Rodney Forster
@rodneyforster.bsky.social
Professor, Marine Science at the University of Hull.
Repost with a photo of yours that would make a good album cover.
February 13, 2026 at 12:19 PM
Repost with a photo of yours that would make a good album cover.
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ICES Secretariat is hiring an Information Officer.
Join ICES as an Information Officer and play a key role in supporting editorial excellence in marine science, preserving our legacy & administrating our publications database.
🔔Submit your application by 22 February 2026
www.ices.dk/about-ICES/J...
Join ICES as an Information Officer and play a key role in supporting editorial excellence in marine science, preserving our legacy & administrating our publications database.
🔔Submit your application by 22 February 2026
www.ices.dk/about-ICES/J...
February 6, 2026 at 11:30 AM
ICES Secretariat is hiring an Information Officer.
Join ICES as an Information Officer and play a key role in supporting editorial excellence in marine science, preserving our legacy & administrating our publications database.
🔔Submit your application by 22 February 2026
www.ices.dk/about-ICES/J...
Join ICES as an Information Officer and play a key role in supporting editorial excellence in marine science, preserving our legacy & administrating our publications database.
🔔Submit your application by 22 February 2026
www.ices.dk/about-ICES/J...
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One from the archives. A sea urchin larva moving very gracefully across my slide. Did you know sea urchins started life like this?
#marineplankton 🦑
#marineplankton 🦑
February 2, 2026 at 7:47 PM
One from the archives. A sea urchin larva moving very gracefully across my slide. Did you know sea urchins started life like this?
#marineplankton 🦑
#marineplankton 🦑
The brackish water boddens of north-eastern Germany are frozen in this Sentinel-2 image from last week. Ice break-up in the Spring was often followed by a short and intense bloom of crytophyte cells. Had some fun trying to sample water from under a metre of ice, back in the day.
January 28, 2026 at 3:42 PM
The brackish water boddens of north-eastern Germany are frozen in this Sentinel-2 image from last week. Ice break-up in the Spring was often followed by a short and intense bloom of crytophyte cells. Had some fun trying to sample water from under a metre of ice, back in the day.
What is at about these non-existent giant Chinese offshore windfarms? So well hidden that Trump's intelligence sources can't spot them, yet I can find them with two mouse clicks.
January 22, 2026 at 10:11 AM
What is at about these non-existent giant Chinese offshore windfarms? So well hidden that Trump's intelligence sources can't spot them, yet I can find them with two mouse clicks.
Zoology building at Liverpool closed down. First year practicals in the lab on the left mainly doing repeated dissections of dogfish. No wonder I turned vegetarian.
January 21, 2026 at 9:22 AM
Zoology building at Liverpool closed down. First year practicals in the lab on the left mainly doing repeated dissections of dogfish. No wonder I turned vegetarian.
anyone doing the January 100 push-ups a day challenge for @cancerresearchuk.org ? I'm on track so far.
January 13, 2026 at 8:15 PM
anyone doing the January 100 push-ups a day challenge for @cancerresearchuk.org ? I'm on track so far.
Magic of the FA Cup not working at the MKM. There’s only about 5,000 here.
January 11, 2026 at 2:27 PM
Magic of the FA Cup not working at the MKM. There’s only about 5,000 here.
Saturday shopping and a million other things on hold until the end of Macc v Palace.
January 10, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Saturday shopping and a million other things on hold until the end of Macc v Palace.
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2026 Training Grants are now open! 📢🕊️
Are you:
📏 Hoping to gain experience with #seabirds via unpaid work?
🧑 From a BAME background? (though others may apply too)
💸 A grant of up to £250 could help! (to cover travel, accommodation or food)
Info: www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/grant
Apply by 28 Feb 💌
Are you:
📏 Hoping to gain experience with #seabirds via unpaid work?
🧑 From a BAME background? (though others may apply too)
💸 A grant of up to £250 could help! (to cover travel, accommodation or food)
Info: www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/grant
Apply by 28 Feb 💌
January 9, 2026 at 3:42 PM
2026 Training Grants are now open! 📢🕊️
Are you:
📏 Hoping to gain experience with #seabirds via unpaid work?
🧑 From a BAME background? (though others may apply too)
💸 A grant of up to £250 could help! (to cover travel, accommodation or food)
Info: www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/grant
Apply by 28 Feb 💌
Are you:
📏 Hoping to gain experience with #seabirds via unpaid work?
🧑 From a BAME background? (though others may apply too)
💸 A grant of up to £250 could help! (to cover travel, accommodation or food)
Info: www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/grant
Apply by 28 Feb 💌
looking at a loop on netweather of the 15 minute radar data for this extraordinary storm. Savage beauty. The remaining clifftop homes in Norfolk will get absolutely battered again when the wind and waves go north-easterly during the night and through tomorrow.
January 8, 2026 at 8:05 PM
looking at a loop on netweather of the 15 minute radar data for this extraordinary storm. Savage beauty. The remaining clifftop homes in Norfolk will get absolutely battered again when the wind and waves go north-easterly during the night and through tomorrow.
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Newish paper (i.e. it was out last summer and just now seeing it) out on Alicella gigantea, the world’s largest amphipod. Long thought to be rare because we almost never see it. Turns out it may occupy ~59% of the global ocean.
royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...
royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...
January 5, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Newish paper (i.e. it was out last summer and just now seeing it) out on Alicella gigantea, the world’s largest amphipod. Long thought to be rare because we almost never see it. Turns out it may occupy ~59% of the global ocean.
royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...
royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...
29 years and a day since the last Elfstedentocht. Will the Dutch ever see another one?
January 5, 2026 at 9:53 AM
29 years and a day since the last Elfstedentocht. Will the Dutch ever see another one?
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All signs point to Trump’s second term creating a hotter and less affordable future for Americans.
Without new offshore turbines going up, millions of households across the Northeast will soon pay more money for dirtier and less reliable electricity.
My latest 👇
Without new offshore turbines going up, millions of households across the Northeast will soon pay more money for dirtier and less reliable electricity.
My latest 👇
How Trump dismantled a promising energy industry — and what America…
The demolition of the offshore wind sector in 2025 will reverberate for decades, resulting in lost jobs, higher utility bills, and less reliable power…
www.canarymedia.com
January 3, 2026 at 8:40 PM
All signs point to Trump’s second term creating a hotter and less affordable future for Americans.
Without new offshore turbines going up, millions of households across the Northeast will soon pay more money for dirtier and less reliable electricity.
My latest 👇
Without new offshore turbines going up, millions of households across the Northeast will soon pay more money for dirtier and less reliable electricity.
My latest 👇
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Tried and true tactic of fossil fuel disinformation machine. An excerpt from #ScienceUnderSiege:
December 31, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Tried and true tactic of fossil fuel disinformation machine. An excerpt from #ScienceUnderSiege:
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🌊 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
Bring together AI-powered image analysis, innovative sensors, and real-world policy frameworks.
Two funding options:
1. lnkd.in/e566f8RR
2. lnkd.in/eKPRGhsP
December 28, 2025 at 9:54 AM
🌊 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
Bring together AI-powered image analysis, innovative sensors, and real-world policy frameworks.
Two funding options:
1. lnkd.in/e566f8RR
2. lnkd.in/eKPRGhsP
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If people could just intuitively understand the difference between a million, a billion, and a trillion, we’d all be better off.
That applies to dollars. To tons of carbon. And so on.
Math. It matters.
That applies to dollars. To tons of carbon. And so on.
Math. It matters.
December 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM
If people could just intuitively understand the difference between a million, a billion, and a trillion, we’d all be better off.
That applies to dollars. To tons of carbon. And so on.
Math. It matters.
That applies to dollars. To tons of carbon. And so on.
Math. It matters.
All sounds very familiar to those who took part in campaigning before brexit. We had one paid volunteer for the whole of Yorkshire from Leeds to the coast, a rickety table and a few leaflets. UKIP had a complete stage, sound systems and a WW2 tank driving around. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform campaign for Farage’s Clacton seat was a ‘juggernaut’, say candidates
Defeated Tory and Labour rivals describe force of Reform ‘machine’ as police assess claims of overspending
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:53 AM
All sounds very familiar to those who took part in campaigning before brexit. We had one paid volunteer for the whole of Yorkshire from Leeds to the coast, a rickety table and a few leaflets. UKIP had a complete stage, sound systems and a WW2 tank driving around. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.
December 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.
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I won a thing! I’m so honoured to have won the NBN newcomers award at the @nbntrust.bsky.social
conference today, for the work I’m doing around plankton sampling and data collection. #marineplankton 🦑
conference today, for the work I’m doing around plankton sampling and data collection. #marineplankton 🦑
November 20, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I won a thing! I’m so honoured to have won the NBN newcomers award at the @nbntrust.bsky.social
conference today, for the work I’m doing around plankton sampling and data collection. #marineplankton 🦑
conference today, for the work I’m doing around plankton sampling and data collection. #marineplankton 🦑
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Reminder: If it's snowing where you are, post with the hashtag #uksnow, the first-half of your postcode and a snow-rating out of 10 (x/10) and help draw a real-time map of where it's snowing right now on uksnowmap.com ❄️
November 19, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Reminder: If it's snowing where you are, post with the hashtag #uksnow, the first-half of your postcode and a snow-rating out of 10 (x/10) and help draw a real-time map of where it's snowing right now on uksnowmap.com ❄️
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Mission confirmed ✅
#CopernicusEU Sentinel-6B is now in orbit and ready to begin its Launch & Early Operations phase with @operations.esa.int. The satellite is ready to continue a decades-long mission to track the height of the planet’s seas – a key measure of climate change.
#CopernicusEU Sentinel-6B is now in orbit and ready to begin its Launch & Early Operations phase with @operations.esa.int. The satellite is ready to continue a decades-long mission to track the height of the planet’s seas – a key measure of climate change.
Sentinel-6B launched to extend record of sea-level rise
The latest guardian of our oceans has taken its place in orbit. The Copernicus Sentinel-6B satellite is now circling Earth, ready to continue a decades-long mission to track the height of the planet’s...
esa.int
November 17, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Mission confirmed ✅
#CopernicusEU Sentinel-6B is now in orbit and ready to begin its Launch & Early Operations phase with @operations.esa.int. The satellite is ready to continue a decades-long mission to track the height of the planet’s seas – a key measure of climate change.
#CopernicusEU Sentinel-6B is now in orbit and ready to begin its Launch & Early Operations phase with @operations.esa.int. The satellite is ready to continue a decades-long mission to track the height of the planet’s seas – a key measure of climate change.
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Now that the Sept and Oct data are (belatedly) in, it looks like 2025 will be the second warmest year in the record (~80% probability). The last three years are in a class of their own.
November 15, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Now that the Sept and Oct data are (belatedly) in, it looks like 2025 will be the second warmest year in the record (~80% probability). The last three years are in a class of their own.
Today's challenge is to try once again to get into the Canvas system of neighbouring Bantchester University, to do my external examiner role. Involving burner phones, burner laptops, incognito mode, multiple email accounts and long calls with their IT desk.
November 13, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Today's challenge is to try once again to get into the Canvas system of neighbouring Bantchester University, to do my external examiner role. Involving burner phones, burner laptops, incognito mode, multiple email accounts and long calls with their IT desk.