Simon Thorrold

Ocean ecologist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, hobby shepherd, Peterson Farm, amateur border collie handler

[Luiz Rocha, PhD @CoralReefFish]

Attention fish friends! Position of professor and curator of ichthyology open at Tulane University @Tulane! That’s a rare one! https://t.co/cTLTTTNg7N

[Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) @WHOI]

Applying to graduate school can be difficult. But if you’re applying to the #MIT_WHOI Joint Program, a group of current students are here to help. Visit #JPAsk to get matched with a mentor who will help with the decision-making & application process. https://t.co/mozQauByhB

[Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) @WHOI]

#OceanTwilightZone creatures remove 2-6 billion tons of CO2 from the atmosphere each year!
That’s 2-6x the amount emitted by cars globally–let's keep it that way! https://t.co/ixJbYsjqQZ
#ClimateWeekNYC #OceanClimateConnection

[Simon Thorrold @SimonThorrold]

Very cool but definitely not the first time this far north in Atlantic.

[🦈Shark Lady🦈 @soFISHtication]

🦈TODAY IS THE DAY YA GIRL’S CHILDHOOD DREAM COMES TRUE!

Today @ 9pm EST I will be featured in a @NatGeo #SharkFest show called #PlanetShark 🤩 I am so excited to be sharing some awesome science with the world!

Shout out @NatGeo and @BigWaveTV! Y’all were awesome to work with🦈

[National Academy of Sciences @theNASciences]

Early-career researchers face many challenges — from long hours and low pay to disproportionately poor mental health. In a recent article for @ISSUESinST, @AdrianaBankston discusses ways to support grad and postdoc students.

Read more: https://t.co/111q8a1iYB #academia #phdlife

[Dr Sonya Legg @SonyaLegg]

I'm happy to finally share a preprint of "Gender Equity in Oceanography", submitted to Annual Review of Marine Science, which I've been working on over the past couple of years. https://t.co/muljRKcxn4

[Luiz Rocha, PhD @CoralReefFish]

Attention #TeamFish! Rare fish curator position open at one of the largest fish collections in the world, the Natural History Museum in London @NHM_London! https://t.co/PqfIsowxTj

[David Sims @TheSimsLab]

Tracking endangered #whalesharks to their death? Depth-logging tags recorded some sharks sinking v slowly after crossing busy shipping lanes – the ‘smoking gun’ of a lethal ship strike @PNASNews Why populations are declining? #CrypticMortality
https://t.co/Rjvmw3tQ6C

[Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) @WHOI]

What makes anyone’s list of ocean mysteries? The mysterious #OceanTwilightZone. Take a look. Via @NatureWorldNews
https://t.co/5ylTvdFlLz

[Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) @WHOI]

The fight to add the #EmperorPenguin under the protection of the #EndangeredSpeciesAct could help bolster #emissions regulations across U.S. agencies. But the 15-year bid to give the bird threatened status has not been an easy one. Read more in #Oceanus
https://t.co/75sXMJ1wPF

[Global Fishing Watch @GlobalFishWatch]

One of the first studies to apply @GlobalFishWatch vessel position data to a conservation challenge has just been released. Read the groundbreaking study led by @thembauk and the @unisouthampton on whale sharks here: https://t.co/rpWiRL09Nt

[David Sims @TheSimsLab]

NEW #OA PAPER @PNASnews - Shipping poses signif threat to endangered #whaleshark popns – large vessel ship strikes causing substantial ‘cryptic’ mortality may explain global popn declines
#GlobalSharkMovementProject
@FreyaWomersley @thembauk
https://t.co/tcGgVqnIL7

[EDF Oceans @EDFOceans]

Mesopelagic fish and invertebrates — species that live in the oceans’ twilight zone — may be key to trapping millions of tons of carbon in our #oceans each year.

Learn more about possible #BlueCarbon pathways using our new interactive site: https://t.co/x6k4Nr79Za

[Kate Helmstedt @katehelmstedt.bsky.social @KateHelmstedt]

Love maths and sick of watching the environment fall apart? I'm hiring a postdoc! New maths/stats methods for analysing the value of new monitoring information for protecting Antarctic ecosystems. 2 yrs, salary ~$90-120k, in sunny Brisbane at @QUT https://t.co/EJN7cSUMdk

[Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) @WHOI]

The #oceantwilightzone, helps remove up to 6 billion metric tons of carbon from the upper ocean each year. Experts including #WHOI scientist Ken Buesseler explain why the #climate crisis would be much worse if it weren’t for the ocean. #oceanscience
https://t.co/lHBTs1SWhW

[Elliott Hazen @elhazen]

Just a reminder, here are 3 postdoc positions with NOAA in search mode:
1) Wind: https://t.co/jJPTu4t7jJ
2) Bluefin diet: https://t.co/GnYHNwgIwO
3) Stock Assessment: https://t.co/gFaLZ9caOc

[Royale Hardenstine Ph.D @RoyaleWithSeas]

Many thanks to my co-authors for their insight and support @braunianmotion, @rpganubis, @MLBerumen, @simonpierce, @SimonThorrold, @GregSkomal, @CaseyZakroff, @clareprebble, @FerCagua, @AlexMWatts, @CARohner, Jesse Cochran, Pablo Saenz-Agudelo, and Tane Sinclair-Taylor.

[Dr. Lisa Kerr @LisaKerrPhD]

Come work with us ! Looking for a postdoc on the Northeast Climate Integrated Modeling project (NCLIM) --an interdisciplinary collaboration to evaluate and project climate impacts on marine fisheries in the Northeast U.S.

[Kate Buckley @EchinoKate]

Postdoc position alert! Looking for a #postdoc to study gene regulatory networks that control innate immune response in echinoderm larvae. Funded as part of a joint project between myself and @OliveriLab. Details below. Please RT!