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Steven Benjamins

@sbenjamins.bsky.social
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Marine ecologist with an interest in how marine megafauna interacts with offshore infrastructure and fisheries. He/him. Opinions my own. #offshorewind #marine #energy #cetaceans #elasmobranchs #bycatch #marineecology

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Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) @samsocean.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Thinking about attending this year's Environmental Interactions of Marine Renewables (EIMR) Conference in Oban? 🐳🌊🧪 Well, the draft conference programme is now available to view at eimr2026.com. Please don't forget to register if you plan on coming! We look forward to seeing you all at #EIMR2026!
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Steven Benjamins @sbenjamins.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Great first visit at the European Elasmobranchs Association's Annual Science Conference in #Rotterdam #blijdorp talking about flapper skates #skatespotter #EEA2025
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Conor Ryan @whalenerd.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Based on interviews and archive work (Bergen/Oslo, April 2024), Peter Wilson, @sbenjamins.bsky.social and I reviewed minke #whaling around Ireland in @injournal.bsky.social Vol 41. Funded by Percey Sladen Memorial Fund & Society for Nautical Research www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 19/03/2025
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
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I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
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🌊Markus Knigge🐟 @oceanknigge.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Shark Conservation Fund invites proposals for its small grant funding window. Up to $25,000 to support ocean policy projects aligned with: 🦈 Fisheries Management Reform 🌍 Preventing Extinctions 🌊 Identifying & Protecting Critical Habitats Deadline 📆 #March31 ogy.de/widx
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Angelo Villagomez @taotaotasi.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Healthy Reefs Need Sharks phys.org/news/2025-02...
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Shark removal a thorny issue for coral reefs
A new study suggests that the removal of predatory fish such as sharks from coral reefs may be a key factor driving outbreaks of coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish.
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Peter Corkeron @petercorkeron.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Repeating this. It's not getting better. Holds for many non-gov US scientists too these days.
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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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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 14/02/2025
REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!
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Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Liz Truss called solar farms a “blight on the landscape”, but researchers have found they are actually better for birds than farmland Solar farms in East Anglia had greater bird diversity & bird abundance than nearby arable land, a study finds Paper here later www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Here’s a thread of words that result in the National Science Foundation rejecting grants under the Trump administration’s bigoted and anti-intellectual executive order. Among other things, about every shark paper I’ve ever written has included the word “female” referring to *FEMALE SHARKS*
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Karen Romme @karenromme.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Bedrijven die als je niet oplet je lokatiegegevens verzamelen en daar commerciële dingen mee doen, vinden dat een overheidsorganisatie haar burgers niet rechtstreeks mag informeren en waarschuwen zonder dat te doen. Goh. *knmi app installeert en op hoofdscherm zet*
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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
"Everybody - wake up! It's the #BigGardenBirdwatch!" Will you be taking part today? 👀🌳
A  Robin is perched on a weathered wooden surface, its bright orange-red breast puffed up and beak wide open in full song. The blurred background creates a soft gradient of earthy tones, making the Robin stand out. With its legs firmly planted and feathers fluffed, it looks as if it’s passionately delivering an important message to the world.
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Eman | Marine Biologist @whale-detective.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Scientists can and should lead the charge in equity by committing to DEI work despite federal rollbacks by the Trump admin. These actions are vital for the integrity and equity of our research, sci comm, and impact on society #DEI #STEM
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Trans rights are human rights! Pass it on
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Dr Suresh Singh @palaeosingh.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Cool functional morphology paper by Pollock et al. from @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social finds functional optimality of puncture & stress resistance performance drove convergent #evolution of sabre-teeth in mammalian carnivores. #Science #Paleontology #EvolutionaryBiology www.cell.com/current-biol...
Graphical abstract showing functional optimality of puncture & stress resistance performance across the canines of mammalian carnivores. Extreme sabretooth forms cluster on the left of the morphospace in an high optimality hotspot.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
"Tackling climate change effectively requires a shift to a more equal society, where happiness is prioritised over consumption. It necessitates radical behavioural changes, particularly from the wealthiest, and policies that enable these changes." theconversation.com/keir-starmer...
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Keir Starmer says the UK can decarbonise without disruption – that’s neither true nor helpful
It’s the government’s job to make it easier and cheaper for people to change their lives.
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Brendan Godley @brendangodley.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
PLEASE REPOST: The fantastic conservation journal Endangered Species Research with all articles fully #openaccess has just arrived @esr-ir.bsky.social Please give it a follow. You wont regret it! www.int-res.com/journals/esr... #conservation #academicsky 🐢🌍🧪🦑 🌐🦤 🦈🐟🐠🐡
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Steven Benjamins @sbenjamins.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
If you ever wanted to name an astronomical object in Earth's backyard, now's your chance: go over to the RadioLab podcast to vote for the 7 finalists to name one of Earth's quasi-moons! www.radiolab.org/quasi-moon
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Name a Quasi-moon Contest | Radiolab | WNYC Studios
Welcome to Name a Quasi Moon - a global naming contest from Radiolab and the International Astronomical Union. Vote now and make your mark on the heavens!
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Sophie Gilbert @sophielgilbert.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
For any PhDs thinking of transitioning out of traditional academia where the beans that get counted are high-impact, numerous pubs... just know that you have so many other skills that are highly valuable in other spaces! 🧪
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Brendan Godley @brendangodley.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Leatherback sea turtle in Japan found to have ingested plastic sheet 106 x 108 cm. Paper by Shota Deguchi et al. Copy available from shinta.ueno@gmail.com 🐢🌍🧪🦑 🦤 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #seaturtle #marineturtle #oceanplastic #marineplastic #plasticpollution
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
“Scientists don’t know everything and have sometimes been wrong before” Does not mean “random nonsense you just thought of is as likely to be correct as something overwhelmingly endorsed by experts and supported by evidence and should be treated with as much respect.”
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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
True crabs keep leaving the ocean to live intertidal, freshwater, and terrestrial lifestyles. It happened up to 17 times in the last 100 million years and may still be happening 🦀🧪 academic.oup.com/sysbio/artic...
Circular timetree of crabs with pie slices colored by superfamily (Figure 2 in the paper). Simplified version with no text/labels. Line drawings of crabs arranged around the perimeter like a zodiac, with colors matching the superfamily pie slice.
Figure by me, drawings by Harrison Mancke and Javi Luque
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Yolanda Stranga @yolandastranga.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Top predator status and trends: ecological implications, monitoring and mitigation strategies to promote ecosystem-based management. doi.org/10.3389/fmar... #MarineBiology #MarineEcology #TopPredators #MarineConservation #ocean #MarineScience
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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
We humbly interrupt your scroll to bring you the news that Wisdom—the world's oldest known wild bird—is breeding again, age 74. Go on girl. 😍
A screenshot of a social media post from USFWSPacific that reads:

"SHE DID IT AGAIN!  

Wisdom, the world’s oldest known wild bird, is back with a new partner and just laid yet another egg.  

At an approximate age of 74, the queen of seabirds returned to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge last week and began interacting with a male."  

This tweet is paired with an image of two Laysan Albatrosses at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. Wisdom, the oldest known wild bird, is shown alongside her new partner, demonstrating her enduring legacy as a remarkable seabird.
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Deep-Ocean Stewardship Initiative @deepstewardship.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
🌊 Nanoplastics disrupt krill’s #BlueCarbon role 🌊 Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) aid CO2 sequestration via faecal pellets (FPs). New research finds nanoplastics accelerate FP degradation, reducing carbon storage by up to 27%—a loss of ~5.5 metric tonnes per season. 👉 buff.ly/4eSLCmR
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Jon Moses @jon-moses.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Excellent long read on the counter-intuitive ecology of land abandonment. "the old idea of humans as antithetical to nature is also wrong-headed, and that rosy visions of thriving, human-free environments are more imaginary than real." Humans are not the virus. www.theguardian.com/news/2024/no...
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The great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear?
The long read: Across the globe, vast swathes of land are being left to be reclaimed by nature. To see what could be coming, look to Bulgaria
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Terry Hughes @profterryhughes.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
My colleagues at NOAA fear for their jobs and are rushing to publish their data on climate change before Trump silences them. NOAA collaborates with researchers around the world to understand coral bleaching, including on the Great Barrier Reef. cell.com/current-biol...
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Jan Geert Hiddink @jangeerthiddink.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Are you interested in the #restoration of marine ecosystems? I'm co-chairing a @icesmarine.bsky.social Workshop on Nature Restoration (WKREST) in March, join if you're interested! www.ices.dk/community/gr...
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WKREST
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Joachim Claudet @joachimclaudet.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Scientists as political advocates "[...] as more and more scientists come under political attack, they are realizing that we cannot rely on nonscientists to be the primary advocates for the necessity, value, and power of scientific knowledge and methods." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Scientists as political advocates
Science, both teaching and doing, is under attack. The recent US presidential election of a person and platform with anti-science bias exemplifies this. The study of climate processes and patterns and...
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Dr Angel Borja @drangelborja.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Join the conversation on Marine Ecology here. Topics on monitoring, assessment, protection, conservation, restoration and management go.bsky.app/4PTX62K
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Aunticles @aunticles.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
You can support the Gaza Soup Kitchen in Chef Mahmoud's honour here
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Home - Gaza Soup Kitchen
Our goal is clear: to ensure no one in Gaza goes to bed hungry. This is more than just an initiative, it's a personal vow.​ Don't wait, donate to Palestine Now.
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The Mariani Lab @marianilab.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
A coelacanth resting on a submarine ledge in Sodwana Bay, South Africa
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
"Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations" www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations | PNAS
Disparities continue to pose major challenges in various aspects of science. One such aspect is editorial board composition, which has been shown t...
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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
check this paper about crayfish based on newspaper news published in Spain along the 20th century www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Species substitutions driven by anthropogenic positive feedbacks: Spanish crayfish species as a case study
Human preferences may generate purely anthropogenic positive feedback loops reinforcing either declines of overexploited populations or expansions of …
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Alec BM Moore @alecbmmoore.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Newspaper archives can inform our understanding of long-term change in marine ecosystems Sturgeon used to be caught regularly around the Welsh coast, but have now disappeared from living memory From recent research on century-scale change in fishes & fisheries tinyurl.com/4veee2vt
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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Wisdom's still alive, she's back at her breeding grounds! This season she'll turn at least 74 years old. 🎉🎊💃
screenshot of wisdom news
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Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Howdy to all our new 🦋 friends!🤠🪸🐠 This account is a collection of daily highlights from the Coral City Camera, a continuously streaming underwater cam we’ve operated for the last 5 years! If you’d like to watch live, please visit YouTube @ www.youtube.com/live/7i8ARjI... or coralcitycamera.com
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