Rodney Forster
@rodneyforster.bsky.social
Professor, Marine Science at the University of Hull.
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.
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Les températures observées cette après-midi sont tout simplement délirantes : les 30°C ont été approchés mi-novembre. Je répète au cas où : mi-novembre.
Boosté par un vent de foehn dans un air surchauffé par le changement climatique, on a atteint 29.8°C à Trois-Villes et 29,5°C à Aicirits
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Boosté par un vent de foehn dans un air surchauffé par le changement climatique, on a atteint 29.8°C à Trois-Villes et 29,5°C à Aicirits
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November 12, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Les températures observées cette après-midi sont tout simplement délirantes : les 30°C ont été approchés mi-novembre. Je répète au cas où : mi-novembre.
Boosté par un vent de foehn dans un air surchauffé par le changement climatique, on a atteint 29.8°C à Trois-Villes et 29,5°C à Aicirits
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Boosté par un vent de foehn dans un air surchauffé par le changement climatique, on a atteint 29.8°C à Trois-Villes et 29,5°C à Aicirits
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Leitmotif through this year's Coastal Seas field course is for the students to use their own data to decide whether the Clyde is ecologically dead (T&R, 2010), or whether it is alive, but different, and likely to have a cetacean-rich future (L&F,2021). Final hour of today's survey was like this:
October 15, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Leitmotif through this year's Coastal Seas field course is for the students to use their own data to decide whether the Clyde is ecologically dead (T&R, 2010), or whether it is alive, but different, and likely to have a cetacean-rich future (L&F,2021). Final hour of today's survey was like this:
I wondered why there were so many people doing the litter pick on the beach yesterday.
October 12, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I wondered why there were so many people doing the litter pick on the beach yesterday.
Nice optics this morning looking south from FSC Millport to a floating Ailsa Craig. Pods of dolphins in the far distance.
October 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Nice optics this morning looking south from FSC Millport to a floating Ailsa Craig. Pods of dolphins in the far distance.
Millport field trip week, with an unusually fantastic weather forecast ahead of us.
October 10, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Millport field trip week, with an unusually fantastic weather forecast ahead of us.
that's three full weeks clean from twitter now, onwards to the next milestone at three months.
October 4, 2025 at 11:13 AM
that's three full weeks clean from twitter now, onwards to the next milestone at three months.
I have a little side-hustle to monitor changes in wildlife at a local site. I've installed a Song Meter in the grounds with dawn/dusk monitoring, analysis with Chirpity. Here's the data showing the arrival and build-up of the spectacular skeins of pink-foot that are now filling the evening sky.
October 2, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I have a little side-hustle to monitor changes in wildlife at a local site. I've installed a Song Meter in the grounds with dawn/dusk monitoring, analysis with Chirpity. Here's the data showing the arrival and build-up of the spectacular skeins of pink-foot that are now filling the evening sky.
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Fork lifting in the first few of our intact macrofaunal sediment communities ! Thanks team, great day, and plenty of exciting data to come for our NERC funded Ecowind project (ecological effects of offshore wind).
September 28, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Fork lifting in the first few of our intact macrofaunal sediment communities ! Thanks team, great day, and plenty of exciting data to come for our NERC funded Ecowind project (ecological effects of offshore wind).
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Great to make observations throughout an entire offshore wind farm to investigate the ecological effects of offshore wind expansion in our shelf seas. Fieldwork led by @krysiamazik.bsky.social and looking forward to receiving intact communities for follow-up lab experiments.
September 24, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Great to make observations throughout an entire offshore wind farm to investigate the ecological effects of offshore wind expansion in our shelf seas. Fieldwork led by @krysiamazik.bsky.social and looking forward to receiving intact communities for follow-up lab experiments.
Wondering whether Gladstone Dock lock is the largest structure of its type in the world? Seems larger than what I remember of Panama locks. And we saw a pirate ship earlier in the day.
September 25, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Wondering whether Gladstone Dock lock is the largest structure of its type in the world? Seems larger than what I remember of Panama locks. And we saw a pirate ship earlier in the day.
Seaforth container terminal as we wait for the dock gates to open. I’m in the minority of about 0.1% of people that think the second Stone Roses album was better than the first.
September 24, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Seaforth container terminal as we wait for the dock gates to open. I’m in the minority of about 0.1% of people that think the second Stone Roses album was better than the first.
End of a day’s sampling out on the wind farm for NERC Ecowind project.
September 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
End of a day’s sampling out on the wind farm for NERC Ecowind project.
Zeus the olympic wonder horse on display in Nantes this evening.
September 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Zeus the olympic wonder horse on display in Nantes this evening.
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Why there will be two RRS Discovery ships in Dundee today
Why there will be two RRS Discovery ships in Dundee today
Locals will be able to catch a glimpse of the 2012 version of the ship on Monday afternoon.
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September 8, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Why there will be two RRS Discovery ships in Dundee today
First sight of Discovery returning after cruise DY197, berthing not far from the original Discovery this evening @carolinehack.bsky.social
September 8, 2025 at 4:28 PM
First sight of Discovery returning after cruise DY197, berthing not far from the original Discovery this evening @carolinehack.bsky.social
By the look of those groups of gents walking around town this morning, today is the opposite of Ladies’ Day at the races.
August 30, 2025 at 11:09 AM
By the look of those groups of gents walking around town this morning, today is the opposite of Ladies’ Day at the races.
Interesting sites in the North Sea spotted by Sentinel-2 this week. Left, an oil or gas platform in the centre of a small but intensely white phytoplankton bloom. Right, a survey ship near the Silver Pit towing a wide array of probably siesmic survey gear.
August 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Interesting sites in the North Sea spotted by Sentinel-2 this week. Left, an oil or gas platform in the centre of a small but intensely white phytoplankton bloom. Right, a survey ship near the Silver Pit towing a wide array of probably siesmic survey gear.
⚠️Anomaly to August (year so far) *: 2.01 ⚠️
August 21, 2025 at 12:12 PM
⚠️Anomaly to August (year so far) *: 2.01 ⚠️
Treac’h Salus on a busy day. Kelp (Saccorhiza) forest around the point still in good shape, lots of wrasse.
August 19, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Treac’h Salus on a busy day. Kelp (Saccorhiza) forest around the point still in good shape, lots of wrasse.
Perfect beach read
August 17, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Perfect beach read
Had to wade out some distance to get the angle for tonight’s big red sunset.
August 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Had to wade out some distance to get the angle for tonight’s big red sunset.
To swim or not to swim? Beach closed by mystery pollution, the mayor is furious. But green flag flying and the sailing schools have gone out as normal.
August 13, 2025 at 1:26 PM
To swim or not to swim? Beach closed by mystery pollution, the mayor is furious. But green flag flying and the sailing schools have gone out as normal.
First samples are about to be taken on the North Sea windfarms this evening www.hull.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
University of Hull student joins leading oceanographers
Discover how a University of Hull postgraduate researcher works with leading oceanographers to study offshore wind turbines and rising sea temperatures.
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August 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
First samples are about to be taken on the North Sea windfarms this evening www.hull.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
'with none selected between Birmingham and Glasgow'. Except QUB and Strathclyde.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Dismay as north of England universities miss out on share of £54m talent fund
Exclusive: MP presses minister for explanation as thinktank says omission undermines innovation in the north
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August 7, 2025 at 9:05 AM
'with none selected between Birmingham and Glasgow'. Except QUB and Strathclyde.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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