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Professor Lydia Martens 🐠🐟

@ldmartens1

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

 Keele University
Joined January 2016
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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) profile pictureKeele University 🐿️@KeeleUniversity20 Jan 2022
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 ➡️ bit.ly/33RAveK
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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) profile pictureAilsa McLellan@AilsaMcL5 Jun 2024
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 ⚡️❤️🐟
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Congratulations to Dr Dawson, so well deserved! And it has been a pleasure sharing your PhD journey.
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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) profile pictureNoel H@klondyker17 Jul 2023
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. 😢
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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) profile pictureRon Macdonald@ronpon_ron13 Jul 2023
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
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Thomas Thurnell-Read@ThurnellReadSoc22 May 2023
🚨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 vacancies.lboro.ac.uk/tlive_…
A picture of a boarded up closed pub.

ALT A picture of a boarded up closed pub.

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DrMickSalt@DrMickSalt12 May 2023
It has been my pleasure to be an adviser to @BBCPanorama for this: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001m88… 22nd May, 20:30, @BBCOne, will you be watching? #StopTheStink
BBC One - Panorama, Landfill: Britain’s Toxic Secrets

BBC One - Panorama, Landfill: Britain’s Toxic Secrets

Every year, tonnes of waste are dumped in landfills, but how safe are they?

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Hannah Bourne-Taylor
@WriterHannahBT8 Apr 2023
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 ⬇️petition.parliament.uk/petit…
Petition: Make swift bricks compulsory in new housing to help red-listed birds

Petition: Make swift bricks compulsory in new housing to help red-listed birds

Swifts have declined by over 50% in the UK. Adult swifts, known for site-fidelity, return to the same nests. We want swift bricks to be required in all new housing, to provide homes for these birds....

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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
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BetterCableRoute (@nopylons) profile pictureBetterCableRoute@nopylons31 Mar 2023
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
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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.
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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
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The Scotsman (@TheScotsman) profile pictureThe Scotsman
@TheScotsman3 Apr 2023
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. trib.al/I0kjiUi

Campaigners call on SSEN bosses to change pylon route through Highlands

Campaigners including a clan chief have vowed to fight power giants seeking to construct a “critical” new line of pylons through the Scottish Highlands.

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Independent Voices@IndyVoices26 Mar 2023
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 independent.co.uk/voices/bri… #CilmateChange
Britain’s national security is under threat from climate change

Britain’s national security is under threat from climate change

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 Peter Ricketts and Emily Shuckburgh

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Agree with @HighOnLife_Scot - I’m all for renewables, but will we soon have multitudes of pylons & other infrastructure running criss cross across the highlands? This needs careful planning.
Lesley Riddoch (@LesleyRiddoch) profile pictureLesley Riddoch@LesleyRiddoch6 Mar 2023
Scotland imports 70% fresh fruit & veg. Why not adopt Dutch/Iceland model & use glasshouses powered by renewable energy? Importing tomatoes (95% water) depletes precious water supplies in Spain/Morocco & reduces food security here. Crazy. @nourishscotland heraldscotland.com/politics/…
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Holte 🇪🇺@holte10 Mar 2023
Gary Lineker shouldn't have to speak out for human rights Marcus Rashford shouldn't have to feed school children A war hero shouldn't have to walk for PPE The common issue here is the Tory Government we have had to endure for 13 years #IStandWithGary #MOTD #Solidarity
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The Gaelic word Seanachas means more than 'telling stories'. It also means being sociable, coming together, exchanging information. What else? Visit @anLanntair's website to access their diverse Year of Stories 2022 work. #seanachas #StoryingWorldsBeyondFish @LeverhulmeTrust
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Dr Anna Krzywoszynska@Anna_K_speaking5 Mar 2023
Call for papers for a smashing conference this October at Oulu is now open. This is going to be a beautiful event for those working on the living world, anthropocene, arts, and environmental humanities.
AnimalStudiesFinland (@ykes_ry) profile pictureAnimalStudiesFinland@ykes_ry3 Mar 2023
We are proud to announce that the call for papers of the (Un)common worlds III conference has now begun! Check the complete cfp at uncommonworlds3.wordpress.co…
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My @Leverhulme work is about Minch fish-seabird-human interconnections. This cool seal in Stornoway harbour says NO to exclusion! The Comhairle encourages fishers to feed them fish now so they’re staying away from the dangers of the deep port that’s being build. #WeLoveSeals
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The deep port will bring in investment & cruise ships. It’s a major infrastructural job on the islands that involves shifting a hillside of Gneiss. Despite goodwill towards seals, all of them ‘sport’ scars of former injuries.
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Sociology Journal@sociologyjnl27 Feb 2023
Congratulations to @drmikefoden @EmmaLHead @KatzGerro & @ldmartens1 whose paper, "Environment or Economy? Food Concerns and Sustainable Food Transitions in the UK", has been nominated for the SAGE Prize for Innovation and Excellence! 🎉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
Environment or Economy? Food Concerns and Sustainable Food Transitions in the UK - Mike Foden, Emma...

Environment or Economy? Food Concerns and Sustainable Food Transitions in the UK - Mike Foden, Emma...

Recent years have seen the emergence of calls for the transformation of food systems to make these more responsive to environmental, access and health challenge...

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Ahhh, so there’s no #tomatoes cause big businesses like BP & HSBC needed massive big profits … to up UK productivity? Sadly a whole lot of folks can’t afford to pay for tomatoes in UK now, another story not seen in the EU. #CostOfLivingCrisis
AllTheDisasters (@AllTheDisasters) profile pictureAllTheDisasters@AllTheDisasters22 Feb 2023
Piece from last November on why there would be UK cucumber and tomato shortages about now.
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Daily Racist@ShihabSJoi21 Feb 2023
Been seeing posts from @Otto_English @dontbrexitfixit @edwinhayward @SaveBritishFood et al speaking of food shortages, and in every case someone pops up with the "no tomatoes because bad weather in Spain" Seeing as I live here, I popped into every shop on my way home just now...
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