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Kristina Beck

@kristinakbeck.bsky.social
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University Teacher in Marine Science at The University of Edinburgh | Cold-water coral physiology and skeletal analyses | Climate change effect on corals 🪸 | Multiple driver experiments | Scientific diver | Ocean lover 🌊 🐋🐬🦭🐠🐟🐡🐙🦑🪼🦪🦞🦀

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Jean-Pierre Gattuso @jpgattuso.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
‼️ Please disseminate widely: the manifesto of the One Ocean Science Congress #OOSC is open for digital signature: forms.ifremer.fr/pdg/oosc-man... #ScienceForTheOcean 🌊
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Kristina Beck @kristinakbeck.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
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St Abbs Marine Station @marinestation.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Are you looking for a career in Marine Biology? Do you have some free time between now and the end of May? If so, why not come and volunteer with us! Primary duties will be animal husbandry and general aquarium maintenance and assisting with research projects. Sorry, applicants must be over 18 yo.
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Frank Melzner @frankmelzner.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Apply to our Biological Oceanography MSc program, study in small groups on the shores of the Baltic Sea with leading researchers! Courses are research-driven, deadline April 15: www.geomar.de/en/studying/... #geomar #kieluniversity
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MSc: Biological Oceanography
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ICYMARE Conference @icymare.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Session 3.3 Coral Reefs Under a Changing Climate: Impacts, Resilience and Solutions hosted by Nagore Quintano, Tabea Platz and Malte Ostendarp Submit your abstract now to join #ICYMARE2025 www.icymare.com/about-the-co... #callforabstracts #coralreefs #climatechange #oceanconservation #marinescience
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Bryce Stewart @bd-stew.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
"The most important place on the planet is not on land, but at sea." Super stoked & excited to see the trailer drop for 'Ocean' the new film of hope by David Attenborough youtu.be/cIZAdCtKT_g?... Globally released in cinemas May 8th #oceanwithattenborough #davidattenborough #oceanoptimism 📽 🌊 🐟 🪸 🐙
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OCEAN WITH DAVID ATTENBOROUGH | OFFICIAL TRAILER | GLOBAL CINEMA EVENT FROM MAY 8 | Altitude Films
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Kristina Beck @kristinakbeck.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Always nice to spend a day in St Abbs especially when it's so sunny ☀️ Many thanks to @marinestation.bsky.social for giving a tour of the marine station! 🦞🦀
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Kristina Beck @kristinakbeck.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
If you're interested in learning more about the effect of climate change on cold-water corals, please join the MASTS webinar on Wednesday next week where I'll be presenting the results of several aquarium experiments with multiple environmental drivers 🪸
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MASTS @mastscot.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Please join us for the upcoming Open Forum Session by the #Marine Climate Change Forum! The session titled #Climatechange drivers in UK regional seas and Scottish #deepsea with Dr Heather Sugden and Dr Johanne Vad will be taking place online on Tues 8 Apr at 1 pm UTC.
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MASTS Open Forum Session "Climate Change Drivers in UK regional seas and Scottish deep seas" - MASTS
The MASTS Marine Climate Change Forum is excited to host a free Open Forum Session with 2 interesting talks! Register Here! Talk 1: Investigating climate driven changes on marine invertebrates […]
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MASTS @mastscot.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
📰Exciting news!📰 MASTS Working Group publishes "The Effects of Climate Change on Scottish Deep Seas - A Story Map" The Story Map is an interactive virtual tool explaining #climatechange drivers and highlighting case studies emphasizing the importance of #deepsea environments around #Scotland 🦑🦀
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Effects of climate change on Scottish deep seas
The deep sea encompasses all marine habitats that exist below the "sunlight zone".  The sunlight zone is the surface layer of the ocean to a depth of about 200 metres (m) at which point abou...
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Kristina Beck @kristinakbeck.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Interested in learning more about the effects of climate change on Scottish deep seas? 🤔 Then check out the @mastscot.bsky.social Story Map and Policy Brief! 🌊🪸🐟 Great to see this published today - many thanks to an amazing team! storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/11db... masts.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
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Effects of climate change on Scottish deep seas
The deep sea encompasses all marine habitats that exist below the "sunlight zone".  The sunlight zone is the surface layer of the ocean to a depth of about 200 metres (m) at which point abou...
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Dominique Anderson @dmjanderson.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Join us next week for @mastscot.bsky.social Deep-Sea Open Forum- Daniëlle de Jonge (JNCC) on SMARTEX, a UKRI funded project investigating the impact of seabed mining on the abyssal Pacific and exploring topics of resilience and recovery. Feb 12 1-2pm GMT. Register free: masts.ac.uk/event/masts-...
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MASTS Open Forum Session "Seabed Mining and Resilience to Experimental Impact" - MASTS
MASTS Research Forums host regular Open Forum Sessions to provide the community an insight into their work.
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ICYMARE Conference @icymare.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
We are happy to announce the date for next year's conference in Bremerhaven! Save the date for the 8-12th September to join us for a week packed with marine science sessions, networking events and workshops! 🐙🐳 #marinelife #marinescience #earlycareerscientists #conference #ICYMARE
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Kristina Beck @kristinakbeck.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
🎓🐟 PhD Opportunity! 🐟🎓 Explore how coastal habitats support fisheries using #bioacoustics & #MachineLearning! 🌊 Study marine ecosystems 🌐 Develop AI tools 💡 Drive sustainability 📍 University of Glasgow 📆 Apply by 3 January 🔗 shorturl.at/4qt5K
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Understanding the role of coastal habitats to fisheries using bioacoustics and machine learning
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Dominique Anderson @dmjanderson.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Hi Bluesky science community 👋 I'm new here after migrating from the app that shall not be named. I'm a PhD researcher in deep-sea ecotoxicology—interested in all the weird and wonderful things in the deep sea. Excited to connect, share insights, and learn from this community. #DeepSeaScience
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Deep-Ocean Stewardship Initiative @deepstewardship.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
🌎 The #DeepOcean, the biggest CO₂ absorber & heat buffer—but how much do we really know about it? DOSI is spotlighting critical knowledge gaps in IPCC reports & calling for deeper research into ocean deoxygenation, fisheries, carbon cycles & more. Our policy brief: buff.ly/3CpixSc #COP29
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Narimane @naridorey.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
👋 Hello bluer skies 🟦 I'm looking to find : the R (dataviz) community, the ocean acidification and invert 🐙 communities, and more broadly people who care about climate change !
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Kristina Beck @kristinakbeck.bsky.social · 06/08/2024
Very exciting and successful session at beamline i13 at Diamond Light Source to study the effect of ocean acidification and multiple environmental drivers on the dissolution of cold-water coral skeletons from our long-term aquarium experiment 🪸
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ICRS International Coral Reef Society @icrs.bsky.social · 05/08/2024
It's time to make sure ICRS 2026 is on your calendar. The 16th International Coral Reef Symposium will be held in Auckland, New Zealand, from Sunday 19th to Friday 24th July 2026 www.icrs2026.nz
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ICRS International Coral Reef Society @icrs.bsky.social · 05/08/2024
Final week to apply for the two writing workshops offered through the ICRS - Student and Early Career Chapter 2-day workshops equip participants with the skills needed to craft winning grant proposals and impactful research papers Apply by August 8th at 11:59pm UTC docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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ICRS-SECC Writing Workshops Application
The International Coral Reef Society (ICRS) Student and Early Career Chapter (SECC) will be hosting two writing workshops conducted by a professional consultant for active ICRS members. As students an...
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CNN @cnn.com · 22/07/2024
New research challenges a long-held assumption about oxygen in the deep sea, with scientists finding oxygen produced without photosynthesis in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone.
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Scientists discover ‘dark’ oxygen being produced more than 13,000 feet below the ocean surface | CNN
New research is challenging a long-held assumption about the role of oxygen in the deep sea, with scientists finding oxygen produced without photosynthesis in a region known as the Clarion-Clipperton ...
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Kevin Connor @kevintconnor.bsky.social · 22/07/2024
Another reason to not mine the seabed: Oxygen discovery defies knowledge of the deep ocean t.co/DgptLhxRDJ 🧪🦑
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Dark oxygen made by deep sea 'batteries'
The discovery that lumps of metal on the seafloor produce oxygen raises questions over plans to mine the deep ocean.
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Eleni Anagnostou @eleniwater.bsky.social · 08/07/2024
🚨1 post doc & 1 lab tech position advertised at GEOMAR🚨 on ERC CoG project "HighBorG". Cool B isotopes, forams & fossil 🪸, climate reconstructions of key past warm periods! Flexible starting date & position duration Due Sep 1: www.geomar.de/en/karriere/... Due Aug 15: www.geomar.de/en/karriere/...
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Technical assistant (m/f/d) -Inorganic elemental and isotopic geochemical analyses, clean lab techniques, marine carbonates preparation for analyses, chemical purification methods, data management and...
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Simon Donner @simondonner.bsky.social · 24/06/2024
Postdoc opening! 🪸 🌊 🌡️ We're looking for someone with a marine ecology or climate science PhD to work with us at UBC on the causes and effects of marine heatwaves and other climate extremes. It is an interdisciplinary job and setting: simondonner.com/post-doctora...
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Postdoc Opportunity: Climate Extremes and Coastal Ecosystems · Simon Donner
My research group at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada is searching for a postdoctoral researcher to participate in interdisciplinary research on ocean extreme events and their e...
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Oscar Branson @oscarbranson.bsky.social · 21/06/2024
🚨🚨🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨🚨🚨 3-year #postdoc position to study the #geochemistry of marine #calcification! biomin.esc.cam.ac.uk/job/leverhul... Come join my @leverhulme.bsky.social project to work out how shells are made! @eurogeosciences.bsky.social @eageo.bsky.social @geochemgroup.bsky.social
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PostDoc Wanted!
Geochemistry of Marine Calcification Mechanisms
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 20/06/2024
Ready for #ShowYourStripes on Friday? 1) Download your own stripes: ShowYourStripes.info 2) Share the graphics widely on 21st June 3) Start conversations about climate risks & actions to take
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Show Your Stripes
Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe
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James Rae @mudwaterclimate.bsky.social · 13/06/2024
🚨St Andrews Earth & Environmental Sciences is hiring!🚨 Lecturer (Assist. Prof) in Earth Surface Processes. Areas could include sedimentary environments, processes, geology, geomorphology, stratigraphy, CCS, natural haz, or many more! Closes 17 July www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Beautiful Sandy beaches surround the scenic pier and town of St Andrews, where the lovely folks in the School Earth and Environmental Sciences are looking for a new colleague!
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ICRS International Coral Reef Society @icrs.bsky.social · 02/05/2024
Save the date: The next International Coral Reef Symposium will be held 19-24 July 2026 in Auckland, New Zealand.
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Miriam Seifert @miriamseif.bsky.social · 26/04/2024
📣 2 job positions just opened in our working group led by @jhauck.bsky.social at the Alfred Wegener Institute: Coastal model set-up and application: jobs.awi.de/Vacancies/16... Southern Ocean biogeography: jobs.awi.de/Vacancies/16... Spread the news / apply if you wanna get one of these cool jobs 😎
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Judith Hauck @jhauck.bsky.social · 27/04/2024
We have two job positions open in our #ocean #biogeochemical #modelling group at #AWI. Come and work with this vivid group of excellent scientists to better understand and quantify carbon uptake and storage in the coastal ocean and in Southern Ocean plankton ecosystems. Apply until 31 May.
A group of twelve people standing outside for a group photo.
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Kristina Beck @kristinakbeck.bsky.social · 08/03/2024
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Kristina Beck @kristinakbeck.bsky.social · 07/03/2024
🚨 Paper alert! 🚨 If you’re interested in energy reserves of cold-water corals, please have a look at my third PhD paper in Scientific Reports! 😀🥳 rdcu.be/dABZi We found a clear positive correlation between energy reserves and calcification rate of Desmophyllum dianthus!
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Kristina Beck @kristinakbeck.bsky.social · 26/02/2024
We successfully finished our multiple stressor experiment with cold-water corals at the St Abbs marine station and the University of Edinburgh last week after one year 🥳🎉 A huge thank you to everyone who helped with this experiment! 😀
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Kristina Beck @kristinakbeck.bsky.social · 23/02/2024
😢 And another clear sign of why we need to stop climate change NOW!
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ICYMARE Conference @icymare.bsky.social · 29/01/2024
There are only 3 days left to submit your Session proposal for #ICYMARE2024 if you want to share YOUR field of research with other early career researchers at a volunteer organized bottom-up conference by and for young marine researchers! 🐳🐙 #MarineLife www.icymare.com/about-the-co...
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CALL FOR SESSIONS - ICYMARE
ICYMARE is calling for Sessions for the ICYMARE 2023 OLDENBURG conference, which will be taking place from the 18th to 22nd of September at the Carl-von-Ossietzky University of Oldenburg in Germany
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ICYMARE Conference @icymare.bsky.social · 16/01/2024
Our call for Sessions is still open until the end of the month so if YOU want to host a session about YOUR field of research at ICYMARE 2024 in Bremen, now is the time to apply! 🐳 Follow the link below to find more information: www.icymare.com/about-the-co... #marinescience #earlycareer #marinelife
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 12/01/2024
2023 smashed the prior record, becoming the hottest year at between 1.34C and 1.54C above preindustrial levels based on reports from five different monitoring groups. For more details see our massive new State of the Climate report over at @carbonbrief.org: www.carbonbrief.org/state-of-the...
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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 10/01/2024
Post doc available in our lab fosterlab.bsky.social : laser ablation boron isotopes in benthic foraminifera to better constrain the pH change and C-input across the PETM. Details here: jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx.... Deadline 31st Jan. Please spread the word and pass on to interested parties.
fissure eruprtion like those that occured at the time of the PETM (image credit Morgon Jones)Existing boron isotope based record of pH change across the PETM from Gutjahr et al. (2017)Some benthic foraminifera under our laser ablation system being ablated for their boron isotopes (image credit: Chris Standish and Tali Babila)
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 05/01/2024
Climate stripes need new colour as world warms www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Reading University's climate stripes need new colour
A climate scientist says the darkest red from the scale will no longer tell the full story.
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Oscar Branson @oscarbranson.bsky.social · 16/12/2023
🚨🚨🚨 Fully-Funded PhD Project 🚨🚨🚨 Interested in shells, corals or plankton? Ever wondered how they form? Come join our group @Cambridge on this @leverhulme.bsky.social project! A fun combination of culturing, geochemistry, physiology and modelling. biomin.esc.cam.ac.uk/job/biomin/l...
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PhD Student Wanted!
Outside the comfort zone: physiological responses of marine calcifiers to extreme environmental conditions.
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ICRS International Coral Reef Society @icrs.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
Hello world, follow us on bsky. #coral #icrs
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Dr Verena Schoepf (she/her) @verenaschoepf.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
🦑 #MarineLife Coral reef people: the International Coral Reef Society is now also on Bsky 😍🥳 Please share!
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Kristina Beck @kristinakbeck.bsky.social · 10/12/2023
I really enjoyed presenting the preliminary findings of our long-term multiple stressor experiment with the cold-water coral Desmophyllum pertusum and discussing all things marine and coral at the MASTS and RCUK conferences last week! 😀
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Jordan Casey @jordancasey.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
🐟🧬 Research technician opportunity in marine ecology! 🦠🔬 Opening for a research technician in my lab @thecaseylab.bsky.social Full advertisement: caseylab.weebly.com/join.html Apply by December 1st. Start date in Jan/Feb 2024. Email me with any questions!
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Dr Diva Amon @divaamon.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
A first experimental look at the impacts of #deepsea mining plumes on midwater animals such as jellyfish. Spoiler: it’s not good! Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... News piece: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Deep-sea mining threatens jellyfish, suggests first-of-its-kind study
Sediment dislodged by ocean-floor mining could disrupt jellyfish metabolism, potentially causing the animals serious harm. Sediment dislodged by ocean-floor mining could disrupt jellyfish metabolism, ...
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EAG @eageo.bsky.social · 17/11/2023
Job alert: #postdoc in weathering geochemistry, GFZ Helmholtz Centre Potsdam (DE). Apply by 10 December. More info: www.eag.eu.com/wp-content/u...
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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
Looking for a PhD? Ever wanted to know how foraminifera grow their shells? Then look no further: noc.ac.uk/gsnocs/proje.... PhD opportunity at Univesity of Southamptom with David Evans, me and others, please pass on to interested parties and get in touch to know more!
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Kristina Beck @kristinakbeck.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
I agree 100% 😀
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Kristina Beck @kristinakbeck.bsky.social · 05/11/2023
New to Bluesky 😉 Trying to connect with people who study tropical / cold-water corals 🪸, climate change, ocean acidification, anthropogenic impacts on the marine environment... 🌊 🐋🐬🦈🦭🐟🦀🦑🐙🪼🦞🐚
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