The horror of how microplastics can enter the marine food chain. The first arrow worm has eaten a round worm, the second has eaten a plastic microfiber that has blocked the passage of food (diatoms) in its gut. ZEISS Microscopy

⤵️⬇️⤵️⬇️⤵️⬇️ #blueplanet3

Was an absolute delight answering @ExeterMarine’s questions about my journey into underwater wildlife documentary-making! Give it a read if you fancy 🤗

Blue Planet III research is underway! We're on the lookout for captivating and unusual marine animal behaviours. Whether you're a photographer, guide, scientist, fisherman or boat skipper, we would love your help with finding stories. Find out more 👉 bbcearth.com/news/could-you…

Noise from human activities is harming ocean invertebrates and ecosystems Here Sophie Nedelec explains how and why these creatures use sound, and how noise is affecting them Read more 👉 news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-env… Full study 👉 frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… University of Exeter @ExeterMarine

Such a cool project to be involved with! Go and do your bit for the coral reefs now and join the Listening Collective with this 3 minute online experiment 🪸🐠

A compound found inside octopus ink has been recreated artificially in the lab and used to kill cancer cells. newscientist.com/article/237647…

📣🌟PhD and Post-doc🌟📣 with Pete Buston 🐟, Mike Cant and I working on Kimbe Bay anemonefish. Official ads coming soon. Start Sept 23/Jan 24. Some details below. DM me if interested!

Songs Of The Ocean Delighted to discuss our research on RNZ, including early work with University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau & Australian Institute of Marine Science, latest research with Sophie Nedelec Tim Lamont Dwarf Mongoose Isla Hely Ben Williams & balancing optimism with urgent action rnz.co.nz/national/progr…

Bringing careers to life with #SpotlightBorlaseCareers featuring Natural History & Filmmaker Researcher and Marine Biologist Isla Hely, who is currently working on the BBC’s Blue Planet lll. Isla left Borlase in 2015 with Biology, Chemistry, Maths & Psychology A levels.

Thanks Sir William Borlase's Grammar School for setting up Isla Hely for her exciting journey! I had the pleasure of teaching Isla marine biology and supervising her honours and masters projects @ExeterMarine and University of Bristol Biological Sciences. She is a credit to your school, and now a wonderful budding filmmaker!

Forever thankful for your support & mentorship Proffo!

#WorldSeagrassDay🌱 The Isle of Wight’s seagrass meadows are a visually stunning and vital habitat supporting a rich marine #biodiversity! This is a short cinematic sequence of life in our island’s Solent #seagrass from catsharks and cuttlefish to rays and stalked jellyfish!

🚨🚨🌊PhD alert! Fully funded PhD position with me, Safi Darden and Ashlee Lillis with fieldwork investigating the bioacoustics and behavioural ecology of snapping shrimp on the Great Barrier Reef and their role in reef resilience! exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/… Pls RT

Today is a big day! The first work from my PhD thesis and my first first-author publication is out in Royal Society Publishing. We demonstrated for the first time that playing reef sounds to coral larvae can increase their settlement rates royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

“Coral reefs are the first marine ecosystems we could lose to climate change, which means they are also the first we can save. If we can save reefs, we can save anything.” Great to celebrate the fabulous work of Nadège Aoki et al (doi.org/10.1098/rsos.2…): theguardian.com/environment/20…

Mass coral bleaching unfolding at Lizard Island, northern Great Barrier Reef (March 2024). These events have become “normalised” to the point where it’s easy to forget that 20 yrs ago this would have been an unprecedented and isolated event.

🚨NEW paper🚨 out TODAY - the 1st from the brilliant #PhD of Emma Weschke 👏🍾🥇 Field #experiment showing coral reef nightlife becomes more predatory with light #pollution Global Change Biology doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70… w/ Suzanne Mills @r_beldade Jules Schligler Prof. Steve Simpson

NEW RESEARCH Artificial Light Increases Nighttime Prevalence of Predatory Fishes, Altering Community Composition on #CoralReefs 📄 buff.ly/4a6ziOV Emma Weschke Jules Schligler Isla Hely Suzanne Mills @r_beldade Prof. Steve Simpson fsbi University of Bristol Biological Sciences University of Bristol