 😮 #IWDG

Thanks 🙏 Ben Rowson for inviting me to talk about #Limpets at Conchological Society meeting. 🐚🐌🦪Interactive props: bottle of #Shackleton whisky 🥃, #Belleek pottery (limpet design) , copy of The Silver Darlings 📚, breast shells 🤱, fridge magnet 🧲 & shell of largest limpet ever - Scutellastra mexicana

Rescued 100s of acorns from the driveway and threw them into the garden. 🌱 Maybe one or two might take root and grow into a fabulous oak tree someday 🤞🙏. Come on Atlantic Rainforest 🌳

So saddened by the passing of the extraordinary Manchán Magán. Your passion for language, folklore & Irish culture reignited ours too: your energy, your generosity, your brilliance were a gift to us all. 🇮🇪 Your legacy will live on in every story told, every word revived. RIP Manchán 🌿💚

Louise Firth@louisefirth.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Last chance to apply for this postdoc! deadline 12pm tomorrow.

Postdoc opportunity at University College Cork Ireland 🇮🇪. Interdisciplinary approaches to urban coastlines & multispecies relations. 🚶‍♀️🐚👨‍⚕️🦀👩‍🔬🪸👤🐟 Open to EU & non-EU applicants 🌎 Deadline 3rd Oct. Interviews 9th & 10th Oct. #LivingSeawall #EcoEngineering #Sustainability my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru...

Annals of Botany@annbot.bsky.social · last yr.

Still plenty of time to submit papers to the Annals of Botany special issue on #Macroalgae and #EcosystemServices. Deadline for submissions is Nov 30th! #Kelp #Fucoid #seaweed #CCA @annbot.bsky.social @pippajmoore.bsky.social @jebyrnes.bsky.social @twernberg.bsky.social @chrisecornwall.bsky.social

🌿🌊Annals of Botany invites submissions to a new Special Issue on "Macroalgae and ecosystem services", edited by AoB editors Mick Hanley and Kira Krumhansl and guest editor Louise Firth. (1/3) @louisefirth.bsky.social

Flyer for the Annals of Botany Special Issue titled 'Macroalgae and Ecosystem Services'. It features the names of editors Mick Hanley, Kira Krumhansl, and guest editor Louise Firth. The submission deadline is July 31, 2025. The background is teal on the left, with a close-up image of golden-brown macroalgae on the right.

Louise Firth@louisefirth.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Four days left to apply! @uccresearch.bsky.social @ucc.ie

Honeycomb worms 🍯🐝🪱thriving at #Streedagh strand #Sligo. Reefs forming refuge for green algae 🌿 from #Limpet grazing 🐚. The stunning Ben Bulben as dramatic backdrop 🤩. @aec13.bsky.social @fplima.bsky.social @ucc.ie @benthicecol.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social @npwsireland.bsky.social

The honeycomb worm 🍯🐝🪱 (Sabellaria alveolata) doing quite well at #Lisfannon beach on Lough Swilly #Donegal. Competing for space with #Limpets 🐚 & invasive oysters 🦪 #Magallana @npwsireland.bsky.social

#Limpets of the basalt columns of the #GiantsCauseway. 🪨🐚Always nice to see a spot of #epibiosis - green algae on the shells of Patella ulyssiponensis - we think it’s a form of associational defence books.google.ie/books?hl=en&...

Jim van Belzen@jimvanbelzen.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Still time to apply! Deadline tomorrow for postdoc on #NbS in salt marshes with fantastic Jim van Belzen & Tjeerd Bouma. Going to be fun project & team! 🤩 @jimvanbelzen.bsky.social @jngriffy.bsky.social @melaniejbishop.bsky.social @jebyrnes.bsky.social @aec13.bsky.social @stonelivinglab.bsky.social

Come join us as a #Postdoc on BLUESHORES 🇪🇺 project at the NIOZ to test novel #NaturebasedSolutions to coastal defence 🌊 on saltmarshes 🌱. workingat.nioz.nl/o/postdoc-po...

Thank you to Laura Airoldi & team 🇮🇹 for hosting us and for facilitating productive scientific discussion to kick off Project #Blueshores - investigating nature based solutions #NBS to salt marsh erosion. 🌱🌾 Bring it on 💪🙌😀 @benthicecol.bsky.social @jimvanbelzen.bsky.social

Project #Blueshores fieldtrip to the salt marshes 🌱🌾 of the #Venice lagoon. Scoping out sites for hybrid blue-green infrastructure #HBGI trials. @benthicecol.bsky.social @jimvanbelzen.bsky.social

Project Blueshores is go! 🇪🇺 Kick off meeting at Uni Padua marine station, Chioggia 🇮🇹 is a beautiful location for meeting old &new friends ☺️@amandahsiung.bsky.social @benthicecol.bsky.social @jimvanbelzen.bsky.social

Jim van Belzen@jimvanbelzen.bsky.social · 11mo ago

3 more days to apply for great postdoc opportunity on saltmarhses with amazing team NIOZ in the Netherlands @niozsearesearch.bsky.social

Come join us as a #Postdoc on BLUESHORES 🇪🇺 project at the NIOZ to test novel #NaturebasedSolutions to coastal defence 🌊 on saltmarshes 🌱. workingat.nioz.nl/o/postdoc-po...

Autumn colours on the rocky shore 🧡🤎💛🍁🍂 #fucoids #seaweed #algae #feamainn

Great line up at #NanoNagle Place for #CultureNight Cork. UCC’s wonderful Irene Ní Shúilleabháin sharing her love of #birds 🦅 🐦‍⬛🪺 & #birdsong of Lee Fields. Screening of ‘Listen to the Fields’ 🦢🎶 by visual artists Anne Cleary & Denis Connolly. @ucc.ie #biodiversity #spokenword #music #poetry #film

Come see our new Living Seawalls in #Cobh #Cork! 1st in Ireland 🇮🇪. #Global experiment 🌍 started in #Sydney 🇦🇺. Huge thanks to HEA funding, @uccresearch.bsky.social, #PortOfCork for support & Inland & Coastal Marinas for installation. Looking forward to seeing what marine life colonises 🦀🪸🐚🦐🦞🐟🌊.

Well done to Franz Bauer for collecting the 2 year dataset on the biodiversity colonising the Living Seawalls in Plymouth. Fucoid algae continues to dominate. 🤎 Many new species moving in..🦀🐌🪸

On this day in 1916, Ernest #Shackleton, aboard the Yelcho, rescued his 22 men from Elephant Island in the Antarctic. Did you know that his men were cooking #LIMPETS the moment they realised they were being rescued? Perhaps the greatest survival story of all time! 🦸‍♂️🙌

Such a privilege to get a sneak preview of the MASSIVE #EcoShoreline at Lantau, Hong Kong. 🇭🇰 Thanks to Prof Kenny Leung, Aecom, CEDD for bringing us on the tour. Scaled up installation. 📏 🐚🦪🌳 #mangrove #hybrid #EcoEngineering @theabradford.bsky.social

Thank you Kenny Leung & team for the opportunity to showcase the overlooked roles of #Limpets as ecosystem engineers & ecosystem service providers at the 3rd BeCome Meeting @ CityU Hong Kong. So much more than just a #Grazer! Like a #DoubleAgent hiding in plain sight. #Sculptor #Facilitator #Food

The humble #limpet holding its own against the more classically “beautiful” cowrie. 😍💪🐚 #Coron, Philippines 🇵🇭. “A marine biologist is never on holidays” (James Bond, 1977).