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Aly Lough

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Scientist researching marine chemistry to understand human-ocean-climate interactions. Publications: scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user… Bio: environment.leeds.ac.uk/geography/s…

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Aly Lough @alylough.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Great to catch up with the PICCOLO team @pml.ac.uk on my lengthy road trip to collect Antarctic sea water for trace metal analysis in the @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social clean labs using our seaFAST-LTR system
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Aly Lough @alylough.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Great week at #OSM26 meeting up with everyone doing ocean science and presenting my work on deep sea mining and Antarctic iron fluxes. Big thanks to the @challengersoc.bsky.social and @biogeoscapes.bsky.social fellowships for funding my attendance! Goodbye Glasgow!
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Aly Lough @alylough.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Check out some of the maps from Shackleton’s Antarctic expedition at the UK hydrographic office stall in the exhibit hall at #OSM26, still collecting data under extreme circumstances!
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Aly Lough @alylough.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Getting use to the #OSM26 silent disco format. Things move on when you haven’t been to an international conference for 6 years!
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Aly Lough @alylough.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
UK hydrographic office looking for an oceanographer specialising in ocean and ice physics www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...
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Quick Check Needed
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Aly Lough @alylough.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Great to get out in the field (literally at a farm) to teach @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social students how to measure and assess water quality 🧪💧🚜
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EGU Biogeosciences Division (BG) @egubg.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
🗞️ New article in Biogeosciences #EGU by Pearse J. Buchanan et al ⬇️
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Optimization of the World Ocean Model of Biogeochemistry and Trophic dynamics (WOMBAT) using surrogate machine learning methods
Abstract. The introduction of new processes in biogeochemical models brings new model parameters that must be set. Optimization of the model parameters is crucial to ensure that model performance is…
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Aly Lough @alylough.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Lecturer position advertised at Leeds, UK, working at the interface between ecology, microbiology and biogeochemistry closes 2nd October www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOR986/l...
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Lecturer in Biosphere-Geosphere Interactions at University of Leeds
An opportunity for an academic position as a Lecturer in Biosphere-Geosphere Interactions is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
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Nature @nature.com · 28/07/2025
More postdoctoral researchers secured access to sophisticated scientific instruments when an Australian facility made their application process anonymous go.nature.com/3J4AA3j
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Postdocs get more equipment time when applications are anonymized
Early-career researchers’ access to neutron-beam instruments jumped from 61% to 78% at one Australian facility.
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Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) @scor-int.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
#ECR input needed! Help SCOR serve early-career scientists better by contributing to the survey: www.surveymonkey.com/r/SCOR-ECOP
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GEOTRACES @geotraces.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
🌊 Pre-registration is open for GEOTRACES Summer School 2025! 📅 17–21 Nov | 📍 Cape Town 🎓 Training in marine biogeochemistry of trace elements & isotopes for 36 students. Apply by 30 June 2025 👉 geotraces-2025.sciencesconf.org #MarineScience #Biogeochemistry #SummerSchool @scor-int.bsky.social
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GEOTRACES @geotraces.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
🌊 ✨ Call for Applications Now Open ✨ 🌊 The GEOTRACES Early Career Scientists Committee (ECS) is now accepting applications for new members! 🗓️ Application deadline: 15 June 2025 Learn more and apply👇 www.geotraces.org/2025-ecs/ Share this! 📢 😊 #EarlyCareerResearchers @scor-int.bsky.social
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Thomas Frölicher @froeltho.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Our new paper authored by the Scientific Committee of the #OOSC on "US federal cuts threaten international ocean science and diplomacy" has been published. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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US federal cuts threaten international ocean science and diplomacy - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Nature Ecology & Evolution - US federal cuts threaten international ocean science and diplomacy
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Aly Lough @alylough.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Great discussions on all things marine microbes and biogeochemical cycles last week at our first in person meeting of the @biogeoscapes.bsky.social fellows second cohort in Santa Monica, CA. FYI no issues getting into and out of the states for any of us.
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Nature @nature.com · 15/05/2025
📢 Calling PhD students 📢 we want to hear from you! Help shape the future of PhD education. Take our survey to tell us all about your experiences go.nature.com/43iJAsi
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PhD students in STEM: Nature wants to hear from you
Buried in lab work or drowning in data? Take a break and help shape the future of PhD education.
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Elham Shirin @eshirin.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
TMC wants US permission to mine an area it licensed from the ISA under the sponsorship of Nauru. TMC declined to comment on whether those obligations to Nauru remain if it is issued a US mining license. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Trump’s Push For Deep-Sea Metals Clashes With UN Ocean Treaty
In addition to Canada and Greenland, the US president is targeting the international seabed as a source for minerals needed for green technology. Here’s what to know.
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Aly Lough @alylough.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Executive order signed to expedite deep sea mining applications www.reuters.com/business/ene...
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Trump expected to sign deep-sea mining executive order on Thursday - sources
U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Thursday to boost the deep-sea mining industry, the latest attempt to tap international deposits of nickel, copper and other critical minerals used widely across the economy.
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Prof Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️ @oceanandice.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Colossal squid captured on camera!! Amazing work by @drmtaylor.bsky.social and team. 🧪🌊🦑 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Colossal squid filmed by scientists for first time in ocean
Stunned scientists say the extremely rare squid can weigh up to 500kg (1,100lb).
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Nature @nature.com · 13/04/2025
Evidence shows that science and scientists remain highly trusted. But genuine scientific voices are not shouting loud enough over the noise to hold sway go.nature.com/4jNRukb
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Science’s big problem is a loss of influence, not a loss of trust
Nature - Evidence shows that science and scientists remain highly trusted. But genuine scientific voices are not shouting loud enough over the noise to hold sway.
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Spring reminder, as people start to think about gardening: NEVER buy compost with peat it in (inexplicably still on sale). If it does not say "peat free" in big letters, do not buy it. Peat is incredibly valuable in peat bogs, for rare biodiversity and as a carbon store. Don't put it on your garden!
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Aly Lough @alylough.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
2025 POGO-SCOR Fellowship is now open for applications! 🚀 Provides funding for early-career scientists, technicians, postgrads from developing countries to spend 1–3 months at a leading oceanographic institute abroad 🌏 APPLY by 27 April 2025 pogo-ocean.org/capacity-dev...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
The Metals Company's proposal to start seabed mining in the Pacific Ocean by 2027 has faced opposition from countries that are rarely aligned on these issues, such as China, Russia, India, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Indonesia, France, Argentina, Uganda, Mauritius, and Fiji.
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Trump-Era Pivot on Seabed Mining Draws Global Rebuke (Gift Article)
Diplomats from more than 30 nations have criticized a proposal that could allow the start of seabed mining by 2027.
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Aly Lough @alylough.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
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Canada to join Horizon Europe on equal terms with Europeans! #eudebates #horizon #shorts
YouTube video by EU Debates | eudebates.tv
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Aly Lough @alylough.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
These meetings are great! Much better for getting to know people outside your network than the big international conferences
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Adrian Glover @adrg2.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
New paper out from #NHMDeepSea @nhm-london.bsky.social team. #DeepSeaMining #DeepSeaBiology www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Aly Lough @alylough.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Great to meet up and discuss Southern Ocean biogeochemistry with team PICCOLO this week at Plymouth marine lab!
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OGU Bristol @ogu-bristol.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The announcement you have all been waiting for... Save the date for BOGS 2025! The 35th meeting of the British Organic Geochemical Society will be held in Bristol on the 1st and 2nd of July 2025. www.bogs2025.com #BOGS2025
A circular logo for BOGS 2025 with the text Organic Geochemistry Unit and University of Bristol. The logo is multicoloured and features a toilet, a toilet brush, laboratory glassware and chemical structures.
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Bieito Fernandez Castro @bfcastro.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
WE ARE HIRING. Interested in ocean mixing? Come work with us in the ARIA-funded POLEMIX project to create and deploy a float-based mixing observing system in the subpolar North Atlantic. Applications here: jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... @sotonoceanearth.bsky.social @noc.ac.uk
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Job Opportunity at the University of Southampton: Research Fellow in Physical Oceanography
We are seeking to recruit a Research Fellow in Physical Oceanography to become a member of the School of Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton. As part of the ‘POLEMIX: Autonomous P...
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Prof Alessandro Tagliabue @altagliabue.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
🌊 jobs
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Aly Lough @alylough.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
“In the UK, between 1995 and 2019 while spending on university departments roughly doubled, the amount allocated to administration and central services more than quadrupled.” Some of this has likely been imposed by funders (e.g ukri/erc time sheets, DTPs etc)
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Adele Morrison @adele-morrison.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
SCAR fellowship applications are open. If you're an ECR interested in a collaborative visit to ANU to work together on Southern Ocean processes, please get in touch. Australia is a great place to be right now! scar.org/fellowships-...
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JGR: Oceans @jgroceans.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Very excited to learn that the 2026 Ocean Sciences meeting in Glasgow will have an official tartan!
Preview of the official tartan for Ocean Sciences 2026
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Natalie Cohen @oceanatalie.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I am looking for a summer undergraduate intern to help out with harmful algal bloom monitoring in coastal GA! Fully funded internship and housing is available. Pls help spread the word! www.skio.uga.edu/undergraduat... #habs #REU #aquaticecology #internship #oceanography
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Undergraduate Internships - Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
“The classroom is where we lay the foundation, but an internship at the Skidaway Institute provides the framework to build a... Read more »
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Prof Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️ @oceanandice.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Brilliance from @privateeyenews.bsky.social !! @bas.ac.uk ❄️🥼🧪🌊
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Aly Lough @alylough.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Weird and wonderful creatures of the deep sea on display @nhm-london.bsky.social for the first UK defra deep sea mining network meeting
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 28/01/2025
UK University funding is a mess at the moment. Student fees frozen while costs go up. Fewer international students coming to subsidise courses for UK students. No quotas, so ‘top’ Universities take more students to pay the bills. More news like this to come: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Cardiff: University confirms plans to cut 400 jobs
Vice-chancellor Wendy Larner says
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Aly Lough @alylough.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Great Captain and all round nice guy Will sharing his thoughts in the guardian today about what it’s like breaking ice for a job! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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I’m obsessed with icebreaking: I was trained not to hit anything – now I drive my ship into ice 24/7
As the captain of a royal research ship, I break ice to get to British stations in the Antarctic. It’s great fun - but getting stuck is always a risk
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Aly Lough @alylough.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
PhD opportunity at the University of Leeds, UK with myself, @willhomoky.bsky.social @altagliabue.bsky.social @marmite-usf.bsky.social S.Ussher & A. Milne studying how natural iron fertilisation shapes phytoplankton growth and impacts our climate. Deadline 8th Jan. yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/sou...
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Southern Ocean carbon pump vulnerability to changing iron supply - Yorkshire Environmental Sciences • Doctoral Training Network
Using your results, you will be able to test assumptions and make predictions about iron-mediated impacts of climate change on the biological carbon pump.
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Hey, so it turns out that paper on black plastic was a bit blown out of proportion by a simple math error. nationalpost.com/news/canada/...
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How a simple math error sparked a panic about black plastic kitchen utensils
A study warned that people were being exposed to a toxic chemical from kitchen utensils. But the researchers misstated the safe daily limit
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James Witts @jdwitts.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
🚨 PhD opportunity @bas.ac.uk with Rowan Whittle, @sauravdutta.bsky.social (BAS), Dani Schmidt (Bristol), @dralexdunhill.bsky.social (Leeds) & me! Interested in marine palaeoecology & links to climate in the Eocene of #Antarctica? Get in touch for more info. 🧪⚒️ www.bas.ac.uk/science/scie...
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Student Training and PhD Opportunities - British Antarctic Survey
NERC Doctoral Training Partnerships and projects
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Aly Lough @alylough.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Post doc position available with prof. Brandy Toner studying marine particles and colloids, deadline 3rd Jan, please rp eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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Position Title: Post-Doctoral ResearcherAnticipated Start Date: April 1, 2025Employer & Funding: The employer is the University of Minnesota. The funding is from the U.S. National Science Foundation’s joint program with the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), United Kingdom.Location of Workplace: University of Minnesota-Twin CitiesDuration: Appointment is 1 year full-time and renewable for 2nd and 3rd years upon satisfactory progress.Position Description: The Post-Doctoral Researcher will be mentored by Dr. Brandy Toner (University of Minnesota) and will measure the physical and chemical properties of marine colloids and particles. The Post-Doc will have the following responsibilities:
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Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Hi all I made a starter pack for polar bio-geo people who do cool science on ice snow permafrost high latitude rivers etc - Please raise your hand and / or pass the message along and I will add others go.bsky.app/7ocntgs
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Malin Ödalen @malinodalen.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
They now exist. Marine biogeochemistry go.bsky.app/TK79r4w Polar ocean go.bsky.app/851nQgx Physical oceanography go.bsky.app/Eb6xX19 Sea level and coastal erosion go.bsky.app/B6spBdu
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 17/11/2024
Changes in global temperature (1850-2023) Find similar graphics for your country or city: www.ShowYourStripes.info #ShowYourStripes
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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
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Universities are not just businesses, but an investment in future generations
Many UK universities are in a financial crisis. But the government is leaving them to flounder, treating higher education as a private-sector industry and research as a public investment. Many UK univ...
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Aly Lough @alylough.bsky.social · 24/09/2024
The SCOR Physiology and Rates in Microbial Oceanography (PRIMO) Working Group is accepting applications for their Early Career Mentorship program until midnight September 25th! www.primoscorwg.org/mentorship-p....
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Mentorship Program | Physiology and Rates
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Aly Lough @alylough.bsky.social · 02/09/2024
The UK SCOR committee is looking for a new ECR member and regular member. It’s also fun and a small time commitment. You can find the details here. Please re-post/share challenger-society.org.uk/SCOR_recruiting
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Aly Lough @alylough.bsky.social · 08/04/2024
Well worth a 10 min watch for anyone working in a UK University and scratching their head about the current state of the system youtu.be/bLCUoNlXY8E?...
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Aly Lough @alylough.bsky.social · 24/03/2024
Anyone got any hints or tips on communicating science to nursery age kids (4 year olds)? My sons nursery wants me to talk about our fieldwork in the Antarctic, not sure what level of detail I can/should go into beyond cute animals we saw…
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