Prof. Michael Sweet
@DiseaseMatters
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Father, Husband, award winning Researcher & Lecturer, Prof @DerbyUni, Trustee @ORP_IndianOcean, co-founder @CoralSpawning, fellow @RoyalSocBio & @ICRSCoralReefs
Derby, England
Joined August 2014
Training is in full swing at our new Indonesian ex situ @CoralSpawning lab - very exciting to finally see this come to fruition @CORDAP_ @DerbyUni @AquariumCurator
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Come join us (time is Indonesia) @CORDAP_ @ICRI_Coral_Reef @DerbyUni @ICRSreefstudent @ICRSCoralReefs @UNEP @Stream2Sea @CoralSpawning @CNNIndonesia
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@CORDAP_ @DerbyUni @ICRI_Coral_Reef @ICRSCoralReefs @ICRSreefstudent @reef_research @CoralConsortium @coralcrf @CNNIndonesia @ReefIndonesia - day and time in Indonesian 🇮🇩
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Sound on - Leigh explains why we are filtering water from our new quadrants which have been laid today - giving us our baseline on a new a community reef restoration project launched today @DerbyUni @CoralSpawning
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Everyone mucking in building @CoralSpawning’s new Indonesian basecamp. Very exciting seeing this come together and made even more special as we got in the water and found our restoration sites which will be mapped tomorrow @DerbyUni @AquariumCurator
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Very exciting starting this capacity building project with colleagues from the Indonesia government and coral farmers @CoralSpawning @DerbyUni @CORDAP_
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Great to welcome Chris Brown as our latest PhD student starting @DerbyUni. He will be working on seahorses and undulate rays - bringing together ex situ and in situ work and how the science can influence policy and set up protected areas
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RT @DerbyUniPress: "Corals harbour upwards of 30% of all marine life and offer trillions of dollars of ecosystem services from fish to coas…
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RT @DerbyUniPress: Nearly half the world's coral reefs are at risk of extinction as a result of the climate. Professor Michael Sweet (@Di…
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Very interesting and compelling thread about the possible origin of the covid virus
COVID: updated summary of lab-origin hypothesis: 1) Pandemic caused by bat SARS-like coronavirus emerged in Wuhan--city 1000 km from wild bats with SARS-CoV-2-like coronaviruses, but that contains labs conducting world's largest research program on bat SARS-like coronaviruses.
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I’m glad the UK went down the list but every country has a debt to our planet and we all need to club together if we are to maintain a planet inhabitable by one and all
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