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Dr Pamela Buchan

@asterinidae.bsky.social
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Interdisciplinary marine social scientist. Independent and @exeter.ac.uk @exetermarine.bsky.social. #Motion4TheOcean Founder and ESRC #ImpactPrize winner 2022. @labour-candc.bsky.social Director. #MarSocSci #MarineCitizenship X@Asterinidae

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Dr Pamela Buchan @asterinidae.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
New paper! The #Motion4TheOcean has grown to 40 UK councils representing over 5m people. We share its story and what we’ve learnt about translating research into local-government action. #ResearchImpact @accessnetwork.bsky.social @exetermarine.bsky.social www.frontiersin.org/journals/oce...
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Dr Pamela Buchan @asterinidae.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
It's been a birthday cake topper painting kind of a weekend. #MyHeroAcademia #anime
A table covered in food colouring pots and a partially completed icing cake topper with Bakugo from the anime My Hero Academia. Two painted icing cake toppers with characters from My Hero Academia.
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Dr Pamela Buchan @asterinidae.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I did this BlueBoard podcast recently on #MarineCitizenship and democracy. Check it out. #MarSocSci everythingischanging.eu
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Everything Is Changing
Welcome to Everything Is Changing, a podcast where forward-thinking conversations spark real-world impact.
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Dr Pamela Buchan @asterinidae.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
It's interesting to see how the distribution also seems to narrow. Presumably the right temp is getting squeezed.
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Dr Pamela Buchan @asterinidae.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Been working too much for enjoyment this month but I have noticed two things in cultural entertainment: 1) 90% sure there is a loon call in the new Harry Potter audiobooks. Maybe passable as a magical place. 2) Box tree moth on The Other Bennett Sister. Definitely not passable. Eco knowledge fail.
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Dr Pamela Buchan @asterinidae.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Been lying awake listening to a bird for hours. What could it be? Open Merlin and instantly the road fills with cars. Not a word of a lie. Had to go to the ensuite and open a window to record. It was a Robin. Why is the Robin singing all night? Probably light pollution. 😪
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Dr Pamela Buchan @asterinidae.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Check out this @theconversation.com article about my work on #MarineCitizenship #OceanLiteracy and #SailTraining! theconversation.com/how-sailing-...
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How sailing voyages can inspire the next generation of ocean scientists and advocates
Sailing voyages help young people develop strong connections with the sea that can last a lifetime.
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Dr Pamela Buchan @asterinidae.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
For Christmas, my son got me this sweet metalwork Jay kit from the Royal School of Needlework. Making swift progress until work starts next week!
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Dr Pamela Buchan @asterinidae.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
I'm most sad for Katya. She's the greatest choreographer of all strictly ever. The only consolation is maybe she won't leave til she's won so I get to keep seeing her amazing dances. #strictly
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Dr Pamela Buchan @asterinidae.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Fb memories tells me it's 11 years since I realised Fresh Prince of Bel Air is Mansfield Park. 11 years of nobody else apparently discussing this.
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Dr Pamela Buchan @asterinidae.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Everyone is away for the weekend to Alton Towers. I've stayed home to rat and dog sit.
Sprollie dog curled up on a dog bed.Terrier dog wrapped up in a blanket. White rat eating food on a person's shoulder. Brown rat on a person's shoulder.
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Dr Pamela Buchan @asterinidae.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Taking a break from learning tambour beading (which is SO hard) with a new kit from @londonembschool.bsky.social. This is my first time sewing French loops. One can only knot for so long before one's finger and thumb are wrecked! It's fun doing this in little installments.
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Dr Pamela Buchan @asterinidae.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Exciting new delivery! The knotwork kit from @londonembschool.bsky.social using my voucher for being learner of the month! Plus an extra treat, the very cute, tiny teacup needle minder. No more shoving needles in the settee arm and losing them inside...
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Dr Pamela Buchan @asterinidae.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Are there any mathematicians on here up for helping me to create a model equation to approximate an haematological problem? Just for fun!
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Dr Pamela Buchan @asterinidae.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Over in LinkedIn we've been discussing Early Career Researcher precarity and the influence of funding rules. www.linkedin.com/posts/pamela...
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These past two or three years, as an Early Career Researcher on successive fixed term and partial university contracts, I've been involved in a number of studies looking at ECR precarity. It's...
These past two or three years, as an Early Career Researcher on successive fixed term and partial university contracts, I've been involved in a number of studies looking at ECR precarity. It's such an...
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Dr Pamela Buchan @asterinidae.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Nine years since I made my husband's Regency tailcoat. By hand! I had septic fingers from so many needle sticks. 😂 Then I got really really ill with pernicious anaemia and haven't made any Regency clothes since. :( But he'll be wearing this again for a Jane Austen Festival event this month.
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Dr Pamela Buchan @asterinidae.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
How fun is this?! Tambour is tricky compared to needlework. 😅
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Dr Pamela Buchan @asterinidae.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Back from the beach → back to Parliament. In June the EAC urged a new framework for inclusive engagement in marine decision-making. We respond with practical actions from the MMO-Exeter work on social sustainability. hdl.handle.net/10779/exe.30... @exeter.ac.uk #MarineGovernance #CoastalCommunities
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Advancing Social Sustainability in Marine Governance: Policy Briefing
The 2025 Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) calls for a new national framework for inclusive engagement in marine decision-making.This briefing presents timely and practical responses to that call, d...
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Dr Pamela Buchan @asterinidae.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Fearless baby robin at the edge of the pond. They are always interested in what people are up to. #WildlifePond
A robin fledgling amongst reeds
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Dr Pamela Buchan @asterinidae.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Finally seen a dragonfly emerge after having our #WildlifePond for about 7 years! So cool. #rewilding
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Dr Pamela Buchan @asterinidae.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I was this years old when I bought my first brand new vinyl of songs I've never before heard and opened it and played it.
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Dr Pamela Buchan @asterinidae.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Happy #WorldOceanDay! The ocean is the great regulator and provider for the whole world and we should all be looking after it. Ask your local council to declare a #Motion4TheOcean today! oceanconservationtrust.org/ocean-advoca...
oceanconservationtrust.org
Call a Motion for the Ocean - Ocean Conservation Trust
Our Ocean Recovery Declaration - or Motion for the Ocean - seeks to help all local governments take action to improve the Ocean's health.
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Dr Pamela Buchan @asterinidae.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Wild garden is looking quite wild on this first day of June. As well as the magnolia and hazel saplings coming along nicely, there is a vast quantity of plantain - gives seeds over winter for birds - and wild strawberry - giving fruits to small mammals through the summer. #rewilding
Photograph of garden plants.
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Dr Pamela Buchan @asterinidae.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
What are people using as a combined email client on their phone now that BlueMail have self-sabotaged their app?
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Dr Pamela Buchan @asterinidae.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Listening to Laura Bates' new book. Would love to hear a response from @newyorker.com's Daniel Immerwahr and @wjscheirer.bsky.social on Ch1 where she highlights how they ignore the impacts of deep fakes on women when they say they've had no effects of consequence. #EverydaySexism
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Dr Pamela Buchan @asterinidae.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
This year one of our buddleja bushes is infested with aphids. Apparently this is something unusual being picked up by the RHS. www.rhs.org.uk/biodiversity... You can report sightings here: survey123.arcgis.com/share/57f3eb...
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Dr Pamela Buchan @asterinidae.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
I've finished my first of three tambour kits from @londonembschool.bsky.social. It's been interesting learning. I enjoyed the swirls and they were quick work, but the rows of stitches were boring, like cross stitch, and I'm not satisfied with my turns at the end of the lines. Beading next I think.
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Dr Pamela Buchan @asterinidae.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Finally! A decade ago we heard Mr Tawny shooting, year after year. Then one day Mrs Tawny rocked up. I've not heard Mr this year but I've been wishing to capture a Tawny on Merlin since I got the app and finally there was enough of a break in the traffic when I was outside the house and I got her!
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Dr Pamela Buchan @asterinidae.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Aw. Remembering my girl's Frozen party from a decade ago. I was Anna. I made her Elsa dress. And obviously we had animals and science because what else are birthday parties for?
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Dr Pamela Buchan @asterinidae.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
How is person supposed to work like this? I can't get my chair by the desk! 🐶
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Dr Pamela Buchan @asterinidae.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
My daughter requested this birthday cake this year. Her own design!
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Dr Pamela Buchan @asterinidae.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
First rainy day in a while? Another year, another series of shit-pumps into the sea literally every single time it rains regardless of frequency or intensity.
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Dr Pamela Buchan @asterinidae.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Chumps using chatGPT to create action figures. This is where it's at. #RegencyAI
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Dr Pamela Buchan @asterinidae.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Box tree owners - it's time! Picked 5 or more bastard box tree moth caterpillar babies off the hedge today. New to this? You're looking for mottled and skeleton leaves. Leaves stuck together. Silk. And poos. The bigger the poos, the bigger the problem! #invasive #BoxTreeMoth
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Dr Pamela Buchan @asterinidae.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Remember how I was learning Grade 5 music theory 40 years after first learning to play the piano? I've got my result!
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Dr Pamela Buchan @asterinidae.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
People often wonder what migraines really are. Speculate about blood pressure and so on. I can tell you definitely what migraines are. They are robbing Peter to pay Paul.
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Dr Pamela Buchan @asterinidae.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Spring is coming! Sat in the garden at lunch, for the first time this year. Off for a walk in the sun without a coat.
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Dr Pamela Buchan @asterinidae.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Having experienced this first hand I can confirm the truth if it. However I think they hate more moderate or nuanced people on the left more than anyone else, even those on the right. God forbid any evidence or reflection on values might enter a discourse! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Leftwing activists less likely to work with political rivals than other UK groups, study finds
Exclusive: Lack of understanding by ‘progressive activists’ of other voting blocs has led to rise of far right, authors argue
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Dr Pamela Buchan @asterinidae.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Is Persil implying that periods are something we should be ashamed of? And blood shows bravery but not when it's period blood?
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Dr Pamela Buchan @asterinidae.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
My written evidence to the Environmental Audit Committee on Governing the Marine Environment was published today. I focus on the human right to participate in environmental decision-making. committees.parliament.uk/work/8759/go... @exeter.ac.uk @exetermarine.bsky.social @accessnetwork.bsky.social
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Governing the marine environment - Written evidence - Committees - UK Parliament
Written evidence submission publications for Governing the marine environment.
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Dr Pamela Buchan @asterinidae.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
On my way to Carnforth today. Tomorrow I'm co-presenting findings from the Natural England project I've been leading on cultural values in the cockle fishery for the NWIFCA technical Sub-Committee. It'll be so interesting to share these qualitative oral history findings with decision-makers.
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Dr Pamela Buchan @asterinidae.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Last night I saw Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) at Theatre Royal Plymouth. Man, it was one brilliant play. I love P&P almost as much as my family and deplore a bad adaptation. This was an hilarious and clever adaptation. Go see it if you can!
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Dr Pamela Buchan @asterinidae.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I had no idea about the origins of The Wave in Bristol as a place to support ocean connection. I really get behind this because ocean experiences are the first step to #MarineCitizenship. We should also be using our natural freshwater spaces to grow connections. #CoastalFutures25
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Dr Pamela Buchan @asterinidae.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Agree that AI cannot and should not be used to replace stakeholder engagement, but trying free chatGPT to draw on the public data is not the same thing as a skilled person using full chatGPT to integrate and summarise carefully constructed inputs managed by the user. #CoastalFutures25
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Dr Pamela Buchan @asterinidae.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Hello, I'm (virtually) at the #CoastalFutures25 conference today and tomorrow. First time sharing news from CF on the bluesky platform!
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Dr Pamela Buchan @asterinidae.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
@timdowling.bsky.social I feel your hose pain. A few years ago we returned home at midnight on NYD after days away to find no power in the house and a curious sound. The kids were terrified. A rodent had chewed through the hose feeding the dishwasher and flooded the kitchen tripping the electrics.
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Dr Pamela Buchan @asterinidae.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Not a lot of news sharing because everything I'm working on right now is in the intermediate head-down, get to the end, share later, kind of stage. But here's an overview of what I'm doing as a taster for the heady flurry of papers and so forth in the coming 18 months.
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Dr Pamela Buchan @asterinidae.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Hello bluesky. I've done a bit of an update to the #MarSocSci starter pack. A flurry of new followers suggests it was needed. Let me know if you are engaged in marine social science and would like to be added. Suggest including the hashtag in your message so people can find you! go.bsky.app/Sj7NX5D
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Dr Pamela Buchan @asterinidae.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
In work news, I'm helping to organise this social science mini-symposium at the Wind Energy Science Conference in Nantes in June. Check it out and consider submitting an abstract. The deadline is 31st Jan. #energy #WindEnergy #SocSci #MarSocSci wesc2025.eu/themes/ms9-0...
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MS#09.2 Social science for collaborative wind energy planning and participation - WESC2025
S. TEGEN¹, G. HÜBNER², M. DE SAIN³, J. ASTON⁴ ¹ Associate Director, Center for the New Energy Economy, Colorado State University, US | IEA Wind Social Science task cooperating agent.|² Head of Research group Health and Environmental Psychology of Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.|³ Strategic Renewable Energy Consultant, Pondera Consult, The Netherlands. |⁴ Founder, Earning Local Support Academy, Ireland | IEA Wind Social Science task cooperating agent
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Dr Pamela Buchan @asterinidae.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Yesterday I passed my mock grade 4 music theory exam with distinction. Had an extended break over Christmas but now I'm moving onto grade 5 where for which I'll actually sit the exam and achieve a qualification I should've got 30 years ago!
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