Marine ecologist working on habitat conservation & restoration. Biogenic reefs, keystones, bivalves and seaweed and role of low trophic aquaculture as nature-based solution.
Lecturer in aquatic biology: R stats, GIS and spatial ecology, biodiversity.
RT @Llerenes@twitter.com
Llánaves de la Reina (1390 msnm) es uno de los pueblos más inhóspitos de #Leonesp en invierno, no siendo raro su aislamiento por carretera. Al sur la Hoz, un profundo desfiladero frecuentemente barrido por aludes de nieve. Y al norte, el Puerto de San Glorio a 1600 de altitud.
Yes indeed, and the great forgotten, Donegal connecting Sligo and Galway and all the west. A west corridor, form north to southwest.
RT @HannahLovesPeat@twitter.com
I’m once again on the train traversing Ireland via Dublin and thinking … can we have a direct rail link between Cork, Galway and Sligo please? @IrishRail@twitter.com
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/HannahLovesPeat/status/1620058664395767808
There's a different Spain, away from the sun drenched costas, English and Irish pubs, villas, all inclusive resorts, fish and chips in the sun, no Spanish needed, or spoken for all that matters, bar 'dos cervezas por favor'.
New paper out #OA #AQC @WileyEcolEvol@twitter.com. Trojan work by Anna Hughes & Philine zu Ermgassen @uniofedinburgh@twitter.com leading + coordinating inputs from @NORA_Europe@twitter.com experts reaching consensus on site selection for #oyster #restoration. Very pleased to be part of it. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aqc.3917#.Y9gYnpfypNc.twitter
Instagram does a really good job with its lay out, makes my random pics of birds, nature, underwater, heritage photos half decent. Mostly Ireland/UK/León (Spain). @josemfarinas@twitter.com if ye feel like following.
RT @ProfFeynman@twitter.com
The more you learn, the more you realize how little you know.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ProfFeynman/status/1618995948922994688
I remember the 'thanks Jose' after my 1st lecture, caught me by surprise, as an undergrad in Spain it wasn't a thing. I think it was (is?) a very, nice, Irish mannerism, like thanking the bus driver. Must admit it does really make my day when they do 🙂...I worry when they don't!
RT @alixabeth@twitter.com
Do your students say "thank you" when they are walking out of class after it has ended?
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/alixabeth/status/1618739377475293184
RT @DaniNovarama@twitter.com
Marie Kondo baja a la tierra y se da cuenta que eso de tener la casa ordenada es incompatible con tener tres hijos y decide que ahora “quiere ser feliz”.
En otras noticias, un señor de Wisconsin descubre que el agua moja.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DaniNovarama/status/1619275186418884611
Excellent news, we need more ecological restoration project for flat oysters with vision, like this one, please.
RT @CF_Conf@twitter.com
Welsh university receives funding to restore oyster populations | #nativeoyster @sos_bangor_uni@twitter.com @ZSLMarine@twitter.com https://www.bangor.ac.uk/news/01/restoring-oysters-to-conwy-bay-project-receives-funding
This pm waiting for the tide with @ATU_GalwayCity@twitter.com BSc/MSc students Eimear & Alanna @meiofaunamaniac@twitter.com, surveying a seagrass bed for their theses. We knew seagrass would appear soon when the first sandmason worm tubes emerged. Two important biogenic habitats next to each other.
Because, believe or not, there's more to rice in Spain than what is usually passed as paella.
RT @MythicalIberia@twitter.com
ARROZ A LA ZAMORANA is a very typical rice dish from Zamora whose secret ingredient is the most delicious and precious seafood from inland: PORK. In all its possible forms.
It also has onion and turnip fried in lard and sweet paprika.
Optimum service temperature: magma.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/MythicalIberia/status/1618564656649355265
Great day to be out with @Anthony_Adu_G@twitter.com @TheConorGraham@twitter.com to do seaweed fieldwork. Sampling primary food sources at Cashla Bay/Lehanagh Pool #IMTA site for Anthony's #PhD isotope #SIA study @GMIT_Research@twitter.com. Thanks to our friends @MarineInst@twitter.com #aquaculture team for the support 🛥️🙌!
RT @CorncrakeLife@twitter.com
JOB FAIRY ALERT!!!
Fancy working with our team in Mayo this summer?
We are seeking a highly motivated fieldworker to work on the best corncrake project in Ireland!!!
You will be an integrated member of an awesome team.
Check it out 👉https://bit.ly/3H6BOqo
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/CorncrakeLife/status/1617911522235408385
RT @Civil_War_Spain@twitter.com
Stamps showing amphibians of Spain. 1975. Common salamander, Marbled newt, European Tree Frog, Midwife Toad, European common frog.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Civil_War_Spain/status/1617522862251773952
RT @Mariana_Cerca@twitter.com
Our study is an examination of upscaling supply systems based on #seaweed #cultivation in responsible ways, also indicating the challenges for SMEs to develop new #supplychains along with insights for future planning. Please DM me if you don't have access and would like a copy 😉
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Mariana_Cerca/status/1617489536115970051
"slap on the back of the hand" 😂🤦🏻♂️Christ, Jose, you'd think after all these years. Slap ON THE WRIST (English idioms, the bane of me).
RT @DrJoseMFarinas@twitter.com
@AnChaorthann@twitter.com Just a slap on the back of the hand. For comparison sake: farmer got 16 months prison and 360 thousand euro for poisoning 6 imperial eagles in Spain. https://www.miciudadreal.es/2015/10/27/ano-y-medio-de-prision-y-multa-de-360-000-euros-para-un-ganadero-de-ciudad-real-por-el-envenenamiento-de-seis-aguilas-imperiales-ibericas/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DrJoseMFarinas/status/1616492493591441408
Meanwhile, in Ireland...
RT @DrAmirKhanGP@twitter.com
Suggesting people pay for GP appointments and A&E attendances is the yet another step towards an agenda that leads to privatisation of the NHS
The NHS should ALWAYS be free at the point of need no matter what your circumstances
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DrAmirKhanGP/status/1616751894298333184
So many films on demand and I keep going back to 'my' classics.
'How did you know it was going to turn to starboard?'
This is a fantastic read, 'The Herring and its Fishery', even if you are not remotely interested in herring. Just to think how important it was for coastal communities and bustling ports in the UK and Ireland, including Galway.
Just going through some classics as I pack away for a house move. Collin's 'The Sea Shore', they don't make nature guides like this anymore