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Nic Bury

@dobez.bsky.social
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Work - aquatic toxicologist Belief - let go of that ego, equality, happiness & love

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The FSBI @thefsbi.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
We'd like to congratulate Prof Colin Adams who's been awarded this year's #BevertonMedal! 🏅 Colin was previously the FSBI's president and holds the chair in Freshwater Ecology @uofglasgow.bsky.social. His work includes evolutionary processes in the emergence of new fish diversity and fish migration.
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James Thorburn @jathorburn.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
We're hiring a Research Fellow at Edinburgh Napier University to join the SharkScape project, a three–year, multi-institute project involving field-based research and data analysis. Apply now: 🔗 jobs.ac.uk/job/DLV215/r... #MarineScience #SharkConservation #ResearchJobs
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Prosanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Hey #TeamFish Just keep swimming .. POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER OPPORTUNITY IN ICHTHYOLOGY: ON CRYPTOBENTHIC CORAL REEF FISHES www.fishsystematics.com/postoc
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Postdoc Opportunities — Tornabene Lab
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Halley E. Froehlich @dochfroehlich.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I love this so much.
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Nic Bury @dobez.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Fantastic evening with Jon and Ryan, along with our artists colleagues at Southampton. All about the whales at Winchester cathedral, ecology and art. Wonderful
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Prof Martin Attrill @martinattrill.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
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ProfColinBean @profcolinbean.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Britain’s favourite fish at risk of wipeout within decades, predicts report
Brown trout unlikely to survive in most rivers at height of summer by 2080, says Environment Agency
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Dr Tommy Ryan-Keogh @tjryankeogh.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Global declines in ocean primary production underestimated by climate models communities.springernature.com/posts/global... 🌊
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Global declines in ocean primary production underestimated by climate models
The following study developed a model ranking system to reduce the uncertainties associated with future projections of ocean productivity. Declines are much more likely than presently predicted, but e...
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Simon J. Brandl @gobyone.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Two weeks left to apply for a postdoctoral researcher position in my lab, working on cuties like this Trimma capostriatum. If you're into pop gen, fish, and fieldwork, please consider applying. We're a fun group to science with! 🥹👉👈 fishandfunctions.com/join fishandfunctions.com/s/Postdoc_Ad...
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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Your #FoxOfTheDay . . . just about . . . Thanks to Lisa Syne @finsburyfeline for sharing
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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 28/01/2025
See also this: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Water companies in England ‘use greenwashing playbook to hide environmental harm’
Researchers say companies have prolonged injustice and exaggerated cost of solving infrastructure problems
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Farhan R. Khan @farhanrkhan.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Great article from @dralexford.bsky.social and colleagues www.nature.com/articles/s44... . The use of manufactured doubt, deflection and disinformation has become relevant across #environmental #sciences - #PlasticsTreaty and #climatechange. Here's another example of what scientists are facing.
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Water industry strategies to manufacture doubt and deflect blame for sewage pollution in England - Nature Water
In the past 5 years, a huge amount of untreated wastewater has been released into English waterways. An analysis of the communication used by the water utilities shows that they have employed strategi...
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Alexis Gkantiragas @alexisggk.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Just finished the BES (@britishecolsoc.bsky.social) conservation concept video series by @billsutherland.bsky.social would really recommend for anyone who could do with brushing up on fundamental ecology. I have more of a mol bio background so I learnt a lot! #ecology
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Ineos Oxford Institute for antimicrobial research @ineosoxford.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Curious about what it's like to be a lab technician? We caught up with Sarah Langhorne, IOI lab tech, to hear about her experience supporting multiple busy research programmes as a lab tech. Read more ➡️ ow.ly/2ck450UJrk5
Sarah Langhorne streaking an agar plate in the lab, with text: blog, Day in the life of a laboratory technician.
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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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Marine Biological Laboratory @mblscience.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
🗣️ Physiologists, rejoice! Thought you missed the deadline for the 2025 Physiology course at MBL? Don't toss out that application draft—you can now apply through February 3. Read more: bit.ly/3BZSj9c #ScienceStartsHere
A flyer for the MBL's 2025 Physiology course, which runs from June 8 to July 27. Applications are due February 3. Founded in 1892, the Physiology course is one of the oldest continually running biology courses in the world!
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
“Over the past 50 years, there has been a drastic loss in the global wildlife population that will gradually get worse. Currently, an estimated 200 species have been lost in the UK.”
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Climate change is affecting our wildlife. Can we help nature?
Wildlife loss is prominent in Greater Manchester. Why is this happening, and is there anything we can do to prevent further loss?
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Nick Graham @nickajgraham.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Superb post-doc opportunity 👇Read the thread and get your applications in!
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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
The perfect Monday #RecipeOfTheDay: Spaghetti with Marmite! And I’ll have you know that this is no Anglo act of appropriation but the invention of that great Italian foodwriter, Anna del Conte www.nigella.com/recipes/spag...
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Spaghetti With Marmite
I came across this recipe in Anna Del Conte's memoirs, Risotto with Nettles. Now, there are so many recipes I could borrow from her, and many I have, but this is the one I have to show you here. She i...
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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
New report reveals the strategies of distortion water firms use to hide the extent of sewage pollution. Highlights include watered down poo, no evidence of harm (because no-one ran tests), we're not the only ones polluting & we wouldn't want to put your bills up... www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Nic Bury @dobez.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Should add the paper is on the Water Industries greenwashing tactics on sewage pollution by Alex Ford, Andrew Singer, Peter Hammond and Jamie Woodward.
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Nic Bury @dobez.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Fantastic price of work, thank you.https://www.nature.com/articles/s44221-024-00370-y
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Simon Collins @sirgeogy.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Raw sewage once again flooded into streets and properties from Thames Water's Horley STW: they blame the weather: this is out of order! Our research shows multiple design deficiencies means it’s incapable of properly treating incoming wastewater flows 😩 www.rivermoleriverwatch.org.uk/post/out-of-...
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Out of Order! Thames Water blame "heavy rain" for repeated Sewage Flooding from Horley Treatment Works
Sewage once again flooded into streets and properties from Thames Water's Horley Sewage Treatment Works (STW) on 5 January 2025. This is the third occasion in recent years when the unacceptable has ha...
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Nic Bury @dobez.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
I could have reposted 100s on PFAS. Why attention now, it is too late. When will we learn as a species the concept of the precautionary principle. Concerns over forever chemicals was made decades ago.
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Nic Bury @dobez.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
At the Office for Environmental protection annual report launch. Does not look good none of the Environmental improvement plans on track. Speeding up action in the marine environment is one recommendation. Government must do more because momentum has been lost.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Happy Centenary to the Shipping Forecast (Cartoon from issue 1581)
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Cathy Lucas @drjello67.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
#Jellyfish colleagues - #EGU25 Session 0S3.2 is on gelatinous zooplankton in the ocean carbon cycle. Deadline for submitting abstracts is tomorrow, 15 Jan 2025. meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/session/…
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Browse by session
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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Searching for Sponsors of the largest non-profit, free palaeontological festival in Britian - the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival. Attracting, entertaining and educating 20,000 souls! Get in touch if you want to make the festival happen.
Marquees on promenade in Lyme Regis. Text Advertising & Sponsorship Opportunities
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University of Southampton @unisouthampton.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Could our universe be filled with hidden black holes that we've not spotted before? Our academics have been working with NASA – and what they found is out of this world. Read more 👉 brnw.ch/UoS_News_spa...
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Space harbours more hidden black holes than first thought, say scientists
Space harbours more hidden black holes than first thought, say scientists
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University of Southampton @unisouthampton.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Researchers at Winchester School of Art and UWE Bristol have designed and tested a sustainable, biodegradable electronic textile. e-textiles embed electrical components in fabric and can be worn to monitor a person's vital signs. Find out more 👉 brnw.ch/UoS_News_env...
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Environmentally friendly ‘e-textiles’ technology
Environmentally friendly ‘e-textiles’ technology
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Josefin Sundin @josefin-sundin.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Post-doc position available! Join us in this exciting project where we will use more than 100 years of data to investigate habitat choice and availability of the elusive European eel. The position will be based at SLU Aqua in Stockholm. Apply before January 7. Please repost!
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
I interviewed @rachellense.bsky.social about a pride flag made out of NASA imagery, which was, until November, the most-liked post ever on Bluesky. www.southernfriedscience.com/the-story-of...
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The story of the pride flag made from NASA imagery: Bluesky’s most-liked image
Last June, a striking image of a pride flag made up of NASA imagery became the most-liked post on the new social media network Bluesky, a post it held for 2 months. I spoke with its creator Rachel …
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Satvir Kaur MP @laboursatvir.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
#ItsASiblingsThing #ChristmasHolidays #Family ❤️🎄
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Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Interested in multiple stressor research in rivers? Interested in a PhD under excellent supervision in one of Europe’s largest freshwater research centres? We seek 8 doctoral researchers for the CRC RESIST at the University of Duisburg-Essen! sfb-resist.de/people/open-... #rivers #PhDjobs
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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
An armada of citizen scientists sampled bathing sites across England this year & the results were scary: over half of sites had E. coli over levels deemed "safe" in the US, & antibiotic resistant genes were detected at most sites. Carcinogenic PFOA was detected in water at 95% of bathing sites. 🧵
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Stu Bearhop @stubearhop.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Helloooooo @bsky.app finally deleted my twitter account! Looking forward to a much healthier level of engagement and feed on here…
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Nic Bury @dobez.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Completely agree. Doing nothing is doing something. Let the mind wander
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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Jobs, jobs, jobs. Come join us here in Bristol...
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University of Glasgow @glasgow.ac.uk · 20/12/2024
Don't miss out! 📣 The 4th round of applications for the @uofgjmsphd.bsky.social Scholarships are open until 31 Jan 2025. 12 Scholarships are available in any research area where the University can supervise. Plus mentorship, placements, networking and much more! ➡️ www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...
JMS Scholar Aaron Pocock leaning to one side with their fingers interlocked, wearing a buttoned shirt and winter coat. With the University of Glasgow logo and white text reading: Join Our World Changers
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Dr Kerry S (She/Her) @drkerrys.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Have you had your say? The Bathing Water consultation closes on the 23rd December! consult.defra.gov.uk/water/bathing-… I’ve just responded in a personal capacity #Water #River #Sea #swim #paddleboard #Reform #England #Wales #Environment #WaterQuality #HumanHealth #Health #OneHealth
The front edge of a bright orange paddleboard at the bottom of the image, a black dry bag strapped under the bungee.
The low sun reflecting across the water in a pale golden glow, the silhouettes of tall oaks create a dark band next to the pale sky with an indentation showing the rivers meandering shape.
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Simon J. Brandl @gobyone.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
🚨New postdoc positions available: we are looking for 2 postdoctoral researchers to join a large, collaborative effort to document, describe, and investigate the biodiversity of tiny, cryptobenthic fishes in the Indo-Pacific 🤏🐠🧪. More details: fishandfunctions.com/join%F0%9F%9... Please repost 🦑🧪
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Ouch, too real.
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Gordon Inglis @climategordon.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
It's time for the social event of the year - the @sotonoceanearth.bsky.social Geochemistry research group Christmas quiz! @thefosterlab.bsky.social
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Did you know that you can get trained in IUCN Red List assessment for free online? I have my undergrads do this as a semester-long assignment to understand policy-relevant science. You can do it too! 🧪🦑🌎 www.conservationtraining.org/course/index...
The IUCN Red List categories and criteria The IUCN Red List logo
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Dr Alison Cribb @alisoncribb.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Reminder of the January 8th deadline for this reef palaeoecology PhD project at @sotonoceanearth.bsky.social with @tomezard.bsky.social + @chrisgoatley.bsky.social :) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Satvir Kaur MP @laboursatvir.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Very frustratingly, some Southampton postcodes are today experiencing low pressure/no water. 💧 If you’re SO15/SO16 you may be affected so look out for updates as they come in. I will share more when I have it. I’m in touch with Southern Water pushing for a swift fix. (1/2)
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