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Michael Cunliffe 🏳️‍🌈

@marinemicrobes.bsky.social
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Director of Science & Senior Research Fellow at the Marine Biological Association l Professor of Marine Microbiology at the University of Plymouth l Fascinated by the microbial world and other marine life

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Michael Cunliffe 🏳️‍🌈 @marinemicrobes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
New paper out in npj Fungal Science! By identifying cell wall-forming chitin synthases in a chytrid fungus, we're helping build chytrids as new model systems for fundamental cell biology and exploring how key cellular processes evolved across the fungal kingdom. doi.org/10.1038/s445...
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Cell wall-forming chitin synthases in a chytrid fungus - npj Fungal Science
npj Fungal Science - Cell wall-forming chitin synthases in a chytrid fungus
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Thomas Mock @thomasmock.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
On behalf of 108 colleagues and friends from 11 countries, thrilled to share the first paper from our 100 #Diatom Genomes Project (100DGP). Just out @plosbiology.org | @norwichmicro.bsky.social | @ueaenv.bsky.social | @jgi.doe.gov doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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The 100 Diatom Genomes Project
This Community Page presents the 100 Diatom Genomes Project, which aims to sequence the genomes and transcriptomes of 100 diatom species across major lineages, life forms and ecological strategies. Th...
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The Marine Biological Association @thembauk.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Warming seas fuel spread of Harmful Algal Blooms in the Bering Sea 🚨 Dr Clare Ostle explains the impact of the mega-blooms of the harmful alga Alexandrium catenella in the Bering Sea recorded by the Continuous Plankton Recorder Survey. 🔗 Full story - www.mba.ac.uk/warming-seas...
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Varsha Mathur @varshamathur.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
So happy to share our new paper out now in @natmicrobiol.nature.com! We establish Pirsonia-Coscinodiscus as a model pathosystem and uncover how this tiny parasite infects and kills bloom-forming marine diatoms 🌊🦠 rdcu.be/fuQyF
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Michael Cunliffe 🏳️‍🌈 @marinemicrobes.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Excited to co-chair with @clareostle.bsky.social our #WCMB2026 session Plankton Biodiversity Observation for Ocean Health in Bruges (17–20 Nov 2026). We invite abstracts on all approaches to monitoring marine plankton. Deadline: 17 March 2026 (23:59 CET). 🌊🔬💙 @thembauk.bsky.social
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Michael Cunliffe 🏳️‍🌈 @marinemicrobes.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/01/2026
If you are interested in electron microscopy, registration is still open for the "Electron Microscopy Hands-On Course: sample preparation and imaging of marine environmental samples" at Stazione Zoologica in Naples. WIth great teachers from Naples […] [Original post on biologists.social]
Poster of the EM course in Naples with marine samples. The Electron Microscopy Hands-On Course: sample preparation and imaging of marine environmental samples arises from a very strong and active collaboration between the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn and the EMBL in Heidelberg.
The aim of the course is to provide a theoretical and practical training on electron microscopy starting from the basics to the preparation of samples with high pressure freezing and image acquisition using TEM and SEM.
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Gulnara Tagirdzhanova @metalichen.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Thrilled to share that I recently got a position of an Assistant Professor/SciLifeLab Fellow at Stockholm University, where I will continue my work on #lichen symbiosis. The lab opens in April 2026, and if you are interested in joining please get in touch! #newPI
Black background with white letters 'metalichen lab'. Right and lower part of the image taken by a macro photo of a bright yellow lichen. The lichen surface has numerous cup-shaped fruiting bodies with orange inner surface
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The Marine Biological Association @thembauk.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Join MBA Senior Research Fellow Dr Clare Ostle at The Royal Society for: Warming-driven Shifts in North Atlantic Plankton 📅 Monday 8th December | 🕑 14:15 – 14:45 📍 The Royal Society | Free to attend in person or online 👉 royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2025/12/marine-biodiversity/
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Michael Cunliffe 🏳️‍🌈 @marinemicrobes.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Funded PhD Opportunity: Seagrass Disease Ecology Explore how the pseudofungus Phytophthora gemini impacts Zostera marina and restoration success. Lab + fieldwork @thembauk.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social & OCT. Combine microbiology, ecology & restoration science 🌱 👉 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK439/p...
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The Marine Biological Association @thembauk.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Congratulations to Senior Research Fellows Dr Alice Horton and Dr Dan Smale, who have been named in the 2025 Highly Cited Researchers list. This recognition places both researchers among the world’s most influential scientists, with publications ranked in the top 1% by citations.
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Katie Field @katiefield4.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
🌿🍄‍🟫🌱🍄We’re recruiting!!🌿🍄‍🟫🌱🍄 I’m looking for two postdocs and a technician to join my group @sheffielduni.bsky.social @sheffieldpps.bsky.social to work with me on my exciting @royalsociety.org Faraday Discovery Fellowship project, details for each post as follows:
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Curtis Suttle @virosphere.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Applications are now open for two two-year UBC Biodiversity Postdoc Fellowships biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and.... $77,000 /y + benefits and $7000 /y research funds.
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Mar Benavides @marbenavides.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
PhD available in my group to work on polar nitrogen fixation www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Exploring new drivers for nitrogen fixation in polar oceans at University of Southampton on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Exploring new drivers for nitrogen fixation in polar oceans at University of Southampton, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Tobias Warnecke @tobiaswarnecke.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Become my colleague @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social ! 2 Associate Professorships in the areas of - prokaryotic/eukaryotic microbiology - metabolism my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Flora Vincent @floravincent.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Dear all, registration for the upcoming EMBO/EMBL Symposium on "the cellular mechanics of symbiosis" is now OPEN 🤩 ! Feel free to register ! www.embl.org/about/info/c... #EESSymbiosis #ProtistsOnSky #SymbioSky @hassansalem.bsky.social @berasymbionts.bsky.social @embl.org
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The cellular mechanics of symbiosis: sensing friend from foe
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Michael Cunliffe 🏳️‍🌈 @marinemicrobes.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Good start to @same18-bcn.bsky.social SAME18 this week in Barcelona 🦠🌊🧬🔬🧫
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association @journalofthemba.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
"Why sequence the #genome of every species? A view from evolutionary biology" Did you catch this amazing new review in our journal by @peterhox.bsky.social? REad it for FREE here now: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @thembauk.bsky.social #dnasequencing #chromosome #mutation #evolution
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The Marine Biological Association @thembauk.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
This week, Christine Wood and John Bishop provided training in the identification of non-native marine species to the dive team of @naturalengland.bsky.social #NaturalEngland #InvasiveSpecies #MBA #MarineBiologicalInvasive #MarineBiologicalAssocation
Invasive species trays Marine Biological Assocation This week, Christine Wood and John Bishop provided training in the identification of non-native marine species to the dive team of @naturalengland.bsky.social 

#NaturalEngland #InvasiveSpecies #MBA #MarineBiologicalAssocationInvasive species trays Marine Biological Assocation This week, Christine Wood and John Bishop provided training in the identification of non-native marine species to the dive team of @naturalengland.bsky.social 

#NaturalEngland #InvasiveSpecies #MBA #MarineBiologicalAssocationInvasive species trays Marine Biological Assocation This week, Christine Wood and John Bishop provided training in the identification of non-native marine species to the dive team of @naturalengland.bsky.social 

#NaturalEngland #InvasiveSpecies #MBA #MarineBiologicalAssocation
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The Marine Biological Association @thembauk.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
🔬 We’re Hiring! Become the next MBA Postdoctoral Career Development Fellow Are you ready to take the next step in your research career and lead the way in marine biology? Find out more 👉 mymba.mba.ac.uk/job/postdoct... 📅 Apply by 15 October 2025 #MarineBiology #MarineScience #AcademicJobs
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The Marine Biological Association @thembauk.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
The Octopus Survey 🚨 Fishermen across the Southwest are reporting more and more octopus turning up in pots, traps, and on deck this year. We need your insight before the survey closes! 👉 Take the survey now before it closes - survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90884550/...
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Rebecca Mosher @rm0sher.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Three Associate Professor (or Professor) positions available at Oxford Biology. Come be my colleague! www.biology.ox.ac.uk/article/we-a...
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We are hiring! Oxford biology has three associate professorships available as we move to new state-of-the-art facilities
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Allison Walker 🇨🇦🌊🍄🔬🧬 @fungaldreamteam.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
🍄Working in fungal conservation? Call for papers for our upcoming special issue in Fungal Ecology 'Fungal conservation: from knowledge to actions' ! Deadline 31 January 2026 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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Fungal Ecology | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier - Fungal Ecology | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
Read the latest articles of Fungal Ecology at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature
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Michael Cunliffe 🏳️‍🌈 @marinemicrobes.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Box-tree Moth (Cydalima perspectalis) in the bathroom. Non-native from south-east Asia.
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Gautam Dey @gautamdey.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Want to help us image and understand those incredible samples Felix just collected at UBC - and many more? 2 more days to apply! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j... #ExM #PlanetaryCellBiology 🧪🧬🔬🌍🌱🦠
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Research Technician - Expansion Microscopy
We are seeking a highly motivated research technician to join the Dey Group. The Dey Group studies the evolution and diversity of cell division mechanisms across the eukaryotic tree, using comparative...
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Jason Stajich @hyphaltip.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
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Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Tenure System - East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Working/Functional Title Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Tenure System Position Summary The Department of Plant Biology (PLB) at Michigan State University (MSU) seeks applications for a director of...
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Exeter Marine @exetermarine.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
We wanted to take a moment to share some positive news this week - some recent promotions for some of our amazing Exeter Marine academics. 🎉 Please join us in giving a huge congratulations to them all! @uniexecec.bsky.social @exetergses.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk @uniofexeternews.bsky.social 🌍🦑🧪
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Matt Gibson @mgstowers.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Cnidarian-Microbe Interactions Fully-funded postdoctoral position is available in the Gibson Lab at the Stowers Institute to investigate any aspect of cnidarian-microbe interactions. Strong background in coral symbiosis or eukaryotic microbiology preferred. Contact Matt Gibson: mg2@stowers.org
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Michael Cunliffe 🏳️‍🌈 @marinemicrobes.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Just over one month left to apply for the MBA Anne Warner Research Fellowship @thembauk.bsky.social to develop an independent research group in the area of cell and molecular biology of marine organisms. Closing date 17 Sept. mymba.mba.ac.uk/job/mba-anne...
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Michael Cunliffe 🏳️‍🌈 @marinemicrobes.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Opportunities for visiting researchers to collaborate with scientists @thembauk.bsky.social next year. Ray Lankester Investigatorship for established researchers, Peter Baker Investigatorship for early career researchers (<10 years post PhD). Deadlines in October www.mba.ac.uk/our-membersh...
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Michael Cunliffe 🏳️‍🌈 @marinemicrobes.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Some don't like it hot - the Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) survey @thembauk.bsky.social shows how marine heatwaves are reshaping phytoplankton communities in the Northeast Pacific 🌊🔬 Open Access Read @aslo.org 👉 aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Michael Cunliffe 🏳️‍🌈 @marinemicrobes.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Today is Rosalind Franklin’s Birthday - thanks for making it all possible 🧬 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalin...
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Rosalind Franklin - Wikipedia
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The Marine Biological Association @thembauk.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Study - how marine heatwaves are reshaping the shape & carbon content of #phytoplankton in NE Pacific. Elongated cells dominate during warming, likely altering the carbon pump. Long-term #CPRsurvey data is critical to understanding #climatechange impacts at microbial scales. doi.org/10.1002/lno....
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Michael Cunliffe 🏳️‍🌈 @marinemicrobes.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
We are looking for a new @thembauk.bsky.social Anne Warner Research Fellow (5 year post) to develop an independent research group in the area of cell and molecular biology of marine organisms here in #Plymouth 🔬🦠🧫🧬 mymba.mba.ac.uk/job-listing....
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Michael Cunliffe 🏳️‍🌈 @marinemicrobes.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Excellent figure! Fungi are more than 🍄!
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Clare Ostle @clareostle.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
📢 Call for Abstracts – Ocean Sciences Meeting 2026 🔬 "Patterns and Drivers of Marine Plankton Community Variability: Time-Series Insights" 📝 Submit your abstract by 20th August 2025 agu.confex.com/agu/osm26/pr...
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British Mycological Society @handle.invalid · 15/07/2025
Our Annual Scientific Meeting kicks off this afternoon - looking forward to the latest fungal biology research at #BMS2025! John Taylor, University of California, will give the BMS’s John Webster Award Lecture. See who else is speaking: www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/asm.html
Photo of John Taylor, from University of California, the BMS's John Webster Award winner.
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Bryce Stewart @bd-stew.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Thanks so much to Oceanographic Magazine for this excellent article on the pink sea fan reef we discovered during the filming of Ocean with David Attenborough oceanographicmagazine.com/news/flouris... @thembauk.bsky.social @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social #oceanfilm #attenborough 🪸
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"Flourishing" pink sea fan reef found during UK Attenborough shoot - Oceanographic
During an underwater filming sequence here in the UK, researchers discovered a flourishing and unspoilt pink sea fan reef 'teeming with life'
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estergaya.bsky.social @estergaya.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
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Michael Cunliffe 🏳️‍🌈 @marinemicrobes.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Marine fungi culture collections (such as the one we have at @thembauk.bsky.social) are helping unlock the possibility for finding new solutions to many of the world’s biggest challenges 🌊🍄=💊🥓🪲 @uk.theconversation.com @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu 👉 theconversation.com/marine-fungi...
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Jennifer Anderson @jandbio.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Thanks to @funaction.bsky.social Partner Leho Tedersoo @tedersoo.bsky.social we can look forward to incredible advances in the fungal tree of life! Congratulations Leho! 🥳
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ERC grant supports Leho Tedersoo to place tens of thousands of previously unknown fungi in the evolution tree
Leho Tedersoo, Professor of Mycorrhizal Studies at the University of Tartu, has received the Advanced Grant from the European Research C...
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School of Biological & Marine Sciences, University of Plymouth @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
🚨 We’re hiring! Join a cutting-edge marine conservation project using #ComputerVision + #AI to monitor marine mammals. Work with @plymuni.bsky.social + MSeis, funded by @ukri.org 🗓️ Apply by 29 June 2025 🔗 lnkd.in/eHBNYEH7 #MarineMonitoring #Jobs
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Michael Cunliffe 🏳️‍🌈 @marinemicrobes.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
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Michael Cunliffe 🏳️‍🌈 @marinemicrobes.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Marine Fungi are found everywhere in the ocean. They are recyclers, a goldmine of compounds and symbiotic with other marine life. I chat about Marine Fungi in the BBC programme 'Secrets of the Sea'. Follow the link 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p... @thembauk.bsky.social @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social
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Michael Cunliffe 🏳️‍🌈 @marinemicrobes.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
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Biodiversa+ (European Biodiversity Partnership) @biodiversa.eu · 12/06/2025
📢 Job Alert! We're hiring a Project Officer to lead stakeholder engagement, fostering science-policy-society interaction & co-produced knowledge on biodiversity. 📍 Paris-based @frbiodiv.bsky.social‬ 🗓️ Start ASAP, apply by 11 July 2025 Details: www.fondationbiodiversite.fr/wp-content/u...
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Prof David Sims @thesimslab.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
NEW in @science.org Global tracking #MarineMegafauna shows <8% of areas used overlap w/ existing MPAs, while >75% of important areas overlapped by threats like #fishing #shipping & ocean warming - 30x30 goal will be insufficient for their conservation www.megamove.org @thembauk.bsky.social
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Global tracking of marine megafauna space use reveals how to achieve conservation targets
The recent Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) sets ambitious goals but no clear pathway for how zero loss of important biodiversity areas and halting human-induced extinction of thre...
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Michael Cunliffe 🏳️‍🌈 @marinemicrobes.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
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Michael Cunliffe 🏳️‍🌈 @marinemicrobes.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Today is #WorldOceansDay2025 A day to think about the amazing biodiversity in our oceans 🦠🍄‍🟫🪸🦀🐟🐋 from the smallest microbes to the largest animals @thembauk.bsky.social @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social
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Plymouth Marine Laboratory @pml.ac.uk · 30/05/2025
OCEAN DARKENING ON CNN: PML's Prof Tim Smyth speaking to @cnn.com this morning about his new study with Dr Thomas Davies of @plymuni.bsky.social / @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social that revealed a 21% reduction in sunlight zones vital for life in the sea. More: pml.ac.uk/news/new-stu...
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