Professor Lydia Martens 🐠🐟

Let's shift values to enable just and flourishing worlds! Sociologist engaged in conversations about marine environments, fish & seabirds, food and storytelling

[Professor Lydia Martens 🐠🐟 @ldmartens1]

So much looking forward to starting my new @LeverhulmeTrust Major Research Fellowship project Storying Worlds Beyond Fish: Kinship and Connection in the Minch. I hope to connect with lots of people ... and seabirds ... to explore routes towards marine environmental flourishing.

[Keele University 🐿️ @KeeleUniversity]

Professor Lydia Martens has received a Major Research Fellowship from the @LeverhulmeTrust for a three-year study exploring how storytelling can be used to promote environmental awareness and connect humans with nature.

Read more ➡️ https://t.co/QCpmNAstwz

[Professor Lydia Martens 🐠🐟 @ldmartens1]

@SwannBob Did you survey Fulmars on the Caithness coast, Bob, and how are they faring there?

[Professor Lydia Martens 🐠🐟 @ldmartens1]

Learned lots from @AilsaMcL about native oysters and #seawilding around Loch Broom. For instance, once oyster larvae attach to a surface, they become known as 'spat'. 5000 pinky nail-sized spats arrived two years ago and how they have grown! Love #Oysters

[Ailsa McLellan @AilsaMcL]

It was lovely to spend time with @ldmartens1 on a standard Scottish June day (hail and biblical thunder) looking at oysters, and talking about the connection between the people and the sea. #Oysters ⚡️❤️🐟

[Professor Lydia Martens 🐠🐟 @ldmartens1]

@SwannBob @graemecook1982 Dear Bob, would you dm me on [email protected] so we can talk about your seabird survey work? I can then also explain my interest. Thank you.

[Professor Lydia Martens 🐠🐟 @ldmartens1]

@UKCEHseabirds @UK_CEH @TheSeabirdGroup @NatureScot Could you email me please @ [email protected]. I am Leverhulme Major Research Fellow and following news about common guillemot and black-legged kittiwake. Thank you.

[Professor Lydia Martens 🐠🐟 @ldmartens1]

Congratulations to Dr Dawson, so well deserved! And it has been a pleasure sharing your PhD journey.

[Professor Lydia Martens 🐠🐟 @ldmartens1]

@DrMickSalt @RedIndustries2 … and so you should be. Fantastic work you did! Hope you’re well.

[Professor Lydia Martens 🐠🐟 @ldmartens1]

Devastating news from Lewis! Visiting this shoreline a few weeks ago, it was lively with feeding seabirds, seals, minke whales and other cetaceans.

[Noel H @klondyker]

Sad end for the rescue attempt yesterday. One of the Ullapool team made it over with some of our kit but sadly the animals couldn’t be rescued this time. 😢

[Professor Lydia Martens 🐠🐟 @ldmartens1]

Brora beach seems ok for now 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼from #BirdFlu. Small but vocal tern colony active. Common gulls, herring gulls, BBGs & oyster catchers all active on the shore. Old carcasses mostly, possibly common gull, around 20. One recent deceased guillemot.

[Ron Macdonald @ronpon_ron]

This morning I walked the shore from the mouth of the Ythan estuary to Trumps Golf course, some 4.5 km and counted 294 dead guillemots (97% adult), 11 razorbill, 1 puffin, 1 Arctic tern & 200+ gull sp. So sad #hpai #TwitterNatureCommunity #TwitterNaturePhotography #naturelovers

[Professor Lydia Martens 🐠🐟 @ldmartens1]

@derek_artist @ScotWildlife Beautiful colours & think you capture the intensity of the light well.

[Professor Lydia Martens 🐠🐟 @ldmartens1]

@ScottShanks01 @RSPBScotland @Ally_Lemon What kind of gulls?

[Professor Lydia Martens 🐠🐟 @ldmartens1]

@anicolson What a colourful bird!

[Thomas Thurnell-Read @ThurnellReadSoc]

🚨Job Alert 🚨

Now recruiting a Research Associate (full-time, 2 years) for my Leverhulme Trust funded project “After Last Orders?: a Biographical Exploration of the Impact of UK pub closures”. Please share @bsa_alcohol @DrinkingStudies @BSAConsumption
https://t.co/exqmVKYWwL

[Professor Lydia Martens 🐠🐟 @ldmartens1]

@AaronBell4NUL @DrMickSalt @BBCPanorama … what’s your analysis of why this misery has continued for so long & why you have not managed to make an impact, despite numerous well argued speeches at national level? Surely landfill governance leaves much to be desired & how was that allowed to happen? #StopTheStink

[Professor Lydia Martens 🐠🐟 @ldmartens1]

@AaronBell4NUL @DrMickSalt @BBCPanorama Your constituents have suffered & are still suffering. They’ve demonstrated, gone to court, been taken to court, attended EA consultations, lain awake at night, kids having difficulty breathing, raised funds for air purifiers …

[DrMickSalt @DrMickSalt]

It has been my pleasure to be an adviser to @BBCPanorama for this:

https://t.co/Lde0T64ngq

22nd May, 20:30, @BBCOne, will you be watching?

#StopTheStink

[Hannah Bourne-Taylor @WriterHannahBT]

Britain is in a biodiversity crisis, ranked bottom of all G7 countries. #TheFeatherSpeech petition provides an existing solution for 4 endangered birds. Over 94,000 people are supporting our closest wild neighbours. Please join them and sign the petition ⬇️https://t.co/lboVopkAgB

[Professor Lydia Martens 🐠🐟 @ldmartens1]

Talking to French colleagues about my Minch project yesterday. A quarter had visited the highlands & said they went for & loved its wonderful nature. SSEN - do plan carefully around this as tourists don’t come to see what they see at home … #BetterCableRoute

[BetterCableRoute @nopylons]

We are not Nimbies. We want renewable energy. But we do not want the industrialisation of the Highlands, and the destruction of our special places and wildlife. #bettercableroute #thinkagainSSEN #spittaltobeauly

[Professor Lydia Martens 🐠🐟 @ldmartens1]

This is Loch Brora, East Sutherland. Home to whooper swans and broch Carroll. It has two power lines already running north-south on either end. SSEN plans for a NEW 55 meter high power line cuts right across this Loch & would be third line. #BetterCableRoute please.

[Professor Lydia Martens 🐠🐟 @ldmartens1]

Here is Dunrobin Glen, East Sutherland. Power lines already run north-south on either side of this glen. SSEN’s plans for a new 55 meter high pylon route has two options running through this Glen & would be third power line in 5 miles. #BetterCableRoute

[The Scotsman @TheScotsman]

Energy firm SSEN has put forward plans for a network of pylons to run for about 100 miles between Spittal, in Caithness, in the far north of Scotland, to Beauly, near Inverness. https://t.co/0FqbRXYOYY

[Independent Voices @IndyVoices]

In a troubled world, with real concerns about cost of living, the creeping dangers posed by climate change are too easily ignored – but we do so at our peril, write @LordRickettsP and @emilyshuckburgh

https://t.co/9K13dm36fb

#CilmateChange