Andy Woolmer
@razorfish.bsky.social
Marine biologist, oyster farmer, shellfish evangelical. Love a bit of cycling and rugby. Fuelled by tea.
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The actual secret to why I know stuff is that I ask a question any time I don’t understand literally anything. I don’t care how simple it is. Anybody who makes fun of you for asking a simple question likely doesn’t know the answer either
November 20, 2025 at 12:32 AM
The actual secret to why I know stuff is that I ask a question any time I don’t understand literally anything. I don’t care how simple it is. Anybody who makes fun of you for asking a simple question likely doesn’t know the answer either
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Sometimes I think it is necessary to remind everyone about the diversity of echinoderm ANUSES! this fossil crinoid with its well armed ANAL CHIMNEY for example!! #echinoday echinoblog.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-...
September 5, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Sometimes I think it is necessary to remind everyone about the diversity of echinoderm ANUSES! this fossil crinoid with its well armed ANAL CHIMNEY for example!! #echinoday echinoblog.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-...
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Newspaper property sections are always like "Sebastian, Pancetta and their son Eugenics moved from the city to the country to live their dream" and then there's a picture of them outside their new mansion with their new cow and you can tell the cow is going "I fucking hate my life."
August 31, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Newspaper property sections are always like "Sebastian, Pancetta and their son Eugenics moved from the city to the country to live their dream" and then there's a picture of them outside their new mansion with their new cow and you can tell the cow is going "I fucking hate my life."
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Today is the Day of the Seafarer
You can read about some of the seafarers who sailed from Cardiff on our blog. Including those aboard the Talca carrying coal to Australia 1869-1870. And the Afonwen, docked in Messina, Sicily, in December 1908 whilst also carrying coal bit.ly/4njd6XW
You can read about some of the seafarers who sailed from Cardiff on our blog. Including those aboard the Talca carrying coal to Australia 1869-1870. And the Afonwen, docked in Messina, Sicily, in December 1908 whilst also carrying coal bit.ly/4njd6XW
Subordination and Devastation: Two Sea Voyages from the Port of Cardiff
Glamorgan Archives holds crew agreements and log books for ships registered at the Port of Cardiff for the years 1863-1913 (ref.: DCA). The following incidents illustrate two extraordinary occurre…
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June 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Today is the Day of the Seafarer
You can read about some of the seafarers who sailed from Cardiff on our blog. Including those aboard the Talca carrying coal to Australia 1869-1870. And the Afonwen, docked in Messina, Sicily, in December 1908 whilst also carrying coal bit.ly/4njd6XW
You can read about some of the seafarers who sailed from Cardiff on our blog. Including those aboard the Talca carrying coal to Australia 1869-1870. And the Afonwen, docked in Messina, Sicily, in December 1908 whilst also carrying coal bit.ly/4njd6XW
Great news from Wales!
Pembrokeshire Rock & Native Oysters have been awarded PGI status 🦪
Legally protected, sustainably farmed, and full of coastal character.
Ask for them by name.
#PGI #WelshSeafood #PembrokeshireOysters #SustainableSeafood #oysterfarm #oysters
Pembrokeshire Rock & Native Oysters have been awarded PGI status 🦪
Legally protected, sustainably farmed, and full of coastal character.
Ask for them by name.
#PGI #WelshSeafood #PembrokeshireOysters #SustainableSeafood #oysterfarm #oysters
April 7, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Great news from Wales!
Pembrokeshire Rock & Native Oysters have been awarded PGI status 🦪
Legally protected, sustainably farmed, and full of coastal character.
Ask for them by name.
#PGI #WelshSeafood #PembrokeshireOysters #SustainableSeafood #oysterfarm #oysters
Pembrokeshire Rock & Native Oysters have been awarded PGI status 🦪
Legally protected, sustainably farmed, and full of coastal character.
Ask for them by name.
#PGI #WelshSeafood #PembrokeshireOysters #SustainableSeafood #oysterfarm #oysters
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Great comic timing from the Danes here.
April 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Great comic timing from the Danes here.
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Dystopia. I always thought it’d be smarter.
March 28, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Dystopia. I always thought it’d be smarter.
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The result yesterday might have been a bitter pill to swallow for Wales but this is always a welcome sight in the rugby community
March 16, 2025 at 11:45 AM
The result yesterday might have been a bitter pill to swallow for Wales but this is always a welcome sight in the rugby community
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Born on this day in 1902, John Steinbeck won two Pulitzers and a Nobel for his fiction. But this existentially profound nonfiction account of a marine biology expedition is in many ways his greatest work:
The Log from the Sea of Cortez: John Steinbeck’s Forgotten Masterpiece on How to Think and the Art of Seeing the Pattern Beyond the Particular
“Everything impinges on everything else… Everything is potentially everywhere.”
www.themarginalian.org
February 27, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Born on this day in 1902, John Steinbeck won two Pulitzers and a Nobel for his fiction. But this existentially profound nonfiction account of a marine biology expedition is in many ways his greatest work:
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Seems fair. Now let me take a big sip of coffee and find out what's happening with that asteroid
10% of NASA's workforce has been laid off, according to ABC News
February 18, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Seems fair. Now let me take a big sip of coffee and find out what's happening with that asteroid
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So they want the tax payer to wipe the debt slate clean so they can start raking in the private profits again. Nationalise the debt. Privatise the profit. Charlatans.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
January 25, 2025 at 8:13 AM
So they want the tax payer to wipe the debt slate clean so they can start raking in the private profits again. Nationalise the debt. Privatise the profit. Charlatans.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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There are tons of historic short films (newsreels, corporate videos, documentaries) available to watch for free on the British Film Institute's ‘Britain on Film’ subsite. 🎥🎬
Browse with a map here...
player.bfi.org.uk/britain-on-f...
Browse with a map here...
player.bfi.org.uk/britain-on-f...
November 17, 2024 at 7:45 AM
There are tons of historic short films (newsreels, corporate videos, documentaries) available to watch for free on the British Film Institute's ‘Britain on Film’ subsite. 🎥🎬
Browse with a map here...
player.bfi.org.uk/britain-on-f...
Browse with a map here...
player.bfi.org.uk/britain-on-f...
I'd rather see it back in the sea tbh
Japan aquarium cheers up lonely sunfish by taping photos of human faces to its tank
Japan aquarium cheers up lonely sunfish by taping photos of human faces to its tank
Staff had noticed that the sunfish was showing signs of distress after the aquarium was closed for refurbishment
Do fish get lonely? Apparently so, according to staff at an aquarium in Japan, who have provided cut-out human companions for a solitary…
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2025 at 6:41 AM
I'd rather see it back in the sea tbh
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Just making sure that everyone is aware of this crab that NOAA scientists found
January 19, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Just making sure that everyone is aware of this crab that NOAA scientists found
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Appropriate mix of headlines. Climate change accelerates, while the business world, under pressure from US conservatives, abandons any attempt to stop it
January 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Appropriate mix of headlines. Climate change accelerates, while the business world, under pressure from US conservatives, abandons any attempt to stop it
I can so relate 🤦♂️
He died as he lived, clicking “Forgot password,” then checking his inbox for a code, then putting in that code, then setting up two-step verification, and then waiting for the text message that doesn’t come, and then calling the 800 number, and then downloading an authenticator app, and dying.
December 19, 2024 at 6:37 AM
I can so relate 🤦♂️
This little cluster of biodiversity. A native oyster, a blue mussel, winkles and seaweed all bound together.
We do a lot of our own restoration of the wild oyster population around the farm so it's always good to see small ones appearing.
#aquaculture #oysters #oysterfarm #restoration #
We do a lot of our own restoration of the wild oyster population around the farm so it's always good to see small ones appearing.
#aquaculture #oysters #oysterfarm #restoration #
December 16, 2024 at 8:46 AM
This little cluster of biodiversity. A native oyster, a blue mussel, winkles and seaweed all bound together.
We do a lot of our own restoration of the wild oyster population around the farm so it's always good to see small ones appearing.
#aquaculture #oysters #oysterfarm #restoration #
We do a lot of our own restoration of the wild oyster population around the farm so it's always good to see small ones appearing.
#aquaculture #oysters #oysterfarm #restoration #
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After 8,280 hours of reading, I've realised that the Comment pages of The Sunday Times are a waste of time
#booksky
#lovebooks
#booksky
#lovebooks
December 15, 2024 at 10:30 AM
After 8,280 hours of reading, I've realised that the Comment pages of The Sunday Times are a waste of time
#booksky
#lovebooks
#booksky
#lovebooks
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There are a lot of facts in this good and detailed article! Hopefully that still matters!!!
Many of the claims being made over Bovaer, a feed-additive to reduce methane emissions from cows, are baseless, highlighting a new risk for companies:
Even if you’re transparent about a new product or technology, the internet outrage machine will invent its own narrative
Even if you’re transparent about a new product or technology, the internet outrage machine will invent its own narrative
No, Sanitizing Cow Burps Won’t Sour Your Milk or Contaminate Your Cheese
A plan to introduce Bovaer into UK cattle feed to reduce methane emissions has prompted a wave of disinformation.
www.bloomberg.com
December 9, 2024 at 11:16 PM
There are a lot of facts in this good and detailed article! Hopefully that still matters!!!
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Dammit, Margaret Atwood. Didn’t have to push the knife so deep
Cc all my fellow military historians 🗃️
(H/t to @joelhanes.bsky.social for making me aware of this poem)
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47788/...
Cc all my fellow military historians 🗃️
(H/t to @joelhanes.bsky.social for making me aware of this poem)
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47788/...
The Loneliness of the Military Historian
This is why few people ask me to dinner, though Lord knows I don’t go out of my way to be scary. If I roll my eyes and mutter, if I clutch at my heart and scream in horror like a third-rate actress ch...
www.poetryfoundation.org
December 6, 2024 at 10:14 PM
Dammit, Margaret Atwood. Didn’t have to push the knife so deep
Cc all my fellow military historians 🗃️
(H/t to @joelhanes.bsky.social for making me aware of this poem)
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47788/...
Cc all my fellow military historians 🗃️
(H/t to @joelhanes.bsky.social for making me aware of this poem)
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47788/...
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#Aquaculture #France
"Mussel farmers in northern France are grappling with a deepening crisis as spider crabs devastate their crops...the crustaceans have become relentless predators of mussels and other shellfish..."
"Mussel farmers in northern France are grappling with a deepening crisis as spider crabs devastate their crops...the crustaceans have become relentless predators of mussels and other shellfish..."
Brittany's mussel farms ravaged by surging spider crab invasion
Mussel farmers in northern France are grappling with a deepening crisis as spider crabs devastate their crops. A prized marine resource themselves, the crustaceans have become relentless predators of…
www.rfi.fr
September 22, 2024 at 3:23 AM
#Aquaculture #France
"Mussel farmers in northern France are grappling with a deepening crisis as spider crabs devastate their crops...the crustaceans have become relentless predators of mussels and other shellfish..."
"Mussel farmers in northern France are grappling with a deepening crisis as spider crabs devastate their crops...the crustaceans have become relentless predators of mussels and other shellfish..."