Alex Shakspeare

And then, my first publication was made available online in #AquacultureReports . In collaboration with @AFBI_NI we used our NOSy sensor to monitor Blue mussel behaviour in Dundrum Bay. #waterquality #animalbehaviour #monitoring #HFNI (3/3) What a week! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

@EssexPostgrads @EssexLifeSci @Uni_of_Essex has been a great place to study and work for the last 4 years, and I’m really proud of what we’ve accomplished as a team. #shellfish #aquaculture #sensors #Sustainability #seafood (2/3)

Well that was quite the week… #PhD viva on Monday, thanks to @DrNatalieHicks and @NOCnews Prof Chris Hauton for an excellent conversation on the day, and to @oxyrrhis, @ecoevoenviro, @ShellfishRus and @ARIES_DTP for their supervision and assistance throughout. (1/3)

@EssexLifeSci cleaning up at the @Uni_of_Essex Research & Impact Awards! 🍾🥳 Congrats @ejogorman, @DrAndreaMohr1, Alex Dumbrell & the whole #OceanTravellers team! Stoked our 2022 @royalsociety #SummerScience exhibit, film & game were played & enjoyed! essex.ac.uk/research-proje…

Amazing PhD opportunity to use cutting edge techniques - acoustic telemetry, echosounders, BRUV, ROV to study fisheries and conservation benefits of UKs first Offshore Mussel Farm. Rope Biodiversity will also be important to quantify jobs.ac.uk/job/CXC175/phd…

We are very excited to annouce that we will be joined by @CRHClover on 25th January for what promises to be a fascinating talk (more details to come...)! For now please register on our Eventbrite page to attend in-person or online. eventbrite.co.uk/e/charles-clov…

Great turnout from @EssexLifeSci at #BES2022 - talks and posters from microbes to shellfish and fishes and waterfowl, water quality, sentinel animals, nurseries, foodwebs and harvesting - great dancing too 🕺#ceilidh #disco #Ecology

I have Three #PhDs available @EssexLifeSci - on animal movement and risks, Nature based Flood management and Marine Ecosystem services - two already have adverts - see below - get in touch - #RT and Apply now #gradschool

I am speaking at British Ecological Society Annual Meeting 2022. Please check out my talk if you're attending the event! #BES2022 - via #Whova event app ⁦@ResearchEssex⁩ ⁦@EssexLifeSci⁩ ⁦@ecoevoenviro⁩

Huge congratulations to @m_arya_ on passing her PhD today! Thanks also to her supervisory team, examiners and the wonderful @saltgiant team. Enjoyable field work in and around the Dead Sea⬇️

And all prior to his disastrous tenure in No. 10. I’d like to say I can’t believe this is happening, but the noise of rock bottoms being smashed through is becoming the soundtrack of things…

Great day on/in the water with @otolithgirl and @EssexLifeSci helping with some seine work. Good results and a couple of #seals 🦭 to keep an eye on us!

I have been asked on here if I have ever looked at the benefits of freeports. The honest answer is no, but that is because I have never been able to find any such benefits. I have, however, looked at the massive downsides to this idea that both Sunak and Truss support. A thread..

I didn't even know this Measurements consultation was taking place. (No option for metric only!) It must be one of the People’s Priorities. 🙄 Don’t let Mogg get away with a return to imperial measurements by default. Tell them no. It closes on the 26th. beisgovuk.citizenspace.com/opss/measureme…

The minimum UKRI PhD stipend is £16,062 for 2022/23. Although PhDs are training and do not legally require minimum wage, a comparison is worthwhile: National minimum wage (age 21-23) is £19,094 (40h/week). After tax that's £16,836. Living wage is £19,760 (£17,280 after tax).

A hierarchy of alienness: Pictures of animals from least to most related to you. Least-related animal: Sponges. You and sponges are both animals. That's basically all you've got in common.

In 1951, Adelbert Ames created the mind-boggling ‘Ames Window’. It’s so effective that even when you know how it works you can’t break the illusion [video from The Curiosity Show: buff.ly/36DvRNs]

MILK TIME 🥛! Have you ever considered that it’s a bit weird that you drink the milk of another animal, and it’s totally normal? Milk is a billion-dollar industry. A *HUGE* new human evolution paper just dropped, upending one of the great modern evolutionary ideas. 🧵 1/n

PhD students told to consider selling Avon products to make ends meet #Echobox=1658345858" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">theguardian.com/science/2022/j…

@UKRI_News @colddata_matt @JD_Kirkham Hiding behind an announcement you made last month is laughable. What is there to find? We need increased funding, and we needed it a long time ago, hiding behind bureaucratic processes just won’t cut it any more.

@colddata_matt @JD_Kirkham Good morning. We committed to reviewing the stipend last year as part of the New Deal for PGRs and announced last month we were trying to find ways to support in the short term ukri.org/news/ukri-cons…

Is this meant to be a joke @UKRI_News? I don't know much about fruit picking, but this is sure a pear-shaped idea...