Only a third of disabled postgraduate doctoral students receive the support they need to study on an equal footing with their non-disabled colleagues, new research has revealed.
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🎃'Still looking for a simple Halloween costume? We will show you in one simple step how to turn a sponge into a cucumber
- for your perfect underwater Halloween party'🎃
#SundayFishSketch

Since drawing with a broken finger is hard, please accept this as a #SundayFishSketch . Sunday fish knit?

Another year, another UoS OES Marine Fisheries fish dissection practical- lots of #otoliths and eye lenses! Thanks again to Brighton and Newhaven Fish Sales for continued support

Great #PhD opportunity from University of Southampton & MBA - Marine Biological Association on future #shark distributions under #climate change!

Check it out Marine Vertebrate MSc (U of Exeter)!

➡️ Apply here: noc.ac.uk/gsnocs/project…

⏰ Closing date: 3rd January

Always great to see reps (& members) in their natural habitat...

Especially after a successful AGM with some new recruits to the team!

Are you working with aquatic data?
Please share your experience in this survey!
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#AquaticScience #OpenScience

Sidenote, I had NO idea that Phosichthys was that big. So many meso fishes are piddly little guys, but that is a substantial animal! Beautiful specimen as well <3

(Photo from the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Research)

I remember doing this workshop in Taiwan 5 years ago 😭

AND HERE IT IS!! 🎉

This year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year has been awarded to this *gorgeous* picture of a tri-spine horseshoe crab taken by Laurent Ballesta!

Absolutely obsessed with how much it looks like some sort of alien spaceship 🤯

The dumbo octopus doesn't even need to try for a ghost costumes... Happy OCTOber!

#octopus #halloween #october #inktober #drawings #costume

🤿 Scuba survey work on the west coast this week followed by a lovely dive at the Picnic Site 💙

📍 A young catshark with the most beautiful eyes
📍Lovely little bobtail squid
📍 Teeny tiny baby ling (10cm max)
📍 Juvenile Grey Gurnard

#scubadiving #diving #underwater

🚨 New job alert🚨 Australian Museum currently has an exciting opportunity for a researcher to join our Ichthyology team 🐟🐠🐡 Apply to the Curator in Ichthyology position, today:
iworkfor.nsw.gov.au/job/curator-ic…. Apply by 31 October.

Out with students from Bournemouth Uni yesterday and caught this Mantis Shrimp (Rissoides desmaresti).

This is a 'spearer' mantis shrimp that impales its prey on a barbed fore-limb.

This type of shrimp is a.k.a. the 'Thumb Splitter' and must be handled with care...

📢NEW #POSTDOC 📢 All the hashtags! #hypoxia , #tags , #boats , #FishSci , #mud , #otolith & eye #lens #isotope chemistry in the #Baltic ⛴️🐟👀
Work with Dr Anna Sturrock, Natalie Ruth Hicks, Karin Hüssy, Karin Limburg & Benjamin Walther. Deadline Nov 6. More info: tinyurl.com/muddyfish
School of Life Sciences, University of Essex

#SundayFishSketch & last of #SciartSeptember co-prompts: #rebirth . In ancient Egypt, two sacred pilot fish would have protected the sun god Ra during his nightly journey through the underworld- shepherding his solar barge to sunrise each day, a sun reborn ☀️ 🐟 #sciart #fishart

📢 Calling all #RecreationalAnglers The #AnglingforSustainability project are hosting a workshop on #Shark & #Ray tracking in Southsea tomorrow pm- please attend to find out about our exciting project! 🎣🐟

University of Plymouth Angling Trust Natural England Southern IFCA Defra UK#FISP

A picture catfish with a little extra pizzazz for the “whiskers” theme #SundayFishSketch

BEHOLD, the *FEARSOME* GAR!!!

First bone I broke myself. Guess I'm gonna have to find a new fun fact...