Sam Andrews
@oceanoculus.com
Science & stories from the sea (& occasionally the other 30% of the planet)
🌊 Marine science, tech, policy, sustainability writer
🤿 Founder of Ocean Oculus, the ocean-focused communications studio
📈 Researcher
☕ Tea drinker
🧀 Cheese eater
🐧 Bird admirer
🌊 Marine science, tech, policy, sustainability writer
🤿 Founder of Ocean Oculus, the ocean-focused communications studio
📈 Researcher
☕ Tea drinker
🧀 Cheese eater
🐧 Bird admirer
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💰 #Funding - Scottish Learning Fund from Sea-Changers
⌛ Deadline: accepts ongoing applications
Discover more 👇
⌛ Deadline: accepts ongoing applications
Discover more 👇
Scottish Learning Fund | Sea-Changers
The Scottish Learning Fund enables early-stage and small community-based marine conservation groups in Scotland to learn from each other, build networks and develop new skills.
www.sea-changers.org.uk
December 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
💰 #Funding - Scottish Learning Fund from Sea-Changers
⌛ Deadline: accepts ongoing applications
Discover more 👇
⌛ Deadline: accepts ongoing applications
Discover more 👇
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New commentary on marine benthic carbon modeling and data synthesis 🌊 @usocb.bsky.social
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Elucidating the Role of Marine Benthic Carbon in a Changing World
New observations should prioritize easier-to-collect variables to rapidly increase temporal and spatial coverage of benthic data Multi-variable data sets need to be harmonized to provide comprehe...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
New commentary on marine benthic carbon modeling and data synthesis 🌊 @usocb.bsky.social
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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🌐 Global Ecology feed Digest #43 Dec 08-15, 23 posts!
✨For the lazy (yes we are!) & friends who don't like social media but might benefit from this feed, here’s a DIGEST crafted with 💚 for you to share
👉 globalecologybs.github.io/feeddigest.g...
DM if you want to receive the link weekly
🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪
✨For the lazy (yes we are!) & friends who don't like social media but might benefit from this feed, here’s a DIGEST crafted with 💚 for you to share
👉 globalecologybs.github.io/feeddigest.g...
DM if you want to receive the link weekly
🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪
bluesky Global Ecology Feed Digest #43
Curated digest of the bluesky Global Ecology feed on biodiversity, ecosystems & conservation at large scales. Terrestrial, freswater & marine realms.
globalecologybs.github.io
December 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
🌐 Global Ecology feed Digest #43 Dec 08-15, 23 posts!
✨For the lazy (yes we are!) & friends who don't like social media but might benefit from this feed, here’s a DIGEST crafted with 💚 for you to share
👉 globalecologybs.github.io/feeddigest.g...
DM if you want to receive the link weekly
🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪
✨For the lazy (yes we are!) & friends who don't like social media but might benefit from this feed, here’s a DIGEST crafted with 💚 for you to share
👉 globalecologybs.github.io/feeddigest.g...
DM if you want to receive the link weekly
🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪
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What do you love most about circular economy? (it's not all about saving the planet 💚)
1️⃣Business + jobs
2️⃣Saves money
3️⃣Higher quality items
4️⃣Community connection 🧡
5️⃣Good for the planet - people don't want to throw away, don't want more stuff, but do because it's easier
1️⃣Business + jobs
2️⃣Saves money
3️⃣Higher quality items
4️⃣Community connection 🧡
5️⃣Good for the planet - people don't want to throw away, don't want more stuff, but do because it's easier
Day 4️⃣ | Why do people love the circular economy? Kemi, from East London Waste Authority’s repair café, shares how these spaces bring whole communities together.
#CircularEconomyStories #RepairCafe
#CircularEconomyStories #RepairCafe
December 11, 2025 at 11:53 AM
What do you love most about circular economy? (it's not all about saving the planet 💚)
1️⃣Business + jobs
2️⃣Saves money
3️⃣Higher quality items
4️⃣Community connection 🧡
5️⃣Good for the planet - people don't want to throw away, don't want more stuff, but do because it's easier
1️⃣Business + jobs
2️⃣Saves money
3️⃣Higher quality items
4️⃣Community connection 🧡
5️⃣Good for the planet - people don't want to throw away, don't want more stuff, but do because it's easier
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How the Regional Seas Programme is shaping a healthy, resilient ocean for people and nature 🌊
This collection of stories from the different Regional Seas Conventions (including HELCOM) shows how they are advancing sustainable solutions for a resilient planet.
Explore here: buff.ly/hH7FaaC
This collection of stories from the different Regional Seas Conventions (including HELCOM) shows how they are advancing sustainable solutions for a resilient planet.
Explore here: buff.ly/hH7FaaC
December 9, 2025 at 12:26 PM
How the Regional Seas Programme is shaping a healthy, resilient ocean for people and nature 🌊
This collection of stories from the different Regional Seas Conventions (including HELCOM) shows how they are advancing sustainable solutions for a resilient planet.
Explore here: buff.ly/hH7FaaC
This collection of stories from the different Regional Seas Conventions (including HELCOM) shows how they are advancing sustainable solutions for a resilient planet.
Explore here: buff.ly/hH7FaaC
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Despite what you hear from fossil fuel-funded politicians, the U.K has just generated a record amount of clean, domestic wind energy.
Enough to power 23 million homes!
U.K decarbonisation policy is a recipe for energy security.
Enough to power 23 million homes!
U.K decarbonisation policy is a recipe for energy security.
December 9, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Despite what you hear from fossil fuel-funded politicians, the U.K has just generated a record amount of clean, domestic wind energy.
Enough to power 23 million homes!
U.K decarbonisation policy is a recipe for energy security.
Enough to power 23 million homes!
U.K decarbonisation policy is a recipe for energy security.
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A broadclub cuttlefish (Ascarosepion latimanus) showing what I call the 'angry bull' signal to another cuttlefish. It flicks its arms from side to side as a wave of dark color flashes over them, and it releases a small puff of ink. Sadly with its back mostly turned to me. 1/2
December 9, 2025 at 10:09 AM
A broadclub cuttlefish (Ascarosepion latimanus) showing what I call the 'angry bull' signal to another cuttlefish. It flicks its arms from side to side as a wave of dark color flashes over them, and it releases a small puff of ink. Sadly with its back mostly turned to me. 1/2
Let's get statistically sea-nificant 🧮
🪦 87,000
The number of dead animals reported to iNaturalist by people in South Australia during a huge harmful algal bloom event.
📷 A harmful algal bloom in the Banter Sea, Germany. Credit Ein Dahmer (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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🪦 87,000
The number of dead animals reported to iNaturalist by people in South Australia during a huge harmful algal bloom event.
📷 A harmful algal bloom in the Banter Sea, Germany. Credit Ein Dahmer (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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December 8, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Let's get statistically sea-nificant 🧮
🪦 87,000
The number of dead animals reported to iNaturalist by people in South Australia during a huge harmful algal bloom event.
📷 A harmful algal bloom in the Banter Sea, Germany. Credit Ein Dahmer (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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🪦 87,000
The number of dead animals reported to iNaturalist by people in South Australia during a huge harmful algal bloom event.
📷 A harmful algal bloom in the Banter Sea, Germany. Credit Ein Dahmer (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Need a break but can't get outside?
Here's a little walk in nature
#WalkWithMe #BlueskyWalks #NatureWalks
Here's a little walk in nature
#WalkWithMe #BlueskyWalks #NatureWalks
December 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Need a break but can't get outside?
Here's a little walk in nature
#WalkWithMe #BlueskyWalks #NatureWalks
Here's a little walk in nature
#WalkWithMe #BlueskyWalks #NatureWalks
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🆕 Research Brief | Prof. Benjamin Bryce shows how fisheries policies in B.C. in the early 20th century became tools for racial exclusion of Japanese Canadian fishermen under the banner of protection, and what their experiences can teach us today.
🔗 Read the brief: migration.ubc.ca/publications...
🔗 Read the brief: migration.ubc.ca/publications...
December 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
🆕 Research Brief | Prof. Benjamin Bryce shows how fisheries policies in B.C. in the early 20th century became tools for racial exclusion of Japanese Canadian fishermen under the banner of protection, and what their experiences can teach us today.
🔗 Read the brief: migration.ubc.ca/publications...
🔗 Read the brief: migration.ubc.ca/publications...
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"A ticking time bomb"
Dr Barbara Kneale tells Martin Stew what it's like to live near the Jameson Road Landfill. Local residents describe foul odours from the landfill, bordering a former chemical plant waste site. ITV News covered our report on landfill pollution with @investigate-europe.eu
Dr Barbara Kneale tells Martin Stew what it's like to live near the Jameson Road Landfill. Local residents describe foul odours from the landfill, bordering a former chemical plant waste site. ITV News covered our report on landfill pollution with @investigate-europe.eu
December 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
"A ticking time bomb"
Dr Barbara Kneale tells Martin Stew what it's like to live near the Jameson Road Landfill. Local residents describe foul odours from the landfill, bordering a former chemical plant waste site. ITV News covered our report on landfill pollution with @investigate-europe.eu
Dr Barbara Kneale tells Martin Stew what it's like to live near the Jameson Road Landfill. Local residents describe foul odours from the landfill, bordering a former chemical plant waste site. ITV News covered our report on landfill pollution with @investigate-europe.eu
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Are you an #EarlyCareerResearcher interested in gaining editorial experience with a peer reviewed journal?
Check out this brilliant opportunity with our journal over at @conphysjournal.bsky.social!
@sebiology.bsky.social
Check out this brilliant opportunity with our journal over at @conphysjournal.bsky.social!
@sebiology.bsky.social
✳️ We are delighted to announce a new editorial internship scheme for #EarlyCareerResearchers! ✳️
Interns will gain experience of:
✅ manuscript handling
✅ peer review
✅ editorial decision making
Full details and how to apply here: academic.oup.com/conphys/page...
#Publishing #ECR #PeerReview
Interns will gain experience of:
✅ manuscript handling
✅ peer review
✅ editorial decision making
Full details and how to apply here: academic.oup.com/conphys/page...
#Publishing #ECR #PeerReview
December 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Are you an #EarlyCareerResearcher interested in gaining editorial experience with a peer reviewed journal?
Check out this brilliant opportunity with our journal over at @conphysjournal.bsky.social!
@sebiology.bsky.social
Check out this brilliant opportunity with our journal over at @conphysjournal.bsky.social!
@sebiology.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Happy Antarctica Day! 🤍
The frankly frigid waters of Antarctica are home to some incredible wildlife. Like this gorgeous longbeard plunderfish.
Longbeard plunderfish - what a name!
📷 Credit: Shandikov, G.A. (CC BY NC-4.0)
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The frankly frigid waters of Antarctica are home to some incredible wildlife. Like this gorgeous longbeard plunderfish.
Longbeard plunderfish - what a name!
📷 Credit: Shandikov, G.A. (CC BY NC-4.0)
1/3
December 1, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Happy Antarctica Day! 🤍
The frankly frigid waters of Antarctica are home to some incredible wildlife. Like this gorgeous longbeard plunderfish.
Longbeard plunderfish - what a name!
📷 Credit: Shandikov, G.A. (CC BY NC-4.0)
1/3
The frankly frigid waters of Antarctica are home to some incredible wildlife. Like this gorgeous longbeard plunderfish.
Longbeard plunderfish - what a name!
📷 Credit: Shandikov, G.A. (CC BY NC-4.0)
1/3
Let’s get statistically sea-nificant 🧮
🐋 9
The number of stomachs a spade-toothed whale has.
📷 The spade-toothed whale, named Ōnumia by the Te Rūnanga o Ōtākou. Credit: New Zealand Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0)
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🐋 9
The number of stomachs a spade-toothed whale has.
📷 The spade-toothed whale, named Ōnumia by the Te Rūnanga o Ōtākou. Credit: New Zealand Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0)
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November 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Let’s get statistically sea-nificant 🧮
🐋 9
The number of stomachs a spade-toothed whale has.
📷 The spade-toothed whale, named Ōnumia by the Te Rūnanga o Ōtākou. Credit: New Zealand Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0)
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🐋 9
The number of stomachs a spade-toothed whale has.
📷 The spade-toothed whale, named Ōnumia by the Te Rūnanga o Ōtākou. Credit: New Zealand Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0)
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The Guardian reports that large parts of southern Europe are drying up. And just in case you are not sufficiently worried: Their definition of southern Europe includes Germany and the South of the UK. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown
Exclusive: UCL scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:17 AM
The Guardian reports that large parts of southern Europe are drying up. And just in case you are not sufficiently worried: Their definition of southern Europe includes Germany and the South of the UK. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
NYC’s Lander Recommends Dropping $42 Billion BlackRock Mandate
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is urging three of the city’s pension funds to drop BlackRock Inc. because of “inadequate” climate plans, the latest move to penalize investment firms for failing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Very pleased to see that @greens.org.au have won an inquiry into job cuts at CSIRO
Would be great to see attention brought to bear on restructuring (cuts?) at the Australian Research Council too
Why these attacks on science in the public interest in Australia❓ Who does this serve❓
Would be great to see attention brought to bear on restructuring (cuts?) at the Australian Research Council too
Why these attacks on science in the public interest in Australia❓ Who does this serve❓
November 26, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Very pleased to see that @greens.org.au have won an inquiry into job cuts at CSIRO
Would be great to see attention brought to bear on restructuring (cuts?) at the Australian Research Council too
Why these attacks on science in the public interest in Australia❓ Who does this serve❓
Would be great to see attention brought to bear on restructuring (cuts?) at the Australian Research Council too
Why these attacks on science in the public interest in Australia❓ Who does this serve❓
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Reminder: The application deadline for 'Ice Narratives: Antarctic Science for Policy Makers' is coming up soon!
Submit your application by 30 November to be considered for the scheme: scar.org/scar-news/ic...
Submit your application by 30 November to be considered for the scheme: scar.org/scar-news/ic...
Want to make Antarctic science heard?
Applications are now open for Ice Narratives, a fellowship translating Antarctic research into policy-relevant multimedia.
Three early career researchers will receive USD 750.
📝 Apply by 30 November 2025:
scar.org/scar-news/ic...
@polarsecco.bsky.social
Applications are now open for Ice Narratives, a fellowship translating Antarctic research into policy-relevant multimedia.
Three early career researchers will receive USD 750.
📝 Apply by 30 November 2025:
scar.org/scar-news/ic...
@polarsecco.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Reminder: The application deadline for 'Ice Narratives: Antarctic Science for Policy Makers' is coming up soon!
Submit your application by 30 November to be considered for the scheme: scar.org/scar-news/ic...
Submit your application by 30 November to be considered for the scheme: scar.org/scar-news/ic...
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Iceland has designated the potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) a national security concern and an existential threat.
Yet still fossil fuel usage continues to grow, and they barely agreed to *name* the problem at #COP30.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Yet still fossil fuel usage continues to grow, and they barely agreed to *name* the problem at #COP30.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Iceland deems possible Atlantic current collapse a security risk
Iceland has designated the potential collapse of a major Atlantic Ocean current system a national security concern and an existential threat, enabling its government to strategize for worst-case scenarios, the country's climate minister told Reuters.
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Iceland has designated the potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) a national security concern and an existential threat.
Yet still fossil fuel usage continues to grow, and they barely agreed to *name* the problem at #COP30.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Yet still fossil fuel usage continues to grow, and they barely agreed to *name* the problem at #COP30.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Did somebody say… cake?
Why the USA did, because today is National Cake Day!
Now, you may be looking at the photo and wondering…what is that and what does it have to do with cake.
This, my friends, is a chocolate chip sea cucumber.
📷 Credit: Laszly Iyles/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)
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Why the USA did, because today is National Cake Day!
Now, you may be looking at the photo and wondering…what is that and what does it have to do with cake.
This, my friends, is a chocolate chip sea cucumber.
📷 Credit: Laszly Iyles/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)
1/2
November 26, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Did somebody say… cake?
Why the USA did, because today is National Cake Day!
Now, you may be looking at the photo and wondering…what is that and what does it have to do with cake.
This, my friends, is a chocolate chip sea cucumber.
📷 Credit: Laszly Iyles/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)
1/2
Why the USA did, because today is National Cake Day!
Now, you may be looking at the photo and wondering…what is that and what does it have to do with cake.
This, my friends, is a chocolate chip sea cucumber.
📷 Credit: Laszly Iyles/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)
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@schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 870 is live. Today's dive is shallow focusing on pushcores. #asgardarchaea #MarineLife
www.youtube.com/live/SDxucKs...
www.youtube.com/live/SDxucKs...
Station 11 | SOI Divestream 870
YouTube video by Schmidt Ocean
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
@schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 870 is live. Today's dive is shallow focusing on pushcores. #asgardarchaea #MarineLife
www.youtube.com/live/SDxucKs...
www.youtube.com/live/SDxucKs...
November 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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*NEW* We’ve just released 337 harmonised layers from 35 sources capturing human pressures, heritage features, ecological assets and net-ocean conditions for UK waters.
Read the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Explore our interactive portal: storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/...
Read the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Explore our interactive portal: storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/...
November 21, 2025 at 10:22 AM
*NEW* We’ve just released 337 harmonised layers from 35 sources capturing human pressures, heritage features, ecological assets and net-ocean conditions for UK waters.
Read the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Explore our interactive portal: storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/...
Read the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Explore our interactive portal: storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/...
Reposted by Sam Andrews
New paper alert! We just published a massive meta-analysis in @EcologyLetters asking: How does crowding affect survival in reef fish populations?
The answer? It's way more complicated than we thought.
🧵 Thread on what 147 studies taught us (1/8) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The answer? It's way more complicated than we thought.
🧵 Thread on what 147 studies taught us (1/8) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 18, 2025 at 8:38 PM
New paper alert! We just published a massive meta-analysis in @EcologyLetters asking: How does crowding affect survival in reef fish populations?
The answer? It's way more complicated than we thought.
🧵 Thread on what 147 studies taught us (1/8) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The answer? It's way more complicated than we thought.
🧵 Thread on what 147 studies taught us (1/8) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...