Rock pooler, writer, environmentalist and educator. Sharing a love for Cornish Rock Pools.
Joined July 2014
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21 Feb 2021
So excited and proud! 🥳🦀Beach Explorer is available to pre-order - out on 1 April with the fabulous @septemberbooks.
50 hands-on activities plus facts, quizzes and tips to make every day at the beach an #outdoorleaning adventure.
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Apr 21
Day Six since @networkrail said they’d unblock the mortar in nest holes at #ChapelMilton. It’s not happened. #swifts spotted 21 miles away today. #saveourswifts #unblocktheholes @WriterHannahBT
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Mar 31
Did you know? Many of the creatures you see on the seashore when rock pooling started out as larvae in the plankton, like this shrimp larva. @zeiss_micro @natgeo
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23 Nov 2025
Please help stop the 'Guga hunt' a needless slaughter of Gannet chicks on a remote Scottish island - petitions.parliament.scot/pe…
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25 Oct 2025
First dip back into the rockpools in SE Cornwall today, nice to see some old friends. Blue-rayed limpet, cushion starfish, gem anemone and shore rockling. @CornishRockPool
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25 Sep 2025
All I need in life... nudibranch slugs and rainbows! More in my blog this week over on Cornish Rock Pools: cornishrockpools.com/2025/09….
Babakina anadoni, Looe, #Cornwall
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12 Nov 2024
My reading manifesto launched today for
#MichaelRosenDay
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1 Nov 2024
Saw 2 starfish on my swim this morning. Here's Asterias Rubens from Battery Rocks @SerenBooks
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25 Oct 2024
The 2024 Rockstars Young Geologists’ Competition Film Showcase is now live! Watch the incredible work of young geologists exploring volcanoes, fossils and more on the Rockwatch website rockwatch.org.uk/celebrating…
#Rockstars2024 @AngloAmericanUK @GeolAssoc
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3 Oct 2024
🌊 The Big Rock Pool Challenge is HERE! 🌊
Join the fun and compete in Bioblitz Battles🐚 No experience needed, just your curiosity and love for the sea! 🌊
In partnership with @thembauk Made possible by @HeritageFundUK .
👉 Learn more: therockpoolproject.co.uk/big…
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27 Sep 2024
📢 I’m hiring a 3yr postdoc
Interested in evolutionary origins of miRNA/RNAi in animals? Keen on working with early branching metazoans and unicellular relatives? Please join my lab 🧬 @thembauk
⏳Deadline 25th October 2024
ℹ️ Details: jobs.ac.uk/job/DJW823/postdo…
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Being quiet, paddlers freak seals out more than most other activities - unlike a boat, seals can't hear you coming!
Please follow Defra Marine and Coastal Wildlife Code & keep at least 100m from coastal or offshore rocks!
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10 Jul 2024
This HAS to be one of my favourite rockpoolijg vlogs yet - and there’s been 60 😱
This is 30mins of watching my reaction to amazing sealife and pure ocean joy - come and explore a GIANT Rockpool with me!
Watch here: youtu.be/QrehQ6V3bZc?si=Vi42…
#marinebiologist #rockpooling
ALT A YouTube thumbnail with the text rockpooling with a marine biologist in a white box and black text in the top left corner. A background of a rockyshore and blue sky in the background and a bright pink starfish in the Center. In the right, myself, wearing a rainbow cap, blue raincoat, brown plaits and rainbow sealife t shirt.
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28 Jun 2024
Myself and @officialb2n invite you to their conference on Thursday 11th July 2024 – Race Equity in Nature Filmmaking & Creative Sectors at Bristol University with @ChrisGPackham Gillian Burke @DwayneFields
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@WildscreenFest @BBCSpringwatch @silverbackfilm1
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29 May 2024
All political parties must do much more to protect & restore nature:
❌ Ban industrial fishing in Marine Sanctuaries
🛢️Stop new offshore oil drilling
💩End the sewage scandal
☣️Hold polluters to account
Join the #RestoreNatureNow demo in London on 22 June
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12 May 2024
Not long to go now... rock gobies in their eggs, looking out at the world. 😍🌊🐟
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10 May 2024
What a lovely review! Thank you so much Irene. Happy rock pooling 🌊🦀🐙
10 May 2024
This is superb! Just got it, started dipping in and can’t put it down - not only informative but very well-written. @CornishRockPool thanks to @B_Strawbridge for the recommendation.
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8 May 2024
For anyone planning a trip to the coast this summer, Heather Buttivant @CornishRockPool's book 'Rock Pool' is the perfect companion!
You might like to bookmark Heather's fabulous website, too 👉 cornishrockpools.com
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5 May 2024
My book What the Wild Sea Can Be is out next month. I’m off to festivals and book shops to talk about the future of the ocean.
Can't wait to share hopes and fears for life in the seas, and hear how readers make connections to the blue parts of our planet.
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6 May 2024
RT if you agree that @UKLabour should stick to their word and end the badger cull if they get into power!
Please watch our poignant animation narrated by the brilliant @ChrisGPackham
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