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Rodney Forster

@rodneyforster.bsky.social
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Professor, Marine Science at the University of Hull.

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A big THANK YOU to everyone who has purchased a tee from The Plankton Project @teemillstore ! 100% of the y profit goes towards running the CIC and no where else. These tees are still available (link in bio), but what plankton do you suggest we put of a t-shirt next? Comment below!⬇️ #marineplankton
4 T-shirts: grey, with 2 tintinnids on the chest and the phrase ‘stop looking at my tintinnids!’; black, with The Plankton Project logo on it; black, with a taupe foraminifera; grey, with a turquoise sea gooseberry
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Rodney Forster @rodneyforster.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Passed by E14 ACK twice in the past week. The infamous brexit bus, now in new grey livery. Surely should be bought by the nation and put in a museum.
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Rodney Forster @rodneyforster.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
diesel alone on your hands can trigger the chemical swipe detector at the airport, I found that out recently.
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Rodney Forster @rodneyforster.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
cutting fuel duty while there are still lines of cars sat outside the school gates at 3 pm with their engines running? No thanks.
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Rodney Forster @rodneyforster.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A large number of non-UK Civil Servants will be on <£50k and at risk from this policy.
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Rodney Forster @rodneyforster.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Nice view of Mrs Fox on the Old Graveyard cam
A fox in a graveyard.
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Rodney Forster @rodneyforster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
2026 looking set to be Yorkshire coastal waters' warmest year in the 45-year SST record from @copernicusmarine.bsky.social . Captured very nicely with interviews and footage at sea by ITV www.itv.com/news/2026-09...
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Rodney Forster @rodneyforster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
check us out on last night's news www.itv.com/news/2026-09...
itv.com
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Rodney Forster @rodneyforster.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ah, the Overton window. Very good.
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Rodney Forster @rodneyforster.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
first 5 minutes of tonight's 10 O Clock News given over to this crap.
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Rodney Forster @rodneyforster.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Should have heard my instructor on the Speed Awareness Course yesterday going on and on about e-bikes.
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Rodney Forster @rodneyforster.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I have played very little golf, but I have played that hole.
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Rodney Forster @rodneyforster.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I love the Tour of Britain.
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Rodney Forster @rodneyforster.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Love it.
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Rodney Forster @rodneyforster.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
@flowcytogirl and I are on stage at the Harrogate Flower Show tomorrow talking all things algal.
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Rodney Forster @rodneyforster.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
What have I done now :-)
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Rodney Forster @rodneyforster.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
be relentless with your blocking.
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Rodney Forster @rodneyforster.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
KPMG/Deloitte et al. will have charged a very tidy sum for this.
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What I love about Western democracy is you can bung a political party £ 36 million earned from criminal activity & most media will continue to point at asylum seekers & migrant care workers with families as the barbarians at the gate we need to defend ourselves from 🙄.
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Rodney Forster @rodneyforster.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We are going to add our images, but it will be another week or two.
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Rodney Forster @rodneyforster.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
not on ITVX. There's a live feed on youtube. What a mess!
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Rodney Forster @rodneyforster.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Twenty odd years of #fpl and I've never been close to the top 10k. Well, for one night only, here we are.
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Rodney Forster @rodneyforster.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
'Your defence lawyer is terrified'
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Rodney Forster @rodneyforster.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Here’s your winner. Thanks for following today’s stage #ToB
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Rodney Forster @rodneyforster.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
If you are watching at home, it’s blowing a gale down the finishing straight #ToB
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Rodney Forster @rodneyforster.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Cherry Burton village pond shown in the helicopter view. Serious water quality issues that my citizen science friends are working on.
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Rodney Forster @rodneyforster.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I got a lap of the finishing circuit just before the police motorbikes. Thrilling. Came through the final corner with a huge crowd cheering. Back to the team bus.
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Rodney Forster @rodneyforster.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
hope you get paid within a reasonable time. My record was 18 months.
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Rodney Forster @rodneyforster.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Long straight uphill drag to the finish into a headwind. Going to favour the sprint team with the strongest lead out. Merlier and quickstep again for me.
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Rodney Forster @rodneyforster.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The poor guys who have been up all night putting in miles of barriers are now cow marshalls and have to persuade the Westwoods herd to move before the finish. @nedboulting.bsky.social
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Rodney Forster @rodneyforster.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
eyeballing the drought forecast map, there has got to be about half of the world's population living in those regions.
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Rodney Forster @rodneyforster.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
biscuit. We don't call them cookies.
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Rodney Forster @rodneyforster.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Remarkable, long, period of elevated sea temperature for England's south coast this summer. Two months straight with temperatures well above 20C, shown here for a coastal buoy near Selsey Bill. Dipping now as the spring tides and higher wave heights mix in cooler waters.
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Rodney Forster @rodneyforster.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Valencia flood catastrophe last summer didn't shift the political direction of travel.
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Rodney Forster @rodneyforster.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Lou Reed (Antwerp) Velvet Underground (Hamburg) Waterboys (Eindhoven) Waterboys (Lorient) Martin Stephenson (Rostock) now I'm struggling Boney M (Middelburg) Blof (Yerseke) Guns and Roses (Dublin) REM (Dublin) can't think of a tenth. Saw someone famous in Paradiso but can't remember who.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 29/08/2026
When stressed, this comb jelly reverts to a larval form, then matures again when favorable conditions return. Learn more: scim.ag/4gmdt2J #ScienceMagArchives
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Rodney Forster @rodneyforster.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I'm just back from motor-mad Italy. Where every village and town has a 30 kmh limit with clear sign-posting and enforced by multiple speed cameras.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 29/08/2026
Today's water-cooler fun facts: August 27th saw the 21st consecutive daily record global temperature, more than 1.80°C above the pre-industrial baseline, more than 4.35 standard deviations above the 1991-2020 daily mean, and more than 0.25°C above the previous daily record.
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Rodney Forster @rodneyforster.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Should bring decent waves to Navarene.
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Rodney Forster @rodneyforster.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Top 200 metres
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Rodney Forster @rodneyforster.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
With a runway for the private jets. Thought of everything.
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Rodney Forster @rodneyforster.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
it takes a lot of searching to find the stock assessment, but it looks like an estimate of about 400,000 tonnes for the eastern Atlantic stock. The allowed catch for all nations is about 45,000 tonnes. The UK catch is a small part of that at 230 tonnes.
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Rodney Forster @rodneyforster.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
the fun side of the job: talking all things under the sun with the Guardian yesterday; the bad side: struggling with the paperwork to get an instrument through customs in East Midlands airport.
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Rodney Forster @rodneyforster.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 19/08/2026
First bluefin tunas caught off Yorkshire since 1960s ‘success story’ for marine conservation
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First bluefin tunas caught off Yorkshire since 1960s ‘success story’ for marine conservation
Researchers laud return of giant tuna to North Sea after being fished almost to point of extinction
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Rodney Forster @rodneyforster.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
yes, saw that, and thought it must have been added deliberately by an editor after the piece was written.
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Rodney Forster @rodneyforster.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Missed my #parkrun PB from 2021 by one second this morning; had to wait 5 seconds for cattle to cross the Westwood track.
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Rodney Forster @rodneyforster.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The numbers do not look right to me if you look at the work in progress in the EA,JNCC, Cefas& other arms length bodies. Got to be more than 20 staff working on climate issues.
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Rodney Forster @rodneyforster.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
He’s reading Facebook but not Bluesky.
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Rodney Forster @rodneyforster.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Europe’s second largest nuclear power station taken out by Big Jelly once again. In situ predictive system failed to detect the bloom in advance.
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