Caitlin Taylor-Robinson
@cattayrob.bsky.social
Marine Ecology PhD student @sosbangor.bsky.social. Seagrass and seaweed enthusiast 🌱🌊
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Officially made the plunge… Hi Bluesky… I’m Cait. 1st year PhD student at @sosbangor.bsky.social researching retention rates of microplastics and particulate carbon in Welsh seagrass meadows 🌱 I’ve missed the old “Twitter” community vibes so I’m looking forward to finding likeminded people here!
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School of Ocean Sciences @bangoruniversity.bsky.social was very well represented at the UK seagrass symposium this year! These wonderful people have done - and are doing - everything from internships to PhDs and everything in between on these crucial habitats. Keep up the good work, everyone!
November 12, 2025 at 1:58 PM
School of Ocean Sciences @bangoruniversity.bsky.social was very well represented at the UK seagrass symposium this year! These wonderful people have done - and are doing - everything from internships to PhDs and everything in between on these crucial habitats. Keep up the good work, everyone!
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The Marine Biological Association is now accepting applications for the Molly Spooner Studentship, a paid summer research opportunity for undergraduate students interested in hands-on marine biology.
November 13, 2025 at 10:23 AM
The Marine Biological Association is now accepting applications for the Molly Spooner Studentship, a paid summer research opportunity for undergraduate students interested in hands-on marine biology.
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New from me and wonderful collabs!
🦎 Maternal glucocorticoids have persistent effects on offspring social phenotype irrespective of opportunity for social buffering ➡️ buff.ly/i2B2Fkw
October 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
New from me and wonderful collabs!
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Super excited to be advertising a #PhD position on how #marine #biodiversity affects #ecosystem functioning in the #Arctic at Aarhus uni . Pls apply and repost. I am looking forward to working with you.🧪🦑🦀🌍
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phd.nat.au.dk/for-applican...
Linking marine biodiversity to ecosystem function across scales in the Arctic
phd.nat.au.dk
October 1, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Super excited to be advertising a #PhD position on how #marine #biodiversity affects #ecosystem functioning in the #Arctic at Aarhus uni . Pls apply and repost. I am looking forward to working with you.🧪🦑🦀🌍
phd.nat.au.dk/for-applican...
phd.nat.au.dk/for-applican...
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We are hiring - PDRA position exploring how information access shapes social dynamics in killer whales. Collaboration with @samellisq.bsky.social @drwhale.bsky.social Prof Dan Franks (York) start 1st Nov (or ASAP) end 31st Oct 2028. Apps close on 19th Oct.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT336/p...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT336/p...
September 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
We are hiring - PDRA position exploring how information access shapes social dynamics in killer whales. Collaboration with @samellisq.bsky.social @drwhale.bsky.social Prof Dan Franks (York) start 1st Nov (or ASAP) end 31st Oct 2028. Apps close on 19th Oct.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT336/p...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT336/p...
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Come join us as a #Postdoc on BLUESHORES 🇪🇺 project at the NIOZ to test novel #NaturebasedSolutions to coastal defence 🌊 on saltmarshes 🌱.
workingat.nioz.nl/o/postdoc-po...
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September 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Come join us as a #Postdoc on BLUESHORES 🇪🇺 project at the NIOZ to test novel #NaturebasedSolutions to coastal defence 🌊 on saltmarshes 🌱.
workingat.nioz.nl/o/postdoc-po...
workingat.nioz.nl/o/postdoc-po...
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PhD opportunity @sosbangor.bsky.social on managing scallop fisheries to find the balance between conservation and fisheries yield. Get in touch if you're interested and I will email you the project description.
September 11, 2025 at 12:56 PM
PhD opportunity @sosbangor.bsky.social on managing scallop fisheries to find the balance between conservation and fisheries yield. Get in touch if you're interested and I will email you the project description.
Another day, another meadow 😍🌊🌱
August 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Another day, another meadow 😍🌊🌱
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Want to do a PhD on White Sharks using high-powered imaging to analyse form and function of their teeth and jaws?
You will work with me and the dream team @charlie-huveneers.bsky.social @meyer-sci.bsky.social @weisbeckerbblab.bsky.social & #SARDI at Flinders Uni
🦈🦷🦴 Interested? Get in touch!
You will work with me and the dream team @charlie-huveneers.bsky.social @meyer-sci.bsky.social @weisbeckerbblab.bsky.social & #SARDI at Flinders Uni
🦈🦷🦴 Interested? Get in touch!
August 11, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Want to do a PhD on White Sharks using high-powered imaging to analyse form and function of their teeth and jaws?
You will work with me and the dream team @charlie-huveneers.bsky.social @meyer-sci.bsky.social @weisbeckerbblab.bsky.social & #SARDI at Flinders Uni
🦈🦷🦴 Interested? Get in touch!
You will work with me and the dream team @charlie-huveneers.bsky.social @meyer-sci.bsky.social @weisbeckerbblab.bsky.social & #SARDI at Flinders Uni
🦈🦷🦴 Interested? Get in touch!
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Out today! ‘Quantifying coral reef–ocean interactions is critical for predicting reef futures under climate change’ in @natecoevo.nature.com
#EcologicalOceanography #InterdisciplinaryResearch #CoralReefs #OceanicSubsidies
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
@sosbangor.bsky.social
#EcologicalOceanography #InterdisciplinaryResearch #CoralReefs #OceanicSubsidies
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
@sosbangor.bsky.social
August 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Out today! ‘Quantifying coral reef–ocean interactions is critical for predicting reef futures under climate change’ in @natecoevo.nature.com
#EcologicalOceanography #InterdisciplinaryResearch #CoralReefs #OceanicSubsidies
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
@sosbangor.bsky.social
#EcologicalOceanography #InterdisciplinaryResearch #CoralReefs #OceanicSubsidies
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
@sosbangor.bsky.social
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❗️Job Alert: Deep-Sea Benthic Biologist (Assistant Professor) at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA 🌊 Apply by Dec 1, 2025: apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04175
📷 Auckland Museum Collections (CC) #MarineBiology
📷 Auckland Museum Collections (CC) #MarineBiology
August 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
❗️Job Alert: Deep-Sea Benthic Biologist (Assistant Professor) at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA 🌊 Apply by Dec 1, 2025: apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04175
📷 Auckland Museum Collections (CC) #MarineBiology
📷 Auckland Museum Collections (CC) #MarineBiology
Officially started my main data collection, and what a place to start it off 😍🌊🌱 @sosbangor.bsky.social
July 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Officially started my main data collection, and what a place to start it off 😍🌊🌱 @sosbangor.bsky.social
Yesterday’s drone surveys with the amazing technicians at @sosbangor.bsky.social were a success! A different point of view of the Traeth Melynog meadow 🌊🌱
July 23, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Yesterday’s drone surveys with the amazing technicians at @sosbangor.bsky.social were a success! A different point of view of the Traeth Melynog meadow 🌊🌱
Great field day yesterday helping Natural Resources Wales map Zostera noltei beds at Traeth Melynog on their yearly survey 🌊🌱
July 22, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Great field day yesterday helping Natural Resources Wales map Zostera noltei beds at Traeth Melynog on their yearly survey 🌊🌱
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Thread of Starter Packs to network for PhD and postdoc positions in Biology (or adjacent fields)! 🧵
First up: Starter Pack for students looking for PhD positions! go.bsky.app/EFj87fi
First up: Starter Pack for students looking for PhD positions! go.bsky.app/EFj87fi
July 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Thread of Starter Packs to network for PhD and postdoc positions in Biology (or adjacent fields)! 🧵
First up: Starter Pack for students looking for PhD positions! go.bsky.app/EFj87fi
First up: Starter Pack for students looking for PhD positions! go.bsky.app/EFj87fi
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Very excited to say that we are seeking an Assistant Curator to join our entomology team! 😁🪲
For full details on this 2 year fixed-term post, head to our website:
➡️ careers.nms.ac.uk/job/727783
#Entomology #InsectCollection #EntoJobs #MuseumJobs
For full details on this 2 year fixed-term post, head to our website:
➡️ careers.nms.ac.uk/job/727783
#Entomology #InsectCollection #EntoJobs #MuseumJobs
June 30, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Very excited to say that we are seeking an Assistant Curator to join our entomology team! 😁🪲
For full details on this 2 year fixed-term post, head to our website:
➡️ careers.nms.ac.uk/job/727783
#Entomology #InsectCollection #EntoJobs #MuseumJobs
For full details on this 2 year fixed-term post, head to our website:
➡️ careers.nms.ac.uk/job/727783
#Entomology #InsectCollection #EntoJobs #MuseumJobs
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Happy birthday to #botanist Isabella Aiona Abbott (1919-2010), 🧪🐡👩🏻🔬 #histsci renown algae expert, celebrated seaweed cook, devoted teacher & mentor, expert on Hawaiian ethnobotany, 1st Indigenous Hawaiian woman to earn a PhD in science & 1st woman or person of colour to become a full professor on 🧵
June 20, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Happy birthday to #botanist Isabella Aiona Abbott (1919-2010), 🧪🐡👩🏻🔬 #histsci renown algae expert, celebrated seaweed cook, devoted teacher & mentor, expert on Hawaiian ethnobotany, 1st Indigenous Hawaiian woman to earn a PhD in science & 1st woman or person of colour to become a full professor on 🧵
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Made in Manchester and Leigh: Kathleen Drew-Baker (1901-57), a star botanist at the University of Manchester, made breakthroughs in cultivation of seaweed that saved Japan’s multi-billion pound sushi industry, for which she is commemorated there as ‘Mother of the Sea’. 1/6
June 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Made in Manchester and Leigh: Kathleen Drew-Baker (1901-57), a star botanist at the University of Manchester, made breakthroughs in cultivation of seaweed that saved Japan’s multi-billion pound sushi industry, for which she is commemorated there as ‘Mother of the Sea’. 1/6
Beautiful day, beautiful meadow 🌊🌱
May 29, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Beautiful day, beautiful meadow 🌊🌱
Homebound after an amazing few days in Plymouth on the Seaweed ID course ran by @bps-algae.bsky.social and @plymouthuniccc.bsky.social. Ending #phycologyfriday on a very high note!
May 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Homebound after an amazing few days in Plymouth on the Seaweed ID course ran by @bps-algae.bsky.social and @plymouthuniccc.bsky.social. Ending #phycologyfriday on a very high note!
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This is a new image from #JWST.
The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.
Everything else is a galaxy.
Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.
The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.
Everything else is a galaxy.
Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.
April 29, 2025 at 6:47 PM
This is a new image from #JWST.
The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.
Everything else is a galaxy.
Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.
The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.
Everything else is a galaxy.
Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.
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🚨 NEW paper alert!
#Seagrass #functional #traits act as predictors of #biomass, albeit moderately. Study conducted across 1500 km coastline.
Main #biodiversity mechanism driving seagrass #biomass stock is through dominance.
@tvarminne.bsky.social @uwaoceans.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
#Seagrass #functional #traits act as predictors of #biomass, albeit moderately. Study conducted across 1500 km coastline.
Main #biodiversity mechanism driving seagrass #biomass stock is through dominance.
@tvarminne.bsky.social @uwaoceans.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Functional traits are moderate predictors of above‐ and below‐ground biomass in multispecies seagrass habitats
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
doi.org
April 28, 2025 at 6:10 PM
🚨 NEW paper alert!
#Seagrass #functional #traits act as predictors of #biomass, albeit moderately. Study conducted across 1500 km coastline.
Main #biodiversity mechanism driving seagrass #biomass stock is through dominance.
@tvarminne.bsky.social @uwaoceans.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
#Seagrass #functional #traits act as predictors of #biomass, albeit moderately. Study conducted across 1500 km coastline.
Main #biodiversity mechanism driving seagrass #biomass stock is through dominance.
@tvarminne.bsky.social @uwaoceans.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Signs of a good weekend include lizards, anemone, nudibranchs and sunshine 🦎🌊
April 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Signs of a good weekend include lizards, anemone, nudibranchs and sunshine 🦎🌊
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✨ New paper alert! ✨ We found that the #kelp #microbiome is disrupted in a warming ocean! 🌊🌡️ #Temperature had a larger effect than #nitrogen. Thanks to lead author Nichos Molnar, Robin Fales @intertidaleco.bsky.social & Cathy Pfister! enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Warming Seawater Temperature and Nutrient Depletion Alters Microbial Community Composition on a Foundational Canopy Kelp Species
Microbiome composition on the canopy kelp Nereocystis luetkeana in the northeast Pacific Ocean is affected by warming temperatures and nitrogen limitation. Following experimental manipulation of temp...
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
✨ New paper alert! ✨ We found that the #kelp #microbiome is disrupted in a warming ocean! 🌊🌡️ #Temperature had a larger effect than #nitrogen. Thanks to lead author Nichos Molnar, Robin Fales @intertidaleco.bsky.social & Cathy Pfister! enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...