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Julie Robidart

@robidart.bsky.social
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Technological design to interpret signatures of ocean biology and biogeochemistry, at scale. Specialisation in omics, eDNA and microbiology

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Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry (OCB) @usocb.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
New pub alert! Clayton, S., Neeley, A., Poulton, N., et al., (2026) Operational Phytoplankton Observations Best Practices: a guide for using imaging technologies for routine monitoring of phytoplankton communities. doi.org/10.25607/OBP... More on OCB's working group: www.us-ocb.org/opo-working-...
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EMBRC (European Marine Biological Resource Centre) @embrc.eu · 03/03/2026
🌊 Blue Tech Europe 26: Marine Observing Technologies 📅 21–22 Apr 📍 Paris 🔗 swll.to/BT26 2 days of sessions on: 👉 Science & industry collaboration 👉 #MarineTech including sensors 👉 Industry driving #OceanObservation @marco-bolo.bsky.social @tricuso.bsky.social #AcademinSky 🧪
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Ocean Biomolecular Observing Network (OBON) @obon-ocean.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Great OBON oral session this morning at #OSM26 - thanks to everyone who joined us! Find out about even more #eDNA observing projects at the Poster session this afternoon: OT44F Date: Thursday, 26 February 2026 Time: 16:00 – 18:00 Location: Hall 4 (Poster Hall) (Scottish Event Campus)
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marinemicrobiome.bsky.social @marinemicrobiome.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Due March 31, 2026. Microgrant for 10 people from historically underfunded geographies/institutions to attend the Global eDNA Conference, Seattle, WA Oct 28-30. Covers 4 nights hotel and conference registration; does NOT cover travel and other expenses. #eDNA #grant forms.gle/99jEZj6K8cD7...
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The eDNA Collaborative's 2026 Global eDNA Conference Support Microgrant
Thank you for your interest in the eDNA Collaborative's 2026 Global eDNA Conference Support Microgrant! This microgrant provides 1) conference registration and 2) four nights of hotel accommodation fo...
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Plymouth Marine Laboratory @pml.ac.uk · 19/06/2025
What a day for it! Blue skies & calm seas for our team, who have brought in our Autonomous Scientific Buoys for maintenance and upgrades. PML's John McDonald said: "Great to see some of the younger PML team getting hands-on with the more challenging tasks - all good experience, & they smashed it 👊"
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography @scrippsocean.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
🐦 Why are five booby species showing up in the California Current Ecosystem? Using data from CalCOFI, eBird and more, Scripps Oceanography alumna and postdoc Tammy Russell uncovered the major shift. 🌊 Read the study published by Frontiers In Marine Science: bit.ly/4mOBroh
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
This chart shows that in the City of London (the tiny historical part of London in red), bicycles have overtaken cars to become the most common vehicle. Let's make this throughout Greater London! www.economist.com/britain/2025...
A line graph titled "On their bikes" shows transport volume trends in the City of London from 1999 to 2024, measured in thousands. The graph compares two transport modes: motor vehicles (light red line) and bicycles (dark red line). The motor vehicle line starts at approximately 190,000 in 1999 and shows a steady decline over the years, reaching around 50,000 by 2024. In contrast, the bicycle line begins just above 0 in 1999 and gradually increases over time, crossing the motor vehicle line around 2023, and also reaching approximately 50,000 in 2024. This indicates that bicycle traffic has equaled and possibly surpassed motor vehicle traffic in the City of London. Data was collected at 12 locations during autumn between 07:00 and 19:00. The source is the City of London Corporation.A map of Greater London, England, showing the boundaries of all the London boroughs. The borough of the City of London is highlighted in red at the center of the map, just north of the River Thames. All other boroughs are shown in a light beige color with black borders. The River Thames and other bodies of water are depicted in light blue. The map provides a clear visual distinction of the City of London's central location relative to the other boroughs in Greater London. The map is from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
@bopplaurent.bsky.social kicking off #LiegeOcean25 with a talk about the state of the climate and potential need for CO₂ removal (CDR). The surface ocean has warmed by more than 1°C, which is astounding if you think about how much energy it takes to do that. 🌊
The image shows a presentation at the 56th International Liège Colloquium. A speaker, standing behind a wooden podium, discusses climate change, highlighting trends in global surface temperature, ocean warming, land temperatures, and sea levels.
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Julie Robidart @robidart.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Windy day bike tricks
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Julie Robidart @robidart.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
This is a super unique senior role on our technology team, during an exciting time for technology investment in the UK 👇
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Plymouth Marine Laboratory @pml.ac.uk · 22/05/2025
Honored to be among the 24 global recipients of the #BezosEarthFund’s #AI Grand Challenge for Climate & Nature. PML's Prof Kerry Howell has been awarded a $50,000 grant to support using #artificialintelligence to radically improve our understanding of #deepsea ecosystems: pml.ac.uk/news/project...
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Project to revolutionise deep sea understanding using AI awarded pioneering grant from Bezos Earth Fund
The grant supports innovative AI-driven solutions to tackle urgent environmental challenges
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Go see the #OceanFilm with David Attenborough (happy 99th birthday!). I’d like to have a word with the scientific advisors. Among other things, phytoplankton doesn’t remove 1/3 of our CO₂ emissions (the ocean removes 1/4, but it’s abiotic) and the ocean doesn’t produce half the O₂ we breathe.
A person stands alone on a beach, facing the ocean under a cloudy sky. The scene is framed within a dark theater setting, with silhouettes of viewers in the foreground.
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Helen Amanda Fricker @helen-amanda.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Wonderful to see AGU standing up for what is right. As an AGU member and Fellow I could not be more proud! Thank you @agu.org
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John Timmer @jtimmer.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Good for the @agu.org. news.agu.org/press-releas...
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AGU files new lawsuit to protect hundreds of thousands of federal workers
AGU and a coalition of plaintiffs have filed a complaint in a new lawsuit arguing President Donald J. Trump’s February Executive Order No. 14210 directing federal agencies to engage in “large-scale” r...
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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 29/04/2025
Don’t destroy your seed corn, says a VC director. “The only thing more damaging than the recent attacks on our research universities is the silence from my colleagues in the venture capital world, especially from those who have the ear of the president.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...
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Opinion | The White House Tech Bros Owe Their Fortunes to the Research They’re Killing
Underlying many investments are breakthroughs in medicine and technology from great universities.
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
The world's biggest companies have caused $28 trillion in climate damage, a new study estimates For comparison….slightly less than the total value of all goods and services produced in the United States last year apnews.com/article/clim...
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The world's biggest companies have caused $28 trillion in climate damage, a new study estimates
A new study estimates that the world’s biggest corporations have caused $28 trillion in climate damage, which is a shade less than the sum of all goods and services produced in the United States last ...
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Julie Robidart @robidart.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
🙌 “…transitioning to clean energy mitigates both emissions and pollution-related illness; shifting urban infrastructure away from car-centric design towards active transportation… fosters physical activity while reducing fossil fuel use; and …plant-based diets enhances nutrition and sustainability.“
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Universities like mine are limiting hiring, travel, and other spending using federal funds because of the fear of things like this. It's basically impossible to do science, whether NSF takes back funding or not.
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National Science Foundation Terminates Hundreds of Active Research Awards (Gift Article)
The agency targeted grants focused on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as research on misinformation.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Bikey McBikeface.
The image features a yellow underwater vehicle labeled "AUTOSUB BOATY McBOATFACE" positioned next to a white bicycle with a green bag attached. The background includes a brick wall, green bushes, and a door.
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Dr Angel Borja @drangelborja.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Colossal squid filmed in its natural habitat for the first time | Science | AAAS #marineecology www.science.org/content/arti...
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Colossal squid filmed in its natural habitat for the first time
The enigmatic predator, the heaviest known invertebrate, had never been seen alive in deep water
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GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel @geomarkiel.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Scientific report on deep-sea research sees 2025 as a decisive year for ocean health 🌊 Led by Prof. Dr Sylvia Sander of GEOMAR, a group of internationally renowned marine scientists has published a Future Science Brief on deep-sea research. 🔗 www.geomar.de/en/news/arti... 📸 HROV Ariane, Ifremer
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National Oceanography Centre @noc.ac.uk · 11/04/2025
"The results highlight the need for policy interventions to limit the future flow of plastics into natural environments and minimise impacts on ocean ecosystems." 🌊 Find out more here 👉 noc.ac.uk/news/scienti...
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Ocean Technology and Engineering group @biogeosensing.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
📢PAPER ALERT! New Capability in Autonomous Ocean Carbon Observations Using the Autosub Long-Range AUV Equipped with Novel pH and Total Alkalinity Sensors 🌊 @biogeosensing.bsky.social sensors integrated in NOC ALR during OCEANIDS cruise For more info👉https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.4c10139
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography @scrippsocean.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
🔬 Science makes our world better, safer, healthier and stronger. Scripps Oceanography scientists joined fellow members of @nationalacademies.org to call attention to the importance of funding science that supports not just the U.S., but our planet. @nytimes.com has more.
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Trump Administration Has Begun a War on Science, Researchers Say (Gift Article)
Nearly 2,000 scientists urged that Congress restore funding to federal agencies decimated by recent cuts.
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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Awesome @archaeon-alex.bsky.social !
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Cars are about to get really expensive. May I recommend an ebike?
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Marine eDNA Dude @marinednadude.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Nice write up of our latest DNA Barcoding Guide from West Coast OBON The guide is being used by CA Ocean Protection Council to inform their California Intertidal Biodiversity DNA Barcode Library project (more to come on this project!) opc.ca.gov/wp-content/u... scripps.ucsd.edu/news/new-gui...
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New Guide Seeks to Advance DNA Library of Marine Species
A team of scientists has created a new guide to advance standards for collecting and cataloging DNA from marine species, enhancing a revolutionary method for monitoring ocean biodiversity.
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Nastassia Patin @microbesatsea.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Thanks @scrippsocean.bsky.social Comms Team for their nice writeup of our reference barcoding how-to guide! Very proud of our West Coast @obon-ocean.bsky.social team (+ a few friends). We hope this work will help others interested in improving our #eDNA databases. scripps.ucsd.edu/news/new-gui...
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New Guide Seeks to Advance DNA Library of Marine Species
A team of scientists has created a new guide to advance standards for collecting and cataloging DNA from marine species, enhancing a revolutionary method for monitoring ocean biodiversity.
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National Oceanography Centre @noc.ac.uk · 01/04/2025
Autosub Long Range, better known as #BoatyMcBoatface, has helped to recover a 55 year old camera in Loch Ness! 📷 Despite film from the camera being developed by a NOC engineer, no footage of the Loch Ness Monster was found. Find out more 👉 noc.ac.uk/news/noc-oce...
Nessie expert Adrian Shine with the underwater camera in its housing
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Julie Robidart @robidart.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
An underwater camera set up 55 years ago to try and photograph the Loch Ness Monster has been found by accident by a robot submarine. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Camera set up to catch Loch Ness Monster unearthed
No sign of the famous monster was found on the camera that had been in Loch Ness for 55 years.
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National Oceanography Centre @noc.ac.uk · 31/03/2025
"To tackle the question of recovery from #DeepSeaMining, we need first to look to the past and use old mining tests to help understand long-term impacts." 🥽 New study reveals long-term impacts of #DeepSeaMining and first signs of biological recovery ➡️ noc.ac.uk/news/new-stu...
1978 image of seafloor prior to test
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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
"Thriving Antarctic Ecosystem Revealed by a Departing Iceberg" Congratulations again to @schmidtocean.bsky.social and the Bellingshausen Sea 🇦🇶 science team! eos.org/articles/thr... via @astrokimcartier.bsky.social in @eos.org 🧪 🦑 🌊
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Thriving Antarctic Ecosystem Revealed by a Departing Iceberg - Eos
A quick-calving iceberg gave scientists a rare glimpse into what hides beneath Antarctic ice.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen is introducing a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United, the case that opened the floodgates to dark money and the buying of elections by billionnaires. 👏👏👏
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Shaheen Renews Push to Overturn Citizens United Ruling, Rid American Elections of Dark Money and Excessive Corporate Campaign Spending | U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire
(Washington, DC) – On the anniversary of the bipartisan McCain-Feingold Bipartisan Campaign Reform...
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EMBRC (European Marine Biological Resource Centre) @embrc.eu · 16/12/2024
📢 EMBRC’s #EMOBON observatory has published its first data 📢 Analysis of these #BiodiversityData can help to: ➡️ Understand ocean ecosystems ➡️ Inform science-based policy ➡️ Tackle pressing environmental issues ➡️ Position the EU as a global sustainability leader 🔗 tinyurl.com/2s3uhctv 🧪 #addOcean
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Julie Robidart @robidart.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Look at that 44 year old track 🤯 👇
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Mar Benavides @marbenavides.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
very happy to see our review as a #TopCitedArticle in @aslo.org L&O Letters aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @subhadeepchowdhury.bsky.social
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Diazotrophy in the Indian Ocean: Current understanding and future perspectives
Dinitrogen (N2) fixation provides the major source of reactive nitrogen in the open ocean, sustaining biological productivity. The Indian Ocean (IO) covers 22% of the ocean surface, while it only rep....
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
“The poor record of terrestrial mining must not be an excuse to mine the ocean floor. Improved oversight and biodiversity protection as miners increase production on land will produce a better global biodiversity outcome.” 🌊🧪
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Metal mining on land versus the ocean in the context of the current Biodiversity Crisis - npj Ocean Sustainability
As climate change and biodiversity loss intensify, the deep seabed beckons as a source of metals for batteries. Initiating this new exploitation conflicts with international agreements to decelerate b...
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Alice Marzocchi @alicemarzocchi.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Really fun to help out with the first #LEGO League Challenge today @noc.ac.uk and talk about careers in marine science. Some really impressive work by all the Southampton schools who participated…they even coded in python!! Pictured are also @johsid.bsky.social and @filipa-carvalho.bsky.social #STEM
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National Oceanography Centre @noc.ac.uk · 08/03/2025
For #InternationalWomensDay we're celebrating all of the amazing women doing incredible things in complex and challenging fields. 👩‍🔬 Check out this curated playlist of #NOCIntoTheBlue podcasts covering a range of different areas of ocean research 🔁 youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Lilian Lieber @lilianlieber.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
🌊🦑🧪 #postdoc alert 🌍working with NERC's #BoatyMcBoatface (ALR 1500) equipped with cutting-edge #plankton imaging technology developed at @plymuni.bsky.social with @alexnimmosmith.bsky.social and me & #satellite remote #sensing with @peterimiller.bsky.social at @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social #FRONTLINE
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
This is not a surprise. We know what causes CO₂ to increase in the atmosphere and we know how to stop climate change. We just don’t want to.
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Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from 36 fossil fuel firms, study shows
Researchers say data strengthens case for holding firms to account for their contribution to climate crisis
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Marine eDNA Dude @marinednadude.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Check out this great Introduction to Using #eDNA for Environmental Management from @ednacollab.bsky.social @hakai.org @oceandecadenep.bsky.social DFO, and the Sunday lab 🧪 🧬🌊🐟🦀🐚 Is a great primer on eDNA for marine conservation! www.ednacollab.org/wp-content/u...
Image of the cover of the title “Introduction to Using eDNA for Environmental Management” above school  herring by a buoy
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Julie Robidart @robidart.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Icy ducks ❄️🦆❄️
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Julie Robidart @robidart.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
What a perfect choice. AGU is in great hands with Brandon’s leadership.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 26/02/2025
RNA xkcd.com/3056
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Mar Benavides @marbenavides.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Check out our new paper on particle-associated #N2fixation 👉👉 www.nature.com/articles/s42... @noc.ac.uk @mioceanologie.bsky.social
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Unveiling the contribution of particle-associated non-cyanobacterial diazotrophs to N2 fixation in the upper mesopelagic North Pacific Gyre - Communications Biology
We find a diverse and active particle-associated non-cyanobacterial diazotroph community in the mesopelagic zone of the North Pacific Gyre, suggesting a significant contribution to pelagic nitrogen fi...
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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Particle-associated N2 fixation by heterotrophic bacteria in the global ocean www.science.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs 🌊
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Particle-associated N2 fixation by heterotrophic bacteria in the global ocean
Heterotrophic bacteria fix N2 in more diverse environments than previously thought, critical for the oceanic nitrogen cycle.
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Ocean Technology and Engineering group @biogeosensing.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
📢JOB ALERT!! Come and work with us! We are looking for an enthusiastic Research Assistant 👉https://careers.noc.ac.uk/vacancy/research-assistant-578046.html
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