Brendan Godley
Conservation Scientist, U of Exeter, Cornwall (UK). Biodiversity, ecology & conservation (research, practice & education). Esp. marine realm- sea turtles, fisheries, and ocean plastic. Academic Lead at @exetermarine.bsky.social & @exetergses.bsky.social
- Thousands of Chinese Fishing Boats Quietly Form Vast Sea Barriers www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- Pleased to announce that @exetermarine.bsky.social will be a founding member of Marine Science UK - an umbrella organisation that will champion the ocean and communicate robust and coherent marine science evidence to government, industry and the wider community. 🌍🧪🦑 See also: marinescience.org.uk
- A small step forward. www.gov.uk/government/n... 🐢🌎🦑🐟🦐🌊🦈🐢🐋🐳🐬 🦜 🐧
- Definitely on my bucket list. Would love to witness an arribada of olive ridley #seaturtles
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- beautiful!
- Philippa Brakes is now on BlueSky. Follow her if you are interested in animal behaviour, animal culture, conservation in general or if you just like cetaceans. 🦭🌍🧪🦑 🐋
- Additional Editors sought for Endangered Species Research @esr-ir.bsky.social Follow link on Journal Page below 🦑🌍🦤🌐🧪🐟🎣 www.int-res.com/journals/esr... #mammal #genetics #conservation #Birds #invertebrate #Conservation.
- Blue Sky is ahead but X isnt YET dead for science. Interesting BLOG from @altmetric.com on relative performance of BS vs X related to research. #Science #SciComm #AcademicSky 🌍🧪 www.altmetric.com/blog/bluesky...
- Cornish crowdfunder using upcycled plastic to make nurdle removing toy to get kids involved by Odyssey Innovation 🌍🦑🦤 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/scuttlethe... #nurdle #microplastic #microplastics #marineplastic
- Why we dont need any new scientific journals. We just had a desk rejection on a plastic pollution from a pollution journal because they couldnt find enough suitable referees!!🌍🧪🦑
- New Paper: Microplastics accumulate in all major organs of the Mediterranean loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta). by Costello et al 🐢🌍🧪🦑 🦤 #marineturtle #seaturtle #microplastcs www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Sorry if this low res version makes you think you are going blind. Will repost with high res!
- New Paper: Microplastics accumulate in all major organs of the Mediterranean loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta). by Costello et al 🐢🌍🧪🦑 🦤 #marineturtle #seaturtle #microplastics www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Just out in ESR!!! 🐢🌍🧪🦑 🦤 #seaturtle #marineturtles
- Second Call: We made a starter pack for those interesed in sea turtle ecology and conservation. Add a comment if you would like to be added. 🐢🌍🧪🦑 #seaturtles #marineturtles bsky.app/starter-pack...at://did:plc:nb4qtiyqkn6z5yoem2ws2kkm/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lbjumvxldt2z
- Second Call: We made a starter pack for those interesed in sea turtle ecology and conservation. Add a comment if you would like to be added. 🐢🌍🧪🦑 #seaturtles #marineturtles bsky.app/starter-pack...at://did:plc:nb4qtiyqkn6z5yoem2ws2kkm/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lbjumvxldt2z
- An excellent piece of video natural history 🐢🌍🧪🦑 Would make an excellent undergrad project for a techy type to mine such insights from social media. Lots of useful observations out there but where does the AI bleed in? or is that slap just too cute to be true? #seaturtle #marineturtle
- Study Scottish plankton🏴
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- Plank-tun!
- Study Scottish fish 🏴🐟🏴🐠
- I should’ve said, pronounced as fahsh in many places
- Check out @exetermarine.bsky.social s new monthly feature. Please share widely!
- Nice article on the two recent papers on climate change and turtles at Alagadi!
- Nice to see @plymouthmarine.bsky.social en-lightening folks!
- Amazing work by our @luishuckstadt.bsky.social and collaborators!
- I am pleased to be part of this study and having seen these vulture guinea fowl during a visit to Mpala Research Station in January!
- Annoyingly I hadn’t noticed autocorrect function had changed vulturine to vulture!
- Troubling article on the work to save the smallest and rarest turtle. #seaturtle #marineturtle 🦑🌐🌍🦤🧪🐢
- Important new paper highlighting significant turtle bycatch and mortality in fisheries off NW Africa 🦑🧪🌍🦤🌊 🐢https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/aqc.70099 #seaturtle #marineturtle #bycatch #fisheries FYI: @david-march.bsky.social @whysharksmatter.bsky.social @ritapatricio.bsky.social
- More great footage of the Olive Ridleys nesting in India 🦑🧪🌍🦤🌊 #seaturtles #marineturtles
- Wow- 6.5 lakh is 6.5MILLION turtles!!! 🦑🌐🌍🦤🧪🐢 #seaturtles #marineturtle
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- Yup....have a head cold....I actually knew that and should have written 0.65 Million!!!!
- If there was a wrong species to pop up when you are expecting a green turtle, vulture guinea fowl isn’t a bad one!!!
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- @exetergses.bsky.social this was Molly's MSc project!
- Breath-hold diving turtle style. Not all #seaturtle mating is at the surface!🐢🌍🦑
- Amazing work led by Sam Weber and a large team. Should be of interest to all of those interested in pelagic fish conservation @whysharksmatter.bsky.social @sharkgirl23.bsky.social @sharkcolin.bsky.social @sharkmourier.bsky.social @sharkynichol.bsky.social @nickdulvy.bsky.social
- Meanwhile in Washington DC 🦑🦤🌎🌐https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/10/trump-plastic-straws-executive-order #marineplastic #oceanplastic
- Trump administration orders NOAA scientists to halt all international work. Staff were told to stop meetings, discussions, emails with foreign colleagues. Freeze affects travel, virtual meetings, and collaborations until political appointees review them. 🐢🌍🧪🦑 www.opb.org/article/2025...
- Fantastic team, great work, lovely city! Would apply myself if I had the skills!
- Are Marine PROSPERITY Areas the way forward for ocean conservation? 🐢🌍🧪🦑 New Paper by Aburto-Oropeza et al here: www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar... Press release from @scrippsocean.bsky.social here: scripps.ucsd.edu/news/marine-... #marineconservation #MPA #marineprotection
- Hi All We started a starter pack for those interesed in sea turtle ecology and conservation. Add a comment if you would like to be added. 🐢🌍🧪🦑 #seaturtles #marineturtles go.bsky.app/LkUCfemat://did:plc:nb4qtiyqkn6z5yoem2ws2kkm/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lbjumvxldt2z
- @accstr.bsky.social I added you to the turtle starter pack! Do suggest others!
- Another case of mass poisoning (including domestic animals) after consumption of #seaturtle meat. Green turtle pictured but likely hawksbill turtle consumed. 🐢🧪🌎🦑🌊 www.msn.com/en-ca/news/w... #marineturtle #Phillipines
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- yes, in some cases. Particularly hawksbill turtle. Not frequently enough to generate total avoidance in many subsistence contexts.
- A Global opportunity! Please share. The Darwin Initiative is recruiting experts. Links below:🧪🌎 🌊 🦤 www.darwininitiative.org.uk/about-us/dar... darwinplus.org.uk/about-us/dar... #conservtion #funding #DarwinInitiative
- Fantastic paper by Sassoon et al. Estimating growth rates of epipelagic #marineturtles in Mediterranean, highlighting the menace of woven #plastic sacks. Underscores research impact of well run stranding schemes. 🐢🧪🌎🦑🌊 🦤 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #seaturtle #plasticpollution
- SCHOLARSHIPS for international students seeking to join us in Sept 2025 for MSc in @exetergses.bsky.social . The deadline to apply is 27 February 2025. 🧪🌎🦑🐟🦤 Scholarships: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... Degrees: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/gses/ @uniexecec.bsky.social @uniofexeteresi.bsky.social
- New paper by Contreras et al suggests overfishing in Chile may be responsible for sealion predation of sea turtles 🐢🧪🌎🦑🐟🦐🌊 🦤 www.analesdelinstitutodelapatagonia.cl/index.php/an... #seaturtle #marineturtle #sealion #marinemammal #overfishing
