A cliff with many black guillemots lined up on the ledges

A gannet sitting on rocks with the sea behind.

Last week the cliffs were empty. Now the gannets and guillemots are back at @rspb.bsky.social Bempton Cliffs. I declare ornithological spring to have started. #birds #ukbirds #ukwildlife #seabirds

science-art events at #OSM26 🌊

Beautiful map, although the decisive severing of the British Isles from mainland Europe is somewhat disconcerting

Ocean zine-making in the pub Come join the artists and scientists of the Waterways Collective for an evening of zine-making in the pub, following day 1 of the 2026 Ocean Sciences Meeting.

Ocean zine making in the pub during #OSM26!

Please join waterwayscollective.org and the @mastscot.bsky.social Energyscapes Working Group for an evening of #zines and collage in a cosy #Glasgow pub, following day 1 of the 2026 Ocean Sciences Meeting. Sign-up link below, spread the word!

Brilliant idea. We need #OSM2026 running club too.

🦑 🧵 A fascinating find at the Ythan Estuary! Last night a friend contacted me with videos of large cephalopod appendages found here in Newburgh, today I went to go and take a closer look.

#cephalopod #marinelife #marinebiology #beachfinds #ythanestuary #scotland #scicomm
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Ocean Tipping Points: Understanding Drivers, Thresholds, Risks and the Potential for the Ocean to Play a Role in Mitigation. November 17th 1:00GMT - Online

🌊Online Ocean Tipping Points talk🗣️

Next Monday we’re hosting a panel of experts to discuss Ocean Tipping Points, as part of #COP30 Virtual Ocean Pavilion webinar series.

Add to your calendar 🗓️
brnw.ch/oceantipping...

🇧🇷 10:00 GMT-3
🇬🇧 13:00 GMT
#UNOceanDecade #TippingPoints #GTPR2025 #OceanScience

River Spey at sunrise. Cloudy grey-blue sky with bright yellow above tree line. Haze of willow and gorse in the background, single bank mid-stream, fast flowing river in steel-grey with ripples, riffles, eddies. Shingle bank in foreground.

Some writing to share inspired by "my" stretch of the River Spey: blogs.ed.ac.uk/makingroutes...
It's a Waterways (waterwayscollective.org) blog post on Laura Bissell @rcsofficial.bsky.social and David Overend's @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social Making Routes site.

Help assess how fish contribute to the ocean’s carbon cycle - follow-on effort from ICES WG on #fishcarbon: www.us-ocb.org/help-assess-... 🌊🐟 @scor-int.bsky.social

Still time to apply for this great opportunity with @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social

Get in touch if you have any questions!

Dealine tomorrow 🐧

#ornithology #seabirds

Understanding how a threatened seabird moves across complex ocean energyscapes

Great PhD linking kittiwake tracking, energetics and changing oceans. Based @ukceh.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social collaborating with oceanographers at @unistrathclyde.bsky.social 🌊 Includes fieldwork, stats training and some very cool open-ended research questions. iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

Poster advertising EGU26 session ITS2.5/CL0.5, titled "AMOC impacts: Physical, Biogeochemical, and Societal"

Planning to attend #EGU26?
Interested in the impacts of AMOC weakening?
New session alert! 🚨🌊🧪

ITS2.5/CL0.5: "AMOC impacts: physical, biogeochemical, and societal"

Check out our interdisciplinary session description & submit your abstract here: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...

Our September jobs round-up has arrived (early), with lots of great UK marine roles.

Please share this thread widely with your network of ECRs/marine conservationists.

🦑🌍🌐🧪🌊🐟
#PhDsky #academiasky #conservationjobs #sciencejobs

🌊 I’m hiring! Last few days to apply!! Research Scientist in Marine Ecology & Machine Learning at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (UK). Got experience with machine learning techniques applied to marine ecology, biogeochemistry or climate change? careers.noc.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

One week left! Submit an abstract for #OSM26 🌊 Animal Behaviour, Prey Energyscapes and Ocean Features: Synthesising Oceanographic and Ecological Perspectives agu.confex.com/agu/osm26/pr...

(Note for UK researchers - deadline is 4am 20 Aug so really 19 Aug unless you're pulling an all-nighter🦉)

Working on animal-ocean interactions? Join our #OSM26 🌊Glasgow 22-27 Feb session on Animal Behaviour, Prey Energyscapes and Ocean Features: Synthesising Oceanographic and Ecological Perspectives: agu.confex.com/agu/osm26/pr...

Working on animal-ocean interactions? Join our #OSM26 Glasgow 22-27 Feb session on Animal Behaviour, Prey Energyscapes and Ocean Features: Synthesising Oceanographic and Ecological Perspectives: agu.confex.com/agu/osm26/pr...

I’d like to be added please. Postdoc researching climate change impacts on marine ecosystems. Uni of Strathclyde. 🌊

@neilbanas.bsky.social

Entanglements: Studies in falling, flowing, following - Edinburgh Futures Institute This event will entangle human and aquatic worlds, moving between freshwater and the deep ocean, learning through performance, video, music, poetry and song.

Come along to our salmon Entanglements performance
at Edinburgh Futures Institute tonight! Poetry, music, art and song created through art-science collaboration efi.ed.ac.uk/event/entang...