Maria Watson

Plastic Pollution MbyRes @UniofExeter with @SensoryEcology #ExeterMarine investigating #plasticpollution & #camouflage #colsci 🗑️🦀♻
✨Seeking a PhD✨

[Maria Watson @ThatZoologist]

#Plasticpollution is a 🌍 threat for #marine ecosystems🌊🗑️
Unwitting shore 🦀 ingest #microplastic (<5mm) which become trapped in their gills & stomach🤢
I research how microplastic & #climatechange 🥵🌡️affect 🦀 colour #camouflage through predator👀
#tweetyourthesis #colsci

[Dr. Toby Baril @Toby_Baril_Bio]

Very excited to announce that #EarlGrey has been accepted for publication @MolBioEvol 🥳 thanks to @zanderhayward and James Galbraith for all the work, amazing to share this after many years of work! https://t.co/JK81sM8mHQ
#bioinformatics #transposons #research

[Christophe Patterson @Christophe_Patt]

Holy Moly! An MbyRes with annual tax-free stipend of £17,668! This is the way forward to increase access to science! 👏👏👏👏👏👏 #AcademicChatter #ecology #ScienceTwitter @BES_careers

https://t.co/9fQPL5Yh7B

[Scott Coffin, Ph.D. @DrSCoffin]

If a 1mm #microplastic decomposes into 10nm #nanoplastics, how many particles do you get?

One quadrillion particles!

[Chris Dixon @_C_Dixon]

In blood, lung tissue...now breast milk. Microplastics are ubiquitous in our environment and our bodies. I think we have enough information to act.

https://t.co/Rsvh7qHwFt

[Dr. Toby Baril @Toby_Baril_Bio]

After 3 years, 11 months, and 21 days, three pairs of glasses, two campervans, and a lot of coffee, I have submitted my PhD thesis 🎉 Time for a little rest now... #Transposons #Bioinformatics #PhDChat #AcademicChatter #PhDThesis

[Greenpeace UK @GreenpeaceUK]

Why are EU residents protected from rising energy bills but not people in the UK?

[Tim Witney @TimWitney]

❗️Another week, another PhD student has come to my office in tears as they can’t afford to live in London on £18k. And this is before the price cap increase. @UKRI_News this time - can I ask what you are doing to support the next-generation so there is a next-generation?! Pls RT

[Scott Coffin, Ph.D. @DrSCoffin]

I'm tired of hearing this false & destructive narrative:
"plastic pollution distracts from climate change."

Impacts & causes of #PlasticPollution and #climateChange are closely linked, and we should focus on combatting BOTH.
#yesAND #StrongerTogether

https://t.co/R7gkT2Lwwi

[Christophe Patterson @Christophe_Patt]

The marvelous masters by research cohort of 2021 finally graduated! It was a messy end but great to celebrate with everyone from @CLESCornwall! Everyone bright and beaming about the future 🦀🦡🐦🌿🐇🐚

[Maria Watson @ThatZoologist]

@VerdantBrew @whiplashbeer Are those rainbow spectrum glasses coming back at all? 👀🌈

[Thomas Price @thomasnprice]

First PhD Paper!! We show the extent of phenotypic plasticity in a primitively eusocial bee. Featuring the homemade pooter and beautiful bee below.

The paper is open access 👉 https://t.co/pWdhY1OPPY

Thank you to @KneppWilding for letting us study at their amazing site!

[University of Exeter, Cornwall @UniExeCornwall]

Huge congratulations to @UniofExeterESI lab manager, Daniela Farina, who has been named a “Sustainability Champion” in the 2021 @greengowns Awards UK & Ireland! 👏👏👏

https://t.co/ojWZQuBDRE

[Calum Harvey-Scholes @KalHarv]

"The plastic protests have been very successful"

[University of Exeter Doctoral College @ExeterDoctoral]

Calling all PGRs across Devon and Cornwall, paid invigilation opportunities with the Exam’s Team!!!!

[Maria Watson @ThatZoologist]

Congratulations Ali!!!! 🎉🎉🎉

[Uni of Exeter's ESI @UniofExeterESI]

Congratulations @AlexandraGardnr who passed her #PhD viva with no corrections! Thesis title “Linking patterns to process: incorporating physiological mechanism into #climate-based distribution models.” Thanks to examiners @JaneHillYork @jon_bennie and chaired by @_KMETCALFE

[RuPaul @RuPaul]

‘Rainbow colors & legs for days’: Australian fly species named after RuPaul @BrytheFlyGuy https://t.co/PeP026BLTh

[Maria Watson @ThatZoologist]

@MelWeedon You're THAT person 😜

[Ocean Conservation Trust @OceanCTrust]

Amazing sighting of a large tuna, thought to be a blue fin, hunting off the Cornish coast! 🐟🐟
Overfishing has caused blue fin numbers to collapse due to the demand for sushi. We hope more sightings in UK means that Atlantic blue fin tuna are making a comeback!

📽️Gregg Deakin

[Josh Arbon @JoshJArbon]

Just casually filing my expenses from field season, and whilst bird food doesn’t have a cost code, I found something wild that does!

[The Rock Pool Project @rockpoolproject]

Our FREE bioblitz is this Sunday, prebook online here: https://t.co/FSukJzMghf The awesome @MountBattencntr host the RYA Youth National Sailing Championships this weekend so parking will be limited. We suggest hopping on the Mount Batten ferry if you can. See you Sunday! 🦀🐟🦐🐙