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Brendan Godley

Brendan Godley

@brendangodley.bsky.social

6.9K followers 1.3K following 320 posts

Conservation Scientist, U of Exeter, Cornwall (UK). Biodiversity, ecology & conservation (research, practice & education). Esp. marine realm- sea turtles, fisheries, and ocean plastic. Academic Lead at @exetermarine.bsky.social & @exetergses.bsky.social .. more

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Brendan Godley @brendangodley.bsky.social · Mar 15

Second Call: We made a starter pack for those interesed in sea turtle ecology and conservation. Add a comment if you would like to be added. 🐢🌍🧪🦑 #seaturtles #marineturtles
bsky.app/starter-pack...

Brendan Godley @brendangodley.bsky.social · 15d

Pleased to announce that @exetermarine.bsky.social will be a founding member of Marine Science UK - an umbrella organisation that will champion the ocean and communicate robust and coherent marine science evidence to government, industry and the wider community. 🌍🧪🦑
See also: marinescience.org.uk

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Exeter Marine @exetermarine.bsky.social · 17d

Our final UK marine jobs round up of the year has arrived! 🎄🌟

Find the roles and links all here on our LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

🦑🐟🧪🌊🌐

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Taylor & Francis Research @tandfresearch.bsky.social · 18d

Penguins living off the coast of South Africa have likely starved to death, en masse, due to a 25% drop in food supply levels - a new study finds ⬇️

Some populations are estimated to have fallen by 95% across just eight years ⚠️

t.co/NaaFeZXvwB

@exetermarine.bsky.social

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Dr. Daniel M Moore @danielmmoore.bsky.social · 21d

A wet and wild day along the Cornish coast today, but that didn't hold back our second year undergraduates from collecting some great biodiversity data!

#marinebiologylife #exetermarine @exetermarine.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social

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Exeter Marine @exetermarine.bsky.social · 24d

How can we scale up sustainable seaweed farming on land? 🌱🐟

This Exeter Marine Fund student project, by Benjamin Grecic, explores the possibilities.

Find out more in our latest blog post - sites.exeter.ac.uk/exetermarine...

🦑🌱🌍🌐🌊🧪

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Xav Harrison @xavh.bsky.social · 24d

New preprint to round off 2025, wrapping up work I did @zslscience.bsky.social and continued @uniexecec.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We studied skin bacterial community diversity in Palmate Newts from the Isle of Rum.

Pic: dramatic AI newt emerging from (hovering on?) a pond

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University of Exeter, Cornwall @cornwall.exeter.ac.uk · 25d

Funding organisations can fix the science publishing system – which currently puts profit first and science second – according to new research.

@uniexecec.bsky.social

Funding agencies can end profit-first science publishing

Funding organisations can fix the science publishing system – which currently puts profit first and science second – according to new research. The new paper says the current relationship between rese...

news.exeter.ac.uk

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University of Exeter CEC @uniexecec.bsky.social · 28d

A huge congratulations to our staff at the CEC and @exetermarine.bsky.social for their success at the 2025 Teaching Awards!

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Exeter Marine @exetermarine.bsky.social · Nov 25

PhD Opportunity! 🚨
Working with Dr Pauline Tedesco on "Submesoscale ocean flows and processes in the Southern Ocean."

NERC GW4+ DTP PhD studentship for September 2026.

DEADLINE: 8th Jan 2026

Find out more - www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

🌊🌐🌍🦑🧪 #PhDsky #AcademicSky

a flyer for a phd opportunity. the background is a save, the overlay text reads: PhD opportunity, Submesoscale ocean flows and processes in the Southern Ocean. Logos are at the bottom on a white background for: NERC GW4+. University of Exeter, and National Oceanography Centre

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University of Exeter, Cornwall @cornwall.exeter.ac.uk · Nov 17

New research from the University of Exeter shows maerl-forming algae in Cornwall have unique genetic profiles. Read more: news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
@exetermarine.bsky.social

Scientists map the genetic distribution of maerl-forming algae across South West

A habitat-building coralline algae that provides a vital nursing ground for marine species and an important blue carbon ecosystem has been genetically mapped around south-west Britain in a first-of-it...

news.exeter.ac.uk

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Endangered Species Research @esr-ir.bsky.social · Nov 6

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Endangered Species Research @esr-ir.bsky.social · Nov 6

🦤🧪🌐 🐢 Concern about nesting #flatback #turtles on Delambre Island, Western Australia. Despite natural cycles, population currently appears to be dropping. Monitoring and adaptive management are vital to understand and protect this unique population.
bit.ly/esr_58_287

Nesting flatback turtle

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Nancy Seideman @nsei94.bsky.social · Nov 2

I am a freelance writer, have written about sea turtles for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Emory Magazine, am a frequent visitor and patron of the Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Juno Beach, and looking for ways to contribute to sea turtle and ecological conservation.

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Dr Sjúrður Hammer @sjurdur.bsky.social · Oct 29

Please check out this interesting presentation on #stormpetrels and #lightpollution in the Faroes by collaborator and PhD student @bardseyben.bsky.social

#seabirds 🧪🌍

kvf.fo/sjon/sending...

Vísindavøka '25 - Ben Porter, Umhvørvisstovan

Ben Porter: Ávirkan av ljósdálking á drunnhvíta

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Endangered Species Research @esr-ir.bsky.social · Oct 28

Habitat degradation may hinder #pangolin ability to raise pups, despite their perceived adaptability. We documented the elusive wild female #ManisJavanica during maternal and non-maternal stages, offering insights for evidence-based conservation. bit.ly/esr_58_223

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Endangered Species Research @esr-ir.bsky.social · Oct 24

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Endangered Lake Chubsucker in Canada are feeling the heat – literally. 🔥🐟 While they hold their own in low-oxygen waters, rising temps are already affecting their behaviour, which is concerning as climate change intensifies. bit.ly/esr_58_275

A lake chubsucker in a water tank.

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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · Oct 20

#Conservation works

Green sea turtles are making a comeback, IUCN says 'no longer endangered' though some subpopulations are still in trouble, news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

They're not rare in the Galapagos where I made this image (saw up to 4 at once!) but E. Pacific pop is still 'vulnerable'

Green sea turtle

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Pure Tech @puretech.news · Oct 15

Saving sea turtles with solar-powered fishing nets #Technology #EmergingTechnologies #Other #SeaTurtles #SustainableFishing #CleanTech

Saving sea turtles with solar-powered fishing nets

For fishers working the inky dark night, it can be difficult to keep endangered or unwanted animals out of their nets. While lighted nets can reduce the bycatch of sharks and sea turtles, their batteries...

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Science X / Phys.org @sciencex.bsky.social · Oct 15

Solar-powered lights integrated into fishing nets have been shown to reduce sea turtle entanglement by 63% without impacting target fish catch, offering a promising solution for sustainable fisheries.

Solar-powered lights on fishing nets cut sea turtle entanglement by 63%

Studies have shown that lighted nets can reduce bycatch of sea turtles and sharks, but the idea has faced many hurdles to adoption.

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Oceana @oceana.bsky.social · Oct 15

Green turtles are making a comeback! 🐢🌊

After decades of global conservation work, these once-endangered sea turtles are showing encouraging signs of recovery. While they still face threats, this is proof that protection works! https://bbc.in/4q9uIqH

Green turtle bounces back from brink in conservation 'win'

Once endangered due to hunting, it is making a strong recovery thanks to global conservation efforts.

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Exeter Marine @exetermarine.bsky.social · Oct 14

POSITIVE NEWS 🗣️

Green turtles move from ‘Endangered’ to ‘Least concern’ on the IUCN Red List, thanks to decades of hard work by conservationists globally.

Read the full assessment - iucnredlist.org/fr/species/4615/285108125

Footage from Open Planet / @brendangodley.bsky.social

🦑🌍🌐🌊🐟🐢

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Endangered Species Research @esr-ir.bsky.social · Oct 13

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Endangered Species Research @esr-ir.bsky.social · Oct 13

🦤🌐🧪Wind beneath my wings: we describe the spatial and temporal extent of the post-fledging dependence period of the endangered #ChacoEagle (Buteogallus coronatus), related with individual sex, body condition and ecoregion. bit.ly/esr_58_193

Portrait of a Chaco eagle

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Endangered Species Research @esr-ir.bsky.social · Sep 29

🌐🧪🦤 A population assessment and ecological study confirmed that Sulcaria isidiifera is a critically endangered lichen that only occurs on the central coast of California. Translocation was also tested as a potential conservation measure to protect this rare lichen. bit.ly/esr_58_103

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Endangered Species Research @esr-ir.bsky.social · Sep 26

🌐🧪🦤 Automated cameras in remote field sites captured breeding data for at-risk #doublecrestedcormorant in #StraitofGeorgia #BritishColumbia. Multievent capture-recapture models were used to understand negative effects on nest success across entire breeding season. bit.ly/esr_58_85

Photo of a double crested cormorant.

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Endangered Species Research @esr-ir.bsky.social · Sep 26

🌐🧪🦤 Using DNA from skin samples, age (1–45 yr) and sex of Lahille’s bottlenose #dolphins in Brazil were estimated. With <600 left, this non-invasive #epigenetic tool aids survival predictions and #conservation 🧬🐬. bit.ly/esr_58_137

Three bottlenose dolphins in the water.

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Oryx @oryxthejournal.bsky.social · Sep 17

New issue!🏝
The unique challenges and rewards of island conservation🦎

This theme highlights the importance of protecting island biodiversity, which is particularly vulnerable to extinction🦇🌋

You can read our new Island Conservation issue (🔓fully Open Access) here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Oryx @oryxthejournal.bsky.social · Sep 16

🪂Species reintroductions have a radical history; in the UK, where official rewilding remains tightly regulated, a covert counterculture has emerged🐗

🦅Glentworth et al. explore guerilla rewilding: unlicensed releases reshaping landscapes and challenging norms🦫

📰 lnkd.in/dw7EVA5n
🖥️ lnkd.in/dxJK4Wy6

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Daniel Padfield @padpadpadpad.bsky.social · Sep 16

I have an MRC-funded PhD project available (www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...) on how warming will change the problem of AMR. Join a small and friendly group (padpadpadpad.netlify.app/about) in (sometimes) sunny Cornwall. 🧪🦠 #microsky

Please share the ad below with anyone who may be interested.

A teal flyer for a PhD opportunity to investigate how warming may change antimicrobial resistance. The project will use experiments on Klebsiella bacteria to answer questions about how temperature affects their response to antibiotics, plasmid transfer, and fitness costs. The research involves microbiology lab work, bioinformatics, and mathematical modeling. The flyer includes contact details for Dr. Daniel Padfield and the logos of the sponsoring institutions.

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Exeter Marine @exetermarine.bsky.social · Sep 12

NEW RESEARCH
Application of spatially robust stereo-BRUV sampling for quantifying fish assemblages in UK marine protected areas

Watch the video to learn more, and find the paper here - esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

@owenexeter.bsky.social @kristianmetcalfe.bsky.social
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