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Brendan Godley

Brendan Godley

@brendangodley.bsky.social

6.8K followers 1.2K 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

Environmental science 72%

Geography 18%

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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...

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Endangered Species Research @esr-ir.bsky.social · 5d

🦤🧪🌐 🐢 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 · 8d

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 · 12d

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 · 14d

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 · 18d

🧪🦤🌐
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 · 22d

#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 · 27d

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 · 27d

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 · 27d

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 · 28d

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 · 29d

@brendangodley.bsky.social

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

🦤🌐🧪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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Endangered Species Research @esr-ir.bsky.social · Sep 12

🌐🧪🦤 Considering prey availability has the exciting potential to improve marine conservation efforts, as evidenced in this case study modeling the habitat of critically endangered North Atlantic #RightWhales. #OceanScience #Maine #ProtectOurOceans #BluePlanet. bit.ly/esr_58_67

North Atlantic right whales “Arpeggio” (Catalog #2753) and Catalog #4617 pass by each other while skim feeding in the Great South Channel in February 2024

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Endangered Species Research @esr-ir.bsky.social · Sep 12

🌐🧪🦤 We reveal that #AtlanticSturgeon #Acipenseroxyrinchus produce low frequency thunder-like sounds associated with #spawning, similar to #lakesturgeon #Acipenserfulvescens. This finding lays the groundwork for passive acoustic monitoring of this endangered species. bit.ly/esr_58_1

An Atlantic sturgeon lying caught on a boat in the water next to a wooden jetty.

Brendan Godley @brendangodley.bsky.social · Sep 11

A small step forward.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
🐢🌎🦑🐟🦐🌊🦈🐢🐋🐳🐬 🦜 🐧

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Exeter Marine @exetermarine.bsky.social · Sep 8

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

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University of Exeter News @uniofexeternews.bsky.social · Aug 29

More than a century of data reveals how the UK has gone from supplying domestic seafood needs from productive home waters to importing seafood from almost 90 countries

Read more here 👇 @exeter.ac.uk @exetermarine.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social @profcallum.bsky.social @ruththurstan.bsky.social

Study tracks UK’s journey from seafood self-sufficiency to dependence on imports

More than a century of data reveals how the UK has gone from supplying domestic seafood needs from productive home waters to importing seafood from almost 90 countries. University of Exeter researcher...

news.exeter.ac.uk

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

🌐🧪🦤 Various aspects of biology of the #olm #Proteus anguinus, an endangered cave #salamander, including its reproductive biology remain a mystery. Our study explores ways to identify their sex, a key step towards establishing captive reproduction and conserving the species. bit.ly/esr_57_453

A European blind cave salamander resting on limestone in subterranean waters.

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

🌐🧪🦤 New paper finds the globally important populations of wandering, black-browed and grey-headed albatrosses at South Georgia have decreased by 39-66% in just 32-40 years, caused mainly by bycatch in fisheries or climate change. bit.ly/esr_57_437

Three photos of South Georgia Albatrosses. Two of the images show an albatross standing behind their chick in a nest and the middle image shows a standing albatross with a red ring on one leg and a yellow ring on the other.

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University of Exeter's Environment and Sustainability Institute @uniofexeteresi.bsky.social · Aug 28

Brilliant to see our research featured in this Scientific American article: Microplastics Could Be Turning Bacteria into Drug-Resistant Superbugs
www.scientificamerican.com/article/micr...

@pml.ac.uk @hls.exeter.ac.uk @ecehh.org @cornwall.exeter.ac.uk @exetermarine.bsky.social

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Exeter Marine @exetermarine.bsky.social · Aug 28

Our latest blog post explores the Anguilla Shark Conservation (ASC) project, which aimed to develop a science-based understanding of shark and ray populations in Anguilla through meaningful community engagement.

Read it here - sites.exeter.ac.uk/exetermarine...

🦑🌍🦤🧪🌐

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Prof Ceri Lewis @cezzalew.bsky.social · Aug 28

What a fun day. So honoured to be included in this list of incredible women! @exetermarine.bsky.social @gsiexeter.bsky.social www.womanandhome.com/life/inspira...

Meet Britain's most amazing women

Introducing the woman&home Amazing Women Awards 2025, in association with NHS Charities Together

www.womanandhome.com

Brendan Godley @brendangodley.bsky.social · Aug 28

Definitely on my bucket list. Would love to witness an arribada of olive ridley #seaturtles

Nature Is Fucking Lit @cudanammy.com · Aug 28

thousands of Olive ridley sea turtles arrive on the beaches of Odisha India in synchronized nesting event. #nature Source: freudian_nipps