Dr Abigail McQuatters-Gollop

🌊 Funded PhD: Advancing Plankton Imaging & Machine Learning to Transform Marine Biodiversity Monitoring 🔬🌍 @plymuni.bsky.social
Bring together AI-powered image analysis, innovative sensors, and real-world policy frameworks.
Two funding options:
1. lnkd.in/e566f8RR
2. lnkd.in/eKPRGhsP

🌊 Funded PhD: Advancing Plankton Imaging & Machine Learning to Transform Marine Biodiversity Monitoring 🔬🌍 @plymuni.bsky.social
Bring together AI-powered image analysis, innovative sensors, and real-world policy frameworks.
Two funding options:
1. lnkd.in/e566f8RR
2. lnkd.in/eKPRGhsP

🌊 Funded PhD: Advancing Plankton Imaging & Machine Learning to Transform Marine Biodiversity Monitoring 🔬🌍 @plymuni.bsky.social
Bring together AI-powered image analysis, innovative sensors, and real-world policy frameworks.
Two funding options:
1. lnkd.in/e566f8RR
2. lnkd.in/eKPRGhsP

🌊 Funded PhD: Advancing Plankton Imaging & Machine Learning to Transform Marine Biodiversity Monitoring 🔬🌍 @plymuni.bsky.social
Bring together AI-powered image analysis, innovative sensors, and real-world policy frameworks.
Two funding options:
1. lnkd.in/e566f8RR
2. lnkd.in/eKPRGhsP

🌊 Funded PhD: Advancing Plankton Imaging & Machine Learning to Transform Marine Biodiversity Monitoring 🔬🌍 @plymuni.bsky.social
Bring together AI-powered image analysis, innovative sensors, and real-world policy frameworks.
Two funding options:
1. lnkd.in/e566f8RR
2. lnkd.in/eKPRGhsP

🌊 Funded PhD: Advancing Plankton Imaging & Machine Learning to Transform Marine Biodiversity Monitoring 🔬🌍 @plymuni.bsky.social
Bring together AI-powered image analysis, innovative sensors, and real-world policy frameworks.

Two funding options:
1. lnkd.in/e566f8RR
2. lnkd.in/eKPRGhsP

Well done!! That's really amazing - so productive.

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Shift in phytoplankton community composition over fronts - Communications Earth & Environment A greater proportion of diatoms rather than prokaryotes occur at oceanic fronts, indicating the significant role oceanic fronts play in plankton community composition, according to an analysis of ocea...

Oceanic fronts alter phytoplankton composition, not just biomass.
18 years of satellite data show increased diatoms and decreased prokaryotes at fronts.
Results suggest fronts function as diatom refuges under climate change.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Tiny ocean migrants play a massive role in Southern Ocean carbon storage University of Plymouth news: Researchers from the University were involved in a new study which reveals for the first time that zooplankton migration...

www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/tiny-oc...

Come join us as a #Postdoc on BLUESHORES 🇪🇺 project in Cork 🇮🇪 to test novel nature based solutions to coastal defence 🌊 on saltmarshes 🌱. Start date: 1st Sept. Duration: 28mo. Salary: €45-52k. Deadline 10th July. Partnership with @ucc.ie, Uni Padua 🇮🇹 & NIOZ. 🇳🇱 universityvacancies.com/university-c...

Such BS. How??

I wish I could've stayed to chat. I can't wait to see the paper that comes from your work. Very cool.

Read 👓: Taylor's Announcement to owning her masters. 💚💛💜❤️🩵🤍

Congratulations, Taylor. We are so happy for you 🫶

Rep TV doesn't even exist????

Five ways to inspire ocean connection: reflections from my 40-year marine ecology career Sharing the stories of progress and innovation that show how our patches of the sea are recovering can show what’s possible and inspire further positive action.

Five ways to inspire ocean connection: reflections from my 40-year marine ecology career from @martinattrill.bsky.social . Such good lessons!
theconversation.com/five-ways-to...

The importance of reporting marine non-native species - what can you do? Throughout this year’s Invasive Species Week, an annual event organised by the GB Non-Native Species Secretariat (GB NNSS), we have explored the many detrimental impacts invasive non-native species ca...

marinescience.blog.gov.uk/2025/05/16/t...

What can you do to help manage invasive and non-native species?

Integrated marine monitoring to protect the Irish Sea By Michelle Devlin, Naomi Greenwood, Carolyn Graves, Robert Brookes (Cefas), Mike Best (EA), Eugene O’Kane, Adam Mellor (AFBI), Mark Charlesworth (NRW), David Johns (MBA) Monitoring water quality and ...

marinescience.blog.gov.uk/2025/05/13/i...

Monitoring plankton is critical for protecting the Irish Sea! Great blog by friends at @afbini.gov.uk , @thembauk.bsky.social , @cefasgovuk.bsky.social and the Environment Agency.

I've never felt threatened or unsafe around a trans woman. I have, many times, felt scared around men. No, it's not all men, but, yes, it is almost always men.

UK's top court says definition of a woman is based on biological sex and excludes transgender people The U.K. Supreme Court ruled that a woman is someone born biologically female, excluding transgender people from the legal definition in a long-running dispute between a feminist group and the Scottis...

Trans rights are human rights. This is not protecting anyone, it's taking away rights. This is so infuriating.

apnews.com/article/uk-s...

Are you looking for paid research experience? Check out these opportunities from NERC. Number 14 is plankton!

nercdtp.esc.cam.ac.uk/programme/re...

These glowing seas have baffled sailors for centuries. Science may finally have answers. "Milky seas” are one of the rarest reported forms of bioluminescence. A new scientific database may finally reveal the secrets of this ghostly phenomenon.

Have you ever heard of milky seas? They are a rare kind of bacterial bioluminescence that span huge areas of the oceans. I'm in Nat Geo today gushing about how cool they are 😄 I hope to get to see one someday!

www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...

It's just the normal spring bloom, I think. What is remarkable is the cloud freeness of the sky :) I do think the plankton are quite enjoying the sun, too.

That's the key thing!

Dolphins are starving to death in Florida. An algae bloom is to blame Too many nutrients can cause microscopic marine algae to grow out of control with harmful effects on animals and people

Don't blame the plankton - it's Big Sugar and poor nutrient management that are at fault!

www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

Oh hai there, phytoplankton. Looking good.

www.copernicus.eu/en/media/ima...

Biodiversity loss in all species and every ecosystem linked to humans – report Sweeping synthesis of 2,000 global studies leaves no doubt about scale of problem and role of humans, say experts

We don't deserve this beautiful planet.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

White House inadvertently texted top-secret Yemen war plans to journalist Senior Trump cabinet members copied Atlantic journalist into chat used to discuss secret strikes against Houthis

BUT HER EMAILS www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025.... 😡😡😡😡

Is sparse local ecological knowledge accurate enough for policy? A seagrass mapping case study from five Greek islands in the Eastern Aegean Sea

New paper: Local ecological knowledge of fishers is even more accurate than official government maps for identifying seagrass habitats, with fishers knowing where seagrass meadows are with an average accuracy of 78%! @plymuni.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...