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Annika Wall

@annikawall.bsky.social
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Ocean! Climate! Culture! Books! 🌊 Science Communicator, Dept. Marine Sciences, University of Gothenburg 📚 Literary Critic at Gota Media 📚 Also occasionally write novels

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Annika Wall @annikawall.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
In my job, I get to meet incredibly cool people! Like our PhD student Estel Font Felez, who sets out in small fishing boats in extreme heat to find out how the Arabian Sea ‘breathes’. Read all about it here: www.gu.se/en/news/new-... #oceanography #marinesciences #OMZ #arabiansea #fieldwork 🧪 🌊 🌎
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New study reveals how the Arabian Sea 'breathes'
A combination of strong winds and small eddies is crucial for the Arabian Sea to have sufficient oxygen levels for marine life. However, these processes are sensitive to climate change, and even very ...
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Annika Wall @annikawall.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
YAY! #Trawling restrictions work! My colleagues have studied unique underwater videos taken at the same rock wall in Koster Sea National Park from 1997 onwards. Scientific #article in #EcologyandEvolution. doi/10.1002/ece3.72091 www.gu.se/en/news/uniq... 🌎 🌊 🧪
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Unique videos show how trawling restrictions brings back life
Trawling restrictions not only benefits fish and shellfish; anemones and corals are also becoming more common, according to a new study from the University of Gothenburg. Twenty-six years of underwate...
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Annika Wall @annikawall.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Yay! My eelgrass colleagues are here now! Please follow them for updates on eelgrass research! bsky.app/profile/zorr... #science #marinescience #eelgrass #restoration #marinebiodiversity #geneticdiversity #seagrass
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Annika Wall @annikawall.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Happy World Seagrass Day! New findings from my colleagues: Genetic mapping is key in eelgrass restoration. Choosing donor meadows from the same genetic cluster is pivotal for a successful outcome. Read more: www.gu.se/en/news/gene... #eelgrass #seagrass #worldseagrassday #biodiversity #science
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Genetic diversity important for conservation of eelgrass meadows
The genetic variation of eelgrass is crucial for future protection of eelgrass meadows on the West coast of Sweden. For this reason, researchers at the University of Gothenburg have together with the ...
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Annika Wall @annikawall.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (20/20) #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge #GriefIsTheThingWithFeathers #MaxPorter
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Annika Wall @annikawall.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (19/20) #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge #Oceankänslan #TheOceanicFeeling #AboutTheNeedForANewStory #IsabellaLövin
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Annika Wall @annikawall.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (18/20) #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge #TheRemainsOfTheDay #KazuoIshiguro
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Annika Wall @annikawall.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (17/20) #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge #TheNameOfTheRose #UmbertoEco
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Annika Wall @annikawall.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (16/20) #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge #ConversationsWithFriends #SallyRooney
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Annika Wall @annikawall.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Bästa album: All things go – Loney Dear Bästa låt: TK421 - Lenny Kravitz Bästa konsert: Loney Dear, Babettes i Linköping (med Lenny Kravitz, Burg Clam som god 2:a) Bästa film: All Of Us Strangers Bästa bok: Intermezzo (med Inringning som god 2:a) Bästa spel: Spelar bara Ordel ...
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Annika Wall @annikawall.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (15/20) #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge #Blackwater #KerstinEkman
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Annika Wall @annikawall.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (14/20) #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge #WatershipDown #RichardAdams
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Annika Wall @annikawall.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (13/20) #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge #HowardsEnd #EMForster
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Annika Wall @annikawall.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (12/20) #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge #AFieldGuideToGettingLost #RebeccaSolnit
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Annika Wall @annikawall.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (11/20) #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge #TheOverstory #RichardPowers
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Annika Wall @annikawall.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (10/20) #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge #SilentSpring #RachelCarson
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Annika Wall @annikawall.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (9/20) #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge #RachelCusk #Aftermath
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Annika Wall @annikawall.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (8/20) #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge #ToveJansson #TheSummerBook #Sommarboken
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Annika Wall @annikawall.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (7/20) #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge #VirginaWoolf #Orlando
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Annika Wall @annikawall.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Today is George Saunders Day! "He wanted the shore. He knew that was the right place for him. But the pond kept saying no. Then it said maybe." www.newyorker.com/magazine/201... #TenthOfDecember #GeorgeSaunders
Book cover of Tenth of December
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Annika Wall @annikawall.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
My colleagues and students are the best! Yes, the students actually get to run a huge research vessel for a day! #marinesciences #researchvessel #oceanography #marinebiology #mastersprogramme www.gu.se/en/news/mari...
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Marine sciences course on R/V Skagerak attracts students from all over the world
Here you go! Run a huge research vessel for a day – do whatever you want! The ‘Marine Project – From Idea to Action’ course throws students from all over the world directly into the challenges of ship...
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Annika Wall @annikawall.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (6/20) #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge #HistoryOfLove #NicoleKrauss
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Annika Wall @annikawall.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (5/20) #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge #MistsOfAvalon #MarionZimmerBradley
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Annika Wall @annikawall.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (4/20) #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge #TheRoad #CormacMcCarthy
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Annika Wall @annikawall.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (3/20) #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge #Lighthousekeeping #JeanetteWinterson
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Annika Wall @annikawall.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (2/20) #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge #LincolnintheBardo #GeorgeSaunders
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Annika Wall @annikawall.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (1/20) #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge #Possession #ASByatt
Cover of Possession by A.S. Byatt
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Annika Wall @annikawall.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
My colleagues are adding more knowledge to #bluecarbon ecosystems: They have a greater potential to store carbon than previously thought. #mangrove #marineconservation #coastalecosystems #climatechange #carbonsequestration #methane www.gu.se/en/news/lowe...
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Lower methane emissions from coastal ecosystems
They are thin streaks of vegetation where the ocean meets the land, and they are found all over our planet – from the poles to the tropics. But despite their relatively small areas globally, coastal e...
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Annika Wall @annikawall.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Hello #Nudivember! I would like to introduce our award-winning nudibranch photographer and researcher Fredrik Pleijel. Learn how he manage to photograph the colourful beauties here: www.gu.se/en/news/the-...
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The beauty of nudibranchs displayed in book project
Red eyeglass nudi, blue-spotted sunbather, and large snail pinecone. These are the Swedish common names of three of the nudibranchs we meet in the new volume of Nationalnyckeln, the book project that ...
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Annika Wall @annikawall.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Still unbelievably fascinating that my colleagues at the Department have been beneath the Antarctic shelf-ice to take these amazing pictures. "We had to double check it was real," says Anna Wåhlin." www.bbc.com/future/artic... #antarctica #glaciers #climatechange #oceanography
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Swirls and scoops: Antarctica's upside down ice-scape we had no idea existed
When scientists peered beneath one of Antarctica's floating ice shelves, they were surprised to find an upside-down landscape of peaks, valleys and plateaus.
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Annika Wall @annikawall.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
All 160 artificial reefs to rescue Sweden’s coral reefs are finally in place in the Koster Sea. Now, there will be a few years of anxious waiting before whether the experiment has succeeded or not. www.gu.se/en/news/conc... #ocean #coralreefs #lopheliapertusa #marinerestoration
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Concrete reefs for corals finally in place in the Koster Sea
All 160 artificial reefs that will save Sweden’s coral reefs are finally in place in the Koster Sea. Launching them has taken longer than expected, since the project was affected by the windy summer w...
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Annika Wall @annikawall.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Sunday read before daylight breaks: Rachel Carson's Sea trilogy, with introduction by Margaret Atwood. I'm taking two "nature" university courses this autumn: Nature and Us (liberal arts), and Ecolinguistics. Rachel Carson taught us to look at the ocean in a new way. #seatrilogy #ecolinguistics
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Annika Wall @annikawall.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Det är kanske det översättare blir i framtiden? "Ordretuschörer"? "Men vi har nu också anlitat en bildretuschör som justerar detaljer i efterhand". Det säger Alexandra Lidén på The Book Affair om att skapa barnböcker med AI-genererade bilder. www.dn.se/kultur/den-h...
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Den här barnboksförfattaren finns inte på riktigt
DN:s Jacob Lundström bestämmer sig för att stresstesta det litterära systemet och skapar en barnbok – och en författare – med hjälp av Chat GPT.
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Annika Wall @annikawall.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Fler och fler böcker förbjuds på skolbibliotek i USA för att de är "olämpliga". En oroväckande trend. (Sally Rooneys Normala människor är också med på listan.) #righttoread #rättenattläsa expo.se/nyhet/stieg-...
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Stieg Larsson-bok förbjuds i Florida
Stieg Larssons bästsäljare Män som hatar kvinnor förbjuds i delar av Florida. Boken är listad tillsammans med över 700 boktitlar som nu förbjuds i undervisning och på skolbibliotek runt om i delstaten...
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Annika Wall @annikawall.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Nähä, nu ska jag ha idémöte med Vetenskapsfestivalen. Ämnet har definitivt något med naturen + berättelser att göra, eftersom 2025 års tema är "Framtider".
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Annika Wall @annikawall.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Ja, äntligen hotfulla kedjebrev! If you see this post, do it (you have no choice!) pronouns: She/Her height: 152,5 cm shoe: 38 (four pregnancies thank you very much) zodiac: Cancer smoke: No! tattoos: Yes! A sub rosa on my right hand wrist piercings: No fav drink: Coffee with milk!
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Annika Wall @annikawall.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Älskar verkligen den här forskningen! Mer sånt! "I IPCC:s samtliga framtidsvärldar styrs förändringen uteslutande av människors behov, medan det i utopierna finns ett större inslag av vad som kallas ekocentrism." www.gu.se/nyheter/fram...
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Framtidsutopier jämförda med klimatforskarnas scenarier
I det tvärvetenskapliga forskningsprojektet Utopian stories samarbetar en litteraturvetare och en klimatforskare. Genom att analysera människors skrivna framtidsvisioner, klimatberäkna dem och jämföra...
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Annika Wall @annikawall.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Vi jobbar mindre, köper färre saker, gör roligare grejer och umgås mer. What's not to like? Vi behöver verkligen en ny berättelse om vilka vi är! Vi förlorar inget på att ställa om, vi vinner något istället. (Japp, jag tänker mycket på detta.)
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Annika Wall @annikawall.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
På svenska: Havsmedvetenhet. Havet har en enorm betydelse för livet på jorden, om ni inte redan visste det. Även för livet på land!
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Annika Wall @annikawall.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Jag har recenserat Sverker Sörlins bok "Snö". Kortversionen: Den är otroligt bra och viktig! www.bt.se/kultur/sverk...
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Sverker Sörlin har skrivit en förtrollande nödvändig bok om snö
”Snö” är både en idéhistorisk essä och en personlig kärleksförklaring
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Annika Wall @annikawall.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Älskar att trassligt havssnöre heter long stringy stingy thingy på engelska. Nu syns den i svenska vatten igen. Se upp! För den bränns rejält. #apolemiauvaria
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