We are so delighted to welcome BBC Springwatch to SCENE today! 🐦🐟🌿 Look out for our amazing UofG SBOHVM team talking all about local aquatic life as well as the beautiful local birds at Loch Lomond! University of Glasgow

Interested to learn more about SCENE featured on last night's BBC Springwatch? In this edition of UofG Community, we spoke to SCENE Research Support Manager Phoebe to hear more about her role and UofG's pioneering research and teaching facility situated in a truly

Have you heard anything about #nature as a political priority in the upcoming UK general election EJ Milner-Gulland and ⁦Nathalie Pettorelli haven’t. And as biodiversity researchers, that troubles them... theconversation.com/the-uks-nature…

Exciting opportunity for Lecture in Fish Health (Research & Teaching Track) to provide teaching capacity & research in fish health, complementing existing strength in fish ecology, evolution & physiology in the UofG SBOHVM. Details here jobs.ac.uk/job/DHZ962/lec… . #LecturerJobs

A week into the University of Glasgow expedition to the Egyptian Red Sea. Lots of new skills learnt and the research on trends in reef biodiversity getting going. UofG SBOHVM Roots Dive Centre

🎉GOOD NEWS: Labour pledges to ban bottom-trawl fishing❌ Over the moon that The Labour Party, along with Liberal Democrats & The Green Party, agree #bottomtrawling has NO place in marine protected waters🪸👏 Confirmed by Toby Perkins MP at the Big Nature Debate The Wildlife Trusts Wildlife and Countryside Link 🌊👇

Scottish Ministers lift the ban on landing berried (i.e. egg carrying female) lobsters 👇 ...which they only implemented about a month ago This has to be top of the pile on fisheries management cowardice - leaders failing to lead thefishingdaily.com/latest-news/sc…

States are required to do Impact Assessments of deep sea fishing, but in our new review "We find that in all IAs, the information required by the FAO Guidelines is either completely lacking or only partially addressed" sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 🪸Protecting deep-sea ecosystems starts with robust impact assessments (IA) 💡Our new DOSI study highlights gaps in high seas deep-sea fishing IAs and offers solutions to strengthen future assessments ➡️Access here tinyurl.com/3vm8jr7c ⬇️Summary 🧵

Have you signed our petition to help #SaveScottishWrasse yet? petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE21… Wrasse are long-lived & key species in ecosystems, associated with priority marine features like rocky reefs. But we don’t know how long it takes them to recolonise an ecosystem if removed.

In honor of Gary Larson's birthday, here is my favorite Far Side Comic. Show me some of your favorites.

Great video of our Egypt expedition on the new University of Glasgow , UofG SBOHVM channel youtube.com/watch?v=j4nu9K… Investigating the effects of urchin die-off on reef health as part of a long-term study. By Choose Life (instagram) olivier.leger.com

📢Recruitment Research Assistant, closes 16 Sep lnkd.in/eYacNyvB Research Associate, closes 19 Sep lnkd.in/eKZrRU9q Working with Sofie Spatharis Martin Llewellyn Simon Babayan to develop diagnostic & prediction tools to tackle challenges to aquaculture from the plankton

Wrasse are ecosystem engineers, vital to the health of our coastal ecosystem. Their removal by the #salmon industry has welfare + environmental implications. Please sign and share this petition. RSPCA Assured Màiri McAllan Mairi Gougeon Jamie Stone MP petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE21…

Scathing stuff report on the Scottish Government's management of fisheries. Even questions whether the evidence given to Parliament by Marine Directorate officials can be trusted. This an extraordinary situation.

If you ever wonder why it's such a struggle to get Scot Gov Marine to make the most basic decisions to recover our fisheries and marine ecosystems. this thread is a must read, by Scottish Parliament researchers.

Embarrassing for Scottish Government & Mairi Gougeon Evidence linked in the report is clear that Scot Gov Marine staff gave some very questionable testamonies regarding the the decline of Clyde cod This illustrates a wider problem we have experienced with inappropriate & biased behavior

This report is worth a read, sheds some light on why the management of our inshore waters is what it is.