Daniel Cressey
Ocean Editor at @dialogueearth.bsky.social, previously of
@resprofnews.bsky.social and Nature.
- Belated post - new (last week) on @dialogueearth.bsky.social dialogue.earth/en/climate/t... We will be following up, so if you think any of the agencies being abandoned deserve more attention than they are currently getting, please drop me a line.
- Reposted by Daniel CresseyIt's the 3rd of January 1939, your name is professor James Smith and you are staring at a drawing of a fish. It's not a regular fish. It is a completely impossible fish.
- Upside-down jellyfish "slept at night and napped at midday in both the laboratory and the natural habitat". I need to be more cnidarian in 2026.
- Does anyone know where the claim that plastic fishing gear / monofilament could potentially survive 600 years in the ocean originated? Have been trying to find an original source and only come up with grey literature statement and unreferenced comments in papers.
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- Anyone know if you can eat seven-arm octopi? Asking for a friend. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Continued use of 'Moonshot' as denoting risky but high ambition shows a paucity of both imagination and technological progress. Humanity should be at least on 'Marsshot' (Marshot?) by now. Ideally 'Saturnshot' or 'Plutoshot'. Going to trademark "ProximaCentauriShot", just to be on the safe side.
- Reposted by Daniel CresseyPhD opportunity! "Benefits & impacts of use of light in UK #fisheries & their wider effect on the marine environment" (aka #scallopdiscos!) Supervision by me @thembauk.bsky.social Tom Davies @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social Tim Smyth @pml.ac.uk @fishtekmarine.bsky.social www.plymouth.ac.uk/study/resear...
- “The [Royal S]ociety has a strong track record in setting out the science around climate change and when the president of the United States says the science is a ‘con-job’, we will call him out. If UK politicians start to copy such ridiculous statements, we will also hold them to account.”
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- What happened for the ocean for COP30? My colleague @reginalam.bsky.social has been diving deep into NDCs, and I've been talking to people who were in Belem for @dialogueearth.bsky.social Here are some takeaways... dialogue.earth/en/ocean/con...
- More recognition of the importance of the ocean in NDCs that set out nations' climate plans. “There is an increasing awareness of the importance of the ocean to climate actions.” - UNSW Eliza Northrop.
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- I actually laughed out loud at this intro: Is Haldane dead? The short answer is “yes”. Richard Burdon Haldane died in 1928. Great feature on an important topic.
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- How many times do journalists get told "meta analyses are the gold standard for evidence"? (Often accompanied by "you shouldn't write about science until it's peer-reviewed and published.) Hmmmm.... www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- This has to be a record - proposing two new metrics in two days in two different publications. www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/lets... www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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- What a headline! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Enjoyed the quote marks in this paragraph. www.ft.com/content/edc0...
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- Interesting - a Reverse Aaron A. Aardvark effect.
- Really interesting paper, despite the outrageous labelling of crabs as 'non-charismatic'.
- Reposted by Daniel Cressey🦒Biologists are often drawn to charismatic species but they do not always have the opportunity to study them. This study reveals some fierce competition in certain academic fields, and illustrates unequal social distribution of research opportunities➡️https://buff.ly/kjYUIBg
- Reposted by Daniel CresseyNGOs Slam UN Shipping Body @imohq.bsky.social Deferral of Plan to Cut Climate Pollution bit.ly/MEPC_ES2end
- UCU could learn some lessons from their comrades in Nigeria. Last academic strike there was 8 months! (via @internationalintrigue.io ). www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- UK's Marine Accident Investigation Branch is looking into a collision between a ship transferring crew at an offshore wind farm and an "uncrewed surface vessel" called X-18. Possibly its first investigation involving a drone ship? www.gov.uk/government/p...
- Without fuel subsidies UK fishing fleet is basically unprofitable?!? "The UK fleet generated approximately £1020 million in income in 2022, therefore without [Fuel Tax Concessions],the fleets’ collective profits would have been around £ 1 million, effectively breaking even,all else remaining equal."
- What a great job title. Does anyone on Bluesky know of another Lecturer/Professor/etc of Scientific Diving position anywhere? A quick search isn't showing any for me.
- JOB OPPORTUNITY: Lecturer in Marine Biology and Scientific Diving (University of Plymouth) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOS637/l... #jobs #lecturer #scientificdiving #plymouth #coralreefs #university #marinescience #marinebiology #marineecology #jobopportunity
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- What's going on with the high seas treaty, you say? We've updated this explainer to answer all your questions (hopefully). dialogue.earth/en/ocean/wha...
- "possible serious failures to comply with environmental law" 👀
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- New on @dialogueearth.bsky.social: “We must speak of the ocean, without forgetting the coasts, and the communities that live there.” dialogue.earth/en/ocean/com... Also in Spanish: “Debemos hablar del océano, sin olvidar las costas y las comunidades que viven allí”. dialogue.earth/es/oceanos/c...
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- This applies too often for editors in journalism and freelancer pitches in journalism too. [Not any of the freelancers I know on Bluesky of course. This is not a subtweet.]
- "[I]f America’s response to Sputnik reflected a nation united in its commitment to science and determined to invest in the country’s intellectual potential, we see in our response to China today a bitterly divided, disoriented America." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...
- Well that's not great. "Unexpected decline in the ocean carbon sink under record-high sea surface temperatures in 2023" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Always nice to learn a new ocean word. www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/a...
- Crazy statistics about Ireland's ability to enforce law in its waters in this BBC drug trafficking story. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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- This research needs to be combined with the recent 'avian vomitomics' paper for a holistic, nose to tail, overview of seabird-to-ocean inputs
- Only 28% of UK households have access to a "substantial" area of water. ("Substantial blue space" that "can be accessed on foot which are at least 0.5 ha in area and for which the length of walkable route alongside the waterbody is 250 m or longer".) www.gov.uk/government/s...
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- Great story. For all the talk of benefits to non-US institutions from the current US situation ("we can poach their top researchers!") the damage to research as a whole is surely greater.
- Looking forward to this @cghe.bsky.social webinar in an hour, but the way the email reminder appears in my inbox makes it sound rather ominous...
- Reposted by Daniel CresseyImportant new analysis of bycatch patterns in UK fisheries by @fayehelenmoyes.bsky.social continuing the legacy of the late Professor Simon Northridge. An unexpected result: 'pinger' use, although decreasing cetacean bycatch, may actually increase seal bycatch academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...
- Brazil and Argentina very positive about 30x30. US and Sweden less so (but still positive). "[A]s judged by the general public shortly before the final stretch to 2030, this would suggest that promotion of protected area expansion is a politically feasible pursuit". www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- This sea anemone rolling across the sea floor has the pace of life I aspire to right now. Video: link.springer.com/article/10.1... Paper: Rolling in the deep: peculiar rolling behaviour observed in deep-sea anemones link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- The best new 'omics' of 2025 (so far) Avian vomitomics: "the systematic analysis of seabird regurgitations". From @icesmarine.bsky.social academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...
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- 4-star plus rating for future REFs? Has there been REF grade inflation?
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- "More than half of the papers they accepted were later retracted". Genuinely appalling statistic.
- Nearly one-third of all retracted papers at PLoS ONE can be traced back to just 45 researchers who served as editors at the journal go.nature.com/3UITVts
